We built this city....

[JeffersonStarship]

on rock and roll

We built this city
on rock and rollllllll

[Indiana_Dem]

1. Welcome to DU js!

:hi:

[JeffersonStarship]

2. Thank you

I love Dennis Kucinich too! He's an inspiration

[JeffersonStarship]

4. How do I get the picture thing on the left of my message?

i dont know

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Go to "options" --> "edit profile"

and in there you will see the "choose avatar" function (though it might not be called that). Then you can pick avatars.

If you donate to DU, you can upload your own avatar.

And welcome :hi: (and sorry we disagree about this POS so-called "song", at least we HATE SHRUB!!!!)

[JeffersonStarship]

8. Thanks

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. No, we built it on selling out

Starship was the utter shits.

Talk about a band going from the top of brazen rock-and-roll-itude to pathetic little engines of corporate greed, they win the cake.

[JeffersonStarship]

5. I don't care

I still love em.

[specter]

7. And welcome to

the DU lol

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Thanks, but I've been here a long time already

Still, it's nice to be welcomed, since I have been away for 10 days. :-)

have a :beer:

[specter]

11. Yeah

I know just thought you were a little rough there for a sec to the nu be :)
PS Thanks for the beer!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. No, not rough to the newbie

that would be much different, and would involve personal attacks or accusations of being a freeper.

This was just me calling a spade a spade, which is to say, honestly declaiming the fact that "We Built This City" is a pathetic POS, and would be pathetic by any band, but is ESPECIALLY pathetic since it's done by the same band that gave us "White Rabbit" and a hundred other totally legitimate, totally rocking tunes.

[Dark Angel]

30. I love White Rabbit

But even after they dropped the Jefferson, I still loved them. I can't help it. :P

[indigo32]

14. sellouts or not

that was still a good pop song LOL

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Depends on what you mean by "good pop song"

If you mean "uninteresting POS that will sell millions to an aesthetically challenged America who wants their entertainment pre-packaged and in pre-defined modes and without any artistic (that is "challenging" or "requiring a brain") merit", then yeah, it's a great pop song.

[indigo32]

21. Well we're all entitled to our opinions

I didn't find it to be an "uninteresting POS" at all

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. LOL!

Boy, I did!!

Perhaps influenced because I'd been a fan of the band since their good days, but even so, the song would still suck just as much eve if done by a normal pop POS band like Billy "I suck" Joel, Brittney, or Beyonce.

I'm just offended that the same band that used to give us hours and hours of drug induced psychadelic perfection, with a singer so drunk she cuold hardly sing, ended up, in the 80s, doing such a rotten, unartistic phlegmatic peaon to banality.

[Dark Angel]

31. Drug induced psychadelic perfection

Take out psychadelic and you'd have quite an oxymoron there. :D

[Donkeyboy75]

40. Yeah, you knew they hit rock bottom when

they played the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit and changed the lyrics to "we built this city on Red Wing goals"

:puke:

[madrchsod]

10. welcome

but the starship sucks..airplane best rock and roll band of the 60`s

[Twillig]

12. "Bilked this city, BILKED!!"

Every time the Starship gets mentioned I repeat this witticism from Creem Magazine.

BILKED!

Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[northofdenali]

13. DK is in FAIRBANKS, ALASKA tomorrow (Friday)!!!!!

Since I'm pre-Starship, can I welcome you as JeffersonAirplane? (ROFL) - Welcome to you, JS!!!!!!!!!!!! :hi:

[Dark Angel]

15. Hey y'all

I just wanted to let you know that I decided to change my username, hopefully for the last time. I guess I just won't log into that one anymore! Peace!

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Dude, stand up for what you believe in

If you think Starship rocks, then go with it, don't change your username just cuz we harassed you. :-)

Anyway, I like Dark Angel better.

[Dark Angel]

20. It's fine

I was realizing that Starship was a stupid name anyway. I like Dark Angel better, too. :)

[Wickerman]

22. Welcome Jefferson Angel

long may you rock!

