Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log (1966-1976)
| Released: | January 7, 1977 |
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| Genre: | Folk rock Psychedelic rock |
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Grunt Records |
Photo of the band Jefferson Airplane by Herb Greene
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Jefferson Airplane's debut show was on August 13, 1965 at the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco. The first performance featured Marty Balin on vocals, Paul Kantner on vocals/rhythm guitar, and Jorma Kaukonen on lead guitar. Signe Anderson, (who sang on Jefferson Airplane's first recording "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off'') also performed. The bass player, Jack Casady and drummer Skip Spence, (who was later one of the original members of Moby Grape) joined the band two months later. Spencer Dryden became the drummer in June of 1966 and Grace Slick joined as vocalist in October of 1966. The band performed the first concert for Bill Graham at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco in February of 1966.
Jefferson Airplane performed at the Berkeley Folk Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont. They had hit singles White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, from the album "Surrealistic Pillow". They were on the cover of Life Magazine in 1968. The band co- headlined with the Doors in Europe in the summer of 1968. Many legendary bands opened for the Airplane: Grateful Dead, Santana, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller, and many others.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Hi guys, I've got a question that only you can aswer, I think.
I'm italian and I listen to Jefferson's since 15 years. Unless only 6 years ago I listen to the album Manhole and I set Come Again as (one of) my favorite songs.
I speak a bit of English so I never tried to find lyrics but... since few years ago I tried to search for the lyrics of this song... and I found nothing. Two or three sites got the lyrics of the whole Manhole album but the words of Toucan are not the words I always hear in this song...
Also one of your links sent me to that lyrics... "a floating Miranda..."
I wrote down myself the lyrics of this song by listening but I'm not english, so... the questions:
1. Have I got the wrong song or these sites are wrong?
2. If this song I love is not Toucan (I don't think so) which is the title?
3. If my lyrics are about the right song, can you please tell me if I mistake something?
These are the lyrics... you can find them also in the only site where I posted'em, by searching as "toucan lyrics"
COME AGAIN: TOUCAN
Mistakes are made because words are misuderstood
It's all, all in how you talk
Walking over somebody, sounds like a strange thing to do, but it's all, all in how you are (walk).
Seems like it might be the right thing to say at the time
and I (how d'you) know I probably say it again, gimme just a little taste, gimme just a little taste more
and I'll be flying out, fliyng out the wise and old, old is the whole world,
and I'd just turn around like a baby and I'd crawl, crawl right back inside...
Mistakes are made because words, words are misuderstood
It's all, all in how you talk
Walking over somebody, sounds like a strange thing to do, but it's all, it's all in how you are (walk).
(Well it) Seems like it might be the right thing to say at the time
and I know, know I'll do it again and I'll say it again, gimme just a little, gimme just a little taste more
and I'll be flying, flying out the wise and old, old is the whole world,
and I'd just turn around like a baby and I'd crawl, right back inside...
... by graceslick on Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:17 am
The lyrics you wrote down are definitely the words in Come Again Toucan.
So...you mean that this isn't the song you love? Or the lyrics sound different to what you read and wrote down?
HEADLINES/ARTICLES
Surrealistic Pillow: RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone
Psychedelic scholars have long tried to pin down just what the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia did on this album (he is credited as "musical and spiritual adviser"). But the real trip is [...]
Jeff Tamarkin
So declared the back cover of a record album titled Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, in attempting to describe the stunning and exciting new music contained within. Like a jet, it soared, and like the skies above, it seemed boundless [...]
The Queen Bees of Rock
BMI Magazine, March 1968 (www.janisjoplin.net)
In The Press: "In the beginning, the rock world was all Adams and no Eves," Newsweek commented. But now, "the typical rock group resembles a beehive, three or four drones humming around [...]
Surrealistic Pillow Talk, Jorma Kaukonen's Wide World of Music
Tristram Lozaw
Though Jorma Kaukonen's incendiary work in the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna marks him as one of rock's all-time great electric guitarists, his first love was country-blues finger picking [...]
The Jefferson Airplane Chronicles: Part Six, Marty Balin
by Jeff Tamarkin - Relix Magazine, April, 1993
Reading the following interview, one might get a sense that there are two Marty Balins. The one, who talks about the early days of Jefferson Airplane, when there was happiness in the air and flowers in the hair, is a fun guy who likes to reminisce nostalgically. [...]
Skip Spence Lived a Surrealistic Life
Matthew Grenwald (Rolling Stone) - (April 19, 1999)
Alexander "Skip" Spence, one of the founding members of both Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape -- two of the Bay Area's most influential bands -- died on April 16th from lung cancer. [...]
Members:
- Bass
- Bob Harvey (1965)
- Jack Casady (1965–1972)
- Drums
- Jerry Peloquin (1965)
- Skip Spence (1965–1966)
- Spencer Dryden (1966–1970)
- Joey Covington (1970–1972)
- John Barbata (1972)
- Guitars
- Jorma Kaukonen (1965–1972)
- Paul Kantner (1965–1972)
- Violin
- Papa John Creach (1970–1972)
- Piano
- Grace Slick (1966–1972)
- Vocals
- Marty Balin (1965–1971)
- Signe Anderson (1965–1966)
- Grace Slick (1966–1972)
- Paul Kantner (1965–1972)
- Jorma Kaukonen (1965–1972)
- Joey Covington (1971)
- David Freiberg (1972)
Flight Log (1966-1976), released in January 1977 RCA 3766 (Grunt 1255). It is a compilation of Jefferson Airplane and Airplane-related tracks, including tracks by Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna, as well as solo tracks by Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and Jorma Kaukonen. Although primarily a compilation album, the album includes one previously unreleased song, "Please Come Back" written by Ron Nagle and performed by Jefferson Starship. "Please Come Back" is unavailable on any other release.
Among the session musicians featured on the album are two members of the Grateful Dead and one member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. David Crosby appears on one track, and Jerry Garcia plays on three tracks, two of which also feature Mickey Hart.
The album included a lavish 12-page full-color, full-size (12 sq.in.) booklet, containing photographs of the band throughout the period covered by the compilation. It also contained a detailed history of the band, written by Patrick Snyder of Rolling Stone magazine.
Flight Log has only been reissued on CD by BMG Japan on October 22, 2008 as a part of the "Paper Sleeve Collection" reissue series (BVCM-35468-9). The release features an exact reproduction of the Grunt 1977 edition of the LP packaging including a reduced scale reproduction of the original booklet and inner sleeve jackets for the CDs. Also included is a second booklet containing all the lyrics in both English and Japanese. The only omission by BMG Japan was not reproducing the original GRUNT label on the CDs. The audio quality is as good as the original and features JVC K2 24 Bit Remastering. CD 1 contains Side A and B, and CD 2 contains Side C and D.