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| Last Flight | 
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| Artist: Jefferson Airplane
Label: Snapper UK
Category: Music
List Price: $23.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 51344
Format: Live, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 555
UPC: 803415255528
EAN: 0803415255528
ASIN: B000MGBRMC
Release Date: February 26, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Introduction by Bill Graham - Jefferson Airplane, | | • | Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane, Slick, Darby | | • | Twilight Double Leader - Jefferson Airplane, Kantner | | • | Wooden Ships - Jefferson Airplane, Stills | | • | Milk Train - Jefferson Airplane, Slick | | • | Blind John - Jefferson Airplane, Stetson | | • | Come Back Baby - Jefferson Airplane, Davis | | • | The Son of Jesus - Jefferson Airplane, Kantner | | • | Long John Silver - Jefferson Airplane, Slick | | • | When the Earth Moves Again - Jefferson Airplane, Kantner | | • | Papa John's Down Home Blues - Jefferson Airplane, Spotts | | • | Eat Starch Mom - Jefferson Airplane, Slick |
Disc 2
| • | John's Other - Jefferson Airplane, Creach | | • | Trial by Fire - Jefferson Airplane, Kaukonen | | • | Law Man - Jefferson Airplane, Slick | | • | Have You Seen the Saucers? - Jefferson Airplane, Kantner | | • | Aerie (Gang of Eagles) - Jefferson Airplane, Slick | | • | Feel So Good - Jefferson Airplane, Kaukonen | | • | Crown of Creation - Jefferson Airplane, Kantner, Paul | | • | Walking the Tou Tou - Jefferson Airplane, Kaukonen | | • | Medley: Diana/Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane, Slick |
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Album Description
2007 digitally remastered two CD release of Jefferson Airplane's complete final show recorded at the Winterland in San Francisco in September of 1972. 21 tracks in all mainly taken from their final two studio albums. Includes: 'Wooden Ships', 'Have You Seen The Saucers?', 'Crown of Creation', 'Somebody To Love', 'Papa John's Down Home Blues' and more. Charly.
Album Details
2007 Issue of the First Authorized Edition (As Opposed to the Dozens of Inferior Bootlegs that have Floated About the Market Over the Years) of Jefferson Airplane's Historic Final Show Performed on September 22, 1972 at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. The Double CD Set Includes the Complete Concert Performance by Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen, Legendary Bay Area Blues Fiddler Papa John Creach, Drummer Johnny Barbata (Formerly with the Turtles and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and Multi-instrumentalist David Freiberg (Formerly of Quicksilver Messenger Service), who also Filled in the Male Lead Vocals in the Wake of Marty Balin's Departure.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
San Francisco Night May 3, 2007
69 out of 70 found this review helpful
We did not know it at the time, but this was the Final Flight by the great Jefferson Airplane. My friend Larry, attended this Winterland concert and Raved to me that Airplane had put on the best show since 10/25/69 (also a Winterland show). The LP: "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland" was my only Document of this Event upon it's release in 1973. I was taken back that a 7 track short album was only a very tiny part of this Monumental Event, but I did like the Sound the band had with a very prominent Hot Tuna, flavor.
Over the Years many Bootlegs of this Big Night have appeared and disappeared and the always seemed to come from the same lousy audience source (Way back, with some Joker's talking about their Dope throughout the show). Worse still these Poor Quality boots never contained the Full Show. Well, Tripsters, here it is, Not of Perfect Sound, Lot's of Bum Notes and without the Funk of being inside Winterland itself...BUT it's the Truth of what happened that Night, and You can own it.
The Late Bill Graham does the Introduction and it's right into a Fast, grundgy; "Somebody To Love". Fine Versions of "The Son of Jesus", "Long John Silver" and "Have You Seen the Saucers?" make this a little more Special than your normal Airplane Collection. And for you guys that want "White Rabbit" and other 'Hits', they ain't here, so save your bucks for the Greatest Hits CD, this is not for you...
