Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience
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Free Music Review: The Airplane at their best
Hit: 5 Stars
I was at Winterland in 70 and again in 72 (the useless 30 Seconds Over Winterland gig). I was at Golden Gate Park in November of '69. I'm sure there were a few others that the decaying brain cells can't nimbly recall. I know from what I speak. It just astounds me that idiot record companies can let something like this sit around moldering for 40 years. Was it the lawyers? Artist egos? Whatever the reason, this is an incendiary performance-maybe the Airplane's best ever. I can tell you I never heard them better. I can't believe it. I saw the Woodstock film back in 1970 and wasn't that impressed. How could I have been so wrong!! This stuff smokes. For jammers, the second disc is heaven; where the band stretches out and really shows their chops. Listen to Casady's bass in Pooneil. Yikes!!! You are clued that something special is about to take place from the very first number, the old Fred Neil tune, The Other Side Of This Life, which has never sounded so damn ballsy. This is a match for the version on Bless Its Pointed Little Head and the pace is even more frenetic. On and on they go, ripping through the whole catalogue like a house afire. On top of all that has been said, it is a revelation. Its hard to fathom the "arbiters of taste" at the record companies keeping this on ice for all these years. In any case, you have to wonder how many other great festival performances are still to be unearthed. Like I've said before, they better get this stuff out there soon, because the old codgers who actually were part of this generation won't be around forever. While we still have warm dollars in our not-yet-clammy hands, they should release as much as they can while we still can remember it.Free Music Review: Long, long overdue
Hit: 5 Stars
I had often heard critics - a uniformly scurrilous lot - state that Woodstock was a relatively poor performance by the Airplane. Judging by the few available songs that had been released, I suspected that this opinion was nonsense. Having listened to this release (which would have required two discs anyway) twice, I feel utterly vindicated by their performance. Ending the set with the apocalyptic "House at Pooneil Corners" was absolutely perfect. I spoke to Chris, my son and a 26 year old guitarist in NC, yesterday. We discussed much of the garbage music/musicians from that era that is/are held in such high esteem today, while the Airplane is ignored or worse. He mentioned that many of his friends think of Jefferson Airplane as essentially "folk" music. I told him to have them listen to these discs. "Eskimo Blue Day", "Wooden Ships", "Volunteers" and the "Pooneils" are simply incredible both musically and conceptually. The whole set may well be the apex of the Airplane's performing career. Although I had to wait until I was 60 to hear this performance, I am absolutely thrilled to have these discs. The Airplane was great when I last saw them live in November of 1970 but this show represents the Airplane at its artistic peak.Free Music Review: FINALLY....MORNING MANIAC MUSIC HAS ARRIVED
Hit: 5 Stars
After almost 40 yrs. of negative hype about the Airplane's poor Woodstock performance, i am pleased to find that another rock 'n roll phony claim has been debunked. JA is super........1969 mega outdoor recording is fine....i'm no audiophile concerning back-in-the-day rock'n roll, but i know what i like and the Airplane's recorded Woodstock performance is pure joy for this old fan. Maybe its not perfect, but such expectations are unrealistic and possibly out of touch...bad recording is bad....and this is not bad....far better than most....maybe JA's best......it is history and the Airplane soars. Oh yeah, who cares if the remastered 'Volunteers' is included. If nothing else, it fills up otherwise blank space on the disc with their new album at that time....BUT the real bargain is the over 90min of JA at Woodstock...its a new dawn. THE OTHER DEBUNKED DOWNER... i'd always heard that the Stones conveniently 'lost' the footage of their 'Rock 'n Roll Circus' because the Who's performance dogged them. Finally, the release of that fabled Circus showed the Stones hitting on all cylinders with a strong performance.......being upstaged was ridiculous....sidenote....Jethro Tull was super.Free Music Review: AMAZING LIVE PERFORMANCE
Hit: 5 Stars
First I must admit I am a fanatic JA fan from way back. I saw them in 69 at the Fillmore East, and a few times at Central park. I was very suprized at this live Woodstock performance. The band has said on numerous occasions that they remember it being not one of their best performances. Could of fooled me. ONE word FANTASTIC, best describes this disc. Grace is just amazing, She really puts her heart and soul into this one. "Eskimo Blue Jay"alone is worth it, never mind one of the best performances of "White Rabbit" ever recorded. But everyone knows that Grace was just one important element of this Great SanFRancico band. Every member of the band shines. This is truely JA at their very best LIVE, and I do mean LIVE IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.... To all you true fans of JA.. Buy this disc, You will not be disappointed. To all you newbes just boarding, is MORNING MANIAC MUSIC at it's BESTFree Music Review: We Must Be In Heaven, Man
Hit: 5 Stars
This is equal to the greatest music I've ever heard. It really captures that trippy "one-mind" Woodstock ecstasy. Jorma's guitar, especially, (sorry for this cliche, but it's true:) is mind blowing. The 21 minute Wooden Ships... WOW. And it's fun to hear Grace Slick talk about the "whole lot of orange" the band took, how "everybody is vibrating" at the end of Eskimo Blue Day. I just wanted to say: there's no reason to complain that the first CD contains the studio album Volunteers. There's enough greatness on that CD to justify inclusion. If you, say, program for We Can Be Together, Good Shepherd, Hey Frederick...THEN go to the live tracks....you have a wonderful listening experience on CD 1, with no repeated titles. Volunteers is a super strong album when it comes to generating a feeling of "hippie patriotism." Up against the wall.....MFer!