Jefferson Airplane
1970-08-24 _ Atlanta, Georgia _ Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
Downtown at Gilmer & Courtland Streets ::: M?-AUD

~*~ Carefully remastered fixing various issues, without NR or EQ ~*~

"He's come to call himself king, but he's a small-headed man & he doesn't know a thing about how to deal for you..."

01-[04:24]. ...Somebody To Love
02-[00:40]. ==audience/tuning/talk==
03-[03:36]. Crown of Creation
04-[00:39]. ==audience/tuning==
05-[08:01]. Other Side of This Life
06-[01:33]. ==audience/tuning/talk/song intro==
07-[05:44]. Up Or Down
08-[01:50]. ==audience/tuning/talk/song intro==
09-[02:20]. Mexico
10-[01:24]. ==audience/tuning/talk/song intro==
11-[05:35]. We Can Be Together
12-[00:44]. ==audience/tuning/talk==
13-[09:34]. Whatever The Old Man Does Is Always Right
14-[07:42]. ...Plastic Fantastic Lover
15-[00:20]. ==audience/tuning/song intro==
16-[06:58]. Come Back Baby
17-[06:40]. Have You Seen The Saucers
18-[00:44]. ==audience/tuning/talk==
19-[03:55]. Greasy Heart
20-[07:36]. Good Shepherd
21-[00:14]. ==audience/tuning/talk==
22-[20:18]. ~extended jam~ -> I Can Tell (including "The 'F*ck' Cheer")
23-[02:01]. ...White Rabbit

Encore :::
24-[03:11]. ...Volunteers

Total Time ::: 1:45:42

::: VG+ AUD, clear but a bit distant. Check samples for autonomous audio assessment or for quick sh*ts&giggles.
::: Warts: Repaired dullspots & dropouts but surely missed some. bit of talking in CofC. #01 fades in ~22secs late (based on 1970-08-19 version) &1st 2mins had MANY issues (countless unfixable dropouts, jitters, etc), but monoizing fixed about 60% (still rough, but MUCH better). Taper cut off deck 'tween many songs&there are a few fast/split sec late starts. #11 still has some clapping (now lowered). #14 missing 3secs of actual guitar chords at start+likely 5-6secs of guitar feedback to open. #17-24 hiss increases (likely 60min tapes used&2nd was lesser quality). #23&24 fade in a few secs late. #23 seems a bit muffled compared to rest (like AUD all stood up). #13+22B+24 some clapping (near-mike claps all painstakingly! lowered).
::: NOTE: Master tape was narrow stereo but had MANY(!) issues&imaging was weird (more of a timing delay), so this is rendered to MUCH-improved mono. More info below.
::: AFAIK, as of 2021, this show has not been DIMED or been on other common, visable digital platforms.
::: GBS review says Great Jones opened @7:30pm, but the posted showtime was 8pm.
::: GBS review says Radar, a popular Atlanta band, played after Great Jones & JA went on round 9pm.
::: Glenn MacKay�s Head Lights provided the lightshow. Tickets were $4/5/6.
::: Ticket stub: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QEMAAOSwhCpdipej/s-l1600.jpg
::: Newspaper ad+handbill: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sndb/uploads/photo/image/336394/large_Great_Speckled_Bird_-_Atlanta__Georgia_1970-08-24_..jpg
::: Great Speckled Bird underground newspaper review w/photos: www.thestripproject.com/jefferson-airplane
::: The review is a blast to read as it's written in the language of our times. We knew who our friends were.
::: "The Jefferson Airplane concert Monday night was �the Atlanta rock event of the year.�(GSB)
::: Seems very likely that all songs played are here but some between song spots were excised by taper.
::: "Volunteers"LP recorded Mar28-Jun12 & issued Nov'69, so 'twas a well-known masterpiece by this time.
::: "Have You Seen The Saucers"/"Mexico" 7"45 recorded Feb&issued May'70."Grace's lambast of Tricky Dick's Operation Intercept anti-dope campaign trying to stem pot flow from Mexico". Song banned in some USA states(!) but reached #102 in Billboard charts. Soon after its release, Nixon asked for no drug songs to be broadcast on the radio.
::: RCA had little JA material to release in '70 so"The Worst of Jefferson Airplane"was issued in Nov.
::: "Whatever The Old Man Does Is Always Right"noted by Jeff Tamarkin as correct title for this song.
::: Just what kind of vending is going on in the AUD during "We Can Be Together"? Probably not popcorn!

::: NOTE: While JAbase & Tunabase list Hot Tuna on the bill, this is NOT correct. Some tour locations listed Hot Tuna but NOT Atlanta 1970-08-24. Dimer gv0000 researched this carefully. Hot Tuna is NOT mentioned in the Atlanta handbill or newspaper ad or on the ticket, and is NOT mentioned as having been introduced in the JA set in the newspaper review, NOR are they mentioned in the Tampa 1970-08-19 review. Hot Tuna was NOT listed on the scheduled, advertised line-up for Orlando 1970-08-22, either. Also, Kantner is playing on "Good Shepherd"&on at least part of "I Can Tell".

