There are worse pop songs in history, but what on Earth were Paul Kantner and Grace Slick (and David Freiberg) doing in this schlok machine? (Making a few bucks, I guess.) This incarnation of Jefferson Starship can't lay a finger on the 70s version (with Marty Balin). And NO version of Jefferson Starship comes close to the quality, the musicianship, the integrity or the soul of the original band -- Jefferson Airplane.
The Airplane at its worst was pretty bad, but it was better than this!
True about the nerd invasion obviously if they had some decent security like the hells angels these guys would never have made it on stage.... someone would be going home with a cowbell sticking out their whats-it.
I saw this when it aired on "Fridays" when I was a kid. It was a cool live performance then - now I think it's extra cool because how many modern self-absorbed music acts would let non-musicians join them during their TV performance?
Loved this line-up of the band. Mickey Thomas fresh (sort of) off of singing "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" for Elvin Bishop. Dunbar on drums. And yay "Fridays" for getting some great talent. Remember when they had Devo singing "Through Being Cool" while walking on those weird conveyor belts? :-0
Loved this line-up of the band. Mickey Thomas fresh (sort of) off of singing "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" for Elvin Bishop. Dunbar on drums. And yay "Fridays" for getting some great talent. Remember when they had Devo singing "Through Being Cool" while walking on those weird conveyor belts? :-0
I'm pretty sure that was the cast of the TV series "Fridays" that came out on the stage to sing the last minute or so of the song with the group. Fridays was an early '80s attempt to duplicate the style of Saturday Night Live. It didn't last long, but had a great cast, including Michael Richards, who played Kramer on Seinfeld. This is one of my fav Starship songs. Mickey Thomas does have some awesome vocals!
I love the slight gap in the recording around 3:27. It looks like someone was about to record Les Miserable. Juding by the font used on the tv when it says stop and play, I had a tv/vcr combo where the words looked just like that. RCA I think. Thanks for posting.
@drewper73 LMAO!!! That recording gap brought back memories: "Quick! Hit record, I love this song!" ... "OH NO! You taped over dad's copy of the Reagan inauguration!!!"
Too bad you couldn't see Ansley Dunbar playing that monster drum fill starting at 3:22. Everytime I hear this song on the radio I listen for that fill, being a drummer and all. This song is even better if you have an ex-girlfriend named Jane like I do.
Not great sound, but awesome performance, back in 81! No, thats not Grace Slick on lead vocals, lmfao! She did rejoin the band and sang backup with Mickey!
I can't recall where I heard or read it, but during the "Freedom At Point Zero" tour, a wicked flu bug was workig its way through the band. At one point, Ainsley Dunbar (apologies if I misspelled that) had a bucket beside his drum set so he could throw up. You have to admire the man. To be feeling like absolutely death on a soda cracker and still able to get on stage and rock the house is true professionalism.
I can't recall where I heard or read it, but during the "Freedom At Point Zero" tour, a wicked flu bug was workig its way through the band. At one point, Ainsley Dunbar (apologies if I misspelled that) had a bucket beside his drum set so he could throw up. You have to admire the man. To be feeling like absolutely death on a soda cracker and still able to get on stage and rock the house.
@FolarTheGreat I saw them in 1984 and 1986--they were the best live band I've ever seen. Nobody is phoning it in and Mickey Thomas sounds better live than in the studio.
"Ah, Las Musica, Las Musica de los Jefferson Starship." Loved Fridays, and watched this live after my mom and dad had gone to bed. Kiss, Journey, Cheap Trick...some great old bands on Fridays.
grace slick and lemmy from motorhead used to be roadies for hendrix , and laced a white house garden partys bowl of punch with liquid lsd, how fuckin rock n roll is that.
grace slick and lemmy from motorhead used to be roadies for hendrix , and lace a white house garden partys bowl of punch with liquid lsd, how fuckin rock n roll is that.
@jcristiano Totally remember "Fridays" now that you mention it. I remember watching the "Rasta Claus" skit with my elderly grandmother. I was about 15. Anyways, the African American character in the skit had a big reefer plant for a Xmas tree and had sparklies all over it. My grandma does, "Well, ain't that a pretty Christmas tree, kids?" Thanks for reminding me.
