This is incredibly beautiful. Marty and Grace are just too cool, and this song is one of my all-time favourites. "Everything some day will be gone except silence" <3
I found this article from the Tuscaloosa News, 20th November 1968 that says this was "a nine-story Midtown Manhattan hotel" that the group "had plugged in its amplifiers atop ... during the filming of "One American Movie" for a Public Broadcasting Laboratory TV program." Check Google News Archive.
Another great rooftop concert! Maybe this one gave the Beatles the idea. Awesome! I think you can see the delay between the visual and when the sound arrives at whatever was the recoding location. Must have been at some distance form the roof. If so, it's incredibly good sound.
This song is incredible. Some great improv, too. Watch as Marty Balin blows Grace away and makes her laugh (my favorite moment). Amazing vocal theatrics by both. Jack Cassidy is stoned out of his mind and STILL playing wicked bass. I can't even WALK when I'm that high. Grace is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO, beautiful!
This basically was the end of the Airplane and the beginning of Starship....One of the tightest bands to ever play,yet one of the most dysfuntional as well..
Jefferson Airplane = simply the greatest rock band ever. Archetypal and iconic. Grace Slick is the Goddess. Cassidy is simply the best bass player ever, which Hendrix wisely realized. God bless Jefferson Airplane and all its airheads !
You're incorrect. "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" is a different song, from the album "After Bathing at Baxter's." This vid is of "The House at Pooneil Corners," which was on the album "Crown of Creation."
In the first half of the '90s I lived in SE Ohio and frequently saw performances of the great Jorma, solo or with Hot Tuna, at clubs in Athens or Marietta, or Parkersburg, WV. He runs a guitar school "ranch" in Meigs County - also famous for its pot farms in the hills.
Anyone know what building this is? And if it is still standing? As a NYC native I seem to recognize the ornamentation on the rooftop, but I can't quite place it.
also, you can find this jam on their dvd "fly jefferson airplane" which i would definitely recommend to any fans, its like $15 from borders and so worth it, you get a bunch of live performances i could watch them all weekend
super cool snippet of the late 60's - things have gotten awfully boring since........of course, a great song as well. Where do I get a "Jack Hat" these days ?!?!
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someone shoot them and put them out of their misery....my gosh is this awful, sounds like a bunch of drunks with instruments....call the police already, jeesh
completely smoked my hard drive. barrels over with weird psychedelic time trippiness not to mention a barn burner rendition. they are all locked into the X factor. huge rhinoceros improvisation! "the idiots have left...which is why your pooh is poohing". might i say i am so smitten with the girl in the sheet.
Too bad they couldn't have done this from atop the Empire State Building. They would have made an excellent substitute for Kong. It would have been tougher for the police
and/or military to get them off the observation deck. Casady's Yggdrasil bass probably
would have brought down several fighter jets all by itself, while the strong smell of
weed could have disabled any 'authorities' coming up on the elevators.
Long before the Beatles Apple Studios rooftop finale in 1969, or even U2 doing a free rooftop show in 1987, you had the Airplane in 1968 ! This is priceless ! 'Free Music, Free Love' Jack on bass thumping down Broadway & waking up NYC ! I like the smiles at 4:59 an Grace's voice at 5:04-5:14? Wow! The BEST is the couple (girl in sheet) hangin out the window at 1:47 who you later see again at 7:02. At 7:05 her guy is saying "Yes STOP the music thats what we want" but he was so digging it before!
oh my GOD Grace is just TEARING it UP .... she's absolutely WAILING here... unbelievable well the whole band is ON aren't they? Legends, most of them with us today
@sfaster the guy who got busted was actually the actor Rip Torn - who was seen earlier leaning out the window w/ the woman wrapped in a bed sheet. fun times!
This vid is also a part of the "Fly Jefferson Airplane" documentary..It's great this and other stuff was recorded and /or taped...There will never be another reunion like the one they tried in 1989....
