Balin was my least favorite songwriter in the Airplane / Starship / KBC band's, but I did like some of his stuff. I only saw him live once with the early 90's (post KBC Band) version of Jefferson Starship. It was a great show.
Balin was my least favorite songwriter in the Airplane / Starship / KBC band's, but I did like some of his stuff. I only saw him live once with the early 90's (post KBC Band) version of Jefferson Starship. It was a great show.
Even more than Gimme Shelter, a great source of information about Altamont is Stanley Booth's 'The Great Adventures of the Rolling Stones. Booth, a great writer, became intimate with the Stones specially Keith, during the 1969 tour and barely survived. He finally could publish his planned book some 15 years after the fact.
Also great is a novel, Sway, by Zachry Lazar, where he threads the Manson Family murders, Kenneth Anger and the Stones at Altamont into a fascinating read.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Late to this, but the JA/JS were probably my first real music loves and still are. I was deeply saddened by his death. I also feel extremely fortunate to have not only seen Marty and Paul play live, but, like Huw Lloyd Langton, had the chance do meet them, even if ever so briefly.
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
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