Ironic how Grace Slick went from anti establishment hippie to pro establishment-BLM rules, take your jabs don't question MSM/big brother, Orange Man Bad, Biden rules. Biden starting wars & using Ukrainians as cannon fodder good, $5 gas good, $2.50, 2019 Orange Man gas prices Bad.
I got Craig Chaquico's autograph and he was the nicest down to earth musician I ever met. He even signed my girlfriends copy of Dreams which is a Grace Slick album that he didn't even play on. a great guy.
Artemus totally agree!! As a musician/singer, myself, Mickey has been an immense inspiration to me. One of Rock’s great vocalists. What a shame to exclude him! Starship’s 80’s tunes might be “over produced”, but tell that to radio; there’s a reason why those tunes get massive airplay even today.
J.A. was a great Friso band. I remember, because I was there, that in '67 they had already became rock royalty, which some embraced, and some hated. There were hundreds of musicians there, all looking for a break of some kind, but most too hip for commercial music. J.A. was the standout - Slick was something else, and when I was backstage once, I melted. It might have been induced by something....there is only one real Starship album. "Blows...." - the rest, commercial pop. Slick hated "I Built This City". She later said it was a total sellout, and that began the end of her run with them. Kantner may have fired her, but she wanted out, anyway. I met Paul in the early days - he was pretty cool, but his drive for success kind of ruined an incredible band. Hot Tuna was the best thing to come out of it all after J.A.
When I was growing up in Palo Alto in the 60s and 70s, the Jefferson Airplane were always playing around...I heard great things about them, but wasn't allowed to see them since they were considered "too wild". I remember my parents cool friends raving about them and going to Woodstock and the Monterey Festival. I wish I'd seen them live!!
My Brother was a second engineer at the music grinder recording studio in the 1980s. He was present when We Built This City was recorded. According to my Brother, the single was recorded first and once the record company heard it, they sprung for the money to record the rest of the record. I was lucky enough to get my mono copy of Surrealistic Pillow autographed by Grace Slick via my Brother taking it in to the studio... It's one of my prized posessions
White Rabbit is one of the greatest vocal performances in history. It's absolutely haunting to here Slick's voice isolated from the rest of the music. Which, BTW, is available for your listening pleasure here on UA-cam.
Listen to 'Hey Fredrick' from Volunteers - she totally knocks it out of the park. That is how to use a voice. And what a voice. Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce? Lmao.
She didn't manage her career right when someone likes cher is still touring and Grace isn't there something wrong.. Cher is 4th rate compared to Grace Slick. Cher is first rate compared to McDonnas corporate music
@@ubertocreote3198 Curious if your old enough to have seen Jefferson Airplane or Big Brother and the Holding Company / Full Tilt Boogie Band with Janis Joplin ? I was born in 1945 and lucky enough to see nearly every major act of the mid 60s through the 1980s so im wondering if your judging live vocals or engineered vocals,live Grace Slick wins hands down.
Jefferson Starship had great songs and albums in the 80's! It was when Kantner left with the Jefferson name and they went to Starship was when the band went down the tubes IMO.
Grace Slick said at the time she quit Starship( late80s) that being in a rock band after 50 was stupid. She was 10yrs older than any of her bandmates then.
This arrogant guy has done a rough story at best.. he obviously never listened to the first 6 albums over the Jefferson Starship... nor acknowledges the gifts of Paul Kantner Craig Chaquico and Pete Sears...
Why didn't you mention Mickey Thomas? One of the best rock singers there ever was. He's one of the best things that ever happened to that band and he's still going strong keeping it alive.
Mickey is a great singer. Elvin knew it and millions of units sold support the notion. If Pete can't dig it...well thats ok..but alot of people like Mickey's voice.
The thing is the more I listen to music and expand well beyond traditional English speaking countries, words like greatest and best of all time become meaningless. In its highest vibe, music is a cosmic celebration - not a competition. After losing my voice for several decades, now that it is coming back in my 70s, I have a different perspective. Most musicians who aren't messed up and numbed by the Music Biz know what I'm talking about. Just repeat "It's a celebration - not a competition."
Honestly, why compare or even make arrogant declarations of who is the best? Ann has a powerful voice however Grace has a powerful voice and she can be subtle and dramatic. Grace has more stage presence, actually Jefferson Starship as a whole has presence and power and subtlety.
@@PatrickLongworth agreed. i've seen Airplane & Starship through the years and Grace was always cool to watch. she had a powerful stage presence that was quite the opposite of her competition at the time Janis Joplin. Joplin jumped around etc. Grace was very still, almost menacing lol.
jefferson airplane was one of the first few bands I saw. Think it was 1967 when I saw them. Jorma played through 6 Twin Reverbs. And Jack C just walked back and forth across the stage playing awesome bass lines. They were a great live band. Yes I am old. But I saw a lot of great music back in the day.
Saw them in NY city at the Academy and StonyBrook, once in Paris, and once in Commack, and in New Paltz University twice, saw Tuna 23 times, Starship 20 times at Radio City, Jack and Jorma are my heroes...
