Her writing skills are unique . She is different from other female artists who tend to write about the same thing over and over . Her broad intellect and curiosity always kept it interesting.
Yes Grace had an excellent way with words and of vocal delivery! I feel today Poppy is every bit as interesting and she like Grace mixes things up a lot.
That's me in front of the green lighting with long hair on the far left ,when was a little kid we roamed America and had adventures, I also saw johnny winter in 1970 or 1971 finally my parents made me spend the summer with my grandparents because I ran away from home every summer school vacation! Believe it or not 🌸 😊 🌸 ! I'm talking an eight year old hitchhiking across the country! I remember I wanted to explore the world 🌎 as a youngster and sure enough did !
For those not fortunate (or lucky) enough to have been around SF in these days, this is just a small taste of the scene-and the power that was evident everywhere. And the Airplane and Grace Slick were among the vanguard, as we used to say, articulating a New America which came mighty, mighty close to forming a new country. That's right: mighty, mighty close. The streets were alive with massive change and many, like myself, were helping to gestate a new culture. Magic was alive.
I wish you were actually right. ...but your culture was just as co opted, artificially steered, and engineered as ours is today. You guys had amazing music, though. ..and most of your hearts were in the right place.
@@KONAROCK1 Obviously you were not there , it was the greatest time in world history to be a young person. Nothing like the miserable pathetic cesspool of today.
Yeah, along with Spencer Dryden. He was the only one who had any real studio experience when he auditioned for Jefferson Airplane. He was an amazing unique drummer who truly fit the band, along with their odd time signatures. Spencer grew up in LA, exposed to Jazz in clubs that his father took him to as a kid. Listen how tight Jack and Spencer were on "Bless It's Pointed Little Head". A masterpiece in time of the band near their peak. "Volunteers" was Spencer's last great time with the band. RIP.
This is without doubt one of the greatest songs ever devised by a human name for the reason I come & go are the same & the human games & human names don't mean shit to a tree & fauked tongues are everywhere......especially abound Washington DC
So much better than the Woodstock version. Thanks for posting this amazing and unique song so beautifully performed. The Jefferson Airplane was one of the very best. Is there more from this concert? And where's Marty? Out back, one thinks, having a smoke. It's to all our benefit that such an assembly of strongly creative people came together to, as the lyric says, "change the notes and bridge sings." Grace among the crowds.
Jorma steps out there here on this one. And then at about 1:00 in, Grace comes into a duet thing with the blue psych lead, and then the dynamic synchopated psychedelicification of it. Cassady & Jorma ended up forming Hot Tuna later, and you can hear their interplay here in this expansive performance of "Eskimo Blue Day". I remember wondering at the time as a 20 year-old-boy-man why they called it "Eskimo Blue Day", but then realized Grace was right: "It doesn't mean shit to a tree". Like on "Saturday Afternoon". Kantner had an otherness, but connected way about him. Anyway, when i hear them play, especially live, as in this Family Dog gig, each member of the Jefferson Airplane brought a selective, but expansive musical experience. Thanks for reminding me of the open-ended-ness of the disciplined selection of notes to be played.
Love Grace's hair here so much more than the Woodstock era just a few months before, when it was gigantic and poofy. :-P Looks like her frizz transferred to Jorma.
Sensational. Grace is so beautiful! Jack was being Jack. Jorma looked like he looked towards Grace for direction. Interesting. What guitar wasJorma playing? Rest in love and admiration Paul.
In this performance,there is a true musical connection beetween Grace and Jorma. Also, it seems to me Kaukonen would had improvising with his guitar. But it's only an impression myself.
Best band of the whole world whole history along with Death. Im a 36 years beer drunk boy but when Jerry Garcia (I know almost any shit bout this guy wet) said that band is maked of Poets, remembers me Ben Abrahan books "Iom Hashoá" ...
And to answr my own question, it was recorded as 'a night at the family dog' amd released as a movie. Its available on amazon for those who are interested. From Amazon UK: Filmed on location at the Family Dog On The Great Highway in San Francisco in September 1970, this classic concert is a snapshot of the American psychedelia scene at the time and the San Francisco sound in particular. Originally made as a TV programme by renowned director Ralph J Gleason, one of the pioneers of American music TV, it features sets from Santana, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and a finale featuring members of all three bands. Santana: 1) Incident At Neshabur 2) Soul Sacrifice The Grateful Dead: 3) Hard To Handle 4) China Cat Sunflower 5) I Know You Rider Jefferson Airplane: 6) The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil 7) Eskimo Blue Day 8) Super Jam!
@@fwp209 Dunno about that. Hopkins did play with them and on this album but the piano on the studio recording sounds more like Gracee. Nicky taught her how to play and she had just a natural feel for it. Listen to the follow-up album to this Blows Against The Empire all the piano is Grace.
I love the blank stare Grace has at the beginning of the song, you could tell right away she was all fucked up on something. Even so they were one of the GREATEST bands ever, and I have every album they ever produced.
Don't be so sure. Grace knew ALL about image. She once said as a woman she knew she just had to OWN the stage. She could be intense! Her performance belies her being under the influence. (Also, check out how she drops the zombie look at the end, where you can clearly see she says "Not bad".)
Mike Smith I very much doubt Grace was "all fucked up:, that would come much later with Starship and alcohol. Prior to '72 she was very professional, responsible, bold, charismatic to the point of being mildly intimidating, and quite aware she was at the forefront off an increasing but still fairly small number of female singers and she was not about to slack off on a gig and look bad.. Consider the reason she quit bands. She said she thought all musicians looked "stupid" playing Rock after age 50. Point is she was very aware of her stage presence which overrode any desire she may have entertained knowing her voice was still pretty decent. There was only a brief period after the heady Airplane days were over she let that slide even a little, afaik. Even then she was more likely to be harsh rather than zombie-like.
jawtek82: In no way do I see/hear this as being even remotely reminiscent of JS, who paled by comparison, esp. w/o the services of both Bass player extraordinaire, Jack Casady + Jorma Kaukonen, tearing it up on lead guitar!
I believe Jorma is playing an ES-345 in sunburst finish. It was his go-to guitar in the first 3/4 years with the Airplane. He first used one in cherry finish w/ gold hardware and a Bigsby tailpiece. He can be seen with a walnut version of an ES-345 at Woodstock. He basically used several Fender Twin Reverbs stacked on top of each other.
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