::: ANOTHER NOTE: "Volunteers"segue from"We Can Be Together"noted in the Great Speckled Bird newspaper review is NOT correct&review has other factual mistakes. "We Can Be Together"intro does sound somewhat like "Volunteers", but "Volunteers" was only played once, as an encore (presumably the final song). If a 2nd encore was played after "Volunteers" (described in GBS as "a new song with some heavy jamming") maybe tape order was re-arranged&probably "jam->I Can Tell"is the jam mentioned as "2nd encore". There was/is a tape splice before it, tho' very doubtful"Good Shepherd"ended the main set. Or, maybe review has song order incorrec as it was clearly (unclearly?!) written after the fact, from memory or notes. However, Grace is still out in the stage babbling before taper deck shutoff, so it's not entirely clear - and, she's making fun of the AUD yelling for White Rabbit, but it could also be a song intro, in which case the jam>I Can Tell WAS perhaps re-arranged on the tape. Seems unlikely another jam is missing from end of tape, but maybe. It's only 51 years later, so I'm sure a few Atlanta heads still chime in with immaculately stoned memories to let us know.

::: ATTENTION ~PRESS BREAK~ SIGNE TOLY ANDERSON unreleased 1970 SOLO "album"...While researching info for this upload, I found the following 2 articles. 1970-11-07 Billboard says new Marin Disc label ALREADY recorded a new Signe Toly Anderson LP (Michael Kamen of NY Rock Ensemble produced). 1970-12-31 Record World says, "Her first album, which she has conceived&designed, is entitled 'Circles' with 6 original songs&others by leading contemporary writers." So, WAS it recorded? Seems VERY likely demos were made. Inquiring ears WANT to hear - soon! We're aging. Signe's gone, Michael's gone. Just think about who might have played on it. Dig, Baby, Dig!

Recording Information ::: unknown (narrow!) stereo recorder with built-in microphones -> master tapes -> ? (unknown analog-only generations) -> unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassettes, Dolby B on.

Playback 2017-05-xx ::: unknown generation Maxell XLII-90 cassettes on Nakamichi 680ZX cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth adjusted for individual tape, heads cleaned & demagnetized -> Sony Linear PCM Recorder PCM-M10 (LPCM 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files).

Remastering 2020-12-xx ::: 44.10kHz/16bit WAV files -> Audacity [normalisation to remove DC offset, channel/phase alignment, fades, manual one-at-a-time glitch, bump, pop, click, dropout & dullspot repairs, PopMute used on some between song clapping&then a lot of those&all other near-mike claps, especially in music, were lowered manually. volume adjustments, several pitch (speed) fixes applied with single pass per segment after frequency analysis & with pitchpipe verification, NO equalisation or noise reduction] -> CD Wave (track splits) -> flacs (Trader's Little Helper) -> yr ears. (NOTE: Master tape was narrow stereo but had MANY(!) issues with loads of dullspots&dropouts&imaging was weird (more of a timing delay), so this is rendered to MUCH-improved mono since KHz in both channels was relatively similar. This cleared up MANY problems&saved some days of work&stabilized the sound). Freed 2021-07-xx.

Line-up ::: Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing) - vocals // Martyn Jerel Buchwald aka "Marty Balin" (�R.I.P. 2018�) - vocals // Paul Lorin Kantner (�R.I.P. 2016�) - electric guitar, vocals // Jorma Kaukonen - electric guitar, vocals // John William "Jack" Casady - electric bass, eyebrows // Joseph Edward "Joey" Covington (born Joseph Edward Michno) (�R.I.P. 2013�) - drums, percussion, vocals.

Nothing here ever commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

DimeTravel 691 ::: Thanks to the original taper & traders! MANY thanks to DIMER gv0000 for his info assistance. ::: Corrections welcome ::: LOVE this year of JA - but guess I can't name one I don't like. Some great jamming - check out Jorma&Jack in "Crown". Cool chanting in "STL" & then "Saucers" last part is over 3mins w/extended vocal chanting. "STL" is rather remarkable in this era for the differences in the performances - this one is darker & chunkier (think Jack!) than the one from a few days before, but also Grace's vocal delivery on parts of the song are radically different. Interesting&weird rhythm guitar sounds from Paul during first 1/2 of "Come Back Baby" - a RIPPIN' version - and Jorma is singing the hell out of it & playing classy leads. Great harmony vox from Paul on "Good Shepherd". Marty works on his James Brown impression in "PFL" - not only that, but the song, played fullspeed for 4&1/2 minutes a few nights before, is used as a jamming instrument here, done much slower & clocks in at 3+ mins longer! This tape was always a conundrum to listen to with all the dropouts - but now with the digital world & a lot of work - problems mostly solved - hope the taper is still on the planet to take a listen - or to offer up the master. I really dig the band's more diverse songwriting directions - MIXING it up. Let your hair down, phsysically or metaphorically - it doesn't matter which, and try to listen thru the whole show at least once - it will transport you to another era. Listen, enjoy, show appreciation, share, give, spread peace. Yrs truly, Knees

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