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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.
"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.
"Good Shepherd" originated in a very early 19th century hymn written by the Methodist minister Reverend John Adam Granade (1770–1807), "Let Thy Kingdom, Blessed Savior". [1] [2] [3] Granade was a significant figure of the Great Revival in the American West during the 19th century's first decade, as the most important author of camp meeting hymns during that time. [4]
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 ]
Jefferson Airplane was formed in mid-1965 by vocalist and guitarist Marty Balin.He selected rhythm guitarist and vocalist Paul Kantner, to join the band, the two men then recruited the remaining initial members: vocalist Signe Toly Anderson, lead guitarist and vocalist Jorma Kaukonen, double bassist Bob Harvey and drummer Jerry Peloquin. [4]
New oral history of "Airplane!" traces the making of the beloved parody of 1970s disaster movies. 'Airplane!' creators to tell all about their surprise 1980 hit movie at Dearborn event
"We Can Be Together" is a song written by Paul Kantner that was released by [[Jefferson Airplane as the first track or their 1969 album Volunteers and also as the B-side of their "Volunteers" single. [1] Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald described the lyrics as "a virtual "state of the union" address for the counterculture of the late '60s."
Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who helped create a string of much-loved comedies including Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died.He was 80. His son Joseph told The Hollywood Reporter he died of ...