Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane album)

Occupation

Volunteers is the sixth album by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. The album was released in 1969 and reached # 13 in the U.S. charts, the single from the Volunteers place 65

Formation

The album was recorded in early 1969 at Wally Heider's studio in San Francisco, which was equipped with a then-new 16-track recorder. Volunteers was one of the first recordings that were produced with this technique.

At the recording of the album a number of guest musicians were involved: Jerry Garcia, which as a studio musician for the Rolling Stones and Kinks became known British pianist Nicky Hopkins and Stephen Stills and David Crosby. The song Wooden Ships, they took along with Graham Nash in the same year for her debut album. Also as a guest musician this was Joey Covington, Spencer Dryden was shortly thereafter replaced on drums. Also the singer and co-founder Marty Balin Airplane left the band after this album. Three of the tracks on the album Eskimo Blue Day, Wooden Ships and volunteers, the band played during their performance at the Woodstock Festival. The album was quite controversial. The original title of Volunteers of America and Volunteers of Amerikkka - three times the K was a reference to the Ku Klux Klan - was rejected by the record company. Even lines like up against the wall, motherfucker from We Can Be Together delayed the release of the album, which was released in November 1969. Ed Ward wrote in 1970 in Rolling Stone, " If there would be a political message, it is caught between the lines" and " ... if you buy the album to tell them motherfucker ' to hear, will hear the rest and perhaps musically when not politically radicalized are ".

Style and reception

The album contains a mixture of psychedelic rock songs with the typical Jefferson Airplane vocal harmonies, country-rock songs (A Song for All Seasons, The Farm ) and the adaptation of Russian folk song Poljuschko poles as an instrumental titled Meadowlands.

Jim Newsom of allmusic emphasizes the musical arrangement, play the piano by Nicky Hopkins and the razor- sharp sound of Jorma Kaukonens guitar playing.

On the list of 500 greatest albums of all time the music magazine Rolling Stone, the album reached number 370

Title list

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Additional musicians

  • Stephen Stills: Hammond organ
  • Nicky Hopkins: piano
  • Jerry Garcia: pedal steel guitar
  • Joey Covington: Conga
  • David Crosby
  • Ace of Cups: Voice

More Releases

1973 appeared a Quadrofonieabmischung of the album. The CD release of 2004 also contains five live recordings from the Fillmore East (Good Sheperd, Somebody to Love, Plastic Fantastic Lover, Wooden Ships, Volunteers) and in 2009 appeared the album together the complete appearance of the band at the Woodstock Festival under the Title Jefferson Airplane Woodstock Experience.

Record label RCA Records Genre Singing Multitrack recording Polyushko-polye Quadraphonic sound
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