Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. Various successor incarnations of the band have performed under different names, reflecting changing times and performer lineups, known as Jefferson Starship, and later simply Starship. Rock band (or rock group) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... The downtown San Francisco skyline, looking east from the central part of the city. ... D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ... Psychedelic music draws its inspiration from the experience of mind-altering drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, ecstasy and especially LSD. Characteristic features of the style include modal melodies, lengthy instrumental solos, esoteric lyrics and trippy special effects such as reversed, distorted, delayed and/or phased sounds. ...

Jefferson Airplane was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. This page is a partial list of inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, taken from the list on the Hall of Fames website. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, showing Lake Erie in the background The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum and institution in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated, as the name suggests, to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

The term Jefferson airplane is also slang for a used match bent to hold a marijuana cigarette that has been smoked too short to hold without burning the hands. An urban legend claims this was the origin for the band's name, though according to band member Jorma Kaukonen the name was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a satire of blues names such as "Blind Lemon" Jefferson [1]. Cannabis is a plant also known as Cannabis sativa, hemp, or marijuana. ... Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ... Jorma Kaukonen (born December 23, 1940 in Washington, D.C.) is an American blues, folk and rock guitarist. ...

The Jefferson Airplane, portrayed on the cover of the Surrealistic Pillow album.

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Jefferson Airplane

This rock group formed on the west coast of the USA during the summer of 1965 in what was called the San Francisco Bay folk boom. Singer Marty Balin recruited another folk musician, Paul Kantner, blues guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, jazz and folk vocalist Signe Toly Anderson, drummer Jerry Peloquin, and acoustic bassist Bob Harvey. They drew inspiration from groups such as the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Lovin' Spoonful, and built a local following at the Matrix Club. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald on January 30, 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. ... Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ... Jorma Kaukonen (born December 23, 1940 in Washington, D.C.) is an American blues, folk and rock guitarist. ... Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, often constrasted with speech. ... The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and ushering in the British Invasion of American popular music. ... L-R: David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn The Byrds were an American rock music group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1964 by singers and guitarists Jim McGuinn (he later changed his name to Roger McGuinn), Gene Clark, and David Crosby. ... Lovin Spoonful album cover John Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. ...

The group made its first public appearance August 13, 1965 at The Matrix club in San Francisco. Peloquin was a seasoned musician whose disdain for the others' drug use was a factor in his departure just a few weeks after the group began its career. Skip Spence then took the drum chair. The band gradually developed a more electric sound which led to Harvey's replacement by Kaukonen's childhood friend, Jack Casady in October 1965. Later in 1965, they signed to RCA and recorded an album for release the following year called Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. In 1966, Spence was replaced by jazz drummer Spencer Dryden and Anderson by singer Grace Slick, formerly of another San Francisco group, The Great Society. Amongst their fans, the group's name was further shortened to "the Airplane". Slick brought with her a powerful and supple contralto voice, well suited to the group's amplified psychedelic music, as well as a number of important compositions, including "White Rabbit" (which Grace wrote) and "Somebody To Love" (written by Grace's brother-in-law, Great Society guitarist Darby Slick). Jack Casady (born John William Casady, April 13, 1944), is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Spencer Dryden (April 7, 1938 - January 11, 2005) was an American musician who was best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Dinosaurs. ... Grace Barnett Wing, better known by her married name, Grace Slick (b. ... In music, an alto is a singer with a vocal range somewhere between a tenor and a soprano. ...

Their transition from local to national notoriety was made possible by their appearance at the epochal Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Monterey showcased leading bands from several major music 'scenes' including New York , San Francisco, Los Angeles, and England and the resulting TV and film coverage gave national (and international) exposure to groups that had previously only had regional fame. All these bands were also greatly assisted by appearances on nationally syndicated TV shows such The Ed Sullivan Show, which were videotaped in color and augmented by recent developments in video techniques. The Airplane's famous appearance on the Sullivan show, performing "White Rabbit", has been frequently re-screened and is notable for its pioneering use of the Chroma key process to simulate the Airplane's customary psychedelic lightshow. The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... This article is about the city in California. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Wikinews has news related to: United Kingdom Travel guide to United Kingdom from Wikitravel BBC Nations History of the nations within the UK British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) British Fashion - Wikichic. ... Ed Sullivan The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by Ed Sullivan. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: it is patent nonsense. ...

