white rabbit, starship, better than Grace

[sammyg2]

Saw this on a PBS special, if I close my eyes Cathy Richardson sounds more like grace slick than Grace Slick did. Weird.
She is over the top and could tone it down a notch or two, maybe that's part of the impersonation?

[Halm]

I caught part of this the other night. Cathy is pretty darn good. I'd pay to go see this version of Jefferson Airplane / Starship. Even so, she is no Grace Slick.

[sammyg2]

And just in case anyone was wondering what ever happened to Grace Slick .....
(Sorry in advance)

[Halm]

LOL, imagine that. The Acid Queen didn't age well.

[ckissick]

I used to have a Rickenbacker just like the one in the video. I miss that guitar.

[legion]

Not bad. Sounds dead on.

I still think the eeriest rendition of White Rabbit I ever experienced was when I saw Blue Man Group do it in 1998 or so. Playing it on the "tubes" is even weirder, and they get the crowd to sing the words.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by Halm

LOL, imagine that. The Acid Queen didn't age well.

So I'm guessing you guys are looking the same as you did when you were 25?

[Evans, Marv]

I have to try to keep from getting tears in my eyes when I listen to this stuff. So cool, and such a long time ago.

[Superman]

The singer in my band does a stunning job of Somebody To Love. Bluesy female singers are cool. I knew a singer who did Bobby McGee the same as Janis only better. No kidding. Shoulda heard her version of Stormy Weather.

[dennis in se pa]

Grace deserves more respect than that.

[DanielDudley]

Anyone can bake a cake, once the recipe is established. That doesn't take away from the talent, but someone had to make the mold.

Grace was in the trenches while some of us were still clueless. Some still are.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by dennis in se pa

Grace deserves more respect than that.

I agree. How many of you old farts look like you did 40 years ago? My guess is none. Half of you probably look 9 months pregnant.

The new girl is good but I don't think as good as Grace.

[nota]

grace had the grace to declare she would quit at 50 and did it

btw why is sammy watching hippys on commie PBS tv ?

[Rot 911]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Anyone can bake a cake, once the recipe is established. That doesn't take away from the talent, but someone had to make the mold.

Grace was in the trenches while some of us were still clueless. Some still are.

Absolutely. And here it is done to perfection:

[jpd]

I like the old a lot more. That sound just doesn't seem as it it can be replicated these days. It was much more raw, front and center. There just is not music made like this anymore.

[jpd]

the above, is an excerpt of the below

[nostatic]

I most often change the station when the Airplane comes on these days. Same with the Doors. For some reason I find most of their stuff un-listenable at this point in my life. And I'm not sure why because I love some of their early stuff, but I just don't want to listen to it.

[Baz]

I agree that while Cathy Richardson is not a bad singer for what she is trying to attempt......there is NO comparison to the original Grace Slick!

Thank you Kurt for the Woodstock clip.....there will never be another Grace Slick, nor Airplane, nor Starship.

Nostatic.....I actually recently purchased the 3 CD Airplane Woodstock set because their music is so uniquely creative and raw.

[Baz]

My favourite Airplane tune:




Surrealistic Pillow

Studio album by Jefferson Airplane
Released February 1967
Recorded October 31, 1966 -- November 22, 1966
Genre Psychedelic rock, folk rock
Length 33:40
Label RCA Victor
Producer Rick Jarrard

Jefferson Airplane's fusion of folk rock and psychedelia was original at the time, in line with musical developments pioneered by The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas, and Bob Dylan. Surrealistic Pillow was the first blockbuster psychedelic album by a band from San Francisco, announcing to the world the active bohemian scene that had developed there starting with The Beats during the 1950s, extending and changing through the 1960s into the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. Subsequently, the exposure generated by the Airplane and others wrought great changes to that counterculture, and by 1968 the ensuing national media attention had precipitated a very different San Francisco scene than had existed in 1966. San Francisco photographer, Herb Greene photographed the band for the album's cover art.

Some controversy exists as to the role of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in the making of the album. His reputed presence on several tracks is not corroborated by RCA paperwork and is denied by producer Rick Jarrard. But when performing Comin' Back to Me live with Jefferson Starship, Marty Balin almost always introduced the song with a reference to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, mentioning Garcia as playing the guitar parts on the original studio version.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 146 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time

Track History: The acoustic instrumental 'Embryonic Journey' composed by Jefferson Airplane / Hot Tuna guitarist Jorma Kaukonen originally appeared as the ninth track on Jefferson Airplane's second album Surrealistic Pillow but has been often anthologized, and multiple takes were released as an album also entitled 'Embryonic Journey'. According to the album's liner notes Kaukonen composed the tune in 1962 as part of a guitar workshop in Santa Clara and included it on 'Surrealistic Pillow' at the band's behest.

This song has been used in the final Friends episode (entitled 'The Last One'); in the movie The Rookie during a montage scene, in the movie 'Berkeley in the Sixties' at the end with the credits, and recently in a UK television commercial for Norwich Union.

The track was Kaukonen's first composition to appear on an album; and subsequently became his signature song at live performances.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by nostatic

I most often change the station when the Airplane comes on these days. Same with the Doors. For some reason I find most of their stuff un-listenable at this point in my life. And I'm not sure why because I love some of their early stuff, but I just don't want to listen to it.

Happens to me, too, with a lot of music I loved in my youth (admittedly far fewer years ago than your youth ).

Part of it is that I'm not so much interested in the "message" anymore, just the music. As I improve my musicianship - slowly - I've found that I'm more interested in the technical aspects than what the song does for me emotionally. Maybe I'm just dead inside.