tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post409073940073252619..comments2024-03-27T17:14:54.791-05:00Comments on Glorious Trash: The Jefferson Airplane And The San Francisco SoundJoe Kenneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-81013227495150789782020-03-20T12:39:28.840-05:002020-03-20T12:39:28.840-05:00Hi Gerard, thanks a lot for the review, and I'...Hi Gerard, thanks a lot for the review, and I'm sorry I took FOUR MONTHS to respond! I thought I had responded, but clearly I hadn't. Thanks also for the historical perspective on the book...not to mention the info on Frisco! It is possible I live on land once owned by Bollin's family...my house is right off Lake Lewisville, and would've made for good farm territory. I'm Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-46791646300306322802019-12-20T11:08:58.614-06:002019-12-20T11:08:58.614-06:00You have to view this book as if you were alive at...You have to view this book as if you were alive at that time and not as a person who can readily look up all kinds of facts on the Internet much later. I bought this book when it came out in 1969. I was 16 at the time and living in my hometown San Antonio. There were only a few music magazines back then that would do in-depth interviews. Hit Parader had interviews but they were usually stretched Gerard Paul Dailyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15574712145610533795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-74758701930964017872019-04-01T11:17:00.230-05:002019-04-01T11:17:00.230-05:00Thanks for the comments, everyone! Oh and Tim, I ...Thanks for the comments, everyone! Oh and Tim, I use SanFran because I live in a place actually called "Frisco" (it's in Texas, though)...so I almost never think of San Francisco as Frisco. Also I might've stumbled across that B F-T reference, or at least something along the same lines...I was in my Rolling Stone Cover to Cover CD-ROM the other day and found an issue from the Joe Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03285576322579808153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-30222959541770852082019-03-24T09:25:36.153-05:002019-03-24T09:25:36.153-05:00I think it may have been music writer Ben Fong-Tor...I think it may have been music writer Ben Fong-Torres (apologies for any mis-attribution) that, decades later, described how the Haight was still suffering from a "cultural hangover" from the Summer of Love. <br /><br />Also, it's interesting to note how the once-loathed term "Frisco" has become something of a charmingly retro term of endearment, while no one here---and I Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12610601459575219250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-38606832475861264862019-03-22T14:46:15.324-05:002019-03-22T14:46:15.324-05:00Lennon regretted singing "You can count me ou...Lennon regretted singing "You can count me out" in the first version of "Revolution" that was released...hence the reversal in the version on THE BEATLES (the White Album). Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-37576390745996978162019-03-22T11:39:16.845-05:002019-03-22T11:39:16.845-05:00And not a mention of the Fillmore, Big Brother, Th...And not a mention of the Fillmore, Big Brother, The Doors. ???Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-81306667167398149372019-03-21T19:28:55.477-05:002019-03-21T19:28:55.477-05:00Yes, when Volunteers came out I sang along to We C...Yes, when Volunteers came out I sang along to We Can Be Tighter. A painful memory it is. Actually a NY Times Magazine profile explained that the lyrics were taken by their young fans a bit more seriously than the band intended. They pursued an opulent lifestyle. Jorma, for example, drove a Lotus.Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00141581456970740239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-52530924968790735742019-03-21T17:48:59.582-05:002019-03-21T17:48:59.582-05:00Jefferson Airplane was a pretty big deal around my...Jefferson Airplane was a pretty big deal around my area, as the follow up groups Jefferson Starship and Starship were still singing. All of us made jokes about how "We Built This City" era Grace Slick looked like somebody's grandmother. Some of the members are still on the Casino circuit. I guess there's still regionalism in the music scene.Glen Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06159866063741462707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3701602284718920546.post-32633594574814664762019-03-21T06:49:44.549-05:002019-03-21T06:49:44.549-05:00Their rocking songs tended to have longer life spa...Their rocking songs tended to have longer life spans, and were more popular at the time as well.<br /><br />A lot of the music at that time is what I think of as trippy folk music with electrical amplification. If you get Procul Harum Best of Album, you get Whiter Shade of Pale, and a bunch of ok other music like that.<br /><br />But the style tends to be topical to the time, and is easily russell1200https://www.blogger.com/profile/16258915475311426433noreply@blogger.com