At the Family Dog Ballroom [PA] [Digipak]

Performer: Jefferson Airplane
Artist: Jerry Garcia
Distributor: Phantom Import Distributi

Notes: This 1969 live recording finds the Airplane on their home turf at their creative zenith, promoting their last great album (VOLUNTEERS) before the classic lineup began to splinter. What more do you need to know? From the warm folk-rock of "Good Shepherd" to the no-prisoners political barnstormer "Volunteers," this is West Coast psychedelia in its last blaze of glory, the flames fanned by Jorma Kaukonen's magic guitar and the twin-vocals attack of Grace Slick and Marty Balin. The Airplane would make two more albums before turning into Jefferson Starship, but the VOLUNTEERS era's achievements remained unmatched.

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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