Mickey does have one hell of a set of pipes. You need to go down this rabbit hole. other male vocalists of the time that rivaled his range were David Coverdale of Whitesnake, Rik Emmett of Triumph, Randy Meisner of the Eagles, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Tommy Shaw and Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Steve Perry of Journey, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin all of which could sing those high notes.
It helped that lead guitarist, Craig Chaquico, who wrote Mickey's audition song for the band, "Rock Music," also wrote the music (and lyrics in the case of Find Your Way Back) with Thomas's vocal range in mind and how that went well with the lead guitar.
Mickey Thomas was that voice. He sang Jane also done by Starship and he sang Fooled Around and fell in love by Elvin Bishop. Elvin was the guitar player and Mickey was lead singer.
Funny story in 1965 my mom and her friends got tickets to Jefferson Airplane, and they all couldn't find babysitters and didn't want 1 person to miss out to watch kids. So They took all us kids to the concert, and managed to get us in. I was 5 at the time and remember some of it, but I do have pictures from that day. Would be cool if a hypnotist could put me under and bring forth that memory because it was a great show I'm sure. I ask what mother would take a 5 year old to Jefferson Airplane? Either a very cool mom or unresponsible mom. I go with the cool mom.
Mickey was the singer of the classic Fooled Around and Fell in Love. Back when he was with Elvin Bishop. After hearing that voice he got a call from Jefferson Starship. Then he did SARA, and NOTHINGS GONNA STOP US NOW. he's the most underrated voice ever. He did a great solo track for the movie Heavenly Kid called Two Minute Love. Great reaction my friend
Nice reaction, yes it is the same band they changed their style with the decades. Mickey Thomas has an amazing voice, lucky to see them about 20 years ago. He sings effortlessly. He is the voice of Elvin Bishop- Fooled Around and Fell in Love, which you did a reaction for. Grace Slick is the female singer. Stranger, Nothing Going to Stop Us Now, Winds of Change are a few of their songs.
Find Your Way Back was written by Jefferson Starship's original lead guitarist, Craig Chaquico (music and lyrics with a nice chord change tucked in there by his friend, Tommy Borsdorf). Craig wrote or co-wrote many of the band's hit songs and was there from beginning to end (1974-1991).
Starship came from Jefferson Starship, before was Jefferson Airplane. Grace Slick was the female you were referring to. She was with them since the 70's. She was still with them during this song.
For one of the most underrated solos, check out "Save Your Love" from Jefferson Starship (Craig Chaquico is the guitarist). It's also a great song too.
Mickey Thomas was the third in a long line of great voices to front Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship over their 30+ year run, following Grace Slick and Mart Balin (RIP). Try some back catalog of the first two....you won't regret it.
Jefferson Airplane was not the same band as Jefferson Starship and Starship. They just included some of the same band members, but not two of the KEY members that made the bands successful in their own separate right: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady for Airplane, and Craig Chaquico and Pete Sears for Jefferson Starship/Starship (Sears was out of Starship early on but he was there at the very beginning).
@@williamosborne6866 It wasn't a "progression" either so don't be spreading rumours (or marketing spin). They were ENTIRELY different bands, not a progression of anything. They just had some members who'd been in Airplane (two only for the last live tour of that band) and two key members who hadn't at all been in that band. Facts matter.
That is a song written by lead guitarist Craig Chaquico (music and lyrics) with help on lyrics from Jeannette Sears. It was also the song Mickey Thomas sang at his audition for the band.
This is a great memory you have brought us. So many great songs from the various iterations of this core group. This is another one. The song you reacted to was “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, a precursor to this band🌺✌️
Mickey Thomas is lead here...check out Jane for more Mickey Jefferson Starship also had Marty Balin's diamond voice, check out, Count On Me and Miricles. You will love, love, love all three
Now you need to react to the live version of Jane. Jefferson Airplane from the 60's turned into Jefferson Starship in the 70's and became simply Starship in the 80's. Mickey Thomas joined in the Jefferson Starship version and stayed on for the Starship gig, as well.
No. Jefferson Airplane ENDED by 1972. Dead. Overwith. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady of Airplane had already moved on to Hot Tuna and there was no more enthusiasm for Airplane so it ended. Slick and Kantner tried solo projects that didn't sell well so a NEW band was formed with some members having also been in Airplane. But a KEY difference was that a young lead guitarist/songwriter, Craig Chaquico, and a bass player/keyboardist/songwriter, Pete Sears were in the new band. This is why Jefferson Starship was so successful and much more commercially successful than Airplane. Different band. Mickey Thomas did not join Jefferson Starship until 5 years after it had already had only gold, platinum and double-platinum albums.
