Jefferson Airplane - House at Pooneil Corners - Manhattan Rooftop Concert (1968)

[@ProfessorKenneth]

Soooo grace did it be for the Beatles huh... bloody brilliant,😅👍🏻

"before", not "be for".

[@konopelli]

Grace Slick is/was dangerously beautiful....she could raze walls with that vibratto!.

[@DJBuglip]

Right? My god, the power of that woman's voice.

[@tallesttreeintheforest]

no offense.. today she doesnt have any teeth and is quite fat.. but back then she was a natural beauty that is for sure.

[@haintedhouse2990]

@@DJBuglip yep. one of the few voices that can still break out the chills.

[@TheSecondNature]

Rest in Peace Jean-Luc Godard... He filmed this

[@TobcioccLeyton]

Really? thats brilliant

[@TheSecondNature]

@@TobcioccLeyton Yess!

[@KathrinFluri-h3u]

Godard, ohne of the greatest Filmmackers ever, du Canton de Vaud Suisse. He also filmed the Stones-session Sympathy for….. You can find also LE MEPRIS avec B. Bardot et M. Piccoli, ou Au But du souffle/Ausser Atem, avec JP Belmondo. G. got an Oscar for his lifetime. Have a nice day today Kathy

[@LUCASMANASSESDASILVA]

@@TobcioccLeyton He appears at the beginning, he's the guy shaking hands in the building

[@bodensick]

ROOF-TOP a year before the Beatles.

[@mazeman01]

+bodensick Two months. Also, the Grateful Dead played the rooftop of the Chelsea Hotel 8/10/1967 for the Warhol crowd.

[@mariocavett1694]

Shows you how long the idea was around doesn't it.

[@freddiemcwoon9058]

Get Back and go home to ur mommy`

[@MarcoBeatles]

@dTom Stamos they didn't suck, they were just different

[@meatwoodflacmedia]

it's been done

[@carolinemurgue8170]

This vintage video was filmed by Jean-Luc Godard -- the #FrenchNewVave master

[@planterraplanterra]

majserstuk

[@alanhart439]

Three members of the Airplane are still alive: Grace, Jorma and Jack. Jorma and Jack continue to tour as Hot Tuna.

[@steveshattah]

Best T-shirt I ever saw said if You Don't know Jack then you don't know Jorma.

[@markhunter8554]

@@steveshattah Love it.

[@PatrickNthedesert]

That is so gritty late 60s New York City that grimy look the cops with the New York accent threatening to put I’m in jail(dirty hippies a)

[@robertreid2448]

Love this, we need more roof top concerts

[@adolfojuarez3654]

A perfect mixture of people of the 50s are like wtf and the new generation then like 🤪

[@olga-mikel2929]

Jefferson Airplane, the best!

[@SiouxSyndicate]

Roof top rules! Sky's the limit, Jefferson Airplane takes it higher and on time(:

[@blainstutts473]

So many unique bands in those days, making a statement without being violent. And their point was made with an explanation point!

[@Asaman854]

Maybe the bands themselves weren’t violent, but the 60s were full of domestic terrorist and political violence.

[@davemathews7890]

Sure, like the Weathermen

[@domesticus-dk7tk]

complicated... times in Vietnam were violent under Johnson and hundreds of millions died. problem was how America disrepected returning soldiers doing their best and duties for us... Next album by JA was Volunteers. We are all outlaws in the eyes of America does not advocate sit downs nor peace with chaos and anarchy and being proud of it. They did say we can be together... tear down those walls. Distrust by the under 30's in a new generation that was gonna make everything better...hard to do at that age and crazy times. Marty Balin using profanity in a city full of people stopped the show early...sad

[@markus2021]

It would be inconceivable today to see some kinda this... !!!!

[@gregorydaniels7978]

Godard right at the beginning.

[@jmulvey371]

Pretty sure the couple at 1:47 is Geraldine Page and Rip Torn.

[@markhunter8554]

@@jmulvey371 Probably. They were in the movie.

[@CHRISSLATTERY-i4r]

Another classic Airplane stunt, pure hippie defiance. Grew up around that, and still living it. Dig the tall cat in the white collar overcoat grooving and the discerning looks from the older couple, a disapproving glare quite familiar and still glaring. Here comes the heat.

[@cdog9559]

1:25 quite possibly Ralph J Gleason (Rolling Stone mag)

[@Exiles800]

Big change from 'Love Me Do'...This band's songs really illuminate when played live.

[@johnnyramon5602]

you do realize this is jefferson airplane? not the beatles

[@fernychuc3237]

you do realize he is kidding? not being serious

[@Exiles800]

Do you realize the psychedelic shift of the Airplane was a quantum leap from the 'Love Me Do' era? Grace Slick is a love weapon lasering Manhattan.

