CSN released their version a few months before the Airplane. However, both bands performed it at Woodstock. CSNY did, more or less, a straightforward presentation of the song while the Airplane did a 20 minute version.
How many songs have there been where the lead guitarist is soloing all the way through but without overpowering the rest of the band? Yes, the vocals are amazing and Grace's haunting wail is one of the best things ever, but take a bow Jorma Kaukonen!
A writer/critic had said that Jorma just "blazes through the mix.". That's a pretty damn good description! Amazing guitarist worthy of high praise, despite Rolling Stone magazine's shit-list's! Rock on, JA!! ✈️🎸🎼🎤👄☮️
This band had an amazing blend of talent that was superior to the rest of the musical scene at that time & place. Where else could it have come together, but SF? There is only one other place and band, and that is London & Led Zeppelin. It's no coincidence that these two are my top two favorite bands. I have many, but they are all after JA & LZ. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
@@DonatoDamiano-r2gto heck with Rolling Stone. Professional musician here, and I haven't read that rag since '72, except for CC's interviews with Led Zeppelin. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
@@winfieldritzert2176 I agree! I also think Grace Slick's vocals elevates this to another level entirely. Hearing such a beautiful voice soaring above the men's vocals has an amazing effect.
I go back and forth on it... this version definitely matches the apocalyptic lyrics better. The CSNY version's a little too groovy for nuclear winter and everyone dying from radiation.
Yeah ... I'm a total CSN fan, but this is the one song, the only song, that someone was able to do better. Maybe that's because one of the writers of the song was Paul Kantner. This song has so much soul, the soul of all (hu)mankind.
I love the way Jorma soars on this great, great song. His guitar actually screams as Airplane sings "All we can do is echo your anguish cries" This is far and away the best album Airplane did. And the great pianist Nicky Hopkins added another dimension to the greatness of Jefferson Airplane.
Hearing this now at 76 years old hits me in my stomach. So much great music exploding in all directions with socially aware and poetical lyrics. Great times and this a great example. Love from England.
So easily the greatest version. A whole new dimension that captures the feelings of the age. And Grace Slick's soaring take offs. Everything gels to create a masterpiece. Have listened to it so many times and come out inspired to feel rebellious.
I was born in 1981. I'm jealous of you all who got to experience this- this had to have been all so new!! But my worldview is shaped by what happened then....
The music from the late 60s is so good. I was just a little kid but heard it a lot on the radio later on. Even 50 years later it still has so much impact.
4:13 Jorma and Grace magical together! Then Jorma's solo. Like Garcia, he developed a unique electric guitar sound, coming from an accomplished folk background. One of the greats.
Grace really shines on this one. Just one of the many reasons I revere her. Her voice has an extreme calming effect. And I have had to hear it daily since '67. This writing marks 5 hours of her voice tonight. And its not enough. I could go for a million years. Thank you so much, Grace....for being you. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
At 74, it's still a joy to listen and remember the great music/musicians of the late 60's. Wooden Ships was a influential counter-culture statement of how young people felt hopeless.
Local band, loved Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Seen them so many time. Such great memories. Y eta I was born un 1954. I actually met Grace Slick. I sold advertising for the Marin faily newspaper, Marin IJ, I sold her a full page political ad. I was so proud of myself, I was very professional. However, inside I was such a fan girl. ❤❤❤❤❤
The Jefferson Airplane was one of the best bands ever. Four great songwriters who could sing, Jorma's unique style of lead guitar and a great bass/drums duo!
@@kevinjoseph517 That's right, Marty! I was amused reading Marty Balin's obituary a few years ago. It mentioned how in the "Monterey Pop" movie the cameraman kept focusing on Grace Slick and hardly showed Marty at all, not even when Marty was on lead vocals. I can't really blame the camera guy though. I would have been laser-focused on watching twenty-seven-year-old Grace Slick.
GRACE SLICK CAN AWAKE ME ANY OR ALL MORNINGS SHE DECIDES TO HER VOICE IS SO CAPTIVATING & ADDICTIVE, ALONG W/LATE PAUL KANTNER, MARTY BALIN & THE AIRPLANE BAND..
