Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 060768626522
EAN: 0060768626522
ASIN: B00000HZOR
Release Date: 1999-02-09
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Artist: Jefferson Starship
Label: Sanctuary Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 060768626522 EAN: 0060768626522 ASIN: B00000HZOR Release Date: 1999-02-09 |
Windows of Heaven
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Album Description
Japanese edition of the group's 1998 outing with 'Yes Yes Yes' added as a hidden bonus track, for a total of 13 cuts. 1999 release.Album Details
The Legend Lives!-American Rock Legend Jefferson Starship Are Proud to Present their Sensational New Album! 15 New Songs- this Album Sparkles with a Host of Great Melodies, Twin Vocals, Melodic Guitar Hooks and Spheric Solos.Customer Reviews:
Successful Voyage of Starship /Kantner.......2006-09-15
Great Millennium Album From Jefferson Starship.......2002-11-17
OK, but put Diana up front and I'll give it 5 stars.......2001-10-28
Jefferson Starship Flies Once Again.......2001-04-27
This is very much a new band..not a return to the 1970's and most certainly not the band of the 1980's. Paul Kantner has once again reinvented the Starship into a fresh and energetic band for these new modern times. Joining him is longtime musical comrade Marty Balin, singer Diana Mangano, guitarist Mark "Slick" Aguilar, drummer Prairie Prince, keyboardist T. Lavitz and bassist Jack Casady...yes that Jack Casady. Grace Slick even makes a guest appearence on one song.
The songs themselves are full of energy, in which seven of them are written by Kantner and three by Balin. If I had one word to describe this album...electric. There's a wonderful rush of energy to these songs, and a great sense of freedom to the lyrics. Standout songs include The Light, Borderland, Let Me Fly, Shadowlands and See The Light. Kantner doesn't pull any punches in his songwriting and Balin still sounds terrific. Diana Mangano is a real find. She may not be Grace, but is still a wonderful and expressive singer. Mark Aguilar is a splendid lead guitarist and Prairie Prince (longtime drummer for The Tubes) adds a great kick to this new Starship. Jack Casady is Jack Casady..nuff said.
This was an album that was sorely overlooked upon its release, but if you've seen it and hedged upon getting it...think again..you'll be in for something new here. They also still sound great in concert..just having seen them live for the first time earlier this year. Kudos to Paul Kantner for relaunching the Starship once again. Keep on flying!
Nice album with some good songs, but not great.......2001-04-06
The group features a female singer, Diana Mangano, who does a pretty good Grace Slick imitation. However, she is only a backup singer and doesn't do any leads. The musicians include original Jefferson Airplane bass player Jack Casady, keyboardist T. Lavitz (from Dixie Dregs) and Slick Agular, who plays a firey guitar. The backup band adds a deeper dimension to some songs, but is blurred out in others. Casady is especially interesting on some of the earlier tracks.
The CD starts out very strong, alternating between Kantner and Balin songs. Paul Kantner was one of the most important song writers of the sixties, and he is still fairly potent. The Balin songs were written by Jesse Barish, who wrote most of the best material Balin has sung. But, all of the Kantner have basically the same structure and format and basically say the same thing. After a while, the Kantner songs start sounding alike, and it just gets boring and repititious. The later Balin tracks were written by Balin and are not as good as the earlier Barish tracks.
None of the tracks are bad, and most are pretty good when taken on their own. The problem is that there is not enough variety on this album. The strength of the old Jefferson Airplane/Starship was that there were always at least 4 excellent songwriters/singers in the group. Kantner can't carry a whole album by himself, and the addition of Balin wasn't enough.
Note that the import version of this CD has 3 extra tracks. I haven't heard them, so I don't know if they make the import worth seeking out.
Jefferson Airplane evolved into Jefferson Starhip in the seventies. The group was a Marty Balin creation, but Kantner eventually took over and has been the leader since the late sixties. Balin, Slick and other members would leave and then reappear, but Kantner was always present. In 1985, Kantner finally left Jefferson Starship and took the name with him. The rest of the group (with no original members) continued on as Starship.
In 1989, Jefferson Airplane reunited and released an album entitled Jefferson Airplane. It contained most of the "original" group, Kantner, Balin, Casady, Jorma Kaukenon and Grace Slick. The ablum went nowhere and got bad reviews. It really isn't too much different than Windows of Heaven. The group broke up again.
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