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Musicians

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE/STARSHIP

Airplane 68-72: "a continent of love and fire"- recommended albums from the changing collective are:

JA - Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters, Crown of Creation, Volunteers; Bless its Pointed Little Head - all strongly recommended. Takes Off is very early; while Bark and Long John Silver are products of decline.

Starship, Slick, etc: Baron von Tollbooth and the Chromium Nun, Dragonfly, Manhole. J Starship ius now revisiting classic works; avoid various "Starship" incarnations without the J, they slip into bombast.

Plenty of Streaming Audio of concertsn from Airplane (including also Volunteers outtakes) and Hot Tuna and Jorma Kaukonen himself are available at the excellent SUGAMEGS, on which I'm currently listening to a recent Phil Lesh concert as I write....

New in 2003 is a very informative (if only occasionally inspiring about the music) book on JA, "Gotta Revolution" by Jeff Tamarkin - good for following up people and bands, and cleared up several misunderstandings on my part about who?where? The website features extracts from the book and much unpublished material - go to the Hangar

http://grove.ufl.edu/~number6/Jefferson.Airplane/airplane.html a very rich site, many links

http://www.geocities.com/starshipper.geo/1.html good Starship site, links to discography

http://www.math.ufl.edu/~jaz/Articles/articles.html articles, interviews

http://home.hiwaay.net/~brettr/jeffair.htm some audio and video clips

http://www.starship.pp.se/ links, histories, biographies

http://publish.uwo.ca/~stuhrig/airplanepage.htm links, links…

The Starship had commercial success, and some definite high points, though sometimes it lacked the distinctiveness and originality of the Airplane, especially after Paul Kantner's departure http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/8690/ official starship page http://www.geocities.com/starshipper.geo/ unoffical page http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/8690/ rather breathless starship site

For Grace Slick:

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/8690/ Grace Slick DREAMS site . Her autobio is now out.

For Hot Tuna: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/8690/ Hot Tuna site - lots of Jorma Kaukonen, not a bad thing

For Paul Kantner:

http://hot-tuna.zoo.duke.edu/~jaz/Commentary/comm.html lyrics etc

ROBERT WYATT

plangent, limpid, political

http://www.strongcomet.com/wyatt/ good starting point http://www.rykodisc.com/RykoInternal/Limited/wyatt/ selling (some of) his music, but lots more

http://people.a2000.nl/arotshui/rw-main2.html discographies and more - includes Soft Machine

KEVIN AYERS

whateverhebringsswesing...

http://www.ping.be/~ping8683/ official pages http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~marwak/ "it begins with a blessing, and ends with a curse…" (COMPLETE THIS QUOTE)

JOHN CALE

baging on his iron drum

http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B3818 BASIC BIO, failing to give enough weight to his productions for Nico and his solo work

JACK BRUCE

Unfortunately no site seems to concentrate on his peak work with songs by poet Pete Brown (he of purple fishes fame) as captured occasionally by Cream and superbly on the albums SONGS FOR A TAILOR and HARMONY ROW, and some live work (some on the net…); and the work with Tony Williams and John McLaughlin in the band Lifetime (which had to be seen and heard, uncapturable on disc)…

http://www.jackbruce.com/ official site http://www.keeny.net/jackbruce/ good unofficial site http://www.lynchfilms.com/jack.htm short but sweet - and lyrics to a song by Pete Brown

CARLA BLEY

jazz master/mistress

More to come: Beefheart, Brazilians, jazz, minimalists...

http://www.ejn.it/mus/c_bley.htm biography http://www2.pcom.net/rminer/CarlaBley.html discography

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