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jlf1961 -> RE: Music of the 1960s What a pity we we not yet born. What a time we missed for sure. (8/20/2016 3:05:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
They are, but I suppose you could claim most of Hot Tuna were the original Jefferson Starship lineup from Blows Against the Empire in '69 and get around it like that.
(Or you could take the line that the '60s were '62 through to '72 as those were the dates for the first and last Beatles singles, and the Beatles defined the decade. I rather like that argument, myself...)
As for the good Cap'n, my favourite by him is Clear Spot, but nobody's going to have that one as a '60s record.
Okay, first, Jefferson Starship was in 1969, Jefferson Airplane
Secondly, Hot Tuna was formed during the touring hiatus when Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick was recuperating from throat node surgery by members of Airplane.
So there is validity in the claim, although the band was formed because the members didnt want to wait around doing nothing while Grace was recuperating.
The band was intended to be a short lived group, and began by performing a lot of Airplane material, but even after Airplane returned to touring, the band stayed a semi independent entity gaining a following in its own right.
To put it bluntly, it is Rock History 101... maybe more of an intro to Rock History for dweebs.
FYI, some of Hot Tuna's albums are worth big bucks on ebay if they are first pressings and made of the old vinyl.
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