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Grace Slick, throaty lead singer of the acid-rock group Jefferson Airplane, is expecting. According to the latest issue of Rolling Stone, her husband Jerry doesn't know anything about it because he's not the father. Guitarist Paul Kantner, another Airplane, is. Grace admits that she is "a little worried, what with all the weird drugs we've been taking." Anyway, the happy parents-to-be have already picked a name for the child-God. God Slick. Due in December...
Robbie Robertson, the group's lead guitarist, is not only one of the best lyricists in rock, he is far and away the greatest storyteller. In Daniel and the Sacred Harp, he spins an almost biblical allegory about a boy named Daniel who covets a sacred harp, arranges to obtain it by means devious and mysterious, and when it finally comes into his possession, finds that he has "won the harp" but "lost in sin." His fate is proved to him when "he looked to the ground" and "noticed no shadow did he cast." Robbie also turns his hand...
...side one is more than adequate, side two is one of the finest continuous performances available from any group. Guitarist Nick Jameson leads off with a catchy riff and sails into a rocking solo on the infectious rhythm 'n blues number "My Baby." Pretty harmony and plenty of beat add up to a happy old sound on the only song not written by the group...
...that's it. Todd Rundgren, formerly guitarist of the Nazz, has given the LP production it deserves, and his engineering allows each wellplayed instrument (not to mention the voices) to come through with perfect clarity. If you can find "American Dream...
being at all spectacular, manages to steer clear of bathos, canned rage and the peculiar, subliminal blurriness that so often afflicts stories about musicians. Al Young's hero is MC Moore, a guitarist and songwriter for a teen-age group called the Masters of Ceremony. The Masters are one of countless Detroit combos manned by young blacks, hungrily looking for gigs and chances to record. In his peak year MC writes 75 songs. One of them, Snakes, becomes a modest local hit, earning the Masters a few hundred dollars as well as some small sense of accomplishment...