I CAN HEAR THIS IN MY MIND , OVER IN THE LEFT LOBE , THATS WHERE THE LSD IS HIDING OUT , IT WENT IN THERE ON JANUARY 5 , 1967 AND ITS STILL IN THERE , HIDING , I SAW YOU , I SAW YOU , COMING BACK TO ME , AT THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM , I SAW YOU , I SAW YOU , BACKSTAGE , I SAW YOU , COMING BACK TO ME ...
Those chords at the start - when you're in your bed, it's 3am and you can hear your heartbeat so good...
When I heard this song for the first time, I knew it wil be about situation i'm in, about me. I've expected that. I think it's the most beautiful song I've heard. Thank you, Jefferson Airplane.
I hear them and I see them as they were, young and full of life, Grace Slick was so beautiful and had such presence...now I see her in her present self and I wonder: who are we? If we are to be "recalled" centuries after we died....who will return? Our mind and body of the 20s? 30s? 60s? Think about it....
I was 15 years old when I bought this album and fell in love with this song. Now I'm 61. And it still moves me as much as it did the first time I heard it. Marty Balin has a beautiful voice. I am so glad I grew up when I did.
This song always reminds me of a love of my life...he passed about three years ago, and I think of him nearly every day still, and miss him so so much. His birthday was Feb. 14. Sweet, sweet Billy.
What a song to fall in love to at 13yrs old by Indian Rock in Berkeley and her name was Valerie Chilcott or was she Judy Haucom . Marty was so excited when he wrote this in an English Hotel wanted to record it immediately the next morning, grabbed Gracie & she played the recorder/flute and Jerry Garcia happened to be in London too and agreed to sit in a fill in on guitar ,That's Jerry Garcia on guitar your listenting too right now .pure simple, measured in & so totally sweet
@miketheshanmanmangan funny we went over Ocean Beach one evening from Berkelely in these early times , a figure came walking towards out of the mist and approached and turned out to be Jerry Garcia ..what beautiful innocent times . We all just chatted quietly as if we had known each other for centuries about lovely things , we we're strangers but not strangers in a beautiful land, late in the evening & the universe was entirely ours as long as we didn't disturb the spell,the way it should be
Jefferson Airplane showed up unexpectedly at a LOVE IN , in Forrest Park , in St. Louis , Mo. one weekend ! This song captures that time period perfectly ! It's an all time favorite , for me .
JA should not remaster their works. I've heard the remastered songs of other artists. They never sound the same. Accept time and live with the past. The choices of the artists at the time are the best. The art they created then is the best it could be.
Marty Balin sang with his soul. After his friend Joplin passed something in his heart was missing. He still had the voice, lost a bit of emotion. He did not do the Winterland concert grieving deeply, but the Airplane added the sweet overlay of Papa John's Creach's fiddle. Jorma and Jack would play the old blues in hotel rooms, then began Hot Tuna. Many times they were the lead band for themselves in the Airplane before severing from the Airplane and touring as Hot Tuna.
A beautiful girl learned to play this, for me, before I had to leave her. Years later I could hear it and almost double over with pain of losing her...and now, 40 plus years later, happily married for 30 to someone else...she's still gone and it still hurts.
I hope the kids today have music that will bring back the reality of their crazy years, decades later...
@Trollificusv2 These heartfelt thoughts have occured to us, in the going of life. We had to travel down that path, in order to get to where we are today.
The price was steep - as well it should have been, and was.
In our thoughts later on, there were no heros, especially for this writer.
I am hoping that we are forgiven for our mistakes.
But we do not get to do it over again. And in that lies our indictment.
@Trollificusv2 it is four -thirty am here in grosse pointe, mi. and i just finished listening to 'coming back to me' and oddly enough i by chance saw this recollection. i too lost a girl prox 40-some years ago and do feel that pain. remarkable feeling that i too hope that the kids of any generation feel some day. it is important that you care about someone so deeply at some point in your life, it would seem.
@Trollificusv2 your story truly touched me! I'm sorry for your heartache, that pain is unbearable and it never gets better. Everybody tells you: time will heal all wounds but some never do
As was said, every song on the Surrealistic Pillow album is a gem.
If you like this ballad, check out "Today" on that same album.
....and "D.C.B.A.25".
The other more well known great stuff is on there too.
Just can't loose with that album.
I like the Airplane's soft stuff...so melodic and nice words and phrasing...."Triad" on Crown of Creation is anotther nice tune too.....Grace sounds beautiful.
Poetry put to music, perfect song for a night at home with a thunderstorm outside, rain like blurry tears on the glass, lying on a bear skin rug next to the fireplace hearth, fire snapping with a glass of wine and your honey.
I just came across this song and haven't heard it in 40 plus years. Back then I was in the Marine Corps. in Vietnam. Every four weeks our unit would rotate back to our rear location. I remember hearing this at night and thinking this song was such a haunting and lonely tune. Such a perfect melody for our situation. It really put you in a melancholy mood missing your family, friends, wives, girls friends and home. Not what the doctor would order. It is a beautiful song for young lovers.
@buudge21 Hearing this in that Tough Chaotic environment must have been soothing. Knowing that there was some peace in the world with this must have had some meaning. I was an Army officer commisioned just after Vietnam, and I could hear the disgust and pain coming from my Non-Commissioned officers at the time. War took on a different meaning fo them. The cjhalenge was to bring them to why we had to defend America. It wasn't easy, but I sure learned a lot.
It was winter, 1969,, doing LSD when I heard this song. I was 17 almost 18. 38 years or more has passed since I heard this last. It hurts my heart to hear it. I guess because it reminds me of when I was indestructible, young and innocent. Now, I'm just old.......
