Jefferson Airplane Live at the Fillmore 10/14/1966 (Late) 

Born in 1947 and still a FAN and to me Jefferson Airplane was/is the epitome of San Francisco's bands and music. Period,

On one occasion, Bill Graham came up and introduced the Jeffs as "Here are 5 guys and 1 great, great chick-- The Jefferson Airplane"

looking at this photo, Signe was really quite a conservative folk singer, round shouldered and downcast. Grace changed everything [or did she really] and then reverted to her former self. Very very interesting how many of us were infulenced by our surrounding but are not really that person at all.

Those who were there (San Francisco in the sixties) say that 1966 was the real musical and counter-cultural peak. By the "summer of love" the following year, publicity and media overkill was ruining it all. These recordings seem to capture that peak perfectly.

Marty and Signe had a beautifully harmonic resonance. What stands out here is the beginning, but growing influence of Jorma's psychedelic blues rock style guitar. There always was a musical mystery that went along with this band. This shows the beginning of it, as the J.A. became a major voice for us 17 year olds graduating high school in '66. "What a long strange trip it's been," as Jerry, Another One said.

I was inducted into military service on this date / Something called the Vietnam police action. Took me one year to get back to San Fran and the Fillmore Auditorium. Loved Jeff Air

This IS it people. This WAS the time to be oh so alive. Oh how I want to be exported to the time machine now - and be transported back to this time/place. I'm staring in the face turning 55 years on earth in early November (2018). My 20s were spent in the 1980s. And while it was a good decade - for me give me the '60s pleez. Man was the planet rockin hard then. I'm a Kiwi (New Zealander) and I really loved the '70s over here listening to Scott McKenzie singing his anthem 'San Francisco'. I would have been 4 years of age when it was released in 1967 and I was hooked like a fish from the moment I first heard it on New Zealand radio air waves. I have only recently really hooked on to Jefferson Airplane as I prefer listening mainly to British rock artists; you know the ones 'Deep Purple', 'Led Zeppelin', 'The Who', The Rolling Stones'...However I will always give credit when it's due and in my humble opinion Jefferson Airplane was one phenomenal artist. The real proof of just how good an artist in my opinion is not by the amount of sales of their songs/albums in the charts. Oh no, I believe it is by how influential the artist is in the music industry. And that's a totally different measure to just sales. Artists who invent a music genre for example. Well ok that's pretty rare to achieve as it's not really a particular artist, rather a/the number of various artists who influence a music genre. And in that essence, boy did Jefferson Airplane influence the psychedelic rock music genre. They/it defined it! When I had my near-death motorcycle accident in 1990 at the age of 26, I ultimately lost my entire left leg, hip joint, and left side of my pelvis, plus I suffered numerous other internal injuries. I was in 2 different hospital Intensive Care Units in a critical condition for 3 weeks. In order to cope with the extreme amount of pain I was in, my body had to endure the greatest amounts of morphine the human body can take. And yes I tripped all through it. Some were pleasant while other episodes were horrifically terrifying - like feeling I was going to die. Let me tell you there is no other feeling like it and I wouldn't like my worst enemy going through it. Extreme paranoia. Yep experienced it all. So I guess, in some ways I can relate to Jefferson Airplane's music because it touches my soul in certain ways. I had to fight as hard as I possibly could for my life at the immediate moment my left leg was amputated at the knee after I slid on the open road off my motorcycle in to a farmer's paddock concrete fence post at over 100mph. I then had my near-death experience about a week later when surgeons performed a hemipelvectomy (amputation of the remaining leg plus hip joint and left side of my pelvis) as I had septicemia and there was a high probability it would spread in to my vital organs and if it had have then I would have died. I ran the hospital's blood bank dry of my blood type as surgeons flushed septicemia (blood poisoning) out of my body. Eventually surgeons found a fresh blood supply and I survived. I experienced the tunnel during the operation - also I had an out-of-body experience and I was able to rise up and look down on surgeons, doctors, and nurses performing their work. I also experienced the feeling and visions that I traveled to Mars (yep - the planet). It was cold and dusty (burgundy red). Ok so ever since I had my traumatic amputation I have suffered from the strongest amounts of chronic nerve pain that I cannot describe what it feels like - suffice to say it farking hurts like fark. It is 'managed' by the strongest legally prescribed pain meds from my G.P. - a cocktail. I also exercise as regularly as possible and eat as healthy as I can - no I don't follow any fad diets - just eat a balanced diet really - meat & 3 vege! Ok a bit of pasta...heaps of fresh fruit...and chocolate. I have always maintained that if a person is in pain, then do something about rather than whinge and moan about it. And believe me - I would eat eggs on boiling hot road tar seal if I had too! Chronic pain IS debilitating. Make no error - it will grind you down and it will turn you in to a monster you never ever thought would happen. So it needs to be managed and controlled. My nerve pain will never completely disintegrate from my consciousness. Therefore it is controlled to a level I am able to tolerate. And MUSIC is one of the best natural pain meds. So is exercise. I guess I can therefore verify that if you are in any pain - then for me, listening to Jefferson Airplane is an excellent form of pain killer. Thank you Jefferson Airplane - I will ALWAYS Fly Translove/Jefferson Airplane as it always gets me there on time.

