Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience
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Free Music Review: Simply a must have!
Hit: 5 Stars
A must for fans. A must for music lovers. Simply a must have.
Thank you Grace, Marty, Paul, Jack and Jorma - for the years of enjoyment and for this moment.
Free Music Review: morning maniac music, to be sure...
Hit: 4 Stars
I've got a real love-hate (or love-haight?) relationship with this item. I'll start by saying the performance is totally astounding. Really. I don't have superlatives enough. In that, I agree with almost everyone else here. The "Wooden Ships" by itself would justify the price. I don't know if it was the energy of the event, or the "whole lotta orange" they got earlier, or whatever it was that was keeping them awake a 5:30 AM, but this is perhaps the most intense performance that I have (which is most of what's available commercially and a couple of bootlegs).
But I can't get past the packaging. I don't mean the liner notes (such as they are) or the poster (which is OK), or the (plastic-free) enclosure (bravo for that). Those are terrific; I would have preferred better notes maybe, but that's a preference. What I don't quite understand was the need to include a copy of "Volunteers".
I do understand on one level. The Airplane set is 100 minutes, too long for one CD, and not quite enough for two. Again, I wouldn't have minded two CDs of just the Airplane set -- for $15? -- in the least. But someone decided they needed some filler, but they weren't willing to spend any money. So they used the most recent edition of "Volunteers", the 2004 remaster (which for some reason doesn't sound quite as good as the 2004 edition itself), rather than get the rights to some other as-yet-unreleased tracks, say, or produce more thorough notes, as a way of justifying the second CD. I note that the Sly & the Family Stone and Janis versions of this series get the whole set on one CD; so the 2d CD is then only to enhance the package. Unfortunately, neither "Kozmic Blues" nor "Stand" have been remastered, so if you already have these CDs (or the 2004 "Volunteers") this seems redundant.
I should mention, however, that despite these reservations, I did buy this CD, and I have ordered he Janis version; it helped that I don't currently have "Kozmic Blues" on CD, so it's not redundant. Yet.
Free Music Review: Good Morning People!
Hit: 4 Stars
These were weird times. For me personally, it was a bit of a struggle to get through the whole deal, but it was so amazing it flew past. My favorite performances, then and now, were the Who and the Jefferson Airplane. The Airplane were doing People Music and Change seemed Possible. I wasn't too far from the stage and I got to see them for the first time. Time warping now, I guess, but it was Real and I was there. These recordings are, in a way, my first time back. Curiously, the movies didn't do it for me. This set is Time Capsule stuff. Since I didn't have my own professional recording equipment I'll take it. We've all sophisticated-up significantly in the past few decades sound-wise so allowances have to be made, but this is History and not the sepia-toned kind either. I've kind of wondered how the Mystique would have held up if we had all had cell phones. Anyway, I--and others gauging from the reviews--would have done the packaging differently, but I'm just happy to have the concert. On another generational note--many of my friends who were also at that Vortex have passed on. This recording space is a way to remember and connect with them. We were all young then.Free Music Review: This will satisfy your old JA jones.
Hit: 4 Stars
I'm no expert on Jefferson Airplane, though I have listened to most of their music from the late 60's and into the late 80's as I was growing up.
As far as I'm concerned, Winds of Change was their last really good album i could get into, though the newer stuff was much different than the early 70's stuff.
If you like the Grateful Dead and old Little Feat type music this is just the album for you!
Very much Country style music and man oh man, you'd be hard pressed to find better or more powerful live Grace Slick vocals anywhere.
BTW, don't be fooled by what you perceive of 1969 live music technology; The sound quality on this disc is FANTASTIC!.
So when you get tired of Beyonce and Lady Gaga and Kei$ha and Rhianna and nothing but a dose of Grace (and Jourma) will cure your malady then THIS is your album.
Free Music Review: Different from the "live" cut of Volunteers
Hit: 4 Stars
So Grace rattles about morning maniac music, introduces the band, then off they go into their first song of the set The Other Side of this Life. When she yells "Good Morning People" I get very excited!
But on the "Volunteers" (live) version, which is on the Fulton Street anthology, the opening comments (edited) come over the opening bars of the song, and when she yells "Good Morning People" I get MORE excited.
This album is a truer representation of that moment. It doesn't matter. This is kick-ass, creative, wonderful music, Morning, Noon and Night and for the ages.