I was a couple of years younger than most Airplane fans, but did have one album. I encouraged my kids to listen to older stuff, but not Jefferson Airplane. I just didn't think they'd connect with the majority of their songs. They like "White Rabbit", and "Somebody to Love", but some of the stuff that's way out there, like "Lather", just aren't appropriate for a father to share with his kids. They'd just look at you, and wonder WTF you were into when you were their age.
@cypresscoach that's crazy, 'Lather' would fit right into a kid's head...and the kid would look at you and say to himself, yeah, my dad is one of the 'old people' in the song.
I didn't grow up in this period,but I am thankful I had parents that did and they shared this era with us through their love of music.My dad was a collector of all great music and I'll always remember waking up every morning to my dad's record player thumping through my walls to the tune of all the GREATS of music that pioneered and paved the way for timeless classics that will never die.My dad has sense passed on and now his tremendous record collection now belongs to me.I cherish them:)
@MANNYMONI Hi, manny, just wanted to say that you comment is good, my dad loved country, but you listen to your dad, and I heard great music, glad you did too
Nothing soothes my soul better than listening to this song. Everytime i play it, I reflect, think, and ponder about things that have long been forgotten. thanks JA, you're the best.
@chemait..... hopefully the last 46 years has been filled with living, good and bad experiences that have prepared us to live in the world as it is now....... that was an amazing time, this is amazing time. As Dylan sung, " the times they are a changing..........."
An era past, but not forgotten.... a time of change, sad losses of friends in useless wars, music of such beauty and passion..... the memories linger, the joy remains.... how lucky we were to have lived during that era.
EXQUISITE, TIMELESS AND SCATTERED MEMORIES OF YESTERDAY...HOPE THIS CLASSIC LIVES ON IN OUR CHILDREN...SHARE THE HISTORY MY FRIENDS, OTHERWISE THEY WILL NEVER KNOW THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL!
I have my old 8mm movies of my children growing up - this is what I hear in my head and heart when I play my movies. I miss my kids _ they are scattered all over the globe.
thanks for this video....iv been feeling lost from myself and this song brought me back from the rave music and clubing to the 13 year girl who discovered JA and it was the best thing that ever happened to her ....so thank you
damn grace slick is so fine, but i don't think she was around during the recording of this, so respectively i dont think she should be featured in the video. correct me if im wrong
@BabyPuma124 can't imgaine this song boring anyone! Although at the time of this song I had lost my Father, and Grandfather within one year of each other and never had the chance to say goodbye. Fast forward to 2004 and my brother dies by suicide, I hear this song on the radio and totally break down!! Another one that I hope to see when I past??!!
This song meant alot in the 60's for me....love true. I could always see my dear lost friend coming back to me through the fog......he wasn't there though, but it felt good to imagine he was. After the war, I was so sure he'd be coming back to me.....no he was lost. Beautiful song!!!!
I've always been grateful that I grew up at a time when music like this was being created and played. Now over 40 years later this song evokes memories of a golden time in my life more intensely than any other. Exquisite and timeless
@somnubulist As others have noted, 1967 saw several important albums (at least three of them) and some terrific songs. The music countered the immense evil of American life at that moment.
Forgot to mention that Ricki Lee Jones' version of "Comin' Back To Me" is on her album, 'Pop Pop'. An album of all old classic covers. A lot of them from way, way back. Like, "Bye, Bye Blackbird", "I'll Be Seeing You", and "I Won't Grow Up", just to name a few.
If anybody's a Ricki Lee Jones Fan, you HAVE to hear HER sing it. I won't ever listen to Jefferson Airplane perform it again. There is NOTHING like Ricki Lee's version and nothing like her voice. That is, if you're a Ricki Lee Jones fan. If you are, I strongly urge you to listen to her version of "Comin' Back To Me". You will never want to listen to anybody else sing this song again!!!
@frauleinmona well, i think rickie's fans already know her version - she recorded it years ago...
i'm miss jones' fan - yet i still hear jefferson's version with great pleasure (the flute - haunting) - but of course, rickie is wonderful when she sings it (as she blesses all she sings with her own unique voice and feeling...)
@kolibet Yes, of course if you're a Ricki Lee fan you'll already know the song, BUT, if you're NOT a fan, then you won't be touched by it .That's just a given, and that's why I mentioned it, for the people who AREN'T Ricki Lee Jones' fans.If you're just a Jefferson Airplane fan, I was strongly urging people to listen to Ricki Lee's version of the song. Being a JA fan doesn't mean you've ever heard of Ricki Lee's music. I, too, am a fan. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, "Flying Cowboys". Breathtaking.
@kolibet I also forget to mention, that even if you DO like Ricki Lee Jones, that STILL doesn't mean you've heard her cover for "Comin' Back To Me". I've run into a few people who considered themselves to be RLJ fans, and never knew that she did that song. You could be a Ricki Lee Jones fan from the very beginning around 1978 or 79, and then come all the way up until 1991 when she released the song on her album, "Pop, Pop", and not know about it. Doesn't mean you're not a RLJ fan.
@frauleinmona yeah, right - after posting my comment, i had the same reflexion - so you were right, giving those unaware of rickie's version a hint... the album "flying cowboys" is also one of my favourites (did you mean the album, or the song ?) - well, at first, it didn't impress me so much (i was a fan of her album "pirates"), but it sure grew on me - "away from the sky" and "atlas marker", pure masterpieces...
@kolibet Thanks for the confirmation. Appreciate it. :) Yeah, I meant the album, "Flying Cowboys". Satellites is something else. That just moves me like nothing ever has. "We were born forever, we are twinned in a fugitive kind, friends should stay together, light the world with the fugitive mind." I'm not going to have enough room to say everything I want to say, so I'm going to post another message.
