Jefferson Airplane was a super talented group. with or without drugs. The lead singers guitarists drummer.. tremendously talented!! Never get tired of listening to their songs! RIP Marty
Marty Balin, vocalist and guitarist co-founder of Jefferson Airplane, one of the biggest names in San Francisco's psychedelic rock in the sixties, my condolences to his wife Susan Joy Balin and familaires, friends, all fans dismayed at his departure from negligence of physicians in surgical procedures in previous years may have affected the sudden departure of this outstanding musician who is among "The Greats" in the Role of Rock in "Rool!" Yes Marty Balin is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame God bless you, Jesus, you'll always be revered by the public, and warmly embraced! ", and now with fellow bandmates like Signe Anderson, first vocalist for Jefferson Airplane and Paul Kantner, founder of Jefferson Airplane, another outstanding musician.
@@emmabradford1740 I believe he is also very wrong about Cobain I mean if you just look at the facts you can summarize that suicide was not the mode of death and if you look at his wife you can almost summarize that she was more than involved
I grew up in these times ... I fell in Love in these times - and here in 2020 we are STILL together, and Still in Love... I hurt NOBODY in these times - and I'm still going Strong !
Cool interview. Paul's recounting driving into the gig riding on the roof of a car through the mud on a back road reminds me of the lyric in "Have You Seen the Saucers?" - "...children of the forest on the backroad to salvation...you gotta care about the needs of the planet..." Miss these guys, musically and otherwise.
I dislike Lawrence's obvious dismissal opinion that the Airplane were a bunch of stoned-out hippies and little else. They were also a bunch of great musicians, and please take that into consideration too!
grace also let the media depict her as a sex addict, drug user who was not refined but she was one of the best female singers ever. they were from a generation where they thought the media was cool and supported them but the media is full of angry uptight people.
Oh, 2020 is so different. Bring back the good, old days. Real people, real music. So many great musicians all in one area. Too bad the media got it so wrong. Miss those times.
Spot on interview. Knew these guys and other bands because we had a small recording set up at our house in Stanyan St. Grace was often there. ☄️🪢Their description of negotiating Woodstock chaos rings soooo true. 🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢
I hate when interviewers make absolutely no effort to learn anything about the their guests. She hardly even know it only rained one day at Woodstock. Check out Dick Cavit interviewing them for a much better interview.
I did some good acid in 2015. It was awesome. The stars in the sky were incredible and the beach was like a giant sandbox. The road looked like a ribbon. i had last done it in 1971, the first time in 1968. You get kinda ADD on it. I kept going from the stereo inside to the forest outside. I had the feeling that the chipmunks knew i was high. It's kinda like being a newborn baby who is seeing things for the first time. The important thing is to flow with it when it starts to wash over you. Your heart beats faster which could make you nervous if you let it. If you just relax and stay in a positive frame of mind everything is cool. You either on a good trip or a bad trip. You want to make sure you stay on a good trip and think things that make you happy. It is a very powerful drug that should not be taken often. A little goes a long way.
Jack didn't say much but what he did say was probably closer to the truth about doing acid and performing on stage AND he had his Epiphone right there with him.
8:22 I took acid about 100 times between the ages of about 22 and 33, and never had a "flashback" either. I kind of wish I would; it's almost impossible to find real acid anymore.
Dropped the first time in 1967 ...and stopped counting at 100.....( didn't however, stop dropping) ....eventually it was like seeing the same movie over and over ...got bored with it and stopped ....never had a flashback....I suspect it was just hype....I do like VIcki, but she was way out of her depth here ....luckily for us the guys were brilliant ...I related to every word ...I have been on a jag of putting all my favorite tunes on a playlist ...and hit the AIrplane tonight, only to find out that Marty Balin died 2 days ago .....I have always loved his voice ....it soared and the man could hit high notes, accurately, at full volume ....that's a hellava talent .....saw them at the Shrine Auditorium in LA in 1968 ....( amoung other great bands over those few years ) .....the music of those times holds up well....they still sound just as good now as they did then ....they were talented and we had the good taste to know that ...heh ....
