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Jefferson Airplane — D.C.B.A.-25
Album: Surrealistic Pillow
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Released: 1967
Length: 2:32
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It's time you walked away
set me free
I must move away
leave you be...
time's been good to us, my friend
wait and see how it will end
we come and go as we please...
we come and go as we please...
that's how it must be

Here in crystal chandelier, I'm home
too many days, I've left unstoned
if you don't mind happiness
purple-pleasure fields in the Sun
ah, don't you know I'm runnin' home...
don't you know I'm runnin' home...
to a place to you unknown?

I take great peace in your sitting there
searching for myself, I find a place there
I see the people of the world
where they are and what they could be...

I can but dance behind your smile...
I can but dance behind your smile...

you were the world to me for a while
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 scadawizard wrote:
Brings back memories of colorful little furry creatures scurrying out from under the stereo cabinet, they ask my opinion and then don't listen when I answer them.  Seems like it was just yesterday, wait, perhaps it was, or was it 1970?


Thanks for the flashback. 
Posted 2 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
Jefferson Airplane should be proud... this is the quintessential mid-1960s California sound.
Posted 2 years ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
This album caught the essence of that exciting epoch in San Francisco. The band wa at the top of their game, but IMO what made this album a classic "psychedelic" album is the supreme engineering of Dave Hassinger. Put on a good pair of earphones and listen to "Today" and you will see what I mean. 
Posted 3 years ago by timbrewer147    [ Reply ]
This is why I listen to RadioParadise.
Posted 3 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
I love the sound.  All parts of the band come together around strong echo.
Posted 4 years ago by cely    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by hlenga    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

I assume he's referring to the "-25" in LSD-25, especially given the psychedelic gibberish in lyrics.

 
you make it sound like a bad thing.
Posted 6 years ago by jambo    [ Reply ]
Brings back memories of colorful little furry creatures scurrying out from under the stereo cabinet, they ask my opinion and then don't listen when I answer them.  Seems like it was just yesterday, wait, perhaps it was, or was it 1970?
Posted 6 years ago by scadawizard    [ Reply ]
They had such a bright, earnest, shimmering sound... Their vibe was all about EXPLORATION; of the mind, of each other, of Life itself.
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
revives so many un-describable memories .... sends shivers down my backbone!
Posted 7 years ago by bobcanna1    [ Reply ]
I'm so insufferably pleased with myself when I identify a song from the first two notes.   Two notes from a single instrument in this case.
Posted 7 years ago by Typesbad    [ Reply ]
Godlike : )    Peace
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
 LowPhreak wrote:
Long live the Surrealistic ones! BTW, I met Paul and Diane (a new singer they had, Marty couldn't make it that night) at the Van Dyke in Schenectady some years ago. She knocked "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" right the hell outta there. They ended up sending everyone at the show board copies of that night's performance, to make up for Marty's absence.

Gotta love 'em.

Whoa! They played at the Van Dyke back in the day? I lived just 15 minutes away from the Van Dyke from 2002-2014, and never knew they had any huge acts play there... much less the Airplane, with or without Marty. Very cool! {#Notworthy} {#Cool}
Posted 8 years ago by skindy    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

I assume he's referring to the "-25" in LSD-25, especially given the psychedelic nonsense in lyrics.

 
lyics seem self explanatory to me
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 treatment_bound wrote:

Any idea as to what the "-25" is for?

 
I assume he's referring to the "-25" in LSD-25, especially given the psychedelic gibberish in lyrics.
Posted 8 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 senorcerveza wrote:
So happy to hear this again!  I was a big Airplane fan back in the day, and was lucky enough to see a couple of their concerts live.

 
I went to a show in NYC in maybe '99 with some friends at a real small venue. After that show, every time they came to the city I'd see them. Been to probably 15 shows? Sometimes alone! My girlfriend at the time thought I was insane.. Anyway, I loved every show..
Posted 8 years ago by kicking    [ Reply ]
When I bought this LP and brought it home, I was in the 7th grade. I asked my Dad to come listen to it with me, because, it was simply magical and I wanted to share it with him. Not sure he appreciated it as much as I did, or still do. Excellent LP, still one of the BEST from the 60's. Twirlin' in my kitchen....{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 8 years ago by gatorade    [ Reply ]
 Phlegmaticman wrote:
D.C.B.A. = the chords in the song!

