DRAGON FLY
Dragon Fly is the 1974 debut album by Jefferson Starship. Credited to Grace Slick / Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship, it was the transitional release between the various shifting groups that Slick and Kantner had been recording with, as Jefferson Airplane dissolved in the early 1970s and the new group that Jefferson Starship began. The album just missed the Top Ten and went gold within six months. It sold as well as the Jefferson Airplane records generally had. Although the single “Ride the Tiger” only reached #84 on the Billboard charts, the album itself hit #11. (More from Wikipedia)
Jefferson Starship proper can be dated to the 1974 album Dragon Fly, but the album was still credited to Paul Kantner and Grace Slick as well as Jefferson Starship. Their first big hit song “Miracles” had a timeless quality, to me at least – it felt as though the song had always been there. The line-up included Pete Sears, an alumnus of past UARB the Sons of Fred.
(June 2014)
