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The Essential Jefferson Airplane
''The Essential Jefferson Airplane'' is a compilation of music from San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane spanning its entire career, excluding the brief reunion in 1989. It follows their development from their beginnings in folk-rock through psychedelia to conventional rock genres. Track listing Disc one #"Blues from an Airplane" – 2:12 from ''Jefferson Airplane Takes Off'' (1966) #"It's No Secret" – 2:39 from ''Jefferson Airplane Takes Off'' #"Come Up the Years" – 2:32 from ''Jefferson Airplane Takes Off'' #"She Has Funny Cars" – 3:09 from ''Surrealistic Pillow'' (1967) #" Somebody to Love" – 2:56 from ''Surrealistic Pillow'' #"Comin' Back to Me" – 5:15 from ''Surrealistic Pillow'' #" Embryonic Journey" – 1:54 from ''Surrealistic Pillow'' #"White Rabbit" – 2:32 from ''Surrealistic Pillow'' #" The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" – 4:32 from ''After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)'' #"Martha" (mono single version) – 3:27 from ''After Bathing at Baxter's'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was an American Rock music, rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1965. One of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area to achieve international commercial success. They headlined the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), Woodstock (1969), Altamont Free Concert (1969), and the first Isle of Wight Festival (1968) in England. Their 1967 breakout album ''Surrealistic Pillow'' was one of the most significant recordings of the Summer of Love. Two songs from that album, "Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane song), Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit (song), White Rabbit", are among ''Rolling Stone''s "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The October 1966 to February 1970 lineup of Jefferson Airplane, consisting of Marty Balin (vocals), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals), Grace Slick (vocals, keyboards), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitar, vocals), Jack Casady (bass), and Spenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Rabbit (song)
"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album '' Surrealistic Pillow''. It draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and its 1871 sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''. It was released as a single and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song was ranked number 478 on ''Rolling Stone'''s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, number 483 in 2010, and number 455 in 2021 and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. History Background "White Rabbit" was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with her previous band, the Great Society. Slick then left the Great Society to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson (who left the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
''Thirty Seconds Over Winterland'' is an album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. It was recorded live in August and September 1972, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. It was released in April 1973; reflecting the band's declining commercial stature, it only peaked at No. 52 on the ''Billboard'' chart. Recorded during the ''Long John Silver'' tour, ''Thirty Seconds Over Winterland'' was the band's second live album, after '' Bless Its Pointed Little Head''. The complete final concert of this tour may be heard on the '' Last Flight'' CD, released in 2007. ''Flying Toasters'' lawsuit In 1989, software company Berkeley Systems released its immensely popular After Dark screensaver. The best-known of the various screensaver options was ''Flying Toasters''. Jefferson Airplane sued Berkeley Systems in 1994, claiming that the toasters were a copy of the winged toasters featured on the ''Thirty Seconds'' album cover. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long John Silver (album)
''Long John Silver'' is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, and their last album of all new material until 1989. It was recorded and released in 1972 as Grunt FTR-1007. Recording history After several solo projects for Grunt Records, the members of Jefferson Airplane (Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Joey Covington and Papa John Creach) came together again in March 1972 for the first time in the studio since the ''Bark'' album was released in September 1971. Sessions at Wally Heider Studios continued for nearly three months, but tensions were high and several songs were recorded by each member recording their own part separately. David Crosby participated in the recording sessions, but his vocals were stripped from the record at the insistence of his label. Joey Covington left the band during the sessions, with accounts varying over whether he was fired. Veteran session drummer John Barbata, formerly of The Turtles, and H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark (Jefferson Airplane Album)
''Bark'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane. Released in 1971 as Grunt FTR-1001, the album is one of the Airplane's late-period works, notable for the group's first personnel changes since 1966. The album was the first without band founder Marty Balin (who departed the band during the recording process but without featuring in the sessions) and the first with violinist Papa John Creach. Drummer Spencer Dryden had been replaced by Joey Covington in early 1970 after a lengthy transitional period in which both musicians had performed with the band. ''Bark'' was the Airplane's first new album in two years, the previous being 1969's ''Volunteers''. It was the first release on Grunt Records, launched in August 1971 by the band and RCA as an autonomous imprint for Jefferson Airplane-related releases. Lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen received four songwriting credits on the album, indicative of his growing importance as a composer and vocalist. At the time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico (Jefferson Airplane Song)
"Mexico" is a single released in May 1970 by San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane, produced by the band at Pacific High Recording Studios with Phill Sawyer as the recording engineer. Written and sung by Grace Slick, it is a tuneful rant against then-President Richard Nixon and his anti-drug initiative, Operation Intercept, that he had implemented to curtail the flow of marijuana into the United States from Mexico. The song closes with an exhortation for the young to realize the power of their numbers, as shown by the gathering of "half a million people on the lawn" at Woodstock. The song received little radio airplay, being banned in some states, but did reach #102 on the ''Billboard'' charts. The version on the ''2400 Fulton Street'' LP and CD is a completely different mix from that on the single. Five months after the release of "Mexico", President Nixon requested that songs relating to drug abuse not be broadcast. Live versions of "Mexico" and its B-side, , were intend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volunteers (song)