Blows Against the Empire , in my opinion, is one of the three best Acid Rock (psychedelic) albums ever cut. Moody Blues, In Search Of The Lost Chord and Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon. Are the other two. Psychedelic is just the PC way of saying Acid Rock. Both Airplane and Jefferson Starship did some really good tunes. Check out Song to the Sun and Ride The Tiger. Two JS songs.
I was in high school, 1968 to 1972, there was a girl then that looked just liked Gracie. I chased her for a long time and never caught her. When I hear White Rabbit and Winds of Change, I think of those days. Gracie had pipes.
Your statement "They've never recorded any songs about aviation" is incorrect- they recorded the song "Planes" in 1989- (yes I know way after the band name was decided but still....)
How can you talk about Airplane/Starship for over 12 minutes and never mention one of the greatest rock singers in American history?? Mickey Thomas is one of the best.
@@cwinters907 Was digging through stuff and found that cd recently. Was starting to oxidize but the songs all ripped. Had forgotten how cool that title song was. First heard it on MTV when they actually... well, you know...
Fat Angel was on Surrealistic Pillow, and has the lyrics "Fly Translove Airways gets you there on time Fly Jefferson Airplane gets you there on time" Not really about airplanes thought...
@@paulnolan4971 It was the other way round. Donovan wrote it (about the then up-and-coming Jefferson Airplane). JA loved it, and covered it themselves.
Surprised there was no mention how Paul Kanter and Signe Anderson died on the very same day (1/28/2016) at the very same age (74) Jorma is still rocking on UA-cam!
Yeah, Jorma is cool, but he (and Jack Casady) had absolutely NOTHING to do with Jefferson Starship; the link made between them in this video is propaganda.
Kantner didn't want to call his new 1974 band Jefferson Starship. RCA records forced him to because his solo albums weren't selling, and they wanted the commercial power of the name.
@Cerbian facts. When I hear it nowadays its more easy not to knock cause at least it came from them...a respected bunch. 80s cheesed out all music. Business
And note that it's not one band, as this video indicates. Jefferson Airplane ENDED in 1972. It was over for two years before Jefferson Starship was even formed. Different band. Different musicians, songwriters, eras, hits, etc... This is propaganda.
They are absolute 60’s icons. Grew up with them, will always listen to them. Grace Slick is the Queen of Rock. (Well......Tina Turner maybe, tough choice.)
Grace was the only singer seriously considered to replace Signe. Nothing in this video is "untold". The entire history of Jefferson Airplane is told in Jeff Tamarkin's book Got a Revolution The Turbulent flight of Jefferson Airplane.
If you'd like the real story of Jefferson Airplane and all its later offshoots, read Tamarkin's book. Highly recommended. I believe it came out in the early 2000s.
I wish this channel would just spell out history without the snarky comments. How about just straight facts without your critical judgement of the band in any incarnation?
"Straight facts" would be useful. This video is filled from top to bottom with distortions and fabrications. And it skips over the entire history of Jefferson Starship! 1974 - 1984! None of the rockin' hits, the gold and platinum albums, Craig Chaquico (lead guitarist for the duration and all the way through Starship), Pete Sears (bass player/keyboard player)...It's propaganda for the Airplane which had nothing at all to do with Jefferson Starship. They should change the title of the video to just that.
agreed. I saw Jefferson Airplane on their 89 reunion tour - they sounded awesome, the audience loved them - this guy makes it sound like it was a failure - not true.
I wonder if now is a good time to note that I met Marti Balin backstage at Lollapoluza in 1991 in Boston. Too many stories to tell her but will go into a book at some stage.
Gee missed they gig when the Jefferson Airplane opened for The Rolling Stones at the Cow Palace in 1966. It was Mick's Birthday and they just released Aftermath. Brian Jones sat cross-legged on the stage when they played Paint It Black. The McCoys also opener did Hang on Sloopy. And another SF Band Sopwith Camel was the third opener with the radio hit Hello Hello. That was before Signe Andersson got pregnant and was replaced with the Grace Slick from The Great Society. I still have my little orange Jefferson Airplane Loves you button somewhere that they gave away.
The best thing to ever come out of Jefferson Airplane is Hot Tuna. And, ever since this lockdown insanity began Jorma Koukonen, founding member and lead guitarist of Airplane and Hot Tuna is the only person I know of playing free shows right here on YouTUbe every Saturday night from his Fur Peace Ranch. Seek and you shall find!
I have a set from Hot Tuna live on stage (somewhere), I like to play at home when I'm relaxing and undisturbed. The only parts i cut out so I don't have to deal with them are when Grace Slick appears. It's jarring. It sounds like some drunk crashing the party. Prank or not, it's a buzz kill and cringy.
