Jefferson Airplane with Jerry Garcia

The date is too controversial, so let's just leave it at Garcia plays with the Airplane

[@bobwilson360]

Spencer Dryden is maybe the most underappreciated drummer in rock history. He is KILLING it here.

[@jimdep6542]

I just saw the video. That's Michael Schrieve on drums and David Carabello on congas

[@davidpfeifer9489]

Jim Dep Michael Carabello... he later moved to NYC and hooked up with Elephants Memory, they played my parents wedding. He gave my pops a bottle of amyl nitrate as a gift

[@jimmymurphy7789]

This sounds too much like Spencer Dryden. Just listen to him at Woodstock & compare. He's just playing his Ass of as much ever. I can't believe the 'Plane would replace him with that Joey Covington guy - Never liked him or his style next to Spencer's & JA was never the same thereafter.

[@tonyterme1769]

Sorry but Spencer Dryden is not here!! Live at The Family Dog 1970 on DVD

[@MERRYJERRYL]

Tony Terme fact

[@jimmymurphy7789]

Jerry Garcia & Jorma Kaukonen: Two entirely different, totally original Psychedelic guitar styles blending together like a Match made in Heaven here. All we needed is maybe slipping ol' "Cippy" (John Cippolina) in the middle of them there (not to mention Gary Duncan).

[@nicoleperry1107]

I know you wrote this 8 months ago. I have been watching Jorma's Quarantine Concerts live from Fur Peace Ranch each Saturday night 8P EST. Check it out if you haven't already. It's fantastic! Several weeks back Jack drove down and played with Jorma.

[@sloburnjo]

My mang! and Barry Melton and Skip and so on.

[@wafflcoptr]

Jack Casady has got to be the coolest motherfucker in music since Miles Davis. Dude slept with Grace Slick, jammed with Hendrix on acid for 12 hours, and was the best bassist in rock history, period!

[@rickjones7480]

I think one of the coolest motherfuckers, too. But how to you know he slept with Grace?

[@michaelscott8155]

I think thru many interviews Grace makes it pretty clear she slept with everyone in the band except for marty.

[@violaleeblues9018]

Correction: IS the best bassist in rock history, period! :)

[@edlawrence5059]

@@violaleeblues9018 ..........I think Jack Bruce is a close contender if not the best.

[@mmakshak]

@@edlawrence5059 I would nominate Phil Lesh live.

[@dimethaltryptamine1]

This it is at The Family Dog, I've got the DVD. My favorite Jerry & Paul & Grace comps are on 'Blows Against The Empire' & 'Starfighter' :)

[@rickhaley779]

"Sunfighter" - but yeah, it's the best. When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves

[@Justdon-s2s]

“I am alive, I am human, I will be alive again! So drop your fuckin’ bombs, burn your demon babies...I will be again!!!”

[@dougrobertson6616]

This i s "Night at the Family Dog" with members of the Dead, Airplane, and Santana. I originally saw it as a special on Public TV. The video is here on KZbin.

[@dimethaltryptamine1]

Yeah it is at The Family Dog, I've got the DVD :)

[@jensandersen7011]

@@dimethaltryptamine1 Family Dog on the Beach.

[@sneakerfacevids441]

February 1970

[@rikstrange662]

This stuff is always so spiritual to me.

[@jebziffel2929]

Just for grins, I'm cranking Jack's bass solo from Feel So Good off the Thirty Seconda over Tokyo album.

[@alanolson6913]

As usual…..kick-ass rock ‘n roll. Yes, I think this was from the special on PBS “A Night At The Family Dog” from 1970, if I’m not mistaken.

[@marcolascaraky3915]

Absolutely on !!!!

[@jimmymurphy7789]

This here is ONE Tune nobody needed to follow a Chord Chart to. :)

[@stephenrolfe3171]

It happened!!! It is some seriously serious shit!!!

[@tourhead]

Awesome! Thanks for posting this!

[@SupernalOne]

My sister dated his kid brother, the Casadys lived on Reno Road about a mile from us - I never met Jack tho

[@peterbetts858]

viola Lee blues bass Phil Lesh , Jack Bruce , John Entwistle ,Larry Taylor , Jack Casady , Billy Talbot , Tim Drummond , R. Waters . Yes , Rick Danko could have Easily been added to this list.