This band has it's pedigree as one of great bands from the 60s as Jefferson Airplane and was at Woodstock with the lead singer Grace Slick then in the 80s they became Jefferson Starship and then later as just Starship
"Miracles" was their biggest hit but you have to listen to the original album release (there is a shortened version out there that was "cleaned up" (lyrics) for AM radio), from their most successful album "Red Octopus".
My favorite was Jefferson Starship with both Marty Balin and then Mickey Thomas..Miracles(a must hear),With Your Love,Count On Me and Runaway(Marty Balin songs) and Jane and No Way Out(Mickey Thomas songs) There are others but these are my favorites with them :) Keep On Rockin'
"different" because it was a different band. A very different band, different key band members and songwriters, different producers and a different era.
Nah man. I love their 80s hits as well and I’m glad I heard this one as it’s totally new to me and I think it’s great. No need to call the music police. If you like it, you like it. Screw the “guilty pleasure” nonsense.
Mickey Thomas - One of the great falsetto-soprano-tenor rock voices in music history. His work with the Elvin Bishop Group was already legendary. Try to sample "I Fooled Around and Fell in Love" an absolute pitch perfect performance with total vocal control, incredible range and a sublime vibrato in a smash hit recording. Thomas' voice was 'bulletproof' in that he sounded like that each and every time he hit the stage. ruclips.net/video/Ev8SibkJhNg/видео.html
This is a great track! But I think this is when JS started to sell out a bit, let's no forget "We built this city on rock and roll"! The days of Grace Slick and songs that were innovative, provocative, and psychedelic. To mainstream radio friendly, uninteresting, and pop. Guess I was thinking of Jefferson Airplane days. To watch them evolve from where they started to where they ended. It's a sad thing! Funny how when someone left the band the name changed.
What exactly is, "to sell out", when referring to bands anyway? My entire life I've been hearing that and never really understood why fans or non-fans let it bother them. It's none of theirs, yours or my business what a band does or doesn't do. Unless you're in the band. You and others who claim a band has "sold out", always come across sounding like pretentious and jealous fools.
@@mrsouthjersey4956 terms of music or art, selling out is associated with attempts to tailor material to a mainstream or commercial audience. For example, a musician who alters their material to encompass a wider audience, and in turn generates greater revenue, may be labeled by fans who pre-date the change as a "sellout". If that makes me pretentious then consider me so. Won't change my outlook for voicing an opinion!
@@greybeard2280 And it won't change mine in thinking you come across as a person who sounds like this is the biggest problem in their entire life. Big fucking deal, a band sold out. Boo fucking woooo.
Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas CHOSE "We Built This City" because they wanted hit vocalist songs so they chose that song, among others, from outside writers. Jefferson Airplane was a different band.
Mickey Thomas gets my vote for greatest male singer in rock/pop history.
Not falsetto.
Not even close.
Still a great friggin song.
Don't forget the wonderful Grace Slick, background vocals that did White Rabbit with Jefferson Airplane.
Mickey does have one hell of a set of pipes. You need to go down this rabbit hole. other male vocalists of the time that rivaled his range were David Coverdale of Whitesnake, Rik Emmett of Triumph, Randy Meisner of the Eagles, Freddie Mercury of Queen, Tommy Shaw and Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Steve Perry of Journey, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin all of which could sing those high notes.
Steven Walsh from Kansas
It helped that lead guitarist, Craig Chaquico, who wrote Mickey's audition song for the band, "Rock Music," also wrote the music (and lyrics in the case of Find Your Way Back) with Thomas's vocal range in mind and how that went well with the lead guitar.
Thank you thank you what a voice beutifull heart felt great music 😊
Yes all the same !
JANE - Jefferson Starship
This song brings back so many memories of my youth. ❤️
Mickey Thomas has an awesome voice! Time to react to their song Sara!!!
Jefferson Starship had an amazing run of hits including “ Familiar Stranger” “Jane” “No Way Out” and many more
Mickey Thomas was that voice. He sang Jane also done by Starship and he sang Fooled Around and fell in love by Elvin Bishop. Elvin was the guitar player and Mickey was lead singer.
Funny story in 1965 my mom and her friends got tickets to Jefferson Airplane, and they all couldn't find babysitters and didn't want 1 person to miss out to watch kids. So They took all us kids to the concert, and managed to get us in. I was 5 at the time and remember some of it, but I do have pictures from that day. Would be cool if a hypnotist could put me under and bring forth that memory because it was a great show I'm sure. I ask what mother would take a 5 year old to Jefferson Airplane? Either a very cool mom or unresponsible mom. I go with the cool mom.
