Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation

[AlyssaGoesToItaly]

Idk if anybody's noticed yet, but thanks for not opting into google ads.

[MrStuVW]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES



[pouchfreeman]

"In loyalty to their kind, they cannot tolerate our minds." I always expect Grace to follow with her "I can't either" comment. I believe that's the live version, right?

[ithrupp]

what is this orginal record worth? ive always wanted to buy it

[MyNamesMatTheFatRat]

almost 3 minute song to sing 92 words...  Theres a lot of instrument in here ahah

[mcburgerqueen2]

The Chrysalids :D

[bunnygal079]

Groovy..

[anjilyn2]

funny how some things haven't changed much at all, nobody listened to the young then as nobody listens to that generation now when it comes to the governmental forces, have we gone full circle or just never heard to begin with?

[williamthepunkmonk]

pffft, hippies and their acid and shrooms, what would the airplanes sound like without them?

[sfdog1369]

I Bought This Record Brand New In The Wrapper Fer 5 Bucks At A Record Swap Meet A Little While Back SCORE Thx Fer The Post

[Charlytrippo]

It`s grand how you don`t even need drugs to get high on this music.

[phreestylesk8r]

i had a chance to buy this album the other day and i didnt..... WHAT WAS I THINKING!

[dimethaltryptamine1]

@phreestylesk8r you weren't

[dimethaltryptamine1]

Why can i only 'like' songs,where's the LOVE button man? Why cannot they not tolerate our minds,is it because we can't tolerate their obstruction?

[AntoineStrider]

@dimethaltryptamine1 Well, maybe it's the corporations (and soon the government) who have them by the balls obviously can't tolerate their minds, so why should we tolerate their obstruction?

[dimethaltryptamine1]

@AntoineStrider exactly! I think that's what the wall st occupiers are saying

[AntoineStrider]

@dimethaltryptamine1 They, the Haight-Ashbury hippies (and hippies across the board, too), and basically every protester who has protested on philosophical/ideological grounds.

[mb19512002]

Grace

you were the Queen of the "Revolution"

It's nor foolish or dated,

rather,desperately needed more today than ever

thank you for all you have contributed to music, art, philosophy.

[FrequentlyFried]

It's like how Rush did the first side to their album 2112 based on a book by Ayn Rand which is similiar themes and as someone else was saying how Rage Against The Machine was doing the same things in the 90's..Funny that Rage's bass player talks in a Rush documentary where he says Geddy Lee was his fave bass player and in a deleted scene Geddy says his to fave bassplayers were Jack Bruce and Jack Casady. cool to know that..such different bands but they are all amazing

[JimboLAngeloMysterio]

@FrequentlyFried They are mine too. Casady besides sticking with Jorma (Hot Tuna), jammed with Hendrix on "Killing Field". Jorma did some taping in his house with Janis Joplin in 64, the typewriter tapes. Bruce found an even better guitarist than Clapton jamming with Leslie West. Felix Papillardi played bass on most of the Mountain songs, was deaf at the end felt the music. He also played the bells in the Cream song "Those were the days".

[AntoineStrider]

@JimboLAngeloMysterio Casady appears on "Voodoo Child (Slight Return) laying down the groove on bass. #themoreyouknow

[Spamhero]

to be precise page 184 THey are the crown of creation thair ambition fulfilled

they have nowhere .But life is change...... soon they will attain the stability

they strive for etc. Page 199 Inloyalty to their kind they can nottolerate our rise

etc. The Chrysalids was a very special kind of story.

[1qaz2wsx3edc5753]

The atomic blast just in case this album didn't do well. That way Jefferson Airplane could say that they warned everyone who bought the album what to expect. I liked this tune and a few others on it.

[vonshtoyven]

i need ACID NOW PLEASE JESUS IF U LOVE ME GIVE ME SOME LSD

[Tormentor85]

@vonshtoyven U jebote!

[elzibell07]

yea

[thundermaze003]

I just finished The Chrysalids today and was very pleased to find that Jefferson Airplane wrote a song based on it.

[jsuglia]

There is a productive discrepancy between Jefferson Airplane's lyrics and John Wyndham's THE CHRYSALIDS, the novel that inspired the song.

"In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our RISE; in loyalty to our kind we cannot tolerate their obstruction."

