I don't know a lot about my next Dragon*Con featured band, Jefferson Starship , other than they have been making music for a very long time. Jefferson Starship is actually a spin-off band of sorts of Jefferson Airplane which came about in the early 19702s. I first heard of the newer Jefferson Starship variation in the Star Wars Holiday Special of all places. A miniature-scaled version of the band performed a track [...]
Yeah, it was 42 years ago this weekend, more or less. I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road. And I asked him, "Where are you going?" And this he told me: "Sir, you can park up in the parking lot." He was one of the volunteers who hang around the green, grassy fields where they held the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, about 42 years ago. We drove up there from New York City on a hot July Monday, and we walked through the nice museum and the [...]
On tour to promote her new album with David Rawlings, Gillian Welch has been perfroming a cover of Jefferson Starship's "White Rabbit' that has now become a hot selling single via iTunes. Stream a recording of her live version below. Check out her new album, , and get some tickets as she is doing a massive US tour right now!
Filed under: The Hit List A turkey isn't just a bird Americans eat on Thanksgiving. In the art world, a turkey is a flop. An embarrassment. Something that will never take flight. Musically, a turkey is more than just one the worst songs ever made in that it's often created by someone we once respected. Or perhaps it's a good song soiled by a bad version. [...]
For the first year or so that radio first had captured my interest, I was hesitant to roll the bones and scan the dial for fear of ending up in some hostile, unfamiliar musical terrain that might warp my psyche. So, the orange hand indicating frequency on the cheap stereo in my bedroom was perpetually set to 101.9 - Q102. The station - based on the talk 'round the water fountain - tested well with my junior high peers. As, at the outset, I had no expectations that music would be much more than something [...]
Grace Slick was quite the icon back in her day. There weren't a ton of female lead singers in honest to goodness Rock & Roll bands back in the 602s. I'm not going to pretend to remember all of them, but you basically had Janis Joplin and Grace Slick making headlines because of their talent in the 602s. To be a lead singer in the 602s it wasn't enough to be a sex kitten, although your sex appeal was magnified fifty times by being a lead singer in the first place so the issue could get confusing; you had to [...]
In between the horrendous 80s brand-building Starship and the 60s drug-drenched Jefferson Airplane came Jefferson Starship . Though the mid-career Jeffersons don't have the music snob street cred of the Airplane or the mullett-wearing frat boy love of Starship - really? you liked We Built This City ? - the 70s version of the band delivered some great songs. While Red Octopus is likely their best and musically most consistent record (and the subsequent Spitfire a viable runner-up), it was 1978s Earth that delivered two of [...]
Born Round 's Frank Bruni doesn't beat 'round the bush when it comes to eating to the beat. The former fattie and opinionated New York Times food critic has quite strong opinions on the subject.* In a memorable New York Diet column last week, Bruni went off on Jefferson Starship and the unseemly presence of their terrifying brand of prose poetry at the otherwise "beautiful" Torrisi restaurant in Little Italy. If you're gonna play Jefferson Starship, you gotta pick your decade carefully, son. (In their previous, [...]
Even before I really cared much about music, I knew the name Peaches. I'd seen it on the t-shirts of the cool high school kids in my hometown. By junior high, I was hearing the name Peaches daily on one station or another out of Cincinnati. The record store was one of the outlets rattled off at the end of commercials for tickets to upcoming concerts. I'm not sure how many Peaches there were - there's little about the chain on the internet - but one of the more iconic record stores of my childhood was [...]
Filed under: The Hit List For every rock opera as artistically and commercially successful as Pink Floyd ' s 'The Wall' or Green Day 's 'American Idiot,' there are several more that barely earn their classification as a "musical." Here are 10 concept albums that were notably unclear on the concept. 10. 'Psychoderelict,' Pete Townshend If the Who get two entries on any Top Ten list of best rock operas, resident storyteller Townshend can surely take [...]