Jack Casady is one deadly kool bassist. Plus he believes in staying warm while being cool. Poor Grace looks a little wind-whipped. Was this good for her voice ? The greatest band ever !! Thanks beograund.
Great footage! Im glad someone had a camera....this is great! What a blast of sound that must have been in real life...people down below must have been going what the hell is that!!!! Gotta love 'em...the best! Rock is best raw and loud :)
You'll notice that Kantner is wearing a glove on his right hand and Casady is bundled up in an eskimo coat & toboggan hat. Jorma, though, has no coat and wears an open-necked shirt. Tougher stock.
@krstnlhjt That would have been the best thing ever... Grace Singe and Janis would have been a blast... Imagina a Great Society, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother Jam....
@krstnlhjt Rather sinister-looking bunch, weren't they? I love Grace's look here. You'd never imagine she'd try to slip Nixon a big dose of acid. Heh.
if there is any grace slick lookalikes in edinburgh please get in touch,im 35, and looking for a hot hippy girl who digs groovy sounds like this!!!! LOL!!! i love graces dance at the end,now the cops couldnt bust her for that,come on man!!!!!
@BlackLedWallet... read the Ray Bradbury story "There will come soft rains". Here's from WikiPedia: "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was included in the collection The Martian Chronicles. The story details the daily tasks of a robotic house after its inhabitants have died in a nuclear war. The title comes from Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains", which also treats a post-apocalyptic setting.
(Cont'd) on that post-apocalyptic theme: "Castles on cliffs vanish/Cliffs like heaps of rubbish/Seen from the stars hour by hour/as splinters, scraps, and black powder./Someone stood at the window and cried one tear./I thought that would stop the war, but someone is killing me."
The house at pooh corners is blown away by the nuclear blast. "From here to heaven is a scar/Dead center, deep as death/All the idiots have left..."
Great. On December 7, 1968 I was in USN at Newport. Woke in early December to WPRO in Providence advertising final Cream concert. Of course did not make to either concert. If I had, would rather have been in New York.
It's so nice to know the crime rate was so low in NYC in 1968 that NYPD had nothing better to do than to harass The Jefferson Airplane! (sarcasm generator off)
a great song, disenchanted; don't know what it was like to be alive then, but certainly it would seem that society was on an existential edge--we may be on the same edge today, but appreciate it in a different way.
What does it mean 'pooneil'? and this sentence "Which is why a Pooh is pooing" I've tried to translate this, but in polish this sentence is without sense. Maby there is a second meaning of this? Please, could you help me? (I'm polish so there can be lots of mistakes in my comment)
@BlackLedWallet "POO" refers to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. "NEIL" refers to folk musician/songwriter Fred Neil, who wrote "The Other Side of This Life", originated the "Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers!" slogan that the Airplane later incorporated into their "We Can Be Together.", etc, etc. Winnie the Pooh and Neil were the heroes of Paul Kantner (author of both "Pooneil" songs.)
I would swear the couple in the window shot around 1:46 thru 2:00 is Jim Morrison and Pam Courson. I believe Morrison would have been in NYC about the same time as this took place, although I've not seen any photo's of Courson where she ever had that particular hairstyle and length. Any info or opinions?
That aside, absolutely classic JA, one of their very best.
The girl dancing on the roof at 3.57 appears at 4.12 at ground level. Am I right? Appropriate enough for a film originally directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
This is no love song. It is about the threat of nuclear war, which was an ever present threat in the 60s, especially after Cuba, Nice to see the people hanging out of windows and smoking. No fears of " health and safety" in those days.
@caravaggio31 Actually only one month before as the Beatles rooftop gig was in January 1969. Comparing Janis and Grace? Why dont you compare apples and oranges while you are at it? Airplane definitely an underrated group you are right.
This is incredibly beautiful. Marty and Grace are just too cool, and this song is one of my all-time favourites. "Everything some day will be gone except silence" <3
crawlpalmetto 20 hours ago
Free Love!
LBurris597 4 days ago
Yeah, fuck the Beatles! Jefferson Airplane did it first, and better.