@frauleinmona hey, are you american ? because, that expression "fugitive kind", and "fugitive mind" have puzzled me for years - until recently, i discovered that group of poets that called themselves "the fugitives" - including robert penn warren, whose poems i've started reading - do you think this is something rickie may be alluding to ?
nice to have these fragments of discussion through the net (listening to jefferson : "the shadow in the mist could be anyone...") - take care !
@kolibet Hi, sorry it took so long to get back to you. Got caught up with a few things. I believe that Ricki could be using the word, "fugitive" in more ways than one, seeing as that there is more than one definition for the word. "Fugitive" also means, "Of temporary interest", or, "Given to change or disappearance; perishable", "Difficult to comprehend or retain, elusive", "Lasting only a short time, fleeting" or "Tending to wander, vagabond."
@kolibet Sorry, I ran out of room. Yes, I can see Ricki fitting all of these meanings into those two lines. That so much of everything in our lives is temporary, nothing seems to last, it's all fleeting, or like vagrants walking the streets, our minds can so easily tend to wander. I think a lot of us can identify with all of those definitions when we think of being "twinned in a fugitive mind", or "light the world witht the fugitive light", and "tunneled into the fugitive night".
@kolibet Ran out of room again! I had to post ONE more comment! I wanted to add the most powerful fugitive line from'Satellites', "Code the world with the fugitive light." Brilliant.That line right there seems to have several meanings all in one.Love her dearly.Yes,I am American. Forget to mention that, and that was the very FIRST question you asked me! :D Like I said, I apologize that it took me so long to get back to you. "Whatever happened to wishes wished on a star?" : *( Hope you are well.
@kolibet UGHHHH! For the millionth time! I'm sorry! I forgot to mention in the second message I posted to you, that I meant to say, "Yes, I can see Ricki fitting all of these meanings into those SEVERAL lines." She didn't mention the word, "fugitive" in JUST two lines, she mentioned it in several lines in the song! Boy, I'm losing it! Yikes! :p :0)
@frauleinmona hi, so nice to read you again ! nice to see how you too turn to those songs with a questioning and loving look - rickie sure deserves those attentions (i saw her in paris, once, at "la cigale" - i was very moved to discover, around me, people who truly loved her - i think she too was moved, because she had a welcome that few artists get in their lives) (eh, hope my english is correct...) - maybe some satellites protect her... (to be continued)
@frauleinmona ... for you know the meaning that "satellite" had in latin ? maybe you do : it meant "bodyguard" - the lines "so you keep talking in many languages, telling us the way you feel, don't stop confiding in the road you're on, don't quit, you're walking satellites" really moved me, at the time, as i was learning so many languages (and didn't stop - after english, spanish and german, i tried some russian, greek and now japanese !) - and in those days... (to be continued)
@frauleinmona ... in those days, i was often on the road, hitch-hiking, sleeping outside (a kind of "wanderer", or "vagabond", actually) - and i felt the power of these songs, the love that's in them reached me, and seemed to protect me - i thought that maybe that's how it is, when "the light of good work shines" (that one is from king crimson, not rickie... - i was, and am, a fan of prog rock) - well, the line "code the world with the fugitive light" remains quite obscure to me, though...
@kolibet Yes, I agree, Away From The Sky and Atlas' Marker are absolutely beautiful AND pure masterpieces, like you said. No doubt about that. I especially love that one part in Atlas' Marker when Ricki sings, "Don't stay at home with your Momma in the dark, go find the arc, show them atlas' marker. You walk into school like you've got nothin' to win, they won't let you in, without atlas' marker." I think I know that whole album by heart! LOL! Atlas' Marker makes me really sad, though. : *(
@ladycoconutbutt It's not a matter ot "getting it", or not, it's a matter of how an artist moves you and influences you. Ricki's voice has an impact on me with this song like very few have in my life before. I could say the same for you. That you're crazy for not hearing and appreciating the beauty of Ricki Lee Jones' voice and style in her version of the song. But, hey, whatever, like you said, I respect your opinion. I suppose it's a matter of preference. To each his own.
@ladycoconutbutt Thank you very much, and to you as well. I DO, in fact, like some of Jefferson Airplane's music, it's just that there's something about Ricki's version of "Comin' Back To Me" that I just can't get away from. Peace, Love and Understanding. Got that from Elvis Costello. I don't know where HE got it from, but I got it from him. :)
@frauleinmona Maybe if Ricki, whom I adore, had Grace playing the recorder behind her I might rate her version higher. I usually like her voice better than Marty's. She usually has good instrumentalists playing behind her but not Jorma and Jack. And for someone who only played a particular instrument on ONE song that was ever recorded, Grace does an amazing job on the recorder.
@WillInNewHaven grace played recorder on How do you feel - Martha - Coming back - Eskimo blue day - but maybe her best recorder bit is on Daydream Nightmare (live) by Great Society
I remember when I first heard this song in the movie Flashback with Keifer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper. Played at a really touching part of the movie. Thumbs up if youve seen it.
@jedwing-great comments feller. This is the best tune Jefferson Airplane did WITHOUT Grace Slick being involved. Marty Balin's vocal is sublime here. Their 1967's Surrealistic Pillow album is an all-time classic of course.
What a classic JA song. Beautiful melody and words. It took me back to younger times. Yes, Grace was beautiful then; but, she's gorgeous now. And funny, and smart, and witty too. The pictures in this video show the work of one who cares - thank you pubblcita. A great effort. "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. " - John Keats
I CAN HEAR THIS IN MY MIND , OVER IN THE LEFT LOBE , THATS WHERE THE LSD IS HIDING OUT , IT WENT IN THERE ON JANUARY 5 , 1967 AND ITS STILL IN THERE , HIDING , I SAW YOU , I SAW YOU , COMING BACK TO ME , AT THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM , I SAW YOU , I SAW YOU , BACKSTAGE , I SAW YOU , COMING BACK TO ME ...