Membership remained stable until 1970, by then they had recorded five more albums. The first of these, Surrealistic Pillow (1967), included two classic tracks, "White Rabbit" (inspired by the hallucinogenic drug LSD, then extremely popular in San Francisco, Maurice Ravel's Bolero, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland), and the rousing anthem "Somebody to Love", as well as a reminder of their earlier folk incarnation, Kaukonen's solo acoustic guitar tour de force, "Embryonic Journey", which referenced contemporary acoustic guitar masters such as John Fahey and helped to establish the popular genre exemplified by acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke. The album was extremely successful, reaching #6 in the US album charts, and alongside Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Doors' debut album, Love's Forever Changes and Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, it is widely regarded as one of the seminal albums of the so-called "Summer Of Love". 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Surrealistic Pillow is an album by American psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane, released in February of 1967 (see 1967 in music). ... The White Rabbit is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland. ... D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ... Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition. ... The Bolero by Maurice Ravel is one of his most famous pieces of music. ... Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ... John Tenniels illustration for A Mad Tea-Party, 1865 Alices Adventures in Wonderland is a work of childrens literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. ... Somebody to Love is a famous and influential rock song first recorded by The Jefferson Airplane. ... John Fahey (1939 - 2001) was an American guitarist and composer, and one of the first guitarists to perform solo works for the steel-string acoustic guitar. ... Leo Kottke is a legendary acoustic guitar virtuoso who has developed a cult following of fellow guitarists and fans over the span of a 30-year career of recording and performing. ... Sgt. ... The Doors self-titled debut, released in 1967 The Doors were a musical band of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of Jim Morrison (lead vocals), Ray Manzarek (organ, keyboard), Robby Krieger (guitar), and John Densmore (drums). ... Love was an American rock group of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Forever Changes (1967) was the third album released by the band Love. ... A reunited Pink Floyd at the London Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005. ... The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is Pink Floyds debut album, and the only one made under Syd Barretts leadership. ... The Summer of Love was a phrase given to the summer of 1967 to try to describe (personify) the feeling of being in San Francisco that summer, when the hippie movement came to full fruition. ...

After Bathing at Baxter's (1967) further showed their proficiency in psychedelic rock. Its famous cover features a whimsical re-imagining of the group's Haight-Ashbury house as a Heath Robinson-inspired flying machine, drawn by artist and cartoonist Ron Cobb. Crown Of Creation (1968) was a transitionary record, more structured than ...Baxters, whereas Bless Its Little Pointed Head (1969) captured their live sound, recorded at concerts at the Fillmore and the Fillmore East. In the aftermath of the demise of the San Francisco scene, the band released Volunteers (1969), their most political venture; the title track, "We Can Be Together", "Good Shepherd", and the post-apocalyptic "Wooden Ships" (also recorded by Crosby, Stills & Nash) were all highlights. After Bathing at Baxters was the third Album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, which was released in 1967. ... Psychedelic music draws its inspiration from the experience of mind-altering drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, ecstasy and especially LSD. Characteristic features of the style include modal melodies, lengthy instrumental solos, esoteric lyrics and trippy special effects such as reversed, distorted, delayed and/or phased sounds. ... Categories: US geography stubs | San Francisco neighborhoods ... William Heath Robinson (May 31, 1872 - September 13, 1944) was a British cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W. Heath Robinson. ... The Fillmore, also known as Fillmore Auditorium, is a legendary music venue in San Francisco, California. ... Fillmore-East was Bill Grahams rock palace in New York City. ... Volunteers is a 1969 album by American psychedelic rock band, Jefferson Airplane. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... Crosby, Stills, & Nash (sometimes known as Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) is a pioneering folk rock/rock supergroup that formed out of the remnants of three 1960s bands the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the Hollies. ...

The band performed in an early "morning maniac music" slot at the Woodstock festival in August 1969. In December that year they played at the infamous free concert held at the Altamont speedway in California. The concert, which was headlined by The Rolling Stones and also featured The Grateful Dead, was marred by crowd violence -- Marty Balin was knocked out during a scuffle with Hell's Angels members who had been hired to act as 'security' -- and the event became notorious for the now-famous "Gimme Shelter Incident" due to the death of black teenager Meredith Hunter, who was fatally stabbed in front of the stage by Hell's Angels 'guards' after allegedly pulling out a revolver during the Stones' performance (this incident was the centerpiece of the documentary film Gimme Shelter). Woodstock redirects here. ... Altamont is a speedway in Northern California, near Livermore, that hosted a rock music festival in December 1969 which was marred by violence, including one killing. ... For other uses, see Rolling Stones (disambiguation) The Rolling Stones in 1964 The Rolling Stones are a British rock and roll band who rose to prominence during the mid-1960s. ... Jerry Garcia later in life The Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ... Hells Angels (without an apostrophe) is the motorcycle club Hells Angels (movie) is the 1930 aviation movie directed by Howard Hughes This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Gimme Shelter is a song by The Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. ...

