There's just something about Marty and Grace singing together, they both sound so perfect for their time. Very few bands had harmonizing like this group. They were a great band with such a specific sound that epitomized that era.
Except getting together doesn't insure peace and love! That same generation that was at Woodstock now beat the drums of war and encourage corporate greed!
They played in Allentown PA when I was a kid. Four of us went and only three of us had a ticket. I stayed behind with my pal; a maintenance worker took us through a tunnel to backstage and the two of us ended up on stage with the band. Great!
I saw them at a fair ground outside Allentown when they were just starting out. They were excellent. Saw them years later and she just wandered back and forth across the stage stoned out of her mind swinging the Mike. So sad
@@El.Duder-ino Marty, unlike Paul Kanter, by and large did not write much politically orientated lyrics. Mostly love songs, though Plastic Fantastic Lover was written about a television set.
After a night of heavy rain and Orange Sunshine, Sunday morning I found myself sitting in a car with a Canadian Girl I met at Woodstock. Then the sky brightened and the Rocking music of Jefferson Airplane filled the air. We couldn’t see them, but J.A. sounded clear as could be. I’m an old man now, but this video is exactly how I remember Jefferson Airplane singing Volunteers of America, as it rolled across the Woodstock hills that Sunday Morning, a long time ago.
This guy is a liar and this is the third post I found of his on video's associated with Woodstock. I was at Woodstock between Friday night through Sunday afternoon. There was NO rain at any time Saturday night through Sunday morning as this guy claims. It was a warm and dry night. I was quite close to the stage. Close enough to be taken aback at the acne scarred and rather masculine face of Janice Joplin. I remarked to a guy next to me she looked like a truck driver in drag. I know, cruel, but she didn't hear it. Here is part of a comment I wrote for another video about Melanie: I was at Woodstock as a 20 year old. I missed Melanie's performance by a couple of hours, but did hear the tail end of Joan Baez's set once we parked my 63 Chevy and camper in a meadow about a mile away from the stage. We and others who were lucky enough to get that close began walking in silence through a wide path in the woods towards the sound of the music. It began drizzling on Friday night, the night Melanie went on stage and was still drizzling when we got there around 1:30 am Saturday. I had no interest in folk music which was scheduled for Friday night and never bought that ticket, not that it mattered since it became a free concert. I came for the big rock bands, in particular Grace Slick and The Jefferson Airplane.
@@BOBBOTO The poser mentions he heard the music "as it rolled across the Woodstock hills that Sunday Morning". The concert was in Bethel, NY. Woodstock, NY was 40 miles northeast of Bethel.
The finest example of being at one's youthful peak, awake for a few days and off one's biccy, while nailing a classic new song to the wall before breakfast.
Yes, thankful for Paul’s amazing contributions! “Spoke” with his daughter China, on Facebook a while back, she appreciates the love her father receives, still to this day.
My absolute favorite Airplane song and this version!! It just drips complete cool!! EVERYTHING IS PERFECT ON THIS VERSION!! But hearing Grace Slick, the late and very greats Paul Kantner and Marty Balin!! Man!! It just kicks my ass everytime!! The way those 3 sung together was unique as hell and damn cool!!
Too bad in her later years Slick has become a real loser - An alcoholic who routinely gets arrested and has had charges of resisting arrest and more resulting from her dangerous driving while drunk habits. It appears in hindsight she was milking the cash cow back in those days. She seems to have been a paper tiger.
@@rongibson9702 You need to update yourself on Grace. Grace has been a very successful artist for many years and just wrote the lyrics to a new Jefferson Starship song. and you ?
i apologize right now for telling you i really only knew a couple of songs and then thanks to you tube one thing led to another. now what i don't know is other than Grace who is who??? if you could tell me id appreciate it, i mean wiki will list but i need like ok guy in glasses? jorma?? and first dude singing is im guessing form cobvo here Marty? but Marty who? and the second guy singing longer hair??? drummer?? bass,?? did i miss anyone? TIA
dawn fillinger That's Marty Balin. The other singer is Paul Kantner, bass is Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukkonen is the lead guitar nearest the drummer Spencer Dryden
I saw the Airplane during this time at the Fillmore East in Manhattan days before Woodstock (Joe Cocker was the opening act) The combination of Jack Casady and Nicky Hopkins together in the same band was just unbelievable and Jorma's no slouch either.
