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Review by Tim Sindelar
Sunfighter is the latest release of the
Paul KantnerGrace Slick faction of the
Jefferson Airplane, which was also mostly
responsible for Blows Against the Empire.
Much of the personnel from the
Airplane is present, along with guest
appearances by the Airplane's
granddaddy, Jerry Garcia, and those good
friends, David Crosby and Graham Nash.
Seemingly enough outstanding talent to
sink an album, which, unfortunately does
happen.
Most of the blame for the failure of
the album, which comes off as almost any
Airplane album crossed with the Starship
album, lies in the excesses of kantner and
Slick. While Kantner produced a
worthwhile record with Blows, he has
become stuck with the same format that
he discovered on the Volunteers.
The same strident, repeated chords,
with semi-shouted lyrics related to
revolution, togetherness and a new
society, all of which were interesting and
inspiring on Volunteers, dominate
Sunfighter. But today they are hollow,
almost mocking.
"Silver Spoon," "Diana" and
"Sunfighter," which open the album, and
"Million." "Diana 2" and "Holding
Together" on the second side, share the
same sound.
"Sunfighter has those great
lines "subcarbon oscilliation sunshine
blurring fascination." "Titanic" is merely
an average piece of psuedo-pychedelic
sound effects.
While "Look at the Woods" is
interesting and "When I Was A Boy. . ."
has some nice musical work on it, Side
One is nearly beyond redemption.
Side Two isn't much better. "Million"
is nice and all, but strictly old hat.
"China" is little more than baby pictures
with its unreal Hollywood orchestra
ending.
"Earth Mother" is one of those
ecology songs that couldn't stand up to
the Airplane's other venture in that
field "Eskimo Blue Day" on
Volunteers. And "Universal Copernican
Mumbles" would be put to shame by any
similar work by Pink Floyd.
"Holding Together" is more of the
same old dream. Fantasizing about the
revolution and an Atlantean future is all
very fine and fun, but it really gets
boring, especially to those who have had
their share of politics and all.
The dream seems to have grown cold,
and it's becoming tiring to mumble about
"leaving the earth to the wind and go into
the nova." While the music is high
powered and intense, the dream has been
lost.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1972