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Nah.
"Intro (Sweet Jane)" - Steve Hunter (Lou Reed)
"The Water Song" - Jorma Kaukonnen (same guy; Hot Tuna)
Hard agree on "The Water Song".
the flashback.
westslope wrote:
10 or 11 to be precise. A couple of years later, I would be listening to CHOM-FM out of Montreal. Don't explicitly recall would guess they played this one often.
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Nah.
"Intro (Sweet Jane)" - Steve Hunter (Lou Reed)
"The Water Song" - Jorma Kaukonnen (same guy; Hot Tuna)

Wow. What a memory.
For years I did not know who played this until I started listening to RP with the handy artist info.
So, thanks RP!
Well said.
fabulous
I am so lucky and blessed that I got to see him and Jack jam at the old (and since gone) Blue Note in Boulder in the '80s. THANKS!








'nuf said.
that it was..

C57BL6 wrote:
Sloggydog wrote:
Man you gotta get a better breakfast cereal
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I hate it when the vomit goes up my nose 'cause I'm laughing so hard.
Damn, I miss really good FM radio... RP is the closest thing to it that I'll probably ever find, and it doesn't work on my MP3 player!
BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time.

Miss you so much, Cynaera...
love this marvelous music from a great classic album...
If you figure it out, take me with you.
absolutely gorgeous music... I still have the original vinyl album... love the whole album...

This, "Breathless" by Todd Rundgren, "Cast You Fates to the WInd", by Vince Guaraldi and "Borne on the Solar Wind" by Jade Warrior, where wonderful endings to various WNEW DJs sets. WNEW, NY introduced me to the world of music. I am forever grateful.
As an side, a student I worked with in Graduate school used to talk about her Uncle Scott the DJ. I took me a year to realize she meant Scott Muni. Cool!!!
truly great music from an incredible album... love it...
And I can't be "chauvinistic" because I'm female.
You may want to look that one up. Just sayin'.
https://jormakaukonen.com/tour.html
Jeff09 wrote:
Man you gotta get a better breakfast cereal
Sorry, Cynaera, unless 'chauvinism' is prefixed with 'male' then it is a reference to extreme nationalism and nothing to do with sexism.
yowza this is awesome...
If I wanted to be critical, I'd mention that you misspelled "condescending." And I can't be "chauvinistic" because I'm female. What I meant by my comment was that this particular work was misplaced in its time - it wasn't as widely accepted in the mainstream then as it is now, in the age of acoustic instrumentals. People are ALWAYS cool. Sometimes, they take a little longer to wake up, but I meant no disrespect to Jorma, or the Airplane. I was merely pointing out that this song was exceptionally brilliant in a time when acoustic rock was not being played regularly on the radio.
BTW - "ahead of its time" means exactly that. This song fits perfectly in 2011. It was a novelty when it first came out, and people (myself included) didn't understand it, and tended to disregard it as a "fluke." It found its true place in the future. Which only makes me love Airplane more, here in this 2011 future.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the Starship was Paul Kantner's band. Balin, Slick, and other members of the original and revamped Airplane passed through the line-up from time to time, but the Starship was all Kantner. Here's a reference:
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-starship-p195171/biography
It may have been Paul Kantner's band but the really sucky songs are Balin songs. If you go back through the old Rolling Stones, Marty gets a fair bit of the press. I think he had a lot of influence in turning the group to pop.
Wouldn't mind hearing more Blows Against the Empire, though.
...BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time.

old_shep wrote:
That may be what you infer from the comments, but I don't think that's what the original post implied (writers "imply", readers "infer"). There is no inference that people back then "were not cool". Calling an artist "ahead of his time" would imply (to me) that they had done or addressed things which most other artists would not do or address until some later time. It does not imply that works from one era are superior or inferior to those of another era. The expression is carelessly over-used and really only describes a handful of people in the history of humankind. One recent example I could think of would be Lenny Bruce: his subject matter and style were not widely explored or employed by many other comedians until well after his death. That doesn't imply that Comedy from his era was inferior to that from later eras.
Anyhow, the guitar work on this song - though very adept and tasty - does not seem ahead of its time to me. People have been playing guitars and other stringed instruments like that long before Jefferson Airplane.
One of the greatest Rock & Roll (Psychedelic Rock & Roll) bands of all time, Jefferson Airplane By wayupnorthtonowhere Roman Rice
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Jorma always wore the coolest t-shirts in the 60s...like the one on the cover of surrealistic pillow...a real rock star
Got that right!
Hot Tuna in Truckee, CA, several summers ago.
If there's a plane to catch, this is it.
That's just what i was about to say.... Indeed, timeless as well!
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I agree...timeless.

That's just what i was about to say.... Indeed, timeless as well!
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Marty Balin.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the Starship was Paul Kantner's band. Balin, Slick, and other members of the original and revamped Airplane passed through the line-up from time to time, but the Starship was all Kantner. Here's a reference:
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-starship-p195171/biography
Damn, I miss really good FM radio... RP is the closest thing to it that I'll probably ever find, and it doesn't work on my MP3 player!
BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time.

Hear Hear! Earl Bailey used to use this as intro and outro music when was on WMMR in Philadelphia. Now he's with XM on Deep Cuts. Music needs a human touch.

Damn, I miss really good FM radio... RP is the closest thing to it that I'll probably ever find, and it doesn't work on my MP3 player!
BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time.

Could someone explain to me how and why Jefferson Airplane turned into the relentlessly awful Jefferson Starship?!?
Marty Balin.
love it...
awesome...
One of the greatest Rock & Roll (Psychedelic Rock & Roll) bands of all time, Jefferson Airplane By wayupnorthtonowhere Roman Rice
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10227535@N08/
. All rights reserved
Could someone explain to me how and why Jefferson Airplane turned into the relentlessly awful Jefferson Starship?!?
One of the greatest Rock & Roll (Psychedelic Rock & Roll) bands of all time, Jefferson Airplane By wayupnorthtonowhere Roman Rice
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10227535@N08/
. All rights reserved
Yessss... oh, yessss.... love it...
spring has hinted at summer
Very shocked.... cool tune
You were likely a child when this was released.
10 or 11 to be precise. A couple of years later, I would be listening to CHOM-FM out of Montreal. Don't explicitly recall would guess they played this one often.
me too! god, i love that!!!
soooo groooovy...
One of my faves back then. I still dig it out once in a while.
I played this tune at the weekend to some visiting friends very late at night, lights down, volume at a pleasant level, beer in hand. Gave me goosebumps then and now. Lush!
I still have it too. I had an older friend who had a bad trip and gave me his album
collection, he was a hippie child of the sixties. I was too young to be THERE. But
I have all the music on LP, all of it!!!!!!!
That is awesome! I love this song...