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| kcar | Posted: May 14, 2013 - 11:32 C57BL6 wrote: This song goes well with my daily grind of mouse embryos. Sloggydog wrote: Man you gotta get a better breakfast cereal ; 0= I hate it when the vomit goes up my nose 'cause I'm laughing so hard. |
| pixiep | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 21:10 thank you, a beautiful instrumental |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 20:34 Cynaera wrote: I can't believe how many of these "old" songs I first heard on our local hinky-dink radio station! We had a DJ named Jim Holdren, and his "theme" song was "Machine Number Two" by Leo Kottke. Tim Blissenbach never had a set theme song - he just shot from the hip and it was always great. My friend Rich used that Todd Rundgren song about "I just wanna bang on the drum all day." Damn, I miss really good FM radio... RP is the closest thing to it that I'll probably ever find, and it doesn't work on my MP3 player! BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time.  Miss you so much, Cynaera... love this marvelous music from a great classic album... |
| grant | Posted: May 02, 2013 - 20:31 Go Jorma, go! |
| joelbb | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 18:09 Toke wrote: Its amazing as soon as the first 2/3 bars I knew I was back in the 60's ... Oh for those days again :-) If you figure it out, take me with you. |
| joelbb | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 18:08 Archetypal 60s. Jorma was always awesome. |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 09, 2013 - 09:24 absolutely gorgeous music... I still have the original vinyl album... love the whole album... |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 06:05 Its amazing as soon as the first 2/3 bars I knew I was back in the 60's ... Oh for those days again :-) |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 07:40 You JA fans will be glad to hear , Colorado and Washington just passed recreational pot laws Party on Garth! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Oct 26, 2012 - 21:19 Timeless |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 09:17 polymerchm wrote: Jorma's perfect song. Nothing more to say.  beautiful. makes me smile each time. |
| ezzyme (Now in Santa Barbara, CA's suburb, Goleta.) | Posted: Aug 24, 2012 - 21:46 Youngsters of today may not know where this came from, but now they know. |
| polymerchm (Silver Spring, MD) | Posted: Aug 04, 2012 - 22:06 dougmbrown wrote: Love hearing the song but it always reminds me of hot summer days in my childhood, listening to Scott Muni on WNEW (his end of shift exit music). Thanks for playing. 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!!! |
| polymerchm (Silver Spring, MD) | Posted: Aug 04, 2012 - 21:57 Jorma's perfect song. Nothing more to say. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 11:50 This is the perfect anytime song. |
| selima_sarah | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 05:37 this to me is the perfect morning song. evokes images of chirping birds and crisp blue skies |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 21:11 truly great music from an incredible album... love it... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 19:27 That really sounded like Leo Kottke to me. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 13:32 Cynaera wrote: And I can't be "chauvinistic" because I'm female. You may want to look that one up. Just sayin'. |
| chinacat | Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 13:30 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: How can Jorma Kaukonen be 71? He will always be the simply amazing young Turk guitarist I remember from back then... |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 01:30 C57BL6 wrote: This song goes well with my daily grind of mouse embryos. Man you gotta get a better breakfast cereal |
| Jeff09 (Gainesville, Florida) | Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 06:16 How can Jorma Kaukonen be 71? He will always be the simply amazing young Turk guitarist I remember from back then... |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 13:58 If you like this, try Jorma Kaukonen's Quah, or better yet, Blue Country Heart. |
| C57BL6 (PB) | Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 15:48 This song goes well with my daily grind of mouse embryos. |
| owchita | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 08:05 Yep, it's 8/10 in my book. Sorry, Cynaera, unless 'chauvinism' is prefixed with 'male' then it is a reference to extreme nationalism and nothing to do with sexism. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 01, 2011 - 16:41 yowza this is awesome... |
| Cynaera (Kenneth's Frequency) | Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 15:55 old_shep wrote: To say that a piece was "ahead of its time" is extremely condecending and chauvinistic .... because the inference is that only current music could possibly be this good, and the fact that this piece is 40 odd years old must therefore be surprising because people back then were not "cool" and therefore this performance must have been a fluke. I wonder how many of today's tunes will be played in 2050. 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. |
| Tippster (Washington, DC) | Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 15:47 Jorma! DC Represent! |
