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In Reply to: I think he has been missed posted by rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com on January 29, 2016 at 13:44:22:
He has actually worked on a variety of projects, including a reformed J. Starship, over the past couple of decades. But his strongest work was definitely with the Airplane and Starship first edition.
The Airplane was hands-down my favorite band thru high school, and a lot of their stuff holds up well still, the naivete of some of the leftist radicalism notwithstanding. The instrumental core of Kantner-Kaukonen-Casady-Dryden just plain ROCKED with an intensity matched by few then or since, while the folk-based vocal harmonies soared and swooped and interwove over the top. It was a truly unique and innovative sound.
All the studio records were well-crafted in their way, with a nice diversity of material from soft ballads to driving acid rock, and production values a bit above the norm for pop records of the day. "Pillow" stands out for its slick Hollywood production (Casady once commented that it was drenched in reverb, but it was the kind of reverb that sounds really cool when you're stoned, and probably helped sell more records), and "Baxter's" for its sheer goofy experimentalism, but I'd still call "Crown" their masterpiece.
It's too bad they didn't document more of their live performances, which were terrific and took the songs to a whole 'nother level beyond the studio recordings. I'm truly thankful I got to catch them live three times. Wouldn't it be great if they had recorded enough shows to make possible a "Dick's Picks" style series of releases?
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