woensdag 13 januari 2021

Jefferson Airplane - Holland Pop Festival (Kralingen Rotterdam 1970)

 


Jefferson Airplane was vooral actief in de tweede helft van de jaren '60. De band debuteerde op 13 augustus 1965 in de Matrix club in San Francisco. De bandleden waren Marty Balin (gitaar, zang), Paul Kantner (zang, gitaar), Jorma Kaukonen (gitaar, zang), Signe Anderson (zang, werd later vervangen door Grace Slick), Jack Casady (bas, kwam in oktober 1965 bij de band), Spencer Dryden (drums, kwam in juni 1966 bij de band) en Grace Slick (zang, piano, werd in oktober 1966 de zangeres).
Het eerste grote concert van de band ging in februari 1966 door in het Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Daarna speelden ze nog op het Berkeley Folk Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, en op Altamont.
De band had groot succes op het Woodstock-festival waar ze om 7 uur 's morgens op de laatste dag van het festival het podium betraden met Slicks legendarische woorden "now you will see morning maniac music".
De LP Surrealistic Pillow bevat de twee bekendste stukken White Rabbit en Somebody to love. White Rabbit beschrijft de effecten van LSD .
In 1996 werd de band opgenomen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame


Bij het Holland Pop Festival een jaar later was Jefferson Airplane ,samen met bands als The Byrds,Santana,Canned heat PinkFloyd en vele andere topacts ook van de partij.
Uiteraard was ik er ook, in mijn herrinering was het vrij rommelig optreden Grace Slickwas erg bleekjes(volgens de geruchten zwanger) en zanger Paul Kartner stal de show.
Als ik de beelden nu terug zie valt het toch wel weer mee,waarschijnlijk was ik op dat moment zelf niet zo fit meer.


Wat mij betreft het hoogtepunt van het J.Airplane optreden op dit schitterende festival.


,,Ballad of you and me,, van het album After Bathing at Baxter.s


If you were a bird and you lived very high,
You'd lean on the wind when the breeze came by,
You'd say to the wind as it took you away,
That's where I wanted to go today"
And I do know that I need to have you around
Love like a mountain springtime,
flashing through the rivers of my mind;
it's what I feel for you.
You and me go walking south
And we see all the world around us,
The colors blind my eyes and my mind to all but you,
And I do know that I need to have you around,
And I do, I do know that I need to have you around.
I have a house where I can go
When there's too many people around me;
I can sit and watch all the people
Down below goin' by me;
Halfway down the stair is a stair
Where I sit and think about you and me;
But I wonder will the sun still see all the people goin' by.
Will the moon still hang in the sky when I die,
When I die, when I'm high, when I die?
If you were a cloud and you sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
You'd see me here in the fields and say,
"Doesn't the sky look green today


 

zondag 10 januari 2021

Buddy Guy - Mary Had A Little Lamb (SuperSession,London ,March 1969)

                            Feat: Buddy Miles-Jack Bruce- Dick Hestall Smith - Chris Mercer

Supershow was  intended to be Britain's first music super session, with several famous blues, jazz and rock artists of the time coming together to be filmed whilst performing. The project was instigated by the Colour Tel film company, the recent credits of which included The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus and Jimi Hendrix at Royal Albert Hall.
The took place over a two-day period in March 1969 in a disused linoleum factory at Staines, England. Artists who were filmed on 25 March included Led Zeppelin, Buddy Guy, Jack Bruce, Buddy Miles, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Chris Mercer. Those filmed on 26 March included Eric Clapton, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Buddy Guy, Roland Kirk and Stephen Stills.  Allegedly Jimi Hendrix was due to appear but missed the plane from New York City.(WikiPedia)