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Jefferson Airplane Earns Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

July 8, 2020 by JeffersonAirplane

In 1965 when Jefferson Airplane came to Los Angeles to record our first project for RCA, we stayed off the Boulevard in what was then affordable lodging. We walked that street as complete nonentities and loved the adventure. To have a star there today is indeed more than capturing a dream. It is a benchmark for us in the City of Angels. – Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady

Jefferson Airplane has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and will be honored with a star with the class of 2021. Read the entire release at www.walkoffame.com.

Visit the VOLUNTEERS Mural For Your Chance to WIN a Jefferson Airplane Tee From DayDreamer

October 15, 2019 by JeffersonAirplane

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“One generation got old, One generation got soul..

This generation got no dissertation to hold, Pick up the cry…”

Volunteers of America – it’s up to us to mobilize and change the world!

Honor a half-century of defying The Establishment by visiting the VOLUNTEERS mural and for your chance to WIN a Jefferson Airplane vintage-inspired Tee from Daydreamer.

How to Enter:

Take a photo of the mural at Haight and Masonic in San Francisco and repost on your Instagram feed and in your Story⠀
Tag it #Volunteers50 and @JeffersonAirplaneOfficial
One lucky winner will be selected on November 1st, 2019

“Got to Revolution!”

New Jefferson Airplane mural honors Volunteers on its 50th anniversary

October 14, 2019 by JeffersonAirplane

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A new mural has just been installed at the corner of Haight Street and Masonic Street in San Francisco to celebrate 50 years of Jefferson Airplane’s revolutionary record, Volunteers. Released in November of 1969, the band addressed the important issues of the day from changing demographics of America challenging the status quo (“We Can Be Together”), the need to care for planet earth and the unimportance of human concerns as compared to the vastness of the natural universe (“The Farm” and “Eskimo Blue Day”), the downsides of progress for progress’ sake (“Wooden Ships”), the challenge of learning to care for mental health (“Turn My Life Down”), and, of course, the need to be civically involved and engaged (“Volunteers”).

The mural, designed by local San Francisco artist Maxfield Bala – Rasmussen, will remain in place at the center of the countercultural movement that Jefferson Airplane helped to create until December 31, 2019.

Visitors are encouraged to take pictures with the mural and post to their social media accounts using #Volunteers50.

The record is as relevant, if not more so, today than it was 50 years ago upon its release. Stream now. https://found.ee/Volunteers-1

Directors Cut of Woodstock Documentary, Featuring Unseen Jefferson Airplane Performance, Returns to Theaters for One Night Only, Aug, 15th

July 30, 2019 by JeffersonAirplane

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The upcoming 50th anniversary of Woodstock has been somewhat complicated. There’s a high percentage that Michael Lang’s festival might not happen (if you’re David Crosby, you’re almost certain of it). Thankfully, the original festival’s 1970 documentary will hit theaters nationwide for one night only, where it’s possible to celebrate the anniversary in the comfort of a soda-soaked theater chair. Woodstock: The Director’s Cut will screen on August 15th at 7:00 pm local time.

Directed by Michael Wadleigh, this is the first nationwide screening since the film was originally released. The director’s cut stretches out to three hours and 44 minutes and includes legendary performances by Janis Joplin and the Jefferson Airplane that weren’t featured in the original. Other artists includes Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Who, Santana, Canned Heat and Jimi Hendrix — who famously closed the festival after a searing rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.

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1970 Woodstock Documentary Will Head to Theaters for One Night Only

Jefferson Airplane’s Kaukonen Is Still On Embryonic Journey

September 24, 2018 by JeffersonAirplane

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LOS ANGELES — Long before he wrote and recorded the Jefferson Airplane classic “Embryonic Journey,” Jorma Kaukonen was on a decades-long journey of discovery of his own.

From shy, sometimes bullied upper-class son of a globe-trotting U.S. diplomat in post-colonial Pakistan, Kaukonen would evolve into a hard-drinking, hell-raising teenager racing his motorcycle through the streets of the Philippines in the mid-1950s.

Q&A: Jorma Kaukonen’s New Book ‘Been So Long’ Recalls His Journey from Jefferson Airplane to Hot Tuna and Beyond

August 28, 2018 by JeffersonAirplane

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Jorma Kaukonen has been a force in rock music for more than a half-century. A founding member of two groundbreaking bands – Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna – the singer-guitarist has just released his new autobiography, Been So Long: My Life and Music. Read More

Apple Music: Jefferson Airplane – The Early Years

August 1, 2018 by JeffersonAirplane

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When Grace Slick quit her own band The Great Society to join Jefferson Airplane just before their second album, they became San Francisco’s first supergroup. Their magical blend of folk-rock harmonies, acid-fried electric guitars, and complex jazzy rhythms defined the Summer of Love.

Jefferson Airplane Founder Marty Balin BeingHonored By Mill Valley, His Longtime Hometown

July 27, 2018 by JeffersonAirplane

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As one of this year’s judges for Mill Valley’s annual Milley Awards, I happily joined my colleagues in voting to give the award for achievement in music to Marty Balin, a founder of the Jefferson Airplane and one of the principal architects of San Francisco psychedelic rock.

Rolling Stone: Jefferson Airplane – 12 Essential Song

May 19, 2018 by JeffersonAirplane

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“Don’t you want somebody to love?” goes the chorus of Jefferson Airplane‘s best-known hit. Love was more than just an age-old crutch for pop songwriters in 1967, the year the Grace Slick–sung “Somebody to Love” was released; it had taken on a metaphysical dimension, and Jefferson Airplane were at the vanguard. The Summer of Love launched the band into the pop charts, but also into the eye of the psychedelic storm that was brewing in their native San Francisco. But even hippie anthems like “White Rabbit” couldn’t keep the eerie weirdness of the times at bay.

Listen to Jefferson Airplane’s First Ever New York Performance

April 11, 2018 by JeffersonAirplane

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Jefferson Airplane Earns Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Visit the VOLUNTEERS Mural For Your Chance to WIN a Jefferson Airplane Tee From DayDreamer

New Jefferson Airplane mural honors Volunteers on its 50th anniversary

Directors Cut of Woodstock Documentary, Featuring Unseen Jefferson Airplane Performance, Returns to Theaters for One Night Only, Aug, 15th

Jefferson Airplane’s Kaukonen Is Still On Embryonic Journey

Q&A: Jorma Kaukonen’s New Book ‘Been So Long’ Recalls His Journey from Jefferson Airplane to Hot Tuna and Beyond

Apple Music: Jefferson Airplane – The Early Years

Jefferson Airplane Founder Marty Balin BeingHonored By Mill Valley, His Longtime Hometown

Rolling Stone: Jefferson Airplane – 12 Essential Song

Listen to Jefferson Airplane’s First Ever New York Performance