Lived and breathed the Airplane back then. They played Fillmore East the previous weekend, then Central Park (with Santana opening) on the Sunday of that weekend; and finally, Woodstock Music and Art Fair on SUNDAY morning (not Saturday). It was glorious.
"Volunteers" Look what's happening out in the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Hey I'm dancing down the streets Got a revolution Got to revolution Ain't it amazing all the people I meet Got a revolution Got to revolution One generation got old One generation got soul This generation got no destination to hold Pick up the cry Hey now it's time for you and me Got a revolution Got to revolution Come on now we're marching to the sea Got a revolution Got to revolution Who will take it from you We will and who are we We are volunteers of America
Is it "one generation got soul" or "one generation got sold?" Seen it both ways, but I am wondering if Marty Balin is on record anywhere talking about that line?
My friends band used to invite the loud, brash, wannabee singers, drunk?, miniskirt... up on stage to sing White Rabbit, knowing they would get a lesson in humility because, while many know the lyrics to the song actually singing it and remaining in key can be tough.
@@humbull This song is two chords with a unbelievably simply melody. There’s nothing difficult about this song at all. You haven’t got a clue, you dumbfuqqer. Stop making up bullshyt stories.🖕🖕💩🤡🤦♂️🙄
RIP to one of my favorites from the 60's! I got to see them in concert at a psychedelic place by El Paso called "El Frijole" Paul Kanter & his wife Grace Slick & his Jefferson Airplane showed & played & perfomed their most famous song "White Rabbit" for a crowd of 50! It was great psychedelic experience for all us! Great memories, great band! Long live Jefferson Airplane & Paul Kanter!
1970. Celia drive, Columbus Georgia. Steve Whitley on drums, lead guitar and back up vocal Lee Arnold. Bass guitar Daryl Spicer, lead vocal Randy franklin. We never made it out of the garage
Wish I’d been there love Marty’s voice~conviction here; Groovy clothes especially Jack’s he’s always stylish. Grace’s voice is otherworldly fantastic! 🎉
This was in August of '69. The following May, they played. at a very scaled-down version, a two-day, outdoor festival, with around 10,000 people, in New Paltz New York, my hometown. I was thirteen. They were the headline act for Saturday night, Joe Cocker was on Sunday. The Airplane played from 7:00 p.m, 'til 3:00 in the morning. They opened with this song.
Bought the album in 68 and came with a revolutionary poster for the wall. Really miss everything back then. Best period in history for sure if you were young
Back in the mid to late 70s, I had access to my parents’ friends’ record collection… They had the Woodstock album. I went through the whole thing countless times, but I had my favorites of course… This song was in my top three
Compared to more structured, musically-skilled, technically gifted "psychedelic" bands like my personal favorite, Pink Floyd, Airplane's songs and riffs seemed a bit pedestrian, simplistic, and their philosophical/conceptual themes on albums compared to Floyd's Dark Side, WYWH, Animals, and the Wall don't add up. But, its not with the Floyd, IMHO, that Airplane/Starship fall very short on in terms of great lyrical/musicianship, they hardly relate to ELP, Yes, Genesis w/and w/o Peter Gabriel. I would also argue that in terms of who might be the most influential band to emerge from the mid-late 60's S.F. "counterculture" Haight/Ashbury scene, the Grateful Dead left a far bigger, larger and harder to replace musical imprint from that time period. Other bands from that era like Steve Miller Band and Santana didnt even sound like the Airplane or the Dead on albums or on-stage, except for maybe Santana with their long, free-form, improvised jams and solos. Santana, IMHO, also was the last great "underground" acid-rock band to emerge from the late 60's "counter-culture" movement or scene. By 1969 and 1970, Haight-Ashbury wasnt exactly a safe, clean and peaceful part to be apart of due to over-population, bad drugs like herion, speed, methaphetimes, and rising crime and poverty rates had led to a lot of original artists, musicians to leave and go elsewhere.