[@erasmusomnius]

i'd add Rick Danko, and Pete Sears, and Lee Dorman, and Jon McVie, Al Strong, Glenn Cornick, Carl Radle, Rick Gretch, Leo Lyons, John Paul Jones. Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Barry Oakley, LOL Long Live Rock Bass Players

[@raymondpierotti8414]

Billy Talbot, seriously? The guy could barely keep a rhythm

[@proppjones]

YES!!!!!

[@samirondogbelly3001]

David Jones AGREE !!! Enjoy the tunes !! Pure art !!!

[@maharsi]

Maybe give us a range of dates? Estimates range between x and y.

[@georgerigberg4335]

maharsi Between 1900 and 2000 😉

[@martinfeldman1542]

I know the source. Don't get what's controversial about it but I respect your wish for it remain a mystery.

[@MERRYJERRYL]

it is either 1968 or 1969...for sure !!!..probably 10/28/69?

[@tonyterme1769]

No it's January 70 A Night at The Family Dog with Santana Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and a Jam with the rythm section of Santana and The Dead Casady Kantner Garcia Kaukonen at The end!!! There's a DVD !!

[@MERRYJERRYL]

Tony Terme Yes I’m very familiar with the family dog video I had the video on VHS tape for the longest time I mistook this for the “airplane house” sessions when Garcia and SPENCER and Casady jammed together in 1968 and various other times during that period Thanks for reiterating

[@tonyterme1769]

@@MERRYJERRYL And there's the best version of Eskimo Blue Day for me !!

[@MERRYJERRYL]

Tony Terme I like Eskimo blue day from Woodstock icicles ruin your gun but yeah out of all the available airplane shows that there is I guess I would agree that that is one of the top versions I have the best airplane and hot tuna collection in the world But only hot tuna from 1970 to 11/27/77 nothing after that Only collect the real good tuna years yeah out of all the existing available tapes I agree that’s a great version along with Woodstock

[@joseluisestevecolomina4273]

Gracias

[@donaldgehre5964]

The date:if it's a Night at the Family Dog then it;s '70 or '71, just down the road from me.

[@ronniebrown2517]

did the jefferson airplane ever play at the electric circus in east village, nyc??....all my life i have thought i saw them there but i just read a list of people who played there and jeff plane was not on the list.....i was 18 and 19 years old in the army upstate ny 1968 and 1969, doing a lot of drugs for the first time....i always thought i saw them at the e circus...perplexing...

[@TeaParty1776]

nice drums

[@SSags]

Some blabber about dates, nothing specific more than that. Some says its one date some claim it's another.

[@carolynpohlman945]

Who gives a rat's ass about the date?

[@jebziffel2929]

Ya. What difference does it make.

[@tonyterme1769]

January 1970 Live at The Family Dog !!! Available on DVD!!

[@morgomi]

nice

[@freddie761]

Hot fuckin TUNA 😄

[@roystonmason9125]

J A

[@ergbudster3333]

You wanna listen to the drum intro another couple hundred times? Yeah. You get it.

[@angelozampieron5565]

COOL ...

[@ronalbertoroccosan4418]

Who was the percussionist?

[@donjerue]

Spencer Dryden

[@heikkinylund8617]

Why is the bassist always the shortest guy in the band?

[@hammer44head]

cept for Phil in the Dead.

[@raymondpierotti8414]

@@hammer44head Also John McVie, and Harvey Kagan with Doug Sahm, and John Entwhistle

[@jimdep6542]

That doesn't apply to me, although maybe I would have been even a better bassist if I was lower to the ground.

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

what's this chuck berry nonsense at the end?

[@hoopmystic1981]

FROM 1960 to 1995 garcia plated chuck berry at every show

[@woodystemms3799]

@@hoopmystic1981 Garcia realized that he stood on the shoulders of giants, as did Chuck Berry, who acknowledged his debt to T-Bone Walker.

[@rickhaley779]

Even into my era, starting in the mid-70s, Jerry and the boys (and Donna!) did lots of Chuck Berry. We loved it.

[@jimdep6542]

Monkey Business.