Here is the info file from Dime
hal’s Death by Jefferson Starship # 5
Interview with Prairie Prince / &
JS @ Tramps, NYC (August 11th, 1996)CD 1
00 Interview with Prairie Prince (Nov. 21st ’92, San Jose Cabaret)
01 the Light
02 Crown of Creation
03 See the Light
04 Borderlands
05 Lather
06 Windows of Heaven
07 Ganja of Love
08 Waves of Love
09 GoddessCD 2
10 Millenium Beyond
11 Out of the Rain
12 Maybe for You
13 Across the Board
14 Plastic Fantastic Lover
15 White Rabbit
16 America
17 volunteers
18 crowd yells for moreencore:
19 Miracles
20 Somebody to Love
21 Today
22 3/5ths of a Mile in Ten SecondsAnother East Coast show — quite notable for the many new
songs from the work in progress, "Windows of Heaven" (an album that
I think is Paul n’ Marty’s best effort since the early JS days!).At the time I had heard tales of a new song, "Millenium Beyond," and
here it is, the premier performance. Diana Mangano is now
on lead vocals, without Darby, but with Marty singing as strong as
ever; and Prairie Prince on drums, as fitting for my interview with
him, given here for the first time.DSBD > cassette > WaveLab > CDWave > FLAC
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and here is a history from Wikipedia
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
During the transitional period of the early 1970s, singer-guitarist Paul Kantner recorded Blows Against The Empire, a concept album featuring an ad hoc group of musicians and credited on the LP as "Paul Kantner – Jefferson Starship", marking the first use of the latter name. This ‘prototype’ version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby and Graham Nash and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, as well as some of the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, lead singer Grace Slick, drummer Joey Covington and bassist Jack Casady. In Blows Against the Empire, Kantner (and Slick) sang about a group of people escaping Earth in a hijacked starship. In 1971, the album was nominated for the prestigious science fiction prize, the Hugo Award, a rare honor for a musical recording. It was while that album was being made that Kantner sealed his love affair with Grace Slick; their daughter China Kantner (who made a name for herself as an MTV veejay in the 1980s) was born shortly thereafter.
Kantner and Slick (with a similar group of musicians, but without a ‘Jefferson Starship’ artist credit) released two follow-up albums: Sunfighter, an environmentalism-tinged album released in 1971 to celebrate China’s birth, and 1973’s Baron von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun, titled after the nicknames David Crosby had given to the couple. The artist credit on Baron von Tollbooth gave ex-bassist-keyboard player-vocalist David Freiberg equal billing with Kantner and Slick. Freiberg had known and played with Kantner on the folk circuit in the early 1960s and also appeared on Blows Against the Empire, and he had joined Jefferson Airplane in time to appear on their live LP Thirty Seconds over Winterland. Also in 1973, Slick released Manhole, her first solo album. It was on the "Manhole" album that Paul and Grace first worked with Pete Sears, who was downstairs co-producing a Kathy McDonald album in the same studio. Sears wrote and recorded the song, "Better Lying Down" with Grace. It was during this 1972 session at Wally Heider studios in San Francisco, that Paul first asked Pete to play with a new band he was forming called, "Jefferson Starship". Sears had worked on three of Rod Stewart’s early British recordings, and had to go back to England to play on "Smiler", Rod’s last album made in London. Sears then returned to the States to join Jefferson Starship in 1974.
Kantner is also credited with discovering teenage guitarist Craig Chaquico during this time, who first appeared on Sunfighter and would play with Kantner, Slick and their bands and then with Starship through 1991. He later embarked on a successful solo career as a smooth jazz artist. [edit]Jefferson Starship
By 1973, with Kaukonen and Casady now devoting their full attention to Hot Tuna, the musicians on Baron von Tollbooth formed the core of a new lineup that was formally reborn as "Jefferson Starship" in 1974. Kantner, Slick, and Freiberg were charter members. The line-up also included late-Airplane holdovers drummer John Barbata, and fiddler Papa John Creach (who also played with Hot Tuna), along with Pete Sears (who, like Freiberg, played bass and keyboards) and twenty-year-old guitarist Craig Chaquico. Although Marty Balin was originally not among the re-christened Jefferson Starship, he joined the band while their first album, Dragonfly, was still in the works. His only contribution to the new incarnation’s first effort was the haunting ballad, "Caroline". Balin stayed with the group for nearly the remainder of the decade. This line-up proved to be the band’s most commercially successful so far, although some Airplane fans were less than happy with its more mainstream direction. Balin’s sophisticated ballad "Miracles" helped 1975’s Red Octopus reach multiple-platinum status. The follow-ups, Spitfire (1976), and Earth (1978), were both big sellers.
