Jefferson Airplane Part 31: Starship Producer Peter Wolf Reveals The Full Story Behind The Making of Knee Deep In The Hoopla (Feed Your Head: The Great Jefferson Airplane Deep Dive Series) (Ep. 283B)

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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. It includes long-form interviews, commentary on their history, wild stories, and star ratings for every release. 

Part 31 of the series is a CRUCIAL EPISODE in understanding the inner workings of a once-countercultural band that at this point, twenty years into their career, would do practically anything for a hit. This 90-minute interview with the producer of Starship’s Knee Deep In The Hoopla is probably the most important piece of the puzzle in understanding how this band realized their hidden goals, and then achieved them, and whether or not it was worth achieving them in the end.

Here are just a few of the many things that Peter discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

• His impressively varied jazz background;
• The slew of Frank Zappa albums on which he appears—62 total!;
• Whether or not he’s actually an Airplane fan;
• Grace’s wildly contradictory statements about “We Built This City”;
• How he finished off their transformation from Jefferson Airplane to Starship;
• His feelings toward Knee Deep In The Hoopla versus the follow-up record, No Protection;
• And an epiphanic outpouring of every single little thing I’ve learned over the 32 episodes of this series, as the seemingly un-align-able bands Jefferson Airplane and Starship are brought into incredibly clear focus…as the very same people, just twenty years down the road.

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