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Thrifty Tunes 11.21.09: Jefferson Airplane - Takes Off Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 11.21.2009 To celebrate the one year anniversary of Thrifty Tunes, I look at one of the first albums which helped changed many of my opinions about what 'good music' really means.

THE old saying goes that if you can remember Woodstock, you weren't there. But Paul Kantner's memory isn't so bad.Kantner is founder and bandleader of Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off Jefferson Starship and tomorrow night he leads a bill of bands celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, the moon landing of music festivals.

While many commentators have observed that the Coen Brothers' latest offering A Serious Man marks a significant departure from the filmmakers' previous work, a crucial aspect of its novelty has attracted little attention.

Few music stars have had the immediate impact of Lady Gaga. Over the past year, her debut CD, The Fame , has produced four Number One Billboard Pop Songs chart hits: Just Dance , Poker Face , LoveGame , and Paparazzi - surpassing the previous record of three charttoppers achieved by Ace Of Base, and Avril Lavigne.

Spence, for those of you unfamiliar with him, was a founding member of Moby Grape and one time drummer for Jefferson Airplane.

Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg have played the German House Theater separately.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the brief, electrifying career of Janis Joplin with a week of events building up to a tribute concert.

The Coen Brothers return to their cultural and geographical roots with one of the year's strangest comedies.

Folk singer Greg Brown performs Thursday at the Kent State Folk Festival. Kent -- Gravelly voiced Greg Brown, bluegrass master Del McCoury, former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and Country Joe McDonald are among the headliners for this year's 43rd annual Kent State Folk Festival.

This article has been read 840 times. A popular saying among those who considered themselves part of the '60s counterculture went something like, "Never trust anyone over 30." In that context, it's interesting that quite a few of that era's iconic figures celebrated the applicable birthday before the calendar turned to 1970.

Elk Grove Village trustees voted to approve a $70,000 contract to bring some well known bands to the village's 2010 Summer Concert Series next July.

Jefferson Airplane/Starship guitarist Paul Kantner is the original source of the cleaned-up quote.

Good morning. Today is the 302nd day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers during the early 20th century.

Forty years after pioneering a cultural revolution, Grace Slick is leading another movement.

Given what audacious, far-ranging, and sensually intoxicated filmmakers they are, Joel and Ethan Coen have never shown much of a rock & roll side.

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. The top-selling, '80s pop-rock band Starship is scheduled to land at Silver Springs, thus filling the park's "Mystery Band" slot.

A new DVD set showcasing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is sprawling, intermittently incoherent, puzzling and yet endlessly fascinating.

A Serious Man , the Book of Job according to the Coen Brothers, is set to the music of Jefferson Airplane.

The standard line on A Serious Man, and I see no reason to deviate from it, is that this is the Coen brothers' most "personal" work to date.

1957 - Elvis Presley released "Jailhouse Rock". 1964 - The Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts secretly married Shirley Ann Arnold.