What a time to be 17 man. I was 17 in 97 n that was that last years of good. Before Y2K after 2000 before 9/11. Ther was a time when ther was optimism. Maybe that was just youth hope i think now at 42
It's amazing how transcendent music can be - it can carry through the years like no other, and remain so fresh and present as if it were the first time you've ever heard it; it has no place and no time.
What's with you old farts and this music??? Haha, I'm 68, and I agree, of course. My Vietnam experience helped me to appreciate it. Live on brothers and sisters!
I first heard this song when I was 24. (back in 1970) I bought the album (surrealistic pillow) and this song put me in a trance, to say the least. I played it over and over and over till I fell asleep. It is the most soft spoken, relaxing, mesmerizing song if have ever heard in my life. I will NEVER BE TIRED OF THIS SONG. Anyone else feel the same? Cary in Roseville, California
Thanks for your comment Cary. I loved your little story, this is indeed a fantastic song and I'm glad I also found it now that I am also 24 like you were back in the day. I hope you read this! Take care.
+Ricardo Silva Don't get carried away in terms of beautiful songs. In terms of lyrics and music I suggest you find Judy Collins singing her song Albratoss. In terms of beauty and voice, find kd lang singing Leonard Cohen's Halluljah, specifically at the 2005 Juno performance. (I might be wrong about the year. Google lang and cohen and juno.)
Songs with real substance that tell stories like this just aren't made anymore. Music today feels hollow and empty. I would give almost anything to go back just one more time..
This is the most mysterious song of the album. Things were changing so fast when this was written, often in really wonderful ways. You didn't know what would happen tomorrow, or even who you would be.
This song is gorgeous! It speaks for an era, a generation, and the timeless beauty of love. Somehow, this song, and a few others of this era, reminds me that by the time most of us have it right, our ship has sailed, we can't go back, and we have little time to look forward to. This song and others like it should be required listening, discussion, and analysis for junior high school and senior high school kids so they can get it right before their ship sails. So many young people could improve their lot in life just by taking to heart the beautiful lyrics and music of this and other songs like it so they could avoid the pitfalls most of us become trapped in. One should always appreciate love, friendship, and family as they are fleeting at best for most of us. We should never take those close to us for granted.
Americus Patrioticus Praise the Lord! Wow how beautiful to see Family and their Friends going to church, school and just being happy with no hatred, envy nor murder especially no fights about politics
Wow! Well, we agree about the song - wonderfully beautiful! I grew up in the 50s and 60s and have been listening to JA, JS, and HT/Jorma for most of my life, along with a lot of other music around that. I will always love this song and many others they did - Today, Young Girl Sunday Blues, Rejoyce, Mann's Fate, Bar Room Crystal Ball, just to name a handful. But you do realize that the 60s, among other things, were about breaking with the conventional. Parents said to us the same thing you're saying now. Many parents loved big band music and old standards, Frank Sinatra and others of that genre, and classical music. My parents had me listen to things like Candide (Broadway show - Voltaire put to Bernstein music), and Bartok and Bach - glad they did. They had to put up with Airplane, The Doors, Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, etc. I get it though - I also can't understand the attraction of what's marketed these days. I don't hear Balin's voice or lyrics. But there is a lot of new music that's not very marketed that's pretty good. I do still listen to HT/JA/Jorma - a lot! And Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Pentangle, CSNY, Sly & The Family Stone, and Dire Straits. And I listen to Mike Munson, Larkin Poe, and Trombone Shorty. I also found the video entrancing. But I noticed that it doesn't reflect a lot of the country now or during the 60s when Balin wrote the song. No diversity, seemingly rural. That's okay - just not really about what the 60s/early 70s music/culture was mostly about. Balin's song does very much speak to "timeless beauty of love" (nice phrase). Sorry to go on so long. Just one last thing. I guess I agree that "we can't go back" but I don't know about the ship has sailed business. Jorma and Jack are older than I am - they are live streaming tonight (Sat., 7/18/20, 8 eastern) ruclips.net/video/zOEHX-dzX8Y/видео.html for what will be Jorma's 14th live weekly concert since the pandemic began. Jack drove from CA to OH a few weeks ago to join in. I don't think their ship has sailed yet either.
@@garydion3488 , By saying "the ship has sailed," I am referring to a lot of the missed opportunities we have as youngsters which we can only very rarely revisit in our middle and older years. Very few young people have the wisdom or guidance to make good decisions about their careers, marriage, and other life decisions. It is precisely those decisions which have to be made starting in our youth and young adult years. The social skills we need as adults are learned as kids. The ability to select a good career begins in youth. By the time most of us learn those skills, the ship of youth has sailed, and our desireability has faded. Those of us who do have the requisite wisdom and guidance to board the ship become the envy of the rest who missed it.
