Track Listing

1. Somebody To Love
2. Other Side Of This Life
3. White Rabbit
4. High Flying Bird
5. Today
6. She Has Funny Cars
7. Young Girl Sunday Blues
8. The Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #157761 in Music
• Released on: 1995-08-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Live, Import

Customer Reviews

The songs are great, but the recording just doesn't do it...
I consider myself someone who appreciates fine music, especially bands that change the ideals of music for a generation. Jefferson Airplane has made an impact, and in the memories of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, they still are great. The CD begins with the introduction of the band, set up as "a perfect example of what the world's coming to." Little did the public know that they would definitely live up to that statement, even 33 years after Monterey Pop.

I ran out to buy this CD after watching (for the... well, to many times to count) Monterey Pop: the Movie. The whole festival is just surreal to see such great groups in their prime, and especially seeing Grace and the crew belt it out. Unfortunately, for as much as I loved the movie and seeing Jefferson Airplane perform live, the CD is a disappointment. The songs are Jefferson Airplane classics, but the sound quality is not that hot. Between the voices of the band fading in and out and the instruments drowning out the voices... it's just not a good recording. However- there are the songs: The songs that everyone knows, Somebody to Love and White Rabbit are done without anything extra- sounds just like the studio recordings. High Flying Bird and The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil really are a treat- but as said before, the recording is just so bad that you can't make out exactly what they are singing (or is it possibly the "experience" that the whole band was having on stage at the time- remember, this was California 1967). Today stands out as the albums best, but sadly, the recording doesn't do it justice.

Overall, this is a good CD for a Jefferson Airplane fan who has it all (or whould like to add a live CD to their collection), but there are many more of their studio CDs I would recommend before the purchase of this live one.

Vintage Jefferson Airplane in full flight
I strongly disagree with the two reviews already posted here. This superb record is 'bona fide'Jefferson Airplane in full flight, not only playing ferocious live versions of classic's like "Somebody to Love", "White Rabbit" and "She Has Funny Cars", but also delivering an electric storm of scorching, freakin' psychedelic mayhems: an overwhelming, madly fierce cover of Fred Neil's "Other Side of This Life" and, mainly, a thunderous, earth-shattering live rendition of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil",that is, for my money, simply the BEST single live track ever issued by the Airplane, full of feedback-drenched acid guitar assaults (Jorma Kaukonen), menacing bass explosions (Jack Casady), pounding drum beats (Spencer Dryden) and spaced-out, eerie howls by the Almighty Grace Slick!!!

There are better live Airplane albums available
This was taken from the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. It is about 38 minutes long.

The sound quality is fair to poor (although it is better than some of the other recordings from Monterey Pop). It is taken off of the tapes done for a TV special.

DON'T BELIEVE THAT CRAP THAT THE SOUND QUALITY IS GOOD FOR THE ERA. GREAT SOUND QUALITY RECORDINGS OF LIVE MUSIC HAVE BEEN MADE FOR DECADES BEFORE THIS. The sound quality is poor because the recording was never meant for an album release. It was recorded for a TV special.

This CD was released as a result of Ryoko unearthing the Monterey tapes and putting together a Monterey boxset, to capture flavor of that groundbreaking festival. About half of the music on this CD is also on the Monterey boxset.

The performance of the band is interesting, but not their best. However, I think the poor mix makes the band sound more out of sync than they really were. It is an interesting snapshot of the band, but I think there are better live albums out there. what is nice is that there are some songs done here that aren't on any other live albums.