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Jefferson Airplane is the "reunion" album of San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane. It was released on CBS Records in 1989 (see 1989 in music). Appearing as guest musicians are three members of Toto: David Paich, Mike Porcaro and Steve Porcaro.
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Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. The band's August, 1969 performance at Woodstock is widely considered one of rock's most memorable moments.
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Jefferson Airplane flared onto the San Francisco psychedelic scene in August 1965, on the stage of The Matrix Club. Their acid rock electrified the beat generation in the "Tune in, turn on, drop out" era. They are a truly captivating rock band. The eighteen albums released between the time of the band's formation in 1965 and when it dissolved in 1974 include eight with RCA Victor, five with Grunt Records (their own label, which they launched in 1971), four with RCA, and one with Epic. Here is a look at their discography:
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In its original incarnation, U.S. band the Jefferson Airplane epitomized the 1960s San Francisco music scene with its psychedelic-tinged folk-rock. Despite a constantly changing lineup of members and shifts in musical direction under the names Jefferson Starship and Starship, the group proved to be one of the most successful and durable acts in rock.
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Jefferson Airplane Takes Off was released in September 1966. The folk-music-influenced album included John D. Loudermilk's "Tobacco Road" and Dino Valente's "Let's Get Together", as well as original ballads "It's No Secret" and "Come Up the Years." The LP garnered considerable attention in the USA and became a gold album. RCA initially pressed only 15,000 copies, but it sold more than 10,000 in San Francisco alone, prompting the label to reprint it. For the reprinting, the company deleted "Runnin' Round This World" (which had appeared on early mono pressings), because executives objected to the word "trip" in the lyrics. For similar reasons, RCA ... substituted altered versions for two other tracks: "Let Me In," changing the line "you shut your door; you know where" to "you shut your door; now it ain't fair" and "Run Around," changing the line "flowers that sway as you lay under me" to "flowers that sway as you stay here by me". The original pressings of Takes Off featuring "Runnin' 'Round The World" and the uncensored tracks of "Let Me In" and "Run Around" are now worth thousands of dollars.
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Alex "Skip" Spence is better known as guitarist for another legendary San Francisco band, Moby Grape, but he managed to play drums for Jefferson Airplane just long enough to appear on their first album. Unfortunately, both of his music roles became overshadowed by decades of mental illness exacerbated, if not brought on, by drug abuse. Today, Skip, who died in 1999, is remembered either with fondness as a lost genius of the '60s, or as one of rock's most tragic drug casualties.
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