Jefferson Airplane – 1970-09-14 – Fillmore West, SF (SBD)

Jefferson Airplane

1970-09-14

Fillmore West

San Francisco, California

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. We Can Be Together

02. Mexico

03. Crown Of Creation

04. Whatever The Old Man Wants

05. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil

06. Emergency

07. Come Back Baby

08. Somebody To Love

09. Wooden Ships

10. Up Or Down

11. Have You Seen The Saucers

12. The Man

13. The Other Side Of This Life

14. Volunteers

15. Greasy Heart

16. You Wear Your Dresses Too Short

17. Starship Jam (Removed - Released Officially)

LINK REMOVED - OFFICIALLY RELEASED 

Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, the same year as David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Doors, Little Willie John, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground. Fittingly, Phil Lesh & Mickey Heart of The Grateful Dead, who pioneered the San Francisco sound with The Airplane, made the induction speech. Unfortunately, Grace Slick did not attend the ceremony, preventing a full band reunion. Grace stuck to her beliefs "all rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire."

This soundboard recording, from September 14 1970, 45 years ago today, captures the Airplane on their home turf in San Francisco, at the legendary Fillmore West. It also catches the band right before some dramatic changes. Just a few weeks later, Papa John Creach would join the band, and would contribute his jazz/blues flavored violin work to Tuna, as well. Also in October, Paul Kantner would release his first solo album, the science fiction-themed Blows Against The Empire. The album was credited to Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, a harbinger of things to come. As mentioned in an earlier post, by March 1971, Marty Balin would leave the band and the end of the Airplane was drawing near (though the Starship would emerge from those ashes). This show, therefore, is one of the last where Balin, Slick, Kanter, Kaukonen, and Cassidy are together on stage, belting out the songs that made the Airplane one of the leading lights of the Summer of Love generation. Download this one to relive the Airplane’s last hurrah!