Jefferson Airplane Takes Off - 180g Vinyl
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Jefferson Airplane: Takes Off - 180g Vinyl
Such was their popularity in the Bay area that 10,000 albums were sold in San Francisco alone, requiring the label to repress in larger quantities. However, the label executives had already expressed displeasure with some of the album's song lyrics. Balin and Kantner's "Runnin' 'Round This World" contained the line "the nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips" which the label belated interpreted as a drug reference. Furthermore, they bristled at the lines "you shut your door, you know where" and "don't tell me you want money" in "Let Me In" and also took issue with the lyric "flowers that sway as you lay under me" from "Run Around." Asserting its clout, RCA deleted "Runnin' 'Round This World" and had the group record alternate lyric lines for "Let Me In" and "Run Around" for subsequent pressings of the album. As any collector would rightly assume, this made original mono editions with "Runnin' 'Round This World" and the uncensored versions of "Let Me In" and "Run Around" highly sought-after artifacts. Setting aside the controversy, the album is a brilliant folk rock document, largely written by the group members themselves. Well-chosen covers include John D. Loudermilk's "Tobacco Road" and Dino Valenti's "Let's Get Together," recorded years before it became a hit for the Younbgbloods under the title "Get Together."
Balin and Anderson's vocals blend seamlessly and Kaukonen, Kantner and Casady acquit themselves admirably. Only Skip Spence, who was really a singer-guitarist and not a drummer, needed backup in the studio. That assistance came from session drummer Spencer Dryden, who would soon join the group upon Spence's departure. Of course, Spence subsequently formed Moby Grape, giving his departure a truly happy ending. Anderson also announced that she was leaving the group after giving birth to her first daughter in May 1966.
Luckily, the band had only to look to their frequent opening act, The Great Society, for a new female vocalist but that is a story for another album. The next one, in fact. After years of being a high-dollar, hard-to-find collectible, Sundazed comes to the consumer's rescue with this exact reissue of the ORIGINAL, UNCENSORED MONO EDITION of Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. Sourced from the RCA analog mono masters, pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in a faithful recreation of the album artwork, you can now own the inaugural flight of this legendary band for the first time in nearly four decades!
Article properties:Jefferson Airplane: Takes Off - 180g Vinyl
Interpret: Jefferson Airplane
Album titlle: Takes Off - 180g Vinyl
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label SUNDAZED
- Preiscode VLP2
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
- Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0090771518613
- weight in Kg 0.27
Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off - 180g Vinyl LP 1 | ||||
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01 | Blues From An Airplane | Jefferson Airplane | ||
02 | Let Me In | Jefferson Airplane | ||
03 | Bringing Me Down | Jefferson Airplane | ||
04 | It's No Secret | Jefferson Airplane | ||
05 | Tobacco Road | Jefferson Airplane | ||
06 | Runnin' 'Round This World | Jefferson Airplane | ||
07 | Come Up The Years | Jefferson Airplane | ||
08 | Run Around | Jefferson Airplane | ||
09 | Let's Get Together | Jefferson Airplane | ||
10 | Don't Slip Away | Jefferson Airplane | ||
11 | Cahuffeur Blues | Jefferson Airplane | ||
12 | And I Like It | Jefferson Airplane |
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane became synonymous with the 'San Francisco Sound' in 1967 when both 'Somebody To Love' and 'White Rabbit' were Top Ten hits on RCA. Although the critical consensus is that the Airplane reached their peak in 1970, they remain, with the Grateful Dead, the most long-lasting and prolific of the groups to emerge from Haight-Ashbury in the late Sixties. Formed on the initiative of singer Marty Balin, who had recorded solo sides for Challenge in the early Sixties, the group was born out of a bunch of ex-folk musicians, who began playing folk-rock at the Matrix in the summer of 1965.
One of the earliest San Francisco bands to establish themselves at the centre of the growing local culture, they were the first to secure a recording con-tract. The advance paid by RCA was said to be $25,000, and by the time the first album (Jefferson Airplane Takes Off) was recorded the following winter, the group was fully electric. Although it was, in parts, derivative of the Beatles and the Lovin' Spoonful, the record showed how innovative the Jefferson Airplane were to be. From the beginning they saw their music as a means of breaking down established tradi-tions and mores : hence the unabashed way they celebrated the drug culture, as early as 1965. Following the release of Takes Off, singer Signe Anderson left to be replaced by Grace Slick from the Great Society, another San Francisco group. Drummer Skip Spence also departed, to form Moby Grape.
The remaining personnel remained together for the next four years. They were Jorma Kaukonen, lead guitar (born Dec. 23, 1940), Jack Casady, bass (April 4, 1944), Paul Kantner, guitar and vocals (March 3, 1941); Marty Balin, vocals (Jan. 30, 1943), Grace Slick, vocals (Oct. 10, 1939) and Spencer Dryden, drums (April 7, 1938). They were a co-operative, multi-media band, with posters, album-sleeves, dance promotion and Glenn McKay's Headlights light show all integral parts of their activity. The late Sixties also saw them at a creative zenith as a recording group with Surrealis-tic Pillow (1967), After Bathing At Baxters and Crown Of Creation (1968), the live Bless its Little Pointed Head and the politically oriented Volunteers (1969).
Grace Slick was an important addition to the band. She strengthened its visual and musical identity (through her harmonies with Balin). And she was the composer of the Airplane's two hit singles, 'White Rabbit' and 'Somebody To Love'. Equally important was the group's electronic experimentation, in the extended instrumental passages of songs like '3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds' and 'The Ballad Of You, Me And Pooneil'.
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