Posted on 09/28/2018 7:06:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Lead vocalist for song such as "Count On You", "Hearts" and "Miracles" with Jefferson Airplane/Starship and also solo.
#7. Thanks for posting the words to “Hearts”, a great song about love and pain.
Odd thing... just the other day I saw a commercial on tv that had a catchy song and I said to my significant other “gee, that sounds just like Mary Balin”.... it sounded so close I had to follow it up and check. It wasn’t of course but the resemblance was uncanny.
That guy had a voice for the ages.
I remember reading something about how powerful his voice was, they had to have him turn his back to the mic so as to not overpower Grace Slick.
Jefferson Starship reinvented themselves and became much more mainstream in sound, exactly what also happened to Chicago.
They began selling to specific types of consumers.
It was a business decision, I’m sure.
Hearts
https://youtu.be/dIF74lH4KPM
‘It’s No Secret’ was always one of my favorites.
thank you... Surrealistic Pillow was always my favorite Airplane ride
RIP
I loved Jefferson Airplane
Pillow was the first 33 rpm I ever bought
Mainly for Somebody to Love
I was infatuated with the whole San Francisco scene as a kid and up into college
I went and hung out eight years late for summer of Love
Dope and hang arounds
Yosemite was much better and more to our liking ....the friends with me
Actually mid 70s Santa Cruz was better....an old friend of mine ....acid chemist....Mickey
Little bitty guy with hair to his waist
Famous in those parts
Being a Mississippi southern style freak ....folks who left town for the scene went to San Francisco or Austin or Boulder
Folks didn’t go to Portland or Seattle or Nashville then as a youth thing
I can’t deny there was a time that song mattered to me
The slower more piano oriented version on Worst....which is the single version that had We Can Be Together is better to me
I think in her day Grace Slick could flat out wail...serious pipes..
A rock singer chick...
And Jorma Kaukonen is a very underrated axeman....he’s good enough you hear the first few notes you know it’s him if you know the airplane or tuna
I know hippie bands are eschewed here and JA is not nearly as musical as CSN
But their raw energy just did more for me ....and the psychedelia spoke to me....I’m listening to Eskimo Blue Day right now....
Man it brings back memories
Hell I even liked Grunt
Oh my, what were they thinking?
You were at Altamont?? Wow, how does it feel to have been at such a historic event? I’ll bet you have some stories to tell...
Mary = Marty (obviously.... what a dumb error I made)
And the album had the Jorma Kaukonen tune that should have convinced every guitar player that here was a major guitar talent:
Oh, yes. What a great album.
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