Woman with a Greasy Heart...

[On the Road]

...automatic man
Don't ever change, people,
Your face will hit the fan.

Don't ever change people
Even if you can.
Dont' change before the empire falls --
You'll laugh so hard you'll crack the walls.


OK: who sang that?

[underpants]

1. Minnie Pearl?

:shrug:

[Richardo]

2. Sounds like They Might be Giants, but I've no idea.

So I'll go with Minnie Pearl, or, The Hager Brothers.

[On the Road]

5. LOL -- I Hadn't Thought of the Giants

in that context.

That's Gracie's sarcastic bite right there -- loved that album in high school.

[Bridget Burke]

3. Jefferson Airplane, on "Crown of Creation"

Yes, Janis had the blues. But I definitely preferred Grace Slick.

[Westegg]

4. Gracie, of course. "Crown of Creation," a great yet forgotten album.

[On the Road]

6. Geez -- You Think "Crown of Creation" Has Been Forgotten?

Maybe so. The JA was always in my personal top five bands. But they were too radical and ticked off too many people with their calls for political revolution.

"Have You Seen the Saucers?" -- now there's a great forgotten JA song. Never heard the kind of vocal harmony they had combined with acid rock. Wonderful and stirring.

[Westegg]

8. Yeah, I DO think "C.O.C." has been forgotten...

Put it this way: I'm the only human I know who bought the original LP in the '70s (I wasn't old enough to buy it when it was originally released in the '60s), as well as the remastered CD version. I'm a huge JA fan, but I gotta say I don't know many others who give a damn about the band these days. Too bad. The Airplane was unique, bold, kick-ass, and, to my ears, their music remains very vital. I guess I could hook up with Airplane fans on-line but I haven't gotten around to it. Or maybe I don't want to. For almost 30 years, they've been a band I've enjoyed on my own. Kinda privately. Very nice to hear that someone else out there digs them, though.

Up against the wall motherfucker, eat starch mom,

Westegg

[On the Road]

14. Eat Starch Mom!

I forgot about THAT particular bon mot -- LOL.

Even more forgotten, I think, is the early Jefferson Starship, especially Dragonfly, which I happen to think is one of the best rock albums ever recorded. That piano/violin duet on "Hyperdrive" is unparalleled:

If it rains again tonight, I can think light years ahead
Or I could put myself back a thousand years ago
As if I'd always been here before or as if I am still to be born
I'm a slow loser, but I'm a fast learner
That much I know
Anyone can go
That much I know
Anyone can go

[bif]

10. Great band. I saw them back in the early 70s.

They were fantastic. And Grace...you should have heard her babbling on stage. A total nutcase. But what a fox.

[nightperson]

11. I like to use her quote

"Anything anybody said I did after nine o'clock at night is probably true!".

[Westegg]

12. Grace was probably drunk. I saw Jefferson Starship 3 times in the '70s...

...She struck me as stoned then, but soon after the last time I saw her, in '78 or '79, she had a major alcoholic incident onstage in Germany (I think), and was just TOO wasted. I've heard a bootleg of that show. It's awful. Not the kind of stuff you want from your rock-star idols.

[dbt]

7. WOW! Thanks, ribofunk!

Hadn't thought about that JA tune for years!!

:bounce:
dbt

[nightperson]

9. My present sig

feels obligated to make an appearance! Some educational resources: 1 2 3 4 . I've been thanked before for pointing out the neglected "Hey Frederick". Their version of "Wooden Ships" is the version.

[Westegg]

13. Love the "quad" version of "Frederick" on the box-set. And yeah...

... the Airplane's version of "Wooden Ships" makes CSN sound like America. (The band, not the country.)

[On the Road]

15. Well Yes,

but I happen to think "We Can be Together" overshadows the other songs on that record. They shouted in glorious harmony:

We can be together
Ah you and me
We should be together
We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young

But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
Our life's too fine to let it die and
We can be together
All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy
Is We

We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves
Up against the wall
Up against the wall motherfucker
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls...

We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Won't you try