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  • I LOOOOOVE AIRPLANE

  • My fav. song by them :)

  • Yes it is great with headphones. Or without. I love Graces'"la la las'" going with Jormas killer guitar in the middle break. Airplaneus de-Classicus.

  • i hear whispers of Jorma and Bob Weir doing an acoustic duo tour this summer

  • Have tickets to see Tuna at the Englert Theater in Iowa City in March!

  • ..'K. Yea, it's a JA tune (and that's all well & good: The JA were "JA"! ) But the last 8 seconds of the tune, I'm sorry: Thats Jorma. Jorma K: Stride-Master Guitarist, "Roots-of-Roots Musician".. & 1 Goofy Guy with Nifty Tats : o

  • This is I think is J. Kaukonen's best number. Man he can do those guitar licks!

  • My favorite part is between 2:47 and 2:53 when the climax breaks and we return to the "tumbling" melody (who plays that?) and Jorma kicks in again with another impressive lick.

  • God bless you Jorma Kaukonen, i Love you brother.

  • The first album was called Blues from an airplane, Tha singer was a lady called Signe Anderson. There are lots of long tall Liars, Imposters, and people filled with greed. Little do they know they'll be going to a real dark place of torture and pain....Huichol53.......

  • great with headphones. powerful!!!!!!!

  • i dislike this hahahahahahahah

  • @losernutty well you obviously dont GET it then. ..pft....whatever. Thank you 'jukebox' for postin' all this amazing stuff. I grew up with these songs. I miss my records........gotta find em...at my Mother's place! hahah ♥PEACE and blessings to ye!

  • GOD this rocks!!!!!!!!!!

  • the first album was maybe their best in some ways...this song is so totally outstanding, I get chills each time I hear it...Huichol53.......

  • @huichol53

    uhhhh... their first album as in takes off? no definitely not their best. Although you were probably mistakenly referring to this as their first album. this is their fifth album, Volunteers

  • One of my favorite all-time Jorma tracks!

  • supa numma

  • nam~

  • sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet jorma could play with anybody, what a lp

    they dont make em like they use to. classic the day they cut it thank you ja,

    and of course peace baby

  • the classic rock station in my area plays that disco horseshit from the '70s. I hated it then and I REALLY hate it now. This is REAL classic rock played by musicians not computers.

  • 'Stay out of the way of the long-tongued liars....."

  • When this album first came out, I assumed that Marty Balin was the singer, until I heard Hot Tuna a couple years later

  • Thank you that Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd!

  • Thank you Jesus Christ the Good Shepherd

    Pray for peace folks...Jorma playing along the Hudson River tonight.

    Jesus Christ bless him and all in the world.

  • Oh good shepard feed my sheep

  • The long tongue liars don't approve........

  • All good sheapards feed his sheep!

  • One of the best Airplane tracks. "I am the Good Shepherd, who lays down His life for the sheep" (John 10:11).

  • If this isn't about Christianity, I don't know what is.

  • @lgvhnI5s It is about mysticism, regardless the brand-name.

  • Top ohf their game...

  • A great, great song and album. As unappreciated as an album can be.

  • This is my favorite Jefferson Airplane song to sing to.

  • @fatcatbuzz I CAN SO RELATE. LOVE YOU.

  • @animascat Thank you.

  • 1 cockroach , this is very spiritual and it is the best part of man and woman

  • love the guitar, ditto on the stereo thing

  • This version is based on one old shape note hymn and a blues gospel song. Shape note hymns were popular in the folk music world ( and are still sung at folk festivals) This song has been recorded many times. It has been sung by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson still performs it. For the history see: Good_Shepherd_(song) at Wikipedia

  • JESUS?

  • AMERICANS SO LOVE JESUS. AMEN

  • Good trips.

  • beautiful

  • Loved this since I was achild

  • By far the best song of the album.

  • I like how the guitar moves from one speaker to the other...real STEREO! LOL

  • Damn good guitar solo!

  • Go Jorma!

  • Classic rendition of a traditional american song. Jorma's great for his early years.

  • JORMA KAUKONEN : The all time true america greatest guitarist ( composer, feeling, inspiration) Simple has that;And the solo of this song prove it.

  • Lol My mother and her friend know Jorma!

  • i remember going on a mission trip and i had discovered this song a few months before. I popped the cassette tape into the car's player and me and my minister were jamming

  • Who constrains the playlists on Classic Rock stations? They never go deep; same old cuts from a given album, and some albums by many artists are NEVER played. Talk about underestimating the taste and intelligence of listeners (especially those of us in our 50's and 60's).