Awesome thanks I don't care about all the drama starships and Jefferson airplane had very talented musians and they all my favorite I never going to stop likekin their music 🎵🎶 🎸❤️🤟 great video thank you for sharing it 🤟❤️🎸
Jefferson airplane rocked. I don't care what anyone says. Grace was a windchiled and she could scream out the lyrics. Great video thanks grunge you guys ROCK
Not one word, or riff, from their album "Modern Times." Or about Craig Chaquico's incredible solo at the end of Save Your Love, one of the greatest solos, and tunes, and albums of all time.
Signe Anderson, perhaps? Whom I believe on the same day in S.F., along with Paul Kantner, had a heart attack & both died. There are some old freaks still around, barely, but Good job, keep it going...🌹
The inference in the narrative that Signe was forced out of the band or dropped is untrue. She had a newborn and couldn't take the baby on the road so she left. Bill Graham was managing the Airplane and arranged for her to leave. She had a big sendoff by the band. You can find it on UA-cam.
I have never have seen how "We Built This City" got so much sh*t. It's a nice little pop rocker, no "A Day In The Life" mind you, but it is a pretty decent song. It certainly does NOT deserve all the negative crap about it. Their fans expected(rightfully) so much more from Starship, but it is what it is(was).
@Cerbian There you go! Memories of the times. I'll take "We...This City" over all the Hip-Hop & Rap-Crap put together. It really ain't all that bad, but it sure was a huge fall from the "30 Seconds Over Winterland" days. 🎵And so it goes, And so it goes, And so it goes, And where it's going nobody knows... 🎵
I almost wrecked my car while violently stabbing my finger at the radio trying to change the channel when We Built this City came on. That song deserves the title of worst pop song ever recorded.
John Zook Oh my God that's EXACTLY what I tell people happens to me everytime a Grunge song comes on the radio, matter of fact I just told someone basically that same thing today, "Nothing will make me almost wreck a car faster then me diving for the dial on my car radio..."
Watching this I can't help but think about the Concert in Golden Gate Park that my band played with Jorma Kaukonen, I guess is was '77 or '78. My band was Odysseus and I was the lead vocalist. Long time ago.
Love the hippie vibe on that one. I saw band member Pete Sears coming out of a tent at Knebworth in the UK in 1978. If the tent belonged to the band and it was large enough then the band were camping amongst the fans.
I Love Grace Slick, I have always been interested in her. Now I see that she is Very Intelligent. Most Dark People are and she is a Scorpio like me. Most Scorpios are Intelligent. She has a amazing voice, she was beautiful. I have always loved her as a teenager. Like the video stated, the 60's ended in the 80's. I was very much into the 60's when i was a teenager in the 80's!!!
If you can find it (and it's out there for free download) get the Jefferson Airplane bootleg "A Weekend At Winterland". It's 2 live shows recorded on October 25 and 26 1969 at Winterland in San Francisco, Airplane at their finest. In the "Mau Mau (Amerikon) Jam" Grace starts singing about making love to a flying fish man lol.
I had a short and funny experience wih Grace when guarding the stage at West Palm Beach Rock Festival. She was first out between bands and asked me if there was a place to go pee pee. I told her out back porty pot's but the are pretty bad now. She just smiled and said "I'll just hold it in. It'll help me jump around this show.". ha. Loved the Airplane so that night was a great time. Also was on stage for the Stones. They weren't good at all to me. Short short show and out of tune due to cold temps at 5am.
Elvis was known as The King, and I think Grace should be Queen. Even in 2021, I scour the interwebs for anything I can find on her. Long live The Queen!
I love this band, but to be honest I don't think it would have gone as far as it did without Grace. Grace is the most awesome vocalist of all time in RnR. She was Tops at both Monterey & Woodstock. I have been watching the Woodstock performance everyday for sbout 2 months now. Along with 'Go Ride The Music'. There will never be another like Grace. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
The goal of working in music is to not have to do other jobs. There is not downside to being too successful in music. Finding bad things about succeeding means you are the one with the problem. These musicians spent their lives earning a great living playing music. That is a life well lived.
Marty was the heart and soul of the band. Kantner's ego, proselytizing and songs sucked. Jorma and Jack were always great as a unit within a unit. Grace? Grace was just Grace. Forever synonymous with the darkly epic "White Rabbit" and rockin' "Someone To Love".
If Marty was the soul, then Kantner was the brain. JA would be a basic blues rock band if it wasn't for Paul's folk influences and his 12 string Rickenbacker.
Loved hearing CSN harmonize,with,Grace,is truly beautiful to listen to( no I never was lucky enough to see them) Me,born in 1961) just saw a video here on YT)
Airplane or Starship?
Airplane
Jane is a great song though
Airplane, but I did love the Mick n Slick AOR years.
I grew up with Starship...but it's like asking , Van Halen or Van Hagar(both were great,but both were bands of Their Time)
I like both
Grace Slick is one of a kind ❤️ and was a pioneer. An amazing voice and performer. RIP Marty Balin 💔
Paul Kanfer and Syne Toly died on the same day in 2016. Grace got the gig mostly because her first band was the opening act for Jefferson airplane
Slick was a skank
As a kid in 80's, I LOVED "We Built This City".... Still ❤️ it to this day. I don't care what anyone says about it. It's a great song.
