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Sunfighter is an album created by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane. The album was released shortly after the Airplane album Bark was released, and is the second record released on the Airplane's own Grunt label, backed by RCA. The album features a picture of their baby daughter, China Wing Kantner on the cover. Many Bay Area musicians perform on the album, including members of the Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and the horn group, Tower of Power. This album was also the first that Craig Chaquico performed on; he would become the lead guitarist for Jefferson Starship.wp.
This is something of a family album, co-credited to Paul Kantner and his wife, Grace Slick, and featuring on its cover a photograph of their infant daughter, China. It also features the family of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and other current members of Jefferson Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship. Its style of loosely arranged acid rock music and radical left political lyrics is similar to such recent albums as the Kantner/Starship Blows Against the Empire (December 1970) and the Airplane's Bark (August 1971), which were made by most of the same players. But Kantner and Slick's usual stridency is not counterbalanced by substance as much as on earlier efforts, perhaps because they were making too many albums too quickly to keep up the quality of their songwriting. Still, anyone who enjoys the sweet-and-sour unison singing of X's John Doe and Exene Cervenka should listen to Sunfighter to see where they got it from.AMG
| TRACKLIST |
| 1. Silver Spoon 2. Diana, Pt. 1 3. Sunfighter 4. Titanic 5. Look at the Wood 6. When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves 7. Million 8. China 9. Earth Mother 10. Diana, Pt. 2 11. Universal Copernican Mumbles 12. Holding Together |
Personnel & Tracks
Silver Spoon
* Grace Slick - Piano / Vocals
* Papa John Creach - Violin
* Jack Casady - Bass
* Joey Covington - Drums
* The Spanish Sexuals - Flute
Diana
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar / Vocals
* Grace Slick - Piano / Vocals
Sunfighter
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar / Vocals
* Grace Slick - Piano / Vocals
* Joey Covington - Drums
* Peter Kaukonen - Guitar
* Greg Adams - Trumpet / Flugelhorn
* Mic Gillette - Trombone
* Steven Schuster - Horn Arrangement / Sax / Flute
* Edwin Hawkins Singers - Vocals
Titanic
* Phil Sawyer - Sound Effects
Look at the Wood
* Grace Slick - Vocals
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar / Vocals
* David Crosby - Vocals / Tambourine
* Graham Nash - Arp
* Jorma Kaukonen - Lead Guitar
When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar / Vocals
* Grace Slick - Vocals
* Peter Kaukonen - Mandolin
* Shelley Silverman - Drums
* Jerry Garcia - Guitar
* David Crosby - Vocals
* Graham Nash - Vocals
Million
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar / Vocals
* Grace Slick - Piano / Vocals
* Jerry Garcia - Guitar
* Bill Laudner - Vocals
China
* Grace Slick - Piano / Vocals
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar
* Jack Casady - Bass
* Chris Wing - Drums
* Joey Covington - Drums
* Greg Adams - Trumpet
* Mic Gillette - Trombone
* Steven Schuster - Horn Arrangement / Sax
Earth Mother
* Grace Slick - Piano / Vocals
* Paul Kantner - Vocals
* Jack Traylor - Guitar / Vocals
* Spencer Dryden - Drums
* Craig Chaquico - Lead Guitar
* Papa John Creach - Violin
Diana 2
* Paul Kantner - Rhythm Guitar / Vocals
* Grace Slick - Arp / Vocals
* David Crosby - Vocals
* Graham Nash - Vocals
Universal Copernican Mumbles
* Paul Kantner - Vocals
* Pat Gleeson - Moog / Piano
* John Vierra - Synthesizer Keyboard
Holding Together
* Paul Kantner - Vocals
* Grace Slick - Piano
* Jerry Garcia - Guitar
* Joey Covington - Drums
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