popular music: airplanes

popular music: airplanes

popular music:

Airplanes

All About Fast Trains/All About Airplanes

All About

Good Times Video, 2005

To me it's horrible!
I thought this was a terrible video. But what really matters is my kids and they have worn the DVD out. They love the video and the variety of trains.

At the Family Dog Ballroom

Jefferson Airplane

Snapper UK, 2008

Cool, man... let's go see the Airplane...
I got this principally to give my daughter a taste of an honest-to-dog 60s rock concert in San Francisco. The live performance is captured quite well, and covers most of the Airplane's hits. The jam at the end with Jerry Garcia is worth listening to. The sound ...

Go Ride the Music and West Pole

Various Artists

Eagle Rock Ent, 2008

Go Ride the Music and West Pole
Excellent - The Airplane at their best. Been waiting since 1971 for this to resurface.

A Night at the Family Dog 1970 (The Grateful Dead / Jefferson Airplane / Santana)

Carlos Santana, Mike Carabello

Eagle Rock Ent, 2007

Run, don't walk, to get this disc!
I stumbled upon this Public TV one hour special in '70 as a feckless and un-radicalized 14-year old in the midwest. It was a monday night, I think. My parents were in the room. I sat and watched, and my mind was properly blown. I never forgot that bit of programming ...

All About Airplanes/All About Helicopters

All About

Gaiam, 2008

another great "All About"
I ordered this DVD after previously purchasing the All About Dinosaurs and All About Recycling. My two sons, ages 6 and 9, both continue to enjoy the All About series. Hope there are more to come.

Jefferson's Tree of Liberty

Jefferson Starship

The Lab / Fuel Records, 2008

What's Your Favorite Stripe on the Flag?
Wow! Paul Kantner and friends travel all the way around, back to the beginning, then break through to a new dimension! This is amazing, heartfelt stuff, drawing upon myriad influences from the early days. Yet it's not for Kantner to look backwards without looking ...

The Worst of Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane

RCA, 2006

Artistic and Ground-Breaking
I remember seeing this album in 1970. I was puzzled as to what was meant by a collection of "worst of," not understanding the intentional and unintentional irony of the title. Overcoming the title, this collection was nominally the best of the first six Jefferson ...

Volunteers

Jefferson Airplane

RCA, 2004

oops I quoted Grace singing "@#$%" in my first review submission
Jefferson Airplane always had a little bite to their "We Can Be Together" politics. Living at the epicenter of hippie culture in San Francisco as they were, it's hard to duck the flowers and beads when talking about their musical aesthetic -- sort of Haight-Ashbury's ...

Something About Airplanes - Deluxe Edition
Death Cab for Cutie

Barsuk, 2008

Barsuk Records and Death Cab for Cutie celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's classic debut studio album with this deluxe reissue. Still considered by many fans to be DCfC's best album, but criminally unheard by many newer converts other than the handful of songs that remain staples of the band's live set (Amputations, Pictures In An ...

Surrealistic Pillow

Jefferson Airplane

RCA, 2003

From transparent dreams to trapezoid thermometers
1966 and 1967 were the peak years of Western pop and rock music, as far as I'm concerned. So much great music came out in a short span of just two years - the Beatles, the Kinks, the Doors, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the ...

Fly Jefferson Airplane

Signe Anderson, Marty Balin

Eagle Rock Ent, 2004

Before MTV
I bought this DVD after months of debating. I love Jefferson Airplane, and saw them live as often as I could in the '60's & early '70's before they crashed and burned. I knew in advance I was in for some corny, trippy television. But at least the music would be good. ...

After Bathing at Baxter's

Jefferson Airplane

RCA/BMG Heritage, 2003

I'm Doin' Things That Haven't Got a Name Yet
Read the reviews below to get a sense of the emotional response this album evokes. It's not just a so-called psychedelic album, it's an album of great searching and yearning for an alternate path during times dark with the Vietnam war, the clunky Johnson ...

Soft Airplane

Chad VanGaalen

Sub Pop, 2008

Sweet Sweet Death, Love, and Life.
I cannot begin to tell you how in love I am. Chad VanGaalen is an absolute brilliant song writter/musician! He gives me goose bumps everytime I hear him sing! I think he has bumped The Shins off the top of my top 5 list. You MUST buy this CD, and also watch his amazing ...

Hits

Jefferson Starship, Starship

RCA Victor Europe, 1998

An Exhaustive Collection of Jefferson?s multiple transitions
Jefferson Airplane - "Hits" (Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Arena Rock) : Firstly it should be mentioned that this extensive compilation compiles the vast majority of the best / Most popular tracks from the 3 incarnations of Jefferson Airplane.....so ...

Bless Its Pointed Little Head

Jefferson Airplane

RCA, 2004

bless them for getting this down on tape
We are transported back in time to the old Fillmore Auditorium. The big room is filled with the hipsters of the day and we're all looking up at the giant screen above the stage where the old black and white film classic KING KONG is being screened. The final moments of ...