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In the Sixties, the Bar was raised Very High! But come on, Young People, you have to Save it because no one else can! These poor people are old now. aAlot of them are dead. Make better days, the old days aren't coming back. Now you have to labor in the musty museum, among the mummies, the monuments, the old statues. But you CAN make the coming decades just as good, better! Your Beatles are coming, your Hendrix is coming, all yours! Stop looking for them and BE them! It's up to you, it's yours.
1953 = Me and I grew up listening to this, believing "we" could change the world and our music delivered that message. As this is, so it was, so let it be. There is no time too late to move "things" to a new level. "We" must take hold, take heart and soul and let the message an movement be re-born anew. Now.
I can remember seeing the Airplane at the Filmore East and the Capital theatre in Portchester N.Y. I don't think We ever paid more than $8.00 a ticket. The shows were unbelievable! especially when Papa John Creach played with the Airplane. On acid you could see the music as well as hear it. Great times!
One of my all time fav's from one of my all time favorite bands.Gracie's vocals and Jorma's leads just soar.I am now in my 60's and ill and about the only thing that feels good anymore is listening to the great music from this great time.We were stardust,we were golden and
we've got to find our way back to the Garden!God I want to trip one more time before I go.
@theworldismelting technically...its more a "should have been born in the 40s/50s" syndrome. Would hate to have been a little kid during the 60, instead of a young adult.
@TreyLemoineTV what about mgmt, grizzly bear, neon indian, animal collective, and me you us them? psychadellia is definately not dead, i can definately feel some big movement soon
@kittygobark1 i know what you mean, i was just talking for the most part. according to terrance mckenna, we are about to enter an age of enlightenment. so keep your fingers crossed and do your part.
hey catfish11 you are a true disunderstood fellow. If you read this just know that I am a fellow who wishes was born in the 50's and had been able to live all this MUSIC, Music nowadays is the worst piece of crap that mankind has ever been able to compose. Who cares if life sucked back then? At least we had the best music that can deliver from all that. But I see that music does not have a possitive and healing efect on your soul. And hear me out, YOURE A IGNORANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate today's music. It just isn't fair that REAL music was mainstream when I wasn't even alive. I was born during the MTV generation, the beginning of the downfall
11catfish11 at least you went and served in that hell. I lost so many friends from highschool. My friends who did return were never the same....Respect to you!!! your friend in time Huichol53.....
11catfish11 you weren't born at the wrong time. At that time you saw your brothers, cousins and other relatives and friends go to the military and come back changed, if at all. And see family, especially moms and wives/girlfriends worry the whole time, whether in the Navy in/off the Gulf of Tonkin, 'Nam, Cambodia or whereever. And even in the last year of the draft sitting with your friends, 6 days younger than you who had a draft number of 6, saying "Crap, by Jay" and yours 300. Not wrong time.
Dear Nada65, My Husband was a sniper in nam so I know how you feel. To this day he still has nightmares. I used to wear 6 bracelets for 3 mia's and 3pow's. Sadly, they were never found. You take care and have faith, O.K? your friend, Huichol53.......
CSNY's version at Woodstock '69 is the only version of this song that rivals this very special rendition. I may be biased though, I'm an old Airplane flyer.
JA version much better. Ive heard enuff CS&N for one lifetime. Mellow unfeeling crap. ENUFF!! Had those records at a very early age. Dunno where they are now. Still have my JA albums tho. More feeling. More sincerity. Smiles are all in the same language right? so smile and try hard to stick to the positive & try to keep your fellow humans from drowning...metaphorically speaking. PEACE & my heart n hugs to everyone.,if it even matters.....? ♥
No disrespect to JA but the CSN verison is the best to me, while this is a beautiful smokey jazzy verison of the track, without the breathtaking harmony's that only CSN can produce the song seems lacking... just my opinion still love JA for there original work.
Saw them live back in 1989 when they reunited and then did a tour. Twice up in New York. First night of Radio City Music Hall and they were great that night, But the best show that whole week in New York was up in the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Had fifth row on the floor. The best show ever. The whole band was so on that night. Amazing & Incredible. Glad I got to see them live.
Definitely a lot of emotions and a twist of blue hurricane in the JA version of this song. CSN is a legend, but I know they are proud the Airplane didnt murder the lyrics.
@Cynicleese Kantner, Crosby, and Stills wrote "Wooden Ships" for Grace Slick....It's their sentiment on what they saw coming after nuclear destruction. At least that's my take. Powerful lyrics. Incredible music. One of the best of all the great songs to come out of the Sixties.
I served in the Army during the late '60s and in Nam, and we listened to this and other kind of protest sounds when we could but we had to get albums sent to us to hear the cool stuff. Listening to a lot of the classics tonite I can hear and feel the mixed impressions of a desperate sadness and the dream of better times... this music still holds me captive and I think I like it!