BellatorRex666 1 week ago
fuck the beatles and u2!
jefferson airplane forever!
bones411gmail 2 weeks ago
0:28 Jerry Seinfelds Father XD
One of my Favourite Songs thx!
LSMFTbitch 1 month ago in playlist Good Old Rock´n Roll
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LSMFTbitch 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
WONDERFULL
cheedimed 1 month ago
FREE CONCERT,FREE MUSIC,FREE LOVE,I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THEM.
cheedimed 1 month ago
PARIS,WAKE UP YOU FUCKERS......
cheedimed 1 month ago in playlist Autres vidéos de beograund
havent listened to this in years forgot how good it is
floralpattern1 1 month ago
@xxxscrubsxx - you're a few months late - they've given up on trying to stop #Occupy.
Gtigerclaw 1 month ago
YoW! Marty is FANTASTIC in this! He WAILS and GROWLS! And Nice Hat, Jack!
RURALWARROOM 2 months ago
It`s the roof of the old Schuyler Hotel on 45th & 6th.
newarker47 2 months ago
The ultimate party poopers...cops. Don't they have other things to do, like catch murderers, rapists, and so on?
grannynara 2 months ago
@grannynara loud sounds is against the law also.
keaton1895 2 months ago
@grannynara no murderers in the 60's :)
239677nico 1 month ago
I found this article from the Tuscaloosa News, 20th November 1968 that says this was "a nine-story Midtown Manhattan hotel" that the group "had plugged in its amplifiers atop ... during the filming of "One American Movie" for a Public Broadcasting Laboratory TV program." Check Google News Archive.
plastichassle1974 2 months ago
Cop, get your greasy hand off of the camera lens. Disgusting.
I think this is the RCA building - would make sense as was their record label.
sbarncar 3 months ago 3
J-Air ftw!! godamn cops always gotta spoil the fun though.. I could see this playing out perfectly over at the Occupy wall street scene.
demetriorex 3 months ago
Mama Cass at 0:26
The1Brak 3 months ago
"a rooftop in Midtown Manhattan" is this the Dakota?
hankbat5149 3 months ago
Jerry Garcia in the rooftop window at 2:15, I think.
FirstUsedBooks 4 months ago
@FirstUsedBooks nah, don't think so
abaiah 3 months ago
ratis putos
JuanchoFsa 4 months ago
Want to get kicked off Facebook, post this song on the official Occupy Wall St. page - I just got bounced.
gcglasser 4 months ago 16
@gcglasser Wait. Are you saying that if I posted this video on Occupy Wall St.'s Facebook page, my account will be deleted?
xxxscrubsxx 1 month ago
This song was also covered by Motorpsycho in 1993, It's on Mountain EP.
ramonster1972 4 months ago
Love this. Saw J.A. in 1968 in U.K. over the isle of wight what a fantastic memory.
shorelineboy 4 months ago
NEW YORK, WAKE UP, YOU FUCKERS!"
rosemaryironwood 5 months ago 22
This classic song is more poignant now than it was in 1968. IMO the greatest band EVER.
Timothy1311 5 months ago
Has anyone figured out the address of this building?
unionguy36 5 months ago
Another great rooftop concert! Maybe this one gave the Beatles the idea. Awesome! I think you can see the delay between the visual and when the sound arrives at whatever was the recoding location. Must have been at some distance form the roof. If so, it's incredibly good sound.
Cyclist0623 5 months ago
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Cyclist0623 5 months ago
Thanks for the nudge. Sometimes, you can kind of forget how righteously good...
MrMaxgomez 5 months ago
This song is incredible. Some great improv, too. Watch as Marty Balin blows Grace away and makes her laugh (my favorite moment). Amazing vocal theatrics by both. Jack Cassidy is stoned out of his mind and STILL playing wicked bass. I can't even WALK when I'm that high. Grace is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO, beautiful!
