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Released
  
August 15, 1966

Label
  
RCA Victor

Length
  
29:19

Release date
  
15 August 1966

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Recorded
  
December 18, 1965 – March 31, 1966

Studio
  
RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, CA, USA

Producer
  
Matthew Katz and Tommy Oliver

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off(1966)
  
Genres
  
Psychedelic rock, Folk rock, Blues rock

Similar
  
Jefferson Airplane albums, Psychedelic rock albums

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the debut album of American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in August 1966 as RCA Victor LSP-3584 (stereo) & LPM-3584 (mono). The personnel differs from the later "classic" lineup, Signe Toly Anderson was the vocalist and Skip Spence played drums. Both left the group shortly after the album's release and were replaced by Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden, respectively.

Contents

Recording

RCA executives found some of the lyrics too sexually suggestive. They had the band change the lyrics in "Let Me In" from "I gotta get in, you know where" to "You shut your door, now it ain't fair", and "Don't tell me you want money" to "Don't tell me it's so funny". In "Run Around" they had the line "Blinded by colors come flashing from flowers that sway as you lay under me" altered to "that sway as you stay here by me". With "Runnin' 'Round This World" the executives insisted that "trips" in the line "The nights I've spent with you have been fantastic trips" referred to taking LSD, though the band insisted it was merely common slang. Even replacing the word "trips" with a guitar apreggio did not placate RCA's concerns with the line's sexual connotations and refused its inclusion on the album, and the recording remained unreleased for the next eight years.

Release and reception

The album's release drew little press attention at a time when mainstream newspapers did not normally cover rock releases and the rock press was yet in its infancy. Crawdaddy! highlighted the album on the cover of its January 1967 issue, which included a three-page review by the magazine's assistant editor Tim Jurgens, who called the album "faulted" yet "the most important album of American rock" of 1966.

Track listing

All lead vocals by Balin except where noted.

Personnel

  • Marty Balin – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Signe Toly Anderson – vocals, percussion
  • Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar
  • Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Jack Casady – bass
  • Skip Spence – drums
  • Spencer Dryden – drums (on "Go to Her," alternate version of "And I Like It," and alternate version of "Chauffeur Blues")
  • Production

  • Tommy Oliver – producer
  • Matthew Katz – manager, producer
  • Dave Hassinger – engineer
  • Recorded in RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, California
  • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1Blues From an Airplane2:12
    2Let Me In2:59
    3Bringing Me Down2:25

    References

    Jefferson Airplane Takes Off Wikipedia


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