@nada65 There is always and equal and opposite reaction to life....I go back to that spot and feel it deep in me.... Replace it with the now...Begin a new life
@nada65 Dude, if nobody ever told you, thank you, for your service in 'Nam.....my uncle came home in something the size of a coffee can, and a medal in a box...I'll never forget THAT day.
I always thought this was a great post apocalyptic tribal kind of harmonious groove... While CSN sounds tight and polished, this has a real campfire feel to it. Both are great recordings, just like this one for the images of people getting together and really talking this food situation over...
@TheZenRider1 Science fiction, war, pirates...Yours is a good tight comment on the Airplane/CSNY tune. I never heard this version until I heard it here. But the gist of my
comment is that I have no idea what this song says, what it is about. I've never been
Classic song. For 30 years I thought the lyrics were "You must try some of my Huckleberries.......". I must have been the butt of a few jokes from my friends who would suffer me singing karaoke style. Best bit is I'm from a generation who no longer care about such things (well, most of us who listened to Airplane anyway).
I have been singing this version of wooden ships to my son at bedtime becaues its been stuck in my head for daaaaayyss! He loves it. I love trying to sound like grace :-P
I prefer the CSN&Y verson but still this is great too.It shows the fusion of rock and folk in the late 60's American psycedelic rock scene.Hail drugs they are not the problem its the anal attitude against them thats the problem.
Wooden Ships is this wonderful band at its best. Those soaring voices wandering off, just making it back in time to harmonize perfectly. The guitar snaking melodically throughout. The crazy hippie lyrics. The hazy, whoosy druggy pace. The wonderful musicianship of a whacked out, crazy brilliant group of musicians. Sheer beauty.
@brightonus221 we're at a point again where we need a change, especially in music, which has sadly deteriorated!!!! what we need is a second British invasion, an influx of bands and MUSICIANS!!!!! not a bunch of non talented wannabe rock stars that wouldn't know a good song if it hit them in the face
@11catfish11 Really? Did you really want to be there? People wrote these songs because of ho nasty it was. Because you were born in more recent years (or so I will assume), you didn't have to go through the Hell on Earth that was this time period in American history. And what are you missing out on? Seeing Airplane live? Boo hoo. You can quite easily drive down to the local record store and buy Volunteers, Surrealistic Pillow, Bark, After Bathing At Baxter's all the same.
@11catfish11 i feel your pain man. I feel exactly the same way as you do, i am gonna be 25 and i wish i was going to be 55 so that i could have lived through the best days of the U.S.A, I would gladly lose 30 years of life if i could have lived thru these wonderful times
The vocal are superb - you can hear humanity in Marty Balin's voice - and Jorma's guitar solo is stunning. Even Rolling Stone had to admit in their review of Volunteers that Jefferson Airplane Wooden Ships is truly " an epic performance. "
The Airplane's "Volunteers" album was one of my first fifty LPs. collected circa 1976, '77, and "Wooden Ships" was always my favourite track on this album, closely followed by "Eskimo Blue Day". Magical rock n' roll!
Grace Slick and Marty Balin what great voices. Later Micky Thomas took over for Balin as Starship. great 20 years of great rock covering 2 generations (Airplane then Starship)..Miss these guys live..Grace is over 70 and retired.
So glad people torrent this music. I buy used CDs anyway, I figure I share enough of my stuff to get some redeemable karma points. Someday I'll buy the albums because they're nice to have on hand but liking only a few songs, I can download the whole set and learn to like the others as well, not feeling robbed in the process.
People put too much emphasis on money. Try living with a disability. You'd appreciate the worth of bartering instead of cash. Makes you feel like a contributing member.
I'm so sick of all of the comments on any old tune bragging about how real the music was back then and oh even though i'm 16 I like this music! This generation has made some incredible music along with a lot of crap just like the 60's and 70's. Nowadays we have the genius of Dinasur Jr and the tripe that comes out of Justin Bieber's voice box but how does that differ to Jefferson Airplane and Donny Osmond.
@CalumJambo Every generation has it's winners and losers. I was 13 when this album (yes, they were called albums back then) came out. David Cassidy was the teenage idol. However, as you can see great music survives.
Im a teen and i cant stand most of now days music and for some reason except for a few people i hang out with cant stand all the great artists The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Band, The Who, Hendrix experiance, CS&N, CCR, Steppen Wolfe, and im wondering how they can say that. Most of now days music has no meaning, i dont even call it music anymore they cant campare to this!
Paul Kantner is a principled voluntaryist anarchist. He's a genius compared to most of the idiots who supposedly oppose the government / wars these days. If you're looking for music with similar principles, check out "Vennaskond" "Leon Czolgosz Song". If you're looking for the core of revolution in America, it all revolves around the lost rights of the jury. Google Fully Informed Jury Association, and International Society for Individual Liberty. Also, read about "Freeborn" John Lilburne.
