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Rock. Psychedelic rock. Country of origin. United States. Grunt Records was a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records. Initially created to sign local Bay Area acts, the label later was used only for Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna releases. The label ended use in 1987 after Grace Slick left Starship.
- 1971
- Jefferson Airplane
- Jefferson Airplane, Inc.
Gold is a compilation album by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released on Grunt Records in 1979. It collects the band's four Top 40 hit singles from the 1970s, as well as three additional singles that charted on the Billboard Hot 100, a single that missed the chart, one b-side, and one album track. All tracks were also featured on their ...
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- January 22, 1979
- Larry Cox, Jefferson Starship
- Rock
Prisoner / Dynamo Snackbar, Peter Kaukonen, 1972, Grunt 65-0507 Filthy Funky, Part 1 / Filthy Funky, Part 2, Papa John Creach, 1972, Grunt 65-0508 Free Rain / 1 of a Kind, 1, 1972, Grunt 65-0509 Up or Down / That's a Good Question, Peter Kaukonen, 1972, Grunt 65-0510 Twilight Double Leader / Trial By Fire, Jefferson Airplane, 1972, Grunt 65 ...
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- 1970–1974: Origins
- 1974–1978: Balin on Board and Commercial Apogee
- 1979–1984: Changing Personnel and Sound
- 1984-1985: Kantner Departs and Transition to Starship
- 1992–2016: Revival
- 2016–Present: Post-Kantner Era
In 1970, while Jefferson Airplane was on break from touring, singer-guitarist Paul Kantner recorded Blows Against the Empire. This was a concept album featuring an ad hoc group of musicians (centered on Kantner, Grace Slick, Joey Covington, and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane; David Crosby and Graham Nash; and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, ...
In 1974, after touring as "Jefferson Starship," Kantner, Slick, Freiberg, Chaquico, Pete Sears, Papa John Creach, and John Barbata recorded the album Dragon Fly. Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter had played bass during the group's spring tour in 1974, but was replaced by Pete Sears who, like Freiberg, played bass and keyboards. Kantner collaborated wi...
In early 1979, the band regrouped. Barbata was replaced on drums by Aynsley Dunbar, who had previously played with Journey, in January 1979. Mickey Thomas(who had sung lead on Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love") was invited to audition and then joined the group in April 1979. In 1979, the band released their first album without Marty B...
While Balin and Slick had come and gone over the years, in June 1984, after the release of Nuclear Furniture, Kantner, the last remaining founding member of Jefferson Airplane, left the band due to disputes over the group's artistic direction. "I think we would be terrible failures trying to write pop songs all the time. … The band became more mund...
Paul Kantner reestablished the band as "Jefferson Starship: The Next Generation" in January 1992, for which Kantner recruited Jack Casady, Papa John Creach, Slick Aguilar, Tim Gorman, former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince, and former World Entertainment War vocalist Darby Gould. In 1993, Balin joined. Creach died in February 1994, weeks after touring...
Following Paul Kantner's death, the band received the approval of both Kantner's family and Grace Slick to keep performing.Jefferson Starship has continued to tour with a line-up consisting of remaining members David Freiberg (vocals, guitar), Donny Baldwin (drums), Chris Smith (keyboards), Jude Gold (lead guitar), and Cathy Richardson (vocals, gui...
- 1974–1984, 1992–present
Grunt (3) Profile: Label launched by Jefferson Airplane in 1971 as an outlet for their own albums as well as side projects like Hot Tuna and solo recordings by band members. The label was deactivated in 1987, coincidentally fitting in with the de-evolution into commercial Top 40 pop-rock that the by-then Starship (2) had taken.
Sep 30, 1971 · It is big business now, with Grunt Records — and even a sub-label being thought around, to be called Snort — and a roster of artists headed by Jefferson Airplane and Airplane members as so ...