😅😄😃🤣😂
Yep! We Built This City is a great song! I could listen to it all day and never get tired of it!!!! The 80s music remains the best of all decades!9
Me too! It’s one of those 80s songs that really got me into the 80s.
It gotto #1. Btw, at that time, Grace Slick became the oldest singer with a #1 hit
My kids love it now. They sing it every time it comes on.
I still love Grace Slick. I remember growing up to "We built This City." I like that song more NOW than when it came out. She is a legend to me!
Ironic how Grace Slick went from anti establishment hippie to pro establishment-BLM rules, take your jabs don't question MSM/big brother, Orange Man Bad, Biden rules. Biden starting wars & using Ukrainians as cannon fodder good, $5 gas good, $2.50, 2019 Orange Man gas prices Bad.
Actually Marty Balin was an incredible singer.
Yes he was👍🏼
Miracles
I really liked his song I Do Believe In You, it is very catchy
My fav band of all time. All three morphs of this band were incredible. Airplane in the 60s, Jefferson starship in the 70s and starship in the 80s
there's something about Jefferson that's just so bold, mysterious and 'ahead of its time', even though this was the 60s.
The profundity is timeless
The 80's interpretation of their music to video were in a separate class..
I got Craig Chaquico's autograph and he was the nicest down to earth musician I ever met. He even signed my girlfriends copy of Dreams which is a Grace Slick album that he didn't even play on. a great guy.
Whether you like Jefferson Starship or not you have to admit
Jane is a great song
I will admit no such thing. Any song by Grace Slick is 100x better than Jane.
@Steven Fritchie
Nothing beets Slick but Jane is a hard rock classic. At lesst for me
@@TheUnmitigatedDawn It's a line from the song.
I bought that album 'cuz of 'Find your way back.' It rocks all the way through!
@meangreen69Nova Thanks
Wow, not even a mention of Micky Thomas? Dude is one of the greatest singers of all time. Jane is a stone cold banger.
Artemus totally agree!! As a musician/singer, myself, Mickey has been an immense inspiration to me. One of Rock’s great vocalists. What a shame to exclude him! Starship’s 80’s tunes might be “over produced”, but tell that to radio; there’s a reason why those tunes get massive airplay even today.
that is strange not to mention him.
Marty Balin was a great singer also. Sometimes I couldn't tell if it as him or Grace on a recording.
J.A. was a great Friso band. I remember, because I was there, that in '67 they had already became rock royalty, which some embraced, and some hated. There were hundreds of musicians there, all looking for a break of some kind, but most too hip for commercial music. J.A. was the standout - Slick was something else, and when I was backstage once, I melted. It might have been induced by something....there is only one real Starship album. "Blows...." - the rest, commercial pop. Slick hated "I Built This City". She later said it was a total sellout, and that began the end of her run with them. Kantner may have fired her, but she wanted out, anyway. I met Paul in the early days - he was pretty cool, but his drive for success kind of ruined an incredible band. Hot Tuna was the best thing to come out of it all after J.A.
Right a ROCK GODDESS 👠🎸🤟🎶❤️
When I was growing up in Palo Alto in the 60s and 70s, the Jefferson Airplane were always playing around...I heard great things about them, but wasn't allowed to see them since they were considered "too wild". I remember my parents cool friends raving about them and going to Woodstock and the Monterey Festival. I wish I'd seen them live!!
Get some DVDs
I met Grace Slick on a few occasions. She was sarcastic and a bit snarky but sober. I loved it.😊
Jim Carrey in “Cable Guy” did the best Grace Slick impression
Of course he did! Whatever your opinion of him, the man is a pretty talented actor (albeit eccentric or loopy).
DisonantDyscord definitely loopy....but I guess many comedic geniuses are.
Jim Carrey sucks balls.
Jim Carrey's character in that movie was downright creepy.
My Brother was a second engineer at the music grinder recording studio in the 1980s. He was present when We Built This City was recorded. According to my Brother, the single was recorded first and once the record company heard it, they sprung for the money to record the rest of the record. I was lucky enough to get my mono copy of Surrealistic Pillow autographed by Grace Slick via my Brother taking it in to the studio... It's one of my prized posessions
White Rabbit is one of the greatest vocal performances in history. It's absolutely haunting to here Slick's voice isolated from the rest of the music. Which, BTW, is available for your listening pleasure here on UA-cam.
Listen to 'Hey Fredrick' from Volunteers - she totally knocks it out of the park. That is how to use a voice. And what a voice. Gaga, Rihanna, Beyonce? Lmao.
Grace once said she wrot White Rabbit in 30 minutes.
What an incredible life Grace Slick has lived.
And can you believe that she's never acted in a movie? She was asked to play the Acid Queen in Tommy but turned it down...
