Jefferson Airplane - How Do You Feel

[allUneedISLove420]

LOVE AN DPEACE FOREVER! FLOWER POWER!

[maxauburn]

I love this song

[pbrucpaul]

Timeless and Groovy.

[MrJeff1947]

1967

best time for great music recordings.

"Pillow" the whole album is great

Sgt Pepper the best album of all time

Doors (light my fire) timeless

Buffalo Springfield..(voted best 500 albums ever recorded by rolling stone magazine).

The cosmos aligned that year to give us some memorable melodies!

[mindfoodprime]

Sunday afternoon in Lincoln park ... Chicago, Il.

[7upIsLove]

Tom Mastin wrote this beautiful song, presumably JA came up with this wonderful arrangement. A high-point of song craft on this album, let us give due credit to Mr. Mastin.

[buzzinfly27]

This and the ten tracks that surround it are why the members of the Jefferson Airplane are the only hippies I like. Surrealistic Pillow is my favorite, and this song always makes me smile:)

[Thadmotor1044]

mammas and papas sing back up on this one , awesome , from surealistic pillow , top 100 album of all time ,

[jimothy60]

@Thadmotor1044 Mamas and Papas aren't on Surrealistic Pillow. But you can tell the arrangement was influenced by them.

[mymindourdream]

wonderfully tender sound,really a precious gem,thumbs up !!

[roberto20roberto]

Hace poco que he comprado este disco,el primero de esta gran banda.De camino a casa miro las canciones y pienso es un recopilatorio,como tiene 2 canciones muy famosas,Somebody to love y White Rabbit.La sorpresa fue al poner el Disco,me di cuenta que no es un grandes exitos.Aparte de estas dos canciones buenas,las demas son de muy buena calidad.

[TKgeniusHELLTX]

I'm a 20 year old hippi, wishing he had a time machine. Main stream music sucks ass today, fuck you justin beiber!

[ZeekeKontroller]

Some bands played for money. Others for fame. And some because they were hippies.

[nikthepilot]

This is totally not my type of music - but i still love it!!!! :D

[mymindourdream]

i was a bit blue and after have listened to this song i feel better,her voice and the jefferson sound is a great..antidepressant....reall­y,then,5 stars really deserved !!

[pucksterz12]

They really hit their rythym on this record. Never really listen to this til now, fired up a bowl is pretty mellow shit to listen to,

[andyjay729]

Ah, just sit back, relax, and try to pretend that We Built This City (so bad it's good) and Sara (so bad it's horrible) ever happened.

[IanHunedoara8]

Always felt this song was written for Mamas and Papas

[SeattleLA]

This must be one of the 5 best albums of the 1960s

[keo774]

imho theire worst song

[singinjohnny]

And I don't mean to downplay how frightening these times are either. But, even though those times were indeed simpler, there was plenty to worry about. This and other beautiful music was brand-new and helped ease a lot of worries as well as encourage a degree of optimism with myself as with others. We didn't know at the time if Vietnam was going to end or balloon into something even bigger and more hideous. Looking back on it is always easier.

[singinjohnny]

@nuckinfuts32330 Actually, the apocalyptic mentality has been around for quite a while. I can recall watching TV ads that would give instructions on what to do in a nuclear attack along with what to listen for when the air raid siren would wail in different patterns. That, along with the popular "duck and cover" ads that are such a laugh today among so many, were quite terrifying to a lot of people. Many nights, I would lie awake thinking that I may not wake up the next morning. It was scary.

[singinjohnny]

I meant "vast advancement" in my first message.....

[singinjohnny]

@nuckinfuts32330 To continue my thought from the last message, I would be so fascinated to hear the music from my parents' time live, clearly, and vibrant as opposed to settling for an old scratched-up record. From my standpoint, I was almost 17 when I first heard "How Do You Feel". It had just been released some months before in early '67. And I have loved this and so much other music produced at that time ever since then. I guess I and many others are lucky to have heard this when it was new.

