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Jefferson Airplane was a psychedelic rock band popular in the sixties and one of the biggest bands of the Haight-Ashbury sound along with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Santana. They provided the counterculture staples Volunteers and Wooden Ships, the latter also performed by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The group was enormously successful. They had five certified albums with one additional hit. They had two hit singles. After lingering into the seventies they reformed into the hard rock band Jefferson Starship. Jefferson Airplane performed at both the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969 and the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. They had formed out of the group The Great! Society. White Rabbit was inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll. They were inducted by Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh of Grateful Dead.

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