Jefferson Airplane - The Other Side Of This Life Lyrics

Casady is certainly the driving force here on my favorite Airplane album.....

Jack is playing at least two bass lines at once here, and sometimes maybe three.

Casady's playing lead on this one!

My hit 2019.

This is a great song. I have lived this tune. This is what it is to be a genuine rocker.

LYRICS

Would you like to know a secret just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next, I don't know who I'm gonna be
But that's the other side of this life I've been leading
That's the other side of this life.

Well my whole world's in an uproar, my whole world's upside down
I don"t know where I'm going next, but I'm always bumming around
And that's another side to this life I've been leading
And that's another side to this life

Well I don't know what doing for half the time, I don't know where I'm going
I think I'll get me a sailing boat and sail the Gulf of Mexico
But that's another side of this life I've been leading
And that's another side of this life

Well I think I'll go to Nashville down in Tennesse
The ten cent life I've been leading here gonna be the death of me
But that's the other side of this life I've been leading
And that's another side to this life

Would you like to know a secret just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next, I don't know who I'm gonna be
But that's the other side of this life I've been leading
But that's the other side of this life.

I played bass in bands in HS in the 60's and Jack Casady was my bass guitar hero. He was also great with Jimi Hendrix on Vodoo Chile on the Electric Lady Land recording.

I first heard this album while smoking hash with some other freaks in my brothers rented room in an old Edwardian house. I trip back to that evening every time I hear this. Peace.

I looked for this because of Gimme Shelter movie. Great jam!

thX from PL
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Not only is this bass a "Killer" but Jack is so kool looking, Always wore groovy threads. I was 18 in 1968 and the rock bands were our heros. Not Westmoreland!!!

Not Westmoreland! Nice reference!

The Bass is like a B-52

when they were on, when they were right, there was no one better than the airplane. screw the starship, this was an early giant of rock. underappreciated later, huge in their time. Saw them around a dozen times back then, including the night at the Fillmore East when this was being recorded

Jorma's biography is great. Jorma and Jack were friends in high school. The Fur Peace Ranch outside Athens ,Ohio is where Jorma has a guitar school. country blues, etc.

Slow, but violent.

This album cover had a texture unlike any other album I owned at the time.

Casady goes insane at about 5:50

Jack.. God on 4 strings!

This track and the album got me hooked on the Airplane when I was in high school...that driving bass and intense guitar!

is this after karen dalton?

I drive to work with my nephew, Christopher he is one in the business

Jack Casady, not of this earth. No wonder Paul McCartney was an Airplane fan.

God on 4 strings!

the counterpoint between the singers and Jack's bass is just a treasure

0:15 nirvana

RIP with love to Marty and Paul who both passed into hippie heaven this year. Jack and Jorma are still rockin, This cut is one where they nailed the heavy psychedelic sound and Jack made it nine miles high.

Jack Casady is inexcusably underrated as a bass player. He's right up there with Jack Bruce and John Entwistle.

good times good songs

Looks a bit like Walter Becker passed out at the Jeff's table.

Beryl Green It's Jack

.....a perfect live record recorded at the best live venue in all of rock History....The Fillmore.....

Rockandroll.. en toda su expresión!

Great live album and Sharing......

this song smell to mushrooms

RIP Marty

The intro section one the most perfect organically wrought mind blowing minutes of music ever to grace the planet! Hands down....!

RIP Marty

RIP Marty Balin, a true balladeer if ever there was one

RIP Marty - see you on the other side

RIP Marty Balin Amazing vocals on this song

Not sure where to begin. Cassidy’s bass line is the thunder. Jorma’s lead is the lightning. Basin and Slick provide great vocals. This is a hard edged rock classic!

Pretty creative improv use by all, of the relatively simple Fred Neil song .The vocalists could have used more of Fred's original melody though, IMHO.

Always GREAT!

I had the pleasure of finishing off Grace Slick's Heinekens when the Starship concert was over at the Mississippi River Festival when I was artist-host coordinator. Can't recall much other than icing it down earlier that day. Seems like we had a good time backstage, though. You'll have to ask Brian Erdman...Aug. 1975

I still get chills listening to them !!!

I just noticed thats jack kassady on the cover

Best album jack was a pile driver with the bass employed slap, finger plucking before many others he was like a machine gun. Like the other guy said saw him in SF, about 87, with his punk band and he was a 5-5" powerhorse. I was in awe. Thank heavens for Hot Tuna Covington, Papa John jorma o course.

The Sopranos brought me hereeee

That's totally radical and groovy.Now this is what I call a revolutionnary song .Dig it

Yes, I would like to know a secret and how to play the bass guitar like Jack.

I have spent most of my adult life understanding his tone and playing. my conclusions: start with the bass itself (guild starfire), and the strings (pyramid golds).

I went to this other side on salvia once

hot damn !!! I wish I had been old enough to witness such greatness!!!

The king of the bass guitar. That's all I gotta say about that.

9tttttttttttttttttttttttt444444444444444444444444444444t444t44444t4444y44t44t444, but it was the last tight k

That has got to be one of the best album covers ever.

I can't believe I forgot about this song. Jack is why I picked up the bass.

Jack is leading me to the same way as yours :D

one of my favorite bands ever I saw them at the Fillmore East in 67

My way of introducing JA to anyone is to tell them to listen to at least 3/4 versions of "other Side" & then one realises what they were -a stunning force (& still Tuna are!)

Absolute one of the most electrifying live rock albums ever recorded

Jack--One of a kind.One of my number 1 faves melodic bass and chords pretty much before EVEYBODY

Este grupo es la crema
This group is cream

The bass man

Saw a clip where Jack talked about how Mike Bloomfield from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band took everyone to school.
Carlos Santana, and Bob Weir said the same thing.
Jorma was already there.

