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Miracles
by Jefferson Starship
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i.
I might have to move heaven and earth to prove
It to you, baby
So we’re makin’ love and you feel the power
And I feel the power
Then there’s really nothing that we can’t do
If we wanted to, baby
We could exist on the stars
It’d be so easy
All we gotta do
Is get a little faith in you
Oh, I’ve been (to) so many places
I’ve seen some things
I know, love is the answer
Keeps holding this world together
Ain’t nothing better
Ain’t nothing better
And all the answers to our prayers
Hell , it’s the same everywheres, baby
Nothing ever breaks up the heart
Only tears give you away
Then you’re right where I found ya
With my arms around ya
Oh baby, baby, baby, love is a magic word, yeah
Few ever find in a lifetime
But from that very first look in your eyes
I knew you and I had but one heart
Only our bodies were apart
That was so easy, so easy
I had a taste of the real world
When I went down on you, girl.
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i
If only you believe like I believe, baby
We’d get by
If only you believe in miracles, baby
So would i.
I can hear windmills and rainbows
Whenever you’re talkin’ to me
I feel like swirling and dancin’
Whenever you’re walking with me
You ripple like a river when I touch you
When I pluck your body like a string
When I start dancin’ inside ya
Oh baby, you make me wanna sing
Yeah, baby, baby, baby, baby
Oh yeah, all right
Baby, we’re sure doin’ it tonight
Everytime you come by, let me try
Pretty, please sugar on it
That’s how I like it
I can’t even believe it, with you
It’s like having every dream I ever wanted
Come true
I picked up your vibes
You know it opened my eyes
But I’m still dreamin’ yeah
And you’re right where I found ya
With my arms around ya.
PeaceOM
LionHeart
March 2006
Jefferson
Airplane
Airplane's
Website
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer
of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. The band's August,
1969 performance at Woodstock is widely considered one of rock's most
memorable moments.
Various successor incarnations of the band have performed under different
names, reflecting changing times and performer lineups, known as Jefferson
Starship, and later simply Starship.
Jefferson Airplane was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1996.
The term Jefferson airplane is also slang for a used match bent to hold
a marijuana cigarette that has been smoked too short to hold without
burning the hands. An urban legend claims this was the origin for the
band's name, though according to band member Jorma Kaukonen the name
was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a satire of blues names such
as "Blind Lemon" Jefferson .
The band performed in an early "morning maniac music" slot
at the Woodstock festival in August 1969. In December that year, they
played at the infamous free concert held at the Altamont speedway in
California. The concert, which was headlined by The Rolling Stones and
also featured The Grateful Dead, was marred by crowd violence—Marty
Balin was knocked out during a scuffle with Hells Angels members who
had been hired to act as "security". The event became notorious
for the now-famous "Gimme Shelter Incident" due to the death
of black teenager Meredith Hunter, who was fatally stabbed in front
of the stage by Hells Angels "guards" after allegedly pulling
out a revolver during the Stones' performance (this incident was the
centerpiece of the documentary film Gimme Shelter).
Kaukonen and Casady began a side-project they named Hot Tuna, in which
the two of them, often joined by a fluid group of other musicians, began
exploring traditional blues. They released the acoustic Hot Tuna in
1970 and the electric First Pull Up-Then Pull Down in 1971. As time
went by, Kaukonen and Casady began devoting more of their attention
to Hot Tuna and less of it to the Airplane. (In the song, "Third
Week in the Chelsea," from Bark, Kaukonen details the thoughts
he is having about leaving the band.) Jefferson Airplane's second live
album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (1973) is now best remembered for
its cover art, featuring a squadron of flying toasters, which in turn
spawned the famous "After Dark" computer screensaver design.
In 1974, a collection of leftovers (singles and B-sides, including "Mexico"
and "Have You Seen the Saucers", as well as other non-album
material) was released as Early Flight, the last official Jefferson
Airplane album.
The original Jefferson Airplane, along with the Byrds, the Doors, the
Grateful Dead, The Lovin' Spoonful, the Mamas and the Papas, Tommy James
& the Shondells and to some degree Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
will always be associated with the more melodic end of the north American
rock spectrum and in due course other groups, such as Steely Dan and
Eagles, continued to blend elements of folk, jazz and rock and bring
the results to a global audience. Of all these bands, Jefferson Airplane
excelled in the psychedelic domain and in their penchant for pretentious
track titles, which came to characterize the 1965-75 era.
British bands apparently influenced by the mellow lyricism of the west
coast sound included Barclay James Harvest, David Bowie, Curved Air,
Family, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, the Moody Blues,
the Small Faces, Pentangle and Yes. The Beatles have always stressed
the influence that the Beach Boys had on their musical development (especially
Pet Sounds) but it seems likely that other music from the west coast
also spread eastwards and played a key part in making pop music more
symphonic and less predictable than it had been before 1965. The era
of trans-Atlantic jet travel ushered in a decade earlier and the ability
to send TV broadcasts by satellite also facilitated a faster interplay
of musical influences across the Atlantic. Donovan was evidently one
of the first British pop musicians to become aware of them and was undoubtedly
influenced by the group to some degree. He famously namechecked the
band in his 1966 song "The Fat Angel" (included on his Sunshine
Superman LP in 1967), written many months before the Airplane had become
internationally known.
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Jefferson
Airplane Takes Off (1966)
Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)
Bless Its Pointed Little Head (1969) Live
Crown of Creation (1968)
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Volunteers
(1969)
The Worst of Jefferson Airplane (1970)
Bark (1971)
Long John Silver (1972)
Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (1973) Live
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Early
Flight (1974)
2400 Fulton Street (1987) (Compilation album.)
White Rabbit & Other Hits (1990) (Compilation album.)
