[MikeHunt]

wow...great topic

1) yes .. a drunken roadie ...was trying to say ..garden of eden ...and thats how he pronounced it.
The band loved it and used it as the title.

2) Iron Butterfly founder... Ron Bushey (I believe his name was) ...was found in the Angeles National Forest ..about 5 miles from where I live....not in a So. American jungle or woods.
It was Southern California.
Mystery still surrounds his death.

3) White Rabbit & Somebody to Love ...were originally written and performed by a band called Great Society
Jerry Slick(Grace's then hubby) & Darby Slick (his brother )wrote them and Grace sung them.
Still the best version(s) of the 2 songs ...imho.
Great live recordings are around.
Look for them in P2P land.

4) Jefferson Airplane ..was a matchbook cover split apart so that it curled and the top stuck out ..so that it looked kinda like an airplane from the side view ...when a joint was inserted.
Like a poor mans cigarette holder...for getting those last tar laden tokes....... /-

[DudeAsInCool]

You liked The Great Society versions better? The sound seemed a lot more primitive and tinty than the Airplane versions.... But its been a few years since I listened to either...

Volunteers of America (1970)



Original Version

[Kooperman]

Wow, it looks weird seeing janett999 on the thread. Sure wish she'd drop by from time to time. Very nice person.

[DudeAsInCool]

We need to send her a refresher invite :)

Today - Live @ the Monterey Pop Festival (1967)

I think this song appeared on Surrealistic Pillow

[rainbowdemon]

The best version of White Rabbit I ever heard was in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. In the summer of 1976 or possibly 1977. It was a Starship show. Grace screamed "feed your head" over and over while the band jammed behind her. Don't know how long this went on, but it was a while. I get chills just remembering it. This was the first tour that Craig Chaquico was involved with. An excellent guitarist!!

[DudeAsInCool]

Saw her at the Atlantic City Pop Festival in 69--the Airplane were soaring...

[rainbowdemon]

On the down side of this. I saw a band that called themselves "Starship". It was a free show at a Pittsburgh wing festival a few years ago. Mickey Thomas was the singer. The rest were just kids basically. No original members at all. For what they were, they were a decent band. But to call themselves "Starship" (They dropped the Jefferson) was a joke. They played some old Airplane and Jefferson Starship songs. I told my wife if they even attempted White Rabbit, I was leaving! They didn't. All in all, it was kind of sad.

[MikeHunt]

DudeAsIn Cool...yeah well..the Great Society versions were more primitive and earthy...the live versions (being originals) broke new ground.
No, they didn't have the production values of the Airplanes versions( that we all heard first)...but they are good in their own right...kinda like Airplane unplugged.

[deb]

... "watch her ride," ... another great jefferson airplane song ... i hadn't heard it before, but someone shared it with me ... i love it, fun sounding song ... :D ... jefferson airplane, better and better with time ...

I didn't know you were the one for me, I couldn't see
But you were waiting,
For someone to come along to help you out to sing your song,
And I was changing;
All I see is you; All I feel is you for me!

And I would really like to watch you ride;
And always feel you by my side;
I would really like to watch you ride
All on me!

I go stumbling to the sky, and I seem to fly so high
I see you, I feel you;
You have a way of walking 'round your feet they never touch the ground,
And you are shining;
All I see is you; All I feel is you for me!

Times don't change; Times don't ever change for me;
And I know that you could be the only thing in my world,
The only thing that my mind would find;
For love, for love and peace of mind, for me, for me; Oh

Your Shadow in the morning sun becomes my fun, and we can say,
"I love you, love you;"
My morning shines on silver beaches, your light flashes to the reaches
Of my mind, my mind, of
My mind, and my mind it comes alive with you;
It's all that I can do to sit here and let you blow my mind;
Ah! My mind,
You're so fine, in my mind you're so fine, in my mind you're so fine,
You're so fine, in my mind, you're so fine in mind.

[rickio]

I actually believe In a gadda de vida is latin for In the garden of life.

vida is latin for life I know that for a fact.

As for jefferson airplane , yeah way cool but there best stuff was not so commercially successful..

Like the way cool "After Bather at Baxters" album a long trippy album. I also dug

"Crown of Creation" it has a very moody thought provacative song named "Triad" which grace slick wrote and sang as I think it was one of her best.

Also when Jefferson Airplane morphed into Jefferson Starship they made a killer album called "Spitfire"

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[Kooperman]

Rickio mentions one of my favorite hippie lifestyle songs, Triad, but he credits it to the wrong songwriter. David Crosby wrote the song, which he wanted to record with The Byrds, but it was too controversial for them and they weren't happy with it. Crosby was so pissed he left the group. Jefferson Airplane covered the song and made it famous.

http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/introjs.h...gfile/TRIAD.HTM

http://www.vghf.com/...stills_nash.htm

[rainbowdemon]

"Spitfire" was very good. The one just before it "Red Octopus" was great too!!

[janett999]

DudeAsInCool, on Feb 5 2004, 11:23 PM, said:

We need to send her a refresher invite :)

be careful what you wish for!


it might just happen

lol

[Redneck4sure]

I like the Jefferson Airplane versions better than the Great Society but that is possibly because I grew up listening to it and only recently heard the Great Society version. It certainly was a ground breaking sound. A true classic.

[rickio]

kooperman !
thanks for clarifying my mistake. I do re-call that now but nowadays with no album covers to look at i can't always remember the facts lol

I do miss album covers and reading the back etc. hehe

peace