I grew up during this time and the only version of this song i can remember is the CS&N (or was it CSN&Y). I never owned any Jefferson Airplane albums but i could hang out with many friends and listen to Airplane albums all day long. Thank You for posting this. ✌
...it was C S N & SOMETIMES Y...Y would get pissed off at the group and walk off stage in the middle of a concert if he thought they weren't playing well enough to suit him...
I'm a total CSN fan, but this is the one song, the only song, that someone was able to do better. Maybe that's because one of the writers of the song was Paul Kantner. This song has so much soul, the soul of all (hu)mankind.
Thanks for the look back. Lots of folks expanded their minds. It enhanced, beautified, electrified, minds. Everything went better with LSD. Thanks, CIA!
Love the take, beautiful. Not sure it’s better than CSN, just different and you can like one or the other, or both. I love the difference in this version though…✌️
The back story on this song is whole other saga,. Look it up.. Total legal sh** t storm once the lawyers and record producers got their talons in. Great song and amazing that in the end both legendary groups were able to record and release it
When I listen to this music, I think of the opening narrative from the The Lord of the Rings. "Much of what once was is now lost." The music industry used to have a soul long ago. Maybe Our current Nixon-style president will cause a backlash that leads to a new progressive movement of creativity and substance.
Unfortunately the people on the left aren’t as hip or cultured as they make themselves out to be, either. I’ve been around my peers long enough to realize that over 90% of them are lost and angry people.
It's almost a criminal act to pick one when both achieve take off to the feel good reaches so seamlessly how ever CSN jettisons to a perfect safe landing whist the Airplane reaches the cosmic heights of the stratosphere few ever attain .
The Matrix brought me here and music is my red pill. I cant believe I just listening to this great vinyl for the first time. (So much more than Just White Rabbit)
In case you're wondering, on the cover, left to right: seated Balin, Slick with mask, Koukanen. Standing: Dryden in mask, Casady in mask, Kanter saluting and looking like doofus in lampshade
Actually, the song was written by members of _both_ groups, and they each recorded their own versions. I like both, and depending on my mood I will prefer one over the other.
Imagining a post nuclear war situation ("I can see by your coat my friend you're from the other side...can you tell me please who won"),, wooden ships cuz, techno destroyed, "silver people on the shoreline" are people in protective suits that they see from the ship.
This song was written by David Crosby and Stephen Stills, along with Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner, while relaxing on Crosby’s actual wooden ship, Mayan. They were looking back at the shore from their peaceful refuge, imagining if the Warfare State had finally brought about nuclear holocaust, and they could see men in radiation suits assessing survivors to determine who is fit to live. Both bands recorded a version of it, the CS&N version being a pop hit, but the Jefferson Airplane version having a following for its own distinct sound and style.
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For those who don’t know, this song was written by Paul Kanter, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, so it belongs to both bands
CSN released their version a few months before the Airplane. However, both bands performed it at Woodstock. CSNY did, more or less, a straightforward presentation of the song while the Airplane did a 20 minute version.
JA took it to another level. CSN version is dull in comparison.
.....and now it belongs to all of us.
Agreed brother I heart 60 rock and psychedelic rock
3 of the greatest songwriters in the history of planet Earth ! - No wonder this tune is so epic !
late sixties to the early seventies,a renaissance of passion,originality,freedom of thought,musical genius..never to be surpassed in my lifetime
Almost like you don't hear guitar like that anymore. Jorma!
This was their swan song--last great lp---marty couldnt take paul n graces insanity n the drugs..read jormas book...at one stage jk was using heroin.
How many songs have there been where the lead guitarist is soloing all the way through but without overpowering the rest of the band? Yes, the vocals are amazing and Grace's haunting wail is one of the best things ever, but take a bow Jorma Kaukonen!
