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JEFFERSON STARSHIP / THE TURTLES / CSNY Drummer JOHN BARBATA Dead At 79
Best Classic Bands reports that drummer John Barbata, whose long list of credits is topped by prime-era stints with The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, has died. His death, believed to be on May 8, 2024, was...
Today in Labor History March 18, 1968: The staff of San Francisco's "progressive" rock station KMPX-FM walked out on strike citing a lack of control over programming & "hassles over the whole long-hair riff." Performers like the Rolling Stones, Joan Baez, the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead requested the station not play their music as long as the station was run by strikebreakers.
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How Alice In Wonderland Inspired GRACE SLICK To Write JEFFERSON AIRPLANE's "Sinister And Treacherous" Classic "White Rabbit"; PROFESSOR OF ROCK Investigates (Video)
#GreatAlbums1960s - #JeffersonAirplane – Crown of Creation (1968). Nothing the Airplane did after Surrealistic Pillow quite recaptured that LP’s energy, but Crown of Creation was a fascinating plunge into the psychedelic abyss. Slick’s childlike “Lather,” Kantner’s riff on Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, and a cover of David Crosby’s ménage-à-trois testament “Triad” are evidence of a band still pushing boundaries. Raging closer “The House at Pooneil Corners” is nascent heavy metal. #GreatRockAlbums
#GreatAlbums1960s - #JeffersonAirplane – Surrealistic Pillow (1967). A key psychedelic primer, this LP thrived on Marty Balin, Paul Kantner and Grace Slick’s serpentine vocal interplay. Songs veer from spirited psych-rock (“She Has Funny Cars,” “3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds”) to cosmic folk (“Today,” Jorma Kaukonen’s solo “Embryonic Journey”), striking middle ground on breakthrough hits “Somebody to Love” and Slick’s hallucinatory Alice in Wonderland parable, “White Rabbit.”
TuneTuesday's theme (thanks to @Kitty and @derthomas ) is Bangers and Filler: Your least favourite track on your favourite album. A really hard one for me, at least in part because my "favourite album" changes probably every five minutes.
That said, I'll go with Meadowlands, off of Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers. Nothing against the track itself, a fascinating instrumental rendition of Polyushko-polye, but it's on album of songs that are hard to beat. :akko_wink: It feels like it's really there to be a transition from A Song For All Seasons to the finale Volunteers, and it does a good job at that, but it's my last choice of track to listen to by itself off the album.
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When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love
Don't you need somebody to love
Wouldn't you love somebody to love
You better find somebody to love
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Heads up: I’m bringing a music listening project that I’ve been working on over to mastodon now. I’ve been calling it “Radio to the Death”.
Basically I wanted to listen to Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all time. But also, I’m me, so everything has to be a game of some kind. As such, I took all the albums and made a tournament bracket seeded by order in the original list. I listen to each pair of albums (in one sitting, ideally) and declare a winner. #RadioToTheDeath