Jefferson Airplane - Bless its Pointed Little Head
PurePleasure 180g / RCA Victor LSP-4133 LPx1
Mastered by Ray Staff @ AIR- Mastering, London
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | cue, m3u & Log | Artwork
~1.2 gb incl recovery | RS & FF | Rock | 1968
Bless Its Pointed Little Head served an important function in the group's discography, demonstrating that their live work had a distinctly different focus and flavor from their studio recordings. - AMG/ William Ruhlmann
Brand new re-issue by Pure Pleasure Records with an excellent sound. Served on finest 180g.... Tasty! :)
Jefferson Airplane's first live album demonstrated the group's development as concert performers, taking a number of songs that had been performed in concise, pop-oriented versions on their early albums "3/5's of a Mile in 10 Seconds," "Somebody to Love," "It's No Secret," "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and rendering them in arrangements that were longer, harder rocking, and more densely textured, especially in terms of the guitar and basslines constructed by Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The group's three-part vocal harmonizing and dueling was on display during such songs as a nearly seven-minute version of Fred Neil's folk-blues standard "The Other Side of This Life," here transformed into a swirling rocker. The album emphasized the talents of Kaukonen and singer Marty Balin over the team of Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, who had tended to dominate recent records: the blues song "Rock Me Baby" was a dry run for Hot Tuna, the band Kaukonen and Casady would form in two years, and Balin turned in powerful vocal performances on several of his own compositions, notably "It's No Secret." Jefferson Airplane was still at its best in concise, driving numbers, rather than in the jams on Donovan's "Fat Angel" (running 7:35) or the group improv "Bear Melt" (11:21); they were just too intense to stretch out comfortably. But Bless Its Pointed Little Head served an important function in the group's discography, demonstrating that their live work had a distinctly different focus and flavor from their studio recordings. AMG/ William Ruhlmann
Tracklisting
Side A
1. Clergy
2. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
3. Somebody To Love
4. Fat Angel
5. Rock Me Baby
Side B
1. The Other Side Of This Life
2. Its No Secret
3. Plastic Fantastic Lover
4. Turn Off The Lights
5. Bear Melt
Personnel:
Marty Balin - guitar, vocals
Jack Casady - bass
Spencer Dryden drums
Paul Kantner - guitar, vocals
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vocals
Grace Slick - keyboards, vocals
Recorded Live: October 24-26, 1968 at the Fillmore West and November 28-30, 1968 at the Fillmore East
Technical Informations
Hannl"limited" Record Cleaning Machine
Music Hall MMF 5.1 Turntable
Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge
Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA
Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections by "Goldkabel"
Wavelab 5 recording software
Vacuum Cleaning > TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)
No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.
October 24-26, 1968 at the Fillmore West and November 28-30, 1968 at the Fillmore East
Mastered by Ray Staff @ AIR- Mastering, London
Jefferson Airplane's first live album demonstrated the group's development as concert performers, taking a number of songs that had been performed in concise, pop-oriented versions on their early albums "3/5's of a Mile in 10 Seconds," "Somebody to Love," "It's No Secret," "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and rendering them in arrangements that were longer, harder rocking, and more densely textured, especially in terms of the guitar and basslines constructed by Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The group's three-part vocal harmonizing and dueling was on display during such songs as a nearly seven-minute version of Fred Neil's folk-blues standard "The Other Side of This Life," here transformed into a swirling rocker. The album emphasized the talents of Kaukonen and singer Marty Balin over the team of Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, who had tended to dominate recent records: the blues song "Rock Me Baby" was a dry run for Hot Tuna, the band Kaukonen and Casady would form in two years, and Balin turned in powerful vocal performances on several of his own compositions, notably "It's No Secret." Jefferson Airplane was still at its best in concise, driving numbers, rather than in the jams on Donovan's "Fat Angel" (running 7:35) or the group improv "Bear Melt" (11:21); they were just too intense to stretch out comfortably. But Bless Its Pointed Little Head served an important function in the group's discography, demonstrating that their live work had a distinctly different focus and flavor from their studio recordings. AMG/ William Ruhlmann
Tracklisting
Side A
1. Clergy
2. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
3. Somebody To Love
4. Fat Angel
5. Rock Me Baby
Side B
1. The Other Side Of This Life
2. Its No Secret
3. Plastic Fantastic Lover
4. Turn Off The Lights
5. Bear Melt
Marty Balin - guitar, vocals
Jack Casady - bass
Spencer Dryden drums
Paul Kantner - guitar, vocals
Jorma Kaukonen - guitar, vocals
Grace Slick - keyboards, vocals