Lost Art Of The Mixtape — Sunday Hangover
Here’s a mix that’ll help you through your haze, headache and nausea. Too bad it can’t erase what you did/said last night.
Kinky Reggae – Bob Marley
Cosmic Charlie – Grateful Dead
Guinnevere – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Scarborough Fair – Simon & Garfunkel
From The Beginning – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Little Martha – The Allman Brothers Band
4 + 20 – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Sugar Mountain – Neil Young
Can’t Find My Way Home – Blind Faith
He Was A Friend Of Mine – The Byrds
Embryonic Journey – Jefferson Airplane
Talk – Phish
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) – Simon & Garfunkel
Rosemary – Grateful Dead
The Sun King – The Beatles
Crazy Fingers – Grateful Dead
Music Is Love – David Crosby
Going To California – Led Zeppelin
Can’t Run But – Paul Simon
In The Waiting Line – Zero 7
Sleep – The Dandy Warhols
Across The Universe – The Beatles
41 Years ago today…
The Doors were forced to perform as a trio after Jim Morrison collapsed on stage as he danced on stage with Jefferson Airplane, with whom the band shared a double bill in Amsterdam. Ray Manzarek was forced to handle the vocals.
Alexander “Skip” Spence
Head over to Hidden Track and check out the piece that I wrote on troubled musician, Skip Spence. Skip was a founding member of Moby Grape and played drums for Jefferson Airplane on their debut album. He then found himself in a personal hell and descended into a drug induced battle for his sanity, ultimately reaching madness.
Singer/songwriter Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane first saw him in the crowd from the stage at The Matrix in San Francisco back in 1965. The Airplane was in the midst of dismissing their present drummer and he needed someone to fill the spot and keep time for his band, who had yet to take flight. To Balin, he had such an unusual look, moddish-shag haircut and mutton chop sideburns. Spence, who had very little drumming experience but had jammed with The Quicksilver Messenger Service previously, was sent home with a pair of drumsticks and told to practice. The Airplane needed someone to play drums on their upcoming first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.
The sessions went swimmingly and the band’s path was seemingly set. (more…)
Super Jam at The Family Dog
Chet Helms
Recorded at Chet Helms’ The Family Dog in September of ’70, we have members of Jefferson Airplane, Santana and the good ole Grateful Dead just tearing it up. The idea was bore to the legendary Ralph J. Gleason to film these explosive ’60′s psychedelic bands at their fiery best and capture it on film for a PBS special. The footage was then repackaged a mere 35 years later as A Night At The Family Dog. Here’s the “Super Jam”:
39 Years Ago Today…
The Rolling Stones played a free festival at Altamont in California, along with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby Stills Nash & Young. Rolling Stones fan Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death as the group played “Under My Thumb” by Hell’s Angels who’d been hired to police the event. It’s claimed Hunter was waving a revolver. One other man drowned, two men were killed by in a hit-and run accident and two babies were born. The Dead wrote “New Speedway Boogie” as a response to the incident.
Here’s footage from Gimme Shelter of the incident:
And the Dead’s response from Festival Express:
Happy Birthday — Grace Slick
Lead singer of The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, etc., etc. is 69(!) years young today. She was one of the most important vocalists and personalities of the psychedelic rock era of the late 1960s. Here she is with Jefferson Airplane performing “White Rabbit”:
