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...overtime pay, and private donations of $70,000 rescued some of the cultural programs. That barely put a dent in the board's $4 million deficit, but Rock Impresario Bill Graham may yet save the day. He has scheduled a benefit concert of ten major acts (including the Jefferson Starship, Joan Baez and Santana) in the city's 59,626-seat Kezar Stadium. The concert, on March 23, is called SNACK, Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks; the audience will pay a $5 admission to boogie down from midmorning to dusk. In addition, Graham will sell special SNACK T shirts...
Jefferson Starship. If you can't stand the pretentiousness of Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, you might want to give a listen to the poignant vocals of former Airplane member Marty Balin. Unfortunately, he appears on only one cut of the Starship's latest release, so in retrospect, maybe it's better to forget this one. Music Hall, October 13 & 14. Tickets are $7.00, 6.00, and 5.00 and are available at the box office, Minuteman/Soundscope, Hub, Tyson and Out-of-Town news and at all Ticketron outlets. Concert time...
...Hollywood mansion? A millionaire's resort? Actually, these solaces and services are available on an airplane so sumptuously fitted that it makes Hugh Hefner's vaunted black Bunny-a DC-9 -look like steerage. The world's most luxurious aircraft is Starship I, a maroon and gold Boeing 720 that rents for $2,500 per hour or $5 per mile (whichever comes higher) and is patronized exclusively by musical groups, who are about the only people these days who can afford such prices. They apparently like what they get: Starship is booked solid for the rest...
...remedy the situation, Sylvester in 1973 purchased a ten-year-old United Air Lines jet for $750,000 and hired an experienced flight crew of 16. For an additional $750,000, he then ripped out Starship's seats and furnished it fit for a shah...
TIME Correspondent David De Voss, who joined Starship's pampered passenger list last week, notes that for harassed entertainers who book into a different city every day and usually stay up most of the night after their gig, Starship is a pad away from home. Moreover, as Organist Jon Lord of Deep Purple-a heavy metal group that has booked Starship for five weeks-points out: "On regular airlines, there are always queues for flights, overbooking, lost luggage and canceled connecting flights. This tour already has less frantic a feel." And what commercial airline would allow its passengers...