Review:

on 2011-06-20 CharlesMartel Said:

What sort of a change had come across this band. To be honest, I never really much cared for Jefferson Starship anymore than I cared for their predecessors, Jefferson Airplane, or their successors, Jefferson Montgolfier Balloon. Their early work was just drugged out west coast hippie stuff which had no appeal beyond "White Rabbit". I could never really get a grip of drug music, perhaps because I was not interested in blowing the synaptic connections of my own brain, so Jefferson Airplane never hit a note with me. Maybe I was too young at the time?

By the time the band got to this stage in their career, however, they were just playing for commercial recognition. After a lifetime of writing about yourself, your own little drug-blighted world, there seems to be a need to write a few commercial money spinners to provide a pension to live off in your old age and pay for the medical bills to deal with the drug-induced psychosis you developed in your youth. And that is precisely what this is. It is OK I suppose, but in the end it is just standard rock fayre. Would have got airplay on MTV. What interested me about it was the guitar work, but even that is nothing particularly special.
Rating: 5/10