What's a Jefferson Airplane?
It’s a band. You might know it from a couple of hits they had in the ‘60s: White Rabbit and Somebody to Love.
It was part of a scene: San Francisco, where a community that came to be known as the counter-culture became a lasting phenomenon.
And it’s what took off when a group of precocious musicians joined forces to create art blurring the lines between the avant-garde and pop by tangling with the stories Americans told themselves about how life felt in an empire experiencing crisis.
The Jefferson Airplane Still Matters is the story, told in 19 episodes, about how a band made the fractures in American culture personal by making a series of records whose originality and daring are still relevant.
This is not a story about the past, but about how Americans — all of us — got to where we find ourselves today. About what’s changed since the ‘60s, and what hasn’t.
Enduring art attains meaning that outruns the intentions of those who make it. What the Jefferson Airplane accomplished in its brief time is profound. The country they wrote about has become more itself than ever. Which is why, more than 50 years later, the Jefferson Airplane Still Matters.
THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE STILL MATTERS: CROWN OF CREATION ENDURES
A SONIC COLLABORATION BY ANDY FRY AND DAVID HOPPE BASED ON A WORK OF CULTURAL HISTORY BY DAVID HOPPE
RUNNING TIME: APPROX. 2 HRS. 40 MINS.