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Discograffiti is the deep-dive podcast for music obsessives. Feed Your Head: The Great Jefferson Airplane Deep Dive is an audio documentary that was consciously crafted to act as the ultimate repository of fact and opinion on one of the greatest bands to ever walk the face of the earth, the almighty Jefferson Airplane. It includes long-form interviews, commentary on their history, wild stories, and star ratings for every release. 

Part 3 of the series covers the very early years of the band in the style of an audiobook documentary, as the Airplane’s original visionary Marty Balin seeks out the best of the best and winds up pulling together a band that will soon change the course of music history.

Here are just a few of the many things discussed in this episode of Discograffiti:

• Marty Balin’s early music dalliances;
• Piecing together his dream band, one member at a time;
• The unbelievable first original that they performed;
• Marty’s genius plan to foist his band on San Francisco with a true splash;
• Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady: the origin story of a 70-year musical love affair;
• The incredibly rare first recording by Jack & Jorma;
• How Jorma was seduced into the Airplane;
• The true origin of the band’s name;
• The bargaining chip used by their first manager Matthew Katz to convince the group that he was their man; 
• And their public debut as a band.

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