Starship is much better live version than studio versions
Their early stuff are my favorites from them, "Count On Me", "Miracles", "With Your Love", and "Runaway" are all excellent songs.
Runaway my favorite. Marty Balins impassioned voice in that shakes me to my core... In the best possible way
Mickey was the singer of the classic Fooled Around and Fell in Love. Back when he was with Elvin Bishop. After hearing that voice he got a call from Jefferson Starship. Then he did SARA, and NOTHINGS GONNA STOP US NOW. he's the most underrated voice ever. He did a great solo track for the movie Heavenly Kid called Two Minute Love. Great reaction my friend
Never gets old
Listen to “Jane”
OMG my favorite!!!...very powerful voice and the guitars kick a**!!
Nice reaction, yes it is the same band they changed their style with the decades. Mickey Thomas has an amazing voice, lucky to see them about 20 years ago. He sings effortlessly. He is the voice of Elvin Bishop- Fooled Around and Fell in Love, which you did a reaction for. Grace Slick is the female singer. Stranger, Nothing Going to Stop Us Now, Winds of Change are a few of their songs.
I agree with Stranger and Winds of Change. Both great videos too.
"winds of change" and "stranger" are 2 other excellent tracks from the starship era.
Hi Harri, Jefferson Airplane, with Grace Slick is my Fav. But Starship was very good as well.
Different bands.
Such a great song I haven't heard on the radio for a long time.
Maybe make America great again includes this.
Saw Mickey sing live in Michigan September 2021..this 73 year old can still hit all the notes..go see him✌🏼
Find Your Way Back was written by Jefferson Starship's original lead guitarist, Craig Chaquico (music and lyrics with a nice chord change tucked in there by his friend, Tommy Borsdorf). Craig wrote or co-wrote many of the band's hit songs and was there from beginning to end (1974-1991).
Ain't no falsetto! It's Mickey Thomas'
voice
Starship came from Jefferson Starship, before was Jefferson Airplane. Grace Slick was the female you were referring to. She was with them since the 70's. She was still with them during this song.
Jefferson Airplane was a different band than Jefferson Starship, ending two years before Jefferson Starship was formed.
For one of the most underrated solos, check out "Save Your Love" from Jefferson Starship (Craig Chaquico is the guitarist). It's also a great song too.
Yes, it does have the Yes sound. I used to love Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship in the early years.
Mickey Thomas was the third in a long line of great voices to front Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship over their 30+ year run, following Grace Slick and Mart Balin (RIP). Try some back catalog of the first two....you won't regret it.
Jefferson Airplane was not the same band as Jefferson Starship and Starship. They just included some of the same band members, but not two of the KEY members that made the bands successful in their own separate right: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady for Airplane, and Craig Chaquico and Pete Sears for Jefferson Starship/Starship (Sears was out of Starship early on but he was there at the very beginning).
@@48nature Don't waste your time picking nits. It was a progression - never said they were the same band.
@@williamosborne6866 It wasn't a "progression" either so don't be spreading rumours (or marketing spin). They were ENTIRELY different bands, not a progression of anything. They just had some members who'd been in Airplane (two only for the last live tour of that band) and two key members who hadn't at all been in that band. Facts matter.
Great stuff Harry. From the same "Starship" era, the song 'Jane' is wven more powerful.
Thank you.
Also written primarily by lead guitarist, Craig Chaquico.
Mickey also really stretches those vocals in "Rock Music". It will Rock you monster hard and leave you smiling
That is a song written by lead guitarist Craig Chaquico (music and lyrics) with help on lyrics from Jeannette Sears. It was also the song Mickey Thomas sang at his audition for the band.
Be My Lady is another good one by JS from the early days of MTV.
He does sound like a more powerful Jon Anderson
The Courts of Heaven Lent One of Their Greatest Voices To Us Souls- Definitely Up There With The Legendary and Powerful Steve Perry-
P.S. Jefferson Airplane...Then.. Jefferson Starship...Then...Starship...Maybe Their Next Band Name Might Be.."Ship" 💯🥂
This is a great memory you have brought us. So many great songs from the various iterations of this core group. This is another one. The song you reacted to was “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, a precursor to this band🌺✌️
Mickey Thomas is lead here...check out Jane for more Mickey
Jefferson Starship also had Marty Balin's diamond voice, check out, Count On Me and Miricles. You will love, love, love all three
Enjoyed the reaction. My favorite part was when you were talking about the meaning of the song and totally anticipated the next lyric of the song 👍
Bradley Delp and Mickey Thomas.
Check out Stranger from Starship, it 🔥
More rock guitar from Craig Chaquico.