To me thats ideal ideal when the lead guitar melds throughout without needing to dominate
A writer/critic had said that Jorma just "blazes through the mix.". That's a pretty damn good description! Amazing guitarist worthy of high praise, despite Rolling Stone magazine's shit-list's! Rock on, JA!! ✈️🎸🎼🎤👄☮️
Kaukonen is the greatest rock guitarist of all
This band had an amazing blend of talent that was superior to the rest of the musical scene at that time & place. Where else could it have come together, but SF? There is only one other place and band, and that is London & Led Zeppelin. It's no coincidence that these two are my top two favorite bands. I have many, but they are all after JA & LZ.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
@@DonatoDamiano-r2gto heck with Rolling Stone. Professional musician here, and I haven't read that rag since '72, except for CC's interviews with Led Zeppelin.
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I love this one sooooo much more than the CSN&Y version, there's just something magical about it
The Airplane, I think, was a much more relatable band .. raw and unapologetic... We saw them as one of us...
@@winfieldritzert2176 I agree! I also think Grace Slick's vocals elevates this to another level entirely. Hearing such a beautiful voice soaring above the men's vocals has an amazing effect.
I go back and forth on it... this version definitely matches the apocalyptic lyrics better. The CSNY version's a little too groovy for nuclear winter and everyone dying from radiation.
@@xanderxander9236 ha! I agree, I think you hit the nail on the head 😂
...there IS everything magical here.....................
Love CSN, but this is the definitive version. Haunting.
Yeah ... I'm a total CSN fan, but this is the one song, the only song, that someone was able to do better. Maybe that's because one of the writers of the song was Paul Kantner. This song has so much soul, the soul of all (hu)mankind.
all members of Airplane get to shine on this one from Jorma's scorching solo's to Grace's soaring vocals at the end - awesome.
I love the way Jorma soars on this great, great song. His guitar actually screams as Airplane sings "All we can do is echo your anguish cries" This is far and away the best album Airplane did. And the great pianist Nicky Hopkins added another dimension to the greatness of Jefferson Airplane.
@@frederickhamill1838 yes Nicky Hopkins was the hot session man at the time - from the Stones to the Airplane, even helping out Airplane at Woodstock.
Hearing this now at 76 years old hits me in my stomach. So much great music exploding in all directions with socially aware and poetical lyrics. Great times and this a great example. Love from England.
I'm with you buddy. Life is so different now.
The topic in this song is more a real threat than ever right now! I'm scared shitless.
Please explain
Once again, please explain
So easily the greatest version. A whole new dimension that captures the feelings of the age. And Grace Slick's soaring take offs. Everything gels to create a masterpiece. Have listened to it so many times and come out inspired to feel rebellious.
A beautiful haunting song of a possible sad but hopeful future.
Happy 84th birthday Grace!
Now it's a year later, so happy 85th birthday to Grace yet again!!!
It was a period in time but what an era it was!
My favourite time
I was born in 1981. I'm jealous of you all who got to experience this- this had to have been all so new!! But my worldview is shaped by what happened then....
Haven't listened to this in many years. Sounds better than ever.
I listen to it every day and it gets better and better with every listening. Not exaggerating.
The music from the late 60s is so good. I was just a little kid but heard it a lot on the radio later on. Even 50 years later it still has so much impact.
From acorns tall oaks grow ,we just gotta let them .
Better than CS&N's version, I'd say.
My personal favorite Jefferson song. So good.
4:13 Jorma and Grace magical together! Then Jorma's solo. Like Garcia, he developed a unique electric guitar sound, coming from an accomplished folk background. One of the greats.
My favorite of "The Airplane"..........Marty, Grace, etc ....a masterpiece .....
Grace really shines on this one. Just one of the many reasons I revere her. Her voice has an extreme calming effect. And I have had to hear it daily since '67. This writing marks 5 hours of her voice tonight. And its not enough. I could go for a million years.
Thank you so much, Grace....for being you.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Grace Slick -- one of the best singers of any type of music, ever.
One of my first and favorite albums. Why I’m still a rogue subversive.
My favorite version. Much more passion and intricacy for me.
Jorma's guitar sets the mood of a rocking Ship at sea.
At 74, it's still a joy to listen and remember the great music/musicians of the late 60's. Wooden Ships was a influential counter-culture statement of how young people felt hopeless.
Very intense song actually. When you realize this could happen and probably will in our lifetime.
I used to like the CSN version because I didn't know this one. This one grows on you and I like it better now. It's more raw.