XTRAKRUNCHY 2 days ago
Thank you!!!!
FlatPick88 2 days ago
Jefferson Airplaine, Wine, Seaside, Weed, Guitar and a good Girl... Is there something better?
graziek 3 days ago
Those days are gone forever. Let 'em go.
Daytonabikeperson 5 days ago
Those chords at the start - when you're in your bed, it's 3am and you can hear your heartbeat so good...
When I heard this song for the first time, I knew it wil be about situation i'm in, about me. I've expected that. I think it's the most beautiful song I've heard. Thank you, Jefferson Airplane.
TheIllow 1 week ago
I hear them and I see them as they were, young and full of life, Grace Slick was so beautiful and had such presence...now I see her in her present self and I wonder: who are we? If we are to be "recalled" centuries after we died....who will return? Our mind and body of the 20s? 30s? 60s? Think about it....
barriospk 1 week ago
I was 15 years old when I bought this album and fell in love with this song. Now I'm 61. And it still moves me as much as it did the first time I heard it. Marty Balin has a beautiful voice. I am so glad I grew up when I did.
grey1951 1 week ago 8
This song always reminds me of a love of my life...he passed about three years ago, and I think of him nearly every day still, and miss him so so much. His birthday was Feb. 14. Sweet, sweet Billy.
grannynara 1 week ago 2
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What a song to fall in love to at 13yrs old by Indian Rock in Berkeley and her name was Valerie Chilcott or was she Judy Haucom . Marty was so excited when he wrote this in an English Hotel wanted to record it immediately the next morning, grabbed Gracie & she played the recorder/flute and Jerry Garcia happened to be in London too and agreed to sit in a fill in on guitar ,That's Jerry Garcia on guitar your listenting too right now .pure simple, measured in & so totally sweet
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gengenjedi 2 weeks ago
Haunting,Picture yourself sitting on Fishermans wharf in the city by the bay and let this run thru the caverns of your mind..Totally Haunting !
miketheshanmanmangan 2 weeks ago
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@miketheshanmanmangan funny we went over Ocean Beach one evening from Berkelely in these early times , a figure came walking towards out of the mist and approached and turned out to be Jerry Garcia ..what beautiful innocent times . We all just chatted quietly as if we had known each other for centuries about lovely things , we we're strangers but not strangers in a beautiful land, late in the evening & the universe was entirely ours as long as we didn't disturb the spell,the way it should be
gengenjedi 2 weeks ago
haunting,Picture yourself sitting on Fishermans wharf in the city by the bay and let this run thru the caverns of your mind..Totally Haunting !
miketheshanmanmangan 2 weeks ago
yeh, I think that there might have been a magic moment once that some of us shared, corrny but yeh
fubar50cat 3 weeks ago
Being from the Bay Area, I saw Airplane many tines over!!!
jwpwwe59 1 month ago
This song makes me cry in a good way. Love the Airplane.
pouchfreeman 1 month ago 2
@pouchfreeman gives me chills>>>great era for cool music
8675309paul 3 weeks ago in playlist the best
Jefferson Airplane showed up unexpectedly at a LOVE IN , in Forrest Park , in St. Louis , Mo. one weekend ! This song captures that time period perfectly ! It's an all time favorite , for me .
SAYZ 1 month ago
one of the Airplane's best without a doubt!
pudramirez 1 month ago
i prefer vinyl ... crackles , scratches , warts and all
ibetuwet 1 month ago
JA should not remaster their works. I've heard the remastered songs of other artists. They never sound the same. Accept time and live with the past. The choices of the artists at the time are the best. The art they created then is the best it could be.
ACAW1968 1 month ago 2
Grace Slick has been the most beautiful woman in the world for a thousand generations,,,,
ROISL45 1 month ago
hey..
did i ever tell you about the time the fairy knight Sir dr. king
transformed into a woman
and perscribed magic mushrooms to the queen of england
thus restoring the true round table and the misty rainbow anarchy
among the foggy hills of ireland, exorcising the vampires of their
bloody thirst,to final rest,and restoring the virtue in natural medicines for good
rainbowaon 1 month ago 2
Beautiful song. Thanks for posting.
Aliof 1 month ago
Wonder what the story is behind the picture of them all sitting on that tree limb.
zebratangozebra 1 month ago
The Airplane really need to re-master their works.
rothsuede 1 month ago
The older I get, the more I love this song.
matt03301959 1 month ago 2
Beautiful song! Rickie Lee Jones did a great cover.
bluejazz51 1 month ago
This song reminds me of bummer afternoons at some love in! It's a downer man.
1971Titan 1 month ago in playlist The 60's and 70's Part II
Marty Balin sang with his soul. After his friend Joplin passed something in his heart was missing. He still had the voice, lost a bit of emotion. He did not do the Winterland concert grieving deeply, but the Airplane added the sweet overlay of Papa John's Creach's fiddle. Jorma and Jack would play the old blues in hotel rooms, then began Hot Tuna. Many times they were the lead band for themselves in the Airplane before severing from the Airplane and touring as Hot Tuna.
JimboLAngeloMysterio 1 month ago
A beautiful girl learned to play this, for me, before I had to leave her. Years later I could hear it and almost double over with pain of losing her...and now, 40 plus years later, happily married for 30 to someone else...she's still gone and it still hurts.
I hope the kids today have music that will bring back the reality of their crazy years, decades later...
