Jefferson Starship left the audience wanting more
THEY’VE had more members than the House Of Representatives, a turbulent history that would make Fleetwood Mac look tame by comparison, and have come back from the brink so often they ought to have a cliff named after them.
Jefferson Starship
Queen’s Hall
Star rating: * * * *
Yet despite former Jefferson Starship singer Grace Slick’s assertions that all men over 50 should give up rock and roll; at 71 and 74 years of age respectively, band leaders Paul Kantner and David Freiberg still have the chops, the pipes and the tunes musicians half their age would sell their auto-tuners for.
OK, so they may be “a little crispy around the edges,” as Jefferson’s Janis Joplin sound-alike – vocalist Cathy Richardson – joked. And Lady Ga Ga might not have anything on Kantner’s mind-bending, hand-dyed organic yoga pants, either. Still, with a voice like Freiberg’s adding the polish to one of the finest folk-rock vocal groups there’s ever been, a JS show is something of an enriching history lesson.
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