Many people have personal stories related to this song. I used to look out the window and see our eldest son come up the road and up the drive to our house. He didn't drive. I remembered this song back when I was a kid in the 60's but heard it again right after he died (our son) and the words really hit home hard. I still look out the window and remember him coming up the drive. It's been 10 years but this song still makes me cry. Our son was 27.
It's the same meaning for me and my beautiful daughter who passed. I struggle to hear it without breaking down but for some reason youtube keeps showing it. And this time I thought I might not cry..but I was wrong. I'm so sorry momma. I know your pain. It's been 8 years and she was 23.
Lost my Grandmother less than 2 months ago. Grandparents raised me since I was nine years old. Took care of her the last 7 years of her life (made it to 93)...because she deserved that much for how much she had given and sacrificed. I miss both of them soooo much. This song makes me think of them both...and then I cry.
those are warm beautiful thoughts & memories coming out of you, those are the treasures we store up on while living & once in a while we get to relive them in memory & they warm us from the inside out helping us to feel whole again. You've lived & made those memories, Now you get to enjoy them its feels like hurt & loss, but to me its love especially when it hurts. I lost My Mom from small cell cancer last march & I am still stunned by it. I have gotten over it but a wound remains because I dont believe her Death was a natural one so I have that on my mind all the time now. This song helps me remember Mom & how many times I made her laugh so bad she peed herself LOL we both laughed a lot & we both fought good battles at times but I loved my Mom a lot. I feel for you & I Pray God has her in his gentle mercies & care. Big Hug for you too :)
I'm 66 and this is the best song I've heard...for many years not a months rolls by I don't listen to it .heartbreaking...incredible lyrics...and the visuals accompanying this utterly appropriate.
This song brings so much of the feelings I felt in my younger days... Marty's haunting voice and sound of the guitar will always have a special place in my heart. RIP Marty.
Reminds me of when I was a child in the mid 40's and growing up in the 50's. The clothes being worn, the school teacher, chalk board of a three room school house. Looking back in time I can recall some things that happened, but now it is mostly a faded memory, most everyone has passed or left long ago never to be seen or heard from again.This song puts it right there, if only a memory. .
Woke to a chill and grey morning, not a bird at the feeders, nothing but a slight mist and memories wrapping around me. And in the memories are reminders of those so close, now gone forever except in dreams. My heart still calls out to them.
This is a great song. Listening to it i can see the love of my life coming back to me but he did not, and there was no chance for me within those years that i could return from westgermany back to canada saskatechwan in 1984. It remains a dream. At the age of 66 finally i have giving up, stopped dreaming.😢
Got this alnum when it came out, a Vietnam vet, living in the Village, going to college on the GI Bill. This song took me back to the quieter moments in Nam, sitting in a temple, walking on the beach, the longing for Peace... such a beautiful song
@@markkrathbun3415 Thank you, Markk. It took me 20 years to get home - and I wasn't even physically wounded. War are made by politicians without regard for the millions of innocent people who get killed - either physically, spiritually or emotionally. May you never have to experience it!
I am 63 and have been a fan of Jefferson Airplane since 1967,Barbara Streisand's record The Way We Were has a line about memories that some are to painful to remember,this song and the video are just that for me painful because it reminds me of the bliss and peace and families and being small without a care in the world.Children playing outside in a world that was wide open and close at the same time.I was never in fear and it was as if all of us knew one another our whole lives.Here with this song and video a kind of loneliness is felt but to painful to remember.These are the thoughts that came to mind,thank you.
If someone had been paid a HUGE sum to professionally and artistically create the perfect video for this song, they wouldn't have come close to this. Beautiful.
Strolling the hills overlooking the shore. I realized I've been here before. The shadow in the mist could have been anyone, I saw you. I saw you. Coming back to me. California in the psychedlic late 60's -- yeah!
Growing up in the 50's I can remember the clothes that we wore at that time. Looking at the film I remember the teachers we had and how they were dressed. We worked on the farm and that was our way of life. In the early 60's there were still dust storms that left mounds of dirt piled up everywhere. Looking at what is going on with the drought all over the western US I have to wonder if this is coming back and if so what will be the way of life for the children to come.
The very very best performance of this song by these guys. Listen to the live version with some added background singing, more flute and additional instruments. The lack of subtlety makes one realize how gorgeous this is. A true masterpiece.
This version features Balin's vocal, Grace Slick on recorder, and Jerry Garcia on guitar. Kaukonen was more than capable of reproducing the Garcia vibe, but JA had a lot more going on in the live setting.
My lovely wife died last July. Whenever I hear this song and see these images, a sense of incredible sorrow of expectation that shall never be fulfill sweeps over me. I can't listen, and I cannot not listen.
