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Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing At Baxter’s
Review and Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 23 November 1967
Jefferson Airplane finally finished their third LP Halloween week after two months of off-and-on recording in Los Angeles. It’s called After Bathing at Baxter’s, has ...
Up The Revolution? F**k The Revolution!
Review and Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, October 1994
PLANEBRANES. THAT'S WHAT obsessive aficionados of Jefferson Airplane and all that venerable group's offshoots – Jefferson Starship, Starship (two different enterprises, confusingly enough), Mickey Thomas's ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages audio, 1976
Interviewed at the Airplane house in San Francisco, the chanteuse of psychedelia rambles in splendid style on her early days in the Great Society, writing White Rabbit, drugs and drink and much more.
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Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady (1984)
Interview by Gene Sculatti, Davin Seay, Rock's Backpages audio, 1984
The Airplane bassist talks about the bands he had been in; meeting Jorma Kaukonen and joining the Airplane; the democratic band set-up; venues like the Longshoreman’s Hall and the emergence of hippies; the Acid Tests and the Warlocks; recruiting Grace Slick from the Great Society; the band's RCA contract and large advance; recording Surrealistic Pillow; ‘White Rabbit’; playing Monterey Pop; the band's vocal blend; the end of the band; forming Hot Tuna; how he developed his bass style, and playing Erma Franklin’s ‘Piece Of My Heart’ to Big Brother.
File format: mp3; file size: 53.3mb, interview length: 55' 30" sound quality: ****
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The Jefferson Airplane: Fillmore Auditorium; The Electric Train: California Hall, , San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 5 February 1966
New Sounds Fill the Night Air ...
Jefferson Airplane Taking Off...Fast
Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 15 April 1966
INTERVIEWING an airplane is kind of an absurd idea but interviewing the Jefferson Airplane, a fast rising group from San Francisco, verges on ridiculous. It's ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 18 August 1966
Some Real Flying In the Fillmore ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Airplane Takes Off
Profile by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 10 September 1966
IN THIS business you meet so many new groups that they all tend to fade into one long line of starving but hopeful musicians and ...
The Jefferson Airplane, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 September 1966
Blues-Rock Spectacular ...
Guide by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, October 1966
THE SAN FRANCISCO rock scene is a complex one. It is a plentiful jumble of hard rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, bubble-gum, and adult bands that have ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 29 December 1966
Airplane Above All ...
The Jefferson Airplane: Webster Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 12 January 1967
(RBP Editor's note: this article was extracted from Goldstein's "Pop Eye" column. The opening paragraph refers to the previous item) ...
Loraine Alterman on Records: The Fascinating Sounds Of a Group Called Love
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 29 January 1967
THE TREMENDOUSLY talented West Coast group called Love still hasn't made it into the bright spotlight of fame like the Beach Boys or the Lovin' ...
New albums from Donovan, Jefferson Airplane, more
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 26 February 1967
MELLOW YELLOW The Provocative Donovan ...
San Francisco: The Flourishing Underground
Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 2 March 1967
SAN FRANCISCO — Forget the cable cars; skip Chinatown and the Golden Gate; don't bother about the topless mother of eight. ...
Jefferson Airplane: Open Up, Tune In, Turn On
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Time, 23 May 1967
THE SNARL of an engine splits the stillness. Out of the half-light, the projected silhouette of a Piper Cub glides ghostlike across a side wall. ...
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 27 May 1967
AMERICA'S WEST COAST — ESPECIALLY SAN FRANCISCO — IS WHERE IT'S ALL AT NOW. WHAT LESSON CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? NICK JONES EXPLAINS ...
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor LSP-3766)
Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967
Love From An Airplane ...
The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco
Overview by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, June 1967
SITTING IN THE window. Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, flirting with the girls going by, the Grateful Dead very loud on 4X speakers somewhere in the ...
At Monterey Fairgounds: 1st Pop Music Festival Draws Large Crowds
Report by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1967
MONTEREY — Thirty thousand people swelled the city of Monterey over the weekend for the first International Festival of Pop Music, held in the outdoor ...
Keith Altham Planes West to Cover America's Monterey Pop Festival and Cables This Day-By-Day Report
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 24 June 1967
WE DROVE to London Airport in Animal manager Mike Jeffery's Rolls-Royce while he dictated a few last minute instructions to assistant Tony Garland — "Ring ...
Monterey Pop Festival: The Hip Homunculus
Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 29 June 1967
"The West is the best: Get here and we'll do the rest!" — The Doors ...
