Origin of Song: What is a Surrealistic Pillow?

Published: October 21 2009ByDan Alvarez
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On Halloween of 1966, San Francisco’s Jefferson Airplane headed into the studio to craft a follow-up to their debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. The LP that they crafted — their first with legendary vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden — would go on to be regarded as a landmark LP for both the [...]

The San Francisco Scene, in a Museum

Published: October 9 2009ByBen Fong-Torres
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At the opening of the exhibit, “Somethin’s Happening Here,” celebrating the San Francisco Bay Area’s music scene from 1963 to 1973 at the Museum of Performance & Design, one of the musicians of that era turned to me and said, “Did you think we’d ever live to see our stuff in a museum?”

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