| | |  | 1969 Woodstock Artists | Home » » » Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | In 1969, Jefferson Airplane was the band to book at a major festival. The first act to be confirmed for Woodstock, they set the precedent for all that followed. Their performance early Sunday morning was the perfect greeting to a rising sun, and the material from their forthcoming album, Volunteers, awakened the Woodstock generation to a new day. | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| June 30, 2009 | | Studio:
| Sony Legacy | | Number Of Discs:
| 2 | | Format:
| Limited Edition | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 29 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | Disc: 1 | | | 1. | We Can Be Together | | 2. | Good Shepherd | | 3. | The Farm | | 4. | Hey Frederick | | 5. | Turn My Life Down | | 6. | Wooden Ships | | 7. | Eskimo Blue Day | | 8. | A Song For All Seasons | | 9. | Meadowlands | | 10. | Volunteers | | 11. | Introduction (Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part One)(Previously unreleased) | | 12. | The Other Side Of This Life (Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part One)(Previously unreleased) | | 13. | Somebody To Love(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part One) | | 14. | 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part One)(Previously unreleased) | | 15. | Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part One) | | 16. | Eskimo Blue Day(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part One) | | | Disc: 2 | | | 1. | Plastic Fantastic Lover(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two) | | 2. | Wooden Ships (Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two) (Previously unreleased) | | 3. | Uncle Sam Blues(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two) | | 4. | Volunteers(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two) | | 5. | The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil (Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two)(Previously unreleased) | | 6. | Come Back Baby (Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two) | | 7. | White Rabbit(Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two) | | 8. | The House At Pooneil Corners (Recorded Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair,Sunday,August 17,1969 Part Two)(Previously unreleased) | |
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 The Airplane at their bestJul 21, 2010
I was at Winterland in 70 and again in 72 (the useless 30 Seconds Over Winterland gig). I was at Golden Gate Park in November of '69. I'm sure there were a few others that the decaying brain cells can't nimbly recall. I know from what I speak. It just astounds me that idiot record companies can let something like this sit around moldering for 40 years. Was it the lawyers? Artist egos? Whatever the reason, this is an incendiary performance-maybe the Airplane's best ever. I can tell you I never heard them better. I can't believe it. I saw the Woodstock film back in 1970 and wasn't that impressed. How could I have been so wrong!! This stuff smokes. For jammers, the second disc is heaven; where the band stretches out and really shows their chops. Listen to Casady's bass in Pooneil. Yikes!!! You are clued that something special is about to take place from the very first number, the old Fred Neil tune, The Other Side Of This Life, which has never sounded so damn ballsy. This is a match for the version on Bless Its Pointed Little Head and the pace is even more frenetic. On and on they go, ripping through the whole catalogue like a house afire. On top of all that has been said, it is a revelation. Its hard to fathom the "arbiters of taste" at the record companies keeping this on ice for all these years. In any case, you have to wonder how many other great festival performances are still to be unearthed. Like I've said before, they better get this stuff out there soon, because the old codgers who actually were part of this generation won't be around forever. While we still have warm dollars in our not-yet-clammy hands, they should release as much as they can while we still can remember it.
 This will satisfy your old JA jones.Apr 17, 2010
I'm no expert on Jefferson Airplane, though I have listened to most of their music from the late 60's and into the late 80's as I was growing up.
As far as I'm concerned, Winds of Change was their last really good album i could get into, though the newer stuff was much different than the early 70's stuff.
If you like the Grateful Dead and old Little Feat type music this is just the album for you!
Very much Country style music and man oh man, you'd be hard pressed to find better or more powerful live Grace Slick vocals anywhere.
BTW, don't be fooled by what you perceive of 1969 live music technology; The sound quality on this disc is FANTASTIC!.
So when you get tired of Beyonce and Lady Gaga and Kei$ha and Rhianna and nothing but a dose of Grace (and Jourma) will cure your malady then THIS is your album.
Download the 3 missing tracksFeb 15, 2010
OK you like me probably own every JA lp, you have the Woodstock albums, possibly the boxed set. You've rented the day after Woodstock video of the JA on the Dick Cavett show.