I did chemo therapy in 97/ 98 and then went to Hawaii and lived in a tent for a year, there are things to live for and care about. Even with the coming of Pluto and the destruction it will bring it also brings a new birth.
I was there and it was about finding ones self and figuring out what the wold is beside the shit we were getting fed. Of gorse the biggest lie was why our friends were dieing in Viet Nam, some shit hole nine thousand miles away. Everything else is nothing but people trying to figure out what they missed or media hype and adversing, If you think your generation is lost it is because you are trying to capture a past you know nothing about or trying to fit in the machine.
I was there and it was about finding ones self and figureing out what the wold is beside the shit we were getting fed. Of gorse the bigest lie was why our friends were dieing in Viet Nam, some shit hole nine thousand miles away. Everything else is nothing but people trying to figure out what they missed or media hype and adversing, If you think your geniration is lost it is because you are trying to capture a past you know nothing about or trying to fit in the machine.
@terrybrookman i think to an extent youre right but as far as us trying to capture a past..some of us do understand the past few as that may be some do and another reason we will be lost is the fact many have the viewpoint of apathetic ignorance which is due to watching mindless drivel on the television or on the computer when we can be entertained so easily many of us ask y should i care about anything in the real world when i can live inside my head indefinately
Not shit stirring I just don't like stereotyping and hypocrisy which is what your original comment is based on. oh and curmudgeon is fantastic word never seen it before very nice.
While I love CSN doing this song, I prefer this version. Grace's voice sailing over the top and the harmonizing are just wonderful. For those of us who lived through the horror of facing nuclear death during the Cuban Missile crisis this song was the hope that we would survive not just Vietnam but any future war.
Please don't lay the blame for todays wars on the young people of today. They live in a far more complex world than we did in the '60s. I was drafted to go to Vietnam but went to court and was allowed an exemption because of my beliefs. Don't forget that it is the people of the "Baby boomer generation" (my generation) that got us in to the current mess. It would be good if there was a greater interest, by all of the population, in what our politicians drag us into.
A cover of a middling song that ends up far outshining the original and moving into the pantheon of Just Plain Great Songs (although since it was co-written by Paul Kantner it can be argued that it's not, in fact, a cover). I hate the stupid, simplistic leftist sentiments of the American anti-war movement expressed in the lyrics, but no song (other than perhaps "Volunteers") ever represented that worldview better than this version of "Wooden Ships.".
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Afg893 4 days ago
you just cant beat classic rock
cursivedubline5 6 days ago
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Federockeer 6 days ago
We need to start a new revolution to avoid the end of humanity,
for us and for those who are no longer here...
Please press "like" in my comment for all to see this, peace.
Federockeer 6 days ago 5
meh, the original is way better
noldorian86 1 week ago
In the Sixties, the Bar was raised Very High! But come on, Young People, you have to Save it because no one else can! These poor people are old now. aAlot of them are dead. Make better days, the old days aren't coming back. Now you have to labor in the musty museum, among the mummies, the monuments, the old statues. But you CAN make the coming decades just as good, better! Your Beatles are coming, your Hendrix is coming, all yours! Stop looking for them and BE them! It's up to you, it's yours.
54markl 2 weeks ago 5
Why are there always Dislikes on good songs? It's absurd.
54markl 2 weeks ago
1953 = Me and I grew up listening to this, believing "we" could change the world and our music delivered that message. As this is, so it was, so let it be. There is no time too late to move "things" to a new level. "We" must take hold, take heart and soul and let the message an movement be re-born anew. Now.
TubeChop 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jefferson Airplane 3
I want a revolution now!
w1k1n9 3 weeks ago
Such a relaxing song, I can lay under a tree for a whole afternoon and listen to Jefferson Airplane.
408Laced 3 weeks ago 2
I read you laud and clear
captspock1 3 weeks ago
Wonderful, and happy I was born in 1951!
Lizardcuckoo 4 weeks ago
I like this version so much better than CSN&Y.
Poordumbcracker 4 weeks ago
I was at Woodstock...born at the perfect time and listening to this music just puts me right back there and it is soooooooo....fabulous....thanks.
Artie
Artie8283 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jefferson Airplane 3
Grace Slick put this version over the top such a presence.
zlue26 1 month ago
this enire album is great.....
d1sailer 1 month ago
I can remember seeing the Airplane at the Filmore East and the Capital theatre in Portchester N.Y. I don't think We ever paid more than $8.00 a ticket. The shows were unbelievable! especially when Papa John Creach played with the Airplane. On acid you could see the music as well as hear it. Great times!
nativebird63 1 month ago 3
SHIP OF FOOLS/? NOT
FRANCECHILD 1 month ago
One of my all time fav's from one of my all time favorite bands.Gracie's vocals and Jorma's leads just soar.I am now in my 60's and ill and about the only thing that feels good anymore is listening to the great music from this great time.We were stardust,we were golden and
we've got to find our way back to the Garden!God I want to trip one more time before I go.