THE definitive version of this song showcasing Jack's AMAZING bass playing - that formed the backbone of the Airplane as the bass was not only a driving rhythm but the lead melodic instrument. This and 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds shine. Jack is a monster.

If there is a better bass player in the world SHOW ME!!!!

Geniuses!

Jack and John, the greatest Bass Guitar Players ever...

Elephant Balls on bass! Yeah Jack! We're talking intensity! Let her rip!

Great disruption !

I love Fred Neil's music......

asphalt

that sexy bass line

astounding bass playing...

Just one mans opinion but for my money Jack was the best bass player of the hippy era. Still pay to see Hot Tuna to this day

i would prefer the Dead to the Airplane, but theres no denying that Jacks a much better bass player than Phil

agreed on both accounts my friend

Good on guitar too. Fat Angel on this album had Balin playing bass, Jack on guitar.

When Jack and Jorma first met in Washington, D C., Jack was a guitarist.

Damn, jack's bass is badass.  Like a rolling thunder train.  Got to be one of the MOST interesting and exciting bass players in rock

this is one of my ALL TIME favs....directly back to a flashback, the most exciting times in my life....................

He was Hendrix favorite bass player for a reason. Jack played bass on voodoo child after all. Arguable Hendrix best song. The menacing sound at any moment then all hell would break out. Jacks approach to the bass was singular. You can’t compare him to anyone.

I rate the guy highly.

When Jack pkayed with SVT he taped two of his fingers together so he'd play fewer notes.
I'm a bassist and to me Jack is just God. He changed the entire vocabularly of the electric bass.

Yeah you rite

This is great! Thank you!

In my opinion, Jorma Kaukonen's guitar tone defines the term "acid rock"...

great guitar solo

BASS, please! :)

great !

great !

Wonderfull photo

Wonderful

I Love these Cats!

good for you n good for me I'm hood

Tell me the bass in this song doesn't R-O-C-K?

Jack Cassady!! You know it!!

That's what I noticed on that Altamont documentary. If only the Angels didn't have to be so mean.

mi sto innamorando di questo gruppo....

già fatto da parte mia almeno 35 anni fa :-D

I was at every concert on this album-- this particular cut puts me in the stratosphere!

I envy you.

Dog Brothers l

Dog Brothers I call u sir and hold you in the highest esteem and give you plattiudes of a king having survived that era. Thank you for sharing your story. My friend Dog Brother

On eighth day God rested. Because Jack was playing

Another great song..

uh huh, ok then

15 RATED DOWN........????????????????

pure LSD........

my guess is a lot of talent here....

So many versions of this song.........Lovin Spoonful do a nice jangly version on their first album

fuck that mickey Thomas bullshit, that ain't what this is

my all time favorite rendition of this amazing track!...

Jack™

keep your head, bless its pointed little head, feed your head....man we were 'heads' in the sixties.  at least the majority of us were!!

Wrong. Less than 5% 18 yr olds smoked weed in 1969*. Use peaked in 1979-80* at 52%. 78-79 and 80-81 were 48%. Today the number is about 35%. The class of 1980 rules. Only class to ever exceed 50%. The weed era 1976-84. A proud member of the class of 1980 and a medical marijuana cooperative owner. 30 years in horticulture. The 60's generation was not much different than the 50s. hippies were a very, very, very, small minority and their weed sucked. *study of smokers within the last 12 months.

My generation is legalizing weed. The supposed 60's generation is pushing 70 and didn't do shit. Political power peaks at 50-65 years of age. The class of 1980 is 54. Medical is legal in half the states and recreational will soon be in half a dozen. We are right on schedule. In 10 years it will be legal everywhere. The 70s generation did it. You may thank us anytime.

@edwardschlosser1 E1....your stats leave me very cold.  the sixties people are the story.  Not the medical use of mary jane.  you obviously don't get it, but I understand your grasping any and all credit for the pot phenom your generation is legalizing.  usually it's the thought which precedes the action!  we had thoughts which you will never understand! 

Standing on the shoulders of giants...

Now that's 2 members gone.

+Joe Flash Just saw that today. Same day as Paul, too. I used to play the [email protected] out of Takes Off. RIP Signe Toly (Anderson).

+Joe Flash Paul, Signe, Joey, Spencer. I count 4

Spencer and Paul are gone (who played on this version). Signe and Skip Spence (original founding members of JA) are gone too, as well as later members Papa John Creach and Joey Covington. This live album was the "classic" lineup of Marty, Grace, Paul, Jorma, Jack, and Spencer.

we can build this thing together

Excellent! What a guitar!

rest in peace paul kantner---beloved--musician--activist--amazing human being---ya checked out with the all the greats in the past months---thank you for fighting to end the nam war--and fighting the establishment--brave committed--your saved amerika with many others --but you all had a major impact--hail---peace--see you on the other side

RIP Paul Kantner!

Erik Psicodelia i

i love Paul

Loved J.J.

They definitely had a synergistic moment --- the band, the songs, the vocals --- on a short list of all time greats in rock

the way it speeds up at the end.  blows my fucking mind.

+Moonpie Shane..MOUNDS OF BLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not then, acid.

this wasn't an English band dumb fuck!

Marijuana was already an old thing with people trying coke, speed and good old heroin!

There's no such thing as good old heroin,that fallacy played into many fruitless lives,and endless excuses for underachievers.

I've known addicts who used for forty years,and are some of the most timid ,unaccomplished people.

Shit was already getting awfully heavy kiddies with Vietnam, Nixon and any kind of dope your little heart desired!