Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

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Imagine being 11 years old, growing up in Middle of Nowhere, northern lower Michigan, lying in bed at night listening to CKLW (AM radio station out of Windsor, Ontario) and this comes on. Mind blown, never to return to normal. I'm 65, still not normal. 😂

Grace Slick had the most powerful female voice in Rock, hands down. She holds that last note for actually 9 seconds, then that psychadelic guitar just shoots it out of sight.

This song and "White Rabbit" is the essence of the 60's. Haight Ashbury, hippies, drugs, free love and great music.

“S” tier on the vocals alone. True psychedelic rock.

This track is from the album “Surrealist Pillow”. IMO it’s in the Top 20 of greatest rock albums. It spawned the genre of psychedelic rock in the 60s - and is a brilliant compilation of writing, musicianship, and production. Some social trivia: China Kantner (daughter of Grace and Paul) was my courtyard neighbor during the early 90s. We shared a duplex wall, and she was always sweet and considerate. At one point she mentioned that her father was going to visit - and stay with her for two weeks. She gently warned me that her father tends to stay up all night playing guitar. She said ... “He’s been reminded that my neighbors work 9 - 5 jobs ... but I don’t think he gets it. So, I apologize beforehand.” In that moment I’m thinking...”Paul Kantner is gonna be playing live - right next door for two weeks?!! Hell yeah!” 🤣

When I think of their starship years, I think of “Jane” with Micky Thomas on vocals. Good rocker.

Grace had probably the most unique phrasing (that's the part you were talking about dragging out the syllables) and best controlled vibrato in the rock biz.

In interviews Robert Plant has talked about his first time touring the States and how he was overwhelmed by the whole California scene, especially in the Bay Area. He couldn’t believe he was meeting Janice Joplin. He mentions Jefferson Airplane specifically in talking about the great bands that were around at that time

Jefferson Starship added the sublime vocalist Marty Balin on the mega hit Miracles which should be played next. Most seductive song ever!

Airplane ascending, Starship crashing.

This is music that gives you the feel of being high without being high.

Next: Volunteers from the Woodstock soundtrack. Grace Slick: "Alright, friends, you have seen the heavy groups, Now you will see MORNING MANIAC MUSIC. Believe me, yeah, it's a new dawn."

Keep in mind that Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship are two hugely different animals. After Kaukonen and Casady left they got way more pop oriented.

"Find Your Way Back" by Jefferson Starship rocks.

The guitar player is Normal Kaukonen who started the band called Hot Tuna. Great band in the style of the grateful dead

Grace Slick's powerful piercing voice & Jack Casady's superb bass lines.....

The backbone of the Airplane, Jorma and Jack, have been Hot Tuna for like 45 years now.

A full album listen for Surrealistic Pillow is worth it. No misses on it.

The fact that this band went on to record We Built This City in the 80s remains one of the unmitigated tragedies and profoundly wrong events in the annuls of rock history.

You have to read the book “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe to understand the era and mindset of the psychedelic movement. I highly recommend it. I guarantee you will be glad you read it and it will help with your reactions to 1960's and 1970's music. It’s a very compelling read and an interesting bit of history from an interesting era!

Jefferson Starship, do "Miracles" off of the Red Octopus album (the earlier Starship albums are better than the later ones). Marty Balin (R.I.P.) one of the founders of Jeff. Airplane was an incredible singer and songwriter.

There were several different incarnations of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship, each of which saw different singers and musical styles unique to each era. As Jefferson Starship and with Marty Balin on lead vocals, check out “Miracles,” “Count on Me,” and “With Your Love.” From the Mickey Thomas-era of Starship, check out “Jane” and “Find Your Way Back.”

when jefferson airplane performed "somebody to love" LIVE ON STAGE its about an extra 4 minutes longer than the studio original!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,,this song is 53 years old !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the production and REVERB of this song are one SLICK production no pun intended !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Phase one / the 60's) Jefferson Airplane Phase two /the 70's) Jefferson Starship Phase three / the 80's) Starship

"Your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest..." Great line that John Prine topped a few years later w/ "all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen." 😱 Glad you liked the cut. You guys rock!

Hey guys, you two seem to love to get "lost in the sauce." Therefore, I recommend The Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today". Make sure you listen to the extended/long version. I do not think you will be disappointed. Cheers to you both.

Jorma Kaukonen on guitar, Ted Casady on bass. Saw them live in Bloomington Indiana about 1970.

they had another vocalist, Marty Balin, who sang lead on many songs and was excellent

Volunteers live at Woodstock is my favorite by them.....

It’s all about that incredible, unique voice.

Same era, another SF band, It's a Beautiful Day and "White Bird." You'll live it.

Definite banger. Grace Slick has one of the best voices in Rock. Glad you loved it.

Jefferson Starship MIRACLES (album cut) !!!!!!!!!! And read the lyrics ;-)

I saw this comment several times, but “Find Your Way Back” and “Jane” are songs you gotta hear!! 🤘🏻

Aaa Jefferson airplane ✈️ was what you did with a roach by splitting a paper match up to the working end placing the roach between and lightning it up for the frugal heads who didn't want to waste something so important. This is in lieu of a roach clip otherwise known as paraphernalia.