JoeBertone89 5 months ago
This basically was the end of the Airplane and the beginning of Starship....One of the tightest bands to ever play,yet one of the most dysfuntional as well..
realestatefla1 6 months ago
Jefferson Airplane = simply the greatest rock band ever. Archetypal and iconic. Grace Slick is the Goddess. Cassidy is simply the best bass player ever, which Hendrix wisely realized. God bless Jefferson Airplane and all its airheads !
Timothy1311 6 months ago
lolz, "wake up you fuckers", ha, pretty risky back then saying that
~great performance by a great band
acidinurmind 6 months ago
Just so everyone knows: This song is actually entitled "You and Me & Pooneil"
House at pooh Corners is a Kenny Loggins Song.
Agreed on them being so great!
sweetnnekked 6 months ago
@sweetnnekked
You're incorrect. "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" is a different song, from the album "After Bathing at Baxter's." This vid is of "The House at Pooneil Corners," which was on the album "Crown of Creation."
In the first half of the '90s I lived in SE Ohio and frequently saw performances of the great Jorma, solo or with Hot Tuna, at clubs in Athens or Marietta, or Parkersburg, WV. He runs a guitar school "ranch" in Meigs County - also famous for its pot farms in the hills.
unionguy36 5 months ago
Uh, at 4:11 we're looking at stiffs on the street rather than Jorma's solo. What crappy editing.
pdshane 6 months ago
Definitely predates the Beatles' Abby Road rooftop concert.
pdshane 6 months ago
Anyone know what building this is? And if it is still standing? As a NYC native I seem to recognize the ornamentation on the rooftop, but I can't quite place it.
at7004 6 months ago
ok, what song is this ?!
6slavid 6 months ago
hu!
nilpilmaparapa 6 months ago
@Steveco- hahaha yeah, good point.
merseymain 6 months ago
That last note Gracie holds is amazing...
CookieOfTheHousie 6 months ago
also, you can find this jam on their dvd "fly jefferson airplane" which i would definitely recommend to any fans, its like $15 from borders and so worth it, you get a bunch of live performances i could watch them all weekend
CountSchmidt 6 months ago
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CountSchmidt 6 months ago
dear jefferson airplane,
for everything you have given to me.. and for truly being the most inspirational band to me, thank you
-schmidty
CountSchmidt 6 months ago
...and I always thought The Beatles did it first in 1969. Guess not!
Steveco 6 months ago
Are Actress Jill St. John and Director Oliver Stone the people in the window @ 1:50?
romainpcsi1 7 months ago in playlist jefferson
im this lisnen in my car......
TheTtomo 7 months ago
3 persons wanted to sleep on that day
grumman84 7 months ago
super cool snippet of the late 60's - things have gotten awfully boring since........of course, a great song as well. Where do I get a "Jack Hat" these days ?!?!
akibubba1 7 months ago
'Someone Stood At The Window And Cried: "I'M TRYING TO GET SOME WORK DONE
HERE ! WILL YOU SHUT UP ?"
But That's The Last Hour To Think Anymore
Film Crews And Paddywagons And Police Banging On The Door...'
hermitcrabbot 8 months ago 2
Grace was the balls back in the day.
JAW02050 8 months ago
the idiots are gone! what is that a bible officer?
0930tearsoflaughter 8 months ago
google the lyrics. profound message, still living and loving in the end days. that pesky rapture.
0930tearsoflaughter 8 months ago
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someone shoot them and put them out of their misery....my gosh is this awful, sounds like a bunch of drunks with instruments....call the police already, jeesh
schlabresfan 8 months ago
completely smoked my hard drive. barrels over with weird psychedelic time trippiness not to mention a barn burner rendition. they are all locked into the X factor. huge rhinoceros improvisation! "the idiots have left...which is why your pooh is poohing". might i say i am so smitten with the girl in the sheet.