She didn't manage her career right when someone likes cher is still touring and Grace isn't there something wrong.. Cher is 4th rate compared to Grace Slick. Cher is first rate compared to McDonnas corporate music
Davin Gladwell well grace did say any rock n roll singer over 50 look stupid and should retire which is what she did
My favorite tidbit about her life is that time she was bff's with Nixon's daughter and came super close to dosing his coffee
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo she also turned down a role in the 1970 film Little Fauss And Big Halsey.
Forget about the untold truth! Rather, here's the truth! Grace Slick in her prime is probably the best female rock singer... period!
Sure as hell the all time coolest female rock singer who was just as cool as any rock singer with exception of Frank Zappa,nobody beat Zappa for cool.
uh,.no.
Janis. Period.
@@ubertocreote3198 Curious if your old enough to have seen Jefferson Airplane or Big Brother and the Holding Company / Full Tilt Boogie Band with Janis Joplin ? I was born in 1945 and lucky enough to see nearly every major act of the mid 60s through the 1980s so im wondering if your judging live vocals or engineered vocals,live Grace Slick wins hands down.
You spelled Ann Wilson wrong.
I love "Freedom at Point Zero" from the early 80's. The Awakening is my favorite.
Jefferson Starship had great songs and albums in the 80's! It was when Kantner left with the Jefferson name and they went to Starship was when the band went down the tubes IMO.
i thought Jefferson Starship in the 70's was better than the 80's version.
Grace Slick said at the time she quit Starship( late80s) that being in a rock band after 50 was stupid. She was 10yrs older than any of her bandmates then.
This arrogant guy has done a rough story at best.. he obviously never listened to the first 6 albums over the Jefferson Starship... nor acknowledges the gifts of Paul Kantner Craig Chaquico and Pete Sears...
This was actually just a test to see how many ads could be squeezed into a 12 minute video.
@@psychosneighbor1509 Really! Soo annoying!
You nailed it hun! 👍
Amen
Cozy Powell?
Why didn't you mention Mickey Thomas? One of the best rock singers there ever was. He's one of the best things that ever happened to that band and he's still going strong keeping it alive.
Mickey Thomas was probably the worst singer that ever lived I don’t know who wrote this but you’ve got diarrhea in your ears that guy was horrible
Mickey is a great singer. Elvin knew it and millions of units sold support the notion. If Pete can't dig it...well thats ok..but alot of people like Mickey's voice.
@@blaumausfrau bullshit.
wrong.
I love Mickey Thomas's voice. x
What about Marty Balin? He sang some of the biggest hits such as Miracles!
They weren't over produced. Their 80's stuff was excellent and holds up very ell.
Poor Paul Kantner, his biggest reference was to having a baby with Grace Slick but you showed Jack Casady instead. 😂😂😂
I was a JA Jeff Starship , and I still like " We built this city"
Grace Slick, best voice in Rock & Roll.
Ann Wilson begs to differ.
@@BazookaToe , Well, she can keep on begging then. Lady Overkill.
The thing is the more I listen to music and expand well beyond traditional English speaking countries, words like greatest and best of all time become meaningless.
In its highest vibe, music is a cosmic celebration - not a competition. After losing my voice for several decades, now that it is coming back in my 70s, I have a different perspective. Most musicians who aren't messed up and numbed by the Music Biz know what I'm talking about. Just repeat "It's a celebration - not a competition."
Honestly, why compare or even make arrogant declarations of who is the best? Ann has a powerful voice however Grace has a powerful voice and she can be subtle and dramatic. Grace has more stage presence, actually Jefferson Starship as a whole has presence and power and subtlety.
@@PatrickLongworth agreed. i've seen Airplane & Starship through the years and Grace was always cool to watch. she had a powerful stage presence that was quite the opposite of her competition at the time Janis Joplin. Joplin jumped around etc. Grace was very still, almost menacing lol.
jefferson airplane was one of the first few bands I saw. Think it was 1967 when I saw them. Jorma played through 6 Twin Reverbs. And Jack C just walked back and forth across the stage playing awesome bass lines. They were a great live band. Yes I am old. But I saw a lot of great music back in the day.
Saw them in NY city at the Academy and StonyBrook, once in Paris, and once in Commack, and in New Paltz University twice, saw Tuna 23 times, Starship 20 times at Radio City, Jack and Jorma are my heroes...
Blows Against the Empire was one of the best albums of the psychedelic era. Far better than anything else Airplane or Starship did.
Blows Against the Empire , in my opinion, is one of the three best Acid Rock (psychedelic) albums ever cut. Moody Blues, In Search Of The Lost Chord and Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon. Are the other two. Psychedelic is just the PC way of saying Acid Rock. Both Airplane and Jefferson Starship did some really good tunes. Check out Song to the Sun and Ride The Tiger. Two JS songs.
Hide witch hide the good folk come to burn thee
i loved Blows Against the Empire but Jefferson Airplane's first 6 albums are close to flawless.