Balin and Dryden left shortly thereafter. Bark and Long John Silver were released on the band's own label, Grunt, with Joey Covington on drums and "Papa" John Creach on fiddle, after which the group effectively disbanded as Casady and Kaukonen converted their side-project Hot Tuna to a full time band. The live album 30 Seconds Over Winterland (1973) is now best remembered for its cover art, featuring a squadron of flying toasters, which in turn spawned the famous "After Dark" computer screensaver design. Hot Tuna is an American band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as an acoustic (and occasionally electric blues) spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. ... After Dark is a the name given to a series of successful screensaver software products first released in 1989 by Berkeley Systems for the Macintosh (and later ported to Windows). ... A screensaver is a computer program originally designed to conserve the image quality of computer displays by blanking the screen or filling them with moving images or patterns when the computers are not in use. ...

Jefferson Starship

During the transitional period of the early 1970s, Paul Kantner recorded the album Blows Against The Empire with an ad-hoc group of musicians whom he dubbed the Jefferson Starship, marking the first-ever use of that name. The Starship (such as it was) included David Crosby (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Jerry Garcia (of The Grateful Dead), and even former members of Jefferson Airplane. It was while that album was made that Kantner sealed his love affair with Grace Slick, and their daughter China Kantner was born shortly after. A very similar ad-hoc group of musicians celebrated China's birth with an environmentalism-tinged album titled "Sunfighter", credited to Kantner and Slick. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... David Van Cortland Crosby (born August 14, 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ... Crosby, Stills, & Nash (sometimes known as Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) is a pioneering folk rock/rock supergroup that formed out of the remnants of three 1960s bands the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the Hollies. ... Jerry Garcia in his youth Jerry Garcia (born Jerome John Garcia), (August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995) was famous as guitarist and primary singer of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. ... Jerry Garcia later in life Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ...

In 1974, the Airplane was formally reborn as Jefferson Starship, with Kantner and Slick as charter members; Balin came on board in time to record the hit single "Caroline" for the first Jefferson Starship album, Dragon Fly. This line-up, which also included late-Airplane holdovers drummer John Barbata, fiddler Papa John Creach, and bassist-keyboarder-vocalist David Freiberg (from the Quicksilver Messenger Service), along with Pete Sears, also playing bass and keyboards, and guitarist Craig Chaquico, proved to be the band's most commercially successful so far, although some Airplane fans were less than happy with its more mainstream direction. Balin's sophisticated ballad "Miracles" helped 1975's Red Octopus achieve multiple-platinum status. The follow-ups, Spitfire (1976), and Earth (1978), were both big sellers. However, Slick's alcoholism became a problem, which led to two nights of disastrous concerts in Germany in 1978. The first night, fans ransacked the stage after Slick failed to appear. The following night, Slick, in a drunken stupor, shocked the audience by using profanity and sexual references throughout most of her songs. After the debacle, she left the band. 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

Towards the end of 1978, the Starship (now without Grace Slick) recorded Light The Sky On Fire for The Star Wars Holiday Special (under its original title Cigar-Shaped Object), after which Balin too left the group, leaving Kantner and company to find a new lead singer in Mickey Thomas (who had sung lead on Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around And Fell In Love"). Thomas's soaring falsetto steered the band toward a harder rock sound, leading to comparisons to Journey. It didn't help that former Journey drummer Aynsley Dunbar had replaced Barbata, who had been injured in a car accident. The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special (including commercials) broadcast on November 17, 1978 on CBS. In it, Chewbacca and Han Solo visit Kashyyyk, Chewbaccas home world, to celebrate Life Day. ... Mickey Thomas (born 1949) in Cairo, Georgia, is an American musician. ... Elvin Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitar player. ... Journey is an American rock/pop band formed in 1973 in San Francisco. ... Prolific UK drummer Aynsley Dunbar (born on January 10, 1946, in Liverpool, England), has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, and David Bowie. ...

After the 1979 release of Freedom At Point Zero (which spawned the hit single "Jane"), Grace Slick suddenly returned to the band for one song, "Stranger" on their next album, Modern Times in 1981. Winds Of Change followed in 1982 and Nuclear Furniture appeared in May of 1984. 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Nuclear Furniture was the final album release by the American rock band Jefferson Starship before it became Starship. ...

