At The Family Dog Ballroom
Jefferson Airplane
Jerry Garcia
Snapper, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: SNAP293CD
EAN: 0803415129324
UPC: 803415129324
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Recording information: The Family Dog Ballroom, San Francisco,.
This 1969 live recording finds the Airplane on their home turf at their creative zenith, promoting their last great album (VOLUNTEERS) before the classic lineup began to splinter. What more do you need to know? From the warm folk-rock of "Good Shepherd" to the no-prisoners political barnstormer "Volunteers," this is West Coast psychedelia in its last blaze of glory, the flames fanned by Jorma Kaukonen's magic guitar and the twin-vocals attack of Grace Slick and Marty Balin. The Airplane would make two more albums before turning into Jefferson Starship, but the VOLUNTEERS era's achievements remained unmatched.
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Jefferson Airplane
One of the quintessential San Francisco psychedelic bands, the Jefferson Airplane brought together interests in acoustic blues, folk, and rock music. Add political topicality and modal improvisations, and you have an inspired, mind-bending sound that could have only sprung forth from the late '60s. In their initial, most beloved phase, they were powered by the powerful dual lead vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin and the serpentine guitar of Jorma Kaukonen. They went through a traumatic series of personnel and name changes over the decades (they ventured into commercial AOR in the late '70s and early '80s) but their early work retains its seminal power.
Jerry Garcia
Though he was chiefly known as the leader of the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia was much more than that. For many, he was the embodiment of the freewheeling artistic spirit of the 1960s. A masterly guitarist and songwriter, and a highly underrated vocalist, Garcia was a true music lover, involving himself in numerous non-Dead projects over the years, including a duo with mandolinist David Grisman, a bluegrass supergroup (Old & In The Way), and jazzy one-offs with the likes of Merl Saunders and Howard Wales. His death in 1995 robbed the world of one of its most distinctive musical voices, but happily, Garcia left a wealth of music behind for fans to treasure.