As an ESPN-watching male, I'm aware that I'm supposed to love the movie Rudy . I don't. I've tried and, with dire viewing options the other night, I tried again. It's nothing against Notre Dame or the story per se, it's the title character. No matter what was going on, Rudy was blathering on and on about Notre Dame. Half an hour into it, I was hoping that Ned Beatty, playing the father, would take the kid on a rafting trip down the Cahulawassee River and trade him to some mountain men [...]
In between the horrendous 80s brand-building Starship and the 60s drug-drenched Jefferson Airplane came Jefferson Starship . Though the mid-career Jeffersons don't have the music snob street cred of the Airplane or the mullett-wearing frat boy love of Starship - really? you liked We Built This City ? - the 70s version of the band delivered some great songs. While Red Octopus is likely their best and musically most consistent record (and the subsequent Spitfire a viable runner-up), it was 1978s [...]
This is probably is the place where we should be counting off the best albums or songs of 2009, or of the decade, but we're not gonna do that. And it would also be appropriate to make a new year's resolution or two. OK: 1. We're going to keep on rockin' in the new year. 2. We resolve to help you rock in the new year. But we want to take this opportunity to restate our mission: to share with you some cool music and interesting stories throughout the year. We love the music, and we hope that [...]
Filed under: News , Politics as Usual Grace Slick -- of Jefferson Airplane , Jefferson Starship and Starship fame -- is urging Congress to end experiments on chimpanzees. Slick, whose 70th birthday is today, recorded a voicemail inviting politicians to a Capitol Hill multimedia exhibit about chimps with the hope that they will move to phase out the use of the animals in invasive experiments and retire all federally-owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. The voice behind 'Somebody to Love' [...]
It was the first, and most important, question of the day: just what does one wear to Woodstock? We were headed to the "Heroes of Woodstock" show Saturday at Bethel Woods Center, on the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock festival, and we wanted to fit in. Thinking that a Hawaiian shirt might be a little ostentatious, by the time we got to Woodstock we knew we were wrong. Because everywhere you looked, there was tie-dye. Tie-dyed shirts, tie-dyed pants, possibly even a couple of tie-dyed people. In fact the only thing more plentiful than tie-dye on Saturday was gray hair [...]
Technically, the archive hosts the biggest collection of covers, but they've got all those original tunes in there, too. I cut through the bullshit and give you the goods. One cover from several of my favorite bands with collections in the archive. Dig it. When the Levee Breaks (Led Zep)-John Popper (of Blues Traveller) Somewhere Over the Rainbow-Jefferson Starship Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)-John Mayer Gimme Some Lovin' (Spencer Davis Group)-G Love and Special Sauce [...]
If the Woodstock feature length film was a worthy document of the peace and love generation at the peak of their powers, Fillmore: The Last Days is an apt tombstone for the death of a movement.
While Luther Dickinson has been spending his off time from the NMAS as a member of the Black Crowes, his band mates brother Cody and Chris Chew have a side-project of their own - the Southern blues and boogie-rock band Hill Country Revue , that also features Ed "Hot" Cleveland (drums), Daniel Coburn (vocals/harp) and Kirk Smithhart (guitar/vocals). The band, who released their debut album Make a Move today, are set to hit the road later this month for a mix of festival appearances, club dates and two support slots for Dave Matthews Band that [...]
As we told you about two months ago, Woodstock promoter Michael Lang was in search of a spot to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. And after scoping out Prospect Park's Long Meadow for the event, it has now been confirmed that the festival will instead be getting back to its roots; taking place at its original location in Bethel Woods, with a handful of the original performers added on to the roster. According to the Associated Press [via The [...]
Well, they're calling it "Heroes Of Woodstock," or the "Bethel Woods Music Festival" - it depends on where you look. But on Saturday, August 15, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in upstate New York will host a music festival on the grounds of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The performers listed include the Levon Helm Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain (with Leslie West and Corky Laing), and Country Joe McDonald. They're not going to have it in a wild, open field - this festival will [...]
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