Jefferson Starship – Original Album Classics (5CD Box Set) (2009) [FLAC]
Year drive : 2009 | Audio Codec : FLAC (*. flac) | Rip type : image +. cue | Duration : 6:00:30 | 1.62 GB
Genre : Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock | Publisher : Sony Music, RCA Records | Catalog Number : 88697564662
Jefferson Starship Original Album Classics: 2009 UK 5-CD album set comprised of the best selling and critically acclaimed albumreleases ‘Dragon Fly’, ‘Red Octopus’, ‘Spitfire’, ‘Earth’ and ‘Freedom At Point Zero’, each album is housed in a mini LP-style cardpicture sleeve with the complete set presented in a card slipcase.
Jefferson Starship is an American rock band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Although its origins are complex, it is generally regarded as a spinoff from Jefferson Airplane and evolved from a 1970 science fiction-themed concept album by then-Airplane member Paul Kantner entitled Blows Against the Empire. Blows Against the Empire was issued before the first break-up of the original Jefferson Airplane. The album, conceived by Paul Kantner, featured an ad-hoc group of all-star musicians who called themselves Jefferson Starship. The band proper would initially consist of Kantner, Grace Slick, Craig Chaquico and Jorma’s brother Peter Kaukonen to promote Slick’s solo album Manhole and after that Jefferson Starship was formally launched. After the initial tour, Kaukonen left and was replaced by Pete Sears for the first studio album Dragon Fly. The band continued in about the same configuration until late 1978 when Grace Slick, and Marty Balin left the band under different circumstances. The drummer for this incarnation of the Starship, John Barbata was injured in a car accident which killed the passenger and left him so that he could not play. The band redefined their music with more of a hard-rock edge with Aynsley Dunbar and Mickey Thomas joining. In 1984, Paul Kantner left forming KBC Band with former bandmates Balin and Casady. The remaining members renamed themselves Starship, releasing three studio albums before manager Bill Thompson finally dismantled the band in 1990. Kantner began performing again in 1991 with Tim Gorman and Slick Aguilar of the KBC Band, calling themselves “Paul Kantner’s Wooden Ships”. As the band continued to add more members, Kantner renamed the band Jefferson Starship once again. In September 2008, the band released their latest studio effort Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty.
1974 Dragon Fly
Allmusic / Review by William Ruhlmann
Credited to “Grace Slick/Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship,” Dragon Fly was the transitional album between the various shifting aggregations Slick and Kantner had been recording with as Jefferson Airplane dissolved in the early ’70s and the new Jefferson Starship (which essentially was the Airplane with a new guitarist and bassist – Craig Chaquico and Pete Sears). But where such preceding efforts as Sunfighter, Manhole, and Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun had suffered from indulgence and a lack of focus, Dragon Fly, from the first note of its rocking leadoff track, “Ride the Tiger” (a chart single), was a unified effort. Like much of the Airplane catalog and all of the Starship albums to follow, the album suffered from the band’s communal approach to song selection (the eight tracks credited 12 writers, half of them bandmembers), leading to an unevenness in the material. But unlike the recent Kantner/Slick/etc. albums, it sounded like the work of a seasoned band. (It didn’t hurt that the album was cut just after a tour, instead of before one.) Especially notable was Chaquico, who on such tracks as “All Fly Away” and “Hyperdrive” demonstrated that he was a distinctive lead guitarist able to define the Starship sound just as the very different Jorma Kaukonen had the Airplane. But what turned Dragon Fly into an artistic and commercial triumph (it was the most popular album any of these people had been involved with in five years) was the return, for one song, of former Airplane singer Marty Balin, since that one song was the epic power ballad “Caroline,” which became a radio favorite and remains one of the best songs the Airplane/Starship ever did.
01 Ride The Tiger
02 That’s For Sure
03 Be Young You
04 Caroline
05 Devils Den
06 Come To Life
07 All Fly Away
08 Hyperdrive
1975 Red Octopus
Allmusic / Review by William Ruhlmann
Technically speaking, Red Octopus was the first album credited to Jefferson Starship, though practically the same lineup made Dragon Fly, credited to Grace Slick/Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship. The difference, however, was crucial: Marty Balin was once again a fully integrated bandmember, writing or co-writing five of the ten tracks. And there can be little doubt that it was Balin’s irresistible ballad “Miracles,” the biggest hit single in the Jefferson Whatever catalog, that propelled Red Octopus to the top of the charts, the only Jefferson album to chart that high and the best-selling album in their collective lives. This must have been sweet vindication for Balin, who founded Jefferson Airplane but then drifted away from the group as it veered away from his musical vision. Now, the collective was incorporating his taste without quite integrating it – “Miracles,” with its strings and sax solo by nonband member Irv Cox, was hardly a characteristic Airplane/Starship track. But then, neither exactly was Papa John Creach’s showcase, “Git Fiddler,” or bassist Pete Sears’ instrumental “Sandalphon,” which sounded like something from an early Procol Harum album. Slick has three strong songs, among them the second single “Play on Love.” Like Dragon Fly, Red Octopus reflected a multiplicity of musical tastes; there were ten credited songwriters, seven of whom were in the band. If there is any consistency in this material, it is in subject matter (love songs). The album is more ballad-heavy and melodic than the Airplane albums, which made it more accessible to the broader audience it reached, though “Sweeter Than Honey” is as tough a rocker as the band ever played.