I think the other guys just came out to get some more coke from Grace. That being said....what a great song and yes...this was the best version of Jefferson Anything to me as well.
I think the other guys just came out to get some more coke from Grace. That being said....what a great song and yes...this was hte best version of Jefferson Anything to me as well.
@dewaynecullen Yes, yes he most certainly does.... They don't make them like that anymore.... too many Justin Biebers pumping out diarrhea to the ears..
@jamjax sorry didn't read the comments. ... couldn't resist the cowbell observation. I didn't want to make the obvious coked out jokes though. Who's the spinal tap guy on lead. hahaha. Thomas can sure sing though. Gotta give him that.
This came from a show called "Fridays", which was sort of a take-off on SNL. It is where Michael Richards (Kramer on Seinfeld) got his start. Great video, and this is where Jefferson Starship was setting it's sights on best corporate rock band of the 80's. "Freedom at Point Zero was an awesome album, BTW! And Craig Chaquico is one of the best guitarists ever, as exemplified here.
I'm glad, too, that he got another gig, but Jefferson Starship wasn't any more complicated music than Journey. If he did get canned from Journey for that reason, he didn't stick to his guns. After Starship, he went to Whitesnake. Not very complicated either.
In the end, it's a good thing he exited Journey. It made way for the Steve Smith years!
In the liner notes from Journey's box set it says that Dunbar was very talented but was playing way too much for the simplicity of the songs and would warm up during their songs for his drum solo's. Journey was touring with Montrose at the time and started taking an interest in their drummer Steve Smith. Dunbar was fired because his skills didn't suit the bands new direction, which was from instrumental specialists to song stylists.
ive never seen a lead guitar wearing prescription glasses...thats maybe why they suck live, even though they had a few good songs. Just hate the lead guitar and his GLASSES, so corny, nerdy...dunno
Man this song killed me when it came out. Had come home from night classes at college to find my beautiful live-in girlfriend, Jane, was no longer mine. She split with nothing but a one sentence note left behind. Every time this tune hit the airwaves I died again but couldn't change the station. A killer tune, dammit, and a great vocal performance. Never got over the girl or the band. Check out their other gut wrencher "Sara". Starship had a real melodic sense in those days.
This was a great version of this song (a real live version, instead of synched to a recording), but wow, the drums sound absolutely awful. Very poorly miked.
I like the sound of the drums. Listen to the original and other recordings Aynsley Dunbar (the drummer) is on. His drums generally sound like that, recorded or live. That's just his sound, so the miking is fine.
I'm sorry, but there's only so many tambourines that can be played at once on any rock song, no matter how good that song is, and here there's at least 3 too many...!
Perhaps that's why there's no room for the cowbells...?
I've always loved this song. Never have seen Starship but I did see Mickey Thomas with "Little Gadgets" in the early 80's at a very small club in San Mateo, Ca.
Big band that included a horn section. Very cool that he chose to play a very small venue for only a few hundred.
I know I'm probably in the minority here...but to me this is the definitive line up of the "Jefferson Starship" Some powerful and passionate players here.
@Upyrazz Nope, I totally agree. Jefferson Airplane was antiquated and I never liked Kantner anyway. "Jefferson Starship" was great. "Starship" sucked IMO....it's always been Kantner's band and Airplane has been back many years and they suck. This was by far the best line-up! Grace and Mickey played off each other great - two great singers...and Craig was smoking hot and very under-rated I believe at the time. At this time they recorded and performed their best songs too. Just my three cents.
@DickLodge68 AIRPLANE WAS ANTIQUATED ? IT WAS THE 60'S..THEY WERE GREAT...STARSHIP SUCKED!!!!! JORMA AND JACK WERE THE BEST. HOT TUNA WAS INCREDIBLE !
@dragontigerbull Yes, I think Airplane is antiquated...now. There was a shitload of '60s bands and very few of them stand the test of time. If Jefferson Airplane didn't evolve, they would have died out - just like Hot Tuna or Herman's Hermits or whatever.