  • @alderems Thankfully, due to internet and ipods we can listen to what we want, when we want. Without commercials, political ads, and annoying talk show hosts. =D

  • Attention all radio Program Directors: please add Good Shepherd to your playlist. It's not that hard. Too many under listeners under 50 who know the Jefferson Airplane for two songs...Just get off your lazy asses..please

  • Oh, Good Shepherd Feed My Sheep ;D

  • Good Shepherd is one of Jefferson Airplane's best songs!

  • My parish had a Guitar Mass, and the ensemble would play this sometimes....

  • @TurboVW2004 Deeply moving, spiritual lyrics. totally appropriate for the Mass.

  • Second track on the A side of the disc, perfect placement for this track, always blended in nicely after "We can be Together" can't think of one without the other.

  • Jorma kaukonen is in my opinion one of the most underrated rock guitarists. This song is the best song on Volunteers and maybe the best of the Airplane.

  • never gets old

  • How do you beat this song

  • Jefferson Airplane has a very trippy sound. More so than other bands at this time. I would have liked to see them collaborate with the Grateful Dead. "Playboy Afterdark" has some very cool guest artists. -- Jesusrising

  • live psychedelic dance band-wize, they were the most adroit at getting the audience off, ie escape velocity, out of all the heavy rotation acts at fillmores, but the stellar level of competition was fierce, i saw led zep, tull, jeff beck, but that was more brit blues rock, totally different species than sf psychedelia, not as good to dance to, oboy do i miss the real live animal which is extincting fast

  • what a song!!!!

  • This song is the pleasure for walk in the nigth abouth lonley

  • live, the dead and the airplane were inexorably the best late sixties early 70's

  • @wellspout ummmm the Beatles were in the late 60s??? Also I'm not sure how easily you can put this above the bands that had recently just released Led Zeppelin II and Dark Side of the Moon.

    I'm not completely disagreeing with you though, I do love the Dead and JA.

  • @Preisellack My man, WELLSPOUT has a point. Late 60's the Airplane were at their peak and were above The Beatles IMO. They toured- and recorded great live albums too. They kicked ass and put themselves on the line, politically, musically and socially way more than The Beatles did. The Beatles were in their own bubble, a truly great band, but in a bubble. Only Lennon got politically pro-active when he quit the band. By Zep ll & 3 in the early 70's, the JA were on the slide.

  • Thank you.

  • semplicemente jefferson airplane..... spettacolari....

  • I'm not sure why, but for some reason this song has been playing in my head today.

  • first time I heard this was on The Worst of Jefferson Airplane, and I was like whoa, this is really classic rock sounding. It's one of my favorite songs. The live version on Sweeping Up the Spotlight is even more amazing

  • I just had the wonderful experience of seeing Hot Tuna with Jack & Jourma.

    They did this song acousticly .... man I can still hear it playing in my mind.

    They jammed it out for 30 minutes ... it was certainly worth the 30 year wait to see them. The Airplane family were the best to come out of the states.

  • In '69' I attended Jefferson Airplane concert in Philly, then in the summer I flew out to Ca. to see them and others at Altamont (wrong spelling). I have always loved this group. They captured the SOUL of what was happening from 67 to 70. I gave my girlfriend in 1969 Grace Slicks and her brothers albulm...' Conspicuous in its absence' which represented the early pre Jefferson sound.

  • The Airplane wrote such great and innovative music in their day. Crown of Creation, Volunteers and After Bathing at Baxters are as great a listen today as they were when they were released.

  • I named my first son Aiko Aiko, after reading Psalms 3.1. Then I changed his name to Christmas Goose after the airplane (howard hughes!).. Now adays, I really like the music which is everlasting (please her soul!)

  • this is fuking INTENSE yeah j.a. 4ever

  • ...I just rediscovered this subtle masterpiece of a song...Jorma is fantastic!

  • The rolling-along guitar on this track is unlike anything I've heard. Jorma adds fantastic lead jabs that complement perfectly. A true classic of the 60's and beyond!

  • Its really sad to see such talented people have to depend on dumb idiots who r only interested in makin money...and on a personal note I hate the fucked up crooked system of some record labels

  • one of the best of the "obscure songs" from their canon, check out the most delicate and beautiful use of the wah-wah pedal, not as hard driving as most of their stuff... bless them all and hope they're happy in all their journeys..... same to all you listeners out there

  • Happy in their journeys? You need to hear some Hot Tuna, man!

  • hot f'in tuna

  • They don't play this on classic rock stations because the corporate masters don't like the lyrics.

