Paul Kantner & Grace Slick
Sunfighter (1971)
Label:  RCA 
Date:  1971
Length:  41:58
Genre:  Psycho Rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Silver Spoon    5:43
      2.  
      		 Diana [Part 1]    0:52
      3.  
      		 Sunfighter    3:56
      4.  
      		 Titanic    2:33
      5.  
      		 Look At The Wood-When I Was A Boy    2:12
      6.  
      		 When I Was A Boy I Watched The Wolves    5:04
      7.  
      		 Million    4:07
      8.  
      		 China    3:21
      9.  
      		 Earth Mother    3:21
      10.  
      		 Diana [Part 2]    1:03
      11.  
      		 Universal Copernican Mumbles   (John Vierra/Pat Gleeson/Paul Kantner)  2:04
      12.  
      		 Holding Together   (Grace Slick/Paul Kantner)  7:42
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      This marked something of a comeback for what amounted to an extended, informal Airplane lineup. Both Kantner and Slick try much harder, with careful songwriting, production, and performances. Their harmonies are often drab and monotonous, and many of the tunes have the aimless, shambling sound of the late-period Airplane (e.g., the long, sleepy jam "Holding Together"). But there are also some decent efforts: Grace's "Silver Spoon" is an entertaining ode to cannibalism; "Diana" has a bombastic orchestral arrangement that sets it totally apart from Kantner's earlier work; "Look At The Wood" is a respectable hippy hoe-down number with some Steve Stills-like acoustic guitar; "When I Was A Boy I Watched The Wolves" is a solid late 60s Airplane-style rock tune; "Million" is the best of several piano ballads; and the Aretha Franklin-like "China" gets an elaborate horn arrangement. Not one tune is truly memorable, but at least the record isn't as offensively lousy as almost everything else Slick and Kantner were involved in during this decade. The players include Casady, Covington, Creach; both Jorma and his brother Peter; a very young Craig Chaquico; Garcia, Crosby and Nash; and the Tower of Power horn section
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