Jefferson Airplane - Eat Starch Mom

[apemanstreetwalker]

"moves faster than you can...vegetable lover"

[pouchfreeman]

Take that you fuckin vegetable head. Punk before punk. I agree with whoever said it might possibly be the best song ever written.

[Sausahga]

This is from their good days before they started to suck as The Jefferson Starship and the record company took over and pushed the founders (the ones listed here) to the back and brought in Mickey Thomas and others. By then it was a "pop" band.

I was glad to see Paul Kantner leave and threaten to sue unless they dropped the name to "The Starship!" (He was also going to sue Apple for using their "flying toasters" artwork as a Mac screensaver!)

But Grace lives on even though she's not doing music!

[waywardrose1]

Happy Birthday Ms. Slick!

[NicksandSlick]

Vegetable Lovers!

[californiaportugee]

I always thought she said "and it tastes like camphor" which is a kind of tree that smells like Vick's Vapo-rub...I always heard people say "pablum" but I just don't hear it...

[californiaportugee]

"When was the last time a television set gave you any shit about who you met last night"? Now that is ROCK!

[albatross7677]

Gotta love that wa wa peddle!!!

[ezramead]

Possibly the song ever made. Ha.

[SoundsLikePurple]

fuck sony, and td

[californiaportugee]

SCREW SONY

[Zavijava1]

sounds a lot like Johnny Rotten just a few years later...hmmmmmmm

[alberthoffmanftm]

for a band dispanding, even at logger heads...this song sounds like a band on fire. magnificent.

[eighty8musicluvr]

This song was....SARCASTIC.

[cxmafia]

Now THIS is proper music!

[goldberrysusan]

GRACEis my idol

[Mrariesdave]

This song was punk attitude before punk. Grace was sick of being bullied by the California vegans...

[dalidivinci]

BOOYAH!

[jfrey0725]

among my most favorite airplane songs.... volunteers, white rabbit, somebody to love, we can be together, Eskimo BLue Day, It's No Secret....

I also really like jefferson's version of Triad and Wooden Ships

[micromike737]

you need to this on acid. lets not forget.

[cxmafia]

@micromike737 A good joint does the job just as well...

[cxmafia]

@micromike737 Well, Mike... A proper rolled fat boy with pot and grass will do the trick, too. That or good mesc.

[westpalmscott]

The attitude on this is just like punk and Grace was and still is a total smart ass

[ladidah9]

Wow... I wish there were more teens like us who know that Hannah Montana/Katy Perry/Jonas Bros. nonsense is just a FAD and a FRANCHISE! Not in any way real music.

[LRob56]

@ladidah9 im a kid and i think that jonas brother katy perry are crap

[jfrey0725]

@ladidah9 right on

[meisemoqueen333]

@ladidah9 I think I love you.

[JohnnyTheBandR]

@ladidah9

My sentiments exactly

[Babaziba]

Only JA could rock and swirl at the same time, more than a decade before the "shoegazers" hit. Grace Slick IS rock and roll (and so much more).

[VirginSuicide77]

My mom laughed at the "poison is a natural plant, why doncha put some in your food?" line. I am pretty sure this was punk before punk was punk.

[knormlone]

This is the most under appreciated band of the 60s -- the slammin base - guitar riffs Hendrix woulda been proud of - fantastic harmonies and of course the REAL Queen of Rock n Roll - Grace Slick

[qwasto]

Oh Grace what a cool chick you are. Only 16 and i love this era of what rock n roll was really about. Man i only wish ican really experience it first hand but just gratefull overall that this music exists. Classic Rock will forever live on!!

[Justicelong]

hah same man im only 14 and i have fallen in love with the era of real musical talent

[ladidah9]

I'm thirteen, and I'm the same way. Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Beatles, CSN&Y, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Santana. I love it all.

We should have been there, my friend.

[ledzeprebecca]

I'm fourteen and I love music from the 60s and 70s. It's hard to deny true artistry and musical genius.

[gregorvonkallahann]

Maybe you were there -- in your previous life.

[laoban1954]

Oh, man! What a band! Listen to it: Jack's bass just roarin' and Grace screaching to us! Then Jorma kicks in. I love it!!!

[louiseduvee]

Thank you! I used to play this with the volume UP for my mother...

[smokindog]

Great riffs on this!! JA Rules! I wish they would do a tour. Starship was pretty lame IMO

[taariqtaariq]

@smokindog early starship up to say '76 was OK.Red Octopus has its moments esp. listening to it in the Australian desert at 3 am sky high on killer ACID.

