Saw them in the UK in 2015. Just wanted to burst into tears when they opened with this - this music meant so much to us when it came out and the feeling never dies.

@jeffhagen2277

3 жыл бұрын

Me too Geoffrey was there. A yank in UK on an amazing JS vacation- front row that evening. A memory that still is scintillating and vivd! With Lesley Taylor and the Shipmates.

I saw the Starship in Cleveland in '73. They opened by doing the entire B side. It is still a strong memory and still holds up. A society with no Utopian impulse is a society doomed. May your head be forever hooked into Andromeda, Paul.

@robertcoleman9225

4 жыл бұрын

I was there too it was great

@simplechronology2605

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertcoleman9225 You guys are magical, because Jefferson Starship did not exist until 1974, and the last Airplane tour was in 1972. No Jefferson Anything band toured in 1973.

@caseleonard5710

3 жыл бұрын

Dunno if you guys cares but if you guys are stoned like me atm then you can watch all of the new movies on instaflixxer. Have been watching with my brother for the last few months :)

@gabrielhugo7

3 жыл бұрын

@Case Leonard yea, have been using instaflixxer for since december myself :)

@gideonfinley3018

3 жыл бұрын

@Case Leonard yup, have been using instaflixxer for years myself :D

It's hard to express how much I love this album. Saw the Starship perform Blows a couple of times in the mid 1970s. Glad I was young enough, but also just old enough, to appreciate it all!

@bunkie2100

2 жыл бұрын

This album and the way it makes me feel are one of the great musical joys of my life. I always return to it whenever I need to rekindle that sense of wonder and *possiblility*.

I have enjoyed this incredible work of art for 40 years. Thank you, Paul.

Absolutely magical. Thanks to everyone who brought this here.

I am so impressed that an attempt was made to do this Album live.

One of my favourite 'pieces' of music ever! 😎😎

@garrystepp6004

8 ай бұрын

Amen

@markharwood7573

6 ай бұрын

Yup.

RIP Paul. It took two to replace Grace, but that was pretty fucking incredible. The trippy space jam was just exactly perfect. RIP Jerry Garcia. Love the way Paul is leading everyone through all the different sections and changes. Amazing.

Great and beautiful

Man, this is the shit. I can't believe that was 3 years ago. In a perfect world, this would be in a theater a few times a week. This music is one of a kind and kicks the ass of Blue Man or anything else that has it's own theater.

and all We got was an Orion test flight in 2014.......What a World We live in, where We could go to other worlds and yet We still choose to kill each other over minor theological differences, rather than experience the joy of increasing Our knowledge of the Universe....loved this since I played My big Brother's (Sadly missed) copy of Blows back in the 70's.and read His copy of Methuselahs Children of course.

this is the jefferson airplane is the definitive message of music to preseve this nation.

A HUMONGOUS BIRTHDAY TO THE LIGHT THAT IS INSIDE PAUL KANTNER AND THIS BAND OF LOVE

One of the best names ever for an album"BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE"! FUK DA EMPIRE!!!

I love Jefferson Starship Orchestra. You guys should do this for a run of shows every year. WOW

Wonderful!

It sucks getting old.

@richardgreen9393

3 жыл бұрын

True that

@jonathanh8187

4 ай бұрын

But it beats the alternative.

Thanks for sharing. As many people as were used (PERRO )in the original album they did an excellent job of live reproduction.

If I had a few million dollars, I would commission a symphonic composer, (maybe the brilliant guy doing old silent soviet film scores) to compile Kantner’s music with JA and JS jam instrumental lines (Slick Aguilar in particular) into a set of works for full symphonic orchestra and choir and stage a massive performance just to hear what it would sound like, what the critics would write, to see if it would spark further performances, leave it to posterity as a great work of art. With Blows as the centerpiece, one hundred voices singing: “Have you seen the stars tonight?”

"What are we gonna do when Uncle Samuel comes along asking for the young ones name,looking for the print of his hand for his files and his numbers game,I don't want his chances for FREEDOM do ever so slim...let's not tell him about him."