[@bingsinatra5283]

Exiles800 Marty's not far behind either. ;)

[@williambaxter4628]

​@@johnnyramon5602 Of course he does.

[@thefriar8883]

The irony is that we need this more right now than ever. Welcome back to the cold war.

[@grahamcarver4527]

Whoever shot this video,is a genius ✨🧠

[@TheSecondNature]

It was shot by Jean-Luc Godard!

[@grahamcarver4527]

@@TheSecondNature I appreciate that

[@genetunnney]

At 7:08 the NYPD arrest actor Rip Torn for harassing them.

[@thegreenbird795]

interesting...he was also long john silver on the album poster of the same name....

[@Ryan-on5on]

One of many encounters Mr. Torn had with law enforcement in his lifetime!

[@Emersonlakeorpalmer]

5:20 Godly bassline

[@Rahoorkhuitable]

Dot, how we need that spirit...! The bells will overcome gravitation...Thoth is conquering....!

[@timtonsley8823]

Keep it down I'm trying to sleep!

[@ourepo3425]

R.I.P. Godard

[@jorgevega2708]

Grace fabulosa ente grandioso que anos aquellos te saludo desde costarica🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷 puravida

[@glennhfriedman4571]

Ritchie Havens made a cameo

[@selfhelp69]

Grace just kicked so much ass and was beautiful doing it.

[@Mark-bi4ne]

Just an excellent band. Casady was one of my idols as a young bass beginner in 69. Him, Jack Bruce and John McVie.

[@stevepoul7455]

Thanks, Mo! I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we've passed the audition.

[@AmpasaurusWrecks]

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Lennon‘s idea to also do a rooftop concert he was a voracious newspaper reader and probably found out about the Airplane’s impromptu performance.

[@haintedhouse2990]

@@AmpasaurusWrecks could have been McCartney too - he was a fan of Jack Casady's bass and visited them in the studio during the recording of After Bathing at Baxters

[@Kos0818]

@@haintedhouse2990 turns out it was Ringo and I think Glyn Johns. And it doesn’t seem to be them just trying to copy.

[@sunnyparashar3725]

I remember walking by and being blown away. Couldn't believe the airplane was playing for free on the rooftop. Caught a pic with my iPhone and shared on whatsapp. A couple days later Marty balin and Paul kantner liked me on facebook. Just kidding. Marty didn't like the pic at all. 60s just died that day for me.

[@dwalkmusick]

Ah-ha-ha :>)

[@iniquity7]

I think you had some kind of mushroom 🍄

[@johngore7744]

Feed your Head.

[@jamescooper6842]

If you look at everything The Beatles did there was something that directly influenced them. Which points to the fact that not much in art is tuely original. The Beatle were great at copying ideas and making them better‼️

[@railwaystationmaster]

Gorgeous Grace Slick free spirit ingenue mesmerising crowds back in the formative years when the airplane ruled the airwaves with psychedelic intensity few have ever come close to matching .

[@tomipaakkunainen3847]

This is music and psychedelia!

[@williampeeler3071]

Man at three minutes through its starts peaking like an hour in on an acid trip

[@wisdom.research1051]

Wow, I never knew about the Rooftop Concert !! And 'House at Pooniel Corner' is the perfect opening song !

[@MiguelVazquez-mu1zm]

Desearía que en este tiempo hubiera cosas así de fantásticas que la música te hiciera olvidar todo por un momento ♥️♥️

[@alfredoanibaldemarco3593]

TAL CUAL MIGUEL, CON TODAS LAS COSAS TAN FEAS QUE ESTAMOS PASANDO, QUE HASTA PARECEN IRREALES, PARECE QUE VIVIERAMOS UNA PELICULA DE TERROR, COSAS FANTASTICAS COMO ESTO DE AIRPLANE, O LA AZOTEA DE LOS BEATLES, NOS HARIAN TAN FELICES POR UN RATO

[@Alex-bz9mq]

Comparto...!! 🔥🎙🔥

[@kurtralske4026]

If they had gotten to play a full set, it would have been epic

[@elloheem6349]

I bet the night that led to this show was awesome

[@jayrod981]

The best! 😂❤✅🎉😊💯$🆗🫡👍👌😜😎✌️

[@ronlee2611]

This is brilliant!

[@kakeungcheung466]

this is the first rock rooftop gig ever

[@Luiz.Campos]

No, Grateful Dead did It before.

[@mrmott44]

@@Luiz.Campos no golden earring did it in 66

[@roystonmason9125]

on film?@@Luiz.Campos

[@roystonmason9125]

on film ?@@mrmott44

[@stripervince1]

they broke every rule in the book. until Jim Morrison came along and wrote a new book with no rules

[@westtexas7]

stripervince1 For sure the Doors were unmatched.