@@zeusapollo8688 B/c we're not the way you used to be, when you were very young.
Winds of Change, Be My Lady, Miracles, Jane, and We built This City are my favorites.
Forgot find your way back!
Love too Good
My five year old son loves to sing "Sara"
I was in high school, 1968 to 1972, there was a girl then that looked just liked Gracie. I chased her for a long time and never caught her. When I hear White Rabbit and Winds of Change, I think of those days. Gracie had pipes.
Mickey Thomas was the best part of Jefferson Starship and no mention of him!
Your statement "They've never recorded any songs about aviation" is incorrect- they recorded the song "Planes" in 1989- (yes I know way after the band name was decided but still....)
How can you talk about Airplane/Starship for over 12 minutes and never mention one of the greatest rock singers in American history?? Mickey Thomas is one of the best.
...or (in my opinion) one of the best albums ever....."Winds of Change"
@@cwinters907 You need to get out more.
@@Mozart1220 funny coming from a person who apparently doesnt understand people have different tastes
nothings gonna stop them now.....
@@cwinters907 Was digging through stuff and found that cd recently. Was starting to oxidize but the songs all ripped. Had forgotten how cool that title song was. First heard it on MTV when they actually... well, you know...
All 3 but mostly early 80's Jefferson Starship, Freedom at Point Zero, Modern Times, Winds of Change and Nuclear Furniture are my favorite albums.
At 1:34 you are wrong, they actually did record a song about airplanes for their 1989 reunion album.
They also did "Have you seen the saucers?"
@@badindian63 yeah i remember tellin them that they're UNDER THE TEACUPS !!! :P we were so high, hmm like an Airplane WOW mind blown lol
Fat Angel was on Surrealistic Pillow, and has the lyrics
"Fly Translove Airways gets you there on time
Fly Jefferson Airplane gets you there on time"
Not really about airplanes thought...
@@SSHitMan Donovan covered it
@@paulnolan4971 It was the other way round. Donovan wrote it (about the then up-and-coming Jefferson Airplane). JA loved it, and covered it themselves.
Surprised there was no mention how Paul Kanter and Signe Anderson died on the very same day (1/28/2016) at the very same age (74)
Jorma is still rocking on UA-cam!
LisaDawnn Jorma rules.
Yeah, Jorma is cool, but he (and Jack Casady) had absolutely NOTHING to do with Jefferson Starship; the link made between them in this video is propaganda.
I love his name. Always have!
Kantner didn't want to call his new 1974 band Jefferson Starship. RCA records forced him to because his solo albums weren't selling, and they wanted the commercial power of the name.
Good luck Grace Slick and Family happy New Year!
Hot Tuna > Jefferson Airplane > Jefferson Starship > diarrhea > Starship
We Built The City is an awesome track and I won't be persuaded otherwise...
I agree. I had an extended remix version of it. Wish I knew what I did with it.
I’ve always had the pre-disposition towards critics if they think its so fucken easy why don’t they try to and do something better
@Cerbian facts. When I hear it nowadays its more easy not to knock cause at least it came from them...a respected bunch. 80s cheesed out all music. Business
good for you - stick to your guns!
I thought it sucked
I received more commercials than facts about this great band. How many ads can play in one video?
And note that it's not one band, as this video indicates. Jefferson Airplane ENDED in 1972. It was over for two years before Jefferson Starship was even formed. Different band. Different musicians, songwriters, eras, hits, etc... This is propaganda.
@Dewey Rayburn Interesting - I didn't know an ad blocker could stop ads within videos.
Jorma Kaukonen!!.. greetings from Finland 🇫🇮
I guess I don't get the hate for "We Built This City". Sure it's cheesy and over the top, but I'm fond of it.
They are absolute 60’s icons. Grew up with them, will always listen to them. Grace Slick is the Queen of Rock. (Well......Tina Turner maybe, tough choice.)
Never had a song about planes.." I like planes..Jet Airplanes"..
Phil Wright I was just going to mention this. It was the best song on the ‘89 reunion album.
Phil Wright so does Steve Miller...
They had some great songs in the 80's, like Jane, and no way out, and laying it on the line. Some of their best stuff ever!
Mickey Thompson was the singer then.
Thomas not Thompson sorry.
Lay it on the line is triumph.
Find Your Way Back and Jane are my 2 favorites. They never get old!
Mickey Thomas kept them going. He was good!
Jefferson Starship was an AWESOME Band!😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈😁🎈
Grace was the only singer seriously considered to replace Signe. Nothing in this video is "untold". The entire history of Jefferson Airplane is told in Jeff Tamarkin's book Got a Revolution The Turbulent flight of Jefferson Airplane.
. ..Signe got pregnant and wanted to exit. ..
If you'd like the real story of Jefferson Airplane and all its later offshoots, read Tamarkin's book. Highly recommended. I believe it came out in the early 2000s.
Find your way back, winds of change, Miricles.....great tunes
Mickey is the best singer of all, and Craig is the best guitarrist. ❤
Blows against the empire was brilliant.
