This album released in late 1970 and the first to use the Jefferson Starship name although the first real album by the band would not come out until 1974. More of a solo album with Grace Slick and guest stars Jerry Garcia,drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart on drums,David Freiberg and David Crosby And Graham Nash. It’s a concept album about people hijacking a starship moored outside the Earth’s orbit and heading for a new life in the stars. The record was nominated for Science Fiction’s Hugo Award. Side one starts off with “Mau Mau(Amerikon)” a song about a gathering of Counter-Culture revolutionaries and making references to free love,drugs and Ronald Reagan. “The Baby Tree” is a folk song by Rosalie Sorrels about couples picking babies from a tree and is followed by “Lets Go Together” and “A Child Is Coming” In the story a couple expecting a baby decides to join the highjackers It is also about Paul and Grace’s child China born in January of ’71. Side two is a suite titled Blows Against The Empire and is comprised of two similar sounding songs “Hijack” and “Starship”mostly with acoustic guitar and piano by Grace Slick. On Starship they are joined by Jerry Garcia on electric guitar.In between are two short pieces using sound effects “XM” being the sound of the starship taking off. “Have You Seen The Stars Tonight” is a great acoustic number written by Kantner and Crosby with Crosby adding harmony vocals and guitar and Garcia playing pedal steel guitar. This is a song I have heard them play a couple of times in concert. I have seen them four of five times in the 90’s,what is called Jefferson Starship The Next Generation,led by Kantner with new younger musicians and sometimes returning Jefferson Airplane members.At one show I yelled out for them to play “Hijack” and Paul turned to Jack Cassady and said “Hi Jack”. A record I really like and one I bought in 1975 after seeing a fellow high school student with it. I always like the art and spent time looking at the back cover trying to figure out what it was all about. The front cover is Russian Folk Art. The inside of the gatefold cover had a black and silver drawing. It came with a booklet with drawings by Grace Slick and lyrics but that has long go dissapeared. This record unlike some of my other Jefferson Airplane albums sounds pretty good.