@thomasmazur6916

2 жыл бұрын

A child is coming.

i can't believe the audience is so subdued. i saw them 2 weeks ago and i couldn't stop screaming

Two female leads, and they don't add up to one-half of Grace Slick's powerful voice. However, they're keeping this music alive, so that's OK. I always thought this album was vastly Under-rated. It had a bit of a Dense sound, but all the people on it Jelled very well. As a Concept album, it would be entirely appropriate, if it were released today.

❤❤Danke.fürs Senden ❤❤❤😂😂❤😂

...our first truly transhuman anthem...

also, some of these guys/gals in West Palm Beach, with Papa John, they did this, and Papa John did Over The Rainbow, solo, which was just a bit more than " amazing " ...

you know i remember the 23rd of november... that was some time after the fifth... gypsy swirling around the sun, touching grey psychedelic runs, from eyes that grow wide crying - can you believe?

to sail the winds of time. just like the crown trough baron tollbooth. great music lasts forever. if there is no message then there be message, if there be message there be music.

i never said only thing, well okay, it did happen, crash and burn, you know, but i did try to keep this with me ...

People with a clever plan can assume the role of the mighty. Paul was tuned in to the spiritual...

One thing always puzzles Me, in all the various versions of this I've seen or heard, Paul never sings the "Dear Brumus" verse, does Anyone know why?

Great, soon in Uzice - Serbia!

Well I hope somebody in the audience was tripping.

I do remember when this album came out, the ultimate hippy fantasy (and great music ). Of course, some credit should probably have gone to Robert Heinlein (or perhaps it was?)

@beamjockey

8 жыл бұрын

+Peter Osborn Yes, Heinlein gave Kantner permission, and got credit. Read this: books.google.com/books?id=MQPHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA312#v=onepage&q&f=false See also Kantner's liner notes from the 2005 re-issue CD of "Blows against the Empire."

@peterosborn3469

8 жыл бұрын

+beamjockey Thanks, that was interesting reading. I hadn't realized Kantner asked for permission. I had simply noted the similarities.

@alanollier9683

8 жыл бұрын

+beamjockey Heinlein also namechecks Jefferson Starship in Job ( A comedy of Justice) one of His later books that ironically did not feature Lazarus Long, the main character in Methuselahs Children.

@beamjockey

8 жыл бұрын

+Peter Osborn Glad you found that interesting.

actually had tickets for Winterland, 1972, Grace had food poisoning i think ???

And for fans of the band, longtime Guitarist Slick Aguilar is ill and needs a liver transplant. That is him wailing away in this video. His illness prevents him from working and he needs help with expenses. Good karma and the joy of helping someone who has brought us all a lot of joy awaits those who can afford to help. Please google Slick Aguilar & go to his Facebook page to find out how to help. Autographed posters, photos, etc await in return for a small donation to his medical fund. Thanks

Starts at 1:44

it's pretty " amazing " , even if you don't play it backwards

Two women to do Slick's part? Honestly;.....

@Martsapso21

9 жыл бұрын

Don Huber You realize that the album version is full of vocal overdubs, right?

@francodaros

9 жыл бұрын

+Martsapso21 overdubs on Blows against? in wich song? I don't think so.....

@francodaros

9 жыл бұрын

+Don Huber they're just celebrating the Paul's bd. Is like a party, is not the definitive line up....with 2 drums, 2 keyboards, 2 female voices. It's so hard to understand? Paul called his friends on stage, more than possible, and that's all. Long life to Paul!

@Martsapso21

9 жыл бұрын

dark star It's pretty evident on Sunrise. Slick harmonizes with herself, which is a pretty common thing to do in the studio but unfortunately, can't be done live.

@francodaros

9 жыл бұрын

+Martsapso21 yes, just on Sunrise. But "the album version is full of vocal overdubs".....it means something different...

pointless only kantner from the orginal album a good night for all but a bit of a corporation game

@bobmahler5379

2 жыл бұрын

David Freiberg too.

@shengll

Ай бұрын

i am guessing Jerry played on this or something, Jerry Garcia