Mickey Thomas and Grace slick were awesome..I even thought Marty Balin was excellent.
I wish this channel would just spell out history without the snarky comments. How about just straight facts without your critical judgement of the band in any incarnation?
Right! If the guy just wants to trash the band, give us fair warning and put that in the title!
Finally! Someone else that thinks the commentators are snarkey! 👍
"Straight facts" would be useful. This video is filled from top to bottom with distortions and fabrications. And it skips over the entire history of Jefferson Starship! 1974 - 1984! None of the rockin' hits, the gold and platinum albums, Craig Chaquico (lead guitarist for the duration and all the way through Starship), Pete Sears (bass player/keyboard player)...It's propaganda for the Airplane which had nothing at all to do with Jefferson Starship. They should change the title of the video to just that.
@@48nature You tell 'em Dara, you would know if anyone does. Say Hi to Craig for me!
agreed. I saw Jefferson Airplane on their 89 reunion tour - they sounded awesome, the audience loved them - this guy makes it sound like it was a failure - not true.
Correction , the name was after a blues singer" Blind Lemon Jefferson" who is not fictional
Actually there was an aviation song by Jefferson Airplane called “Planes” in 1989 from the album “Jefferson Airplane”.
Obviously, the narrator didn't see them in 1989 on reunion tour. They were awesome. No wrong notes...Grace being Grace..saw them at Poplar Creek.
I knew someone who attended a concert on this tour and he said the same thing; FWIW
That wasn't Paul, that was Jack at 4:56
This guy does zero real research
Who's Jack?
@@debbiesims138 Bass player Jack Cassidy(Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna/SVT)
I wonder if now is a good time to note that I met Marti Balin backstage at Lollapoluza in 1991 in Boston. Too many stories to tell her but will go into a book at some stage.
I remember hearing “we built this city” in grade school with the local station getting plugged in the song. NOW it makes sense.
I liked the song, still do.
0die_art4 _ That was a crap song
Gee missed they gig when the Jefferson Airplane opened for The Rolling Stones at the Cow Palace in 1966. It was Mick's Birthday and they just released Aftermath. Brian Jones sat cross-legged on the stage when they played Paint It Black. The McCoys also opener did Hang on Sloopy. And another SF Band Sopwith Camel was the third opener with the radio hit Hello Hello. That was before Signe Andersson got pregnant and was replaced with the Grace Slick from The Great Society. I still have my little orange Jefferson Airplane Loves you button somewhere that they gave away.
The best thing to ever come out of Jefferson Airplane is Hot Tuna. And, ever since this lockdown insanity began Jorma Koukonen, founding member and lead guitarist of Airplane and Hot Tuna is the only person I know of playing free shows right here on YouTUbe every Saturday night from his Fur Peace Ranch. Seek and you shall find!
see you there
Jorma has always been my idol. I watch Fur Peace Ranch too. Love when Jack joins in (well, in the good ole days when people gathered together)
I have a set from Hot Tuna live on stage (somewhere), I like to play at home when I'm relaxing and undisturbed. The only parts i cut out so I don't have to deal with them are when Grace Slick appears. It's jarring. It sounds like some drunk crashing the party. Prank or not, it's a buzz kill and cringy.
Awesome thanks I don't care about all the drama starships and Jefferson airplane had very talented musians and they all my favorite I never going to stop likekin their music 🎵🎶 🎸❤️🤟 great video thank you for sharing it 🤟❤️🎸
Starship is one of my favorite bands. My favorite songs were Sarah & We built this city
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"They might be named after some obscure fictional blues singer, or drug paraphernalia; we just don't know."
Yeah, I think we all know.
WTF...? Not one word of Mickey Thomas. One of the greatest singers/voices from the eighties.
True, i agree with you. The best vocalist...
Jefferson airplane rocked. I don't care what anyone says. Grace was a windchiled and she could scream out the lyrics. Great video thanks grunge you guys ROCK
Jefferson Airplane is synonomous with 60's San Francisco and Jefferson Starship with therafter San Francisco۔
Not one word, or riff, from their album "Modern Times." Or about Craig Chaquico's incredible solo at the end of Save Your Love, one of the greatest solos, and tunes, and albums of all time.
Bernie Taupin was a genius. Elton is nothing without him.
"Somebody to love" has to be one of my favorite song's by Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Signe Anderson, perhaps?
Whom I believe on the same day in S.F., along with Paul Kantner, had a heart attack & both died. There are some old freaks still around, barely, but Good job, keep it going...🌹
These people are phenomenal!
I got to meet Toly Anderson at a record store in Portland OR a couple years before she passed. Very humble lady.
The inference in the narrative that Signe was forced out of the band or dropped is untrue. She had a newborn and couldn't take the baby on the road so she left. Bill Graham was managing the Airplane and arranged for her to leave. She had a big sendoff by the band. You can find it on UA-cam.
@@dalestreeter341 she talked about all that. I didn't know there were two stories.