01 Fast Buck Freddie
02 Miracles
03 Git Fiddler
04 Al Garimasu (There Is Love)
05 Sweeter Than Honey
06 Play On Love
07 Tumblin’
08 I Want To See Another World
09 Sandalphon
10 There Will Be Love
Bonus Tracks
11 Miracles
12 Band Introduction
13 Fast Buck Freddie
14 There Will Be Love
15 You’re Driving Me Crazy
1976 Spitfire
Allmusic / Review by William Ruhlmann
Spitfire was Jefferson Starship’s 1976 follow-up to the chart-topping Red Octopus (1975), and it found the band in a cooperative mood. All seven bandmembers earned writing credits on at least one of the nine songs, along with eight outsiders, and even drummer John Barbata got a lead vocal on the simple rock & roll song “Big City.” But the three main power centers in the group remained in place. Singer/guitarist Paul Kantner continued to turn out his lengthy, complex songs with their exhortatory, vaguely political lyrics (the five-minute “Dance with the Dragon” and the seven-minute “Song to the Sun: Ozymandias/Don’t Let It Rain”). Singer Grace Slick contributed her own idiosyncratic compositions, simultaneously elliptical and passionately stated (“Hot Water” and “Switchblade”). And singer Marty Balin, whose romantic ballad “Miracles” had fueled the success of Red Octopus, wrote (or located) and sang more songs of love and pleasure (“Cruisin’,” “St. Charles,” “With Your Love,” and “Love Lovely Love”). Weaving the three styles together were the fluid lead guitar work of Craig Chaquico and the alternating bass and keyboard playing of David Freiberg and Pete Sears. The result was an album that quickly scaled the charts, spending six consecutive weeks at number three in Billboard and going platinum. That it didn’t do better on the band’s considerable career momentum can be put down to the relatively disappointing nature of the material. There was no “Miracles” on the album, to begin with. Grunt Records released the more modest “With Your Love” as a single and got it into the Top 20, but the closest thing to “Miracles” was really “St. Charles,” a song that certainly had some of the same elements but lacked the kind of direct emotional statement that made “Miracles” a classic. Similarly, “Dance with the Dragon” was no “Ride the Tiger” (from Dragon Fly [1974]), and while “Switchblade” was an unusually clear statement of romantic intent from Slick (whose “lyrical wordplay is…not easily accessible yet compelling and thought-provoking,” as 2004 reissue annotator Jeff Tamarkin generously says of “Hot Water”), its provocative title made it an unlikely choice for an adult contemporary hit. Spitfire was more than the sum of its parts, boasting the sort of vocal interplay and instrumental virtuosity that had always been the hallmarks of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. If the band had taken more time to write and find better songs, it might have matched the sales and quality of its predecessor.
01 Cruisin’
02 Dance With The Dragon
03 Hot Water
04 St. Charles
05 Song To The Sun
Ozymandias
Don’t Let It Rain
06 With Your Love
07 Switchblade
08 Big City
09 Love Lovely Love
1978 Earth
Allmusic / Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Jefferson Starship had figured out how to craft high-octane, high-gloss AOR rock with Red Octopus, a highlight of mainstream hard rock in the ’70s. Instead of being a launching pad to greater things, the album turned out to be the group’s pinnacle, and in the years following its release, the group simply recycled its ideas. In the case of its sequel, Spitfire, that was acceptable, because they had enough hooks to make the similarity forgivable. On Earth, however, they had neither the melodies, hooks or style to make a second rewrite of Red Octopus tolerable. Earth has the form, but not the content, of Jefferson Starship’s masterpiece – it just sits there, lacking either hard rockers or sappy ballads. Arguably, it’s the group’s low point of the ’70s.
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01 Love Too Good
02 Count On Me
03 Take Your Time
04 Crazy Feelin’
05 Skateboard
06 Fire
07 Show Yourself
08 Runaway
09 All Nite Long
1979 Freedom At Point Zero
Allmusic / Review by William Ruhlmann
Freedom at Point Zero is not a great Jefferson Starship album; the wonder is that it is as good as it is. Since the band’s previous album, the Top Ten, million-selling Earth, the group had lost its two lead singers, Grace Slick and Marty Balin, and they had been replaced by Mickey Thomas. “Jane,” released as a single in advance of the album, displayed the result: even before Thomas’ soaring tenor entered, it sounded like Foreigner. But it also made the Top 20, which helped the album into the Top Ten and to a gold record award. Reluctant leader Paul Kantner came back to the fore, and, at least on the energetic “Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (a chart single), that was a good thing, though the more typically discursive, rhythmically static songs like “Lightning Rose” and “Things to Come” (on which Thomas, through the magic of overdubbing, replaced Slick and Balin) slowed things down. Other songwriting contributors such as bassist Pete Sears and guitarist Craig Chaquico brought in generic arena rock bombast like “Awakening” and “Rock Music,” making this a typically uneven effort. Although Freedom at Point Zero demonstrated that the group could soldier on, the band without its quirky individualists was ultimately too generic, which made Slick’s return on the next album welcome.
01 Jane
02 Lightning Rose
03 Things To Come
04 Awakening
05 Girl With The Hungry Eyes
06 Just The Same
07 Rock Music
08 Fading Lady Light
09 Freedom At Point Zero
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