Platter Chatter: New Albums from Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, The Doors et al
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1967
SURREALISTIC PILLOW will make anyone with good musical taste a Jefferson Airplane admirer. A beautiful blend of vocal and instrumental harmonies flows through everything this ...
Jefferson Airplane, the Rationals, the MC5: Ford Auditorium, Detroit
Live Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 1967
The Jefferson Airplane, Soaring on Pop Power ...
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 1967
"WE JUST played and let the music take us instead of us taking the music," said Marty Balin, lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane, talking ...
Pills and Pop Music: A Psychedelicate Subject
Comment by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 1967
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all." ...
Birth of the San Francisco Scene
Overview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, August 1967
by Martin Balin, leader of the Jefferson Airplane ...
Profile by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 2 September 1967
LET ME TELL you about the two groups which are currently the most popular in America: the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Both have been playing ...
Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1967
S.F. Rock Groups in Bowl Show ...
Airplane Magic Creeps Up... Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 30 September 1967
'My Best Friend'; '3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds'; 'D.C.B.A.25'; 'How Do You Feel'; 'Embryonic Journey'; 'Don't Slip Away'; 'Come Up The Years'; 'Chauffeur ...
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 October 1967
BACK FROM two weeks in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Back to Detroit where the man on the street still gets uptight seeing long-haired, bearded ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Fantasy World of Grace Slick...
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 21 October 1967
THE WONDERS of modern science never fail to leave me gasping for breath. I find it absolutely incredible to think that I could, for example, ...
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's (RCA)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 November 1967
Airplane Album to Be Released Friday ...
Fly Jefferson Airplane with Jack Casady
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, December 1967
We've noticed that most of the fan magazines haven't been running many full-length articles on the Jefferson Airplane. Probably it's because the group won't lower ...
Turning On: Albums by Jefferson Airplane et al
Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 30 December 1967
AFTER BATHING AT BAXTERS (RCA) Jefferson Airplane. 'Ballad of You Me and Poohneil', 'The War is Over', 'Saturday Afternoon', plus nine other tracks. ...
Fly Jefferson Airplane with Drummer Spencer Dryden
Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, January 1968
THE BEST new group to really establish itself in 1967 has to be the Jefferson Airplane. The two albums and the half dozen singles they've ...
Captain Beefheart — electric magic!
Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 6 January 1968
CAUTION: ELECTRICITY can be hazardous to health — but Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band are as Safe As Milk. And London is due for ...
Jefferson Airplane: Paul Kantner on After Bathing At Baxter's
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, February 1968
OUR NEXT album will be called After Bathing At Baxter's. I wrote about five songs on it. I really can't say which one of our ...
The Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing At Baxter's (RCA Victor LSO-1511)
Review by Richard Goldstein, The New York Times, 4 February 1968
Freedom can be costly ...
Up, Up and Away With the Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1968
How old are the people in the group? Grace: Oldest group in the country. Spencer: Between 25 and 30. Manager: Between 23 ...
A Quiet Afternoon With The Airplane
Report and Interview by Tony Leigh, KRLA Beat, 9 March 1968
IT WAS A weird sort of afternoon. The Airplane were in Los Angeles, holed up at a motel on Franklin Blvd. in Hollywood. Their public ...
Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: Melodyland, Anaheim CA
Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 14 March 1968
San Francisco Bands Shortchange Anaheim Audience ...
Jefferson Airplane, Fever Tree, Canned Heat: The Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 1968
Rock Club Opens in Hollywood ...
Platter Chatter: Albums from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream and Kaleidoscope
Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, April 1968
BEACON FROM MARS/THE KALEIDOSCOPE — Here is the most versatile band we have ever heard. You want ragtime? Listen to 'Baldheaded End OfA Broom' which ...
The Ladies Infiltrate Pop Music
Report and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 4 April 1968
POP MUSIC is a male medium... owing, perhaps, to the long-held belief that females buy the large majority of records. But at last it appears ...
New Albums From Roy Orbison, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane et al
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 April 1968
Some interesting LP's — a new and an old Orbison, powerful Move, brilliant Byrds, but a let-down from Jefferson Airplane, and an unexpected goodie by ...
Top Tunes: The Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 27 April 1968
GRACIE SLICK, the lead vocalist for the Jefferson Airplane, is still belting out tunes for the San Francisco-based rock group. ...
16 Hours of Rock in Dismal Surroundings
Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 20 May 1968
SIXTEEN HOURS of the same thing gets to be an enervating experience even if one is a super-rock fan and many of the nation's outstanding ...
