The title is apt, even hopeful, assuming the monikers Paul and Grace have taken for themselves indicate an increased disposition towards self-satire. The Baron is suitably Germanic: militant, didactic, metapolitical; he even, God help us, promulgates vague doctrines on racial origin. The Chrome Nun, true to her label, has always been inaccessible, chaste (despite her famous daring of convention),...

First it was groups, then it was solo artists, now all of a sudden it looks like Couples. John & Yoko got us into this mess, Paul & Linda weren't about to be outdone, and Grace & Paul are shaping up as a source of composition, performance and sheer product at least as potent as the Airplane themselves. Funny thing about these couples, they all sing about themselves. Or each other reflecting back...

What did you do in the psychedelic wars, daddy? ask these two grizzled '60s veterans – Jefferson Airplane singer and guitarist Paul Kantner and Ray Manzarek, the keyboard player for the Doors – and be prepared to, in the words of "Roadhouse Blues," "Let it roll/All night long." Producer Harvey Kubernik – who specializes in spoken-word recordings – has done just that, jogging...

The Jefferson Airplane has always been one of my very favorite rock bands of the non-blues - playing, white, American variety, and it has always been my contention that they were perhaps fated to advance what has come to be called rock into yet-unexplored areas in much the same way as the Beatles and Cream have done. This unexplored region, my reasoning went, would involve a kind of broad expansio...