0930tearsoflaughter 8 months ago
Too bad they couldn't have done this from atop the Empire State Building. They would have made an excellent substitute for Kong. It would have been tougher for the police
and/or military to get them off the observation deck. Casady's Yggdrasil bass probably
would have brought down several fighter jets all by itself, while the strong smell of
weed could have disabled any 'authorities' coming up on the elevators.
hermitcrabbot 8 months ago
Grace was so pretty. Wish I could back in 67-68 and pay her a visit lol Great song, one of airplanes heaviest
tatethompson1234 8 months ago
Some bands are beautiful
Other bands are soulful
Some bands sing poetry
Other bands can set you free
Some bands have much to give
THIS band is EXPLOSIVE
JA - Still America's Greatest Rock 'N Roll Band
hermitcrabbot 8 months ago
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Bible at 6:48??? what??
rednaxela011 9 months ago
Bible at 6:48 ??? why??
rednaxela011 9 months ago
yeah, this is where the Beatles got the idea of a rooftop concert for 'let it be'.
glimmer2158 9 months ago
Long before the Beatles Apple Studios rooftop finale in 1969, or even U2 doing a free rooftop show in 1987, you had the Airplane in 1968 ! This is priceless ! 'Free Music, Free Love' Jack on bass thumping down Broadway & waking up NYC ! I like the smiles at 4:59 an Grace's voice at 5:04-5:14? Wow! The BEST is the couple (girl in sheet) hangin out the window at 1:47 who you later see again at 7:02. At 7:05 her guy is saying "Yes STOP the music thats what we want" but he was so digging it before!
Jevtar 10 months ago 2
check out my man Jack on bass, wow what a time to be alive!!!
userboy6 10 months ago 3
Grace Slick--so beautiful!
kcolpaer 10 months ago 2
oh my GOD Grace is just TEARING it UP .... she's absolutely WAILING here... unbelievable well the whole band is ON aren't they? Legends, most of them with us today
!
Zepster77 10 months ago
Wake up, YF !!!!
HerthaFeuerreiter 10 months ago
Who was passed between the cop cars at the end?
sfaster 11 months ago
Marty Balin
Billboy10 11 months ago
@Billboy10 Marty is walking away behind the car a few seconds later in the clip. I thought it looked liked
Bill Graham. Whoever it was appears to have left with the cops. Wonder if he was busted?
sfaster 11 months ago
@sfaster the guy who got busted was actually the actor Rip Torn - who was seen earlier leaning out the window w/ the woman wrapped in a bed sheet. fun times!
jackhillty 9 months ago
@jackhillty Thanks so much, good ol Rip Torn..............Who's the women in the bed sheet?
These were good times yes, I was living in Big Sur that summer........Hitching back and forth
in oblivian from Half Moon Bay to Sur. Up and Down Up and down fun but crazy.............
sfaster 9 months ago
This vid is also a part of the "Fly Jefferson Airplane" documentary..It's great this and other stuff was recorded and /or taped...There will never be another reunion like the one they tried in 1989....
Johns805 11 months ago
those people are definitely trippin @1:47
bwanna23 11 months ago
Awesome !!!
GreenhouseEffectGE 11 months ago
Is that Bin Laden at 2.10?
vonroon23 11 months ago
@ Which is why a Pooh is pooing - the innocence of Pooh and the insight of the song writer Fred Neil.
I love Jefferson Airplane!
dharma2670 1 year ago
soo fantastick.....lol
TheTtomo 1 year ago
I was there...I mean physically I was miles away, but spiritually.
zenarcade64 1 year ago
True essence of the 1960s!
zenarcade64 1 year ago
at least the police were kind enough to let them finish the song.
EmpZappa66 1 year ago
aaah its Godard! my boo!
octopusmime 1 year ago
@1:33 - That's Bill Thompson, the JA's manager, and a real cool cat in his own right.
jewessjeans 1 year ago 3
one of the most subversive songs ever written. Ive loved it forever.
"You do what you can to get bald & high"
drmlabs 1 year ago
@drmlabs - It's "you do what you can to get BALLED and high".... FYI
jewessjeans 1 year ago
Grace slick still life...
naditales 1 year ago
This has to be one of the Airplane's heaviest songs. The studio version is amazing.