The footage is a piece that I downloaded from a film archive. I thought it had a nice feel and kinda sat well with the mood of the song. Thanks for looking. Phil
i created a mind novel and it didnt look good for the homespun middle americans what with the suits plotting and planning after oil was found on nearby land, omens abound at a way of life on the verge of disappearing
The 60's will never be again except in our hearts and memories. Memories that flash back every day and are so real. It was magic and held such hope for the future. I thank God to have been there and lived it. This song is so beautiful and haunting and I think of one love when I hear. I still wish she was coming back to me.
TODAY, YES, IT DAWNED TO THOUGHTS OF YOU. DO I STILL MISS YOU?. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW. DEEP WITHIN THE RECESSES OF MY BRAIN, REMNANTS OF US STILL REMAIN, TO BE CALLED UPON ON CERTAIN MOMENTS, WHERE ONLY YOU ARE ABLE TO FILL MY NEEDS FOR THAT MOMENT, THEN TO RE-ENTER THE SUBTERRANEAN DEPTHS , READY TO BE SUMMONED UPWARD AS NEEDED, ALWAYS THERE LIKE MY ROCK OF GIBRALTAR.
Surrealistic Pillow was one of the best albums ever released... especially during this time in our lives... Vietnam... the "Summer of Love" 1967, Love-Ins and death. Forgive us. ........ PEACE.......
@@leroy2979 This video maker has a great talent too. I am struggling at my efforts to get around the publishing hassle of Ownership. I clearly mark my work as Ed and Entertainment. Declare I do not own the music. Still get censored. No one will share to me how they manage it.
i remeber being in oregon college in 1971 at a party with steve prefontaine he loved this song years later i watched the film about him called without limits and they played this in it it bought back fantasic memories r.i.p pre
Raymond Wallace Yes that's another great song. Oh, and DCBA 25. Great band! Yes, time did fly but I'm am so glad I got to experience some of the greatest bands from the 60's and 70's, straight up till now!
During during the nightmare of my divorce I would play this song....and wish. That it was all a dream and I would awaken and be happy again. Thanks for putting together a nice little video to heighten the affect.
Hello Anya, thank you for your comment. Ya learn to move on. I am at peace. And like Barrie wrote about, I too, in some ways never "grew up" and still have that spark in me.
First JA song I taught myself to play....very easy to learn. The single most beautiful song Marty Balin ever wrote AND sang. Timeless, melancholy & haunting in the extreme.......
This song reminds me of my twin brothers. They died 6 months apart from the same type of cancer. The song makes me feel sad and yet somehow lifts me up too.
Absolutely gorgeous... The awesome thing about the Airplane was they could rock out like crazy and then break it down to the sweetest ballad you ever heard. This one and Triad are particular favorites of mine. Still sounds so sweet all these years later. Defintiely my favorite Marty Balin song. So many of their lyrics were so amazingly poetic... Wooden Ships.. man.. amazing stuff.
David Crosby had a hand in the writing of Wooden Ships. Was written while on Crox's boat w/ Kantner. The Airplanes take on the tune is truly remarkable.
this song erases all hate, and brings up something deep inside, takes your mind where you want to be,of a time long ago thats just out of reach, and this is the only way to close.
this video, wherever it was done, is hauntingly beautiful and goes very, very well with the melancholy of the music. thank you, phil bebbington, to uploading it.
This was likely a clip from a movie about the dust bowl years in the Midwest. About 1930 to 1936. As a young boy we would drive through Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado and you would see the abandoned houses from that period. That was very typical of the rural schools up until the middle of the 20th century. A fantastic book about this time, if anyone still reads books, is "The Worst Hard Times".
Thank you for your kind reply I lived over 7 years in Texas and if you ever went through the Panhandle are you never forget that flat dusty nothingness, in winter cold , plains blizzards. Summer is dry and Hell hot. Just small towns and isolated farms ... Best Ella
This film shows the generation that would grow up listening to Jefferson Airplane and/or go to Vietnam. It was on the cusp of a radical change in America...
This is # 1 on my list of most beautifully written songs ever (and performed)....the others on the list include..The Lee Shore ( CS&N), The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ( Gordon Lightfoot), Time ( Pink Floyd) and Guinevere ( CS & N)
I listened to this as I held my Dad's head in my lap and combed his silver hair. A son could never ask for a better father.He was a WWII hero; he then passed at the age of 96 right before Christmas.I know he is an angel and is above.