---John Wyndham, THE CHRYSALIDS

"In loyalty to their kind / they cannot tolerate our MINDS / In loyalty to our kind / we cannot tolerate their obstruction."

---Jefferson Airplane, "Crown of Creation"

[SINESTERFINGER]

Just peachy.

[spoildn8410]

A lot of don't realize it but what they write fan mail Airplane or someone else, they read or read what you wrote or what someone older than you wrote. it matters. they might have even evolved songs

[pardyhardly]

I think that there are people tripping on this album.

[ModGirl1967]

@pardyhardly God I hope so.

[ioriorioriorio]

@pardyhardly  50 , holdin forth........still trippin... revolution

[altoidsmit]

@ioriorioriorio fuck yeah keep on rockin buddy

[sirlovemehard]

Probably JA's best song... Good Shit !!! X)

[MrDrewlips]

Check out: Jefferson Airplane - House at Pooneil Corners - Manhattan Rooftop Concert (1968)

The Airplane at it's peak. Fabulous live footage. Check out that freak Cassady!

[WoodRatGirl]

I need to find the book after listening to this!

[MrOorah0311]

This song makes me want to drop some acid

[WoodRatGirl]

@MrOorah0311

Haha most Jefferson songs have that effect.

[skip31054]

music today is so far removed from its roots of yesterday!

[drewfustehfox]

@skip31054 Indeed, just try sitting anyone born past 1990 and getting them to listen to anything without compressed vocals, or try and find a hard hitting protest song of any kind from the same era. It's really sad what the music industry has done to itself in recent decades.

[spacehead80]

@drewfustehfox concerning protest songs:

kinda agree on that. BUT don´t forget Rage Against the Machine, they were active in the nineties. but concerning normal pop/rock i guess there is no protest, only the rougher n harder rock n metal genres offer that, alongside with punk

[ErinTeamEdward64]

@drewfustehfox

i was born in 1993

and i totally agree with this comment without sounding ridiculous,

jefferson airplane are my favourite band and i listen to them everyday, i think its really tragic how the true meaning of music has been lost in the media

as janis joplin said at woodstock "music's for grooving man, music's not for putting yourself through bad changes"

i would rather sit listening to vinyl collections of the doors and santana than even breath near justin bieber!

[lorinstoll]

There is a great biography about Grace Slick, you can watch it on the net. She still looks great BTW - and she is an artist as well. This was one of their best tracks ever.

[mitzilinn]

I am grateful I lived in San Francisco when the Airplane, the Dead, Santana and many others played around town. Those were wonderful open times promoting love and peace and protesting the Vietnam war.

[bentpolski]

Jack sounds great on this cut! Still have this album! What memories!

[TurtleWeasle]

Not a drug song. A political song.

[mike666nz]

Nothing wrong with LSD or anything else but booze in my opinion and she was a stunner-for surrreeeeee!

[EarlyMate]

gracie slick was so beautiful, but today she looks like a poster girl depicting the long term effects of lsd use

[HighMindedLunacy]

@EarlyMate Oh pleeeeease...the woman is 70 years old, she actually looks pretty damn good for 70-post your picture when you are 70 and lets take a look at how well YOU hold up.

[twowaterdogs]

"Life is change....how it differs from the rocks...."

(indeed)

[mobyboy]

yes !

[micromike737]

a great acid song.

[TurtleWeasle]

@micromike737 

[sparkyization]

"Creation"?

NOW we are making real progress!!

[Byrontheone]

soon you'll obtain the stability you strive for

in a place among the fossils of our time.

Those words say it all about fame, fortune

and conformity. This song is sheer counterculture of its time. I always loved

a trip to After Bathing At Baxter's

Peace, B.

[nickwill1745]

And the chariot of the sun will be pulled by the Greatful Dead Peace.

[bunnygal079]

This song's far-out! peace..

[mobyboy]

thats a groovy rock !

this album is just fantastic

[samueltooze]

yes the crown of creation giving us this world to live in but also the tools to destroy

[curiousnomad]

This music changed my life when I was in 7th grade. I was down for life- with this and all music (Bach to Coltrane to Reich to Zappa). Also, the album cover was amazing. Too bad without albums you really don't get that experience anymore.

[goback3spaces]

Man! I feel rebellious just listening to this song. But, of course, I have a clock to punch, and a family to support, so fuck the rebellion. I'll just fantasize.

