THIS IS THE US ORIGINAL PRESSING on GRUNT label. US issue complete with gatefold cover + inner sleeve + booklet. The cover is in strong VG+ condition, normal wear BUT light discolouration/wear on spines/corners, crease on top left corner (front) and on rear (top right corner), left spine is fully readable; INNER in VG+ condition, normal wear, creases; BOOKLET in EX condition, for details see photos (with and without flashlight). The thin vinyl is in EX condition  and plays wonderfully and without lessening in sound quality.

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PAUL KANTNER   GRACE SLICK

with JORMA KAUKONEN, JERRY GARCIA, SPENCER DRYDEN, GRAHAM NASH,

JACK CASADY, PAPA JOHN CREACH, JOEY COVINGTON, CRAIG CHAQUICO, etc.

The quintessential San Francisco psychedelic band and a defining force in popbefore turning toward political statements in the late '60s. Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the 1960s to achieve national recognition. Although the Grateful Dead ultimately proved more long-lived and popular, Jefferson Airplane defined the San Francisco sound in the 1960s, with the acid rock guitar playing of Jorma Kaukonen and the soaring twin vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin, scoring hit singles and looking out from the covers of national magazines. They epitomized the drug-taking hippie ethos as well as the left-wing, antiwar political movement of their time, and their history was one of controversy along with hit records. Their personal interactions mirrored those times; the group was a collective with shifting alliances, in which leaders emerged and retreated. But for all the turmoil, Jefferson Airplane was remarkably productive between 1965 and 1972.

"SUNFIGHTER"

1971     LP     GRUNT RECORDS      FTR-1002

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL PRESSING

GATEFOLD COVER + INNER SLEEVE + BOOKLET

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

NOTES: This version was pressed by RCA Records Pressing Plant, Rockaway identified by an R etched into its runouts.

Released in gatefold jacket with a 16-page lyrics-booklet and printed inner sleeve.

Spine has artists as Paul Kantner / Grace Slick; labels have it as Grace Slick and Paul Kantner.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  GRUNT - BLACK LABEL - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine, rear & inner) FTR-1002   

Catalog on labels: FTR-1002 (APRS-8713) / FTR-1002 (APRS-8714)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): APRS-8713-5S-A1H  R

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): APRS-8714-2S-A3K  R

On labels: rim text "© 1971 Afterthought Productions Corp"

On booklet: Lyrics & Credits

On back cover: Tracklist

© 1971, Grunt Records ● Printed in U.S.A. ● Manufactured & Distributed by RCA Records, New York, N.Y.

tracklisting

Side A: SILVER SPOON - DIANA - SUNFIGHTER - TITANIC

LOOK AT THE WOOD - WHEN I WAS A BOY - I WATCHED THE WOLVES

Side B: MILLION - CHINA - EARTH MOTHERC - DIANA 2

UNIVERSAL COPERNICAN MUMBLES - HOLDING TOGETHER

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

INNER VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

BOOKLET EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

This is something of a family album, co-credited to Paul Kantner and his partner at the time, Grace Slick, and featuring on its cover a photograph of their infant daughter, China. It also features the family of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and other current members of Jefferson Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship. Its style of loosely arranged acid rock music and radical left political lyrics is similar to such recent albums as the Kantner/Starship Blows Against the Empire (December 1970) and the Airplane's Bark (August 1971), which were made by most of the same players. But Kantner and Slick's usual stridency is not counterbalanced by substance as much as on earlier efforts, perhaps because they were making too many albums too quickly to keep up the quality of their songwriting. Still, anyone who enjoys the sweet-and-sour unison singing of X's John Doe and Exene Cervenka should listen to Sunfighter to see where they got it from...(AllMusic)