However, Slick’s alcoholism became a problem, which led to two nights of disastrous concerts in Germany in 1978[1]. The first night, fans ransacked the stage when Slick failed to appear. The following night, Slick, in a drunken stupor, shocked the audience by using profanity and sexual references throughout most of her songs. She also reminded the audience that their country had lost during World War II, repeatedly asking "Who won the war?", and implied that all residents of Germany were responsible for the wartime atrocities[2]. After the debacle, she left the band. Towards the end of 1978, Jefferson Starship (now without Grace Slick) recorded "Light the Sky on Fire" for their forthcoming greatest hits album Gold, and performed it (under its original title "Cigar-Shaped Object") on-camera for The Star Wars Holiday Special. Gold, highlighting their work from 1974’s Dragonfly through to 1978’s Earth, was released early the following year. "Light the Sky on Fire" (backed with Sears and Slick’s "Hyperdrive", from Dragonfly) was included as a bonus single in the original packaging of album. (When Gold was issued on CD, both tracks were included on the album.) The album originally had a shortened version of the hit "Miracles"; early pressings of the CD repeated this, but later editions had the full length version from the album Red Octopus.
Shortly before the release of Gold, Balin too left the group, leaving Kantner and company to find a new lead singer in Mickey Thomas (who had sung lead on Elvin Bishop’s "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"). Thomas’s soaring falsetto steered the band toward a harder rock sound, leading to comparisons to Journey. It didn’t help that former Journey drummer Aynsley Dunbar had replaced Barbata, who had been injured in a car accident.
After the 1979 release of Freedom at Point Zero (which spawned the hit single "Jane"), Grace Slick suddenly returned to the band. She joined in time to contribute one song, written by Pete Sears, "Stranger", on the group’s next album, Modern Times (1981). Modern Times also included the notorious "Stairway to Cleveland," in which the band defended the numerous changes it had undergone in its musical style, personnel, and even name. One noted personnel change in the group was when Dunbar left and was replaced by Donny Baldwin, who performed with Thomas in the Elvin Bishop Group. Slick remained in the band for Jefferson Starship’s final two albums, Winds Of Change (1982) and Nuclear Furniture (1984). Around this time, the band began enthusiastically embracing the rock-video age, making elaborate videos typical of the era’s superstar bands. Grace Slick would appear frequently on MTV and such music-oriented television shows as Solid Gold, giving the band a high visibility in the MTV era. However, the Jefferson Starship albums of this era were only modestly successful, yet the band remained a gold-selling (and thus commercially credible) act, and a popular concert draw.
Starship
In 1984, Kantner (the last remaining founding member of Jefferson Airplane) left the group, but not before taking legal action over the Jefferson name against his former bandmates, who wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship. Kantner won his suit. The band briefly changed its name to "Starship Jefferson", but ultimately the name was reduced to simply ‘Starship’, marking the third incarnation of the band. Freiberg, who had been increasingly marginalized, left as well. In 1985, Starship released Knee Deep In The Hoopla and immediately scored two #1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf; the second was "Sara". No previous incarnation of the band had ever had a #1 hit. The album itself reached #7, went platinum, and spawned two more singles: "Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter Tonight" (#26), and "Before I Go" (#68).
In 1987, "Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now" was featured in the film Mannequin and hit #1, although only Slick and Thomas (plus Craig Chaquico’s guitar solo) appeared on it. At that time, the song made Slick the oldest female vocalist to sing on a number-one Billboard Hot 100 hit, at the age of 47. She held this record until Cher broke it at the age of 52, in 1999 with "Believe".) The following year, the band’s song "Wild Again" (which reached #73 on the Billboard singles chart) was used in the movie Cocktail. By the time No Protection was released, bassist, keyboardist Pete Sears had left the band due to the commercial direction the music had taken. Sears went on to play keyboards with former "Jefferson Airplane" members, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady in "Hot Tuna" for ten years. Starships, "No Protection" was not released until well after "Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now" (its most popular single) had peaked on the charts, but still went gold; in addition to "Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now" (#1), it featured the singles "It’s Not Over (‘Til It’s Over)" (#9), and "Beat Patrol" (#46). The last song on the album, "Set The Night To Music", would later become a huge hit when re-recorded as a duet between Roberta Flack and Maxi Priest. Grace Slick left Starship in 1988, having become disillusioned with the band’s new pop image and swearing never to perform with them again. In addition, Slick, now in her late forties, was becoming more self-conscious about her age. As Kantner, Sears and Freiberg had left the band, all the new and remaining members were more than a decade younger than her. To this day Grace maintains that old(er) people "don’t belong on a rock and roll stage."