"Volunteers" is a Jefferson Airplane single from 1969 that was released to promote the album ''Volunteers'' two months before the album's release. It was written by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner. Balin was woken up by a truck one morning, which happened to be a truck with Volunteers of America painted on the side. Balin started writing lyrics down and then asked Kantner to help him with the music. The music is similar to that of the single's b-side " We Can Be Together" and was based on a bluegrass riff that David Crosby had shown Kantner. "Volunteers" also has a similar chord structure and rhythm to "We Can Be Together". ''Toronto Daily Star'' critic Jack Batten used the following lyrics as an example of how many then-current pop songs "constitute documents as inflammatory and subversive as any anarchist's blueprint for civil war", except that there is nothing hidden. But Kantner said that "'Volunteers' is not political, outlaws aren't political. That's what the song is about... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooden Ships
"Wooden Ships" is a song written and composed by David Crosby, Paul Kantner, and Stephen Stills and recorded both by Crosby, Stills & Nash and by Kantner with Jefferson Airplane. It was written and composed in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a boat named '' Mayan'', owned by Crosby, who composed the music, while Kantner and Stills wrote most of the lyrics. Background Kantner could not be credited as one of the joint authors-composers of "Wooden Ships" on the original May 1969 release of '' Crosby, Stills & Nash'', because he was embroiled in legal disputes with Jefferson Airplane's then manager, Matthew Katz. Crosby said, "Paul called me up and said that he was having this major duke-out with this horrible guy who was managing the band, and he was freezing everything their names were on. 'He might injunct the release of your record,' he told me. So we didn't put Paul's name on it for a while. In later versions, we made it very certain that he wrote it with us. Of cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Shepherd (song)
"Good Shepherd" is a traditional song, best known as recorded by Jefferson Airplane on their 1969 album ''Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album), Volunteers''. It was arranged and sung by the group's lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, who described their interpretation of it as psychedelic folk-rock. Called by nearly a dozen different names and with varying words, melodies and purpose but common themes, the song's history reflects many of the evolutionary changes and cross-currents of American music. It begins early in the 19th century with a backwoods preacher who wrote hymns, persists through that century, manifests itself in a 1930s gospel blues recording done in a prison by a blind inmate convicted of murder, and sees use in the 1950s as a folk song, before attaining its realization by Jefferson Airplane. Several of these different variants of the song are still performed in the 21st century. Hymn "Good Shepherd" originated in a very early 19th century hymn written by the Methodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane Album)
''Volunteers'' is the fifth studio album by American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in 1969 on RCA Records. The album was controversial because of its revolutionary and anti-war lyrics, along with the use of profanity. This was the last album with the group for both founder Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden (although they did both appear on the June 1970 single "Mexico" and its B-side "Have You Seen the Saucers?"), signifying the end of the "classic" lineup. It also turned out to be the group's last all-new LP for two years as Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen devoted more of their energy to their embryonic blues group Hot Tuna, while Paul Kantner and Grace Slick released '' Blows Against the Empire'' and '' Sunfighter'' with various guest musicians and celebrated the birth of their daughter China in January 1971. Background Jefferson Airplane took a break from all touring and recording activity in the first three months of 1969, to allow Grace Slick to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bless Its Pointed Little Head
''Bless Its Pointed Little Head'' is a live album by Jefferson Airplane recorded at both the Fillmore East and West in the fall of 1968 and released in 1969 as RCA Victor LSP-4133. The album reached #17 on the ''Billboard'' Top LP's chart in March 1969. The tracks were recorded during the tour supporting '' Crown of Creation'', although no songs from that album or its predecessor '' After Bathing at Baxter's'' were included (however, the CD rerelease contains bonus tracks of several selections from ''After Bathing at Baxter's''). Selections were taken from the band's first two albums and a number of covers that had been in their setlist since 1965-66 but not recorded in the studio. One of these, "Fat Angel", had been written by Donovan in the spring of 1966 and namechecked the band, who were unknown outside the Bay Area at the time; for Jefferson Airplane's version, Marty Balin played bass, allowing Jack Casady to switch to guitar. Fred Neil's "The Other Side of This Life" is be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown Of Creation
''Crown of Creation'' is the fourth studio album by the San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released by RCA Victor in August 1968. The album saw the band continuing their development of psychedelic music, emphasizing acid rock with science fiction themes. While failing to eclipse '' Surrealistic Pillow'' (1967) from a commercial standpoint, the album was a considerable success in comparison to its immediate predecessor, '' After Bathing at Baxter's'' (1967), peaking at No. 6 on the '' Billboard Pop Charts'' and earning a RIAA gold certification. Its two singles ("Greasy Heart", released in March 1968, followed by the title track in November) were modest hits on the Hot 100 chart. It was voted number 591 in Colin Larkin's ''All Time Top 1000 Albums'' 3rd Edition (2000)''.'' Background Jefferson Airplane's third album, '' After Bathing at Baxter's'', had received warm reviews from the underground press but was a relative commercial disappointment after '' Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
