Peloquin was fired and replaced by Skip Spence. At the same time, the band was already undergoing changes. By September, Jefferson Airplane was being wooed by several labels. They attracted favorable press attention, which - at a time when folk-rock performers like Sonny & Cher, We Five, Bob Dylan, the Byrds, the Beau Brummels, and the Turtles were all over the charts - led to record company interest. Jefferson Airplane made their debut at the Matrix on Augand began performing at the club regularly. Their unusual name was suggested by Kaukonen, who had once jokingly been dubbed "Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane" by a friend in reference to the blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson. The six-piece band was completed by bass player Bob Harvey and drummer Jerry Peloquin. Balin, who possessed a keening tenor, wanted a complementary powerful female voice for the group and found it in Signe Toly. His first recruit was rhythm guitarist/singer Paul Kantner, who in turn recommended lead guitarist/singer Jorma Kaukonen. He interested three investors in converting a pizza restaurant on Fillmore Street into a 100-seat venue called the Matrix, and he began picking potential bandmembers from among the musicians at a folk club called the Drinking Gourd. With the Beatles-led British Invasion of 1964, Balin saw the merging of folk with rock in early 1965 and decided to form a group to play the hybrid style as well as open a club for the group to play in. The initial idea for the group that became Jefferson Airplane came from 23-year-old Marty Balin, a San Francisco-raised singer who had recorded unsuccessfully for Challenge Records in 1962 and been a member of a folk group called the Town Criers in 1963-1964. The original lineup of Starship wound up reuniting for an album and tour in 1989. After 1972's Long John Silver, the Airplane split, with Slick and guitarist Paul Kantner forming Jefferson Starship, and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady playing together in Hot Tuna.
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They toured regularly, being the only band to play at all the major '60s rock festivals - Monterey, Woodstock, even Altamont - and they released seven studio albums, five of which went gold, plus two live LPs and a million-selling hits collection that chronicled their eight chart singles.
But for all the turmoil, Jefferson Airplane was remarkably productive between 19. Their personal interactions mirrored those times the group was a collective with shifting alliances in which leaders emerged and retreated. They epitomized the drug-taking hippie ethos as well as the left-wing antiwar political movement of their time, and their history was one of controversy along with hit records. Although the Grateful Dead ultimately proved more long-lived and popular, Jefferson Airplane defined the San Francisco sound in the '60s, with the acid rock guitar playing of Jorma Kaukonen and the soaring twin vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin, scoring hit singles and landing on the cover of national magazines. Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the 1960s to achieve national recognition.
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