The song length is because it had to fit on one side of a 45.

Jefferson Starship "Miracles"

When you hit Jefferson Starship, "Jane" is the tune. THE tune.

Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock performing "Volunteers" is a part of Americana.. Grace looks and sounds like a million dollars! It's on RU-vid! Far out man!

Grace Slicks voice is amazing to hear. Her ability with pitch and tone is beautiful!

Check out Embryonic Journey!!! One of the best acoustic instrumentals ever!!

This was the BEST JA track for this channel. Along with “Volunteers” which you should view live, because why not?!! Hey, does anyone remember “Lather?” - strange little song but more trippy ballad than banger. 🤪 It was off Crown of Creation (another “passable, but let’s pass it” track).

Grace’s natural vibrato is impeccable, as she can’t help from singing a perfect song!

I saw the Eagles doing Witchy Woman in 1972...they were the first warm up band for YES! Second warmup band was Edgar Winter Group. Great show.

The entire surrealistic pillow album is incredible. Trippy summer of love from san Francisco finest

The band, It’s a Beautiful Day, kinda a “one hit wonder”, band that sounds similar to Jefferson Airplane, but made great song titled, “White Bird”, one of my favorite songs from the era. Check it out.

“Jane!” next up by Starship! Must do!

JANE by Jefferson Starship!! It’s one of my karaoke songs, but it feels impossible to sing. Only Mickey Thomas can sing it.

Jefferson Airplane tended to be more of a live act than a radio presence, a common sight at many West Coast venues throughout the late 60s, so their singles also tended to be quite to-the-point, as you've seen. I'd recommend next checking out an album cut - "Hey Fredrick" or "Eskimo Blue Day", both from the album Volunteers, are strong jams. Then, in '74, they effectively split into two groups, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship. Starship would go on to produce mostly radio tripe, especially after the departure of founders Grace Slick and Paul Kantner, but their first album Red Octopus produced the extraordinary, brilliant "Miracles".

"Rejoice" is a good example of Grace Slick's songwriting, performance, and piano. She rules. She's also a great smartass.

This is very much a song from a time and place. If you want to know what the late 60's-early 70's 'felt' like, this is it.

Always liked the instrumental Embryonic Journey from this album.

The "drums on one side" is due to the fact that this was recorded with a 3 track machine, so there were tremendous limitations as to where instruments could be placed in the stereo mix. You are going to find that most songs recorded before 1968 fall into that category as they were usually recording with 2, 3, or 4 track recorders. For your next Jefferson Airplane song, I suggest Good Shepherd. Not a banger, but some really cool guitar work and a superb tune.

Someone probably mentioned already but I'm gonna suggest listening to a side project, Hot Tuna. Jack Cassidy (bass) and Jorma Kaukonen (guitar) stripped down and bluesy. Good stuff.

Grace Slick has a phenomenal voice!! The guitars are fantastic.

Starship...Jane...it's a good one!

Produced by Jerry Garcia...I think they called it “Spiritual Direction” in the album credits.

Fooled around and fell in love ( long version) Elvin Bishop

Check out Lovin' Spoonful. "Do You Believe In Magic" is probably their most famous, so you might know it when you hear it. "Summer In the City" is a good track too.

One word...Jane...from their progression to Jefferson Starship.

Find Your Way Back Jefferson Starship. Mickey Thomas: amazing voice from the band Elvin Bishop (another suggestion, Fooled Around and Fell in Love

Grace Slick's voice is awesome in this song!!! I'm 73 yrs old and never tire listening to our baby boomer music!! I'm from Colorado!!!❤

Check out “Jane” by Jefferson Starship. A stellar late 70s banger!

Check out Little River Band! Glenn Frey of the Eagles refers to them as the best singing band in the world!

GOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!!!

Jefferson Starship: Miracles. Not Grace on Lead but will blow you away. Very sexy song!

It has got to be "Jane" from the Jefferson Starship era. The singer on that song is a whole other rabbit hole by himself.

Hey so like I went to school in San Anselmo which is like in the heart of Marin County on the Sir Francis Drake boulevard man. I used to see Grace Slick in a "candle" shop in San Anselmo when I was walking to the bus after school. I met Jorma the guitar player at the cotati cabaret in '79 when I was freelance roadying a gig. Marty Balin came to my school and gave a poetry lecture in my English class. I never met Paul Kantner but one of my friend's sister went out with him. I met Jack Cassidy the bass player at a party given by the guitar player for the Tubes in Napa in 1980. I might have pissed him off because I was asking him so many questions about Jimi Hendrix recording sessions. So that's my tale of name dropping the Jefferson Airplane.

Ok so I was 10 when this was released. 1967. Heard it first on AM radio. Really a song for the times. Great review. Great song. Try some Todd Rundgren

Volunteers Crown of Creation We Can Be Together

Memories (looked up the day and date): age 16, Sunday, July 28, 1968, riding home from my morning bus-boy job at the Los Angeles Griffith Park Country Club (Dawes brand bicycle, purple five-speed, brought here from England when my family moved to Glendale, CA in 1965), I was on the road encircling the Merry-Go-Round grassy area, stopped to find out why so many people, Jefferson Airplane free concert, stayed to watch, it was great.