Starship

In 1984, Kantner (the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane remaining) left the group, but not before taking legal action against his former bandmates over the Jefferson name (the rest of the band wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship). Kantner won his suit, and the group name was reduced to simply Starship, marking the third incarnation of the band. Freiberg, who had been increasingly marginalized in the band, left as well. 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1985, Starship released Knee Deep In The Hoopla and immediately scored two # 1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf, and inspired by Bay Area power rock station KSAN-FM. This song was trashed at the time by Kantner, and was later declared to be the worst song of all time by Blender Magazine. The second # 1 was "Sara"; these were the first time any incarnation of the Airplane had had a # 1 hit. The album went platinum. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Knee Deep In The Hoopla was the first release by Starship in 1985, the successor band to Jefferson Airplane and later Jefferson Starship. ... Bernie Taupin (born May 22, 1950) is a lyricist famous for his collaboration with Elton John. ... In the May 2004 issue, the list of Blender Magazines 50 Worst Songs Ever! was published. ... Blender is an American magazine that bills itself as the ultimate guide to music and more. ...

Starship also had a Hollywood connection. In 1987 "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was featured in the film Mannequin and hit # 1. And in 1988 the band's song "Wild Again" was used in the movie "Cocktail" starring Tom Cruise as a young bartender. Unfortunately the song was not included on Starships 1989 album "Love Among The Cannibals". 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

By the time No Protection was released, bassist Pete Sears had left. The album went gold and featured the hits "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)". Grace Slick also left in 1988. Like Pete Sears and David Freiberg before her, her career was downsized by the commercial entity Starship was embracing. No Protection is a remixed Massive Attack album by Mad Professor. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The revamped lineup released Love Among The Cannibals in 1989. The lineup, however, had disbanded by 1990. 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Reunion and remnants

Solo careers and the attractions of other bands beckoned throughout. But in 1989, during a solo San Francisco gig, Paul Kantner found himself joined by former bandmate (and lover) Grace Slick and two other ex-Airplane members for a cameo appearance. This led to a formal reunion of the original Jefferson Airplane (featuring nearly all the main members, including founder Marty Balin, but without Spencer Dryden, who had been kicked out of the band years earlier). A self-titled album was released by Columbia Records. The accompanying tour was everything the album wasn't (a success) but their revival was short-lived, and thus Jefferson Airplane was officially disbanded for good. Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...

Dryden suffered financial and health problems and died of colon cancer in January of 2005 at the age of 67. In 2004 Marty Balin pointed with well-deserved pride to the fact that unlike many of their contemporaries, all of the original members survived the 1960s.

Kantner rejoined with Balin and Casady in 1985 to form the KBC Band, which released KBC Band (including the Kantner hit "America") in 1987 on Arista and also featured keyboardist Tim Gorman from the Who and guitarist Slick Aguilar from David Crosby's band. The KBC Band was formed in 1986 by former Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship) members Paul Kantner (guitar and vocals), Marty Balin (guitar and vocals) and Jack Cassidy (bass). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Today, there are two versions of Jefferson Starship — one officially billed as Starship featuring Mickey Thomas (with Thomas at the forefront), and the revived Jefferson Starship (often called Jefferson Starship: The Next Generation), with Kantner and Balin as leaders, and Diana Mangano replacing Grace Slick as female singer (although Slick did do guest vocals on Jefferson Starship's 1999 album Windows Of Heaven). This latter band plays frequent concerts, and on occasion Jack Casady joins them as well. Mangano is an expressive and effective singer, and this revived Jefferson Starship can often capture a good deal of the feeling of the original Airplane. 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Influence

The original Jefferson Airplane, along with the Byrds, the Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Mamas and the Papas, Tommy James and the Shondells and to some degree Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young will always be associated with the more melodic end of the north American rock spectrum and in due course other groups, such as Steely Dan and the Eagles, continued to blend elements of folk, jazz and rock and bring the results to a global audience. Of all these bands, Jefferson Airplane excelled in the psychedelic domain and in their penchant for pretentious track titles, which came to characterise the 1965-75 era. L-R: David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn The Byrds were an American rock music group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1964 by singers and guitarists Jim McGuinn (he later changed his name to Roger McGuinn), Gene Clark, and David Crosby. ... The Doors self-titled debut, released in 1967 The Doors were a musical band of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of Jim Morrison (lead vocals), Ray Manzarek (organ, keyboard), Robby Krieger (guitar), and John Densmore (drums). ... Jerry Garcia later in life Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ... John Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. ... The Mamas & the Papas were a leading vocal group of the 1960s, and one of the few American groups to maintain widespread success during the British Invasion, along with The Beach Boys. ... Tommy James and the Shondells was a rock and roll group, initially formed in 1964 as The Shondells. ... Crosby, Stills, & Nash (sometimes known as Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) is a pioneering folk rock/rock supergroup that formed out of the remnants of three 1960s bands the Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the Hollies. ... Walter Becker (left) and Donald Fagen accepting the Grammy Award for the album Two Against Nature Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band based around musicians and songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ... This entry pertains to the word psychedelic, its origin and uses. ...