PsychLion 1 year ago 12
@PsychLion I believe it to be the worlds first metal song
SmackeralJoe 7 months ago
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@PsychLion I believe it to be the very first metal song
SmackeralJoe 7 months ago
the volume leves are all distorted
posthumanhero 1 year ago
Correction on the date of this clip...This was November 19, 1968.
MLMusicBox 1 year ago
Amazing footage! What a song...
celebrant9 1 year ago
I mean they did a decent JOB not jon!...Ever considering they are dreadfully out of tune.
frankdialogue 1 year ago
That said, dreadfully out of tune...Who is the asshole screaming at the start?
frankdialogue 1 year ago
@frankdialogue Kanter I think.
thewritingwriterof89 1 year ago
@frankdialogue :Jorma always tuned his strings pretty loose to sound like that.It gave him and the JA a pretty sort of discordant originality.
SuperJohnnykay 9 months ago
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They DID a decent job....Typo.
frankdialogue 1 year ago
''and this sentence "Which is why a Pooh is pooing"'
It means Pooh is taking a shit...In Polish 'guwna'.
They did a decent jon in the cold weather...Goddard is an asshole.
frankdialogue 1 year ago
Jack Casady is one deadly kool bassist. Plus he believes in staying warm while being cool. Poor Grace looks a little wind-whipped. Was this good for her voice ? The greatest band ever !! Thanks beograund.
mickigoe 1 year ago 17
@mickigoe Damn right I recently found out the original voodoo child recording from hendrix is with him on bass
he grooves like hell
ketahoer23 7 months ago
@ketahoer23 Wow - didn't know that !
mickigoe 7 months ago
good stuff from jefferson airplane this song
and fuck the establishment!
toltec19 1 year ago 2
Great footage! Im glad someone had a camera....this is great! What a blast of sound that must have been in real life...people down below must have been going what the hell is that!!!! Gotta love 'em...the best! Rock is best raw and loud :)
californiaportugee 1 year ago 3
before the beatles
alvar00 1 year ago
@alvar00 - Paul got the idea from them!
jewessjeans 1 year ago
ahaha i love staring at the scared old people walking by the street in the video lol free rooftop concert groovy
TheHippieTeenager 1 year ago
jack is spun silly
jbdfc 1 year ago
Far out!
TheRecordplayers 1 year ago 2
You'll notice that Kantner is wearing a glove on his right hand and Casady is bundled up in an eskimo coat & toboggan hat. Jorma, though, has no coat and wears an open-necked shirt. Tougher stock.
BicPentameter 1 year ago 3
imagine this on the streets of ny early one morning-was there -then later at the filmore-it dosen't get better
reywilliamr 1 year ago
Jean luc godard in the window with camera. One of the greatest film maker of our time.
tonkehar 1 year ago
this is why I love youtube!!!
SummerLemontree 1 year ago 3
hahaha. way intense, i cant imagine any other song than that one to blow a crowd away. marty cracks me up right after 5 minutes.
octopuii 1 year ago
Imagine Signe and Grace singing one song together. How amazing whould that have been?
krstnlhjt 1 year ago
@krstnlhjt That would have been the best thing ever... Grace Singe and Janis would have been a blast... Imagina a Great Society, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother Jam....
CookOfTheHouse 1 year ago
@CookOfTheHouse - wow, now thats a line up
krstnlhjt 1 year ago
@krstnlhjt No use imagining something that can never happen...
49kasey 1 year ago
@49kasey Oh I know some things will never happen. But, ones imagination can make a lot of things happen.
krstnlhjt 1 year ago
@krstnlhjt Rather sinister-looking bunch, weren't they? I love Grace's look here. You'd never imagine she'd try to slip Nixon a big dose of acid. Heh.
49kasey 1 year ago 3
fantastick.........................