[singinjohnny]

@nuckinfuts32330 I really like your sentiment with this. I can relate to it in that I feel the same way about my antecedants, namely, my parents' generation but with a slight twist. When they were in their teens, recording equipment was incredibly primitive. So, the music that we are able to hear from the 1930s is scratchy and very low-fidelity. Whereas, the vast adancement in recording technology by the '60s enables the music from the '60s to be heard just as it was then.

[420HAVEFUN]

i feel better now :)

[64chrisnickey]

reminds me of my first hit of acid! ........long ago........Ahhhh yes how do you feel indeed!

[IanHunedoara8]

@64chrisnickey  Yes! Exactly!

[rachieeebaby]

i need to hear this stoned.

[MegaDebapriya]

superlike.. loved this one..

[MegaDebapriya]

superlike..

[TheBunnyist]

reminds me of my first love........

[TheBunnyist]

Makes me think of my First Love,,,,,,,,,

[STPjib]

I feel great

[coloradobob1]

To Tom Maston , the man wrote this song . I knew Tom in his Colorado phase . I asked him once about this tune . It took him 15 min., a bottle of Ripple, and a window in San Francisco to write it. I have a great picture of Tom wearing a hippie head band I made him.

[grappino11]

bel

[CraigX1allen]

the shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you're hooked :O)

[infradig8]

Grace Slick looks so innocent on the album cover, but not in this picture.

[singinjohnny]

This recording was and is enchantingly beautiful. The entire album puts me right back to the Spring of 1967 at almost the end of my junior year in high school. I very much agree that so much beautiful music came out of that year.

[captainsoul1953]

I was 13 when i heard the Byrds 8 miles high and then Love and the Doors and then the Airplane..plus the early Floyd and the Inc String Band....god bless pirate radio and John Peel........

Jim

[jumpnjm]

This song always captures me, no matter where I am or what I am doing, or how many thousands of times I've heard it before.

[thealexxxboy]

madonna beautiful stranger...

[americaoffline02]

i wish i could find a freaking tab for the guitar in here. i would think there would be tabs everywhere this song is so great

[mobyboy]

mostly influenced by. they both performed in Monterei 1967. anyway Jefferson Airplane took one stp ahead to a more psychedelic sound.

[joannaburroughs]

They were not just a 2 hit band! You have to take into account that they changed the name to Jefferson Starship and than to just Starship due to another former band member owning the copywrite on the name!

[longinusmaximus]

this song doesn't even sound like it was written by the same band.

[mrkodster]

It wasn't. JA covered it

[longinusmaximus]

two hit wonder, all their other songs are so tame, and dull by comparison. white rabbit and somebody to love, that's it.

[tonks78]

Thanks you guys....I couldn't tell at all but I couldn't agree w/you all more..this is probably one of their best tunes.

[tonks78]

Sorry to be so "duh" but who sang the lead vocals for this song? Anyone know? Thanks in advance...one of my favorite albums of all time.

[D3f11]

I hear Gracie and Marty harmonizing for lead vocals. then when you hear "when I meet a girl like that... I don't know what to say" that parts sounds like Paul with grace angelically singing"ba ba baaa" Thats what i hear anyway :) Sorry if i wasn't helpful

[chazattak]

I'll agree with D3f11, that sounds damn right. What a poetic song, too... Of course you can't discount Kaukonen's voice back there, either, if ya feel me ^_^

[imflyinn]

this reminds me of san fran in the late sixties

[routeoz]

well i guess it is or thereabouts :-)

[Shamagogue]

The recording sound/ambience was just so great on this album - What a wonderful complement it was to those amazing songs - in fact I can't think of another album in over the last 20 years that has captured as clear and pure a sound as Surrealistic Pillow did!!!

[johnwhager]

Surrealistic Pillow is my fave Jefferson Airplane. I wasn't in Frisco or Cal in those days but Atlanta, reading about it all with fascination....Gilthoron the Stareagle

[6749er]

Great song. Takes me back to '67 and where I was at the time too.

Have to say I was stoned in some parks

with some pretty girls with them playing this when it was a brand new song.

Jefferson Airplane-Get ya There on time.

