{"id":89185,"date":"2019-04-03T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/jefferson-starship-white-rabbit-11-8-1975-winterland-official"},"modified":"2019-04-03T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:42:48","slug":"jefferson-starship-white-rabbit-11-8-1975-winterland-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/jefferson-starship-white-rabbit-11-8-1975-winterland-official","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Starship \u2014 White Rabbit \u2014 11\/8\/1975 \u2014 Winterland (Official)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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https:\/\/youtu.be\/RdoLcgxvf98<\/a><\/p>\n

White Rabbit
Recorded Live: 11\/8\/1975 \u2014 Winterland \u2014 San Francisco, CA
More Jefferson Starship at Music Vault: http:\/\/www.musicvault.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Personnel:
Grace Slick \u2014 vocals
Paul Kantner \u2014 vocals, guitar
Marty Balin \u2014 vocals, percussion
David Frieberg \u2014 keyboards, bass, vocals.
Craig Chaquico \u2014 lead guitar
Pete Sears \u2014 bass, piano
Johnny Barbata \u2014 drums, vocals (on track #4) <\/p>\n

Summary:
Recorded after the monumentally successful Red Octopus album release, but prior to 1976\u2019s Spitfire album, this Jefferson Starship concert captures the band performing a diverse set before a hometown audience. With singer Marty Balin back in the fold, the group again contained the three primary vocalists from the Jefferson Airplane, now supported by vocalist, keyboardist, part-time bassist, and ex-Quicksilver Messenger Service member David Frieberg; the young guitar prodigy Craig Chaquico; and the superb rhythm section of bassist\/pianist Pete Sears and drummer Johnny Barbata. The group was riding high on the multi-platinum Red Octopus album and was arguably at a new peak of popularity.<\/p>\n

This set is not only represented by material from the early Jefferson Starship albums and a couple of Jefferson Airplane classics, but interestingly features live performances of material from Grace Slick\u2019s first solo album plus two of the best tracks Marty Balin recorded with his post-Jefferson Airplane project, Bodacious D F.<\/p>\n

The recording begins in progress, with the group wrapping up Vic Smith\u2019s \u201cDrivin\u2019 Me Crazy,\u201d the most infectious track from the obscure Bodacious D F album. This sweeping, heart-breaking song about longing for lost love serves as a perfect vehicle for Balin\u2019s romantically emotive vocals. An extended version of the Jerry Gallup\/Craig Chaquico composition, \u201cThat\u2019s For Sure\u201d follows, clocking in at nearly twice the length of the studio recording featured on the 1974 Jefferson Starship album, Dragonfly. With barrelhouse piano support from Sears, Grace Slick next takes over with a very bawdy take on \u201cBetter Lying Down,\u201d a track from her first solo album, Manhole.<\/p>\n

In a rare instance of drummer Johnny Barbata fronting the band, they next deliver \u201cBig City,\u201d the song he co-wrote with ex-Canned Heat guitarist Joel Scott Hill and original Flying Burrito Brothers bassist Chris Etheridge. Here Barbata handles lead vocals on a song soon to be recorded for the group\u2019s next album, Spitfire. Returning to Dragonfly material, David Frieberg next fronts the band on \u201cCome To Life,\u201d a song containing words by the Grateful Dead\u2019s lyricist extraordinaire, Robert Hunter.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/youtu.be\/RdoLcgxvf98 White Rabbit Recorded Live: 11\/8\/1975 \u2014 Winterland \u2014 San Francisco, CA More Jefferson Starship at Music Vault: http:\/\/www.musicvault.com Personnel: Grace Slick \u2014 vocals Paul Kantner \u2014 vocals, guitar Marty Balin \u2014 vocals, percussion David Frieberg \u2014 keyboards, bass, vocals. Craig Chaquico \u2014 lead guitar Pete Sears \u2014 bass, piano Johnny Barbata \u2014 drums, vocals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,42,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}