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Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the 1960s to become internationally known. The band was founded by singer Marty Balin and guitarist Paul Kantner in 1965. With the addition of Signe Anderson their male-female singing style showed their folk music roots plus Balin’s love of R&B singing styles. In fact their dual lead vocals were a hallmark of their sound throughout the Airplane’s career, as confirmed (to international acclaim) after Grace Slick replaced Signe Anderson as the female singer. The other members of the band were guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, bassist Jack Casady and drummer Alexander “Skip” Spence.

After their first album (“Takes Off ” ), Anderson and Spence left the band. They were replaced by Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden, respectively. Grace Slick brought with her an amazing voice, attitude and two songs from her former band The Great Society. Both songs, “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit”, received much airplay and helped make the band’s second album Surrealistic Pillow a big seller, and also to pretty much define San Francisco’s “Summer of Love” zeitgeist, just as the psychedelic era was coming into full bloom.

Surrealistic Pillow is an interesting mixture of largely folk-rock vocals, acoustic guitar and songs that reflected the changes emerging in youth culture as the world was beginning to become aware of the Haight-Ashbury scene.

Influenced by the new sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Cream, their next album After Bathing at Baxter’s swung radically toward a heavier electric and much more experimental sound, largely provided by guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bass guitar player Jack Casady.

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Beerbaybe wrote:
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mynameisjoehann wrote:
Saturday evening

crown of creation is a good album but i like the volunteers album more

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Xtaasi wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Drop acid not bombs!!! :)

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mynameisjoehann wrote:
Friday evening

fly away

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MurilohOliveira wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Avião do Jefferson.

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le_dzedaj wrote:
Wednesday evening

Fly Jefferson Airplane, gets you there on time! Where's Grateful Dead in similiar artist :O ?

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Sulisk wrote:
last week

Love White Rabbit

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BrianJohnson89 wrote:
last week

Love 'em all! Fly Jefferson Airplane!

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derrp wrote:
last week

my sons name will be Grace

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vividyouth wrote:
last month

so good.

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fuck21stcentury wrote:
last month

my daughters name will be Grace and thats the only thing in my life im sure about

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sisterthyme wrote:
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As far as I'm concerned, Jefferson Airplane is one of the top 5 best bands to have come from the 60's, and that's saying something... Grace's voice is dynamic.

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mynameisjoehann wrote:
last month

volunteers<3

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duplina wrote:
last month

С Лас-Вегасом ладно, у меня вот Somebody to love ассоциируется с фильмом Кабельщик)

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Lucifer-Sam wrote:
last month

i got crown of creation on record!!!!!!!!!!!

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optimistic_tour wrote:
last month

V dumbass V - for one thing, track two is prominently used in the film so I'm not sure how it could be boring if it got you to seek out their album.

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flAntasmagorico wrote:
last month

well I actually tried to listen to Surrealistic pillow because of A serious man, but I didn't really enjoyed it, first track was OK but then, kinda boring.. maybe some other day i'll finish the album.

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olzzy wrote:
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A Serious Man!

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Teddy_Faceless wrote:
last month

somebody to love - всегда, когда слушаю, вспоминаю Страх и ненависть в Лас-Вегасе... Прям как гимн фильма для меня =)

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blaircammie wrote:
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somebody to love

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