Its funny how this song appears in the mind & locks on when you feel Melancholy or thinking back. I am not sure I like it or not. Its a feeling you have when you bring everything to a halt & just ask yourself simple words like "WHY" ? I have had quite a few of these feelings since covid began & I now sit here & reflect back at everything that transpired since & man this song just hit me & made me realize I really went through hell over that period & this song seems to make the reflection very clear as if it all just occurred again but I had the foreknowledge this time on how to deal with it. This song is timeless & a good listen when you get into a reflective mood. It helps you steal a few moment just for yourself & in those moments you can live a lifetime or have super clarity on a problem your trying to resolve & situations like that. This song is simply timeless...
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I was 17 in 1967 when I first heard this song. I'll be 71 next month and it is still one of my favorites along with Today from the same album.
I am with you on this song
What a time to be 17 man. I was 17 in 97 n that was that last years of good. Before Y2K after 2000 before 9/11. Ther was a time when ther was optimism. Maybe that was just youth hope i think now at 42
It's amazing how transcendent music can be - it can carry through the years like no other, and remain so fresh and present as if it were the first time you've ever heard it; it has no place and no time.
What's with you old farts and this music??? Haha, I'm 68, and I agree, of course. My Vietnam experience helped me to appreciate it. Live on brothers and sisters!
❤
For me this is the most haunting song of lost love. Oh, how many times I saw her coming back to me - in my mind only.
I first heard this song when I was 24. (back in 1970) I bought the album (surrealistic pillow) and this song put me in a trance, to say the least. I played it over and over and over till I fell asleep. It is the most soft spoken, relaxing, mesmerizing song if have ever heard in my life. I will NEVER BE TIRED OF THIS SONG. Anyone else feel the same? Cary in Roseville, California
i love you
Thanks for your comment Cary. I loved your little story, this is indeed a fantastic song and I'm glad I also found it now that I am also 24 like you were back in the day.
I hope you read this! Take care.
I agree Cary I would like to play this & Comin Back to Me on loop whilst overlooking a Pacific sunset from somewhere along Highway 101
Me too....along with "Lather" and "Triad" ......
Me neither! I love this song!! Simple and haunting!
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Yeah !!
+moonchildtheking It a little weak!
+moonchildtheking Agreed.
If you say so it must be true!
+Ricardo Silva Don't get carried away in terms of beautiful songs. In terms of lyrics and music I suggest you find Judy Collins singing her song Albratoss. In terms of beauty and voice, find kd lang singing Leonard Cohen's Halluljah, specifically at the 2005 Juno performance. (I might be wrong about the year. Google lang and cohen and juno.)
Every time I hear this song, it melts my heart and I want to go back. A magical, beautiful song of times gone by...Marty is great.
I long for that innocence and this song does it for me too and it always has
Marty is great, but this is Grace singing.
@@peterbutcher6195😂
Without the slightest shade of a doubt, one of the bestest songs in our wide universe
Songs with real substance that tell stories like this just aren't made anymore. Music today feels hollow and empty. I would give almost anything to go back just one more time..
My favorite song; a masterpiece. Listen when the fall leaves are turning. It reminds me of someone long ago. I’m 72.
Me too, well said...
Bless Us All
I'm only 64, but ive got a lot of off road miles on the odometer..
🙏💜🕯💧🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊
this song was the crown jewel of Surrealistic Pillow
you're right
Music may be the closest we come to perfection or magic. Nothing like it to invoke a mood or trigger a memory.
I have to agree - I kept giving that album away to everybody I liked
This is the most mysterious song of the album. Things were changing so fast when this was written, often in really wonderful ways. You didn't know what would happen tomorrow, or even who you would be.
This song is gorgeous! It speaks for an era, a generation, and the timeless beauty of love. Somehow, this song, and a few others of this era, reminds me that by the time most of us have it right, our ship has sailed, we can't go back, and we have little time to look forward to. This song and others like it should be required listening, discussion, and analysis for junior high school and senior high school kids so they can get it right before their ship sails.
So many young people could improve their lot in life just by taking to heart the beautiful lyrics and music of this and other songs like it so they could avoid the pitfalls most of us become trapped in.
One should always appreciate love, friendship, and family as they are fleeting at best for most of us. We should never take those close to us for granted.
so beautifully said!
you wrote one of best posts I've ever seen. take it from a guy whose ship has already sailed.
Americus Patrioticus Praise the Lord! Wow how beautiful to see Family and their Friends going to church, school and just being happy with no hatred, envy nor murder especially no fights about politics
Wow! Well, we agree about the song - wonderfully beautiful!
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and have been listening to JA, JS, and HT/Jorma for most of my life, along with a lot of other music around that. I will always love this song and many others they did - Today, Young Girl Sunday Blues, Rejoyce, Mann's Fate, Bar Room Crystal Ball, just to name a handful.