Vicki, I was 14 and living in California when Woodstock was happening and I remember it better than you do. I hate it when talk show hosts don't do any research. And why for Gods sake does the audience on all those talk shows (talking about back then) look like stiffs with a permanent smile on their face?
@Fifty State Jorma wasn't in the re-formed Jefferson Starship of the 1990's, only Kantner-Casady-Balin were. He never liked Jefferson Starship's music; during the Airplane's 1989 reunion tour, he sat out the JS songs. Casady was new to Jefferson Starship; he wasn't in the 70's configuration.
In the parlance of the times she was a square. She was in the cafeteria doing homework at lunch kind of kid I think. She didn't get that these musicians were so fuckin superior to her. I was waiting for her to toss that great album cover, bich. RIP guys, somebody wake up Jack.
You could tell from her naive questions that she wanted to miss it BITD, like many people did. And now they "wonder" about 'it', whatever 'it' entails, as a way of thinking. But it's like Paul said in the interview, "Living it and talking about it are 2 different things." That's what i miss about that time. There's a difference between a Trend and a Happening. Ask Jack and Jorma.
I wonder why Jack brought the bass out. Was it just a prop ? If so, I'm sure it wasn't Jacks idea. Now years later, if that was his signature EPI bass, he could have promoted it. I want one , but lefty 's are no where to be found.
"you kids are having waaaay too much fun". "we'll make a law against that" "first I'll hit this whaddyacallit." Oh, tab, soon as I hit this tab here." Then I'll start making busts.
if vikki was 10 years younger than the airplane guys who are silents and oldest boomers than she would have been closer in age to the 70s age group as she is carol burnetts daughter who is gi .
Ptown Scribe, he said “Starship,” not “Jefferson Starship.” The group changed their name by dropping “Jefferson” from their name around 1990. Cassady was a member of Starship but not the preceding “Jefferson Starship.
7:37 He should say the Manson Family murders too. That was the end of the hippie-love era, in the US culture. August 1969. The sentiment if not headlines were "Hippies will kill."
Hippies were being killed by old men in San Francisco all the time it never made the news but the Manson Murders became a huge media event from the rig media
Not sure the hippie love era was ever really a big thing. The summer of 1967 was dominated by race riots in the US, while the "summer of love" encompassed a relatively small number of people. And love mostly meant drug use, euphoria, and young people doing stupid shit.
instead of Vickie ending Mama's Family in 1990 she should have continued the show up to about 1993 or 1994 and grace and the rest of the band should have kept making music until around 1993 or 1994 instead of ending it in 1989
to much woodstick at least marty speaks the real 60s 67 68 and 69 when it was over i was born 67 and the best rock is that year 68 when heavy metal was born.
.......In my opinion, the first heavy metal song was by the Beatles called “Tommorow Never Knows”... ruclips.net/video/Ah2ckzXgrx4/видео.html That song is from 1966
+Joe Jacovino My thoughts exactly. No offense to the woman (she is very funny as her "Mama" character), but she would have probably been one of the squares supporting Nixon.
5:30 I love how Marty Balin says there's no comparison in reference to Kurt Cobain ..he had the guts to come out and say something like that... no good artist would have the bravado to criticize the shit artist nowadays
He had the same opinion of Cobain that Frank Sinatra and Buddy Rich had of him. Most people in music lose their sense of adventure and ability to adapt when they hit their 30s.
Vicki Lawrence deserves massive credit for a.) asking the right questions, and b.) letting her guests talk.
but not for not knowing Marty's name
Jefferson Airplane was a super talented group. with or without drugs. The lead singers guitarists drummer.. tremendously talented!! Never get tired of listening to their songs! RIP Marty
Jefferson Starship was even better -- at least in the 1970s.
So long, Marty and Paul. Those guys really had it together.
Two of the best!!