 
Any idea as to what the "-25" is for?
Posted 8 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
So happy to hear this again!  I was a big Airplane fan back in the day, and was lucky enough to see a couple of their concerts live.
Posted 8 years ago by senorcerveza    [ Reply ]
 Phlegmaticman wrote:
D.C.B.A. = the chords in the song!

 
Thanks. 
Posted 8 years ago by capandjudy    [ Reply ]
Too many days are left unstoned? Well, not any more, but there was a time...
Posted 8 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
 averybadcat wrote:
grace looks so wholesome. shocker
 
She probably was given that it was 1967!
Posted 8 years ago by SkiIllinois    [ Reply ]
SUPERB
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Rest in power, man.
Posted 8 years ago by n4ku    [ Reply ]
Paul! Thanks for your Revolutionary, Visionary, and Always Psychedelic Rock! So glad I got to see you, Grace and all jam a few times!
Posted 8 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
{#Sunny}{#Sunny}
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
A desert island album, for sure.
Posted 9 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
Truly fantastic song, wonderfully done... Sounds as good to hear it now as ever before — and I'm glad to hear it here on good old RP!
Posted 9 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]

 Ok old shep, but I know fer sure, why I listened to at least an entire side A or side B of any album which was I was probably too stoned to want to get up and change the record. Come to think of it, a lot of music from that era just flowed so great from song to song while my mind just wandered through the universe which as the Moody Blues told us, "thinking is the best way to travel". The good ol' days, fer sure man.

 

old_shep wrote:

This whole album was pretty "avant garde" for an rural Iowa boy back then.  For some reasoned I always listened to entire albums, never to individual songs.  Each wonderful song on this album seemed to have an introduction and each ended as an introduction to the next song.  That's what RP does.  It's obvious that the selection, order, and timing of tunes here focuses the listener's attention to the upcoming song.   It doesn't always work great but there have been some transitions that blended songs beat for beat.   Keep up the good work, folks. 

 


Posted 9 years ago by Kokoloco53    [ Reply ]
grace looks so wholesome. shocker
Posted 10 years ago by averybadcat    [ Reply ]
One of the original Jam Bands. They may not have been "technically expert," but truly captured the Spirit of the Times, in every effort.
Posted 10 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 petesoper wrote:
This one brought back many good memories!
 

 
and even better some things i still cant remember
Posted 10 years ago by averybadcat    [ Reply ]
This one brought back many good memories!
 
Posted 10 years ago by petesoper    [ Reply ]
They just don't make 'em like this any more. thanks for playing!
Posted 10 years ago by pollyh    [ Reply ]
This is why I like RP....let's here some of the other great songs from a great album.
Posted 11 years ago by dickmahoon    [ Reply ]
don't hear this every decade.....{#Biggrin}
Posted 11 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
Long live the Surrealistic ones! BTW, I met Paul and Diane (a new singer they had, Marty couldn't make it that night) at the Van Dyke in Schenectady some years ago. She knocked "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" right the hell outta there. They ended up sending everyone at the show board copies of that night's performance, to make up for Marty's absence.

Gotta love 'em.
Posted 11 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
love it!


Posted 11 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
This whole album was pretty "avant garde" for an rural Iowa boy back then.  For some reasoned I always listened to entire albums, never to individual songs.  Each wonderful song on this album seemed to have an introduction and each ended as an introduction to the next song.  That's what RP does.  It's obvious that the selection, order, and timing of tunes here focuses the listener's attention to the upcoming song.   It doesn't always work great but there have been some transitions that blended songs beat for beat.   Keep up the good work, folks. 
Posted 11 years ago by old_shep    [ Reply ]
Very nice!
Posted 11 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
D.C.B.A. = the chords in the song!
Posted 11 years ago by Phlegmaticman    [ Reply ]
Cool! More JA is nice!
Posted 11 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]