Beautiful song-Thanks-From SF w/Love

[waylo4526]

what a gorgeous song intensly beautiful..wow i can imagine being stoned at a park with a really pretty girl

[LovePeaceNFreedom]

Indeed. I always say that '67 was the most beautiful year in music. So many lovely songs came out that year: "The Crystal Ship", "Little Wing", "Ruby Tuesday", "Dance the Night Away", "Hampstead Incident", "Never My Love", and, of course, "A Day in the Life", amongst many others.

Now that you mention it, though, I can really imagine the park scenario, and it's a wonderful thought. :)

[BachnRoll100]

@LovePeaceNFreedom I like all of those songs........A BUNCH

[LovePeaceNFreedom]

@BachnRoll100 That's why I say that 1967 was the most beautiful year in music. :)

[singingpretty]

@LovePeaceNFreedom yep...and can't you just listen to every one of those songs right now and feel transported back in time? that is a stellar list ~ some of my all time favorites. i was pretty young back then, so i was exposed to all that music by

my big brother and his friends.. lucky me, i say! i bet we could have some great discussions about music :o)

[LovePeaceNFreedom]

@singingpretty Indeed. Actually, "Little Wing" is the only one of those that doesn't send me back in time. I guess it just sounds too timeless to give it that '60s quality. 1967 really is my favorite year: my mother was born, The Doors released their first two albums, Jimi released his first two, The Beatles and the Stones each had their two psychedelic albums, Jefferson Airplane's first two with Grace, Cream's Disraeli Gears, Donovan's Mellow Yellow, The Velvet Underground's debut... too much.

[singingpretty]

@LovePeaceNFreedom your mom was born that year? well, it really was a GREAT year then, wasn't it?

i have Little Wing as a ring tone on my phone ~ the Hendrix instrumental intro...you are right, it's timeless! they were all so far ahead of their time anyway! none of today's music even comes close, except in the way of guitar playing (look up Phil Keaggy)

[teenonator]

@LovePeaceNFreedom It's so tough to choose....1965, '66, & '67, all just great years for music(and cars)

[TheEldoradoKid]

@teenonator Ah yess... '67... I was a very impressionable pre-teen, just on the cusp of beginning to grasp the complete meaning of all that was happening around me! Oh my God! the music, the janging guitars of the Airplane, the ominous sounds of The Animals.. House of the rising sun the Hammond B-3s the Vox and Farfisa organs with 96 Tears and Light my Fire.....Monster AM stations blasting the nation out of the Midwest (the Big 1520 KOMA!) The CARS... I drooled over my cousins new '67 GTO. WOW

[saltsister1]

@LovePeaceNFreedom whoops it is meant to be thumbs up. I would have said it the same way.

[psychonautpsychosis]

The opening sound of the song makes my heart sink. So lovely. :)

[LovePeaceNFreedom]

Do you mean the opening notes from Grace's recorder, or the first chord where the band comes in? Either way, it's amazing.

[psychonautpsychosis]

The opening notes from Grace's recorder. :)

[AGUZ2266]

@LovePeaceNFreedom pero la puta nadie escribe castellano

[AGUZ2266]

pero la puta nadie escribe castellano

[petereuropa]

Some bands made songs that were not made for the Pop Chart, they only wanted to make a beautiful song for us listeners to enjoy and think about, feelings, life, love.

[clickswitchh]

@petereuropa Indeed but this is a beautiful pop songs presay ...

[chacha96815]

i love their music. this song puts me at peace. wish i could go back in time, that would be awesome.

[jesusknudd]

Great song. Takes me back to '67 and where I was at the time; Kalispell, Montana. Thanks.

[singinjohnny]

Such a beautiful song. Brings me right back to that time in the Spring of '67.

[mauvetys]

...nicely dazzled and winked at a girl;))

[LoveFaithHopeNArt]

THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

I absolutely love J.A.

Thank you so much for posting this; I love the picture too.

[ajf12525]

This song is so intoxicating as was most of the airplane's material.

[tristramshamdy]

great lyrics!!

[louiseduvee]

thank the gods! you made my night.