Peace.
Narseshasnone 1 month ago 2
Ha ha ha we all suffer from "severe should have been born in the sixties/ Damn it we missed the best decade syndrome."
theworldismelting 1 month ago
@theworldismelting technically...its more a "should have been born in the 40s/50s" syndrome. Would hate to have been a little kid during the 60, instead of a young adult.
lefty77713 1 month ago
lets stop bitching about how bad our generations music is and make some good music to start a revolution to
TreyLemoineTV 1 month ago 17
@TreyLemoineTV what about mgmt, grizzly bear, neon indian, animal collective, and me you us them? psychadellia is definately not dead, i can definately feel some big movement soon
kittygobark1 1 month ago
@kittygobark1 i know what you mean, i was just talking for the most part. according to terrance mckenna, we are about to enter an age of enlightenment. so keep your fingers crossed and do your part.
TreyLemoineTV 1 month ago
@TreyLemoineTV i will dude i want to change the perspective of what music is like to people of today, to this generation
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@TreyLemoineTV "....lets stop bitching about how bad our generations music is and make some good music to start a revolution to."
Damn good idea, that! We're overdue.
AOXOMOXO 2 weeks ago
@LennonMoonPlant What's a record store?
mondonudes 1 month ago
Great album Nicky Hopkins piano on wooden ships
OVERLOOKED65 1 month ago
Guy in San Antonio looking for "Purple Berries"...
Kharkovkid 1 month ago
hey catfish11 you are a true disunderstood fellow. If you read this just know that I am a fellow who wishes was born in the 50's and had been able to live all this MUSIC, Music nowadays is the worst piece of crap that mankind has ever been able to compose. Who cares if life sucked back then? At least we had the best music that can deliver from all that. But I see that music does not have a possitive and healing efect on your soul. And hear me out, YOURE A IGNORANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nano3892 1 month ago
so real. so timeless, this searing hallucination -- here I am, still looking out over the waters 40 years + later.
pibard 1 month ago
I hate today's music. It just isn't fair that REAL music was mainstream when I wasn't even alive. I was born during the MTV generation, the beginning of the downfall
stewardo 1 month ago
great prophetic song -42 years ahead of it's time- Marty Balins vocals still haunting
texasbirdfan1 2 months ago
I like the green bar to the top right.
silverboots000 2 months ago
11catfish11 at least you went and served in that hell. I lost so many friends from highschool. My friends who did return were never the same....Respect to you!!! your friend in time Huichol53.....
huichol53 2 months ago
11catfish11 you weren't born at the wrong time. At that time you saw your brothers, cousins and other relatives and friends go to the military and come back changed, if at all. And see family, especially moms and wives/girlfriends worry the whole time, whether in the Navy in/off the Gulf of Tonkin, 'Nam, Cambodia or whereever. And even in the last year of the draft sitting with your friends, 6 days younger than you who had a draft number of 6, saying "Crap, by Jay" and yours 300. Not wrong time.
djepsonatmastnet 2 months ago
What we are about to got through WW3 is way worse
vintageaudioworkshop 1 month ago
Dear Nada65, My Husband was a sniper in nam so I know how you feel. To this day he still has nightmares. I used to wear 6 bracelets for 3 mia's and 3pow's. Sadly, they were never found. You take care and have faith, O.K? your friend, Huichol53.......
huichol53 2 months ago
CSNY's version at Woodstock '69 is the only version of this song that rivals this very special rendition. I may be biased though, I'm an old Airplane flyer.
stillustronic 2 months ago
This version is just better. JA get the mood and atmospherics exactly right. Great performance.
leemajella 2 months ago
JA version much better. Ive heard enuff CS&N for one lifetime. Mellow unfeeling crap. ENUFF!! Had those records at a very early age. Dunno where they are now. Still have my JA albums tho. More feeling. More sincerity. Smiles are all in the same language right? so smile and try hard to stick to the positive & try to keep your fellow humans from drowning...metaphorically speaking. PEACE & my heart n hugs to everyone.,if it even matters.....? ♥
NoRosesForMe 2 months ago
No disrespect to JA but the CSN verison is the best to me, while this is a beautiful smokey jazzy verison of the track, without the breathtaking harmony's that only CSN can produce the song seems lacking... just my opinion still love JA for there original work.
Starfire8008 3 months ago
geniali...
mousetop19 3 months ago
That is fucking music!
