Band Of The Week - Starship

It's Friday again and this mean another 'boring' weekend for me is coming soon. To ease this boringness, listening to rock songs is the best solution for me. This weekend my choice of Band Of The Week goes to Starship.

I guess most of you will very familiar with their songs, I started with my all time favorite - We Build This City, I got to know this song through my uncle who was a rocker too when I was a small kid. Next will be Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, this song also sang in different languages by other singles before. Lastly is my another favorite, Sara, it's a beautiful song.

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Starship - We Build This City


Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now


Starship - Sara

About Starship

It was called as Jefferson Starship in early 1970's which is an American rock band formed by several former members of psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane. This band was formed by Paul Kantner.

Jefferson Starship

This 'prototype' version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby, Graham Nash and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, as well as some of the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, lead singer Grace Slick, drummer Joey Covington and bassist Jack Casady.

I can say this band's members are very confusing, they keep on changing in 70's. Until in 1984, Kantner left the band then taking legal action over Jefferson name against his former bandmates, who wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship. Kantner won the suit. The band then changed to Starship Jefferson, but then the name was reduced to simply Starship.

Starship

Grace Slick left Starship in 1988, having become disillusioned with the band's new pop image and swearing never to perform with them again. With Slick's departure, Thomas became lead singer, an amazing feat, since he was leading a band that had been founded when he was just 15 years old. The revamped lineup released Love Among the Cannibals in 1989, however, they had disbanded by 1990.

Starship

Now, there are two versions of 'Jefferson Starship' — one (with Thomas at the forefront) is officially billed as 'Starship featuring Mickey Thomas' which focuses on newer music of Jefferson Starship/Starship from 1979-1990. The other is a revived 'Jefferson Starship' (often called 'Jefferson Starship: The Next Generation' or 'Jefferson Starship-TNG') which is a throwback to the original Jefferson Airplane, with Kantner and Balin as leaders, and Diana Mangano replacing Grace Slick as female singer. This latter band plays frequent concerts, and on occasion, Jack Casady joins them as well. In 2005, longtime bassist David Freiberg rejoined the group for their "Jefferson Family Galactic Reunion" Tour, and continues to tour with the band.

Starship... Complicated but still rock!!!

Happy Weekend!!!