Jefferson Airplane Loves You


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.
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 The Great Society (band)|Great Society (band)|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" – 1:56
  2. "Go To Her" – 4:05
  3. "Bringing Me Down" – 2:22
  4. "Let Me In" – 3:28
  5. "Chauffeur Blues" – 2:28
  6. "Free Advice" – 2:29
  7. "Somebody to Love" – 2:58
  8. "Today" – 3:00
  9. "Embryonic Journey" – 1:52
  10. "White Rabbit" – 2:33
  11. "Come Back Baby" – 2:55
  12. "The Other Side of This Life" – 8:03
  13. "Runnin' 'Round this World" – 2:30
  14. "She Has Funny Cars" – 3:37
  15. "High Flyin' Bird" – 4:03
  16. "Tobacco Road" – 3:57
  17. "Let's Get Together" – 4:05
  18. "White Rabbit" – 2:23
  19. "Comin' Back to Me" – 7:38
  20. "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" – 7:01

Disc 2

  1. "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" – 11:38
  2. "Things are Better in the East" – 3:18
  3. "Watch Her Ride" – 3:15
  4. "Two Heads" – 3:14
  5. "Martha" – 3:26
  6. "Don't Let Me Down" – 2:54
  7. "Crown of Creation" – 2:53
  8. "Lather" – 2:57
  9. "In Time" – 4:14
  10. "House at Pooneil Corners" – 5:51
  11. "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum" – 1:32
  12. "Would You Like a Snack?" – 2:38
  13. "3/5 Mile in 10 Seconds" – 4:45
  14. "It's No Secret" – 3:28
  15. "Plastic Fantastic Lover" – 4:24
  16. "Uncle Sam Blues" – 5:27
  17. "Wooden Ships" – 5:52
  18. "Volunteers" – 2:17

Disc 3

  1. "We Can Be Together" – 6:00
  2. "Turn My Life Down" – 2:56
  3. "Good Shepherd" – 4:24
  4. "Hey Fredrick" – 9:04
  5. "Emergency" – 4:36
  6. "When the Earth Moves Again" – 3:55
  7. "Pretty as You Feel" – 3:09
  8. "Law Man" – 2:42
  9. "Feel So Good" – 9:23
  10. "Twilight Double Leader" – 4:47
  11. "Aerie " – 3:55
  12. "Trial by Fire" – 4:51
  13. "Dress Rap" – 1:25
  14. "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short" – 12:35

Personnel

Jefferson Airplane

  • Marty Balin – vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion
  • Grace Slick – vocals, piano, organ, recorder
  • Paul Kantner – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals
  • Jack Casady – bass
  • Spencer Dryden – drums, percussion
  • Signe Anderson – vocals on "Go to Her", "Bringing Me Down", and "Chauffeur Blues"
  • Skip Spence – drums on "Bringing Me Down", "Let Me In", and "Chauffeur Blues"
  • Joey Covington – congas on "Turn My Life Down" and "Pretty as You Feel", drums on "Emergency", "When the Earth Moves Again", "Law Man", "Feel So Good", and "Twilight Double Leader", tambourine on "Twilight Double Leader", lead vocals on "Pretty as You Feel"
  • Papa John Creach – electric violin on "When the Earth Moves Again", "Pretty as You Feel", "Twilight Double Leader", "Aerie", "Trial by Fire", and "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short"
  • John Barbata – drums on "Aerie", "Trial by Fire", and "You Wear Your Dresses Too Short"
  • David Freiberg – tambourine on "Trial by Fire"

Additional Personnel

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar on "Today"
  • Gary Blackman – nose solo on "Lather"
  • Gene Twombly – sound effects on "Lather"
  • Dan Woody – bongos on "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum"
  • Bill Goodwin – drums on "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum"
  • Tim Davis – congas on "Ribump Ba Bap Dum Dum"
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano on "Plastic Fantastic Lover", "Uncle Sam Blues", "Wooden Ships, "Volunteers", "We Can Be Together", and "Hey Fredrick"
  • Stephen Stills – Hammond organ on "Turn My Life Down"
  • Ace of Cups – vocals on "Turn My Life Down"
  • Carlos Santana – guitar on "Pretty as You Feel"
  • Michael Shrieve – drums on "Pretty as You Feel"

Marty Balin single

Great Society single

  • Grace Slick – vocals
  • Darby Slick – lead guitar
  • David Minor – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Bard Du Pont – bass
  • Jerry Slick – drums
  • Billy Preston – drum overdubs

Frank Zappa track

Production

  • Paul Williams – compilation producer, project supervision, tape research
  • Bill Thompson – executive producer, repertoire selection
  • Bruce Scavuzzo – project supervision, repertoire selection
  • Frankie Pezzella – project coordinator
  • David Cohen – repertoire selection, creative consultant, tape research
  • Pat Ieraci – creative consultant, tape research, vault research
  • Jeff Tamarkin – creative consultant, essay
  • Bill Lacey – digital remastering, audio restoration
  • Dick Baxter – transfer from analog masters
  • James Agren – tape research
  • Bruce Hailstalk, Mike Henney, Roger Fish – vault research
  • Ria Lewerke – creative director
  • DesignArt, Inc, – art direction, design, book layout
  • Mike Frankel, Herb Greene, Jim Marshall – photography
  • Jim Smircich – RCA label archives