@DickLodge68 IF " WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL" IS EVOLVING THEN YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT MUSIC...AND HOT TUNA WAS A 70'S BAND..JORMA AND JACK LEFT AIRPLANE AND EVOLVED..NUFF SAID
@dragontigerbull "Jefferson Starship" was great. "Starship" sucked IMO...that's what my original post said. If you don't even take the time to actually read someone's comments and just come here to argue, then find it elsewhere. Even Slick said she hated "We Built this City".
@Upyrazz You are so not in the minority. I think that, after time has past, lots of people realize that Mickey Thomas was (and still is at the age of 61) an amazing singer--and Craig Chaquico was a great guitarist.
It was the times they were in that were unkind to this incarnation of Jefferson Starship.
If the Airplane got their hands on this equipment earlier, who knows what they would have sounded like? Yeah, quite a few acts got on the power pop bandwagon: the above, Asia(reaping the rewards their former bands sowed), Santana, Ides of March("Vehicle") leader Jim Peterik with Survivor, and Van Halen, changing direction with Diamond Dave('1984") with the most unmistakeable keyboard sound of all of them.
This is absolute class - The GFreedom at Point Zero LP is astonishing and if anyone has a film of them playing the Awakening or the title track from it I'd give aything to see that. Aynsley Dunbar, Peter Sears, Craig Chaquico, Paul Kantner and Mickey Thomas - the most underrated line up of all the Air/ Ships. Thanks for posting.
I remember reading in this 70's magazine "Crawdaddy" about how Grace was screaming outside Marty Balin's room to come out and fuck her! Of course, Marty didn't want any part of Grace. What characters.
it's weird to see these 60's psychedelic maestros playing this music...
greeneups 14 hours ago
is this from SNL??
That was the great thing when bands preformed live without machines--if you fucked up it was real and you kept on playing!!
metallooney 2 weeks ago
I love how grace is singing the lead right along with him, without a mic.
anonymoususerindenve 1 month ago
FRIDAYS!!!
jenningswriter 1 month ago
I saw the Jefferson Starship in 81 and they really blew me away. But there opening act was amazing. They blew the JS away. They were the 38 Special.
keaton1895 3 months ago
There are worse pop songs in history, but what on Earth were Paul Kantner and Grace Slick (and David Freiberg) doing in this schlok machine? (Making a few bucks, I guess.) This incarnation of Jefferson Starship can't lay a finger on the 70s version (with Marty Balin). And NO version of Jefferson Starship comes close to the quality, the musicianship, the integrity or the soul of the original band -- Jefferson Airplane.
The Airplane at its worst was pretty bad, but it was better than this!
JonathanDaddy 3 months ago
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timoswanson 2 months ago
True about the nerd invasion obviously if they had some decent security like the hells angels these guys would never have made it on stage.... someone would be going home with a cowbell sticking out their whats-it.
mrblushy 3 months ago
Cheeky dig at the bassplayer when he goofs at 1:56, singer gives him the thumbs treatment at 1:58 very cool.
mrblushy 3 months ago
@mrblushy :-/ He hits the wrong note? I can't hear it on these crappy laptop speakers, DARN!!!
snookerc2208 2 weeks ago
@snookerc2208 yup its there alright,free yourself from those tinny speakers,do youself a big favor cheers.....
mrblushy 2 weeks ago
This song and Count On Me were their 2 best songs..IMO
ladybluluv 4 months ago
need more cowbell at 0:22 !
zwartepiet412 5 months ago
one of the all time most underated guitar players on this planet, craig c. is so fucking awesome!
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Rocking the Cummings look.
just4tunes 5 months ago
So good, what a singer. He sounds more Grace Slick than Grace Slick does! Top guitar too. What's Gene Wilder doing on backup vocals at the end?!!