Trollificusv2 1 month ago 72
@Trollificusv2 These heartfelt thoughts have occured to us, in the going of life. We had to travel down that path, in order to get to where we are today.
The price was steep - as well it should have been, and was.
In our thoughts later on, there were no heros, especially for this writer.
I am hoping that we are forgiven for our mistakes.
But we do not get to do it over again. And in that lies our indictment.
7855waldo 1 month ago
@Trollificusv2 So true,and for those of us that have those memories,something to be grateful for.
MrXxxzzzqqq 1 month ago 2
@Trollificusv2 it is four -thirty am here in grosse pointe, mi. and i just finished listening to 'coming back to me' and oddly enough i by chance saw this recollection. i too lost a girl prox 40-some years ago and do feel that pain. remarkable feeling that i too hope that the kids of any generation feel some day. it is important that you care about someone so deeply at some point in your life, it would seem.
seafever48 1 week ago 2
@Trollificusv2 ##why did you have to leave her?
pandamaltesers 3 days ago
@Trollificusv2 your story truly touched me! I'm sorry for your heartache, that pain is unbearable and it never gets better. Everybody tells you: time will heal all wounds but some never do
skaskunks 3 days ago
Une certaine forme de perfection...qui se développe dans la répétition, à jouer en boucle !
SuperVideocraft 1 month ago
As was said, every song on the Surrealistic Pillow album is a gem.
If you like this ballad, check out "Today" on that same album.
....and "D.C.B.A.25".
The other more well known great stuff is on there too.
Just can't loose with that album.
I like the Airplane's soft stuff...so melodic and nice words and phrasing...."Triad" on Crown of Creation is anotther nice tune too.....Grace sounds beautiful.
AOXOMOXO 1 month ago
Poetry put to music, perfect song for a night at home with a thunderstorm outside, rain like blurry tears on the glass, lying on a bear skin rug next to the fireplace hearth, fire snapping with a glass of wine and your honey.
ScottTaylorRealtor 1 month ago
I just came across this song and haven't heard it in 40 plus years. Back then I was in the Marine Corps. in Vietnam. Every four weeks our unit would rotate back to our rear location. I remember hearing this at night and thinking this song was such a haunting and lonely tune. Such a perfect melody for our situation. It really put you in a melancholy mood missing your family, friends, wives, girls friends and home. Not what the doctor would order. It is a beautiful song for young lovers.
buudge21 2 months ago
@buudge21 Hearing this in that Tough Chaotic environment must have been soothing. Knowing that there was some peace in the world with this must have had some meaning. I was an Army officer commisioned just after Vietnam, and I could hear the disgust and pain coming from my Non-Commissioned officers at the time. War took on a different meaning fo them. The cjhalenge was to bring them to why we had to defend America. It wasn't easy, but I sure learned a lot.
pbrucpaul 1 month ago 2
The woman at 1:16 is grace slick the singer of this song! Thanks for posting I forgot how much I loved this song!
pcerel 2 months ago
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@pcerel "The woman at 1:16 is grace slick the singer of this song! Thanks for posting I forgot how much I loved this song!"
Grace sings this song?
No way! Marty Balin.
AOXOMOXO 1 month ago
@pcerel Did Gracie sing this tune b4 or after her sex change operation? This is Marty Balin my friend.
ohmyohmy812 1 month ago
@WetRoot I love that these gigs were in the morning... awesome
CMloveify 2 months ago
LOS AMO <3
SofiaArguedas 2 months ago
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It was winter, 1969,, doing LSD when I heard this song. I was 17 almost 18. 38 years or more has passed since I heard this last. It hurts my heart to hear it. I guess because it reminds me of when I was indestructible, young and innocent. Now, I'm just old.......
coolingwater9111 2 months ago
look at that fine woman at 1:16
1highplains 2 months ago
One of the best! One of THE albums to have.
lightlyone 2 months ago
Bella Grace...i magnifici Jefferson...!
MicheleDiSalvia 2 months ago
I was a couple of years younger than most Airplane fans, but did have one album. I encouraged my kids to listen to older stuff, but not Jefferson Airplane. I just didn't think they'd connect with the majority of their songs. They like "White Rabbit", and "Somebody to Love", but some of the stuff that's way out there, like "Lather", just aren't appropriate for a father to share with his kids. They'd just look at you, and wonder WTF you were into when you were their age.
cypresscoach 2 months ago
@cypresscoach I'm 18.. if I was your kid, I'd get mad at you for holding out on the good stuff man! this song's a gem!
silionness 2 months ago
@cypresscoach that's crazy, 'Lather' would fit right into a kid's head...and the kid would look at you and say to himself, yeah, my dad is one of the 'old people' in the song.
welcome2myhell 2 months ago
This music has all the time in the world...
larconeptic1 2 months ago
LDS?
FRANCECHILD 2 months ago
MELODIC ISNT IT. LOVE
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Bunzypoo 2 months ago
A transparent dream..
katerinahra 2 months ago
I didn't grow up in this period,but I am thankful I had parents that did and they shared this era with us through their love of music.My dad was a collector of all great music and I'll always remember waking up every morning to my dad's record player thumping through my walls to the tune of all the GREATS of music that pioneered and paved the way for timeless classics that will never die.My dad has sense passed on and now his tremendous record collection now belongs to me.I cherish them:)
MANNYMONI 2 months ago 28
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Bunzypoo 2 months ago
@MANNYMONI Hi, manny, just wanted to say that you comment is good, my dad loved country, but you listen to your dad, and I heard great music, glad you did too
fubar50cat 3 weeks ago
shuuuush just kick back and let this tune roll in and take you places only your soul can ever take you. peace..
