Jefferson Airplane

Surrealistic Pillow

 

Knee Deep in the Hoopla.

 

i love jefferson airplane! i have (all on vinyl records) surrlistic pillow (great if your just getting into them), volunteers (mine got warped an now 2 of the songs are kinda screwed up), and i just got crown of creation yesterday (havent listened to it yet). jefferson starship is playing at the taste of minnestota, i wish it were jefferson airplane! what happened! they went way down hill with jefferson starship and starship. i want to know whats with the garcia thing too, and on volunteers it has a whole bunch of people from other bands playing on it, whats up with that too?

 

I heard the entire band had a feud with Paul Kantner for carrying on the Jefferson Airplane/Starship name or something much later, though I don't remember the particulars. I guess it's that age-old debate between whether a band should just fade out or leave while it's on top.

I think somewhere in the CD booklet they talk about it, they say Jerry Garcia was just that, an adviser (back in those good ol' days when everyone jammed together), and also is rumored to play acoustic guitar on a few tracks.

By the way, anyone ever heard/seen Hot Tuna? After the Airplane broke up, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassady (one bad-ass bassist) went on as a duo under that band name, hear it's pretty cool. They were in my college town some months ago, but it was in a club that's 21-and-up only at nights fuck Pennsylvania's conservative nightlife regulations.