jefferson airplane

Jefferson Airplane was a psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, who enjoyed their greatest success in the 1960s with hit singles like "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit," and on albums like Crown Of Creation and Volunteers. Back then, the Airplane were considered one of the two or three leading psychedelic, or "acid-rock" bands (most often with the Grateful Dead).

The classic lineup of Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, and Spencer Dryden made five classic albums from 1967 through 1969, before splintering off in a variety of directions during the seventies and eighties. For awhile, this meant carrying on the Jefferson Airplane name with a revolving door of musicians and lineups. Eventually, the Airplane would permanently split into two groups: the Kaukonen-Casady led Hot Tuna and the more commercially successful Jefferson Starship, led by Kantner and Slick (and occasionally also featuring Marty Balin).

Today, the Jefferson Airplane's legacy lives on through blogs like Craig "The Airplane Man" Fenton's Take me To A Circus Tent (which is also the title of Fenton's exhaustively researched book on this groundbreaking band).

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• Rock and Roll History Lesson for December 10th

  
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• Chris Hillman Calls Altamont a Complete Nightmare

  
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  Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Holy Hell After the Flying Burrito Brothers first song at Altamont, a member of the band pleaded with the crowd, "Please, you people -- stop hurting each other." Chris Hillman , a member of the Burrito Brothers, had no idea that someone would be killed ...
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• Some Days #2

  
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• STEVE RUSKIN’S PICK OF THE WEEK: Powerful and Affecting Presenter, Former POW Charlie Plumb

  
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• White House Gate Crashing, From Andrew Jackson To Grace Slick

  
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• The M M & M 1000 – part 50

  
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  Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. THE BYRDS – So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star / Everybody’s Been Burned (Columbia 43987 1967) They had a bit of a nerve poking fun at the Monkees when ...
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• Will the Coen brothers film, A Serious Man, revive interest in Grace Slick, voice that launched a thousand trips?

  
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  The Coen brothers’ new black comedy A Serious Man is set in the Midwest in 1967. The filmmakers fix the period in the viewer’s mind through an abundance of realistic details – cars, houses, clothes and furnishings – as well as through the soundtrack, which contains four tracks by Jefferson Airplane.As the film ...
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• United States Falls Down the Rabbit Hole

  
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  United States Falls Down the Rabbit Hole Politics / US Politics Nov 16, 2009 - 03:19 AM By: LewRockwell Don Cooper weites: Will everyone please rise for the playing of the national anthem of the Unites States of America: One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives you don’t ...
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• A Serious Man

  
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  While the Coen Brothers A Serious Man delineates its own remote Midwestern Jewish community in the late 1960s, the grand intentions of the film are laid bare in the opening minutes of its ancient Yiddish parable with ample projections of spirituality complemented by the Rashi quote, "Receive with simplicity ...
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• City Sounds 11/16: San Francisco

  
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  The Grateful Dead playing in San Franciscos Winterland Auditorium, 1971 Known for the “San Francisco Sound,” San Fran has had a steady music scene since at least the ’60s. With huge bands like The Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane and Journey forming there it’s been a hot spot for trends and great ...
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• Beck’s Record Club draws Wilco, Feist and others for Skip Spence remake

  
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  The very idea of Beck ’s Record Club , where he gathers famous guests and plows through a classic album in a single day, makes us swell with joy. So much so that we’re satisfied with the other efforts . But wait, Pitchfork is telling us of another collaboration? And this one involves Wilco, Feist, Jamie ...
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• Blitzen Trapper Cover Neil Young “Harvest”…Grace Potter Covers Jefferson Airplane Classic

  
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  Largehearted Boy Report: Click here to go to LB to check Blitzen Trapper covering Neil Young “Harvest”…plus Grace Potter covers Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”, and Smashing Pumpkins “Today (live)”
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• Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (1969)

  
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  Volunteers is a 1969 album by American psychedelic rock band, Jefferson Airplane. It was controversial at the time because of anti-war messages of certain songs. The original title of the album was supposed to be Volunteers of Amerika, but pressure from RCA led to this name being dropped.This was the sixth album ...
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• Jefferson Airplane - Lather

  
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• Rock Legend Grace Slick Asks Congress To End Animal Experiments

  
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  Forty years after pioneering a cultural revolution, Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane, is leading another movement. The rock legend is asking Congress to phase out the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments and retire federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. In collaboration with the Physicians Committee for ...
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• Jefferson Airplane: Rock & Roll Wisdom

  
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  “The Other Side of This Life” -Jefferson Airplane Pondering the meaning of this song, it occurred to me just how often things that appear on the surface are merely superficial, and that there truly is another side to this life. Life is not always what it appears to be. There is always another side. Or, as Ringo ...
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• The Popdose Interview: Eric Johnson, President and C.O.O. of Wolfgang’s Vault

  
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  Wolfgang’s Vault is one of the Internet’s greatest treasures for music lovers. The site hosts thousands of concerts that are available for free streaming, as well as vintage memorabilia that includes t-shirts, posters, photographs, tickets, and other items of interest. Thus far, only a limited number of the shows ...
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• Grace Slick: Rock & Roll History + Video

  
  Rock and Roll Guru — Authority: 141
  As we celebrate Gracie’s 70th birthday , here she is as part of the Jefferson Airplane belting out one of their classic songs, “Somebody to Love.” What an absolutely amazing voice.
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• Grace Slick: Rock & Roll History

  
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  October 30. 1939: Grace Slick was born. Gracie is probably my favorite female vocalist of all time. After performing in The Great Society, she fronted the classic 1960s San Francisco band the Jefferson Airplane and, later, the Jefferson Starship. The legendary rocker brought a couple of  classic songs with her to ...
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• Grace Slick Asks Congress to End Chimpanzee Experiments

  
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  Filed under: News , Politics as Usual Grace Slick -- of Jefferson Airplane , Jefferson Starship and Starship fame -- is urging Congress to end experiments on chimpanzees. Slick, whose 70th birthday is today, recorded a voicemail inviting politicians to a Capitol Hill multimedia exhibit about chimps ...
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