Life and dead in just one song. Enjoei the ride my friends. Salute from 🇧🇷
Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jeff. Airplane.... .God thank you for giving us spirits like this...
and Grateful Dead, Love, CSN, the Doors, Joni Mitchell.
I do love Grace's voice! Great Song.. great musicians!
Who do not
Was introduced to this version 10 months ago by an amazing soul. This track has seen me through many evenings, headphones on, immersed in its beauty.
CS&N gave this song a heart, but JA gave it a soul
Local band, loved Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Seen them so many time. Such great memories. Y eta I was born un 1954. I actually met Grace Slick. I sold advertising for the Marin faily newspaper, Marin IJ, I sold her a full page political ad. I was so proud of myself, I was very professional. However, inside I was such a fan girl. ❤❤❤❤❤
They're both great, but I always liked this version just a little more than the CSN
I'm on the other side of that fence - but both definitely great.
"I'm with you fellas."
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Same here .
Same here too
Brilliant album from start to finish.
Jorma Kaukonen's guitar and Grace Slicks voice turn this song into a classic masterpiece in music.
n marty
The Jefferson Airplane was one of the best bands ever. Four great songwriters who could sing, Jorma's unique style of lead guitar and a great bass/drums duo!
@@kevinjoseph517 That's right, Marty! I was amused reading Marty Balin's obituary a few years ago. It mentioned how in the "Monterey Pop" movie the cameraman kept focusing on Grace Slick and hardly showed Marty at all, not even when Marty was on lead vocals. I can't really blame the camera guy though. I would have been laser-focused on watching twenty-seven-year-old Grace Slick.
GRACE SLICK CAN AWAKE ME ANY OR ALL MORNINGS SHE DECIDES TO HER VOICE IS SO CAPTIVATING & ADDICTIVE, ALONG W/LATE PAUL KANTNER, MARTY BALIN & THE AIRPLANE BAND..
Best version ever !
Chills for both versions!!!
A well written song is worth a novel or a movie.
I grew up during this time and the only version of this song i can remember is the CS&N (or was it CSN&Y).
I never owned any Jefferson Airplane albums but i could hang out with many friends and listen to Airplane albums all day long.
Thank You for posting this.
✌
...it was C S N & SOMETIMES Y...Y would get pissed off at the group and walk off stage in the middle of a concert if he thought they weren't playing well enough to suit him...
CSNY. Long live rock.
And now we're the old people...........
its so good...perfect song of the 60s
I'm a total CSN fan, but this is the one song, the only song, that someone was able to do better. Maybe that's because one of the writers of the song was Paul Kantner. This song has so much soul, the soul of all (hu)mankind.
"Silver people on the shoreline let us be...." I resemble that remark! I just love the guitar riffs..............again so different, both versions
No other band like them
I love reading all your comments people, bless you all
This is perhaps my favorite song ever, hard to explain why and this version is the best. I still shun the silver people on the shoreline heh
Epic, and my introduction to acid rock, circa '94. i heard it in on a french radio,and ...BANG!
Yup, I remember this album
Beautiful song 🔥❤️🔥
The best version is the last one I listened to, both are great.
Thanks for the look back. Lots of folks expanded their minds. It enhanced, beautified, electrified, minds. Everything went better with LSD. Thanks, CIA!
Still fresh
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ich Liebe es🤩
Glorious😊
Wow, only 16 comments! I can't decide if I enjoy this version or the CSN version more, but they're both incredible. Super underrated cover.
Gabe Paul Kantner wrote this with David Crosby and Steven Stills so it isn’t a cover !
Классная песня. From Russia with love!
@B K Much love from USA! 😎✌️❤️
Love the take, beautiful. Not sure it’s better than CSN, just different and you can like one or the other, or both. I love the difference in this version though…✌️
Awesome!
The back story on this song is whole other saga,. Look it up.. Total legal sh** t storm once the lawyers and record producers got their talons in. Great song and amazing that in the end both legendary groups were able to record and release it
Pretty sure the legal issue were with the Airplane and nothing actually to do with this song.
@@lisafisher7132 Other than Kantner avoiding recognition as a contributor until after the storm so CS&N could release their version.
