Jefferson Airplane Loves You

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Jefferson Airplane Loves You
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ReleasedOctober 27, 1992
Recorded1962–1972
Genre Rock
Label RCA
Producer Paul Williams
Bill Thompson (exec.)
Jefferson Airplane chronology
Live at the Monterey Festival
(1991)
Jefferson Airplane Loves You
(1992)
Live at the Fillmore East
(1998)
Disc 1 cover art
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Jefferson Airplane Loves You is a three-CD boxed set of recordings by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane with extensive liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin, author of the Jefferson Airplane history Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.

Contents

Many of the tracks are previously unreleased live recordings or studio rehearsals, but several are lifted from prior Jefferson Airplane albums. A song by The Great Society, Grace Slick's original band, appears on the first CD.

A Quadradisc quadraphonic version of the Volunteers album was released, and a few of the songs are from this release, but have been remixed into conventional stereo. Because of the remix, any psychedelic movements of instruments from front-to-back or side-to-side behind the listener that were present in the quadradisc version are lost. The Quadradisc album used the discrete CD-4 system jointly developed by JVC and RCA.

The songs are arranged in chronological order beginning with a pre-Airplane solo by Marty Balin and ending with a 1972 live recording of the rarely heard "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short".

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "I Specialize in Love" (Marty Balin, Harry Collis) – 1:56 (Marty Balin Challenge single #9156)
  2. "Go To Her" (Paul Kantner, Irving Estes) – 4:05 (previously unreleased early version)
  3. "Bringing Me Down" (Balin, Kantner) – 2:22 (from Jefferson Airplane Takes Off )
  4. "Let Me In" (Balin, Kantner) – 3:28 (previously unreleased alternate take) [m 1]
  5. "Chauffeur Blues" (Lester Melrose) – 2:28 (from Jefferson Airplane Takes Off)
  6. "Free Advice" (Darby Slick) – 2:29 (Great Society Northbeach single #1001)
  7. "Somebody to Love" (D. Slick) – 2:58 (from Surrealistic Pillow )
  8. "Today" (Balin, Kantner) – 3:00 (from Surrealistic Pillow)
  9. "Embryonic Journey" (Jorma Kaukonen) – 1:52 (from Surrealistic Pillow)
  10. "White Rabbit" (Grace Slick) – 2:33 (from Surrealistic Pillow)
  11. "Come Back Baby" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen) – 2:55 (previously unreleased) [n 1]
  12. "The Other Side of This Life" (Fred Neil) – 8:03 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  13. "Runnin' 'Round this World" (Balin, Kantner) – 2:30 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  14. "She Has Funny Cars" (Kaukonen, Balin) – 3:37 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  15. "High Flyin' Bird" (Billy Edd Wheeler) – 4:03 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  16. "Tobacco Road" (John D. Loudermilk) – 3:57 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  17. "Let's Get Together" (Chet Powers) – 4:05 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  18. "White Rabbit" (G. Slick) – 2:23 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  19. "Comin' Back to Me" (Balin) – 7:38 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]
  20. "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" (Kantner) – 7:01 (previously unreleased live) [n 2] [m 2]

Disc 2

  1. "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" (Kantner) – 11:38 (previously unreleased alternate version)
  2. "Things are Better in the East" (Balin) – 3:18 (previously unreleased) [n 1]
  3. "Watch Her Ride" (Kantner) – 3:15 (from After Bathing at Baxter's )
  4. "Two Heads" (G. Slick) – 3:14 (from After Bathing at Baxter's)
  5. "Martha" (Kantner) – 3:26 (single version) (RCA single #47-9389)
  6. "Don't Let Me Down" (Balin, Ernie K-Doe) – 2:54 (previously unreleased) [n 1]
  7. "Crown of Creation" (Kantner) – 2:53 (from Crown of Creation )
  8. "Lather" (G. Slick) – 2:57 (from Crown of Creation)
  9. "In Time" (Kantner, Balin) – 4:14 (from Crown of Creation)
  10. "House at Pooneil Corners" (Kantner, Balin) – 5:51 (from Crown of Creation)
  11. "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum" (Spencer Dryden, Bill Goodwin) – 1:32 (previously unreleased) [n 3] [m 2]
  12. "Would You Like a Snack?" (G. Slick, Frank Zappa) – 2:38 (previously unreleased)
  13. "3/5 Mile in 10 Seconds" (Balin) – 4:45 (live) (from Bless Its Pointed Little Head )
  14. "It's No Secret" (Balin) – 3:28 (live) (from Bless Its Pointed Little Head)
  15. "Plastic Fantastic Lover" (Balin) – 4:24 (previously unreleased live) [n 4]
  16. "Uncle Sam Blues" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen, Jack Casady) – 5:27 (previously unreleased live) [n 4]
  17. "Wooden Ships" (David Crosby, Kantner, Stephen Stills) – 5:52 (alternate take) (from Quadraphonic Volunteers ) [m 3]
  18. "Volunteers" (Balin, Kantner) – 2:17 (alternate take) (from Quadraphonic Volunteers) [m 3]

Disc 3

  1. "We Can Be Together" (Kantner) – 6:00 (alternate take) (from Quadraphonic Volunteers) [m 3]
  2. "Turn My Life Down" (Kaukonen) – 2:56 (from Volunteers)
  3. "Good Shepherd" (traditional, arranged by Kaukonen) – 4:24 (from Volunteers)
  4. "Hey Fredrick" (G. Slick) – 9:04 (alternate take) (from Quadraphonic Volunteers) [m 3]
  5. "Emergency" (Balin) – 4:36 (from "Go Ride the Music" documentary)
  6. "When the Earth Moves Again" (Kantner) – 3:55 (from Bark )
  7. "Pretty as You Feel" (Casady, Joey Covington, Kaukonen) – 3:09 (single version) (Grunt single #65-0500)
  8. "Law Man" (G. Slick) – 2:42 (from Bark)
  9. "Feel So Good" (Kaukonen) – 9:23 (previously unreleased extended version) [n 5] [m 1]
  10. "Twilight Double Leader" (Kantner) – 4:47 (from Long John Silver )
  11. "Aerie (Gang of Eagles)" (G. Slick) – 3:55 (from Long John Silver)
  12. "Trial by Fire" (Kaukonen) – 4:51 (live) (from Thirty Seconds Over Winterland )
  13. "Dress Rap" (G. Slick) – 1:25 (previously unreleased live) [n 6] [m 2]
  14. "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short" (Balin) – 12:35 (previously unreleased live) [n 6] [m 2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 from an unreleased Jefferson Airplane compilation LP (LSP-3995) that was to include live and studio tracks in early 1968
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA, May 1967
  3. from the master tape for Crown of Creation
  4. 1 2 recorded at the Woodstock Festival at Bethel, NY, August 17, 1969
  5. from the master tape for Bark
  6. 1 2 recorded at Winterland in San Francisco, CA, September 22, 1972
  1. 1 2 mixed December, 1991 by Pat Ieraci and Mark Linett
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 mixed June, 1992 by Paul Williams and Pat Martin
  3. 1 2 3 4 mixed down to stereo June, 1992 by Paul Williams and Pat Martin

Personnel

Jefferson Airplane

Additional Personnel

Marty Balin single

Great Society single

Frank Zappa track

Production

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References

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  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.