Hippyjonnycomics 3 months ago
Love this song... it's a tossup between this and CSN for me. Each version has its own attributes that I like. This one is more haunting.
hb310dude 3 months ago 2
Saw them live back in 1989 when they reunited and then did a tour. Twice up in New York. First night of Radio City Music Hall and they were great that night, But the best show that whole week in New York was up in the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Had fifth row on the floor. The best show ever. The whole band was so on that night. Amazing & Incredible. Glad I got to see them live.
writer125 3 months ago
Definitely a lot of emotions and a twist of blue hurricane in the JA version of this song. CSN is a legend, but I know they are proud the Airplane didnt murder the lyrics.
DoctorOreos 3 months ago
epic
hazardous541 3 months ago
love jefferson airplane since I was a little boy, they were beside me in good and bad times...thank you JA
MoonchildTheKing 3 months ago
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MoonchildTheKing 3 months ago
great version of this song
gds765red 3 months ago
@Cynicleese Kantner, Crosby, and Stills wrote "Wooden Ships" for Grace Slick....It's their sentiment on what they saw coming after nuclear destruction. At least that's my take. Powerful lyrics. Incredible music. One of the best of all the great songs to come out of the Sixties.
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Calun3 3 months ago
I served in the Army during the late '60s and in Nam, and we listened to this and other kind of protest sounds when we could but we had to get albums sent to us to hear the cool stuff. Listening to a lot of the classics tonite I can hear and feel the mixed impressions of a desperate sadness and the dream of better times... this music still holds me captive and I think I like it!
nada65 4 months ago 56
@nada65 Wow! You understand this song more than any other.
sunaru1 2 months ago
@nada65 desperate sadness. yep
9596okie 1 month ago
@nada65 bro i was there our hooch was smokin and airplane-air evac medics all the way-be well
reywilliamr 1 week ago
@nada65 There is always and equal and opposite reaction to life....I go back to that spot and feel it deep in me.... Replace it with the now...Begin a new life
TrickShot6828 1 day ago
@nada65 Dude, if nobody ever told you, thank you, for your service in 'Nam.....my uncle came home in something the size of a coffee can, and a medal in a box...I'll never forget THAT day.
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TheServiceWeb 4 months ago
I always thought this was a great post apocalyptic tribal kind of harmonious groove... While CSN sounds tight and polished, this has a real campfire feel to it. Both are great recordings, just like this one for the images of people getting together and really talking this food situation over...
TheZenRider1 4 months ago
@TheZenRider1 Science fiction, war, pirates...Yours is a good tight comment on the Airplane/CSNY tune. I never heard this version until I heard it here. But the gist of my
comment is that I have no idea what this song says, what it is about. I've never been
able to piece it together. To me it's enigmatic.
spoildn8410 4 months ago in playlist Yet Another List with No Gaga
man this song is so great I can't get it out of my head. this all i hear when i am at work.
TheWall198907 4 months ago
Well, I guess it's better on vinyl.
Zeppelinfaktor 4 months ago
9 people want metal ships.
Nyriify 4 months ago
Go ride the music.
celebrant9 4 months ago
Classic song. For 30 years I thought the lyrics were "You must try some of my Huckleberries.......". I must have been the butt of a few jokes from my friends who would suffer me singing karaoke style. Best bit is I'm from a generation who no longer care about such things (well, most of us who listened to Airplane anyway).
noel2711 4 months ago
We are still afraid of THE BOMB unfortunately. Fuck War!
DrLearyUSA 4 months ago
@DrLearyUSA No I just want to be at ground zero
MrDec202 4 months ago
I enjoy this version so much. It's spectacular. And the best part about this is you can hear the crackle of the vinyl in the beginning. Mmmmm
edenwoolever 5 months ago
CSN's version is more mellow imo
XtraPibbDude 5 months ago
I have been singing this version of wooden ships to my son at bedtime becaues its been stuck in my head for daaaaayyss! He loves it. I love trying to sound like grace :-P
heartgreaves 5 months ago
Marty sleep walked through the vocals, but I also liked this version better with Jorma's guitar licks
marshaevelyn1 5 months ago
great, now i gotta go down and find im8teennow's comment
Coppersmith41 5 months ago
@Coppersmith41 LMFAO! Best comment of 2011!
87cadillachearse 4 months ago
I prefer the CSN&Y verson but still this is great too.It shows the fusion of rock and folk in the late 60's American psycedelic rock scene.Hail drugs they are not the problem its the anal attitude against them thats the problem.
Big77Jim 5 months ago
Monumental, psychadelic and emotional. So smooth yet so full of hooks and thorns.
