Jefferson Airplane RED OCTOPUS

Jefferson Starship: Marty Balin, Grace Slick (vocals); Paul Kantner (guitar); Craig Chaquico (guitar); Papa John Creach (violin); David Freiberg, Pete Sears (keyboards, bass); John Barbata (drums, percussion).Additional personnel: Irv Cox (saxophone); Bobbye Hall (percussion).Recorded at Wally Heider's, San Francisco, California in February 1975. Includes liner notes by David Cohen.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Technically speaking, Red Octopus was the first album credited to Jefferson Starship, though practically the same lineup made Dragon Fly, credited to Grace Slick/Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship. The difference, however, was crucial: Marty Balin was once again a fully integrated bandmember, writing or co-writing five of the ten tracks. And there can be little doubt that it was Balin's irresistible ballad "Miracles," the biggest hit single in the Jefferson Whatever catalog, that propelled Red Octopus to the top of the charts, the only Jefferson album to chart that high