Jefferson Starship

Without Grace Slick or Marty Balin, the Jefferson Starship is a hulk of a band, desperately in
need of worthwhile material and marching inexorably toward oblivion. Literally marching:
the one song that de facto leader (and sole original Jefferson Airplane member) Paul
Kantner has been rewriting since Blows against the Empire is a dance-proof march that
generally carries laughable, grade-C science-fiction lyrics. On Freedom at Point ... More >

Hawkwind-goes-commercial leads off one side, Foreigner-hurries-home the other; both cuts are catchy, both sexist tripe. The rest of the album is a familiar muddle of fixations: space travel, good-time, the deluge, the possession of pretty girls. Personal to Mickey Thomas: ain't nobody gonna boogie to the moons of Saturn. (Grade: C-)