Toasttoastingfingers 5 months ago
this is one of the best songs ever by Jefferson Airplane great.
ferminc54 5 months ago
This song is so chill
ernests212 5 months ago
what a truly amazing voice, Grace Slick...
filmfanatica21 5 months ago
Wooden Ships is this wonderful band at its best. Those soaring voices wandering off, just making it back in time to harmonize perfectly. The guitar snaking melodically throughout. The crazy hippie lyrics. The hazy, whoosy druggy pace. The wonderful musicianship of a whacked out, crazy brilliant group of musicians. Sheer beauty.
froggo66 5 months ago
Wicked!
barryhawk23 5 months ago
@brightonus221 we're at a point again where we need a change, especially in music, which has sadly deteriorated!!!! what we need is a second British invasion, an influx of bands and MUSICIANS!!!!! not a bunch of non talented wannabe rock stars that wouldn't know a good song if it hit them in the face
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 5 months ago
hearing this song makes me want to cry, because i was born at the wrong time.
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@11catfish11
No you could not possibly have been, otherwise you would not have been able to notice.
Mauii100 4 months ago
@11catfish11 same
BazingaThis 4 months ago
@11catfish11 Not the wrong time, just a new time. But together our tears can join hands and bring forth the next grate wave! Love and Peace.
TheWesBrenner 2 months ago
@11catfish11 I hear you
ArtfulRenegade 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jefferson Airplane
@11catfish11 Really? Did you really want to be there? People wrote these songs because of ho nasty it was. Because you were born in more recent years (or so I will assume), you didn't have to go through the Hell on Earth that was this time period in American history. And what are you missing out on? Seeing Airplane live? Boo hoo. You can quite easily drive down to the local record store and buy Volunteers, Surrealistic Pillow, Bark, After Bathing At Baxter's all the same.
LennonMoonPlant 2 months ago
@11catfish11 i feel your pain man. I feel exactly the same way as you do, i am gonna be 25 and i wish i was going to be 55 so that i could have lived through the best days of the U.S.A, I would gladly lose 30 years of life if i could have lived thru these wonderful times
skipdafer 1 month ago
My first album-Crown of creation!
Incomplete6230 5 months ago
The vocal are superb - you can hear humanity in Marty Balin's voice - and Jorma's guitar solo is stunning. Even Rolling Stone had to admit in their review of Volunteers that Jefferson Airplane Wooden Ships is truly " an epic performance. "
Timothy1311 5 months ago
The Airplane's "Volunteers" album was one of my first fifty LPs. collected circa 1976, '77, and "Wooden Ships" was always my favourite track on this album, closely followed by "Eskimo Blue Day". Magical rock n' roll!
Meandgenevieve 5 months ago
Jorma puts his touch on the perfection of the groups passionate intelligence.
Nicky layers love on top!
Superb!
1WORLDDADDY 6 months ago
Jorma puts his touch on the perfection of the groups passionate intelligence. Superb!
1WORLDDADDY 6 months ago
this shit goes hard my niggas!!
circa73skater 6 months ago 2
Another of my top hundred songs of all time .. magical.
Meandgenevieve 6 months ago
Mmm rocking this shit in the afternoon with a bottle of wine in Australia.
evergrim 6 months ago
I would almost sell my soul if I could go back to the 60's. almost....
bullikins 6 months ago
@bullikins Why not just build a time machine?
TPBXDRicky420 6 months ago
@TPBXDRicky420: You've got the buttons of one, right in your hands :-)
ecofyt 6 months ago
@ecofyt HA HA True :)
TPBXDRicky420 6 months ago
Why have we still not gotten the message?
Ducatisatva 6 months ago
This was a very political album about a radical change in society. It that context the album has much more meaning.
gurusoft1 6 months ago
@gurusoft1 Yes, and if you notice those two simple words in the song "who won", it expresses that there are no winners in political or racial wars.
SoozKooz 6 months ago
Fantastic song. What's up with Grace's lips? Looks like those old wax lips they used to sell for a penny back then. ;-)
SoozKooz 6 months ago
Wanna talk about a long time ago?
I got this album in April 1970.
motorbiker63 6 months ago 3
@motorbiker63 Respect
TPBXDRicky420 6 months ago
THIS IS THE SUMMER OF LOVE EVERYONE GET TOGETHER!!!!
Bufaloevan 6 months ago 3
over the years i`ve played this well more than 1000x. thanks csn but they did it to perfection
kenocs78 7 months ago
@Cynicleese TOTALLY.............
peace, darren
fernman23 7 months ago
I agree wholeheartly! Talent abounds, I was just nostolgic about vinyl.
fore101 7 months ago
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... few are chosen.
mindfoodprime 7 months ago
I think this the best of the two versions. Jorma is outstanding. And Marty, Grace Paul . . . . perfect.
triplettam 7 months ago 2
I saw them and met them at Filmore West and Crazy Barbra's house in Berkley, my pleasure!
terrybrookman 7 months ago
Grace Slick and Marty Balin what great voices. Later Micky Thomas took over for Balin as Starship. great 20 years of great rock covering 2 generations (Airplane then Starship)..Miss these guys live..Grace is over 70 and retired.
