Jefferson Airplane: A Deep Dive Source Materials

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Song List

Here are the audio and video songs I play in the presentation  Many of these songs are available to stream from Spotify or iTunes (I will post a Spotify playlist soon).  

Song and video list (with band name if other than Jefferson Airplane, song name, album title and year)

Audio clips:

  1. The Town Criers, “900 Miles”, The Town Criers, 1964.

  2. Jorma Kaukonen and Janis Joplin, “Trouble In Mind”, The Typewriter Tape, 1964.

  3. Donovan, “The Fat Angel”, Sunshine Superman, 1966.

  4. “She Has Funny Cars”, Surrealistic Pillow, 1967.

  5. “How Do You Feel”, Surrealistic Pillow, 1967.

  6. “Wooden Ships”, Volunteers, 1969.

Videos:

  1. "It's No Secret", Bell Telephone Hour, 1966.

  2. “Somebody to Love”, Monterey Pop, 1967.

  3. “High Flyin’ Bird”, Monterey Pop, 1967.

  4.  “White Rabbit”, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 1967.

  5. “Won’t You Try/Saturday Afternoon”, Woodstock, 1969.

  6. “We Can Be Together”, The Dick Cavett Show, 1969.

  7. “Volunteers”, Go Ride the Music, 1970.

Music Playing During Pre-show Slides

“Today” from Surrealistic Pillow
“3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds” from Surrealistic Pillow
“Volunteers” from Volunteers

Books

D’Alessandro, Jill and Colleen Terry. Summer of Love: art, fashion and rock and roll, University of California Press and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017.
Gleason, Ralph J., The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound, Ballantine Books, 1969.   
Selvin, Joe. The Haight: Love, Rock and Revolution, Insight Editions, 2014.
Tamarkin, Jeff, Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, Atria Books, 2005.
Unterberger, Richie, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, Backbeat Books, 2003. (Learn more about Richie’s books, classes and presentations)

Selected Record Albums and Box Sets


Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, RCA, 1966.
Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow, RCA, 1967.
Jefferson Airplane, After Bathing at Baxter’s, RCA, 1967.
Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation, RCA, 1968.
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers, RCA, 1969.
Various artists, Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, Rhino Records, 2007. (Beautifully packaged collection with 4 CD discs.)

Films

Fly Jefferson Airplane, 2004, Directed by Bob Sarles.
Monterey Pop, 1967, Directed by D.A. Pennebaker.
Woodstock, 1970, Directed by Michael Wadleigh.

Photography

The presentation includes photographs by Herb Greene and Jim Marshall.