But you do realize that the 60s, among other things, were about breaking with the conventional. Parents said to us the same thing you're saying now. Many parents loved big band music and old standards, Frank Sinatra and others of that genre, and classical music. My parents had me listen to things like Candide (Broadway show - Voltaire put to Bernstein music), and Bartok and Bach - glad they did. They had to put up with Airplane, The Doors, Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, etc.
I get it though - I also can't understand the attraction of what's marketed these days. I don't hear Balin's voice or lyrics. But there is a lot of new music that's not very marketed that's pretty good. I do still listen to HT/JA/Jorma - a lot! And Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Pentangle, CSNY, Sly & The Family Stone, and Dire Straits. And I listen to Mike Munson, Larkin Poe, and Trombone Shorty.
I also found the video entrancing. But I noticed that it doesn't reflect a lot of the country now or during the 60s when Balin wrote the song. No diversity, seemingly rural. That's okay - just not really about what the 60s/early 70s music/culture was mostly about. Balin's song does very much speak to "timeless beauty of love" (nice phrase).
Sorry to go on so long. Just one last thing. I guess I agree that "we can't go back" but I don't know about the ship has sailed business. Jorma and Jack are older than I am - they are live streaming tonight (Sat., 7/18/20, 8 eastern) ruclips.net/video/zOEHX-dzX8Y/видео.html for what will be Jorma's 14th live weekly concert since the pandemic began. Jack drove from CA to OH a few weeks ago to join in. I don't think their ship has sailed yet either.
@@garydion3488 ,
By saying "the ship has sailed," I am referring to a lot of the missed opportunities we have as youngsters which we can only very rarely revisit in our middle and older years. Very few young people have the wisdom or guidance to make good decisions about their careers, marriage, and other life decisions. It is precisely those decisions which have to be made starting in our youth and young adult years. The social skills we need as adults are learned as kids. The ability to select a good career begins in youth. By the time most of us learn those skills, the ship of youth has sailed, and our desireability has faded. Those of us who do have the requisite wisdom and guidance to board the ship become the envy of the rest who missed it.
Marty Balins voice is beautiful. Perfect for this song.
It's Grace singing.
Many people have personal stories related to this song. I used to look out the window and see our eldest son come up the road and up the drive to our house. He didn't drive. I remembered this song back when I was a kid in the 60's but heard it again right after he died (our son) and the words really hit home hard. I still look out the window and remember him coming up the drive. It's been 10 years but this song still makes me cry. Our son was 27.
Bless you, thank you for sharing ❤️
It's the same meaning for me and my beautiful daughter who passed. I struggle to hear it without breaking down but for some reason youtube keeps showing it. And this time I thought I might not cry..but I was wrong.
I'm so sorry momma. I know your pain.
It's been 8 years and she was 23.
@@JacindaH I feel your pain. I'm so sorry. It changes , sometimes "ok", then not so much. I know you know. ❤
love to you
@@andygrayson7485 🥰
Lost my Grandmother less than 2 months ago. Grandparents raised me since I was nine years old. Took care of her the last 7 years of her life (made it to 93)...because she deserved that much for how much she had given and sacrificed. I miss both of them soooo much. This song makes me think of them both...and then I cry.
those are warm beautiful thoughts & memories coming out of you, those are the treasures we store up on while living & once in a while we get to relive them in memory & they warm us from the inside out helping us to feel whole again. You've lived & made those memories, Now you get to enjoy them its feels like hurt & loss, but to me its love especially when it hurts.
I lost My Mom from small cell cancer last march & I am still stunned by it. I have gotten over it but a wound remains because I dont believe her Death was a natural one so I have that on my mind all the time now.
This song helps me remember Mom & how many times I made her laugh so bad she peed herself LOL we both laughed a lot & we both fought good battles at times but I loved my Mom a lot.
I feel for you & I Pray God has her in his gentle mercies & care.
Big Hug for you too :)
Bless their memories, and your love for one another.
What a musical giant the late Marty Balin was, unappreciated and underrecognized
I'm 66 and this is the best song I've heard...for many years not a months rolls by I don't listen to it .heartbreaking...incredible lyrics...and the visuals accompanying this utterly appropriate.
RIP Paul Kanter. The Airplane was the heart of the Summer of Love.
Sorry to add RIP Marty Balin today......
Sung by marty Balin. Beautiful!!!
RIP Marty Balin
Written by Balin Marty
True that!
This song brings so much of the feelings I felt in my younger days... Marty's haunting voice and sound of the guitar will always have a special place in my heart. RIP Marty.
It's Grace singing.
Coming Back ; A whiter shade of pale and He a’int Heavy are such great poetic songs. I miss those days of real poetry and emotion in music .
A beautiful song during the best era of music, the memories do linger.
This song would always make my Grandpa cry I miss him so much!
naganofan1. your granpa sees you and loves you. (MULDEW) GB.