3107ben 6 months ago
Mickey Thomas is STARSHIP!
dumpsterbaby 6 months ago
I'll just say this.. I'm 26. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME. They were playing their fricking asses off.
angelforce69 7 months ago
Double track that cowbell.
noiseache 7 months ago
Just heard this song for the first time on Dublins best radio station, Radio nova. I know fuck all about the band but i love this track.
gpo16 7 months ago
I saw this when it aired on "Fridays" when I was a kid. It was a cool live performance then - now I think it's extra cool because how many modern self-absorbed music acts would let non-musicians join them during their TV performance?
mrplavick9 7 months ago in playlist JEFFERSON STARSHIP
Makes me sad when you realize how crappy today's music has become.
roohmz1000 7 months ago 5
More Cowbell...
W103WWRW 8 months ago
wowowowow \m/\m/
5henangn 8 months ago
That guy just single-handedly brought back the cowbell gag.
instereovideos 8 months ago 2
Loved this line-up of the band. Mickey Thomas fresh (sort of) off of singing "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" for Elvin Bishop. Dunbar on drums. And yay "Fridays" for getting some great talent. Remember when they had Devo singing "Through Being Cool" while walking on those weird conveyor belts? :-0
ipykipyk 9 months ago
Loved this line-up of the band. Mickey Thomas fresh (sort of) off of singing "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" for Elvin Bishop. Dunbar on drums. And yay "Fridays" for getting some great talent. Remember when they had Devo singing "Through Being Cool" while walking on those weird conveyor belts? :-0
ipykipyk 9 months ago
I'm pretty sure that was the cast of the TV series "Fridays" that came out on the stage to sing the last minute or so of the song with the group. Fridays was an early '80s attempt to duplicate the style of Saturday Night Live. It didn't last long, but had a great cast, including Michael Richards, who played Kramer on Seinfeld. This is one of my fav Starship songs. Mickey Thomas does have some awesome vocals!
73formula 9 months ago
Great live version. Super voice! Don't hear that kind of quality now ah days.
yesorlando05 10 months ago
I love the slight gap in the recording around 3:27. It looks like someone was about to record Les Miserable. Juding by the font used on the tv when it says stop and play, I had a tv/vcr combo where the words looked just like that. RCA I think. Thanks for posting.
drewper73 10 months ago
@drewper73 LMAO!!! That recording gap brought back memories: "Quick! Hit record, I love this song!" ... "OH NO! You taped over dad's copy of the Reagan inauguration!!!"
ifutureman 5 months ago
Too bad you couldn't see Ansley Dunbar playing that monster drum fill starting at 3:22. Everytime I hear this song on the radio I listen for that fill, being a drummer and all. This song is even better if you have an ex-girlfriend named Jane like I do.
drewper73 10 months ago
goddamn what a fucking voice. dude can sing his ass off. probably has little or no ass.
Coppulor 10 months ago 2
Not great sound, but awesome performance, back in 81! No, thats not Grace Slick on lead vocals, lmfao! She did rejoin the band and sang backup with Mickey!
jaminjef 10 months ago
Wicked Guitars.
Cancon2011 10 months ago
Nice interruption at 3:33. Looks like someone almost taped over an old VHS tape. (My kids don't even know what a VCR is).
pappppie 1 year ago
@pappppie i dont even know what a DVD is...
ENEMENCIO123VISION 9 months ago
great live version....more cowbell please.
mc2927 1 year ago 2
I can't recall where I heard or read it, but during the "Freedom At Point Zero" tour, a wicked flu bug was workig its way through the band. At one point, Ainsley Dunbar (apologies if I misspelled that) had a bucket beside his drum set so he could throw up. You have to admire the man. To be feeling like absolutely death on a soda cracker and still able to get on stage and rock the house is true professionalism.
Gunstar1701 1 year ago 2
I can't recall where I heard or read it, but during the "Freedom At Point Zero" tour, a wicked flu bug was workig its way through the band. At one point, Ainsley Dunbar (apologies if I misspelled that) had a bucket beside his drum set so he could throw up. You have to admire the man. To be feeling like absolutely death on a soda cracker and still able to get on stage and rock the house.
Gunstar1701 1 year ago
Two days before I was born. I agree Mickey still shines. A great band.
