Posted on 09/28/2018 6:18:45 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
RIP. You can’t listen to “Volunteers Of America” without a profound sense of irony. “One generation got old.” Marty, they all do.
“Kantner died in 2016.”
I didn’t know.
https://jormakaukonen.com/tour.php
Hot Tuna on tour still....
“He had a tremendous voice. RIP Marty”
Yep, one of the best.
Just Great American Rock Music.
If only you’d believe in miracles baby like I believe ...
Hot tuna was in Ithaca last night. I was busy unfortunately.
Volunteers is a fantastic song. The best thing about The Airplane was that it spawned Hot Tuna. Jorma and Jack are still touring and and putting out great music.
High above Cayuga's waters? ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9CVLVevm4E
Live version of High Flying Bird.
I REALLY enjoy their first album with Signe Anderson. Folk blues...
Then one day my man ,
Lord, she up and died now.
Oh Lord, she up and died now.
She wanted to die,
And the only way to fly is die, die, die.
There’s a high flyin’ bird, flying way up in the sky,
And I wonder if she looks down as she goes on by?
Well, she’s flying so freely in the sky.
Lord, look at me here,
I’m rooted like a tree here,
Got those sit-down, can’t cry,
Oh, Lord, gonna die blues.
Townes Van Zandt used to say that JA was a musical influence. I always thought that was a joke until I really listened to Airplane.
Only remember one of Mott's hits, but it had a classic line I just loved ----
And my brother's sittin' home with his Beatles & his Stones.
Never got it off, on that Revolution stuff.
What a drag.
Too many sna-aa-aa-ags.
---- because it mocked those who I considered to be the worst demographic segment of my own Boomer generation (born approx 1946-1952):
They were the elders of we younger Boomers, the ones who lorded it over us (due to their alleged superiority, based on nothing more than being older, stronger, faster and able to hit harder), as our older siblings, our babysitters, camp counselors, lifeguards, Scouting leaders, school crossing guards, college TA's & dorm RA's, and so on.
I rolled my eyeballs for all those years when they excitedly talked about The Revolution!! It was just around the corner! Almost here! The older generation will be dumped from their position of power! WE WILL RULE INSTEAD!
For a few years it was all: Jefferson Airplane: "Got a revolution! Got a revolution!" and Thunderclap Newman: "We have got to get it together! Because the revolution's here!" and Crosby,Yadda&Yadda: "This summer I hear the drumming! Four dead in O-hi-o! Gotta get down to it!"
And then in just the blink of an eye, it was "poof" --- all over. "Huh?? Where's the revolution! I know I just saw it, coming around the corner, but now it's gone. What happened? Has anyone seen The Revolution?"
So I just loved that mocking line .... I think the song was written by Bowie, right?
” I saw the Airplane - well, Starship - back in 1975. Marty Balin and the band were great. RIP.”
I was a big Jefferson Airplane fan and saw them in 1969. They improvised a heck of a lot and sometimes it was great and other times not so great. :-)
“Look what’s coming up the street
Got a revolution, got the revolution“
So did the revolution happen or not?
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
It's coming to a head right now. Those bungholes from back then are the deep state now.
Those are both songs from the great society that Jefferson airplane covered
Almost sure the one time I saw them was 1969 like you. At Ford Auditorium in Detroit. That venue was demolished and now 2 of the group are gone.
I was impressed by their serious professionalism and rehearsed music approach. Admittedly I was surprised by that. Unlike some at that time who barely held together to get to the end of a song.
When you see gray pony tailed codger guys and creepy, snippy gray haired crones, remember that they were in their 20s in the sixties and early 70s and many are still holding onto the SDS anti-American trash they believed in. Never progressed beyond it.
Bill Ayres was a professor instead of being shot by a cop running from bombing a building where he could have killed innocent people in 1970. “I wish I had done more of it” he said recently. Total a-hole.
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