I love Signe. Completely turns me upside down seeing old pictures of her. Reminds me of so many girls from that era and brings me back with the fondest memories.

This is the greatest period of san fran. The innocence, purity, newness of lsd, no mainstream

Marty Balin was a genius, founder of the Matrix. Singing It’s no secret! Written by Dino Valenti aka Chet Powers. Sung after by Quicksilver,, Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby, made most famous by Jesse Colin Young. Balin should be in the Hall!!

I saw them at the Fillmore in 1967. I sat on the floor, partaking of passing joints the whole time. What a time!

Was groovin at the Fillmore and Bill Graham comes up and stands next to me and my friend to chat some.

I would have loved to have been in San Francisco in 1966-67 for some very important chemistry lessons.

A groove band from the start. Jorma's distinctive guitar sets the tone along with the vocal sound and interplay.

Signe Anderson performed only one more show with the Airplane the following night.

This was the time, the moment, the music, everything ... This concert is sumptuous. In the same period I find that the Great Society were also truly exceptional. Listening to this concert now fills me with joy and at the same time with great nostalgia .

Signe's voice was wonderful

Just saw Jack and Jorma 3 nights ago on 7/11/24... Hot Tuna still killing it... two of the greatest musicians ever!

Signe Toly Anderson September 15, 1941 - January 28, 2016) was an American singer who was one of the founding members of the American rock band Jefferson Airplane. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe_Toly_Anderson

I turned 70 this July, I can't believe that I'm 70, where did the time go? I sure miss my late teens and early 20s the music the chicks the cars, Woodstock, the concerts the cool clothes the movies the weed and LSD and staying up all night long listening and dancing to music. No worries at all. I sure miss Signe, Paul, Spencer, Skip and Marty, the Fillmore West and East, Winterland and so many other places I can't remember, I guess it's my age. Oh well I've still have my eyes and ears!

never saw Signe but did Grace quite a few times here in NYC at the Fillmore East. And always got in free, either bumming s ticket or in with the band. Jack was the one who always took me in if he saw me. Friendly and caring dude and a good soul.

RIP MARTY PAUL SIGNE SPENCER 🙏. As The Captain said “ and then there was three “!! Congratulations on your Star ⭐️ on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 🙏🙏!!!

That first album was GOLD . Signe Tolleson Anderson was great voice and Gracie must have picked up her style . Both great talents .Loved them

Would have loved to see this band if i was born twenty years earlier than 1966

A wonderful concert in pure magic, with all guys in great shape for a last goodbye to signe anderson.

The Bay Area's own "space program"

These songs are the ultimate peace & love anthems from my generation & gave me goose bumps listening to them after so long.

IMHOP best version of "Get Together" I've ever heard with the possible exception of the Youngbloods.

I love how forthright this music is. Even a low-grade recording reveals exactly what each person is contributing. No one's just playing along.

Jorma Kaukonen and Jerry García are two of the most instantly recognizable gutarists ever.

They all served their purpose. They served it HIGH AS IT CAN BE (: my goodness this was a time you had to be involved with! IT DEMANDED YOUR RECOGNITION AND NOTHING LESS

I like their music better here, when they were still a folk rock group, less polished but more soulful, then their subsequent rock years with Grace Slick.

If people only knew how influential Fred Neil was on pop music. I know your sailing right now out of Coconut Grove Fred!

buenos Rock clasico

Love this Pic and the WARM welcoming sound of Bill Graham’s VOICE

THESE DAY I BORN!! The "Jefferson Airplane is one of my favorite bands!"