😢😭😢😭😢
Heard this for the first time today and although I've heard thousands of songs, this must be one of the most beautiful I've ever heard.
Reminds me of when I was a child in the mid 40's and growing up in the 50's. The clothes being worn, the school teacher, chalk board of a three room school house. Looking back in time I can recall some things that happened, but now it is mostly a faded memory, most everyone has passed or left long ago never to be seen or heard from again.This song puts it right there, if only a memory.
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Woke to a chill and grey morning, not a bird at the feeders, nothing but a slight mist and memories wrapping around me.
And in the memories are reminders of those so close, now gone forever except in dreams.
My heart still calls out to them.
Well said
Could have been Marty's third verse!
This is what Jefferson Airplane did best, pull you into a mood, a feeling.
"I saw you... comin back to me.." this song has always mesmerized me so simple and sad
Mercedes Cleo: Too sad! That's why I didn't listen much to this album. Simply beautiful, yes. 😊❤️
This is a great song. Listening to it i can see the love of my life coming back to me but he did not, and there was no chance for me within those years that i could return from westgermany back to canada saskatechwan in 1984. It remains a dream. At the age of 66 finally i have giving up, stopped dreaming.😢
Got this alnum when it came out, a Vietnam vet, living in the Village, going to college on the GI Bill. This song took me back to the quieter moments in Nam, sitting in a temple, walking on the beach, the longing for Peace... such a beautiful song
Thanks for your service 🙏
@@markkrathbun3415 Thank you, Markk. It took me 20 years to get home - and I wasn't even physically wounded. War are made by politicians without regard for the millions of innocent people who get killed - either physically, spiritually or emotionally. May you never have to experience it!
One of the most amazing songs ever written.............
I don't know if music gets any better than this
Those days so many years ago, long past loves, times of joy, times of sorrow. Can never go there again but for moments like this.
I was 8 when I heard this and now 64.i sing it on my utube channel and adore it.
I am 63 and have been a fan of Jefferson Airplane since 1967,Barbara Streisand's record The Way We Were has a line about memories that some are to painful to remember,this song and the video are just that for me painful because it reminds me of the bliss and peace and families and being small without a care in the world.Children playing outside in a world that was wide open and close at the same time.I was never in fear and it was as if all of us knew one another our whole lives.Here with this song and video a kind of loneliness is felt but to painful to remember.These are the thoughts that came to mind,thank you.
If someone had been paid a HUGE sum to professionally and artistically create the perfect video for this song, they wouldn't have come close to this. Beautiful.
Strolling the hills overlooking the shore.
I realized I've been here before.
The shadow in the mist could have been anyone,
I saw you.
I saw you.
Coming back to me.
California in the psychedlic late 60's -- yeah!
Growing up in the 50's I can remember the clothes that we wore at that time. Looking at the film I remember the teachers we had and how they were dressed. We worked on the farm and that was our way of life. In the early 60's there were still dust storms that left mounds of dirt piled up everywhere. Looking at what is going on with the drought all over the western US I have to wonder if this is coming back and if so what will be the way of life for the children to come.
The very very best performance of this song by these guys. Listen to the live version with some added background singing, more flute and additional instruments. The lack of subtlety makes one realize how gorgeous this is. A true masterpiece.
This version features Balin's vocal, Grace Slick on recorder, and Jerry Garcia on guitar. Kaukonen was more than capable of reproducing the Garcia vibe, but JA had a lot more going on in the live setting.
always loved this song, and the film makes it more special. RIP Marty Balin
My lovely wife died last July. Whenever I hear this song and see these images, a sense of incredible sorrow of expectation that shall never be fulfill sweeps over me. I can't listen, and I cannot not listen.
I love you and wish apon you magical blessings of love, joy, strength, honor, health, and ALL THE VERY BEST...ALWAYS.
I wish strength for you. This song definitely stirs the emotions!!!! You'll see her further down the road my friend.
The footage is a piece that I downloaded from a film archive. I thought it had a nice feel and kinda sat well with the mood of the song.
Thanks for looking. Phil
It looks like the eastern plains of Colorado a little town called Briggsdale
Very good, pure Americana
Its flawless...very poignant for this emotional song...
So true, suits well to song
i created a mind novel and it didnt look good for the homespun middle americans what with the suits plotting and planning after oil was found on nearby land, omens abound at a way of life on the verge of disappearing
The 60's will never be again except in our hearts and memories. Memories that flash back every day and are so real. It was magic and held such hope for the future. I thank God to have been there and lived it. This song is so beautiful and haunting and I think of one love when I hear. I still wish she was coming back to me.
