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Surrealistic Pillow: RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone
Psychedelic scholars have long tried to pin down just what the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia did on this album (he is credited as "musical and spiritual adviser"). But the real trip is [...]

The Queen Bees of Rock
BMI Magazine, March 1968   (www.janisjoplin.net)
In The Press: "In the beginning, the rock world was all Adams and no Eves," Newsweek commented. But now, "the typical rock group resembles a beehive, three or four drones humming around [...]

Surrealistic Pillow Talk, Jorma Kaukonen's Wide World of Music
Tristram Lozaw
Though Jorma Kaukonen's incendiary work in the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna marks him as one of rock's all-time great electric guitarists, his first love was country-blues finger picking [...]

The Jefferson Airplane Chronicles: Part Six, Marty Balin
by Jeff Tamarkin - Relix Magazine, April, 1993
Reading the following interview, one might get a sense that there are two Marty Balins. The one, who talks about the early days of Jefferson Airplane, when there was happiness in the air and flowers in the hair, is a fun guy who likes to reminisce nostalgically. [...]

Skip Spence Lived a Surrealistic Life
Matthew Grenwald (Rolling Stone) - (April 19, 1999)
Alexander "Skip" Spence, one of the founding members of both Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape -- two of the Bay Area's most influential bands -- died on April 16th from lung cancer. [...]