Jefferson Airplane Loves You (1991) (Three-disc boxed set.)
The Best of Jefferson Airplane (1993) (Compilation album.)
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Live
at the Monterey Festival (1995) ( performance at the 1966 Monterey
Pop Festival.)
Live at the Fillmore East (1998) (Live recording of 1968 performance)
The Roar of Jefferson Airplane (2001) (Compilation album.)
Platinium & Gold Collection (2003) (Compilation album.)
The Essential Jefferson Airplane (2005) (Compilation album.)
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Jefferson
Starship
Starship
Website
During the transitional period of the early
1970s, Paul Kantner recorded Blows Against The Empire, a concept album
featuring an ad-hoc group of musicians whom he dubbed the Jefferson
Starship, marking the first-ever use of that name. This edition of
Jefferson Starship (such as it was) included members of Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young (David Crosby and Graham Nash) and members of the
Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzman, and Mickey Hart), as
well as some of the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane (Slick,
Covington, and Casady). In Blows Against the Empire, Kantner (and
Slick) sang about a group of people escaping earth in a hijacked starship.
In 1971, the album was nominated for the prestigious science fiction
prize, the Hugo Award, a rare honor for a musical recording.
It was while that album was made that Kantner sealed his love affair
with Grace Slick; their daughter China Kantner (who made a name for
herself as an MTV veejay in the 1980s) was born shortly thereafter.
n 1984, Kantner (the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane remaining)
left the group, but not before taking legal action against his former
bandmates over the Jefferson name (the rest of the band wanted to
continue as Jefferson Starship). Kantner won his suit, and the group
name was reduced to simply Starship, marking the third incarnation
of the band. Freiberg, who had been increasingly marginalized in the
band, left as well.
In 1985, Starship released Knee Deep In The Hoopla and immediately
scored two # 1 hits. The first was "We Built This City",
written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf,
and inspired by Bay Area power rock station KSAN-FM. This song was
trashed at the time by Kantner, and was later declared to be the "worst
song of all time" by Blender magazine. VH1 also named it the
number one "Most Awesomely Bad Song" on a top-50 countdown
co-sponsored with Blender. The second # 1 was "Sara"; these
were the first time any incarnation of the Airplane had had a # 1
hit. The album went platinum.
In 1987 "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was featured in the
film "Mannequin" and hit # 1, although only Slick and Thomas
appeared on it. This song made Slick the oldest female vocalist to
sing on a number one Billboard Hot 100 hit, at the age of 47. She
held this record until Cher broke it at age 53 in 1999 when "Believe"
hit #1. The following year, the band's song "Wild Again"
was used in the movie "Cocktail."
By the time No Protection was released, bassist Pete Sears had left.
The album went gold and featured the hits "Nothing's Gonna Stop
Us Now" and "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)". Grace
Slick also left in 1988. The revamped lineup released Love Among The
Cannibals in 1989. The lineup, however, had disbanded by 1990.
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listen samples and reviews, click on CD cover photo. In new window,
click on CD photo again and scroll down.
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Blows
Against the Empire (1970) Paul Kantner and the Jefferson Starship
Dragon Fly (1974)
Red Octopus (1975)
Spitfire (1976)
Earth (1978) (Last album w/ Marty Balin until 1995.)
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Gold
(1979) (Compilation album.)
Freedom at Point Zero (1979)
Modern Times (1981)
Winds of Change (1982)
Nuclear Furniture (1984)
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Knee
Deep in the Hoopla (1985)
No Protection (1987)
Love Among the Cannibals (1989)
Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991)
The Best of Starship (1993) (Compilation album.)
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Jefferson
Starship at Their Best (1993)
Deep Space/Virgin Sky (1995) (Live album.)
Miracles (1995) (Live album.)
Windows of Heaven (1999)
Greatest Hits: Live at the Fillmore (1999) (Live album.)
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Extended
Versions (2000) (Live album.)
Across the Sea of Suns (2001) (Live album)
Best of Airplane and Starship
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Hot Tuna
Hot Tuna Website
Hot Tuna is an American band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist
Jorma Kaukonen as an acoustic (and occasionally electric blues) spin-off
of Jefferson Airplane. Their early repertoire was derived mainly from
the American country blues artists such as Rev. Gary Davis and Arthur
Blake (Blind Blake). Casady and Kaukonen added Will Scarlett on harmonica
and recorded 1969's Hot Tuna, which was followed by a long-series of
well-received albums that played mostly to a small and devoted cult
following. The band added a violin player named Papa John Creech and
released albums, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down (1971) and Burgers (1972).
With some later albums such as America's Choice (1975), Yellow Fever
(1975), and Hoppkorv (1976), the band became a power trio with drummer
Bob Steeler and turned to heavy rock. They are often considered a forerunner
of modern jam bands like Phish.
After going their separate ways in the late 1970's, Casady and Kaukonen
re-formed Hot Tuna in the mid-1980's with guitarist and producer Michael
Falzarano. Falzarano stayed with the band till 2002 when he left to
release and promote his solo album The King James Sessions which features
Pete Sears, another long time member of Hot Tuna. Other musicians have
come and gone over the group's various incarnations; the name Hot Tuna
has essentially been shorthand for "Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen".
Most recently (2004-2005) they have toured with multi-instrumentalist
Barry Mitterhoff and drummer Erik Diaz.
For listen samples
and reviews, click on CD cover photo. In new window,
click on CD photo again and scroll down.
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Live
at Sweetwater [Bonus Tracks]
Hot Tuna
Yellow Fever
Phosphorescent Rat
Historic Hot Tuna
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Americas
Choice
Burgers
Live in Japan
And Furthermore...
Classic Hot Tuna Electric
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