Problem Of Egos Makes Jefferson Airplane Dive
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, 24 May 1968
Show Lack Of Leadership ...
Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 8 June 1968
Ballroom Is No Place for A Concert ...
An interview with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, August 1968
WHEN WE heard that the Jefferson Airplane, long one of our favorite groups, were in town to play the Fillmore East, we quickly arranged an ...
Jefferson Airplane et al: Newport Pop Festival, Orange County Fairgrounds CA
Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
NEWPORT FESTIVAL FAILURE ...
The Doors/Jefferson Airplane: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Derek Grant, New Musical Express, September 1968
THE RUMOURS were flying. Doors drummer John Densmore was missing. The groups were arguing as to who would go on first. There was some speculation ...
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 September 1968
THE JEFFERSON Airplane has a fan club in Beverly Hills (P.O. Box 1077, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210), according to a note in its new album, ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Isle of Wight Pop Festival
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 7 September 1968
A SMALL bronze medal should be struck and presented to all the survivors of the Isle of Wight Pop Festival. They are the brave men ...
A conversation with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968
BOTH MARTY Balin and the Jefferson Airplane are far too well-known to require a lengthy introduction here. I talked with Marty for a couple of ...
One Act Play Starring Jefferson Airplane
Interview by Pete Johnson, Hit Parader, October 1968
THE INTERVIEW is supposed to be with Grace Slick and Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane, but when you walk into the smoky motel room ...
Popocracy — The New Revolution
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 3 November 1968
The casual, oddly dressed stars of American pop music are making so much money they don't know how rich they are ...
Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968
SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...
The Newport Pop Festival: Two Days of Surprises, Flowers, Cream Pies... and Super Sounds!
Live Review by Carol Deck, Flip, December 1968
THE ONLY THING really wrong with the Newport Pop Festival held recently in Orange Country, Calif, was that it wasn't in Monterey. ...
Jefferson Airplane, Buddy Guy: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 2 December 1968
Psychedelic Music Still Keeps The Jefferson Airplane Flying ...
Jefferson Airplane: A Further Rap With Marty Balin
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969
HERE IS Part Five of our interview with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane. In it, Marty tells us how he feels about music, bands ...
Letter by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 19 January 1969
To the Editor: ...
Report by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 1 September 1969
"Man, what done got into them ofays?" one asked. "It ain't nothing. They just trying to get back, that's all" "Get back?" said the ...
Overview by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 19 September 1969
THE ELECTRIC revolution that helped to spawn rock and roll also helped to popularize a whole new set of instruments to take along on its ...
Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 4 November 1969
GLORIOUSLY RESPLENDENT in crushed velvet and faded Levis and backed by what was possibly the Glenn McKay troupe's most breathtaking light-show since Monterey, Jefferson Airplane, ...
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers (RCA Victor)
Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 1 December 1969
Look what's happening out in the streets Got a revolution Got to revolutionHey, I'm dancing down the streetsGot a revolution Got to revolutionAin't it amazing, all ...
Report by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 12 December 1969
AS IF IT were an ancient pilgrimage to Jerusalem they relentlessly pressed on in the cold grey morning to Altamont Speedway. The sheer numbers were ...
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers (RCA SF 8076)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 March 1970
Up the Volunteers! ...
Kent Aftermath: Teen Turmoil Poison At B.O.
Report and Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 25 June 1970
SAN FRANCISCO — Lou Rhode, a student at San Francisco City College, is a clerk at Tower Records, and wears an "Out Now" peace button ...
Various artists: Woodstock (Atlantic: 2663 001)
Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 July 1970
Update, 2020. Woodstock. The name has many meanings. There's Woodstock the town where Bob Dylan and the Band lived once. But the main resonance is ...
The Jefferson Airplane: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta
Live Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 31 August 1970
NO DOUBT about it, as somebody on stage at the Municipal Auditorium put it, the Jefferson Airplane concert Monday night was "the Atlanta rock event ...
Agnew urges curbs on "brainwashing" lyrics
Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 16 September 1970
NEW YORK, Tuesday. — The Vice-President, Mr Spiro Agnew, last night accused some songwriters and motion picture makers of "brainwashing" young Americans with lyrics and ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 October 1970
Rock Triumvirate Thrills 6000 Fans ...
Rock Music: Drumbeat For Drugs?
