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 One of their very best works! Nov 22, 2009
I love this album and it is my opinion one of their very best albums. Highly recommend!
Focusing on Spencer Nov 08, 2009
I can't add anything to all the excellent comments about this extraordinary LP/CD, so I'll comment on Spencer Dryden's drumming. I have always liked his tomtom work (I'm a drummer). They seemed to have the same acrylic sound as Iron Butterfly's Ron Bushy. He has no problems with time [signature] changes. I was first impressed with his drumming on "Rejoyce"; then his intro solo on Bless Its Pointed Little Head's "It's No Secret." He's excellent on "The House at Pooneil Corner" (from this LP/CD), the way he plays through the 7/4 middle of that song. Then he plays very tastefully on "Triad" with his ride cymbal (if you can't hear it, or never listened to it closely, turn up the high end). Simply gorgeous. I think, after listening to Dryden, his trademark sound is on the tomtoms, but it's nice to hear him break out when playing live. Great album: Crown of Creation.
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JA's BEST WORK Jun 29, 2009
To my taste this is the most polished and peak piece of ja's work: the composition, production and musicianship are all dead on.This is one of the very finest examples of psychedelia as a musical genre ever. It will hold it's own place in the history of American music. You didn't have to be there to get this one.
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 what a creation Feb 06, 2009
Hmmm, well, I fail to see why Crown of Creation might be considered a classic album. Don't get me wrong, it's Jefferson Airplane, and it was made during the height of their classic period, and the creative juices were flowing just as bizarrely as they ever were... but among some fantastic songs there's some noticeable laziness, or maybe it's not laziness and it's something else. Maybe I just don't get it. Hey, I'll admit that.
Still, I like most of the songs anyway, and even though a few of the songs have lazy-sounding verse melodies, such as the ones on "In Time" and "Ice Cream Phoenix" the album also contains some FANTASTIC songs, such as the title song. What a GREAT driving verse melody that song has. I love it. Or maybe that's the chorus? Well whatever it is, trust me, it's classic stuff. You'll love it. "Lather" has some spectacularly strange vocals from Grace Slick. I love her as a singer, and what she does here is just perfect.
"If You Feel" has REALLY awesome guitar playing over what seems like one looping memorable verse melody after another. I don't mean to say the melody actually loops- just that it's such a good song, it KEEPS being good for its entire length, and it builds slowly into something bigger, if that makes sense, mainly because of the guitar playing. I've never heard a guitar carry a verse melody quite like this before. It's really hard to explain.
And FINALLY "The House at Pooh Corner" is the CRAZIEST SONG I HAVE EVER HEARD. Okay, maybe I won't go *that* far, but if you're not completely shocked and amazed at THIS... well, don't bother with this band then.
Overall, no classic, but very good anyway.
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Crown of Creation Jan 08, 2009
I enjoy listening to this cd by Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick never sounded so good.
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