Go Ride the music!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL KANTNER!
Was here to share this today. Best to everyone!
CSNY is always oddly impersonal... This hits different. It's right there and real.
I wish I was on that wooden ship
My grandapa thought exactly
Try some smack. It's easy to board the ship.
You do know it's after a nuclear war.
When I listen to this music, I think of the opening narrative from the The Lord of the Rings. "Much of what once was is now lost." The music industry used to have a soul long ago. Maybe Our current Nixon-style president will cause a backlash that leads to a new progressive movement of creativity and substance.
Maybe!
Unfortunately the people on the left aren’t as hip or cultured as they make themselves out to be, either. I’ve been around my peers long enough to realize that over 90% of them are lost and angry people.
Nah,it’s all about $$$ now.:(
The music industry never had a soul to begin with.
It's almost a criminal act to pick one when both achieve take off to the feel good reaches so seamlessly how ever CSN jettisons to a perfect safe landing whist the Airplane reaches the cosmic heights of the stratosphere few ever attain .
The Matrix brought me here and music is my red pill. I cant believe I just listening to this great vinyl for the first time. (So much more than Just White Rabbit)
Much as I love the C S N take, this is miles better 😊
In case you're wondering, on the cover, left to right: seated Balin, Slick with mask, Koukanen. Standing: Dryden in mask, Casady in mask, Kanter saluting and looking like doofus in lampshade
This song might should have been a PERRO song since everybody did their own version of it. Great song.
No one won the war. That's the point of the song.
Marty at his finest
Both versions are similar, yet beautifully different…..
the BEST "Wooden Ships" 😃
Grace Slick's voice akin Yeats" spirals...
"...Leave us be..."
The line "we are leaving, you don't need us" convinced me to drop out in 1969...
Agreed.
Such a beautiful song about a death full of horror out on the ocean ...
Armageddon is over and those who took cover came out when the dust settled to see where life is now going..wooden ship is a metaphor..
We are leaving....YOU DONT NEEEEEEEEED USSSSSSSSS....
can you tell me please....who won?
"You don't need us!!"
surviving a new clear wore✌
Wow! I had no idea this existed wtf?
Not a patch on CSN version. Sounds like the Mama's and Papa's.
The pychiadelic euphoria generated by this song amongst the listeners hasbeen no match to anybody xcept the original by CSN😮
who is who on lp cover...GO JORMA..READ HIS BOOK IF U LIKE.
Amazing how CSN took this and turned it into an iconic masterpiece. Kudos!
A promise that was as hollow back then and now so apparent, volunteers of America, meaning where is my retirement fund. total bs.
A good version of the song. But I still like the CSN original so much more.
THEIR LAST GREAT LP---MARTY SPLITS TIRED OF THE DRUGS.
It was Csn
Actually, the song was written by members of _both_ groups, and they each recorded their own versions. I like both, and depending on my mood I will prefer one over the other.
What is this song about?
War and oppression
Imagining a post nuclear war situation ("I can see by your coat my friend you're from the other side...can you tell me please who won"),, wooden ships cuz, techno destroyed, "silver people on the shoreline" are people in protective suits that they see from the ship.
This song was written by David Crosby and Stephen Stills, along with Jefferson Airplane founder Paul Kantner, while relaxing on Crosby’s actual wooden ship, Mayan.
They were looking back at the shore from their peaceful refuge, imagining if the Warfare State had finally brought about nuclear holocaust, and they could see men in radiation suits assessing survivors to determine who is fit to live.
Both bands recorded a version of it, the CS&N version being a pop hit, but the Jefferson Airplane version having a following for its own distinct sound and style.
Haunting - I miss the 1960's. The "woke" nightmare we live in now is evil.
I only really find the first part very personal to me
Siiiiiiiii. Fuck yeeeeeeeeees
CANT GET ENOUGH YOU MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT YOUR ADDICTED TO LOVE SONG BY ROBERT PALMER BAND FRENCH JUSTICE BAND
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RFS Israel
BE ELITE
Probably my least favorite JA song, but it really does sum up that late 60s Woodstock feeling.
What else ?,,