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 C57BL6 wrote: 

 Sloggydog wrote: 

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I hate it when the vomit goes up my nose 'cause I'm laughing so hard. 

thank you, a beautiful instrumental

 Cynaera wrote: 
Miss you so much, Cynaera...

love this marvelous music from a great classic album...
 

Go Jorma, go!

 Toke wrote: 
If you figure it out, take me with you.

Archetypal 60s.  Jorma was always awesome.

absolutely gorgeous music...  I still have the original vinyl album...  love the whole album...
 

Its amazing as soon as the first 2/3 bars I knew I was back in the 60's ... Oh for those days again :-)

You JA fans will be glad to hear , Colorado and Washington just passed recreational pot laws
Party on Garth!

Timeless

 polymerchm wrote: 
beautiful. makes me smile each time.

Youngsters of today may not know where this came from, but now they know.

 dougmbrown wrote: 
This, "Breathless" by Todd Rundgren, "Cast You Fates to the WInd", by Vince Guaraldi and "Borne on the Solar Wind" by Jade Warrior, where wonderful endings to various WNEW DJs sets.  WNEW, NY introduced me to the world of music.  I am forever grateful.

As an side, a student I worked with in Graduate school used to talk about her Uncle Scott the DJ.  I took me a year to realize she meant Scott Muni.  Cool!!!  

Jorma's perfect song.  Nothing more to say.

This is the perfect anytime song.

this to me is the perfect morning song. evokes images of chirping birds and crisp blue skies

truly great music from an incredible album...  love it...

 

That really sounded like Leo Kottke to me.

 Cynaera wrote: 
You may want to look that one up.  Just sayin'.

Have seen him twice in the last couple of years and evidently, age has nothing to do with it. Coming to a city near you soon.

http://jormakaukonen.com/tour.html

 Jeff09 wrote: 

 C57BL6 wrote: 
Man you gotta get a better breakfast cereal

How can Jorma Kaukonen be 71?  He will always be the simply amazing young Turk guitarist I remember from back then...

If you like this, try Jorma Kaukonen's Quah, or better yet, Blue Country Heart.

This song goes well with my daily grind of mouse embryos.

 old_shep wrote: 
If I wanted to be critical, I'd mention that you misspelled "condescending."  And I can't be "chauvinistic" because I'm female. What I meant by my comment was that this particular work was misplaced in its time - it wasn't as widely accepted in the mainstream then as it is now, in the age of acoustic instrumentals.  People are ALWAYS cool. Sometimes, they take a little longer to wake up, but I meant no disrespect to Jorma, or the Airplane. I was merely pointing out that this song was exceptionally brilliant in a time when acoustic rock was not being played regularly on the radio.

BTW - "ahead of its time" means exactly that. This song fits perfectly in 2011. It was a novelty when it first came out, and people (myself included) didn't understand it, and tended to disregard it as a "fluke." It found its true place in the future. Which only makes me love Airplane more, here in this 2011 future.

Jorma!  DC Represent!

 WonderLizard wrote: 
It may have been Paul Kantner's band but the really sucky songs are Balin songs.  If you go back through the old Rolling Stones, Marty gets a fair bit of the press.  I think he had a lot of influence in turning the group to pop.

Wouldn't mind hearing more Blows Against the Empire, though.

 Cynaera wrote: 

 old_shep wrote: 
That may be what you infer from the comments, but I don't think that's what the original post implied.  There is no inference that people back then "were not cool".  Calling an artist "ahead of his time" would imply (to me) that they had done or addressed things which most other artists would not do or address until some later time.  It does not imply that works from one era are superior or inferior to those of another era.  The expression is carelessly over-used and really only describes a handful of people in the history of humankind.  One recent example I could think of would be Lenny Bruce: his subject matter and style were not widely explored or employed by many other comedians until well after his death.  That doesn't imply that Comedy from his era was inferior to that from later eras. 
Anyhow, the guitar work on this song - though very adept and tasty - does not seem ahead of its time to me.  People have been playing guitars and other stringed instruments like that long before Jefferson Airplane.