:angel:

[Dark Angel]

24. Thanks :)

:hug:

What's :angel: ?

[Wickerman]

25. uh, me not knowing smiley code

and then not checking to see if it took.

O8) O8) O8) O8)

[Dark Angel]

27. Ah, gotcha

:)

[bobthedrummer]

37. Howdy, Dark Angel!

Welcome to The Lounge, there's lots of musicians here-are you a player too?
:hi:
:smoke:

[NewHampster]

16. 1971 May Anti-Nam Rally in DC I listened to White Rabbit

while camped out at the base of the Washington Monument.

God damn they were great, and it wasn't all do to the black Afghani.

I think I was there :toast: can't really be sure anymore.

[Paragon]

26. Sorry, but...

...weren't they 1000 times cooler when they were the Airplane?

[Dark Angel]

28. Airplane had good songs too

But I like Starship better, I think.

[Paragon]

29. Eeek

80's tripe. Just awful.

[Dark Angel]

32. I am a child of the 80s. :)

You should see my music collection sometime. It spans generations, but there is lots of 80s stuff in there.

I like stuff from Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis all the way up to Metallica, and lots of stuff in between.

I like Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, early Aerosmith, Queen, Van Halen, Jefferson A/S, Meatloaf, NOFX, and the list goes on and on and on, literally.

:)

[Indiana_Dem]

33. I'm a late 70s/early 80s coming of age person

and I like them all! I realize bands like Rush, Supertramp, ELO, Boston, Journey, Foreigner, Steve Miller Band, etc. were supposed to be commercialized rock but, hey, that's what I grew up with! Nobody can ever make me forget my air drums with every unsyncopated beat Rush played.

[Dark Angel]

34. Exactly!

:)

[Indiana_Dem]

35. And as a matter of fact, I saw Jefferson Starship in concert.

One of the many concerts I went to as a teen. My first concert was Kiss & AC/DC when I was 12 in 1977! After that, I saw Styx, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Ted Nugent, Krokus, Pat Traverse Band, Marshall Tucker Band, Little River Band, Molly Hatchet, Rush 3x, Supertramp, Van Halen 3x, Foreigner, Judas Priest, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Charlie Watts, Ozzy Ozbourne, Rolling Stones, Billy Squier, that's all I can remember right now but there were more! Bye far the best concert of all of them was Bruce Springsteen. It was the clearest sounding and longest show. I never really appreciated him until I saw him in concert that time. He was the best along with Clarence and the rest of the "E" Street band.

[Indiana_Dem]

36. Also, one has to keep into perspective that the alternatives

at that time included music by discomaniacs or the new and unknown "punk" or "new wave" rock. Yuck! So alot of us just held on to the comfortable commercialized rock that mimmicked and related you to the late 60s/early 70s hard/acid classics. Also remember, FM was new in the mid-70s and WFBQ95 out of Indianapolis was THE "kick-ass" radio station. There was Two-for Tuesday, Wednesday was "hump"day, the 4-o'clock flashback, then there was the "six-pack" without any commercial interruptions for 6 songs. Anyone heard of Bob & Tom? This station was the MTV of my generation. MTV only blossomed right as I graduated high school which exposed me to such oddities as Culture Club, Boontown Rats, Stray Cats & The Pretenders, and George Michael, DuranDuran, etc. So to go from kick-ass classic rock to the new MTV took quite a while to adjust....but you wouldn't believe me now. My teenager influences me to listen to country, Christian, and all the hip-hop and boy & girl bands of today!!!!! What changes we encounter through the years!! I like them all except for maybe all the 80s. That decade lacked for talent except for maybe Madonna or Janet but they just sold themselves out for shock. Nothing makes me feel more comfortable than the old "commercialized" rock though.

[bobthedrummer]

39. I got into the blues young.

The Rosetta Stone of most all American popular music-the blues.

[bobthedrummer]

38. Well, I'll still talk to ya

but IMHO there was a much richer talent present in The Airplane.
Then again, I'm a boomer.