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Dragon Fly (album)

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Released
  
September, 1974

Length
  
42:25

Release date
  
September 1974

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
July, 1974

Dragon Fly (1974)
  
Red Octopus (1975)

Label
  
Grunt Records

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Studio
  
Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco

Producer
  
Jefferson Starship / Larry Cox

Artists
  
Jefferson Starship, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick

Similar
  
Jefferson Starship albums, Rock music albums

Jefferson starship that s for sure dragon fly 1974


Dragon Fly is the 1974 debut album by Jefferson Starship. Credited to Grace Slick / Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship, it was the transitional release between the various shifting groups that Slick and Kantner had been recording with, as Jefferson Airplane dissolved in the early 1970s and the new group that Jefferson Starship began.

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The album just missed the Top Ten and went gold within six months. It sold as well as the Jefferson Airplane record generally had. Although the single "Ride the Tiger" only reached #84 on the Billboard charts, the album itself hit #11. "Hyperdrive" was used in the opening ceremonies of the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention, MidAmeriCon, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Singles

  • "Ride the Tiger" (1974) #84 US
  • "Caroline" (1974)
  • Personnel

  • Grace Slick – vocals, piano (3)
  • Papa John Creach – electric violin
  • Craig Chaquico – lead guitar
  • Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals
  • David Freiberg – keyboards (1, 3, 4), vocals, piano (5, 6), organ (7), bass (2)
  • Pete Sears – bass (all but 2), piano (2, 4, 7, 8), harpsichord (4), organ (8)
  • John Barbata – drums, percussion
  • Additional Personnel
  • Marty Balin – lead vocals (4)
  • Production
  • Jefferson Starship – producer
  • Larry Cox – producer, engineer
  • Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
  • Steve Mantoani – recordist
  • Paul Dowell – amp consultant
  • Bill Thompson – manager
  • Acy Lehman, Frank Mulvey – art directors
  • Peter Lloyd – illustration
  • Recorded and Mixed at Wally Heider's, San Francisco
  • Songs

    1Ride The Tiger5:12
    2That’s for Sure4:59
    3Be Young You3:51

    References

    Dragon Fly (album) Wikipedia