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Artist:	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Title:	Last Flight
Label:	CHARLY (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SNAD 555CD

2007 release. "The first authorized release of the Airplane's historic last show from September 1972 at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco. A Double CD-set of the complete show with Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Jack Casady, Papa John Creach, Johnny Barbata and David Freiberg. The first official, re-mastered, authorized and complete version of the historic show, long featured on inferior bootlegs. A much more complete and satisfying souvenir of the last days of one of the West Coast's greatest bands than the original RCA live set Thirty Seconds Over Winterland. Features the cream of the tracks from the group's last two albums, Bark and Long John Silver plus evergreen favorites including 'Crown of Creation,' 'Somebody to Love' and 'Diana/Volunteers' on which they are joined by Marty Balin."

Artist:	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Title:	Flight Box
Label:	CHARLY (UK)
Format:	3CD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	SNAJ 742CD

"The first rock group from San Francisco's psychedelic music scene to achieve national and commercial success, Jefferson Airplane defined the city's sound in their early days with their distinctive, soaring lead twin vocals from Grace Slick and Marty Balin, combined with the scorching guitar playing of Jorma Kaukonem. Together with Paul Kantner on rhythm guitar and vocals, bassist Jack Casady and drummer Spencer Dryden they produced some of the most inspired and influential music of the era.The legendary concerts featured in this 3-CD compact box set were recorded at famous venues in their hometown and capture the group at the peak of their powers. The first concert, recorded at Golden Gate Park on 5th July 1969 featured the group's classic line-up. As well as four numbers from their latest and most radically political album, Volunteers, it featured live favourites from the start of their career. These include their two biggest hit singles, 'White Rabbit' and 'Somebody To Love.' Also featured are a couple of comparative rarities in the form of one of their trademark improvised jams, plus the non-album and rarely-heard number, 'Uncle Sam Blues.' The second concert was the group's last-ever performance which took place at the Winterland Arena on 22nd September 1972. The songs featured were drawn mainly from the group's last two studio albums, Bark and Long John Silver. They also included a sprinkling of old favourites such as 'Crown Of Creation' and 'Somebody To Love,' the rarely-performed 'The Son Of Jesus' and several numbers from recent albums by Papa John Creach and the JA spin-off group Hot Tuna. Each of the set's discs is housed in its own wallet and this eye-catching package is further enhanced by its 20-page, lavishly-illustrated color booklet chronicling the events and circumstances of the two concerts."

Artist:	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Title:	At The Family Dog Ballroom
Label:	CHARLY (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SNAP 293CD

2007 release. "Recorded in September 1969 when the group was at the peak of its considerable power. Only recently unearthed from the archives, this release is sure to be most welcomed by all fans of prime West Coast psychedelia from one of its finest exponents. It is arguably the finest of the three in terms of the inspired performances here, the featured songs, and the fact that it has remained virtually unheard for so long. It features the classic group line-up of Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals), Grace Slick (vocals), Marty Balin (vocals), Jorma (lead guitar, vocal), Jack Casady (bass) and Spencer Dryden (drums). For the closing 26-minute 'Jam' they are joined by the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, whose distinctive guitar sound adds a new and unique dimension to the group's sound. 'Come Back Baby,' never recorded by the group in the studio, features a rare lead vocal from Jorma Kaukonen. Old favorites 'Crown Of Creation' and 'Somebody To Love,' along with five new numbers from their forthcoming studio album Volunteers make this a must-have release for fans, old and new alike. Taken from the best available audio sources, these superb performances have been meticulously restored for this inaugural release."

Artist:	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Title:	White Rabbit/Wooden Ships
Label:	SLOW TO SPEAK
Format:	12"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LSD 025EP

"White Rabbit" taken from the album Surrealistic Pillow; "Lather" taken from the album Crown Of Creation; "Wooden Ships" taken from the album Volunteers. "As the self-promoted vanguard of the generation of 20th century hedonism, Jefferson Airplane established themselves as a sort of unconscious mouthpiece of the drug culture of the 1960s, an unflinching critic in the unique journey traveled by countless youth of their time, eager to consume, and then consume more, hungry for physical methods of circumventing the normal social routine in favor of the excesses of the new era. More interested in the unseen morphing of perception & consciousness brought about by the casual consumption of both drug & pleasure, sex & communal cohabitation, the band made it their mission to observe, chronicle and then perform the ensuing internal turmoil, often something darker and more profound than some exercise in irresponsible self-gratifying release. Their haunting, original ballads of the dazed & confused captured the moment of panic, confusion, disoriented euphoria, all mixed together in an indescribable experience of altered perception: that very moment at the crossroads of the taboo and the perverted when societal parameters set up originally for the protection of the species have finally become irrelevant with humanity's superseding of survival in it's frequently self-destructive quest for knowledge of self, mind, ego. With these selections from Slow To Speak, songs that whisper of dark secrets of human consciousness forgotten & rediscovered anew under the influence of post-industrial vertigo, the warning is spelt crystal clear for all to read: that when consuming the mind-altering, the proper techniques and the appropriate intentions in executing this self-exploratory ritual are imperative. For when the individual, confronted with the massive accumulation of dead technologies and the hallow toys of dreaded leisure, chooses punitive self-flagellation via the consumption of psychedelics in hopes of ridding themselves of the very fields of consciousness that operate unchallenged in modern class society, they risk unleashing the monsters of suppressed desire & unconscious despair, an act of utter self-destruction that spelled the end of many a teenager's love affair with the mind-altering drugs of yesteryear. Jefferson Airplane's melody warned & encouraged simultaneously, demonstrating the confusion of the band itself, as they too had already embarked on their own long and storied path to the enlightened throne of self-understanding and universal perception." Silkscreened lettering on jacket.

Artist:	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Title:	Surrealistic Pillow
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SC 5135LP

"Feed your head with the rare mono edition of this spellbinding time-capsule from the epicenter of the Summer of Love, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, circa 1967. On their groundbreaking first album with Grace Slick, the Jefferson Airplane brought their freshly-blooming psychedelia to the world at large with 'White Rabbit' and 'Somebody to Love.' On 180 gram vinyl, from the original analog masters. Rare original mono mix reissued for the first time on vinyl."

Artist:	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Title:	After Bathing at Baxter's
Label:	SUNDAZED
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	SC 5187LP

Gatefold mono(!) version of the all-time classic 2nd JA LP (a true "stereo" experience, but whatever). Includes reproductions of the original first-press acid-doodle inner sleeve -- how can you argue with that? "How do you follow up a smash hit? If you're Jefferson Airplane, you record the most experimental, non-commercial album of your career. After Bathing at Baxter's is the Airplane let loose in the studio in 1967, creating without restraint. Taken from the original RCA Victor mono masters, this is the true sound of San Francisco. All-analog mastering from the original mom masters."

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