  • true. named my son Silas. Acts 14-15: Chrisianity might have died out but for Silas's courage (& stature).

  • @ChordBender True Christianity can never die out it might be a little hard to find with all the mainstream false prophets and preachers preaching a "different Christ and a different gospel" but Christ can never die again so His word will never die either.

  • @zitlight73 Yep it's about having faith, not what you have faith in and judging others as sinners, God is everywhere and is nowhere

  • It is my understanding that Volunteers was recorded studio live. In other words, this is a live take with no audience.

  • Right: the whole album is a tribute to their musicianship. Not an average group. They don't play this on classic rock stations because of the Biblical references, and the personal accountability directive in the lyrics.

  • Why don't they play this on Classic Rock stations?

  • Because classic stations are owed by Clear Channel and the owners are only interested in one thing and it aint music.

  • @Dunkleosteus9

    It was not a single, and CR stations have a VERY narrow playlist. It's just marketing.

  • @Dunkleosteus9 They do, but not enough!!

  • @Dunkleosteus9 who cares classic rock stations suck especially the morning shows

  • @tuodekab Except KQRS.

  • @Dunkleosteus9 becuase all they do is play the dumb over played popular music

  • @Dunkleosteus9 Because it's not sheep classic rock. When the general public think of classic rock, they think of ACDC, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Queen. Nobody really cares about the '60s; and if they do, it's The Beatles. *rolls eyes*.....Ironic how this song is titled Good Shepherd and it's not part of the herd of classic rock.

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  • omg, LOVE this song...whole album kicks butt <3

  • If you want to get to heaven

    Over on the other shore

    Stay out of the way of the blood-stained bandit

    Oh good shepherd

    Feed my sheep

    One for paul

    One for silas

  • One for to make my heart rejoice Can't you hear my lambs acallin Oh good shepherd Feed my sheep If you want to get to heaven Over on the other shore Stay out of the way of the long-tongue liar Oh good shepherd Feed my sheep If you want to get to heaven Over on the other shore Stay out of the way of the gun shot devil Oh good shepherd Feed my sheep
  • beautifully arranged

  • rankings are irrelevent.....its wahat turns your crank

  • good old acid rock.

  • My (Catholic!) Church choir used to sing this every year on Good Shepherd Sunday. Have loved this song forever. Long Tongued Liars, Blood Stained Bandits, Gunshot ????

  • "Gunshot Devil" - just saw Jorma & Jack do this last night in Mass.

    Acoustic Good Shepherd - Jorma is 70 - incredible!

  • That musta bean a grreat show. I love this song and still have the original album and the mock news letter that came with it. lol. i miss the old times.

  • @DoctorSapperstein

    Not yet! Jorma is 69. Will be 70 next month. Don't rush him. ;-)

  • so i have been told that Grace Slick was the first person to say "mother-fucker" on live television, is this true and is there any recorded footage of this??

  • I don't know if it's true or not but may i ask, what does it matter?

  • it's about as relevant as youtube as a whole, depending on your opinion.

  • Oh good shepherd, feed my sheep...

    What a great song! What a great band...A perfect song for Jorma to sing.

    *****stars!

  • Jorma.....

  • Yep! I didn't hear this song until the movie Shampoo came out and immediately loved it then and love it still

    now. Great stuff.

    Thank you for posting this.

  • A preview of Hot Tuna ;o)

  • Absolutely incredible guitar work. I had forgotten how good this was.

  • This song is ALL JORMA KAUKONEN!!!

  • But maybe the slide is Jerry García, no?

  • i believe so

  • That's a 'wah wah' and classic Jorma - who, by the way, could play circles around JG.

  • Correcto!

  • In all due respect I hope your not saying Jerome Garcia. I LOVE Jorma but COME ON!!

  • Yes, Rolling Stone ranked Jerome way ahead of Jorma, but they also ranked Geo Harrison ahead of Mark Knopfler.........COME ON!!!

    I'd still take Jorma

  • Fiction can be fun, but really man, briaden your horizons a bit. Listen to Garcia/Merl Sanders 2/9/74 or Garcia Wales or Old and in the way. Jerry could play a broom with fishing line tied up.

  • One for Paul, one for Silas...

  • I have always loved this song, recently saw HT acoustic do it sweetly. I want to play it in my church band(!) as I feel the theme of being wary of false phrophets. Don't know if they would let me try Jorma's loud lead, though. Yeah, we hippies accomplished nothing, as proved by CBR-CheneyBushRove. Only money can make war. Our armed forces are great; the "leaders" that send them to battle are evil.  Peace, Davey

  • Thank you for the delightfully irrational comments. If possible, try your own thoughts next time instead of CBR lemming-speak. Our current president is a quantum leap forward, open your eyes.