Marty Balin, vocalist and guitarist co-founder of Jefferson Airplane, one of the biggest names in San Francisco's psychedelic rock in the sixties, my condolences to his wife Susan Joy Balin and familaires, friends, all fans dismayed at his departure from negligence of physicians in surgical procedures in previous years may have affected the sudden departure of this outstanding musician who is among "The Greats" in the Role of Rock in "Rool!" Yes Marty Balin is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame God bless you, Jesus, you'll always be revered by the public, and warmly embraced! ", and now with fellow bandmates like Signe Anderson, first vocalist for Jefferson Airplane and Paul Kantner, founder of Jefferson Airplane, another outstanding musician.
Thank you Vicki for asking the simple question of how to pronounce Marty Balin's last name correctly.
DAMN, Vicki Lawrence had her own chat-show. Can see why it didn't last. Marty Balin is hilarious in this.
He's adorable, but wrong about Mr. Cobain
@@emmabradford1740 I believe he is also very wrong about Cobain I mean if you just look at the facts you can summarize that suicide was not the mode of death and if you look at his wife you can almost summarize that she was more than involved
@@emmabradford1740 You mean his initial dismissal of Cobain's musical significance?
Marty and Paul will gig in peace now :):)
One might be saying to the other " If I knew they were going to let you in, I wouldn't have come. "
Rip Marty Balin
probably the finest singing voice american rock and roll produced and certainly the most overlooked. took me a long time to appreciate his ability.
I grew up in these times ... I fell in Love in these times - and here in 2020 we are STILL together, and Still in Love... I hurt NOBODY in these times - and I'm still going Strong !
Cool interview. Paul's recounting driving into the gig riding on the roof of a car through the mud on a back road reminds me of the lyric in "Have You Seen the Saucers?" - "...children of the forest on the backroad to salvation...you gotta care about the needs of the planet..." Miss these guys, musically and otherwise.
They were seriously cool ass dudes that gave 0 fucks of what anyone thought
Paul was. One of a kind.
Thank god.
I dislike Lawrence's obvious dismissal opinion that the Airplane were a bunch of stoned-out hippies and little else. They were also a bunch of great musicians, and please take that into consideration too!
grace also let the media depict her as a sex addict, drug user who was not refined but she was one of the best female singers ever. they were from a generation where they thought the media was cool and supported them but the media is full of angry uptight people.
@@dampergoldenrod4156 Grace was a fantastic songwriter and musician as well, and legendary loon
@@emmabradford1740
Still is happy to say. 😎🌚☄️🙉
@@emmabradford1740 Not to mention, if you've ever heard Gracie Slick in interviews, she is very articulate.
@@dampergoldenrod4156 Grace got back with WRECKING BALL and Stairway to Cleveland
Great idea for an upload, Steve. Things like this make RUclips great.
R.I.P. Marty Balin. 🌹
Oh, 2020 is so different. Bring back the good, old days. Real people, real music. So many great musicians all in one area. Too bad the media got it so wrong. Miss those times.
Great Interview, Paul was such a straightforward guy. Marilyn McCoo was so gorgeous back then. A real lady.
great pins
I used to love watching Vicki when I was home sick from school. R.I.P 1990's.
Enjoyed this flash from my past
Amazing, people having such strong reactions to other people's experiences.
I've seen enough "Let Phil Sing" bumper stickers
to want to shout "Let Jack talk" as I watch this
Safe to say the two biggest bands of San Fran are gone now RIP GD,RIP The JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Thanks seen this on tv back then!
RIP Marty Balin
Great interview!
Spot on interview. Knew these guys and other bands because we had a small recording set up at our house in Stanyan St. Grace was often there.
☄️🪢Their description of negotiating Woodstock chaos rings soooo true. 🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢🪢
Such a polite audience. Middle America applauds the LSD maniacs! LOL
RIP Signe Toly Anderson and Paul Kantner
Passed on the very same day.
RIP Spencer Dryden.
I hate when interviewers make absolutely no effort to learn anything about the their guests. She hardly even know it only rained one day at Woodstock. Check out Dick Cavit interviewing them for a much better interview.
Indeed
I did acid, I never had any flashbacks, I wouldn't do acid today, drugs are different today then back in the 60's & 70's.