For True Airplane Fans this CD SET is a 'Must-Have', I really enjoy it Wart's N' All. This is what the Jefferson Airplane was, A Great, Great Band of an era that Changed everything, it will never be like this again, I MISS this Band, and I miss Winterland... THIS IS HISTORY
 Historic, yes; Great? Not So Much...... April 18, 2007
36 out of 38 found this review helpful
This is an interesting release. It documents the last Jeff Air show at Winterland in'72. There are good songs and bad ( the Papa John blues number is particularly grating) ones, but most of the band is in fine form. The biggest flaw is the pedestrian drumming of Johnny Barbata. He must have had a good drug connection or something, because his playing drags the Kaukonen/Casady axis back at every turn. Spencer Dryden (R.I.P.) was a phenomenal player who knew how to swing and if you compare this recording with "Bless It's Pointed Little Head" or the more recent "Live At The Fillmore East", his absence is huge!!! And the less said about David Freiberg, the better. Still, if you dig the Airplane, this is a very enjoyable set from one of the best 60's bands ever.
Now this is more like it! April 17, 2007
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
Here's a raw,but very exciting document of the last ever Jefferson Airplane concert from 1972.
There are a few missed notes,and some flat spots here and there,....but this shows that the band still had some musical fire to spew even in it's last moments.
Avoid the other "Live at Golden Gate Park" release from this Charly/Snapper series though. That one ,although from the band's prime period,has an horrible mix where most of the guitar is missing,and the drums and vocals are too "in your face".
"Last Flight" is a flawed but very cool document for all the Airplane fans out there!
Could have made a great double live album in 1972/73 March 29, 2007
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
This is (for Airplane afficionados) a highly interesting set largely because of the song selection. The band is in good form throughout from start to finish.
The recording originates from one concert (songs are in the original running order) and shows their live set quite "together", much more than you would have expected after having listened to the quite carelessly thrown together THIRTY SECONDS OVER WINTERLAND (the official live record from that tour).-
Recorded at the very end of the golden Airplane era it focuses on their at that time last two LPs (9 tracks from BARK/LONG JOHN SILVER). As the booklet says: These were - compared to their other "solo"activities - the weaker records.... but they get a s t r o n g treatment here and are the center of the show.
The Airplane had been (losing key members of the band and) dividing into fractions at that time & a lot of those "fractions" get their way here:
- Hot Tuna ("Come Back Baby", "John's Other", "Trial By Fire" & "Walking The Tou Tou")...
- Papa John Creach ("Down Home Blues").... and those
- SF-Allstar-LPs that were made at the same time (records that centered mostly around Paul Kantner, then Grace Slick, David Freiberg; represented here to a lesser extent through the "Diana"-intro & "Blind John" that later ended on Mickey Hart's "Rolling Thunder")
Marty Balin joins the band on the last track (his co-penned "Volunteers").
Recording quality is a bit muddy, slightly inconsistent but (for that time) quite good; you can hear vocals and instruments (& what I'm personally very happy about: the BASS); the band has a "sound".- My Christmas wish: a more "heartfelt" mastering.- "Feel So Good" has a cut in the middle.
The booklet is nicely done and informative (nothing new for the die-hard fan).
PS. I cannot say similar favourable things about "Quicksilver Messenger Service At The Kabuki Theatre 1970" from the same series (only for completists).
Not exactly the last flight . . . May 14, 2007
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Being a cult follower of the Airplane/Starship, my appreciation for this disc is large. With that bias in mind, the next question you might have is why buy this instead of "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland", which is the roughly a truncated show from basically the same tour? The answer is as simple as it seems: 1. More music, and 2. A real feel of the status of the Airplane then - with insight to why the split apart.
The music is not as "perfect" as the tracks on Thirty Seconds Over. . .", but there are certain benefits. One is you can really hear Dave Frieberg belting it out like from the days of Quicksilver. He sounds great. The other is you get some serious Papa John features. The downside is ofcourse crazy vocals from Grace and poor mixing from time to time.
While not being my favorite JA recording, I am happy to add it to my collection. For me it replaces "Thirty Seconds . . ." and fills in a hole in the wall that is the legacy of this great SF band. Enjoy!
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