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Blows Against the Empire is a concept album by Paul Kantner, released in 1970 under the name Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship.It is the first album to use the "Starship" moniker, a name which Kantner and Grace Slick would later use for the band Jefferson Starship that emerged after Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen left Jefferson Airplane.
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]
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.
"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.
[36] Record World called the single "one of [Jefferson Airplane's] sinuous, contemporary melodies", [32] while Billboard said it has "weird, groovy sounds throughout." [37] Paul Nelson wrote a negative review in Hullabaloo magazine: "The Jefferson Airplane never even get off the ground with After Bathing at Baxter's. How a great group like this ...
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.
Crown of Creation is the fourth studio album by the San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released by RCA Victor in August 1968. The album saw the band continuing their development of psychedelic music, [1] emphasizing acid rock with science fiction themes.
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 ]