Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship - Blows Against The Empire (1970)
Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship - Blows Against The Empire (1970)
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
RCA/Legacy 82876 67974 2 | rel: 2005 | 420Mb
Rock | 1cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
RCA/Legacy 82876 67974 2 | rel: 2005 | 420Mb
Paul Kantner's debut solo album actually was credited to "Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship," the first use of the "Starship" billing, predating the formation of the group with that name by four years. Kantner used it, extrapolating on the name of his current band, Jefferson Airplane, to refer to Blows's science fiction concept: A bunch of left-wing hippies closely resembling his San Francisco Bay Area compatriots hijack a government-built starship and head off to re-start the human race on another planet. Kantner had presaged this post-apocalyptic colonization idea on "Wooden Ships" on the last Airplane album, Volunteers, and here he expanded it out to album length with the help of members of The Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Crosby, Stills and Nash, plus assorted others, a shifting supergroup informally known as PERRO, The Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra. (Kantner later would borrow that name for a subsequent solo album.) Blows actually was a little loose as concept albums go, seeming as concerned with the arrival of Kantner and Grace Slick's baby as with the departure of the starship. Kantner employed often dense instrumentation and complex arrangements, but there were enough hooks and harmonies to keep things interesting. Blows eventually went gold, and it was even nominated for a science fiction award usually reserved for novels. ~Allmusic
Track listing
1. "Mau Mau (Amerikon)" Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Joey Covington - 6:33
2. "The Baby Tree" Rosalie Sorrels - 1:42
3. "Let's Go TogetherA" Kantner - 4:11
4. "A Child Is Coming" Kantner, Slick, David Crosby - 6:15
5. "Sunrise" Slick - 1:54
6. "Hijack" Kantner, Slick, Marty Balin, Gary Blackman - 8:18
7. "Home" Kantner, Phill Sawyer, Graham Nash - 0:37
8. "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite?" Kantner, Crosby - 3:42
9. "XM" Kantner, Sawyer, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart - 1:22
10. "Starship" Kantner, Slick, Balin, Blackman - 7:07
bonus
11. "Let's Go Together" (alternate lyrics) Paul Kantner - 4:22
12. "Sunrise" (acoustic demo) Grace Slick - 1:21
13. "Hijack" (acoustic demo) Paul Kantner - 7:02
14. "SFX" (raw sound effects for XM) Paul Kantner, Sawyer, Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart - 2:04
15. "Starship" (Jefferson Airplane live, rec: September 14, 1970 at Fillmore West) Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Blackman - 10:07
Personnel
- Paul Kantner – vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, banjo, bass machine
- Grace Slick – piano, vocals
- Jerry Garcia – banjo on "Let's Go Together", pedal steel guitar on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", sound effects and vocals on "XM", lead guitar on "Starship"
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums on "Let's Go Together"
- Mickey Hart – percussion on "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", sound effects and vocals on "XM"
- Joey Covington – drums and vocals on "Mau Mau", congas on "Hijack"
- Jack Casady – bass on "A Child Is Coming" and "Sunrise"
- David Crosby – vocals and guitar on "A Child Is Coming" and "Have You Seen the Stars Tonite", background vocals on "Starship"
- Graham Nash – congas on "Hijack", sound effects on "Home", background vocals on "Starship"
- David Freiberg – background vocals on "Starship"
- Harvey Brooks – bass on "Starship"
- Peter Kaukonen – lead guitar on "Mau Mau"
- Phill Sawyer – sound effects on "Home" and "XM"
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