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Hot Tuna on the 07 Roo ticket brings to mind some of the music I grew up on. I have been a Jefferson Airplane freak since I was 11. White Rabbit and Somebody to Love are classic hits, everyone knows em'. Then theres the off releases, the ones I love, that no one knows about.
When I was younger, I found an old dusty vinyl of "Flight Log". Listened to it, dug it. One day I tell my dad, "I found this band I like." Come to find out, Airplane was his favorite band back in the day too. So he starts showing me all these records, all good, some better than others.
Of all of Jefferson Airplane's albums, their best releases aren't under the JA label. Theres 3 lost albums: 'Blows Against the Empire', released under Jefferson Starship; 'Sunfighter' released under Kantner/Slick; and 'Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun" under Kantner/Slick/Freiberg. Now I know the name Starship produced some crap, basically everything after 'Dragonfly' (they sold out ), but Blows came out in 71, long before the Airplane fizzled
Among artists included on these recordings: Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, David Crosby, Graham Nash, The Pointer Sisters, Papa John Creach, and the brass section from Tower of Power...These were active members of the band. To me this is the original super-band.
Now Jerry plays every bit of lead guitar on all these albums. I remember when I was a kid my dad telling me..."and none of the deadheads know about it." These recordings are very rare and hard to find, but if you look they're there. I found Sunfighter and Blows on some P2P and Torrent servers, and I know they got re-released on CD but i don't know how to find them.
So am I the only cat on Inforoo knows about this stuff? If so, yall NEED to check that out. Its some of the best music ever made, with some crazy players collaboration on it. I hope yall check it out, I just had to get the word out to some people with ears and open minds.
Saw Starship on their first ever tour in Boston when Kantner and Papa John were still with them. For their second set they played nearly all of "Blows". It was nuts.
Odd trivia: Blow Against the Empire won a Hugo award for science fiction the year it came out
), but Blows came out in 71, long before the Airplane fizzled 