[@johneye1340]

Well there was Iggy's ground glass period.

[@baconspaceman4094]

The doors are just heroin music tbh

[@alessandro185]

Meanwhile the Velvet Underground threw the book in the garbage

[@merkdater1274]

He just adapted Nietzsche to rock n roll.

[@Krakkokayne]

When Marty said "Wake up you fuckers!" The guy in the window was like "ah shit, here we go again."

[@Компотизреальности]

Freedom, блять! and my love Grace Slick!)

[@dwalkmusick]

"dead-center, deep as death..."

[@EricWilliams-dq1wd]

Good music.dont sleep on white rabbit.best part live in the city and people thinking wtf

[@robbrown6934]

Hey Chris, Grace is no Yoko.

[@tristonwall3519]

Rob Brown the surprise rooftop performance

[@markus2021]

I can see Godard at the beginning of the movie

[@Ominousheat]

Remember the time of Nixon.Thats nothing compared to how fucked up our times are!...Share if you like.

[@mikerainham]

The Beatles copied the rooftop idea, maybe they will admit that one day? U2 and red hot chilli peppers did to much later.

[@roystonmason9125]

prolly had better sound 57 years later !

[@williamhiles7404]

Once again, High Priestess Grace shows us how she rules!!! LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@carmenflorescamargo4587]

Dichosa generación nuestra! 💓

[@ProfessorTime]

Cops had to bust up the party 'cuz, shit man, you can't have people deviating from the norm and spontaneously expressing their creativity. What kind of world would it be if people were allowed to spontaneously express their creativity??? The prison guards in Washington wouldn't like that. No, no, no. They wouldn't like that at all.

[@Gsxbuic1]

Very well said.

[@aceldamia9114]

Quit whining.

[@ProgRockNerd]

We have to make spaces for each other. Taking has to be accompanied by reciprocal giving. OTOH, subsequent police forces learned their lesson and were smart enough not to *arrest* the Beatles and U2.

[@classygary]

I set up today in a parking lot outside here in LA and we blasted the whole neighborhood 😎 Fuk Covid and The Tyranny 🗽🗽🗽

[@xMorbidArtx]

@@aceldamia9114 Thats what the police were doing 🤣

[@darkhoodie]

This music and time are immortal !

[@balthaguirre]

Figures the cameraman had to be on acid as well

[@markus2021]

I wished I lived those Years

[@xMorbidArtx]

Yep, but hey nowadays were in the presence of Billie eillish , sixnine and rap. Good time to be alive..

[@roystonmason9125]

taylor swift an boynce @@xMorbidArtx

[@EbelynDeLaRosa]

same so bad😎✌🏻

[@davidweatherholt7263]

Oh hell YES.

[@kofferfischii]

I deepty prefer this version to the "synchronized" one with wrong "improved" colors and even "improved" sound. Not to mention the other additional "info" kitsch. I dont remember 1 PM, but this one "has energy"........

[@MyHairyChin]

Far out man! ✌

[@ДенисЖурбаУголев]

Very good!

[@jeffreydeuitch2146]

Love this. Like a time machine. What is the place the song refers to? Is it the house at 2400 Fulton?

[@PoetryETrain]

I made it back again to play this real be!

[@Dan-oe3my]

This was after the Beatles. Dig how Grace cracks up Marty pissing about

[@robertokinks7251]

jefferson succumbed this record to a band little more famous than them. superlative, anyways.

[@CooManTunes]

No record was succumbed, if the record was for the first rooftop concert.

[@Jens0880]

World's first thrash metal song

[@steffanschurig926]

Jens yes

[@MarioCavett]

No, it was Alternative rock Metal is Black Sabbaths baby

[@ccunit666]

All I hear is 1960s psychedelic rock. Nothing metal/alternative or any of that pussy "safe space" edgelord noise rock.

[@Jens0880]

​@@MarioCavett Conventional take, my man. I was talking about one riff, not the legacy of the band. Also, listen to the epic lyrics.

[@Jens0880]

@@To.Si.Ma. That's not an insult

[@idealartistsf7956]

I dont understand the marty balin thing... Terrible, Grace was a true artist ♥️

[@miaysan]

El tipo de gafas oscuras de la ventana es el autor de este momento histórico...acaba de morir hace unos dias...GODARD & JEFFERSON FOREVER

[@MarceloRomero360]

What was the address of this building?

[@БахытШокатов-о2й]

What Godard doing here?

[@dwalkmusick]

He and his crew were filming JA live in 1968 for a documentary, not quite realized, called 'One American Movie', on a hotel rooftop in midtown Manhattan. (Take that, Billy Preston and Paul McCartney!)

