In the nineties and early 2000s, those bands that had managed to survive from the sixties and seventies, with the odd split or hiatus along the way, had emerged from the other end of the rabbit hole, finding themselves no longer ‘dinosaurs or relics’, but more likely to be viewed as ‘Classic or Heritage’ Rockers. Jefferson Starship – the subject of this set – was one such band that took advantage of this demographic fillip.
2009 marked the historic fortieth anniversary of the epochal Woodstock Festival in 1969, Jefferson Starship undertook a few live dates in 2009 to revisit the set that they had performed at the original festival on Sunday August 17th 1969 and this show was recorded at the Del Mar Fairground , Del Mar California on June 12th 2009.
The Starship line up for this performance comprised Paul Kantner: guitar and vocals, David Frieberg: guitar and vocals, Cathy Richardson: vocals, Mark ‘Slick’ Aguilar: lead guitar, Jeff Pevar: guitar, and bass guitar, Chris Smith: keyboards, Donny Baldwin: Drums, plus Tom Constanten on piano. The bands manager Michael Gaiman, also produces the album.