The late set - not to be mistaken for the early set! Ah, the 60s....

Golden Gate park,Jefferson Airplane.Youngbloods,Hot Tuna with Papa John Creech and so on. I was sooo young during that time but I felt the vibe and the music lit me up like a firecracker!!!I'm not so young now but the firecrackers still feel as intense. Anyone want to join me for a one way ticket back in time? Wouldn't that simply groovy????☮️☮️🎶🕊️🕊️🎵❤️🎹☮️☮️🎸🎸🤗

Her voice is the=high point=of the wave

All that Love , must have been incredible,

That "Jam" is the fucking jam of the century!

the archive here is awesome and the Fillmore in early days and the Pan Handle in the Haight in the early days, to mid and late 60's were our haunts. Hearing this pre-Grace music again is phenomenal for my memory!

I forgot what good rock sounded like.

A really precious document for futures generations and a great and pure moment of Music. Cassidy is already a major Bassist.

They still have much more of the folk-influenced sound here than they did later on. Signe Anderson was definitely a good complementary singer for them, but just didn't have the star power that Grace Slick did.

wish i was thrre!! WOW REALLY!!!

wow....

Great band and they worked hard

Signe 💙

Nice... really, really Nice!... Killer 'Go To Her' !

While the band improved after this, theres something relaxing and soothing in this that got lost with the cocaine and speed.

I came along too late in life (1958) to see them live. How is this recording even possible?

Hey, man!! These two sets are GREAT!!! Thanks for uploading them. I just think Signe was the most powerful vocalist who ever graced an (acid) rock 'n roll stage--and she/this was early, 1966! There are very, very few live recordings of her that I know of; these two sets and the Winterland tape are historic! What a voice!!

Great sound..great band..hippye time.....greeeeeeeat...🎸🤟✌️

THANK YOU for uploading this treasure. This was such a great year and era for some of the most colorful and creative music. I liked the Airplane better before they got too hard rock.

I just realized, only Jorma and Jack are breathing...and rocking the blues.

Great show, surprisingly superb sound! Thanks for posting!

Fucking awesome

1966 war ich noch gar nicht auf der Welt.

Signe Anderson lead singer, not Grace Slick yet. Thanks for posting !

This is a great recording!

THANK YOU for uploading this!

Thank you. Listening from Alaska

This an amazing recording, thank you very much.

I was 3 years old when this happened. It was also my brother's 1st birthday.

A treat! Good recording too.

Dammhippies

groovy

I love this, Waydowneast, thank you.

Thank you.

It’s No Secret sounds like something The Buffalo Springfield could have done. So good.

Jorma!

Looks like the guys all had Beatle boots on

Where did this come from, Bear ? Cool (period)

Ils sont tous mignons.

Jack says "No!" =D

มวนคัก ได้ฟ้อนหมอลำฝรั่ง

Это великолепно товарищи ура

Wow,55 years ago tonight 10-14-21,where did the time go?

Великолепно

I'm guessing this is Skip Spence drumming, not Spencer Dryden? Wikipedia for Jefferson Airplane gives his departure in October 1966, but doesn't list a day of the month ...

Before rap and pop destroyed music there was rock.

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Marty introducing "Get Together": "This was written by a young man up at the spaghetti factory..." - is the spaghetti factory some forgotten slang term for the slammer? (I think Dino Valenti was in jail on a pot possession charge around this time.)

does anyone know if jorma was still playing the thunderbird here or was this played on the 345 already? sound amazing.. thanks for the upload

They were still using those beatles style hair.

Listening to Airplane reminds me just how awful Starship was.

Is it only me, but does Paul look kind of nerdy//dorky in this photo?

Skip is drumming here?

In Get Together here Jorma does a better solo than the Youngbloods.

Wo

Hmm Marty Balin singing "Stairway to Heaven". He could pull it off.

They're clever.

I like this recording a lot, but the comments read like a crackhead's convention.

This was before feminism and cocaine hit the music scene.

no Grace drowning everyone else out.

Prefer Signe greatly. She is all about the music and Grace was about herself. Best line up although Skip was so terrific. Oar.

Freaky...

Music that sounded great to me at the time, while tripping, now sounds a bit tedious, 53 years or so later.

Horrendous