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ride2wheeled 2 months ago
Chills up and down the back of my neck. WoW
StreamMonkey 2 months ago
realmente una belleza
lucero06100 2 months ago
one of the best bands ever
666INDIA 3 months ago
Nothing soothes my soul better than listening to this song. Everytime i play it, I reflect, think, and ponder about things that have long been forgotten. thanks JA, you're the best.
TheClassicCoco 3 months ago
Got me emotional in 67 and still does today. Iconic album, beautifull.
DA53562 3 months ago 3
@DA53562 Ain't that the truth...
Greyghost1961 2 months ago
@chemait..... hopefully the last 46 years has been filled with living, good and bad experiences that have prepared us to live in the world as it is now....... that was an amazing time, this is amazing time. As Dylan sung, " the times they are a changing..........."
woollybat 3 months ago
Where did the last 46+ years go? I cry for joy. Thank you Ha 'Shem. Khol 'ha kvod.
chemait 3 months ago
Grace was fucking gorgeous.
ianb3432 3 months ago
A Grace Slick,além de talentosa,era linda!
LuizEduardo205 3 months ago
An era past, but not forgotten.... a time of change, sad losses of friends in useless wars, music of such beauty and passion..... the memories linger, the joy remains.... how lucky we were to have lived during that era.
woollybat 3 months ago
@woollybat We were truly blessed.
chemait 3 months ago
EXQUISITE, TIMELESS AND SCATTERED MEMORIES OF YESTERDAY...HOPE THIS CLASSIC LIVES ON IN OUR CHILDREN...SHARE THE HISTORY MY FRIENDS, OTHERWISE THEY WILL NEVER KNOW THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL!
LCANT123 3 months ago 3
I have my old 8mm movies of my children growing up - this is what I hear in my head and heart when I play my movies. I miss my kids _ they are scattered all over the globe.
Jamcon7 3 months ago 2
great memory !
suzesrc 3 months ago
Just beautiful!
TWB56 3 months ago
One of the best ballads ever.......period.
SuperStuey2 3 months ago
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dlong6184 3 months ago
Just another one of those kids born in the wrong generation
SaviiRwar 3 months ago
thanks for this video....iv been feeling lost from myself and this song brought me back from the rave music and clubing to the 13 year girl who discovered JA and it was the best thing that ever happened to her ....so thank you
bluefromanairplane 3 months ago
great photos too, thank you.
abidnessman 3 months ago
Too bad lyrics today rarely tell a story. This especially was a favorite for a melancholy day.
TheKodasmom 3 months ago
damn grace slick is so fine, but i don't think she was around during the recording of this, so respectively i dont think she should be featured in the video. correct me if im wrong
DancesWithNarwhals 4 months ago
@DancesWithNarwhals I know she played organ, recorder, and piano on the album....she just didnt sing in this song but she was still around
afro20man 4 months ago
@DancesWithNarwhals ...Grace played the recorder on this song.. and Jerry Garcia played guitar!
OlymPigs2010 3 months ago
@DancesWithNarwhals You mean she added the recorder part later?
greatbighand 3 months ago
Back in the day, this song bored me. Now I've grown up.
BabyPuma124 4 months ago 25
@BabyPuma124 can't imgaine this song boring anyone! Although at the time of this song I had lost my Father, and Grandfather within one year of each other and never had the chance to say goodbye. Fast forward to 2004 and my brother dies by suicide, I hear this song on the radio and totally break down!! Another one that I hope to see when I past??!!
beadbitch01 4 months ago
man i love this tune, used to listen to it alot back in 95 and 96 when i was 14!!
1projectpat 4 months ago
such a beautiful evocation of the preciousness of having a love gone away come back to you!
omgirlicious 4 months ago
Passeggiando sulle colline che dominano la riva
Mi rendo conto che sono stato qui prima
L'ombra nella nebbia avrebbe potuto essere ovunque
io vedo te, io vedo te, ritorna da me...
Spumini 4 months ago
Grace<3
NammVet 4 months ago
Not one of their better songs.
TheGarrrettHB 4 months ago
@TheGarrrettHB wow! great comment, sir!
keo774 4 months ago
Marty Balin's masterpiece
THEKINKS08 5 months ago
my heart almost breaks everytime i listen
rjoskar 5 months ago 3
how i love this song.
phoenixcube 5 months ago
One of the best albums ever. Not a bad song on it. PEACE
nubs1946 5 months ago 14
@nubs1946 Ain't that the ruth! Marty Balinhad a great talent forballads.
And in later years he was to say no one in the band wanted to work with him.
An extraordinary talent.
AOXOMOXO 1 month ago
Ahhh- another great one "coming back to me" after all these years
1canyonguy 5 months ago
Music from our era was raw.......none of the contrivences they use now. Pure rock.
This brings back memories of lying with the one I loved in a miners shack that a friend lived in and just listened to Airplane over and over.
candiclawtooth 6 months ago 3
This song meant alot in the 60's for me....love true. I could always see my dear lost friend coming back to me through the fog......he wasn't there though, but it felt good to imagine he was. After the war, I was so sure he'd be coming back to me.....no he was lost. Beautiful song!!!!
ghostriderlaci 7 months ago 2
......Its like Jefferson Airplane was the Euology for the Death of San Francisco....RIP!!!
OlymPigs2010 7 months ago
Saw them live in Madison, WI-so much better than any recording they ever did. Marty had just come back to the group.
kate1h 10 months ago
One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Every time I hear it I go back to the pleasures of my youth.
TheFortuneateoneim90 10 months ago 2
Painfully beautiful.
Everyone you've known and all you thought would last forever, are "scattered like leaves in the wind."
lateforthesky61 10 months ago 2
I've always been grateful that I grew up at a time when music like this was being created and played. Now over 40 years later this song evokes memories of a golden time in my life more intensely than any other. Exquisite and timeless
somnubulist 11 months ago 93
@somnubulist Your so lucky....Im just 13 years old wishing i grew up when you were..