JAZZSTARish 1 year ago
Jefferson Airplane/Starship "Jane"
www41WorldUSAcom 1 year ago
Voices of pure rock.............beautiful GRACE SLICK
elisamia84 1 year ago
@elisamia84 Grace Slick has a mustache? ;) She was not part of the band when they released this song.
bweazel 11 months ago
MORE COWBELL!
xaxu1254 1 year ago
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@TheBeautifulbooboo very true, very jealous
FolarTheGreat 1 year ago
how does a band actually sound this good live
FolarTheGreat 1 year ago
@FolarTheGreat I saw them in 1984 and 1986--they were the best live band I've ever seen. Nobody is phoning it in and Mickey Thomas sounds better live than in the studio.
TheBeautifulbooboo 1 year ago
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@TheBeautifulbooboo very true, very jealous
FolarTheGreat 1 year ago
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@TheBeautifulbooboo very true, very jealous
FolarTheGreat 1 year ago
@TheBeautifulbooboo so true, so jealous
FolarTheGreat 1 year ago
"Ah, Las Musica, Las Musica de los Jefferson Starship." Loved Fridays, and watched this live after my mom and dad had gone to bed. Kiss, Journey, Cheap Trick...some great old bands on Fridays.
EC66OK 1 year ago
Grace was never a roadie for Hendrix but Lemmy was. anyway This album and Modern Times Were great. Mickey and Grace Together were awesome.
ProdigalSin 1 year ago
he has some vice.they sound a bit like toto
johnser007 1 year ago
I need some more cowbell...
tronix7787 1 year ago
ARRRRRRGH @ 3:27!
Trillia750 1 year ago
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grace slick and lemmy from motorhead used to be roadies for hendrix , and laced a white house garden partys bowl of punch with liquid lsd, how fuckin rock n roll is that.
ljwjfac110369 1 year ago
grace slick and lemmy from motorhead used to be roadies for hendrix , and lace a white house garden partys bowl of punch with liquid lsd, how fuckin rock n roll is that.
ljwjfac110369 1 year ago
Piano and Guitar synch is terrific! What a voice!
debra195942 1 year ago
those 2 cuces behind grace look like the wild n' crazzzzy guys from s.n.l.
ioriorioriorio 1 year ago
I am pretty sure this is from the show "Fridays". Fantastic show with Larry David, Michael Richards, Melanie Chartoff, Rich Hall . . .
jcristiano 1 year ago
@jcristiano Totally remember "Fridays" now that you mention it. I remember watching the "Rasta Claus" skit with my elderly grandmother. I was about 15. Anyways, the African American character in the skit had a big reefer plant for a Xmas tree and had sparklies all over it. My grandma does, "Well, ain't that a pretty Christmas tree, kids?" Thanks for reminding me.
feloniuschunk 1 year ago
Aynsley Dunbar! What a MF!!!! One of the best and totally grooves this song!
TheMiamirocker 1 year ago
Anybody know what show this is? SNL maybe? I thought the cowbell might be Byron Allen, but it turns out it was JS' violinist.
metasailor 1 year ago
! I LOVE how near the end the VHS skips and we see a split-second of a commercial for Fairfield County Buick!!!! HA hahahahhaaaaaaa!!!!!!
metamale 1 year ago
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I think the other guys just came out to get some more coke from Grace. That being said....what a great song and yes...this was the best version of Jefferson Anything to me as well.
Claymoor83 1 year ago
I think the other guys just came out to get some more coke from Grace. That being said....what a great song and yes...this was hte best version of Jefferson Anything to me as well.
Claymoor83 1 year ago 2
dat mother fucker has some PIPES!!!
dewaynecullen 1 year ago 19
@dewaynecullen Yes, yes he most certainly does.... They don't make them like that anymore.... too many Justin Biebers pumping out diarrhea to the ears..
