Historically, this is the most natural path for a psychedelic rock band to follow: Less radical stagnation, more de-fanged maturation. Fleetwood Mac went from recording “psychedelic blues odysseys” to glossy blockbusters. Crosby, Stills and Nash went from “Almost Cut My Hair” to cleaned-up sailing enthusiasts.
In 1969, The Grateful Dead released Live/Dead, the quintessential document of San Francisco’s hair-raising psych concerts in 1979, they were in between the disco-influenced Shakedown Street and the breezy Go to Heaven. In 1969, Jefferson Airplane were the acid-drenched, profane band behind the searing protest album Volunteers by 1979, they were the marketable, platinum-selling Jefferson Starship.
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