Jefferson Starship was the 1970s version of the 1960s band Jefferson Airplane. At the time of this concert, the band had just released the single "Miracles" earlier in the month. It would go on to reach Number 3 in the US chart, the band's biggest hit by far. However, the song wasn't performed at this concert. That's probably because the song was written by Marty Balin and co-sung with him and Grace Slick. Balin was only a sometimes member of the band at the time, and he wasn't at this concert.
The album "Miracles" was on, "Red Octopus," wouldn't be released until July. It would go on to be a huge seller, reaching Number One in the US album chart. The band played some songs from it, like "Fast Buck Freddie" and "Play on Love," that would have been brand new to the audience.
There was some drama going on behind the stage prior to this set taking place. The band's bassist Peter Sears got stuck in traffic trying to get to the concert, and the band felt they couldn't go on stage without him. The audience grew restless as everyone waited for Sears to show up. Promoter Bill Graham was getting frantic. He was going to have Joan Baez go on stage instead (and have Jefferson Starship take her time slot later), but at literally the last minute, Sears showed up and ran to the stage, allowing the band to go on after all.
By the way, I don't think I've mentioned this, but for all the sets, the lead vocals were too low. So I used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments.
This album is 39 minutes long.
47 Ride the Tiger (Jefferson Starship)
48 talk (Jefferson Starship)
49 Fast Buck Freddie (Jefferson Starship)
50 talk (Jefferson Starship)
51 Get Fiddler (Jefferson Starship)
52 talk (Jefferson Starship)
53 Play on Love (Jefferson Starship)
54 I Want to See Another World (Jefferson Starship)
55 Sweeter than Honey (Jefferson Starship)
56 talk (Jefferson Starship)
57 Somebody to Love (Jefferson Starship)
58 talk (Jefferson Starship)
59 Volunteers (Jefferson Starship)
Yet again, I could only find one photo of this act performing at this exact concert, so I used it. But it was another black and white one, so I colorized it with the help of the Palette program. The photo only should Paul Kantner on guitar and Grace Slick on vocals. I had to guess on the colors for Kantner (and I stuck with the colors chosen by the Palette program), but I read in a review of the concert that Slick wore all black.
"Ride The Tiger" is a fantastic set opener.
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