PAUL KANTNER

BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE

1970

U.S.

MUSICIENS :

- Paul Kantner – vocals,  guitars, bass machine

- Grace Slick – piano, vocals

- Jerry Garcia – banjo on Let's Go Together, pedal steel guitar on Have    You Seen the Stars Tonite, sound effects and vocals on XM, lead guitar on   Starship

- Bill Kreutzmann – drums on Let's Go Together

- Mickey Hart – percussion on Have You Seen the Stars Tonite, sound    effects and vocals on XM

- Joey Covington – drums and vocals on Mau Mau, congas on Hijack

- Jack Casady – bass on A Child Is Coming and Sunrise

- David Crosby – vocals and guitar on A Child Is Coming and Have You  Seen the Stars Tonite, background vocals on Starship

- Graham Nash – congas on Hijack, sound effects on Home, background  vocals on Starship

- David Freiberg – background vocals on Starship

- Harvey Brooks – bass on Starship

- Peter Kaukonen – lead guitar on Mau Mau

- Phill Sawyer – sound effects on Home and XM

TITRES :

 Mau Mau (Amerikon) 

 The Baby Tree 

 Let's Go TogetherA 

 A Child Is Coming

 Sunrise 

 Hijack 

 Home 

 Have You Seen the Stars Tonite? 

 XM 

 Starship 

Après le crash de Jefferson Airplane, Paul Kantner avait sorti un album solo en 1970, Blows Against The Empire, qui annonçait la formation d’un nouveau groupe, Jefferson Starship, dont les diverses incarnations allaient occuper le guitariste et compositeur jusqu’à la fin de sa carrière