MrRobGodek 1 month ago
MAN, that has to be hard for the band and especially Mic to play with a person on stage that doesn't do much....
igfyigfy 1 year ago
Grace Slick is Rock 'n Roll, even when she isn't singing, awesome tune
keoki9 1 year ago
More COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jamjax 1 year ago
@jamjax sorry didn't read the comments. ... couldn't resist the cowbell observation. I didn't want to make the obvious coked out jokes though. Who's the spinal tap guy on lead. hahaha. Thomas can sure sing though. Gotta give him that.
jamjax 1 year ago
who didn't see a nerdy "needs more cowbell" coming?! get original dude! need more coke 'stache!!!
dewaynecullen 1 year ago
Frickin great version of a great song by a great band with a great singer....
mojorising0071950 1 year ago
man he can sure sing what a great live vocals !!!
slipknotftw1000 1 year ago 2
well that was freakin' epic!
keoki9 1 year ago
2:10 ......gotta be a contender for guitar hero...
mrblushy 1 year ago
this was on "Fridays", right? I remember the "take a pill" guy....
shawno66 1 year ago
downright smoking indeed
shawno66 1 year ago
true .. bad ass
limpty 1 year ago
wow- HEAVY!!
pbuotte 1 year ago
best version on you-tube.
mrblushy 1 year ago
Love the keyboards!!!!!!!!
rlh1961 1 year ago
dude makes that top note looks so easy! hats off to mt!
lorimneal 1 year ago 2
love those early 80's BC Rich guitars
kevineatworld 1 year ago
piss off mate
dragontigerbull 1 year ago
Cause he's Mickey Thomas!
cshq177 1 year ago
Craig Chaquico is the reason for their best songs...
PlaidmanUTube 1 year ago
How does Mickey sustain notes with ease like that? Naturally gifted. :)
calvins48 1 year ago
i want what she is having
platachicken 1 year ago
Rockin!
comfibold 1 year ago
Kudos!!!
NaypalmDEATH 1 year ago
jesus, this is wicked. god mickey you r great!
flyvibe71 1 year ago
I think this song was the idea for Aldo Nova's "Fantasy"
pwailey 1 year ago
love this song
shawno66 1 year ago
i wasn't gonna <3 this, but then i saw the bass player at 2:15...
doctorums 1 year ago
This came from a show called "Fridays", which was sort of a take-off on SNL. It is where Michael Richards (Kramer on Seinfeld) got his start. Great video, and this is where Jefferson Starship was setting it's sights on best corporate rock band of the 80's. "Freedom at Point Zero was an awesome album, BTW! And Craig Chaquico is one of the best guitarists ever, as exemplified here.
curtdesilets 1 year ago
I didn't know Derek Smalls was in Starship?!?!?
icefan847 1 year ago 10
I got a feva' and the only cure is more cow bell!
justinclark111 1 year ago 2
@icefan847 LAWL! Thumbs UP for you! :)
Flap999 1 year ago
Brutal! What a killer. Beautiful!
planetcaravan72 2 years ago
Craig sure was and is underrated.
radcam69 2 years ago 2
Cool bich!!!!The purple guitar that is.
fretfirestarter 2 years ago
did that guy have but one shirt....and purple?
teflonmagnet 2 years ago
I remember this perfromance on "Fridays", the show that featured Michael Richards as a cast member.
ReverendJ65 2 years ago
Gotta love Grace walking around stage, rockin' back and forth, smilin', hand clappin' and pretty much not doing much else!
joevs21001 2 years ago
More cowbell.
HitThatHighNote 2 years ago
Icky Mickey.
Pfui!
TurtleWeasle 2 years ago
It was good that Aynsley Dunbar found a good job after being canned from Journey for "refusing to adapt to the simplicity of the new music".
Mystifier122 2 years ago
I'm glad, too, that he got another gig, but Jefferson Starship wasn't any more complicated music than Journey. If he did get canned from Journey for that reason, he didn't stick to his guns. After Starship, he went to Whitesnake. Not very complicated either.
In the end, it's a good thing he exited Journey. It made way for the Steve Smith years!
drulius 2 years ago
In the liner notes from Journey's box set it says that Dunbar was very talented but was playing way too much for the simplicity of the songs and would warm up during their songs for his drum solo's. Journey was touring with Montrose at the time and started taking an interest in their drummer Steve Smith. Dunbar was fired because his skills didn't suit the bands new direction, which was from instrumental specialists to song stylists.
