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The Worst of Jefferson Airplane is the first stop along an “embryonic journey” for Jefferson Airplane virgins. Originally released in 1970, this repackaged edition by RCA/Legacy boasts 17 remastered tracks culled from the six albums Jefferson Airplane recorded between 1966 and 1969. For those keeping score, six of those tracks hit the Billboard Top Pop Singles chart, though the Airplane’s elaborate musical sensibilities did not often equate three-minute Top 40 singles. Wisely, the producers of this edition keep the disc’s running time under 60 minutes and don’t weigh it down with too many additional cuts that, while certainly of artistic merit, would disrupt the flow of the original song sequence selected by the Airplane (two bonus cuts are included, nestled between what were “Side A” and “Side B” on the LP). Fans of the band will surely have personal favorites that are not represented, but The Worst of Jefferson Airplane remains a superb introduction to a seminal band whose reach extended far beyond the storied 1960s Haight-Ashbury music scene.
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After the Airplane's debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off was completed in March 1966, Skip Spence quit the band. He was eventually replaced by Spencer Dryden, who played his first show with the Airplane at the Berkeley Folk Festival on July 4, 1966.
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Having completed their recording commitment to RCA, Jefferson Airplane shopped for a new label, but were wooed back when RCA offered them their own imprint, Grunt Records. Grunt bowed with the release of the sixth Jefferson Airplane studio album, Bark, in August 1971. The album stopped just short of the Top Ten and quickly went gold. Covington, Casady, and Kaukonen\'s "Pretty as You Feel," later issued as a single, gave the band its final placing in the Hot 100 at number 60 early in 1972. Grunt issued albums by bandmembers including Creach and Hot Tuna, as well as discs by friends, but Jefferson Airplane remained its most successful act.
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Jefferson Airplane created the sounds of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" provided the soundtrack to the Summer of Love, virtually inventing the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music, and came to personify the decade's radical counterculture. Read more about this legendary band
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Jefferson Airplane's second LP was Surrealistic Pillow. It was recorded in Los Angeles over 13 days with producer Rick Jarrard at a cost of US$8000 and helped the band to attain international fame. Released in February 1967, the LP entered the Billboard album chart on March 25 and charted for over a year, peaking at #3.
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Jefferson Airplane was a 1960s-early '70s rock band in the United States. Their album Surrealistic Pillow is often associated with 1967's Summer of Love. They pioneered psychedelic rock as part of the '60s counterculture movement.
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