Essay by Mike Jahn, New York Times Special Features Syndication, 3 January 1971
"If you're tired or a bit run down, can't seem to get your feet off the ground Maybe you oughta try a little bit ...
Report and Interview by Danny Goldberg, Circus, April 1971
"THE JEFFERSON Airplane" Jerry Garcia has said, "are a bunch of crazy madmen. Together, they have their own unique chemistry which is like a very ...
Jefferson Airplane: Bark (Grunt Records. FTR 1001. £2.15)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
Airplane: One of year's best LPs ...
Grunt Records: What A Lovely Sound
Report by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, November 1971
IT WAS going to be, if you believed the hype and hung on to your hopes, the event on an otherwise lackluster social calendar for ...
Papa John Creach: Papa John Makes It With Rock
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 22 January 1972
THE ONE-TIME phenomenon of young white rock musicians playing on records by old black blues musicians has become a commonplace thing. ...
Jefferson Airplane: Long John Silver/Pamela Polland: Pamela Polland
Review by Simon Frith, Cream, November 1972
Jefferson Airplane: Long John Silver (Grunt)Pamela Polland: Pamela Polland (CBS) ...
The Master's Grunt: Jefferson Airplane Tries Shock Rock
Report and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 7 December 1972
NEW YORK — At a rainy concert in Gaelic Park, a girl on stage stripped off her blouse and urged the audience to do the ...
Jefferson Airplane: 30 Seconds Over Winterland (Grunt)
Review by Lester Bangs, Phonograph Record, June 1973
WHAT A BUNCHA duds. What a deadass disco. What a waste of space, Mace, grease, you name it. Time was when the Jefferson Airplane were ...
Jefferson Airplane: 30 Seconds Over Winterland
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 June 1973
THERE'S REALLY nothing quite as dead as the recent past – for further proof just dig out those old Jefferson Airplane albums currently collecting dust ...
Jefferson Airplane: Just An Exercise At Being Repulsive?
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 23 June 1973
"WE ARE all outlaws in the eyes of America," sang Grace Slick from the stage at Woodstock. God, it must be fun to be a ...
Jefferson Airplane: Plane Sailing
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 23 June 1973
A LITTLE GIRL on a bicycle, who couldn't have been older than 12, overheard me asking the way to Olympic Studios last Wednesday night. I'd ...
Grace Slick in London: Killing three stones with one bird
Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
THE HEAT in London is stifling, writes your man from the front, but the cool of the hotel room, and the glass of chilled champagne ...
Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, July 1973
AS THE DUKE of American Rock Critics, I am afforded privileges and favors undreamed of by others in my profession. ...
Grace Slick: Dreams of Spain and More Children
Interview by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 16 September 1973
NEW YORK — "I would like lo be a Spanish loose woman." Grace Slick says. This is not easy for her, as she is an ...
Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 August 1974
Birth-pangs of the acid monster ...
Jefferson Airplane: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There…
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 21 September 1974
UP GOES the window and out comes the head. ...
Interview by Rob Bowman, ZigZag, October 1974
Grace Slick, over the last ten years, has attained great notoriety fronting Jefferson Airplane. ...
Grace Slick (1976) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1976
This is a transcript of Jim's audio interview with Grace. Note that almost all his questions are inaudible on his tape. Listen to the audio ...
Grace Slick Interviewed: Grass, Acid And The Starship
Interview by Jim Esposito, Oui, February 1977
GRACE SLICK, the original Acid Queen, was born Grace Wing October 30th, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was an investment banker. Her mother, a ...
Groupies: They're Still Grabbin' for the Stars
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 September 1984
Sweet Spencer,So many feelings I have experienced with you that you have become a part of me. The other day, from out of a heavy, ...
Interview by David Gans, unpublished, 2 June 1986
This interview was an exploratory conversation for a book project that didn't happen. ...
Festival remembers the Summer of Love
Report by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 14 September 1987
SAN FRANCISCO – The first cosmic occurrence was before noon, when Jesse Colin Young sang the last chorus of 'Get Together'. He let the crowd ...
Jefferson Airplane: Back to the Future
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Spin, October 1989
It was over 20 years ago today that the Jefferson Airplane first flew out of San Francisco. Refueled and reunited, the band is back on ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1990
"My eyes were opened. There's a new world and a new society and a new spirit." ...
The Jefferson Airplane Chronicles: Marty Balin
Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Relix, April 1993
READING THE following interview, one might get a sense that there are two Marty Balins. ...