Mystifier122 2 years ago
ive never seen a lead guitar wearing prescription glasses...thats maybe why they suck live, even though they had a few good songs. Just hate the lead guitar and his GLASSES, so corny, nerdy...dunno
gaae2000 2 years ago
didn't know former relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley sang for Starship,which act changed their name more John Cougar or Starship???
tjgorman66 2 years ago
That's Doug Henning, silly.......
robertwienerrocks 2 years ago
Stop goofing around guys, that's the Hall & Oates guy.
Seriously though, killer voice and great tune!
JunkYardShitzu 2 years ago
4/3/81 is the day I turned 12! :)
Love this band saw them alot during the 80s in San Jose.
isandrich 2 years ago
Man this song killed me when it came out. Had come home from night classes at college to find my beautiful live-in girlfriend, Jane, was no longer mine. She split with nothing but a one sentence note left behind. Every time this tune hit the airwaves I died again but couldn't change the station. A killer tune, dammit, and a great vocal performance. Never got over the girl or the band. Check out their other gut wrencher "Sara". Starship had a real melodic sense in those days.
ikeeptime 2 years ago
cool song...a tseunami is never any fun as with us an earthquake...a wave to catch...like Roman Law!..(No! Save!)
RegencyRoyale 2 years ago
Look at the singer toward the beginning...."We need more cowbell." LOL
jakester566 2 years ago
This was a great version of this song (a real live version, instead of synched to a recording), but wow, the drums sound absolutely awful. Very poorly miked.
crispiegee1 2 years ago
I like the sound of the drums. Listen to the original and other recordings Aynsley Dunbar (the drummer) is on. His drums generally sound like that, recorded or live. That's just his sound, so the miking is fine.
drulius 2 years ago
Indeed :)
atomicplayboy4u 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but there's only so many tambourines that can be played at once on any rock song, no matter how good that song is, and here there's at least 3 too many...!
Perhaps that's why there's no room for the cowbells...?
Softrockman 2 years ago
We need more cowbell, God damn it!!
smokiebird06 2 years ago
i got to meet some of these guys in outside of driggs idaho in 91" i think-wow what a treat-they were so kind people-
thingplate 2 years ago
One of the best rock songs ever!
comfibold 2 years ago
Think that was the show called "Fridays". Great rocking version of the song.
splat66 2 years ago
hey... why did marty feldman run on to the stage twords the end? thanks for posting, this is an overlooked classic
kubrick321 2 years ago
Grace is just so deep into the song that she is grooving to the music.
In fact, she isn't acting any different than anyone else, especailly near the end.
rockinroller7 2 years ago
Cool.
Very cool.
rockinroller7 2 years ago
Grace does look likes she's on acid, lmao. great song!!!!! (:
JeffersonAirplanexo2 2 years ago
Unreal lead guitar work on this one!
headstones 2 years ago
Cowbell anyone????
peru391 2 years ago
Grace Slick is on ACID here .. she seems lost.
DrumTent 2 years ago
That was awesome...this is why I'm thankful for youtube...made my day!!!
jcsomerville 2 years ago
I've always loved this song. Never have seen Starship but I did see Mickey Thomas with "Little Gadgets" in the early 80's at a very small club in San Mateo, Ca.
Big band that included a horn section. Very cool that he chose to play a very small venue for only a few hundred.
edditor 2 years ago
Allmusic really slams this era of the band. It's rock and roll man!!!
pegleyjr 2 years ago
fuckin grace....lurkin...
fugepoo 2 years ago
I know I'm probably in the minority here...but to me this is the definitive line up of the "Jefferson Starship" Some powerful and passionate players here.
Upyrazz 2 years ago 12
I agree with ya. Mickey apparently still has a group together.
pegleyjr 2 years ago
I agree, I prefer this, the hardest rocking lineup, sadly they were soon to become "Starship".
jcsomerville 2 years ago
@Upyrazz Nope, I totally agree. Jefferson Airplane was antiquated and I never liked Kantner anyway. "Jefferson Starship" was great. "Starship" sucked IMO....it's always been Kantner's band and Airplane has been back many years and they suck. This was by far the best line-up! Grace and Mickey played off each other great - two great singers...and Craig was smoking hot and very under-rated I believe at the time. At this time they recorded and performed their best songs too. Just my three cents.
