“Like Rashomon, the story of Jefferson Airplane, the band’s
Paul Kantner has astutely postulated, is also one of many truths. There’s a cliché
these days, ‘If you can remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there.’ It’s a wisecrack
intended to imply that denizens of that era were so zonked-out that their
craniums have been reduced to space dust. But that’s not the case here; the
former members of Jefferson Airplane were there all right, and they do remember
the ‘60s. yet each has a such a distinctive personality and outlook on life,
and the ‘60s was such a kaleidoscopic whirl, that, despite being in the same
band, no two of them experienced the Airplane years the same way” (Jeff
Tamarkin, Got a Revolution! The Turbulent
Flight of Jefferson Airplane, 2003).
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