Friday 28 January 2022

   

Continuing on from last week's Grateful Dead uncovered to another famous name in 60s San Francisco folklore: Jefferson Airplane
These bands performed at dance venues and 'happenings', engulfed by a psychedelic light show. 
"While the dance floor was dark, the walls were blazing with light. The light-show artists stationed on the balconies had found ways to cover three whole walls of the dancehall with brilliant, flowing coloured lights, like abstract paintings. Alternating with the liquid projections might be kaleidoscope patterns, or slides of faces, flowers or mandalas."
Jefferson Airplane formed in 1965. Their 1967 break-out album 'Surrealistic Pillow' was one of the most significant recordings of the Summer of Love. Tracks included 'White Rabbit' and 'Somebody to Love' and this Marty Balin composition [written like other songs under the influence] called 'Comin' Back to Me' >>> 

Jerry Garcia was listed as 'spiritual advisor' on the album cover and played guitar, though on which tracks, is shrouded in suspect memories from those present at the recordings.   
Available from the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street in 1966: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Timothy Leary wrote
Quote [from the book] "Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream" 
On 'Tomorrow Never Knows' - John Lennon wrote "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream"  
Just a suggestion ... 

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