With Slick’s departure, Thomas became sole lead singer, an amazing feat, since he was leading a band that had been founded when he was just 15 years old. The revamped lineup released Love Among the Cannibals in 1989; however, they had disbanded by 1990. Thomas revived Starship shortly thereafter and has toured steadily ever since, usually billed as ‚ÄúStarship featuring Mickey Thomas.‚Äù In concert he plays songs from his stint in Jefferson Starship (1979-1984) as well as Starship material.
Jefferson Starship Returns
After the acrimonious events that resulted in Jefferson Starship‚Äôs 1984 breakup, Paul Kantner reunited with Balin and Jack Casady in 1985 to form the KBC Band. They released their only album, KBC Band (which included Kantner’s hit, "America"), in 1987 on Arista Records. The KBC Band also featured keyboardist Tim Gorman (who had played with The Who) and guitarist Slick Aguilar (who had played with David Crosby’s band).
With Kantner reunited with Balin and Casady, the KBC Band opened the door to a full-blown Jefferson Airplane reunion. In 1989, during a solo San Francisco gig, Paul Kantner found himself joined by former bandmate (and lover) Grace Slick and two other ex-Airplane members for a cameo appearance. This led to a formal reunion of the original Jefferson Airplane (featuring nearly all the main members, including founder Marty Balin, but without Spencer Dryden). A self-titled album was released by Columbia Records to modest sales. The accompanying tour was a success, but their revival was short-lived, and thus Jefferson Airplane’s ‘definitive’ line-up officially disbanded for good. Jefferson Starship rose from the ashes in the early ‚Äò90s and is still active as of 2007. The revived band grew out of Kantner‚Äôs decision to hit the road in 1991 with a stripped down, acoustic ensemble called Paul Kantner‚Äôs Wooden Ships, a trio that included Aguilar and Gorman from the KBC Band. In addition to his classic songs, Kantner and his group performed new material which received resounding praise.
The success of this project prompted Kantner to reinvent his electric band, and Jefferson Starship took off once again. In addition to Aguilar and Gorman, Kantner recruited former collaborators Jack Casady and blues violin master Papa John Creach; former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince; and former World Entertainment War vocalist Darby Gould. In 1993 Marty Balin rejoined Jefferson Starship, ending a 15-year hiatus from the group. Papa John died in early 1993, weeks after touring Europe. Concurrently a sensational young vocalist, Diana Mangano, joined the group as Gould’s replacement.
In 1995 Jefferson Starship released Deep Space/Virgin Sky, a live album recorded at the House of Blues in Hollywood, California. The album featured eight new and seven classic tunes. Grace Slick joined the band for four songs, “Lawman,” “Wooden Ships,” “Somebody To Love” and “White Rabbit.” In 1999 Jefferson Starship released the studio album “Windows of Heaven,” which featured Slick on background vocals on one song, “I’m On Fire.”
Balin continued as a full-time member of the reunited band until 2003 and still occasionally joins them in concert as of 2007. Casady remained a member until the late ‘90s and has since joined Jorma Kaukonen in a reunited Hot Tuna. Gorman left in the late ‘90s as well and was replaced by former Supremes keyboardist Chris Smith. In 2005, David Freiberg rejoined the group. Jefferson Starship continues to entertain audiences worldwide with frequent live appearances. Mangano is an expressive and effective singer, and this revived Jefferson Starship can often capture a good deal of the feeling of the original Airplane.
As of 2007 Jefferson Starship continues to tour with a lineup of Paul Kantner (vocals, guitar), David Freiberg (vocals, bass, keyboards), Diana Mangano (vocals), Slick Aguilar (lead guitar), Chris Smith (keyboards) and Prairie Prince (drums). The band sometimes features guest musicians such as Balin, Gould, Gorman and former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten. Jefferson Starship played three songs on NBC’s “The Today Show” on June 30, 2007.