Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (Live at Woodstock Music & Art Fair, 1969)

Youtube ^ | August 17th 1969

[Gena Bukin]

Keith Richards? Still with us.

Ozzy? Still with us.

Everyone forgot about Grace Slick. Still with us at 84 years old.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: graceslick; jeffersonairplane; woodstock

[Gena Bukin]

Grace Slick will turn 85 in October and it's my bet that she's gonna outlive everyone.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Grace Slick still alive, may outlive us all.

Drugs, The Final Frontier of Jefferson Starship.

Or, as Hunter Thompson, The Coneheads, and Hunter Biden would recommend......Mass Quantities.

[sushiman]

I was there .Had just turned 17 . Hitched rides with a buddy from eastern CT to and back . Lied to my parents saying we had a ride to and back .

[Psalm 73]

Woostock is the only decent Live Jefferson Airplane performance I've ever heard.

They had a really good set, they meshed well and sound was great - lots from their Volunteers album (I think their best, anyway).

Every other live Airplane I've heard sounded like they all got "the Green" acid...

[KingLudd]

Slick’s White Rabbit is a two-and-a-half minute rock masterpiece. Her vocals on it are magnificent.

[buckalfa]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrpf9J5Fi6U&pp=ygUdSmVmZmVyc29uIGFpcnBsYW5lIGRpY2sgY2F2ZXQ%3D

[GaltAdonis]

I saw Jorma Kaukonen live once.

(If think I also saw Hot Tuna live once - so that would make twice I saw him.

Was over ten years ago.
He is still going at 83!

[libertylover]

Her vocals on it are magnificent.

I agree. I stumbled upon a version of White Rabbit sung by Elephant Revival on YouTube. I like the instruments of Elephant Revival's better, but Grace Slick's vocals are better than Bonnie Paine, at least on that song.

[BlueLancer]

Too true ... maybe if her microphone had been cranked up a little bit more it would have sounded better. Compared to Grace Slick, the singer’s voice was a little weak and reedy-sounding for the song.

[Fiji Hill]

“Volunteers” was an anti-Vietnam War song when it came out in 1970, but in 2024, it sounds like a MAGA anthem.

[Verse 1]
Look what’s happening out in the streets
Got a revolution, got to revolution
Hey, I’m dancing down the street
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 dissertation to hold
Pick up the cry

[Verse 2]
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?

[Chorus]
We are volunteers of America
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America
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[Refrain]
I got a revolution
Got a revolution

[Verse 1]
Look what’s happening out in the streets
Got a revolution, got to revolution
Hey, I’m dancing down the street
Got a revolution, got to revolution
Ain’t it amazing all the people I meet
Got a revolution

[Chorus]
We are volunteers of America
Yeah, we’re volunteers of America
We’re volunteers of America
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America

[Roadrunner383]

Thank you for mentioning ‘White Rabbit’. I’m not a Jefferson Airplane fan, but Slick knocked it out of the park and into the street with that song.

[circlecity]

There is video on YouTube with Grace Slick’s isolated vocal track from White Rabbit. It is pitch perfect long before auto tune.

[PUGACHEV]

I was in my third of college at the time, and in the thick of it when that album came out. It’s a rousing, energetic call for revolution, yet , ironically, it marks the point when all that creative energy and spirt of change from ‘66-‘68, dissolved and became co-opted into commercialism, conceit, and a mere fashion statement.

[Gena Bukin]

but in 2024, it sounds like a MAGA anthem.

LOL! I was kinda thinking this when I posted it!

[PUGACHEV]

I saw Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane several times in the ‘60s. I recall once when they were at a theater-in-the-round at Shady Grove, Maryland, Grace Slick walked to the edge of the stage, higher than a kite, stared out across the crowd, and said “My God, I’m on a ship”.

[circlecity]

Yeah, I saw her with the Starship in the 70s and she was loaded. She didn’t sound very good that time.

[Gena Bukin]

Slick’s White Rabbit is a two-and-a-half minute rock masterpiece. Her vocals on it are magnificent.

Marty Balin was a great singer in his own right, and an excellent songwriter penning some of their 70s "easy listening" hits such as "Miracles" as the band morphed into Jefferson Starship.