I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.
Jefferson Airplane was the headlining act of the first day of the festival, and thus were given the most covered final set of the day. As you can see from the cover photo and text, the festival was scheduled to go each day from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M., and it seems the kept that schedule fairly well because it was still light outside at the time of this set.
It makes sense that Jefferson Airplane was one of the headliners, along with the Doors being the headliners for the second day. Out of all the musical acts performing at the festival, those two had had the biggest commercial success at this point, by far. Jefferson Airplane had two Top Ten hits in the U.S. in 1967 with "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." And the Doors went all the way to Number One with "Light My Fire" in 1967.
At this point in 1968, the band was already moving towards their fourth album, "Crown of Creation." It wouldn't be released until September. But they played two songs from it in this concert, "Greasy Heart" and "Star Track."
I mentioned previously that some of these recordings were bedeviled by a high buzzing noise. Unfortunately, this set suffers from that probably the most. I especially had a hard time with the song "Today." Since it's a quiet, acoustic song, the buzz is particularly noticeable. I tried my best to reduce that, but I couldn't completely get rid of it.
This album is 46 minutes long.
01 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
02 Plastic Fantastic Lover (Jefferson Airplane)
03 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
04 Watch Her Ride (Jefferson Airplane)
05 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
06 Today (Jefferson Airplane)
07 The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil (Jefferson Airplane)
08 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
09 Greasy Heart (Jefferson Airplane)
10 Fat Angel (Jefferson Airplane)
11 Star Track (Jefferson Airplane)
12 Won't You Try - Saturday Afternoon (Jefferson Airplane)
13 Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/qsCMiLYg
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https://bestfile.io/en/wEZI5zoxZcpJbE5/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert. From right to left: Jack Casady (he's small and near the bottom of the image, on bass), Marty Balin (holding the tambourine), Jorma Kaukonen (on lead guitar), and Grace Slick (holding maracas and wearing a pink top).
The original was in black and white. However, I was able to find some color images of the band at this concert. It's just that they had problems, so I preferred to use this one. But because I saw some color ones, I was able to get the colors correct. For instance, I was able to get the color of Slick's top correct, as well as other colors.
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