TODAY, YES, IT DAWNED TO THOUGHTS OF YOU. DO I STILL MISS YOU?. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW. DEEP WITHIN THE RECESSES OF MY BRAIN, REMNANTS OF US STILL REMAIN, TO BE CALLED UPON ON CERTAIN MOMENTS, WHERE ONLY YOU ARE ABLE TO FILL MY NEEDS FOR THAT MOMENT, THEN TO RE-ENTER THE SUBTERRANEAN DEPTHS , READY TO BE SUMMONED UPWARD AS NEEDED, ALWAYS THERE LIKE MY ROCK OF GIBRALTAR.
What a beautiful song. It brings tears to my eyes...
Superbly haunting.
This song has a permanent place in my heart❤
Simply Beautiful! I'm 75 and enjoy the memories 2024!
I loved Marty Balins voice. One of my favorite singers, so soulful
So glad i was born when i was...thanks Grace and Paul.Jorma.Jack.
so true
It was Marty singing there.
And Jerry Garcia is playing the main guitar part
My favorite song from them. God bless all of our musicians. It is so sad when they go.
Lynette Manieri Yes it is. Let's just be thankful and grateful for all the years of great music.We are so blessed.
Gotta love Marty Malin
Surrealistic Pillow was one of the best albums ever released... especially during this time in
our lives... Vietnam... the "Summer of Love" 1967, Love-Ins and death. Forgive us.
........ PEACE.......
Yes, so beautifully bittersweet and from another life
Peace and love were our dreams for the future.
Definitive War Era sound! I get goosebumps sometime when I hear this album. But this song brings tears through the memories.
@@robindesjardins8566 This is an album that has never lost its appeal. And you're absolutely right.
@@leroy2979 This video maker has a great talent too. I am struggling at my efforts to get around the publishing hassle of Ownership. I clearly mark my work as Ed and Entertainment. Declare I do not own the music. Still get censored. No one will share to me how they manage it.
i remeber being in oregon college in 1971 at a party with steve prefontaine he loved this song years later i watched the film about him called without limits and they played this in it it bought back fantasic memories r.i.p pre
Seems like yesterday. 47 years later & this song keeps comin' back to me...! Outstanding & one of their best..
I was 14.....agree....beautifully written and shared for our childhood and memories of days gone by, it still lingers and rekindles my soul!
Whatever happened to wishes wished on a star?
This song is just beautiful, and one of my favorites by them.
and wooden ships
I remember well
Yes, me too
Cheryl Muradas oh yes with my long hair its funny now liked wooden ships as well went by so fast
Raymond Wallace Yes that's another great song. Oh, and DCBA 25. Great band! Yes, time did fly but I'm am so glad I got to experience some of the greatest bands from the 60's and 70's, straight up till now!
IMO this piece of music and the poignant lyrics represent the greatest achievement of West coast Psychedelia
this song and video take a strong will to finish. just heart breaking in beauty.
I was 15. I’m now 72. Still love this song. Means more to me now that I’ve lost a lot of those dear to my heart. 💔💔💔💔
During during the nightmare of my divorce I would play this song....and wish. That it was all a dream and I would awaken and be happy again. Thanks for putting together a nice little video to heighten the affect.
wish you are happy again!
Hello Anya, thank you for your comment. Ya learn to move on. I am at peace. And like Barrie wrote about, I too, in some ways never "grew up" and still have that spark in me.
+itdoesntmatter56789 i'm happy to hear that. life goes on isn't it! give yourself a chance :)
this is one of the few songs that can easily bring tears to my eyes, so beautiful and sad
First JA song I taught myself to play....very easy to learn. The single most beautiful song Marty Balin ever wrote AND sang. Timeless, melancholy & haunting in the extreme.......
It's Grace singing this.
Saddest song EVER. Breaks the heart and cuts right thru my soul... "The shadow in the myst could have been anyone..."
This song reminds me of my twin brothers. They died 6 months apart from the same type of cancer. The song makes me feel sad and yet somehow lifts me up too.
I always come back to this post of one of one of my favorite songs. WELL DONE
Perfection. This was popular music in 1967.
How far we have fallen.
Then there's their other stunning song, "Today".
The acoustic guitar on this track is beautiful, I listen to it often.
It is played by Jerry Garcia
This song was also in the movie "The Indian Runner" that was filmed in Nebraska and directed by Sean Penn.
The song was also in" flashback" with Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland... Such a haunting beautiful song❤
Absolutely gorgeous... The awesome thing about the Airplane was they could rock out like crazy and then break it down to the sweetest ballad you ever heard. This one and Triad are particular favorites of mine. Still sounds so sweet all these years later. Defintiely my favorite Marty Balin song.
So many of their lyrics were so amazingly poetic...
Wooden Ships.. man.. amazing stuff.
spell check won't let me spell his name right!!