Happy New Week. Volunteers of America and Today are my favorites. They later became Starship with songs like Familiar Stranger, Believe in Miracles and later Sarah and We built this city on Rock and roll. Enjoy your day and the music.

this came out when I was a freshman in college. Everyone in the dorm had it. It was, at the time,THE representative of the San Francisco sound....beginning of the hippie movement and counter-culture...psychedelic rock. Grace Slick....what a HUGELY powerful voice. It was said she could break a glass with it.

Great reaction Gents!! Sorry I missed y'all Saturday. Busy caring for my Daddy after an acute stroke & serious arm/head injuries. Oh Andy .. cool new tat!! Meant to ask u bout that. I'll hop on insta & check it out later. Here's an excerpt from wiki on this bands history: The October 1966 to February 1970 lineup of Jefferson Airplane, consisting of Marty Balin (vocals), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals), Grace Slick (vocals), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitar, vocals), Jack Casady (bass), and Spencer Dryden (drums), was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.[3] Marty Balin left the band in 1971. After 1972, Jefferson Airplane effectively split into two groups. Kaukonen and Casady moved on full-time to their own band, Hot Tuna. Slick, Kantner, and the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane recruited new members and regrouped as Jefferson Starship in 1974, with Marty Balin eventually joining them. Jefferson Airplane was presented with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. Thnx for all y'all do .. keep up the great work .. CHEERS🥃🤘🏼🥃🤘🏼

One of the greatest female vocalists of all time. This song is all attitude. One of my favorites right from the opening line!

Add the song, "SUMMER IN THE CITY" by The Loving Spoonful to your list of must hears.

You will now be able to hear Grace sing that chorus in your head for the rest of your life. Enjoy

@ 05:37 - The way Jefferson Airplane were able to to weave their harmonies, accentuate vibrato, and blend a strong and steady beat into the fray was a mind blowing experience .. (especially on acid LoL!) .......

Gents, so happy to hear you react to this song. It's been a favorite of mine since it first came out. As far as Jefferson Starship, please, please react to Miracles with Marty Balin singing lead vocals with Grace Slick shining through. You will enjoy it musically but if you read the lyrics to it -- OMG. Thanks for this groovy memory.

"Jane" is the Starship's best song from my point of view. The build-up to the guitar solo and the solo itself are in my top 5 ever.

"I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After... just sayin'

great job guys. Grace Slick's voice sounds feirce on this cut, the whole band sounds awesome. pretty flawless. thank you!

Absolutely love this song, still listen to it today. Grace Slick is incredible, underrated female vocalist.

Jim Carrey did a good job with this one in Cable Guy 😂 "Volunteers of America" next and it jams 🤙🎶 lots of em Changes...

Now you MUST do Miracles.

"Find your way back" is a solid song. Mickeys voice brought another level to the band.

IF you hit Starship, “Jane” is a fun banger with some very energetic guitar and vocal work. But, you really aren’t missing a whole lot if you skip that band altogether.

Just listen to the whole, "Worst of Jefferson Airplane." 'nuff said...now you know why HST had such a crush on Grace Slick. Goosebumps. Jorma Kaukonen....

The first time the Airplane morphed in Jefferson Starship was with the release of "Blows Against the Empire." It is a great album by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick with a a lot support from musicians like Jerry Garcia and David Crosby. Classic early 1970's psychedelia!

The album "Bless It's Pointed Little Head" - Live at the Filmore West Awesome

Miracles is the one! Period

Stick with The Airplane, The transition to Starship on, is mostly dreck. “Miracles” is good... So, back to JA, Volunteers is great. You should watch their set at the sadly Ill-fated Altamont.. you’ll see how intense Grace Slick is..

I think the term you're looking for is "phrasing"... Grace Slick is masterful in her phrasing. Her chest voice is breathy with a touch of rasp and her head voice with vibrato...stunning

If you're gonna check out Jefferson Starship, definitely gotta give a listen to Jane

Next Jefferson Airplane song: "Volunteers" If you want to do a Starship song: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"

"Miracles" and "Ride the Tiger" were Jefferson Starships comeback songs. However I'm Duty-Bound to reccomend "Ride the Tiger" to you Boys, because of the two "Ride the Tiger" rocks.

“Miracles” is the sexiest groove. The harmonies. Marty’s voice. The build up. The ride it takes you on. So seductive. I love it. Can you tell?? 💕👌🏼👍🏼😝 “Jane” is definitely a banger. Gotta check out both. Mickey Thomas voice is UNREAL.

I got to sit with Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Balin and Jack Kanter at a David Crosby show in San Francisco in 1986. They were cool and completely real. David forgot the lyric to his song "Leeshore", stopped singing and playing, so I shouted down the intro lyrics to him from the balcony that was right over his head. He said, " Thanks man" and picked it right up again. The Airplane crew glad handed me and we smoked some joints together. " YOU SAVED HIM" Grace whispered into my ear, and kissed me on the cheek. The rest of the show was great!