PMMJGRL14EV 9 months ago
@somnubulist As others have noted, 1967 saw several important albums (at least three of them) and some terrific songs. The music countered the immense evil of American life at that moment.
TedMichaelMorgan 9 months ago
@somnubulist
pure magic
morgal61 7 months ago
@somnubulist excelente musica!!
rosbelar 6 months ago
@somnubulist envy u!!! i was born too late!!
corrodedfaith 5 months ago 3
@somnubulist such an amazing comment (:
4everClassicrock 4 months ago
@somnubulist real pretty
9596okie 3 months ago
respect..
Billoudis 11 months ago
Forgot to mention that Ricki Lee Jones' version of "Comin' Back To Me" is on her album, 'Pop Pop'. An album of all old classic covers. A lot of them from way, way back. Like, "Bye, Bye Blackbird", "I'll Be Seeing You", and "I Won't Grow Up", just to name a few.
frauleinmona 11 months ago
If anybody's a Ricki Lee Jones Fan, you HAVE to hear HER sing it. I won't ever listen to Jefferson Airplane perform it again. There is NOTHING like Ricki Lee's version and nothing like her voice. That is, if you're a Ricki Lee Jones fan. If you are, I strongly urge you to listen to her version of "Comin' Back To Me". You will never want to listen to anybody else sing this song again!!!
frauleinmona 11 months ago
@frauleinmona well, i think rickie's fans already know her version - she recorded it years ago...
i'm miss jones' fan - yet i still hear jefferson's version with great pleasure (the flute - haunting) - but of course, rickie is wonderful when she sings it (as she blesses all she sings with her own unique voice and feeling...)
kolibet 9 months ago
@kolibet Yes, of course if you're a Ricki Lee fan you'll already know the song, BUT, if you're NOT a fan, then you won't be touched by it .That's just a given, and that's why I mentioned it, for the people who AREN'T Ricki Lee Jones' fans.If you're just a Jefferson Airplane fan, I was strongly urging people to listen to Ricki Lee's version of the song. Being a JA fan doesn't mean you've ever heard of Ricki Lee's music. I, too, am a fan. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, "Flying Cowboys". Breathtaking.
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@kolibet I also forget to mention, that even if you DO like Ricki Lee Jones, that STILL doesn't mean you've heard her cover for "Comin' Back To Me". I've run into a few people who considered themselves to be RLJ fans, and never knew that she did that song. You could be a Ricki Lee Jones fan from the very beginning around 1978 or 79, and then come all the way up until 1991 when she released the song on her album, "Pop, Pop", and not know about it. Doesn't mean you're not a RLJ fan.
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@frauleinmona yeah, right - after posting my comment, i had the same reflexion - so you were right, giving those unaware of rickie's version a hint... the album "flying cowboys" is also one of my favourites (did you mean the album, or the song ?) - well, at first, it didn't impress me so much (i was a fan of her album "pirates"), but it sure grew on me - "away from the sky" and "atlas marker", pure masterpieces...
kolibet 9 months ago
@kolibet Thanks for the confirmation. Appreciate it. :) Yeah, I meant the album, "Flying Cowboys". Satellites is something else. That just moves me like nothing ever has. "We were born forever, we are twinned in a fugitive kind, friends should stay together, light the world with the fugitive mind." I'm not going to have enough room to say everything I want to say, so I'm going to post another message.
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@frauleinmona hey, are you american ? because, that expression "fugitive kind", and "fugitive mind" have puzzled me for years - until recently, i discovered that group of poets that called themselves "the fugitives" - including robert penn warren, whose poems i've started reading - do you think this is something rickie may be alluding to ?
nice to have these fragments of discussion through the net (listening to jefferson : "the shadow in the mist could be anyone...") - take care !
kolibet 9 months ago
@kolibet Hi, sorry it took so long to get back to you. Got caught up with a few things. I believe that Ricki could be using the word, "fugitive" in more ways than one, seeing as that there is more than one definition for the word. "Fugitive" also means, "Of temporary interest", or, "Given to change or disappearance; perishable", "Difficult to comprehend or retain, elusive", "Lasting only a short time, fleeting" or "Tending to wander, vagabond."
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@kolibet Sorry, I ran out of room. Yes, I can see Ricki fitting all of these meanings into those two lines. That so much of everything in our lives is temporary, nothing seems to last, it's all fleeting, or like vagrants walking the streets, our minds can so easily tend to wander. I think a lot of us can identify with all of those definitions when we think of being "twinned in a fugitive mind", or "light the world witht the fugitive light", and "tunneled into the fugitive night".
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@kolibet Ran out of room again! I had to post ONE more comment! I wanted to add the most powerful fugitive line from'Satellites', "Code the world with the fugitive light." Brilliant.That line right there seems to have several meanings all in one.Love her dearly.Yes,I am American. Forget to mention that, and that was the very FIRST question you asked me! :D Like I said, I apologize that it took me so long to get back to you. "Whatever happened to wishes wished on a star?" : *( Hope you are well.