R.I.P. Marty Balin (1/30/1942 - 9/28/2018)
David Crosby had a hand in the writing of Wooden Ships. Was written while on Crox's boat w/ Kantner. The Airplanes take on the tune is truly remarkable.
Grace singing this.
Such a beautiful song, put together with a video that does it justice. I really appreciate the work of people like you. Many thanks, Seriously.
very deep thank you Marty
this song erases all hate, and brings up something deep inside, takes your mind where you want to be,of a time long ago thats just out of reach, and this is the only way to close.
Still phenomenal, beautiful song. The song for forever. Still can't avoid tears while listening.
Hauntingly beautiful...
this video, wherever it was done, is hauntingly beautiful and goes very, very well with the melancholy of the music. thank you, phil bebbington, to uploading it.
RIP Paul Kantner - The music will live on !!!
526723 sure, will
This was likely a clip from a movie about the dust bowl years in the Midwest. About 1930 to 1936. As a young boy we would drive through Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado and you would see the abandoned houses from that period. That was very typical of the rural schools up until the middle of the 20th century. A fantastic book about this time, if anyone still reads books, is "The Worst Hard Times".
This sounds sooooo beautiful brings a little tear in my eyes
Music may be the closest we ever get to perfection or magic. Nothing like it to invoke a mood or trigger a memory.
That woman, oh my god when will I be free from this obsession.
THE INDIAN RUNNER, GOOD FLICK, GREAT SONG, A RELATIONSHIP, OF 2 BROTHERS
I saw you... I saw you... coming back to me . What more could one ask ! Cherish this from way back then.
“And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” ― Christopher Poindexter.
Amen, Will
words escape me, so precious....
Thank you for your kind reply I lived over 7 years in Texas and if you ever went through the Panhandle are you never forget that flat dusty nothingness, in winter cold , plains blizzards. Summer is dry and Hell hot. Just small towns and isolated farms ... Best Ella
I still dream of love when i hear this song... beautiful
Hurts my heart. Makes me think of my dog Sass. I love this song. It is a magical song ✨🌹✨
Ahh the wonderful memories of San Francisco
This film shows the generation that would grow up listening to Jefferson Airplane and/or go to Vietnam. It was on the cusp of a radical change in America...
This is # 1 on my list of most beautifully written songs ever (and performed)....the others on the list include..The Lee Shore ( CS&N), The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ( Gordon Lightfoot), Time ( Pink Floyd) and Guinevere ( CS & N)
i remember the concerts i saw in 1967. i really bought into the thoughts and artistic lyrics. thanks. broadmoor theater concert.
One of the first songs I learned on guitar, simply the most beautiful song every written:)
Ivan Doig meets the Haight. Wyoming, the Dakotas, Texas.
An amazing video. A wonderful song. Alot of memories...
wow, what a flood of old memories, Thanks for posting
😢😭🤔
I listened to this as I held my Dad's head in my lap and combed his silver hair. A son could never ask for a better father.He was a WWII hero; he then passed at the age of 96 right before Christmas.I know he is an angel and is above.
Indeed one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.
This Song is Way Before my Era.......It's Beautiful......I wish I would've been a teenager in the 60's:)
always loved this melodic lighter side of Jefferson Airplane.
Ein schönes, sanftes , gefühlvolles Lied ... es geht so richtig durch Mark und Bein ❤😊😢
This Is Still Magic!
Good Song My Friend
I Play Stones Songs When Stressed Understand
Playing Again My Friend ? To Rapped Up In My One Problems At The Moment ? But I Will Survive Thanks To People Like You And My Music
Mabe Yushin It's the flute
I'am Seeing Through Old Eye's ? Ah Ha ! Thank You My Friend For Pointing Out My Error ? The Young Only Hear The Flute ? Not The Crap That Goes With It
RIP Marty Balin & Paul Kantner. This song is the definition of beautiful music. Thanks for your contribution to rock music. The best!!!
Still gives me chills after all these years. It's one of airplane's best.
This is a true discovery for me. And I can say a jewel!! I don't remember the last time I have encountered something this special.
so beautiful !!
Its funny how this song appears in the mind & locks on when you feel Melancholy or thinking back.
I am not sure I like it or not.
Its a feeling you have when you bring everything to a halt & just ask yourself simple words like "WHY" ?
I have had quite a few of these feelings since covid began & I now sit here & reflect back at everything that transpired since & man this song just hit me & made me realize I really went through hell over that period & this song seems to make the reflection very clear as if it all just occurred again but I had the foreknowledge this time on how to deal with it.
This song is timeless & a good listen when you get into a reflective mood. It helps you steal a few moment just for yourself & in those moments you can live a lifetime or have super clarity on a problem your trying to resolve & situations like that.
This song is simply timeless...
Good words