British bands apparently influenced by the mellow lyricism of the west coast sound included Barclay James Harvest, David Bowie, Curved Air, Family, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, the Moody Blues, the Small Faces, Pentangle and Yes. The Beatles have always stressed the influence that the Beach Boys had on their musical development (especially Pet Sounds) but it seems likely that other music from the west coast also spread eastwards and played a key part in making pop music more symphonic and less predictable than it had been before 1965. The era of trans-Atlantic jet travel ushered in a decade earlier and the ability to send TV broadcasts by satellite also facilitated a faster interplay of musical influences across the Atlantic. Donovan was evidently one of the first British pop musicians to become aware of them and was undoubtedly influenced by the group to some degree; he famously namechecked the band in his 1966 song "The Fat Angel" (included on his Sunshine Superman LP in 1967), written many months before the Airplane had become internationally known. Barclay James Harvest was a British rock band specialising in Melodic Rock with classical influences. ... David Bowie David Robert Jones (born January 8, 1947), better known as David Bowie, is a British rock and roll musician, actor, and artist who has had a profound influence on rock and roll from the 1960s to the present. ... Curved Air is a progressive rock group formed in 1970. ... Fairport Convention is often credited with being the first British folk-rock band. ... Jethro Tulls fourth album, Aqualung Jethro Tull is a progressive rock band that was formed in Blackpool, England in the 1960s. ... The cover of King Crimsons debut album In the Court of the Crimson King (1969). ... The Moody Blues were originally a British rhythm and blues-based band; they later became best known for psychedelic music and early progressive rock. ... The Small Faces were a British rock and roll band of the 1960s, led by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane with Kenny Jones and original organist Jimmy Winston. ... Pentangle is a British folk-rock band. ... Yes in concert in Indianapolis in 1977 (left to right, Steve Howe, Alan White, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman) The popular music group Yes is a progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. ... The Beach Boys (L to R, David Marks, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Brian Wilson) The Beach Boys are a pop music group formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961, whose popularity has lasted into the twenty-first century. ... Pet Sounds is the title of the 1966 album recorded by American pop group the Beach Boys. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Donovan Philips Leitch (usually known simply as Donovan) (born May 10, 1946) is a British musician. ...

The role of the American Forces Network (AFN) with powerful medium wave radio transmitters situated in West Germany and "pirate radio" ships in the North Sea bringing US hits to the ears of European youth should also be recognised as a force that extended the global reach of West Coast music in the 1964-1972 period. American Forces Network, or AFN - the acronym that its most commonly known as, is the brand name used by the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) for its networks worldwide. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ...

Record producers who worked with the original band included Greg Edward, Rick Jarrard, Matthew Katz, Ron Nevison, Tommy Oliver and Al Schmitt. In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ...

Samples

• Download sample of "White Rabbit" from Surrealistic Pillow

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Discography

Jefferson Airplane:

1. Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (1966) - US position: # 128
2. Surrealistic Pillow (1967) - US position: # 5 (breakthrough album featuring "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit")
3. After Bathing At Baxter's (1967) - US position: # 17
4. Crown Of Creation (1968) - US position: # 6
5. Volunteers (1969) - US position: # 13
6. The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane (1970) - US position: # 12 (first greatest hits collection)
7. Bark (1971) - US position: # 11
8. Long John Silver (1972) - US position: # 20
9. Jefferson Airplane (1989)

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1. Blows Against The Empire (1970)

Jefferson Starship:

1. Dragon Fly (1974)
2. Red Octopus (1975) (best-selling album for any incarnation of the Airplane/Starship)
3. Spitfire (1976)
4. Earth (1978) (last album w/ Marty Balin until 1995)
5. Freedom At Point Zero (1979)
6. Modern Times (1981)
7. Winds Of Change (1982)
8. Nuclear Furniture (1984)
9. Deep Space/Virgin Sky (1995) (live album)
10. Windows of Heaven (1999)
11. Across the Sea of Suns (2001) (live album)

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1. Knee Deep In The Hoopla (1985)
2. No Protection (1987)
3. Love Among The Cannibals (1989)

External links

• Official website for Jefferson Airplane
• Jefferson Airplane biography at Rolling Stone
• Jefferson Starship biography at Rolling Stone