I did some good acid in 2015. It was awesome. The stars in the sky were incredible and the beach was like a giant sandbox. The road looked like a ribbon. i had last done it in 1971, the first time in 1968. You get kinda ADD on it. I kept going from the stereo inside to the forest outside. I had the feeling that the chipmunks knew i was high. It's kinda like being a newborn baby who is seeing things for the first time. The important thing is to flow with it when it starts to wash over you. Your heart beats faster which could make you nervous if you let it. If you just relax and stay in a positive frame of mind everything is cool. You either on a good trip or a bad trip. You want to make sure you stay on a good trip and think things that make you happy. It is a very powerful drug that should not be taken often. A little goes a long way.
Man - that was like a breath of Fresh Air ! Young Birds Fly ! (~);}
Jack didn't say much but what he did say was probably closer to the truth about doing acid and performing on stage
AND he had his Epiphone right there with him.
RIP Marty Balin , I heard he passed away Thursday 9-27-18
8:22 I took acid about 100 times between the ages of about 22 and 33, and never had a "flashback" either. I kind of wish I would; it's almost impossible to find real acid anymore.
Dropped the first time in 1967 ...and stopped counting at 100.....( didn't however, stop dropping) ....eventually it was like seeing the same movie over and over ...got bored with it and stopped ....never had a flashback....I suspect it was just hype....I do like VIcki, but she was way out of her depth here ....luckily for us the guys were brilliant ...I related to every word ...I have been on a jag of putting all my favorite tunes on a playlist ...and hit the AIrplane tonight, only to find out that Marty Balin died 2 days ago .....I have always loved his voice ....it soared and the man could hit high notes, accurately, at full volume ....that's a hellava talent .....saw them at the Shrine Auditorium in LA in 1968 ....( amoung other great bands over those few years ) .....the music of those times holds up well....they still sound just as good now as they did then ....they were talented and we had the good taste to know that ...heh ....
Marty Balin looks like Tony LaRussa.
That's kinda funny. Not many baseball managers with such a presence as LaRussa.
I think more like Joe Pesci, even sounded like him.
Interesting für people like me. I love their music.
Morning maniac music
Now LSD and magic mushrooms are finely being recognized as "good" for mental health, from depression to drug addiction!
Vicki, I was 14 and living in California when Woodstock was happening and I remember it better than you do. I hate it when talk show hosts don't do any research. And why for Gods sake does the audience on all those talk shows (talking about back then) look like stiffs with a permanent smile on their face?
Thats amazing what he said about the Fbi agents, thats amazing.
It sure would be nice to hear some of the music they presumably played. Any chance?
What's up with the Vangelis-style glockenspiel in this video?
Why is Jack Casady cut out of this?
Where's Jorma?!?
Probably because he doesn't speak about the sensationalized aspects.....
@Fifty State Jorma wasn't in the re-formed Jefferson Starship of the 1990's, only Kantner-Casady-Balin were. He never liked Jefferson Starship's music; during the Airplane's 1989 reunion tour, he sat out the JS songs. Casady was new to Jefferson Starship; he wasn't in the 70's configuration.
Jack was on the first three Starship albums - up through Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun.
@sdushdiu - Jefferson Starship (the original one) was not founded until 1974, after Baron Von Tollbooth, and Casady was not a member.
In the parlance of the times she was a square. She was in the cafeteria doing homework at lunch kind of kid I think. She didn't get that these musicians were so fuckin superior to her. I was waiting for her to toss that great album cover, bich. RIP guys, somebody wake up Jack.
"My religion is mine yet my values are on display" . Plato
Would the audience member at 6:27 be considered a "square" by the Airplane?
She was 20 in 1969. how did she miss it?
She was on The Carol Burnett Show with Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner. She hung with an older crowd back then.
You could tell from her naive questions that she wanted to miss it BITD, like many people did. And now they "wonder" about 'it', whatever 'it' entails, as a way of thinking. But it's like Paul said in the interview, "Living it and talking about it are 2 different things." That's what i miss about that time. There's a difference between a Trend and a Happening. Ask Jack and Jorma.
🔲
I wonder why Jack brought the bass out. Was it just a prop ? If so, I'm sure it wasn't Jacks idea. Now years later, if that was his signature EPI bass, he could have promoted it. I want one , but lefty 's are no where to be found.