[@darranwilkins4648]

and no grace wasnt the airplane as stunning as she is marty is the airplane no marty nothing

[@MrBurninCross]

They must have been doing a gig at the Fillmore East at the time

[@adolfojuarez3654]

I have to questions 1-what song are they playing 2-the Beatles copied this idea

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Listed right there it's called the house at pooneli corners from an album called crown of creation.

[@_PuppetMaster86]

The Beatles didn’t copy the idea. They were offered the idea by record executives since they were recording an album in a building/studio. The rooftop was a last minute idea. They plan was to perform on live television for about 20 minutes after four-year break from live performances.

[@xMorbidArtx]

@@_PuppetMaster86 pretty lame.

[@franzllattner]

this song is not in 4/U4rth I can tell you.

[@miaysan]

Se oye un poco roto...saturado...por lo demas....un tesoro

[@angelapapadopoulo7774]

Déjà vu. Beatles rooftop concert 30 January 1969. The best.

[@roystonmason9125]

lamest

[@jim1992jacobs]

wonderfull

[@tmac8892]

They stole this idea from u2

[@freddiemcwoon9058]

No! they stole from Justin berver whatever the spelling ....!

[@dwalkmusick]

ha-ha!

[@scottdaniels-rx2ql]

This was the end of the JA as we knew them.

[@Mrariesdave]

Dionysus kicking the ass out of repressive Apollo!

[@ProgRockNerd]

"With the heart and mind united/In a single perfect sphere" --Neil Peart

[@dwalkmusick]

L O V E !!

[@christohop]

Inspiration for the Beatles?

[@davidhalladay2068]

No doubt about it.

[@mariocavett1694]

The idea was around before the beatles people did that back in the 50's thats how the rooftop partys got started.

[@elliotclawson4050]

I❤GraceSlick

[@alibertylover]

The good old days

[@darranwilkins4648]

HOT TUNA MO FOS GET IN THAT FISH

[@guitarguru_]

6:35 lol

[@patrusso7278]

The description says July 12th....but people are wearing jackets & coats. Wonder what day it was? Freedom baby....yeahhhh!! Until the cops showed up. 😔

[@MAntonioAndrade]

It was written on December 7th. In the rest of the world, month and day are reversed!

[@roystonmason9125]

gotta love that @@MAntonioAndrade

[@andreasbonzofoseteder66]

Ist Super Geil!HAMMER!!!! TOP!!!

[@yoyohomey]

RICHIE HAVENS AT 406

[@josiahtateburns5673]

[@marytresham9164]

Got

[@marytresham9164]

\M

[@guillcazenave9836]

voices similar to the Spanish flamenco 'cantejondo'. Grateful D & Jeffs Airplane 'made' terraces before The Beatles.

[@buckyharris9465]

If only the cameraman had kept his focus on the band, instead of panning all over the place at spectators and buildings! I would have loved to watch Grace while she sang "some one stood in the window and cried one tear . . ."

[@richardvsessions1302]

and whose idea was it, to frame the negress standing behind the screen door, or the first cop on scene with his sturdy Italian face under an officers hat, or the stern german woman glaring at the racket, the meteoric rise and fall of RCA - one can 'hear' the music and 'see' the people reacting, but someone, not just anyone, brought this all together... fly Jefferson Airplane get you there on time

[@roystonmason9125]

thing to say .//// ogress @@richardvsessions1302

[@MellowWind]

Interesting. Was this before or after the Beatles last gathering?

[@bobburroughs6241]

Shame about film quality. Grace wonderful as usual. Compare the cops here with the English Bobbies in Let it Be.

[@rickbrenner7743]

Why is it that all rock videographers are...how do I say it....terrible at their job? Too many drugs?

[@irishelk3]

As much as i love Jefferson Airplane, by the end of their career in the band they became pretty boring....it just became over the top noise making, this song is nothing compared to: Its no Secret, DCBA 25, Today, JPP MC Step B Blues and almost all the songs from surrealistic Pillow, i don't know what happened, but i guess all great bands never match their older original divinely inspired spark, even the Beatles ran out of steam eventually, they became totally boring, Get back?, no thanks haha.

[@jaredlindblad5485]

There is a reason nobody likes your comment

[@Kos0818]

Jared Lindblad lmao

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Surrealistic Pillow is a great album and arguably the group’s best, but one could easily compile an equal selectively choosing tracks from their next three albums. This song from Crown of Creation is one I would certainly include.

[@themoreyouknowfools4974]

Disagree but whatever

[@MarioCavett]

These people had millions of fans. Legends at this point.

[@markhunter8554]

Marty wearing Jack's glasses?

[@jayrod981]

Never see👀 that again! 👌👍😎$$$❤😮

[@KnoxBronson]

a long way from the summer of love.

[@darranwilkins4648]

FREE MUSIC FREE LOVE FULTON STREET

[@CHRISSLATTERY-i4r]

Nicky Hopkins on the keys?