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Takes Off (Deluxe)

Jefferson Airplane
Release Date: 08/19/2003
Original Release:  1966
# of Discs:   1
J&R Item # 490702_CD
UPC # 828765035224
Label: BMG Heritage
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Disc: 1
1. Blues From an Airplane sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. Let Me In sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. Bringing Me Down sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. It's No Secret sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. Tobacco Road sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. Come up the Years sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. Run Around sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. Let's Get Together sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Don't Slip Away sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. Chauffeur Blues sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. And I Like It sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. Runnin' Round This World - (mono, uncensored single version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. High Flyin' Bird sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. It's Alright sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. Go to Her - (version 1) sound samples  real  |  windows media
16. Let Me In - (original uncensored version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
17. Run Around - (mono, original uncensored version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
18. Chauffeur Blues - (previously unreleased, alternate version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
19. And I Like It - (previously unreleased, alternate version) sound samples  real  |  windows media

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Performer: Jefferson Airplane
Engineer: Dave Hassinger
Producer: Matthew Katz; Tommy Oliver
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: This newly remastered 2003 deluxe edition contains bonus tracks. Jefferson Airplane: Marty Balin, Signe Toly Anderson (vocals); Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals); Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen (guitar); Jack Casady (bass); Alex "Skip" Spence (drums). Originally released on RCA Victor (3584). Includes liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin. There is a reason why the Jefferson Airplane was the first nationally renowned proponent of San Francisco rock. As much as they bucked establishment values, the sextet offered a musical mixture of California folk-rock and white blues that was nevertheless easier to digest than the sounds of their contemporaries. TAKES OFF, their debut recording, made before Grace Slick joined the band, goes to great lengths to establish them as the obvious next step on a pop staircase of the Beatles, Byrds, and Rolling Stones. Signe Anderson and Marty Balin's distinctive, folky harmonies give TAKES OFF a lived-in warmth and a loved-in counterculture vibe that defined the times. Covers of John D. Loudermilk's infamous "Tobacco Road" and The Youngbloods' '60s anthem "Let's Get Together" may have symbolized their community's alienation from their parents' values, but the Airplane versions were less calls to arms than sympathetic pats on the back. However, Jorma Kaukonen's boppy R&B guitar leads and Jack Casady's free but steady bass lend the Airplane's debut some heavy rock muscle.
One of the quintessential San Francisco psychedelic bands, the Jefferson Airplane brought together interests in acoustic blues, folk, and rock music. Add political topicality and modal improvisations, and you have an inspired, mind-bending sound that could have only sprung forth from the late '60s. In their initial, most beloved phase, they were powered by the powerful dual lead vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin and the serpentine guitar of Jorma Kaukonen. They went through a traumatic series of personnel and name changes over the decades (they ventured into commercial AOR in the late '70s and early '80s) but their early work retains its seminal power.
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