TheTtomo 1 year ago
if there is any grace slick lookalikes in edinburgh please get in touch,im 35, and looking for a hot hippy girl who digs groovy sounds like this!!!! LOL!!! i love graces dance at the end,now the cops couldnt bust her for that,come on man!!!!!
thesyd1975 1 year ago
the other side of the street
henrypeckstv 1 year ago
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I love Grace Slick's vocals starting at 2:54,,, especially the trembling long notes and the breath she takes at 3:07
hellswinter 1 year ago
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I love Grace Slick's vocals starting at 2:54...especially the trembling long notes and the breath she takes at 3:07
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hellswinter 1 year ago
@hellswinter what I meant to say: I love Grace Slick's vocals starting at 2:53...especially the trembling long notes and the breath she takes at 3:07
hellswinter 1 year ago
@BlackLedWallet... read the Ray Bradbury story "There will come soft rains". Here's from WikiPedia: "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was included in the collection The Martian Chronicles. The story details the daily tasks of a robotic house after its inhabitants have died in a nuclear war. The title comes from Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains", which also treats a post-apocalyptic setting.
This song is JA's riff...
videotater 1 year ago
(Cont'd) on that post-apocalyptic theme: "Castles on cliffs vanish/Cliffs like heaps of rubbish/Seen from the stars hour by hour/as splinters, scraps, and black powder./Someone stood at the window and cried one tear./I thought that would stop the war, but someone is killing me."
The house at pooh corners is blown away by the nuclear blast. "From here to heaven is a scar/Dead center, deep as death/All the idiots have left..."
videotater 1 year ago
translation? they were doing loads of psychedelic drugs! what do you need to know?
acmeblag 1 year ago
i have goosebumps every time i see this video:)
SeagullsDiarrhea 1 year ago
Great. On December 7, 1968 I was in USN at Newport. Woke in early December to WPRO in Providence advertising final Cream concert. Of course did not make to either concert. If I had, would rather have been in New York.
Stoney4020 1 year ago
This song is about the end of the world.
Funkyfreshboy2000 1 year ago
gracies pipes!
drumier 1 year ago
Jack Casady doesn't play the bass- he IS the bass and lives INSIDE the music. That must be a great place to hang out.
curiousnomad 1 year ago
Great!!!!!
HIDEKIAMPZZILA 1 year ago
It's so nice to know the crime rate was so low in NYC in 1968 that NYPD had nothing better to do than to harass The Jefferson Airplane! (sarcasm generator off)
Kohntarkosz 1 year ago
a great song, disenchanted; don't know what it was like to be alive then, but certainly it would seem that society was on an existential edge--we may be on the same edge today, but appreciate it in a different way.
geekorthodox9 1 year ago
What does it mean 'pooneil'? and this sentence "Which is why a Pooh is pooing" I've tried to translate this, but in polish this sentence is without sense. Maby there is a second meaning of this? Please, could you help me? (I'm polish so there can be lots of mistakes in my comment)
BlackLedWallet 1 year ago
@BlackLedWallet "POO" refers to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh. "NEIL" refers to folk musician/songwriter Fred Neil, who wrote "The Other Side of This Life", originated the "Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers!" slogan that the Airplane later incorporated into their "We Can Be Together.", etc, etc. Winnie the Pooh and Neil were the heroes of Paul Kantner (author of both "Pooneil" songs.)
beograund 1 year ago 9
@beograund
Have you ever read those Tao of Pooh philosophical books?
They're quite amazing and reveal that Pooh isn't such a silly bear with a small brain at all.
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
@beograund the slogan "up against ste wall, motherfuckers" refers to what?
alexblaj18 11 months ago
@beograund are you sure neil isn't Neil Casaday?
johnptretbar 9 months ago
I would swear the couple in the window shot around 1:46 thru 2:00 is Jim Morrison and Pam Courson. I believe Morrison would have been in NYC about the same time as this took place, although I've not seen any photo's of Courson where she ever had that particular hairstyle and length. Any info or opinions?
