Jefferson Airplane - Return To The Matrix 2/1/68 (2CD)
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Artist: Jefferson AirplaneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-12-14
Music Label: Collector's Choice Live
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Somebody To Love
- Young Girl Sunday Blues
- She Has Funny Cars
- Two Heads
- Martha
- Kansas City
- Other Side Of This Life
- Today
- Won t You Try, Saturday Afternoon
- It s No Secret
- Blues From An Airplane/
- Watch Her Ride
- Plastic Fantastic Lover
- White Rabbit
- 3 Fifths Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
- Share A Little Joke
- Ice Cream Phoenix
- Fat Angel
- The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil
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Music Review: Jefferson Airplane flies back home
Rating: 4 Stars
In contrast to the three 1966 releases in this collection (Signe's Farewell, Grace's Debut and We Have Ignition), this 1968 set finds the Airplane a great deal farther along. By 1968 the classic six-piece Airplane formation had released Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's in 1967, and were about to embark on recording Crown of Creation. Their performance includes tracks from all three of their released albums (including "It's No Secret" and a rare performance of "Blues from an Airplane" from Takes Off), a pair of tracks from the upcoming sessions ("Share a Little Joke" and "Ice Cream Phoenix," the latter still a jam at this point, and each their only known live performance), two covers that had long been in their live set (Fred Neil's "The Other Side of Life" and Donovan's "Fat Angel"), and their last known live performance of Leiber & Stoller "Kansas City," turned into a superb blues jam by Jorma Kaukonen.
The show was something of a homecoming as the Airplane returned to the club where they'd debuted (albeit with a somewhat different lineup) in 1965. By this point the group was internationally famous, with two albums that had cracked the Top 10 and two hit singles, each of of which are played here. They'd become international representatives of the San Francisco scene. The band remained remarkably fresh, even on material that had been in their set for years. Marty Balin sings a wonderfully emotional version of "Today," the band plays an energetic version of "The Other Side of Life," and the groove running through "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds" pushes the vocalists to terrific heights. The latter is propelled by Jack Casady's imaginative bass line, and features terrific 12-string figures and a blistering solo. Slick's show piece, "White Rabbit," is more fully formed on stage than it as two years earlier, and "Plastic Fanstastic Lover" has a memorable terrific guitar opening.
The chemistry between Balin and Slick, evident immediately in the weeks after she joined the band, is even stronger here, with Slick adding terrific wails behind Balin on his signature "It's No Secret." The newer material offers fertile territory for exploration on stage, particularly the multi-part "Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon." Though the tapes are mono, the instruments are more prominent than in the recordings used for We Have Ignition. There's some tape hiss, the sound system occasionally evidences a buzz, the rhythm guitar is mixed too hot in a few spots, and the vocals can get a bit edgy, but overall this is a dynamic recording of a key performance in the Airplane's flight. The set closes with a mesmerizing 10-minute version of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil," complete with a raging guitar solo that briefly quotes "Spoonful."
Airplane fans haven't ever really been wanting for live material, with Bless Its Pointed Little Head and Thirty Seconds Over Winterland released during the years of the group's ascension, and archival recordings Sweeping up the Spotlight Live at the Fillmore East, At Golden Gate Park, Last Flight released over the past few years, and numerous bootlegs circulating among collectors. This 1968 performance shows just how well the Airplane had matured with Slick on board, particularly as live performers. Their catalog of original material had grown deeper, and the freedom they found on stage set the stage for their triumphant performance the following year at Woodstock. [©2010 hyperbolium dot com]
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The Airplane returned to the club where they started, the Matrix in San Francisco, for this 103-minute show that is so chock-full of goodies for fans that is hard to know where to start! Like, for instance, the only live performance of Share a Little Joke and of an instrumental version of Ice Cream Phoenix - both songs wouldn t appear on record until Crown of Creation was released seven months later! It also features the only live performance of Blues from an Airplane , which harkens all the way back to band s debut album. Also here: Somebody to Love ; Young Girl Sunday Blues ; She Has Funny Cars ; Two Heads (final live performance); Martha ; Kansas City (final live performance); Other Side of This Life ; Today ; Won t You Try/Saturday Afternoon ; It s No Secret ; Watch Her Ride ; Plastic Fantastic Lover ; White Rabbit ; 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds ; Fat Angel , and The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil . Universally acclaimed among Airplane cognoscenti as a real gem!Pop CDs
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