MikeRes52 7 months ago
When I listen Jefferson,everything is so easy.....
majaekv 7 months ago
GO RIDE IT
johnnyleonard1 7 months ago in playlist THE Jefferson-tuna-hot-star-air-ship Plane
Grace Slick knows what it's about.
CMloveify 7 months ago
great album.great song.
mow1717 8 months ago
Lord please bring me back to a time when people werent all sheep.
theseeker6966 8 months ago
4:05, Gracie singer over lead guitar, awesome........
bygmykel 8 months ago 2
I've always liked this version the best, love the harmonies, Jorma's guitar and the jungle drums
Sculptorshaw 8 months ago 2
Fucking awesome Album. =)
MightyZumba23 8 months ago
So glad people torrent this music. I buy used CDs anyway, I figure I share enough of my stuff to get some redeemable karma points. Someday I'll buy the albums because they're nice to have on hand but liking only a few songs, I can download the whole set and learn to like the others as well, not feeling robbed in the process.
People put too much emphasis on money. Try living with a disability. You'd appreciate the worth of bartering instead of cash. Makes you feel like a contributing member.
PotterPossum1989 9 months ago
best version for me..
futuristfood 9 months ago
Awesome song. Shitty album.
ccmazza 9 months ago
@ccmazza
It isn't their best album, but 'Hey Frederick' of is Grace's best song with Jefferson Airplane.
EIFanGirl 8 months ago
The Harmonies in this track are quite amazing... Crosby also lent a hand on Triad for the Airplane..
thebyrdsmusic 9 months ago
I just turned 60 last weekend, and this version of this song is still spectacular!
Jaycubb22 9 months ago
I am not an overly emotional but this song is so beautifully perfect it elicits tears of joy.
/silver people let me be
berylman 9 months ago
I'm so sick of all of the comments on any old tune bragging about how real the music was back then and oh even though i'm 16 I like this music! This generation has made some incredible music along with a lot of crap just like the 60's and 70's. Nowadays we have the genius of Dinasur Jr and the tripe that comes out of Justin Bieber's voice box but how does that differ to Jefferson Airplane and Donny Osmond.
CalumJambo 9 months ago 2
@CalumJambo i am 53 and i agree with you- the world is a different place no one is to blame- check out minus the bear
gumbyonacid 9 months ago
@CalumJambo Every generation has it's winners and losers. I was 13 when this album (yes, they were called albums back then) came out. David Cassidy was the teenage idol. However, as you can see great music survives.
fore101 8 months ago
@fore101 They're still called albums, right?
DanAndHoe 8 months ago
@DanAndHoe Yes, they still are called albums. Just can't find many record stores. :)
fore101 8 months ago
@fore101 sucks don't it
huskerrock1 8 months ago
@huskerrock1 Yeah, I miss vinyl. Gave the music character.
fore101 7 months ago
@fore101 Vinyl does give recorded music a great sound, but I think what I hear on this track more than anything is just great talent and creativity.
shorttermmelody 7 months ago
Im a teen and i cant stand most of now days music and for some reason except for a few people i hang out with cant stand all the great artists The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, The Band, The Who, Hendrix experiance, CS&N, CCR, Steppen Wolfe, and im wondering how they can say that. Most of now days music has no meaning, i dont even call it music anymore they cant campare to this!
Bufaloevan 9 months ago
Paul Kantner is a principled voluntaryist anarchist. He's a genius compared to most of the idiots who supposedly oppose the government / wars these days. If you're looking for music with similar principles, check out "Vennaskond" "Leon Czolgosz Song". If you're looking for the core of revolution in America, it all revolves around the lost rights of the jury. Google Fully Informed Jury Association, and International Society for Individual Liberty. Also, read about "Freeborn" John Lilburne.
libertarianjury 9 months ago
JESUSDIE4UAMEN.
FRANCECHILD 9 months ago
I love both JA and C,S&N, but I prefer the C,S&N version of this. I adore Grace Slick's voice though
RawBohemian 9 months ago
The Airplane rocked it big time!
zerotolerance4u 9 months ago
I'd never heard this ... only CSN's version. Awesome.
jmacleve 9 months ago
OH. MY. GOSH. I listened to the other version for the first time. WOW. Jefferson Airplane wins.
LennonMoonPlant 9 months ago
Jeffersonjukebox forgot to mention the man playing the Peddlesteel, is Jerry Garcia.
fore101 9 months ago 2
@fore101 Deadheads unite!
schach420 9 months ago
A little after Midnight, quiet everywhere but my ear buds....drift away to tomorrow today.
reefrunner9 9 months ago
i prefer the CSN version personally, but I had to listen to this one when I found out it had been done.
