Jefferson Airplane

The Original Fillmore House Band

76 pages of psychedelic art, photography and stories accompanied by over two hours of exceptional live recordings.

We’re very proud of this limited edition box set and honored to help tell the story of one of the most important and defining American bands of the 20th century.

The reviews are now coming in and it seems we have ourselves a bit of a hit!

Great stuff. Great work. Hotdamn! I’ve been through the box set a few times and am really impressed. Congratulations on such a splendid accomplishment. WOW! You put together an amazing compilation! The version of ‘Mau Mau’ was just bizarre and delicious.

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It’s been said that Jefferson Airplane made the Fillmore, and the Fillmore made Jefferson Airplane. The Fillmore was the original house that rock built and Bill Graham was the man who ruled it. Jefferson Airplane would be the first band to play there and would headline fifty-nine times in less than two years — two of the most defining in rock, 1966 and 1967.

When the British Invasion made its electric splash on American shores, the effects rippled across the country in a wave of guitar-strumming kids starting bands with their friends. It was then that Jefferson Airplane came to be, and it was then that Bill Graham became the first impresario of rock.

Graham, in a blue-collared shirt with the ever-present clipboard, and the folk-based, soon to be psychedelic troubadours Jefferson Airplane, launched their fledgling careers simultaneously. The seemingly contrary forces fed, nurtured, and matured each other, connecting in an interdependent dance that would give rise to the other in turn.

Former Bill Graham Presents Archivist Katherine York sifted through the documented heritage of Jefferson Airplane and studied the band’s relationship with the burgeoning rock concert industry to uncover the tale of the first Fillmore house band. The resulting box set includes a 76 page book which chronicles the maturity of both in a timeline drawn of memorabilia including rare posters, unseen photographs and original performance contracts.

The 30 songs on the accompanying USB were selected from over 35 hours of live concert recordings performed by Jefferson Airplane and recorded by Bill Graham on his stages. The USB includes the entire collection in two audio formats - a set of 320k mp3 files, and a set of CD-quality Apple Lossless files. The remastered compilation has been curated to exemplify the band’s development while playing these venues and is presented in a timeline that can be followed throughout the book.