“Three-track machines, no noise reduction. It‘s as close to a live album in the studio as you’re ever going to get.” Behind the breakup song that was retitled, remade and transformed into a psychedelic-rock classic

Jorma Kaukonen has a vivid memory of recording “Somebody to Love,” Jefferson Airplane’s first hit single, in December 1966. He also gave the group its name — Jefferson Airplane — adapted from his own nickname, Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane, a playful nod to acoustic blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson. By October, Grace had joined Jefferson Airplane, bringing the song — along with her own “White Rabbit” — into RCA Studios at 6363 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. “It was a huge studio where they did symphony orchestras,” Kaukonen told Tucker. “In my opinion today, the psychedelic Jefferson Airplane album would be Baxter’s,” he told Obrecht.