Jefferson Airplane: Difference between revisions

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* [[Control Freak]]: Mickey Thomas by all accounts.

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first album is basically a straight-ahead folk-rock album with little hint of the tripped-out weirdness that would follow. It's also worth noting that there is quite a bit more straight-ahead folk-rock on ''Surrealistic Pillow'' than a lot of people seem to remember there being, though the group's penchant for chemical experimentation definitely affected even the folk-rock songs on that album.

* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]]: According to Marty Balin, the name came from a friend who suggested a parody of the sort of nicknames [[Blues]] singers usually adopted (and possibly had Blind Lemon Jefferson in mind). This didn't stop rumours that the original name referred to an impromptu method of holding a too-short marijuana joint.

* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: According to Marty Balin, the name came from a friend who suggested a parody of the sort of nicknames [[Blues]] singers usually adopted (and possibly had Blind Lemon Jefferson in mind). This didn't stop rumours that the original name referred to an impromptu method of holding a too-short marijuana joint.

* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: Sarcastically titled ''The Worst of Jefferson Airplane''.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]

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* [[Rooftop Concert]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLRX7bZH41g In New York], about seven weeks before [[The Beatles]] did their more famous concert.

* [[The Sixties]]: Odds are good that, if you're watching a program about or set in the Sixties, you'll hear [[Nothing but Hits|a Jefferson Airplane song on the soundtrack]]. [[Anachronism Stew|Even if it's the very early Sixties.]]

** [[The Seventies]]: Jefferson Starship successfully morphed into an [[Arena Rock]] group along the lines of [[~~Toto (Music)|~~Toto]] (as a matter of fact, their hit song "Jane" was accused of aping Toto's single "Hold the Line", right down to the piano triplets).

** [[The Seventies]]: Jefferson Starship successfully morphed into an [[Arena Rock]] group along the lines of [[Toto]] (as a matter of fact, their hit song "Jane" was accused of aping Toto's single "Hold the Line", right down to the piano triplets).

** [[The Eighties]]: Starship became pretty much the poster band for the so-called "corporate rock" movement mid-decade.

* [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ a "The"]]: Is it "Jefferson Airplane" or "'''The''' Jefferson Airplane"?

* [[Spell My Name with a "The"]]: Is it "Jefferson Airplane" or "'''The''' Jefferson Airplane"?

** Averted by later incarnations of the band.

* [[Title Drop]]: Starship's 1985 album ''Knee Deep In The Hoopla''; its title is buried deep in "We Built This City":