Skip Spence: The Next Big That Never Was
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Angel, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1994
IT'S EARLY December, 1966, at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom. The Summer of Love is a good seven months off, the Avalon scene still small and ...
Jefferson Airplane's Joey Covington
Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Goldmine, 22 December 1995
BORN IN EAST Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, Covington moved to Los Angeles, where he played in a band called Tsong before meeting the Airplane's male lead singer, ...
Jefferson Airplane: Still a Bumpy Ride
Report by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 February 1996
Jefferson Airplane members not overjoyed about induction into Rock Hall of Fame ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, December 1997
The times they have a-changed, but not without a certain irony. Or a certain continuity, come to that. ...
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow/Crown Of Creation/Volunteers
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, March 1998
Straight mid-price reissues of the Airplane's second, fourth and sixth albums – first time in the UK for Surrealistic Pillow ...
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow/Crown Of Creation/Volunteers
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, April 1998
"COUNTRY blues at deafening volume," was the verdict of one English pop star on Californian acid-rock in 1967, a view then widely held among his ...
Undercurrents #7: Fables of the Deconstruction
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1999
In the latest in our series uncovering the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Edwin Pouncey shows how rock 'n' roll's face was changed forever ...
Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Surfadelic: From Surf Saga to Artist 64-74, 20 October 2001
DECEMBER 31st, 1967: The Winterland Ballroom. San Francisco. Bill Graham's The Doors concert this evening. I'm checking out the show backstage with The Family Dog ...
Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, November 2001
THERE ARE winners and losers in the shifting sands of rock fashion and, much as it hurts to write it, Jefferson Airplane seem like losers. ...
High Priestess: Grace Slick and ‘White Rabbit’
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Paytress, The Guardian, 15 November 2002
White Rabbit has just come out top in a poll to find the finest drug song ever. Mark Paytress discovers that its writer/singer Grace Slick ...
Skip Spence and the Sad Saga of Moby Grape
Book Excerpt by Jeff Tamarkin, 'Got a Revolution', 2003
IN THE SUMMER of 1965, Jefferson Airplane decided to dismiss their first drummer, Jerry Peloquin. That's when a golden boy named Alexander "Skip" Spence came ...
Jefferson Airplane: The Summer Of Haight
Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, April 2003
In January 1967, Jefferson Airplane were all set for take-off. But within months their dream was crumbling. Jeff Tamarkin on the destructive undercurrent to the ...
The Rise & Crash Of Jefferson Airplane
Book Review by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, May 2003
PERHAPS THE MOST endearing thing about Jefferson Airplane that emerges from Jeff Tamarkin's in-depth biography of the group, Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of ...
The End Of The Beginning: Jefferson Airplane at Altamont
Book Excerpt by Jeff Tamarkin, Helter Skelter Books, Summer 2003
THE VIOLENCE AT Altamont had begun before the Airplane even arrived, when a number of Hell’s Angels, who had been amassing near the stage, wantonly ...
Obituary by Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, 10 February 2005
Jefferson Airplane's inventive drummer was one of the best of the psychedelic era ...
School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008
BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...
Frisco, Where Art Thou: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the '60s Psychedelic Capital
Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, September 2010
LAST SATURDAY, paging through an article on Robert Plant in the September issue of MOJO, I learned that, upon their initial meeting in a Dublin ...
We need to talk about... Skip Spence: Oar in dark water
Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 5 March 2012
SYD BARRETT of Pink Floyd and Roky Erickson of Thirteenth Floor Elevators don't own the category of "mad '60s acid casualty" exclusively. ...
In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, July 2012
It was billed as "the Summer of Love", a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco ...
Tripping With Jorma Kaukonen At The Psylodelic Gallery
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 28 June 2013
Given that the Jefferson Airplane and Tuna are two of the mightiest hippie bands to emerge from the '60s, it made sense that Jorma Kaukonen ...
Jorma Kaukonen Finds Somebody To Love
Retrospective and Interview by Wayne Robins, Tablet, 12 August 2015
The former Jefferson Airplane guitarist and Hot Tuna lead man comes home to his mother's faith at his Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio. ...
Nicky Hopkins: Rock's Secret Weapon
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2019
SESSION PLAYERS are usually unheralded, often uncredited. If you bought the albums The Who Sing My Generation or the Kinks' Face to Face, or the ...
see also Papa John Creach
see also Great Society, The
see also Jefferson Starship
see also KBC Band, The
see also Grace Slick
see also Skip Spence
see also Paul Kantner
see also Jorma Kaukonen
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