Jefferson Airplane is the most underrated group of the 60s.

How can a universally acclaimed band that was highly influential be underrated?

>>126868864
OP is retarded

>>126868821 (OP)
They were THE biggest psych band of the 60s

who?

>>126868910

They were massive in the 60s but didn't have a second wind with teenagers in the 80s and 90s like The Doors did. I don't know why. I always thought Grace Slick was iconic but nobody put pictures of her up in their dorm room like they did Morrison.

>>126868821 (OP)
>Jefferson Airplane is the most overrated group of the 60s.
FIFY

>>126869049
They were biggest when they went pop with hello i love you and touch me

>>126869052
The Doors were broken up and their signer was dead and there was a legend and mystique built up around them, leading younger fans to rediscover their old music. Airplane on the other hand kept going through the 70s and 80s across endless lineup, style and name changes and were unrecognizable as their original selves. They had been a boring AOR band for over a decade by that point (though Miracles and Jane are kino I’ll admit) and gen X wanted nothing to do with them. We Built This City became a shorthand for everything indie hipsters loathed about mainstream boomer rock.

>>126869215
Did you just forget that Light My Fire from the very first album was a year before either of those and 1000x bigger too

>>126868821 (OP)
Underrated by who exactly? Be specific.

>>126868821 (OP)
Decent band but Starship is 10 times better

>>126869515
NTA but I don't think
>Cream
>Iron Butterfly
>Hendrix
>Strawberry Alarm Clock
>Jefferson Airplane
>Vanilla Fudge
translate at all for zoomers. if the psych canon ends up in their hands it will be cut down to like two bands.

>>126868821 (OP)
jack casady has to be the poster child for how shades can turn a dork into a chad.

>>126871158
oops, here's the pic of him without shades. far right.

>>126871158
Roy Orbison is another famous practitioner.

>>126871158
great bass player. key to the band

>>126868821 (OP)
Not only were Jefferson Airplane highly successful at the time, the quality of their music was overrated if anything, which is why nobody besides boomers know about them today.

>>126868821 (OP)
>The free design
>The Millenium
>Margo

Ok now fuck off

>>126868821 (OP)
not as good as doors/beatles/stones/cream
not as good as love or the stooges
better than steppenwolf maybe?
just a weird band that was not going to age well as they made music for a specific place and time