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@kolibet UGHHHH! For the millionth time! I'm sorry! I forgot to mention in the second message I posted to you, that I meant to say, "Yes, I can see Ricki fitting all of these meanings into those SEVERAL lines." She didn't mention the word, "fugitive" in JUST two lines, she mentioned it in several lines in the song! Boy, I'm losing it! Yikes! :p :0)
frauleinmona 9 months ago
@frauleinmona hi, so nice to read you again ! nice to see how you too turn to those songs with a questioning and loving look - rickie sure deserves those attentions (i saw her in paris, once, at "la cigale" - i was very moved to discover, around me, people who truly loved her - i think she too was moved, because she had a welcome that few artists get in their lives) (eh, hope my english is correct...) - maybe some satellites protect her... (to be continued)
kolibet 9 months ago
@frauleinmona ... for you know the meaning that "satellite" had in latin ? maybe you do : it meant "bodyguard" - the lines "so you keep talking in many languages, telling us the way you feel, don't stop confiding in the road you're on, don't quit, you're walking satellites" really moved me, at the time, as i was learning so many languages (and didn't stop - after english, spanish and german, i tried some russian, greek and now japanese !) - and in those days... (to be continued)
kolibet 9 months ago
@frauleinmona ... in those days, i was often on the road, hitch-hiking, sleeping outside (a kind of "wanderer", or "vagabond", actually) - and i felt the power of these songs, the love that's in them reached me, and seemed to protect me - i thought that maybe that's how it is, when "the light of good work shines" (that one is from king crimson, not rickie... - i was, and am, a fan of prog rock) - well, the line "code the world with the fugitive light" remains quite obscure to me, though...
kolibet 9 months ago
@kolibet Yes, I agree, Away From The Sky and Atlas' Marker are absolutely beautiful AND pure masterpieces, like you said. No doubt about that. I especially love that one part in Atlas' Marker when Ricki sings, "Don't stay at home with your Momma in the dark, go find the arc, show them atlas' marker. You walk into school like you've got nothin' to win, they won't let you in, without atlas' marker." I think I know that whole album by heart! LOL! Atlas' Marker makes me really sad, though. : *(
frauleinmona 9 months ago
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ladycoconutbutt 8 months ago
@ladycoconutbutt It's not a matter ot "getting it", or not, it's a matter of how an artist moves you and influences you. Ricki's voice has an impact on me with this song like very few have in my life before. I could say the same for you. That you're crazy for not hearing and appreciating the beauty of Ricki Lee Jones' voice and style in her version of the song. But, hey, whatever, like you said, I respect your opinion. I suppose it's a matter of preference. To each his own.
frauleinmona 8 months ago
@frauleinmona touche hope you get to enjoy for many years to come. Peace.
ladycoconutbutt 8 months ago
@ladycoconutbutt Thank you very much, and to you as well. I DO, in fact, like some of Jefferson Airplane's music, it's just that there's something about Ricki's version of "Comin' Back To Me" that I just can't get away from. Peace, Love and Understanding. Got that from Elvis Costello. I don't know where HE got it from, but I got it from him. :)
frauleinmona 8 months ago
@frauleinmona Maybe if Ricki, whom I adore, had Grace playing the recorder behind her I might rate her version higher. I usually like her voice better than Marty's. She usually has good instrumentalists playing behind her but not Jorma and Jack. And for someone who only played a particular instrument on ONE song that was ever recorded, Grace does an amazing job on the recorder.
WillInNewHaven 7 months ago
@WillInNewHaven grace played recorder on How do you feel - Martha - Coming back - Eskimo blue day - but maybe her best recorder bit is on Daydream Nightmare (live) by Great Society
jackhillty 3 months ago
I saw you ...
mariposaencantada 11 months ago 2
I remember when I first heard this song in the movie Flashback with Keifer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper. Played at a really touching part of the movie. Thumbs up if youve seen it.
trappedsoul741 1 year ago 34
@trappedsoul741 that was the first place i ever heard it too
tnman23 10 months ago
@trappedsoul741 yeah great flick , watched in 91 and just again last night lol thumbs up
oldskoolpaul89 7 months ago
@trappedsoul741 Wasn't it also featured in Indian Runner?
pataphysician66 4 months ago
I listen to this song, and it seems as though my troubles are wiped from my mind...
95justmephoebe 1 year ago
I am in love. I listen to this everyday ever since I found it. So peaceful
XxDestineyMansonxX 1 year ago 2
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life. Today is my first time hearing it, and I've been listening to it all day.
ThePushaquick 1 year ago
@ThePushaquick ....totally understand where ya comin from bro.
modsheff1 1 year ago
@noooddle- i was referring to the vocals of any of the band's songs, sorry. Of course Grace would've been around, somewhere.
yahood66 1 year ago
@jedwing-great comments feller. This is the best tune Jefferson Airplane did WITHOUT Grace Slick being involved. Marty Balin's vocal is sublime here. Their 1967's Surrealistic Pillow album is an all-time classic of course.
yahood66 1 year ago 2
@yahood66 The recorder is Grace.
noooddle 1 year ago
I used to listen to this song everyday going to work...its real peaceful in the morning...what a beautiful band!
leftoverlime 1 year ago
I was writing an essay on George Orwell's 1984 book in high school when i heard this song.
qwasto 1 year ago
This is so good
petursturluson 1 year ago
This song is the essence of pure peaceful hippie psychedelia. What beauty.
And Grace Slick at 1:17 and 2:25 to 3:05 holly cow! Sexymysterybeauty.
jedwing 1 year ago 2
This is one of the dreamiest songs ever. The essence of peaceful hippie psychedelia.
Jeez Grace Slick at 1:17!
I want to live in the feeling of this song!
jedwing 1 year ago 2
One of there best ....Love this tune
666UFO666 1 year ago
What a classic JA song. Beautiful melody and words. It took me back to younger times. Yes, Grace was beautiful then; but, she's gorgeous now. And funny, and smart, and witty too. The pictures in this video show the work of one who cares - thank you pubblcita. A great effort. "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. " - John Keats
arhatyellow 1 year ago 3
one of the most beautiful women I ever saw
imaselhazona 2 years ago
pretty damn gorgeous huh
jnsii 2 years ago