I have never have seen how "We Built This City" got so much sh*t. It's a nice little pop rocker, no "A Day In The Life" mind you, but it is a pretty decent song. It certainly does NOT deserve all the negative crap about it.
Their fans expected(rightfully) so much more from Starship, but it is what it is(was).
@Cerbian There you go! Memories of the times.
I'll take "We...This City" over all the Hip-Hop & Rap-Crap put together.
It really ain't all that bad, but it sure was a huge fall from the "30 Seconds Over Winterland" days.
🎵And so it goes, And so it goes, And so it goes, And where it's going nobody knows... 🎵
I almost wrecked my car while violently stabbing my finger at the radio trying to change the channel when We Built this City came on. That song deserves the title of worst pop song ever recorded.
I know everyone hates it. But I've always liked it ... & still do.
How can you say that when New Kids On The Block exist?
John Zook
Oh my God that's EXACTLY what I tell people happens to me everytime a Grunge song comes on the radio, matter of fact I just told someone basically that same thing today, "Nothing will make me almost wreck a car faster then me diving for the dial on my car radio..."
A number 1 hit for them, written by Bernie Taupin. I like it.
Nothings Gonna Stop Us is FAR worse !
I love when people say "We built this city" was one of the worst hated songs ever. FACT - the world loves this song today.
Watching this I can't help but think about the Concert in Golden Gate Park that my band played with Jorma Kaukonen, I guess is was '77 or '78. My band was Odysseus and I was the lead vocalist. Long time ago.
I personally think of Count on Me when I hear the band name. Miracles was great but for me,the song Count on Me is what does it
Love the hippie vibe on that one. I saw
band member Pete Sears coming out of a tent at Knebworth in the UK in 1978. If the tent belonged to the band and it was large enough then the band were camping amongst the fans.
I Love Grace Slick, I have always been interested in her. Now I see that she is Very Intelligent. Most Dark People are and she is a Scorpio like me. Most Scorpios are Intelligent. She has a amazing voice, she was beautiful. I have always loved her as a teenager. Like the video stated, the 60's ended in the 80's. I was very much into the 60's when i was a teenager in the 80's!!!
Putting this out there without giving Mickey Thomas his due credit is just WRONG!!
They built this city on rock and roll
Starship > Airplane - Marty Balin was great and Mickey Thomas still is. Epic.
If you can find it (and it's out there for free download) get the Jefferson Airplane bootleg "A Weekend At Winterland". It's 2 live shows recorded on October 25 and 26 1969 at Winterland in San Francisco, Airplane at their finest. In the "Mau Mau (Amerikon) Jam" Grace starts singing about making love to a flying fish man lol.
I had a short and funny experience wih Grace when guarding the stage at West Palm Beach Rock Festival. She was first out between bands and asked me if there was a place to go pee pee. I told her out back porty pot's but the are pretty bad now. She just smiled and said "I'll just hold it in. It'll help me jump around this show.". ha. Loved the Airplane so that night was a great time. Also was on stage for the Stones. They weren't good at all to me. Short short show and out of tune due to cold temps at 5am.
Elvis was known as The King, and I think Grace should be Queen. Even in 2021, I scour the interwebs for anything I can find on her. Long live The Queen!
Pass on this one folks - Forever Sunrise never leaves a rude comment - that's part of his program - but pass on this - Be Safe
I love this band, but to be honest I don't think it would have gone as far as it did without Grace. Grace is the most awesome vocalist of all time in RnR. She was Tops at both Monterey & Woodstock. I have been watching the Woodstock performance everyday for sbout 2 months now. Along with 'Go Ride The Music'. There will never be another like Grace.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Convoluted would be an understatement !!
According to an interview with Marty , the name "Jefferson airplane" came from the name of someone's dog whom Jorma knew.
White Rabbit * awesome tune !
The goal of working in music is to not have to do other jobs. There is not downside to being too successful in music. Finding bad things about succeeding means you are the one with the problem. These musicians spent their lives earning a great living playing music. That is a life well lived.
If it's "untold" how does anyone know about it?
We built this business!
Beautiful, love them
If you're reading this i recommend this:
Jefferson Airplane at Pooneil Corners 1968
The band changed with the times and the tastes of the audiences.
Marty was the heart and soul of the band. Kantner's ego, proselytizing and songs sucked. Jorma and Jack were always great as a unit within a unit. Grace? Grace was just Grace. Forever synonymous with the darkly epic "White Rabbit" and rockin' "Someone To Love".
It was never the same once Marty left, definitely the soul of the band.
If Marty was the soul, then Kantner was the brain. JA would be a basic blues rock band if it wasn't for Paul's folk influences and his 12 string Rickenbacker.
Loved hearing CSN harmonize,with,Grace,is truly beautiful to listen to( no I never was lucky enough to see them)
Me,born in 1961) just saw a video here on YT)
Brilliant documentary, and some interesting footage. Airplane Freaks Forever! ⌬