Jefferson Airplane was unquestionably the best and most chart-successful band to break out of San Francisco's psychedelic scene. That means their debut is an important record even though a lot of what made the Airplane so great is not quite in place yet. Grace Slick was not on board at this point, though original vocalist Signe Anderson certainly comports herself well throughout the record. The free-flying duel-soloist team of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady hadn't fully dropped their chocks yet. The songs were more standard-issue folk-rock than the kind of wild psych the band made when they reached their highest altitude. And probably something else that I can twist into a corny flight-metaphor.
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