Obviously not 1994? Always found it weird Vicki Lawrence sang ' the nights went dwn in Georgia'
"you kids are having waaaay too much fun". "we'll make a law against that" "first I'll hit this whaddyacallit." Oh, tab, soon as I hit this tab here." Then I'll start making busts.
7:30 ouch..that rang a bell...there's a guy who wants to know where it all went wrong too!
why is there a bell ringing throughout this?
M. Chic My guess is it's the wind chime of the person recording this show off a vhs tape onto their cell phone
ooh. that lady. viper
Flashbacks.....Yawn.....So where ARE the flashbacks they promised us??????????
smarmy girl with cool guys
clueless and proud
beauty and the callow heart
if vikki was 10 years younger than the airplane guys who are silents and oldest boomers than she would have been closer in age to the 70s age group as she is carol burnetts daughter who is gi .
Jack....Starship? I think not good sir!! He's way too badass for that
He was in Jefferson Starship in the 1990's.
Yawn, he was featured on the first 3 Starship albums as the Airplane and Hot Tuna were fracturing.
Nope, unless Blows Against the Empire counts. He wasn't on Dragon Fly or Red Octopus. Joined briefly in the '90s.
Ptown Scribe, he said “Starship,” not “Jefferson Starship.” The group changed their name by dropping “Jefferson” from their name around 1990. Cassady was a member of Starship but not the preceding “Jefferson Starship.
yeah hot tuna does not like hit songs ! or getting paid
7:37 He should say the Manson Family murders too. That was the end of the hippie-love era, in the US culture. August 1969. The sentiment if not headlines were "Hippies will kill."
Hippies were being killed by old men in San Francisco all the time it never made the news but the Manson Murders became a huge media event from the rig media
@@dampergoldenrod4156 Then how do you support your claim of hippies being killed by old men "all the time", if it "never made the news"?
You're an imbecile that doesn't know anything about the zebra killings in San Francisco
@@dampergoldenrod4156 No, you are a rude prick who doesn't know how to comment. You just ruined yourself with that.
Not sure the hippie love era was ever really a big thing. The summer of 1967 was dominated by race riots in the US, while the "summer of love" encompassed a relatively small number of people. And love mostly meant drug use, euphoria, and young people doing stupid shit.
instead of Vickie ending Mama's Family in 1990 she should have continued the show up to about 1993 or 1994 and grace and the rest of the band should have kept making music until around 1993 or 1994 instead of ending it in 1989
05:12ish Balin's Inferno
Poor if them they have to answer all those stupid questions. Just asked about drugs
Not the right venue for an Airplane interview; nonetheless Marty and Paul cuts through Vicki's BS.
PAUL RINGO
She's ridiculous.....
to much woodstick at least marty speaks the real 60s 67 68 and 69 when it was over i was born 67 and the best rock is that year 68 when heavy metal was born.
.......In my opinion, the first heavy metal song was by the Beatles called “Tommorow Never Knows”... ruclips.net/video/Ah2ckzXgrx4/видео.html That song is from 1966
she looks like the heavy duty republican type so amused to meet some actual cool people
+Joe Jacovino My thoughts exactly. No offense to the woman (she is very funny as her "Mama" character), but she would have probably been one of the squares supporting Nixon.
+IndyDefense the kinda person who'd never pick you up hitchhiking ...
She backed Al Gore.
at that time Al & Tipper Gore was leading the charge to censor lyrics ... they were putzes
Joe Jacovino He ran as a democrat, for president, and Vicki backed him.
Paul Kantner was an smart guy. Can't stand the left but Kanter was great.
I don,t like martys blonde hair, but, even though it,s vicki Lawrence the interview is good and funny.
5:30 I love how Marty Balin says there's no comparison in reference to Kurt Cobain ..he had the guts to come out and say something like that... no good artist would have the bravado to criticize the shit artist nowadays
He had the same opinion of Cobain that Frank Sinatra and Buddy Rich had of him. Most people in music lose their sense of adventure and ability to adapt when they hit their 30s.
lotsa hit with curt @@t-bo2734
RIP Marty Balin