Jefferson Starship
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Jefferson Starship: Central Park, NYC
Live Review by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, June 1975
THEY MAY HAVE changed their surname, but Jefferson Starship have arrived at a conciliatory relationship with their past, and with mixed results. With Marty Balin ...
Up The Revolution? F**k The Revolution!
Review and Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, October 1994
PLANEBRANES. THAT'S WHAT obsessive aficionados of Jefferson Airplane and all that venerable group's offshoots – Jefferson Starship, Starship (two different enterprises, confusingly enough), Mickey Thomas's ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1974
Grace Slick and pals talk about getting the band together, recording Dragon Fly and being on the road, plus stuff about their individual musical histories.
File format: mp3; in 6 parts, total file sizes: 100.2mb, total interview length: 1h 49' 29" sound quality: ***
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1974
Grace Slick and pals talk about getting the band together, recording Dragon Fly and being on the road, plus stuff about their individual musical histories.
File format: mp3; in 6 parts, total file sizes: 100.2mb, total interview length: 1h 49' 29" sound quality: ***
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Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
Being a rock star has its advantages, but the spotlight is usually only big enough for one person. Circus took a behind stage look at ...
Jefferson Starship: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 13 April 1974
Jefferson Starship in orbit ...
Interview by Rob Bowman, ZigZag, October 1974
Grace Slick, over the last ten years, has attained great notoriety fronting Jefferson Airplane. ...
Jefferson Starship, Stardrive with Robert Mason: Radio City Music Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 21 November 1974
Starship to Crew: Down to Earth ...
Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 30 November 1974
HONESTLY, HAVING even to think about Jeff Airplane/ Starship/whatever these days is getting to be a bore. ...
Jefferson Starship: Slow Orbiting
Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
THE JEFFERSON Starship didn't hit Texas in a blaze of glory, they infiltrated it, with what had to be the most leisurely national tour by ...
Jefferson Starship: Dragon Fly
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
FOR SEVERAL YEARS, the nucleus of the Airplane/Starship has been struggling to hold together a concept that didn't seem workable in the first place. The ...
Jefferson Starship: Marty Balin Returns To The Fold
Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, May 1975
THE EXCITEMENT around the Airplane Mansion is real. It's in the very woodwork of this huge home in a once-fashionable section of San Francisco, where ...
Jefferson Starship: Take Me To Your Leader
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Creem, September 1975
"GET ME A blonde wig," says Gracie Slick over the background noise of traffic down Broadway and 52nd Street in Fun City. ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, November 1975
Reunion in the Park: The Dead & The Starship Back To Basics ...
Audio transcript of interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1976
This is a transcript of Jim's audio interview with Grace. Note that almost all his questions are inaudible on his tape. Hear the interview here ...
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 17 July 1976
IT WAS FUNNY, though, wasn't it? ...
Jefferson Starship: Starship's Enterprise
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 24 July 1976
ONE BY ONE the group drifts into Wally Heider's recording studio for a mixing session. Marty Balin is absent but his presence fills the air. ...
Skate Board Grounds the Starship
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 18 September 1976
I WAS WOKEN up by the phone. I had some trouble working out where I was. It took a few seconds to realise that I ...
Jefferson Starship's Paul Kantner
Interview by Ian Birch, ZigZag, November 1976
LIKE A KANTNER COMPOSITION, this interview was virtually plucked out of the air. I was all set to leave San Francisco but, knowing the Jefferson ...
Grace Slick Interviewed: Grass, Acid And The Starship
Interview by Jim Esposito, Oui, February 1977
GRACE SLICK, the original Acid Queen, was born Grace Wing October 30th, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was an investment banker. Her mother, a ...
Jefferson Starship: Earth (Grunt BXL1-2515)
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, May 1978
STARSHIP FINDS PEACE ON EARTH ...
Report and Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 17 June 1978
Planet minders turn platinum miners ...
Starship Aim To Stay On Course
Report and Interview by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 24 June 1978
FOR MANY fans the most disappointing news today is that legendary rock singer Grace Slick will not perform with the Jefferson Starship. ...
Aynsley Dunbar: Let There Be Drums!
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, 16 February 1979
SAN FRANCISCO – Within the world of rock and roll there are certain performers whose distinctive virtuosity transcend their individual works recorded with a particular ...
Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, August 1980
Dark Star: David Grisman and Vassar Clements were beefing on once about the fact that they never got any money from Old And In The ...
Grace Slick: Making Her Own Dreams
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 August 1980
MILL VALLEY – "I can't do anything middle of the road. My music is either very polite, with classical instruments, or, its rude and offensive." ...
Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, December 1980
HOW DID you come to get involved with Roadhog? As far as I can tell, they were an existing band. ...
Jefferson Starship: Modern Times (RCA)
Review by Jim Farber, Creem, July 1981
Dear Stockholder, We are very pleased to report to all of you who own stock in the Jefferson Starship Corporation that our 1980 financial gross was ...
Report by J.D. Considine, Musician, October 1981
Band like REO, Styx and Journey have taken the details of the rock sound and made the medium the whole message, capitalizing on the rock ...
Jefferson Starship: Return of The Band That Will Not Die
Report and Interview by Dave Zimmer, Creem, November 1981
YOU CAN'T last any longer than the Jefferson Starship, a band that's been at the top of the charts with regularity since, unbelievably, 1966. ...
Jefferson Starship: The Starship Strikes Back
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 11 December 1985
"Say ya don't know me?Or recognize my face?...Don't you remember?We built this city on rock and roll!"– from 'We Built This City'by Bernie Taupin, Martin ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, 1995
BASS GUITARIST and keyboard player Pete Sears occupies what I believe to be a unique position amongst Terrascope interviewees to date, his career having begun ...
Report by Charles Bermant, Rock's Backpages, October 2007
Things aren't what they used to be, but they never were in the first place ...
see also Jefferson Airplane
see also Grace Slick
see also Paul Kantner
see also Jorma Kaukonen
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