  • right on.

  • lol - I'm with you.

  • wrong- much was accomplished- you just dont see it-

    mission is incomplete-

  • I hope to conclude this discussion with one bit of advice-stay away from those blood-stained banders.

  • To take a band through the agony that Paul Kantner did, you wouldn't say that. How many name changes, manipulations and poor judgements can you make GWBASSOC!

  • wow this song is great! love n peace, friends. ^.^

  • got that right. make love not war.peace and love.

  • I think that was Jorma Kaukonen on that lead guitar solo; far out.

  • It's really horrible what Paul Kantner did to this group! Now they are like a bunch of hasbeens on tour with some young chick who can't sing her way out of a paper bag!

  • hey, "skillet chops", maybe he wants to make a living, and prefers music to a job in a cubicle.

  • @skilletchops Kantner hasn't put together a decent band for 25 years.

  • @Neoconhater I saw the JA at all the S.F. ballrooms and on the green in golden gate park, never will forget their great live music. I'm 70 now and still listen to my old LP's from the 60's. NEVER DIE YOUNG !. ELLIOTT HILL

  • @kirby690 Jorma had his seventieth birthday bash on Dec.3 and 4.He played the Beacon theater in NYC.

    The line - up of special guests was incredible!! I wish I'd been there!

    This song is one of my favorites from JA, Jorma plays this song to this day, and quite well of course!!

  • shame, all these jeff airplane songs don't have a 6th star to rate them by

  • Great moment in Airplane history

  • the guitar is just beyond words so underrrated and stuck in a box! these guys were so prolific!

  • Sure it did . It paved to way to much of the freedom and insight that you take for granted or are not even aware of .The money rip off is a yuppie thing.Oh, by the way,~~~~This song is a masterpiece !!! Thank You , JK.

  • ditto.

  • love this, loved it then, love it now...

    but i'm glad it's now and we still get to dig the genius of then

  • I can't choose between this and "Have You Seen the Stars Tonight?" as favorites, but since Hopkins inspired Slick on piano in that one and most of the other pieces are present, I don't suppose it much matters.

    Fantastic the way the acoustics were mixed so strong in this. Amazing for that time.

    I've worn out four copies of this album on vinyl, and finally got a CD.

    "Turn My Life Down" is a huge piece on the "Volunteers" album...

  • They don't make albums like this anymore. It came out when I was 15. Played through most of these songs in a rock band. Also caught the Airplane live a few times. I miss those days!

    -Peter

  • Oh man, Jorma's guitar in this one always gives me goosebumps.

  • Do you realize that this was recorded dead nuts live in the studio? I mean this whole album!

  • Always liked this song, but then there's so many Airplane numbers I love. Still possibly my favorite band of all time. - writeroffthelake at Geneva-on-the-Lake

  • Thanks Jorma!

  • oh lord!!!......what a fuckin good music!!!!!!thanks to jefferson airplane for the real good sensations who gave us in these years of youthness

  • Wow! That brings back alot of memories.

    Thanks for posting!

  • When my oldest sister brought home "Worst of JA" in 1970, this became my favorite song on the album. I assumed that it was Marty Balin singing until I heard Hot Tuna a couple years later.

  • thank you for sharing ! grazie per la condivisione ...

    greetings fron costa@italy.rome

    saluti

  • what do you mean ignorant ? of what ? and Simple music is usually the most catchy.

  • i remember his piece from 36 years it's very beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

  • La prima volta che ho ascoltato We Can Be Togheter e Good Shepherd, ho pensato: ecco, finalmente ci siamo. Ho trovato la mia musica.

  • Another great song that the so-called Classic Rock stations are too lazy to play. Listeners are experiencing "Sommebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" fatigue. Thanks for posting.

  • I agree

  • Second that!

  • @kurtzbob This has been going on for over 30 years,some of the best music of the 60's were not the top 40,thus are never played on clear channel mega stations,so the best music does not exist

  • @captspock1 Clearchannel's agenda does not include us feeding the sheep.

  • @hollywoodartchick actually it does.They want sheep and thats just what most people into commercial music are....not to mention the fact that most people are brainwashed.call them sheep or robots....peace

  • Li ho visti due giorni fa in Italia e hanno suonato questa canzone.

    Kantner, Freiberg e Cathy Richardson cantavano.

    Mia moglie non si è accorta che piangevo.

  • guitar work has perfection about it

  • jorma is dali lama

  • this may have been the last time all four of them sang together