I wrote this as a reply to an interview on YT Grace had with Dick Cavett. Since I mentioned Volunteers I thought I would post it here: I saw them at Woodstock, her eyes, from forty feet away in the twilight before the sun rose. After The Who finished their set, the dense crowd had pretty much dissipated into the surrounding meadow and woods as if everyone had become satiated from an enormous feast and then went looking for a place to sleep. One could wander freely anywhere within the natural amphitheater amongst those still remaining; something that was impossible since the previous morning. I could see Grace on the stage before she went to the microphone and famously said "... morning maniac music". Her eyes looked like they were made of a steel gray crystal illuminated from behind. I was amazed since the stage was illuminated only by twilight till their set began. I literally came to see her and The Airplane. She and they did not disappoint. Unfortunately Volunteers was the last song I heard at Woodstock. I made my way out of the amphitheater area and over the crest of the hill by the time they started playing it. I had had enough and even that song could not coax me back. I walked west about a mile through the woods till I got back to my maroon 2-door 63 Chevy Impala SS and camper in the meadow I had left it in. My two buddies were awake and started talking. It was then I realized I could barely hear. It was as if I had ear plugs in. We decided pretty quickly to head home the way we came in to beat the crowds. I had enough gas to get to civilization and one of the guys was told by his father to get home for work on Monday or else. He had a deviated septum from a past ultimatum as proof his father meant business. I knew it as well so we headed home to central Jersey and arrived around five in the afternoon. And when we got there our families were shocked to see us, even the father with the ultimatum. Because by that time they knew we were making history and it was something to be proud of.
I was 13 when Woodstock occurred starting high school that fall. I so wish I could have been there. What a great time to have grown up in USA. Now it sucks!
The first generation to see the INDUSTRIAL MILITARY COMPLEX for what it really is...As a former soldier I can say that we had no Business in Vietnam. Although I must salute those men who answered the call and went...Many were drafted. I think that there was alot of misplaced abuse vented on those who felt at the time were just doing there duty. Had JFK lived there would have been no escalation in Southeast Asia. He was slated for complete withdrawal by 1965. But thats history...Imagine since WW2 America has not really won a war. War is ugly. War is hell. But every war since Vietnam follow the $$$. Even the horrific event that sparked Americas "War on Terror" (Twin Towers *NOT* weapons of Mass destruction) I think we need to think about the entity in one of JFK's later speeches that he said he would "splinter into one thousand pieces"...I SALUTE THOSE WHO WENT and Understand those who refused to go.
Sunday Aug. 17th, 1969. At the muddy miracle that was Woodstock, the most miraculous performance just might have been Jefferson Airplane’s. The band had been one of the first to sign on for the festival, their imprimatur prompting many other acts to hop on board, and their stature had landed them a coveted headlining slot closing Saturday night’s schedule. But, as the torrential downpours and the unexpected crush of half a million people kept on delaying their set, the chances of putting on anything approaching a quality performance seemed to diminish. According to Paul Kantner, “We were supposed to go on at 10:30 at night and we’d been up and down about four or five times on acid that night, getting ready to go on, and then everything was delayed for whatever reasons. So, we didn’t get on until like 7:00 the next morning and everybody was pretty much burned out.”
Wow--heard this at full blast 3 in the morning--flying north on route 93 in NH on my my way to Hang Gliding in Clarendon NH!!! what a memory!!!!--Customized van--90 mph... huge speakers-...beautiful summer weather...-you do the math
THE OTHER " WOODEN SHIPS" SIMPLY MARVELOUS. JEFFERSON' AIRPLANE'S " WOODEN SHIPS" GIVES THE SOARING VOICES OF GRACE SLICK & THE LATE MARTY BALIN, ALONG W/THE LATE PAUL KANTNOR & JORMA K.'S ROUSING GUITAR, + BASS & DRUMS TO RIVAL " C S & N", EACH IS A "MASTERFULL WORK OF ART"
I was born around that time of Woodstock. It's funny, but also a source of pride knowing my parents were much "cooler" back in the day than my generation in their 20s/30s.
First heard them in 67 from my older sister, & i was on my way to the woodstock generation, i was only 12 ,by 69 my hair was getting long & mexican weed was 15 bucks an oz. The rest is the same for most of the kids around me, The Airplane led the way into the 70s Jorma, & the rest were some of our generations most creative musicians, Jimi, Clapton, Humble Pie , Tull .The Allmans, The list is endless, Volunteers was my fav. airplane song ,& this version is so good . It tipifies what was to come !