Now you need to react to the live version of Jane. Jefferson Airplane from the 60's turned into Jefferson Starship in the 70's and became simply Starship in the 80's. Mickey Thomas joined in the Jefferson Starship version and stayed on for the Starship gig, as well.
No. Jefferson Airplane ENDED by 1972. Dead. Overwith. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady of Airplane had already moved on to Hot Tuna and there was no more enthusiasm for Airplane so it ended. Slick and Kantner tried solo projects that didn't sell well so a NEW band was formed with some members having also been in Airplane. But a KEY difference was that a young lead guitarist/songwriter, Craig Chaquico, and a bass player/keyboardist/songwriter, Pete Sears were in the new band. This is why Jefferson Starship was so successful and much more commercially successful than Airplane. Different band. Mickey Thomas did not join Jefferson Starship until 5 years after it had already had only gold, platinum and double-platinum albums.
Yes, it does sound like Yes, to me anyway.
Another stellar reaction Harri.
Another good one. Well done but when are you going to get around to "Stranger". The live version please!!!! *under 6 miinutes)
This band has it's pedigree as one of great bands from the 60s as Jefferson Airplane and was at Woodstock with the lead singer Grace Slick then in the 80s they became Jefferson Starship and then later as just Starship
Wrong. Airplane ended two years before Jefferson Starship was even formed.
"Miracles" was their biggest hit but you have to listen to the original album release (there is a shortened version out there that was "cleaned up" (lyrics) for AM radio), from their most successful album "Red Octopus".
Hehas a high tenor voice. ;)
Harry it's not a falsetto He' tinner with a 4 octave range, He the singer that sang fooled around and fell in love, and He still doing it to this day.
Would like you to react to Jefferson Starship's Jane. You reacted to Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit" with Grace Slick., lead.
My favorite was Jefferson Starship with both Marty Balin and then Mickey Thomas..Miracles(a must hear),With Your Love,Count On Me and Runaway(Marty Balin songs) and Jane and No Way Out(Mickey Thomas songs) There are others but these are my favorites with them :) Keep On Rockin'
If you want to hear something really remarkable, listen/react to "Comin' Back to Me" by Jefferson Airplane -- it's a much different, "eerie" vibe
"different" because it was a different band. A very different band, different key band members and songwriters, different producers and a different era.
No. Mickey Thomas who also sang fooled around and felt in love. Look for live versions, much better
I know you will All cringe but I LOVE We built thi city on rock and roll and ALSO White Rabbit etc. Call me weird
Nah man. I love their 80s hits as well and I’m glad I heard this one as it’s totally new to me and I think it’s great.
No need to call the music police. If you like it, you like it. Screw the “guilty pleasure” nonsense.
Mickey Thomas - One of the great falsetto-soprano-tenor rock voices in music history. His work with the Elvin Bishop Group was already legendary. Try to sample "I Fooled Around and Fell in Love" an absolute pitch perfect performance with total vocal control, incredible range and a sublime vibrato in a smash hit recording. Thomas' voice was 'bulletproof' in that he sounded like that each and every time he hit the stage.
ruclips.net/video/Ev8SibkJhNg/видео.html
Best Jefferson Starship song? "Miracles". Trust me on this one.
Too poppy for most YES songs
That’s not a falsetto.
This is a great track! But I think this is when JS started to sell out a bit, let's no forget "We built this city on rock and roll"! The days of Grace Slick and songs that were innovative, provocative, and psychedelic. To mainstream radio friendly, uninteresting, and pop. Guess I was thinking of Jefferson Airplane days. To watch them evolve from where they started to where they ended. It's a sad thing! Funny how when someone left the band the name changed.
What exactly is, "to sell out", when referring to bands anyway? My entire life I've been hearing that and never really understood why fans or non-fans let it bother them. It's none of theirs, yours or my business what a band does or doesn't do. Unless you're in the band.
You and others who claim a band has "sold out", always come across sounding like pretentious and jealous fools.
@@mrsouthjersey4956 terms of music or art, selling out is associated with attempts to tailor material to a mainstream or commercial audience. For example, a musician who alters their material to encompass a wider audience, and in turn generates greater revenue, may be labeled by fans who pre-date the change as a "sellout". If that makes me pretentious then consider me so. Won't change my outlook for voicing an opinion!
@@greybeard2280 And it won't change mine in thinking you come across as a person who sounds like this is the biggest problem in their entire life.
Big fucking deal, a band sold out. Boo fucking woooo.
Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas CHOSE "We Built This City" because they wanted hit vocalist songs so they chose that song, among others, from outside writers. Jefferson Airplane was a different band.