DickLodge68 1 year ago
@DickLodge68 AIRPLANE WAS ANTIQUATED ? IT WAS THE 60'S..THEY WERE GREAT...STARSHIP SUCKED!!!!! JORMA AND JACK WERE THE BEST. HOT TUNA WAS INCREDIBLE !
dragontigerbull 1 year ago
@dragontigerbull Yes, I think Airplane is antiquated...now. There was a shitload of '60s bands and very few of them stand the test of time. If Jefferson Airplane didn't evolve, they would have died out - just like Hot Tuna or Herman's Hermits or whatever.
DickLodge68 1 year ago
@DickLodge68 IF " WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL" IS EVOLVING THEN YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT MUSIC...AND HOT TUNA WAS A 70'S BAND..JORMA AND JACK LEFT AIRPLANE AND EVOLVED..NUFF SAID
dragontigerbull 1 year ago
@dragontigerbull "Jefferson Starship" was great. "Starship" sucked IMO...that's what my original post said. If you don't even take the time to actually read someone's comments and just come here to argue, then find it elsewhere. Even Slick said she hated "We Built this City".
DickLodge68 1 year ago
@Upyrazz I had little interest in Jefferson before Craig came in on guitar. That changed with "Find Your Way Back".
bigbadbob58 1 year ago
@Upyrazz You are so not in the minority. I think that, after time has past, lots of people realize that Mickey Thomas was (and still is at the age of 61) an amazing singer--and Craig Chaquico was a great guitarist.
It was the times they were in that were unkind to this incarnation of Jefferson Starship.
TheBeautifulbooboo 1 year ago
My fave line-up.
pegleyjr 2 years ago
Grace Slick was not the original female singer of Jefferson Airplane. The founding female singers name was Signe Anderson
jaguarbass 2 years ago
those sunglasses on the bass player, lol!
AxisDimension 2 years ago 3
OMG, horrible!! They sold out.
orlaej 2 years ago
This kicks- no sell out here
headstones 2 years ago 3
If the Airplane got their hands on this equipment earlier, who knows what they would have sounded like? Yeah, quite a few acts got on the power pop bandwagon: the above, Asia(reaping the rewards their former bands sowed), Santana, Ides of March("Vehicle") leader Jim Peterik with Survivor, and Van Halen, changing direction with Diamond Dave('1984") with the most unmistakeable keyboard sound of all of them.
fgldnglbs 2 years ago
Amazing live performance. Mickey as usual kicking ass, belting his vocals out.
Flap999 2 years ago 4
NEEDS MORE COWBELL!!
selby06 2 years ago 9
is that chyna in this band?
mortminoch 2 years ago
Grace Slick, one of the original founders of this band.
Flap999 2 years ago
no shit its a joke!
mortminoch 2 years ago
Is that cousin larry from perfect strangers dancing on stage?!?!?!
tonyzaret 2 years ago
i think it is! what happened around 3:35
mortminoch 2 years ago
I love this song.........
gatocabrito 2 years ago
temazo
ganyi 2 years ago
the guy with the least futuristic guitar has the most futuristic sunglasses
popiggy 2 years ago
Love it, oh the memories.Thanks for the post:D
soulseek1111 3 years ago
Tight... way to go Jefferson Starship!
Looks like some of the cast from Friday's tv show (Darrow Igus on cowbell)
Trajan65 3 years ago 2
More Cowbell.
ReneeNme 2 years ago
This is absolute class - The GFreedom at Point Zero LP is astonishing and if anyone has a film of them playing the Awakening or the title track from it I'd give aything to see that. Aynsley Dunbar, Peter Sears, Craig Chaquico, Paul Kantner and Mickey Thomas - the most underrated line up of all the Air/ Ships. Thanks for posting.
GUITARPOKEY 3 years ago
Grace was so petty here!
MeAndMyRC 3 years ago
I remember reading in this 70's magazine "Crawdaddy" about how Grace was screaming outside Marty Balin's room to come out and fuck her! Of course, Marty didn't want any part of Grace. What characters.
tunnelrat1900 3 years ago
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What a great song!!
Spamp 3 years ago