[Welshbluesman]

This song rocks! I just discovered it. I like how Grace Slick was not your typical hippie. She flat out would sing against the war, but she also was a liberated American woman who dug capitalism and freedom. (She ran the band...she managed the $..etc.....)

[SummerLemontree]

ahaha this song is crazily good!!!!!!!!

[marijanie333]

Ok, what does she say at 1:05? Natural food makes you slow and stupid and it tastes like...what???

All the written lyrics just leave it at natural food...just curious...

[ledzeprebecca]

I think it says it tastes like Pablum...LOL! It took me a lot of listens to get that word and I think it's right. It makes lyrical sense.

[louiseduvee]

'natural food makes you slow and stupid, and it tastes like Pablum' (I transcribe for Google), and I knew The Airplane once upon a time. Long story... I won't tell it.

[marijanie333]

haha...thanks! not that it really mattered, but ive always been curious....

[guitarrodan104]

I think she said cabbage.

[marijanie333]

nope...definitely pablum...

[CaoticoMaligno]

im not a fuckinGG hippie xd but this song its so goodddddddd xD

[lwirbel]

Gregorvonkallahann, you have to appreciate the irony. Listen to this song next to Jefferson Airplane's "Eskimo Blue Day." I think Slick and Kaukonen meant this on two levels: first, sarcastically, as indicating the "livin'-large" mindset of destroying the environment; but also, legitimately, to show how hypocritical the natural-food movement can be. Either way, it works, and this song remains one of my favorite JA tunes - vastly underappreciated.

[mineralogical]

"Hippies" don't constitute a totalitarian army. Each of them has his or her opinion and way of life (Some of them preferred sport and held remotely what they supposed to be hooked with).

Jefferson airplane walked on the water.

No question to be dying out, brother.

[maskarlasse]

Great message... "Nature isn't all that good, try putting poison oak in your food. And I don't care if there's cemicals in my lettuce as long as it's crispy." So very, very unexpected from hippies. But of course, the hippie-generation was dying out. They maybe tried to hook up the next trend. :/

[lickme905]

any one know were i can find a copy of this song

[ledzeprebecca]

iTunes...the album is called "the Roar of Jefferson Airplane".

[pyrophore]

Grace and Jorma racing down the road. Fast, smooth, sexy and reckless. Give it a feel! Watch out for the wall Grace.

Jorma's feedback at the end always reminded me of an engine winding around the turn at a race track.

[xtcongo]

I remember I had sorta like a special edition of this, the album would fold up to make a cigar box and when you opened the lid there was a picture of really nice looking weed in the box.

[VirginSuicide77]

I showed my friend this record at a record store recently and he said that all the albums of it should have came with a free sample of the pot! Ha ha ha!

[lonelywan]

P.S. Plus I loved how Papa John sounded on this record - an edgy, spacey, eerie, acid rock sound.

[lonelywan]

I remember when I bought this album for 57 cents at Penney's (oh, the days of cool cutouts!). I loved the cover, especially the inside of it. And I loved the sound of the record - dark, distorted, and as echoey as a cave. In retrospect, the songs that worked for me all had Grace singing lead on at least part of the song, (still, that was more than half the album). I like Kantner's work on other albums, but nothing he sang here did that much for me. Grace, however, was on a roll.

[ThousandYearsOld]

I love the Airplane, they're my favorite band.

But... I don't really like this song's message, it's against what psychedelic music is for.

[ezramead]

I was hoping Tina Turner would have done this song while she still had the energy. Boy, would this song have floored people.

[gregorvonkallahann]

Hah. Sure does. Too bad 8out of 10 punkers will never hear it.

It's also 1 of the weirdest examples of sequencing in rnr history. I mean, Kantner's airy weird 'Alexander' followed by Grace outpunking the punks.

Classic rant: ya scarcely know who's she's most mad at: vegetarians, back to nature types, Moms who give their kids s--t about the people last nite. Just kinda freeform hostility.

[Musicman543210]

love the beggining

[jackhillty]

this seems to be grace taking on the same subject as "plastic fantastic lover"

[gregorvonkallahann]

Actually, this tune is kinda pro-machine. It's the back to nature hippies she's haraguing. The same people Kantner refers to earlier on the album as 'your brothers and sisters livin' in the mountains/free of the city life." You could see that this was one couple that was NOT gonna last.

[ledzeprebecca]

Great song! A little humour and everything. "Man made mechanical mover will move faster than you can, vegetable lover." Awesome song-writing Gracie!

[catface]

This tune smokes!This record was ahead of its time when it was first released.

It has finally begun to be recognized as something of an overlooked classic.

I think it really reflects its time