[SeanGavinOHara]

Ha ha good comment. Heartbreaking isnt it that we cant just bust out all the time x

[goback3spaces]

In small ways, maybe. Peace, bro.

[genericgeorge]

In loyalty to their kind

they cannot tolerate our minds.

In loyalty to our kind

we cannot tolerate their obstruction

Love it!!

[bassist448]

Out of every JA song, this is one of my favorites. Jack Cassidy is one of the best bassists ever!!! Why did I have to be born into this generation? There aren't any bassists that can compare to Jack Cassidy, John Entwistle,Paul McCartney, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, and Roger Waters (Say what you want about him I think he's a damn good bassist.)

[Bopalena]

Don't forget the late, great Berry Oakley! He was one badass mofo!

[kingsuji]

Back in the day,

We felt like we were the Crown of Creation...

JA were our leaders.

We followed and went???

King Suji

[autodelete66]

kingsuji

> JA were our leaders.

They Still are!

[tropikal777]

Total goosebumps listening to this. Amazing.

[aurora1957A]

Wow this gives me chills even after 40 years. No one could come close to Jack Casady. The man taught the world to play electric bass.

And he still is The Master.

:)

[PenumbraTheWolf]

What year album is this?

[rootslouch]

1968 i believe :)

[CrapsAss]

I've seen their ways to often for my likening...

Jack Cassidy forever...

[918273645564738291]

anyone got the lyric for the song?

[rootslouch]

i googled the lyrics and here's what i got: You are the Crown of Creation and you've got no place to go. Soon you'll attain the stability you strive for in the only way that it's granted in a place among the fossils of our time. In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our minds. In loyalty to our kind we cannot tolerate their obstruction. Life is Change How it differs from the rocks I've seen their ways too often for my liking New worlds to gain My life is to survive and be alive for you.

[midwifecat]

don't forget the ending lyric...

"ah...[men]"

[rootslouch]

ope, thanks XD

[autodelete66]

I always thought they were very clear

for a wall of sound type band

[rushfan25]

Great book with good symbolizim

[dm0870]

Just finished The Chrysalids for English class. Pretty neat book, neat song as well.

[trippygitarz]

Trippy

[luke2963]

Love the bass on this. Best bass ever. So basey.

[BardOfEarth]

The lyrics of this song were taken-almost all- verbatim from a

Science Fiction Novel by Theodore Sturgeon. It was a post apocalyptic work about telepathic Mutants. They were living in

hiding from an intolerant majority, as did we telepathic Long-Hairs when the song was written. I was floored finding the palagarism. Like seeing something stolen by one good friend from another. In my love for J.A. I will call it a learned borrowing.

[jrcasselman]

The novel is the Chrysalids by John Wyndham.

[braindripper]

Well maybe it's just a transformation, a "mutation" of a novel into Rock man....You know spoken poetry Vs musical poetry....Magnificent!

[malfunctiones]

Actually, the song was done with Wyndham's permission. ;D

[ThetalmudHater]

Bard Of Earth, I was shifting through some old texts (mostly Quotations) and found something very close to verbatim from the Doors song "End Of The Night." I know The Doors used the title from the: "The Doors Of Perception" the A.Huxley novel, but this text was too close. One difference between music then and now--people actually read novels; so ideas were borrowed--I think as a protest against ZOG--beats the braindead hate from today's Cool-Aid drinkers.

[BardOfEarth]

Right, as memory serves "Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to the endless night" comes straight from Blake. Great Poem you might Google it. You could choose worse Public Domain Poetry to set to music. Thanks also jrcsselman, I remembered Sturgeon, but I'll stand corrected. Oh both of you might enjoy some of my ( original songs ) on my channel. If you're ScFi fans, ask and I'll email you my science fiction novel as an attachment, Quest ot the Bards. Peace

[jrcasselman]

To me this song symbolizes the attitudes of the religious right in America.

[pyrophore]

More like a humanists take on the religious right and their reluctance to change. Life is change, not written in stone as one final word.

To me the song says human evolution has reached an apex and must change in order to survive.

The beginning of the culture wars, at that time it was counter vs. mainstream culture which the religious right was certainly part of.

[TheFreeman039]

this song was made with 'The Chrysalids' in mind read the book and listen to the lyrics

[joetarcy]

I like it too.

[revolution1940]

very psychedelic:) i love

[tyronois]

Ahh i love this song, thanks for adding it, going to play it at for my music class. :)