This is the remastered studio recording of a song Jefferson Airplane performed at Woodstock in 1969, and in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. When this album came out in 1969 the US was in the height of the Vietnam War and the height of the social movement. Many young men and women were volunteering for the war. Many other young people were volunteering for the social movement.
On both sides there were people who didn’t think much about what they were doing. But there were also people on both sides who thought a lot about what they were doing. Was the social movement just a bunch of lazy people who wanted to hang out and smoke weed and not help their country win a war? Or were they, too, motivated by a love of their country, a feeling of being part of something bigger than themselves, and helping America move in a positive direction?