Not real big on Jefferson Airplane, I prefer smoother sounding music (like CSN) or metal (yea, I'm weird. . .)
luckywizfrombasil 9 months ago
@luckywizfrombasil More JA for us...
apemanstreetwalker 9 months ago
what a guitar solo
suku0uutiset 9 months ago
That's pretty cool..this was written by members from both JA and CSNY.
Thanks for sharing that
spoildn8410 10 months ago
I did chemo therapy in 97/ 98 and then went to Hawaii and lived in a tent for a year, there are things to live for and care about. Even with the coming of Pluto and the destruction it will bring it also brings a new birth.
terrybrookman 10 months ago
I was there and it was about finding ones self and figuring out what the wold is beside the shit we were getting fed. Of gorse the biggest lie was why our friends were dieing in Viet Nam, some shit hole nine thousand miles away. Everything else is nothing but people trying to figure out what they missed or media hype and adversing, If you think your generation is lost it is because you are trying to capture a past you know nothing about or trying to fit in the machine.
More blood will be shed,
terrybrookman 10 months ago
I was there and it was about finding ones self and figureing out what the wold is beside the shit we were getting fed. Of gorse the bigest lie was why our friends were dieing in Viet Nam, some shit hole nine thousand miles away. Everything else is nothing but people trying to figure out what they missed or media hype and adversing, If you think your geniration is lost it is because you are trying to capture a past you know nothing about or trying to fit in the machine.
More blood will be shed,
terrybrookman 10 months ago
@terrybrookman i think to an extent youre right but as far as us trying to capture a past..some of us do understand the past few as that may be some do and another reason we will be lost is the fact many have the viewpoint of apathetic ignorance which is due to watching mindless drivel on the television or on the computer when we can be entertained so easily many of us ask y should i care about anything in the real world when i can live inside my head indefinately
MrSiddhart222 10 months ago
nottoberemembered,
or maybe i just dont want to argue with strangers on the internet you shit stirring curmudgeon.
im8teennow 10 months ago
Not shit stirring I just don't like stereotyping and hypocrisy which is what your original comment is based on. oh and curmudgeon is fantastic word never seen it before very nice.
nottoberemembered 10 months ago
cant we just get along and jam out who cares what you think there are a zillion people who might not care i for one need to say peace and love ADIOS
dezamuido 10 months ago
This is just the s
d1sailer 10 months ago
I have always preferred this version to the one by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...this one seem to have a bit more soul.
muskratbill 10 months ago
While I love CSN doing this song, I prefer this version. Grace's voice sailing over the top and the harmonizing are just wonderful. For those of us who lived through the horror of facing nuclear death during the Cuban Missile crisis this song was the hope that we would survive not just Vietnam but any future war.
PumaTwoU 10 months ago
this song is really good
atmoferebusandfucku 10 months ago
these days are over.accept thug culture.you have no choice.
mow1717 10 months ago
THIS may come to Fruition! Laugh and joke all you like.......Nu Clear World is not too far off.........pay attention to the mystics!
mark1952able 11 months ago
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOS MAS GRANDE DELROCK PSICODELICO JUNTO A CHARLY GARCIA Y ROLING STONES SAY NO MORE
claumaquina 11 months ago
Everyone,
Just stay involved and be honest with yourselves.
That's all I ask.
I love you all for responding .I would never deny you.
Skip
skippertee1 11 months ago
Please don't lay the blame for todays wars on the young people of today. They live in a far more complex world than we did in the '60s. I was drafted to go to Vietnam but went to court and was allowed an exemption because of my beliefs. Don't forget that it is the people of the "Baby boomer generation" (my generation) that got us in to the current mess. It would be good if there was a greater interest, by all of the population, in what our politicians drag us into.
Holdncaulfield 11 months ago
A cover of a middling song that ends up far outshining the original and moving into the pantheon of Just Plain Great Songs (although since it was co-written by Paul Kantner it can be argued that it's not, in fact, a cover). I hate the stupid, simplistic leftist sentiments of the American anti-war movement expressed in the lyrics, but no song (other than perhaps "Volunteers") ever represented that worldview better than this version of "Wooden Ships.".
jimnewl 11 months ago
Judging from the photo on the album there appears to be another female introduced into the group. Am I seeing that correctly? Who is she?
huskyjerk 11 months ago
this song is so relexst!!!
SEETER1 11 months ago
my favourite
PaziMine 11 months ago
Crosby fa la differenza...
jackonfire85 11 months ago
god this is such a good song i could listen to it over and over
LovePeaceLennon22 11 months ago
nice one my son, i was just going tosay and thegood old usa are still at war
cutforth1 11 months ago
nice one my son i was just going tosay and thegood old usa are still at war
cutforth1 11 months ago
What ever happened to Nicky Hopkins, in MHO the hero of this brilliant arrangement?
graceland288 11 months ago