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"Today" is a folk rock ballad written by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner from the band Jefferson Airplane. It first appeared on their album Surrealistic Pillow with a live version later appearing on the expanded rerelease of Bless Its Pointed Little Head. Marty Balin said, "I wrote it to try to meet Tony Bennett. He was recording in the next studio.
"She Has Funny Cars" is a song by the American rock group Jefferson Airplane. Vocalist Marty Balin wrote the lyrics, while guitarist Jorma Kaukonen supplied the music. The song appeared as the opening track on their breakthrough album, Surrealistic Pillow (1967).
Bless Its Pointed Little Head received mixed reviews upon release although in the booklet to the box set Jefferson Airplane Loves You, it is noted as the only Jefferson Airplane album that all of the band members remembered with superlatives. "Plastic Fantastic Lover", which had become considerably funky compared to the studio recording, was ...
Jefferson Airplane lead singer Grace Slick completed the song that introduced psychedelic rock to the world in one afternoon on a broken upright piano with missing keys. Inspired by Lewis Carroll ...
Balin played with Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. [ 9 ] In December 1969, Balin was knocked unconscious by members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club while performing during the infamous Altamont Free Concert , as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter . [ 10 ]
With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references passing censorship on the radio. Marty Balin, Slick's former bandmate and co-founder of Jefferson Airplane (and later Jefferson Starship), regarded the song as a "masterpiece".
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Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1965.One of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to achieve international commercial success.