Show your age. What song? What album?

[KevWind]

Ha this is an interesting study in the problem of communicating via the internet

When I read the OP I took it mean "Hey are you old enough to recognized these specific lyrics, and if so what is the name of the song and album"

Where others here took it to mean "What song and album are paramount in your own memory " thus possibly reflecting age.

[fitness1]

Originally Posted by KevWind

Where others here took it to mean "What song and album are paramount in your own memory " thus possibly reflecting age.

Haha - I'd been up since 4am watching the Ryder Cup when I posted - GUILTY!

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by fitness1

Haha - I'd been up since 4am watching the Ryder Cup when I posted - GUILTY!

Given the op is a bit vague either interpretation is valid

[FrankHudson]

Yes, I recall hearing "Coming Back to Me" casually, and then one afternoon hearing it very completely on a cheap plastic case portable hifi in a room in Iowa. The LP belonged to a roommate from Chicago, who'd actually seen Jefferson Airplane perform.

I was amazed to read, years afterward, that the song was more or less an informal studio take, largely made up as it was played for the first time by the songwriter as he sung it. There's so much atmosphere in that song. Well sung Marty Balin vocal, and even though there's more reverb there than I'd like usually, it works here. That simple and effective acoustic part with those tentative additional acoustic guitars that are barely there. The recorder, credited to Grace Slick (how often do we hear that on a rock record?) is perfect and I'm guessing it must have been an overdub. There's bass on the cut, but it's mixed low too that it's hard to tell from a bass strings being played on one of the guitars. The impact of the whole is pretty magical to me still.

[FrankHudson]

Originally Posted by Haasome

“We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sun rise
From the bottom of the sea.”

Are you experienced?

And for those who remember SciFi paperbacks from the Sixties, and might wonder what they'd look like if James Marshall Hendrix wrote SciFi books instead of his SciFi songs:




Sorry, no acoustic guitars on this one...

[boombox]

Originally Posted by KevWind

Ha this is an interesting study in the problem of communicating via the internet

When I read the OP I took it mean "Hey are you old enough to recognized these specific lyrics, and if so what is the name of the song and album"

Where others here took it to mean "What song and album are paramount in your own memory " thus possibly reflecting age.

Agreed, thread has gone sideways, but for most of us affected by Marty's untimely death, we recognised it immediately. True, for those who only know the Jefferson canon via radio, 'Miracles' will be the song they think of when they think of Marty, but to most Airplane fans, we'd know those lyrics anywhere - probably the most beautiful song he ever wrote.

[zmf]

Originally Posted by KevWind

When I read the OP I took it mean "Hey are you old enough to recognized these specific lyrics, and if so what is the name of the song and album"

Where others here took it to mean "What song and album are paramount in your own memory " thus possibly reflecting age.

Both are valid.

It was a spur-of-the moment thing late in the evening. Probably an acid flashback of long ago events -- a house on the beach north of La Jolla while attending the second year of existence of UCSD,an old house that was leveled many years ago for condo development.

A time of innocence. A time of confidences.

You boys have enlightened me regarding the specific artist. This forum is an amazing resource.
Thanks.

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by zmf

Both are valid.

Echo echo echo

[guitar george]

Originally Posted by zmf

".. and through an open window where no curtain hung ...

And another video of the same song.

[DenverSteve]

"You can back me up to the gates of Hell...... But I won't back down."
Tom Petty, 1989, Full Moon Fever. Nothing to do with my youth.

[muscmp]

guitar 101, villa-lobos-choro no.1

play music!

[AmericanEagle]

“Have you ever been experienced?”
Well, I have

[Johnny K]

"Once I built a railroad, made it run...

Best version i ever heard of this great Weaver's tune (which i cannot ever stop playing when i pick up any guitar) is the one Dominic Chianase (Uncle Junior on The Sopranos) performed solo with a guitar on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast two years ago. It made me weep.

[RareBird]

Originally Posted by Haasome

“We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sun rise
From the bottom of the sea.”

Are you experienced?

That was the first LP I bought when I started to earn my own money at age 15 in the Summer of 1970. Are You Experienced? Well, I am. I saw my first live concert that summer as well which was Sly and the Family Stone at Madison Square Garden. Hendrix kicked the bucket about two months later--one of the saddest things in my recollection.

[silverspear]

"and I.. wanna fall from the stars, straight into your arms.."