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Blows Against the Empire by Paul Kantner (CD, Sep-2005, RCA Records USA) 
Blows Against the Empire by Paul Kantner (CD, Sep-2005, RCA Records USA)

 
Blows Against the Empire by Paul Kantner (CD, Sep-2005, RCA Records USA)

Artist: Paul Kantner
Release Date: Sep 2005
Format: CD
Record Label: RCA Records (USA)
Genre: Rock & Pop
UPC: 828766797428
Product ID: EPID47700117
Description: 35th Anniversary Edition, contains bonus tracks. Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship: Paul Kantner (vocals, guitar); Grace Slick (vocals, keyboards); Jorma Kaukonen (guitar); Jack Casady (bass instrument). Additional personnel: Jerry Garcia ...
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Track Listing
1. Mau Mau (Amerikon)
2. Baby Three, The
3. Let's Go Together
4. Child Is Coming, A
5. Sunrise
6. Hijack
7. Home
8. Have You Seen the Stars Tonite
9. XM
10. Starship
11. Let's Go Together - (alternate lyrics)
12. Sunrise - (Grace's acoustic demo tk 8)
13. Hijack - (Paul's acoustic demo tk 5)
14. SFX - (with Jerry Garcia/Mickey Hart)
15. Starship - (live)

Details
Contributing Artists:David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jerry Garcia
Producer:Paul Kantner
Distributor:BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
35th Anniversary Edition, contains bonus tracks.
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship: Paul Kantner (vocals, guitar); Grace Slick (vocals, keyboards); Jorma Kaukonen (guitar); Jack Casady (bass instrument).
Additional personnel: Jerry Garcia (guitar, banjo); David Crosby (guitar, background vocals); Peter Kaukonen (guitar); Harvey Brooks (bass instrument); Joey Covington (drums, percussion); Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (drums); Graham Nash (percussion, background vocals); David Freiberg (background vocals).
Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner's first solo album is also credited to Jefferson Starship. Though the Jefferson Airplane was still active and popular in 1971, Kanter presaged the band's transformation into the Starship by four years. Members of the Airplane do appear, but the group here is more a loose aggregate of friends including David Crosby and Graham Nash, members of the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service, and assorted others.
A sci-fi fan, Kantner had the idea of constructing an album around the idea of a group of radicals hijacking a spaceship and taking off to colonize the galaxy. Though the concept is fleshed out only loosely, the album was a success critically and commercially. Highlights include the slower acoustic melodies such as "A Child Is Coming" and "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite." Musically interesting and noteworthy for the collaborative energy from some of the San Francisco scene's leading musical lights, BLOW AGAINST THE EMPIRE is an intriguing, overlooked early-'70s treasure.

Editorial Reviews
[I]t wears well musically, and contains some memorable lyrical images.
Dirty Linen

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      Blows Against the Empire - Jefferson Starship
    Review created: 09/15/06
    by:
    rcf61zh ( 659)
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    16 of 16 people found this review helpful.

    I am not willing to accept the fact that I am the first to review this album. It came out in 1970. It's brilliant. It's psychedelic. It's science fiction. It has the whole San Francisco crowd - Kantner, Slick, Freiberg (QMS), Crosby. Even Jerry Garcia! WHERE ARE THE REVIEWERS?

    If the musicians aren't enough, how about "Story By Heinlein," complete with a dramatization of Andrew Jackson Libby's space drive? This album pushed every button of my hippie younger-self, and it can still do it today. WHERE ARE THE REVIEWERS? Doesn't anybody know this record?

    It was the first of the Jefferson STARSHIP albums, closely followed by Sunfighter and then Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun. It begins with Grace:

    "Sunrise Surprise...
    Civilized Man, you were keeper to me,
    Now your animal is free, and you're free to die!
    You're old, and your hand is grey,
    You're old, go home and stay,
    We've all heard your dirty stories,
    Two thousand years...
    Two thoudand years...
    Two thousand years... of your God-damned glory."*

    And continues to the stars.

    I've seen Grace do this bit song live - the most dramatic moment ever in Rock and Roll for me, and I've got the pictures to prove it. I've seen Darby Gould do this live with the current version of Starship. Yes, it's still their opening. And Darby is just as dramatic, although Mr. Spotlight Guy often doesn't get it.

    If you lived in the 60's you need this record. If you didn't, you need it even more.

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    This review and all the words in it were written without my looking up anything. I may have a mind like a steel sieve, but some things I rememeber.


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