That aside, absolutely classic JA, one of their very best.
iyeska63 1 year ago
@iyeska63 no, it's definitely not jim. i can see why you'd think that though
rareflorence 1 year ago
This is my world...
BlackLedWallet 1 year ago
roger that
redmarine28 1 year ago
Sadly... their great music falls on deaf ears. They prefer to live in the ilusions
Dictator300 1 year ago
New York WAKE UP YOU FUCKERS! I'm awake now:)
biscayne427 1 year ago 3
Sexiest Woman in 60s and 70s Music no contest !
Maguirearch 1 year ago 2
I love Grace Slick!!!!!!
rogerjazzfan 2 years ago 3
Grace ,..Oh My Heavens, (and the dewdrop of unfettered Hell)
I love you!
BeccaGSD 2 years ago 5
One of my favorite videos of all time now. Thanks so much!
otterman445 2 years ago 2
du du du du duu du...go off Jack ! Spencer R.I.P.
phileesarah 2 years ago 5
I love this clip! Great to see someone finally uploaded it.
Wow, to have been at the right place at the right time and seen this happen...
Poor Marty gets arrested...
ladidah9 2 years ago 3
The girl dancing on the roof at 3.57 appears at 4.12 at ground level. Am I right? Appropriate enough for a film originally directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
vonroon23 2 years ago
Jack is on a good one here. Love Grace's vocals
BetoSurvivorMax 2 years ago 21
Вышак ваЩЕ самый улетный психодел JeffersonЫ рулят
MisterFiks 2 years ago 3
This is no love song. It is about the threat of nuclear war, which was an ever present threat in the 60s, especially after Cuba, Nice to see the people hanging out of windows and smoking. No fears of " health and safety" in those days.
vonroon23 2 years ago 3
Like the girl in the sheet smoking...hahah classic greatness
otterman445 2 years ago 3
spencer dryden on drums a dervish.
the whole band at the junction of chaos and control
7/4, 14/8, the nypd, the feedback, the voices of balin, kanter,
and slick so unique an orchestra. jorma and jack cassidy bringing it now to youtube, i see the saucers.
u89worlds 2 years ago 3
You can't get any cooler than Jack Casady here.
ianmattl 2 years ago 11
The first rooftop concert in history by the great and underrated JEFFERSON AIRPLANE.
Months before the Beatles' 'Let it Be' in London.
In fact, McCartney have hearded about this one and had the same 'idea'.
Unfortunately they made history on it not the original ones, the Airplane.
Grace Slick was better than Janis!
caravaggio31 2 years ago 37
@caravaggio31 Jefferson Airplane is way out of the Beatles league. Personally, i feel that the Beatles aren't as well as everyone seems to think.
JimmyPage968 1 year ago 3
@caravaggio31 Actually only one month before as the Beatles rooftop gig was in January 1969. Comparing Janis and Grace? Why dont you compare apples and oranges while you are at it? Airplane definitely an underrated group you are right.
2tuque2 1 year ago
@caravaggio31
Technically the Grateful Dead played the 1st rooftop concert.
on the roof of the Chelsea Hotel in NYC on 8/10/67.
MantraMystic 1 year ago
@caravaggio31 Janis Joplin and Grace Slick were Fire & Ice.
drmlabs 1 year ago
@caravaggio31
Not the first. See on youtube:
Roberto Carlos - Quando (Rooftop concert antes dos Beatles)
alex8cla 1 year ago
@alex8cla That was mimic on a fiction film scene not a concert. Airplane is the first one.
caravaggio31 1 year ago
@caravaggio31 One month before, but you commented on this a year ago! oh, well
johnfright 11 months ago
whos the one in the beginnign saying "music f*ckers" ..is that marty balin?
laxrulez7 2 years ago 3
yes that's marty's voice - peace and love
jackhillty 2 years ago 4
So where were the Velvets? Would have been cool to see them jam out in their backyard. Very cool video!
testoster1 2 years ago
@testoster1 The Velvets hated the Airplane.