| haresfur (Bendigo Australia) | Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 17:04 WonderLizard wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the Starship was Paul Kantner's band. Balin, Slick, and other members of the original and revamped Airplane passed through the line-up from time to time, but the Starship was all Kantner. Here's a reference: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-starship-p195171/biography 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. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 01, 2011 - 07:08 Cynaera wrote: I can't believe how many of these "old" songs I first heard on our local hinky-dink radio station! .... ...BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time. old_shep wrote: To say that a piece was "ahead of its time" is extremely condecending and chauvinistic .... because the inference is that only current music could possibly be this good, and the fact that this piece is 40 odd years old must therefore be surprising because people back then were not "cool" and therefore this performance must have been a fluke. I wonder how many of today's tunes will be played in 2050. 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. |
| black321 (Apogee) | Posted: Jul 22, 2011 - 07:11 calypsus_1 wrote:
Jorma always wore the coolest t-shirts in the 60s...like the one on the cover of surrealistic pillow...a real rock star |
| dougmbrown (Denver) | Posted: Jun 20, 2011 - 15:12 Love hearing the song but it always reminds me of hot summer days in my childhood, listening to Scott Muni on WNEW (his end of shift exit music). Thanks for playing. |
| jagdriver (Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise) | Posted: Jun 20, 2011 - 15:11 DaveInVA wrote: This song never gets old for me.... Got that right! .JPG) Hot Tuna in Truckee, CA, several summers ago. |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 10:24 This song never gets old for me.... |
| coloradojohn (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe) | Posted: May 30, 2011 - 06:00 Yup, it's hard to beat Jorma, for sure...Saw him and Casady jam at a place in Boulder years ago, and many of us had tears in our eyes more than a couple times... |
| Dave_Mack (Still Hangin' in the Twilight Zone) | Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 16:48 Must be a good day if we get to hear Water Song and Embryonic Journey. Love me some acoustic Jorma. Gorgeous. |
| mike_chouinard | Posted: Apr 18, 2011 - 10:40 I like this piece. Jorma's playing reminds me of John Fahey or Leo Kottke. However, my ears would be perfectly happy to be spared listening to "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" again and again. My older sisters exposed me to lots of amazing music from the late 60s. The Airplane, however, were so far behind their most of the peers. Get out of the wayback machine, Boomers. Not everything you did deserves a trophy. |
| Seahunt (Parent's Basement) | Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 04:31 Wow. Had no idea they could/did play music like this. I guess I am another pathetic victim of corporate radio. Thanks RP! |
| old_shep (Iowa) | Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 10:56 To say that a piece was "ahead of its time" is extremely condecending and chauvinistic .... because the inference is that only current music could possibly be this good, and the fact that this piece is 40 odd years old must therefore be surprising because people back then were not "cool" and therefore this performance must have been a fluke. I wonder how many of today's tunes will be played in 2050. |
| wenatchee (Duvall, WA) | Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 09:32 Where was this recorded? Love "The Sound" . . . one aspect of why I love this piece. |
| agkagk (Aurora, Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 09:03 This one and Hot Tuna's Water Song are simply brilliant. Jorma Kaukonen now tops my list of artists to explore. Too bad it took 40 years for me to figure that out! |
| gentlefrancis (Stockholm) | Posted: Jan 14, 2011 - 07:53 Is this the one the played at the very end of the last episode of Friends? |
| JBarDom (Mexico) | Posted: Jan 08, 2011 - 19:44 If there's a plane to catch, this is it. |
| Jeff09 (Gainesville, Florida) | Posted: Jan 08, 2011 - 19:41 Sjaaks wrote: That's just what i was about to say.... Indeed, timeless as well! 9 I agree...timeless. |
| Sjaaks (Horst, Netherlands) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 04:54 Cynaera wrote: The guitar work is rather ahead of its time. That's just what i was about to say.... Indeed, timeless as well! 9 |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 07:30 haresfur wrote: Marty Balin. I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the Starship was Paul Kantner's band. Balin, Slick, and other members of the original and revamped Airplane passed through the line-up from time to time, but the Starship was all Kantner. Here's a reference: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-starship-p195171/biography |
| audiophelia (Pennsylvania) | Posted: Oct 11, 2010 - 09:46 Cynaera wrote: I can't believe how many of these "old" songs I first heard on our local hinky-dink radio station! We had a DJ named Jim Holdren, and his "theme" song was "Machine Number Two" by Leo Kottke. Tim Blissenbach never had a set theme song - he just shot from the hip and it was always great. My friend Rich used that Todd Rundgren song about "I just wanna bang on the drum all day." Damn, I miss really good FM radio... RP is the closest thing to it that I'll probably ever find, and it doesn't work on my MP3 player! BTW: I love this song. The guitar work is rather ahead of its time. Hear Hear! Earl Bailey used to use this as intro and outro music when was on WMMR in Philadelphia. Now he's with XM on Deep Cuts. Music needs a human touch. |
| ubuntourist (Washington, DC) | Posted: Oct 11, 2010 - 09:46  Altering my state... More please. |
| Johnny_Wave (California, baby) | Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 21:44 Not bad, a 7 |
| bachbeet | Posted: Sep 03, 2010 - 22:29 Another terrific song from their best album. |
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