JEFFERSON  AIRPLANE - 1987   2400  FULTON STR. 

 A few words "WORTH TO BE READ" from PAUL KATNER for my FAVORITE BAND.

We were very much a creature of our times." That's one way Paul Kantner explains the Jefferson Airplane, the group that he and Marty BaIln forged together two bng, strange decades ago. Well, yes, they were. And all of us who were alive-really alive-back then, were creatures in arms. But somehow, the Airplane were more monsters than creatures. They scared authorities and made things happen. They pushed boundaries and helped define the times. The times, of course, were the most cataclysmic decade in the history of this country, a decade that got going around 1965 and ended anywhere from 1969 ...nil to 1974 Ilkrtergatel. The Sidles was a decade of which It can truly be said: You had to be there. As Robin Williams put it: if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really 

Try and conjure up that decade, and all you come up with is a laundry list of cliches, having to do with tie-dyes, Gods' eyes, Day-Glo and posters and light shows; patchouli and incense, with the language of those days, those incredible, far-out, psychedelic, flower powered days. The times saw the escalation of civil tights activists' war on segregation, and of the United States' war on North Vietnam. In music, folk singers, Bob Dylan chief among them, led musical protests.. the flip side, There were the carefree Beatles.

 in the fall of 1965, were about to get high for the first time, courtesy of some marijuana provided by one Bob Wan. Around the time of that momentous pot party in New York, a band was making its public debut in San Francisco:Jefferson Airplane, named after. mythical blues artist ("Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane") and influ-enced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and marijuana. As such, the Airplane were no different from many of the people around them, especially a growing commu-nity of students, dropouts, artists, pacifists, post-Beat bohemians and other adrenturists who lived or hung out in a low-rent, Victorian-housed neighborhood called the HaightAshbury. 

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