The Jellybricks — Some Kind of Lucky
It must be admitted: I spent a couple of decades in a musical desert. After our early years of passionately following some local bands and going out to see them every chance we got,...
Vinyl Distractions
Jefferson Airplane — Woodstock (Sunday August 17, 1969)
At the same sale where I bought my seminal Jefferson Airplane records, I got a copy of “Woodstock Two,” which included two tracks by Jefferson Airplane, “Saturday Afternoon / Won’t You Try” and “Eskimo...
Jefferson Airplane – Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival
Yes, I have an inordinate love of the Jefferson Airplane, and yes, I’m going to buy up pretty much everything new that gets released by this iconic band. When my friend Shawn’s Forever Changes...
Jefferson Airplane — Long John Silver
From 1972, this is the final Jefferson Airplane album (if you consider them the same band without Marty Balin, and if you discount the 1989 reunion album which I’ve never heard). Similar to Bark,...
Jefferson Airplane – Bark
“Bark” came from 1971. Marty Balin had left the band, so the band went on to create this record showing how important he was. Let’s be clear: this isn’t exactly terrible. It’s just the...
Jefferson Airplane — The Worst of Jefferson Airplane
This one, too, came from that epic, life-changing garage sale that summer of 1979, after my freshman year. My first summer living away from my hometown; in fact, I would never go back home...
Jefferson Airplane — Bless Its Pointed Little Head
There’s such a locational component of the memories that are important to us. For me and my fellow vinyl geeks, it isn’t just the records, it’s the places we bought them. I remember where...
Jefferson Airplane — Volunteers
This is, to me, the top studio album by Jefferson Airplane. After I play “Bless Its Pointed Little Head,” this one is always next. From 1969, it was recorded before Woodstock and released after...
Jefferson Airplane — Crown of Creation
I have had my copy of Crown of Creation forever. (“Forever” for my records generally means I bought it in 1979 or 1980.) I’m sure I got it on the heels of “Worst Of”...
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