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Volunteers was the group's first album recorded entirely in San Francisco, at Wally Heider's newly opened state-of-the-art 16-track studio. [3] The album was among the earliest 16-track recordings, with the back cover displaying a picture of the Ampex MM-1000 professional tape recorder used to record the album.
The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil", "Young Girl Sunday Blues" and another new Kantner composition, "Martha", were first recorded at RCA in late May. "Martha" was a folk-inspired song with Grace Slick on recorder about Martha Wax, the runaway daughter of the mayor of Sausalito who had befriended the band. [6]
"Volunteers" is a Jefferson Airplane single from 1969 that was released to promote the album Volunteers two months before the album's release. It was written by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner. Balin was woken up by a truck one morning, which happened to be a truck with Volunteers of America painted on the side.
The Best of Jefferson Airplane (1992) Feed Your Head: Live '67–'69 (1996) Journey: The Best of Jefferson Airplane (1996) Jefferson Airplane and Beyond (1997) Through the Looking Glass (1999) The Roar of Jefferson Airplane (2001) Platinum & Gold Collection (2003) Cleared for Take Off (2003) The Best of Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love (2004)
Balin played with Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. [ 9 ] In December 1969, Balin was knocked unconscious by members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club while performing during the infamous Altamont Free Concert , as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter . [ 10 ]
The Worst of Jefferson Airplane is the first compilation album from the rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in November 1970 as RCA Victor LSP-4459. [1] The "Worst" in the title is ironic, as the album features all of Jefferson Airplane's hit singles up to that point.
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1965.One of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to achieve international commercial success.
"Comin' Back to Me" is a psychedelic folk song by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane. It was written by Marty Balin. The song appeared on Jefferson Airplane's second album, Surrealistic Pillow. Marty Balin recalls that "the song was created while he indulged in some primo-grade marijuana given to him by blues singer Paul Butterfield."