{"id":7099,"date":"2016-02-02T02:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2016-02-06T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:59:22","slug":"the-jefferson-airplane-lands-on-a-new-york-rooftop-inspired-60-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7099","title":{"rendered":"The Jefferson Airplane lands on a New York rooftop — inspired ’60s anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A still of Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick in Jean-Luc Godard’s film. openculture.com \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here’s a postscript on the significance of the 1967 Jefferson Airplane album After Bathing at Baxter’s,<\/em>\u00a0which was highlighted by Howard Mandel in a tribute to airplane visionary Paul Kantner who died on Jan. 28. See my previous blog for his tribute. Facebook friend Alan Ringel supplied us with a link to Jean Luc Godard’s short film of the Jefferson Airplane performing a piece from After Bathing and Baxter’s<\/em> called “House at Pooneil Corners” — on a rooftop in downtown New York. Ringel says they had just performed the concerts that became the great live album Bless Its Pointed Little Head, <\/em>which included\u00a0Baxter’s<\/em> material.<\/p>\n

It’s really striking that they perform this fairly challenging minor-key song for a New York street public. However, the band sets up and sustains a strong groove, and vocalists Grace Slick and Marty Balin heat it up as only they can (Kantner is on the left, in glasses.).<\/p>\n

It was too challenging for at least someone, who apparently called the police. They came and broke up the music and proceeded to arrest the members of Jefferson Airplane — arguably America’s best rock band at the time — apparently for disturbing the peace, for playing one song. They may not have had a performance permit for that New York roof. Watch it happen here.<\/p>\n

Call it a quintessential moment of inspired 1960s rock anarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A still of Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick in Jean-Luc Godard’s film. openculture.com \u00a0 http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/02\/jefferson_airplane_wakes_up_new_york_jean-luc_godard_captures_it_1968.html Here’s a postscript on the significance of the 1967 Jefferson Airplane album After Bathing at Baxter’s,\u00a0which was highlighted by Howard Mandel in a tribute to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-www-kevernacular-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hJWE-1Qv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}