Your kids think JA were a folk band. There are no radical posters at your local Paul Green's suburban music shop. You have 3/4 of this elsewhere, but you know you had to hear this set AND you've been waiting for it for 40 years.
Download these 3 kick ass, not be missed key tracks for [...] bucks, add them to an ipod playlist with all the other released tracks and you will have a killer 80min set. Possibly one of the best live recordings from the 60s. Music Maniac Music. Its a new dawn, yea.
Wooden Ships
The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil
The House at Pooneil Corner
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morning maniac music, to be sure...Oct 26, 2009
I've got a real love-hate (or love-haight?) relationship with this item. I'll start by saying the performance is totally astounding. Really. I don't have superlatives enough. In that, I agree with almost everyone else here. The "Wooden Ships" by itself would justify the price. I don't know if it was the energy of the event, or the "whole lotta orange" they got earlier, or whatever it was that was keeping them awake a 5:30 AM, but this is perhaps the most intense performance that I have (which is most of what's available commercially and a couple of bootlegs).
But I can't get past the packaging. I don't mean the liner notes (such as they are) or the poster (which is OK), or the (plastic-free) enclosure (bravo for that). Those are terrific; I would have preferred better notes maybe, but that's a preference. What I don't quite understand was the need to include a copy of "Volunteers".
I do understand on one level. The Airplane set is 100 minutes, too long for one CD, and not quite enough for two. Again, I wouldn't have minded two CDs of just the Airplane set -- for $15? -- in the least. But someone decided they needed some filler, but they weren't willing to spend any money. So they used the most recent edition of "Volunteers", the 2004 remaster (which for some reason doesn't sound quite as good as the 2004 edition itself), rather than get the rights to some other as-yet-unreleased tracks, say, or produce more thorough notes, as a way of justifying the second CD. I note that the Sly & the Family Stone and Janis versions of this series get the whole set on one CD; so the 2d CD is then only to enhance the package. Unfortunately, neither "Kozmic Blues" nor "Stand" have been remastered, so if you already have these CDs (or the 2004 "Volunteers") this seems redundant.
I should mention, however, that despite these reservations, I did buy this CD, and I have ordered he Janis version; it helped that I don't currently have "Kozmic Blues" on CD, so it's not redundant. Yet.
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The Airplane at their bestOct 26, 2009
Most people are familiar with the Airplane tracks on the original Woodstock One and Two albums, plus others may have heard the renditions of "Somebody to love" and "White Rabbit" on the 2001 DVD "Woodstock the Music", but to hear the whole set is another experience altogether. This is the Airplane at their peak with Nicky Hopkins thrown in for good measure and contributing some worthwhile keyboard work as he always did, whoever he was playing with. I especially enjoyed his organ on "House at Pooneil Corners" which of course is absent from the only other two (unreleased)live versions of that song that I've heard. Frankly, the best parts of this performance are far and away the most inspiring music that was played at Woodstock for my money - and no I haven't forgotten Hendrix played. The staggering extended version of "Wooden Ships" and the two "Pooneils" will totally blow you away. I have many versions of "The Ballad of you Me and Pooneil" in my collection but this one has already become my favourite. It is an absolute travesty that most of this music was omitted from the the movie and soundtrack. The Airplane were the first band to sign up to play the festival and it wasn't until they made a commitment to be there that the rest started to come to the party. They epitomized what the whole spirit of the event was all about and they should have been front and center of the movie and soundtrack not relegated to a couple of minutes of "Volunteers". I can't believe someone has sat on this tape for 40 years, but better late than never! The sound quality was actually much better than I expected - very clear with all instruments and vocals nicely balanced.
I was also happy to have the remastered version of "Volunteers" as well. Prior to the arrival of this 2xcd set I still only had my original (now somewhat crackly) vinyl copy from '69 plus a few tracks of the nice quad mix on the "Jefferson Airplane Loves" you boxed set from '92. Great to have a fresh clean copy, though I doubt I'll ever part with that vinyl original.
I've no hesitation in giving this five stars. Order your copy now and when it arrives be sure to play only the "Volunteers" album part in the car. The live concert needs the biggest sound system you can find - crank it up to eleven and take the trip.
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