Manhole

Artist: Grace Slick
Label: Acadia Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 805772801523
EAN: 0805772801523
ASIN: B00005MCRN

Release Date: 2001-08-02

Manhole

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Tracks:

Jay
Theme from the Movie "Manhole"
Come Again; Toucan
It's Only Music
Better Lying Down - Pete Sears, Grace Slick
Epic (#38)

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Album Description

UK reissue of 1974 solo album debut for the Jefferson Airplane/Starship vocalist. Guest artists include, Paul Kantner, Jack Casady & David Crosby. Seven tracks including, 'Jay', 'Manhole (Theme From The Movie)', 'Come Again' & 'Toucan'.

Album Details

Reissue of her 1974 post Jefferson Airplane debut solo release. This was released just prior to the resurrected Jefferson Starship's hit 'Dragonfly' album. First time on CD.

Customer Reviews:

Blast From The Past.......2006-11-08

A friend of mine has been talking about this album forever and I was happy to see it is still available and as he said, it is one of Grace Slick's best efforts. Thanks. You made him and me real happy.

I love Theme, Better Lying, and Toucan in that order.......2005-10-27

When one loves someones voice, almost anything that comes from them vocally, will be loved.
Case in point: myself and Grace Slicks voice.

Her voice never seems (seemed) to mystify, intrigue, turn me on, and make me feel very interested in the fact that she and her voice are unpredicable, interesting and not boring as compared to any other female voice in music.
But if you are in love with art, you arent too unbiased.

Now to this album.
I only like the songs Grace is the center of. Thats the case in all my interest in JA/JS/Starship and when I saw them live.
If I didnt see or hear Grace at a concert or on an album, I wasnt intersted.
I told her once about this and she wrote me in an autograph: "Come down from there". Classic, brilliant Grace but remember this review is very biased by me.

Someone mentioned the Spanish is indecipherable. As Spanish is my second language, it is not indecipherable at all.
Firstly, Grace got the translations from a Spanish janitor at the recording studio as she was penning the song.
The translations are pure poetic and of course make no sense and cant be translated to English just as English poetry cant be perfectly translated back to Spanish. Besides the English lyrics of the Spanish here is translated into English in "Theme".
"Quatro pedazos de metal con punta, corte el aire, corte el suelo"..........man must fly.
Basically saying is describing a spaceship taking off into space, cutting into the air.

Her voice here is just incredible. From the Spanish intonnations of the Rs....in the word "carne" to the rest of the range of loud, soft, vibrato, etc. Just awesome.

In "Better Lying Down", I love the power of her voice and love the Central Park tape of this song, live, from 5-12-75 which gave her less control but was less predictable which is a Grace trademark.

"Toucan" is my least fav from here but still love the range of voice and Im still wondering what she said low at the end of the song, which to me, was....."wish it were Spanish".
There is a live version of this too that I have but prefer the studio one.

As for the other songs here, YES, Grace wasnt on them cause she was partying a lot and didnt make the studio so the rest of the musicians recorded it. I dont think it was her choice to have them do this, it had to be done without her presence.

Thanx Grace to the happiness you have given and I still havent "Come down from there".
LOL......Like shes really reading this.

g.

Grace in full voice.......2005-06-20

The music here is sometimes draggy and repetitive. The arrangements are overwrought in high prog-rock style. The lyrics don't quite make sense. And none of that matters one bit.

This is Grace Slick at the peak of her vocal achievement. She has reached the vocal power that her Jefferson Airplane work only hinted at, and she is not the sad shell of her former self that is heard on the later Starship albums. Her singing ranks up with the great female forces of nature. That's enough to make this album a must-have.

Come again..........2003-04-05

...Toucan...When this album came out I was in college and all of us who were Grace fans listened to it over and over...'Come Again, Toucan', which most reviews here seem to like, is the song that recalls her live power most to me...'Have a little taste more wine, we'd be flyin', flyin' wild, and old, old as the whole world and I'd come around like a baby, and crawl right back inside'...After seeing them, JA, many times both in halls and for free in Central Park, I still love that song for what it brings back...The best show I ever saw was JS at Radio City when they did 'Blows Against the Empire', taking full advantage of the lights and effects available...

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