Jefferson Airplane inquiry

[bertrand]

On the track 'rejoyce' from the Airplane's After Bathing At Baxter's album, there is clearly a flute and what appears either to be a clarinet or a soprano sax taking a solo around the 2-minute mark.

Does anyone know who these players might be? It's not listed on the CD booklet. I might fire off an e-mail to Jeff Tamarkin who wrote the book and all the liner notes, but I thought I'd start here.

Thanks,

Bertrand

Edited August 18, 2004 by bertrand

[BFrank]

Looks like it might be an oboe:

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Rejoyce

(Grace Slick)

Chemical change like a laser beam

You've shattered the warning amber light

Make me warm

Let me see you moving everything over

Smiling in my room

You know you'll be inside of my mind soon.

There are so many of you.

White shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, white shirt and tie

Wedding ring, wedding ring.

Mulligan stew for Bloom,

The only Jew in the room

Saxon's sick on the holy dregs

And their constant getting throw up on his leg.

Molly's gone to blazes,

Boylan's crotch amazes

Any woman whose husband sleeps

With his head all buried down at the foot of his bed.

[Oboe solo]

I've got his arm. I've got his arm.

I've had it for weeks. I've got his arm.

Steven won't give his arm

To no gold star mother's farm;

War's good business, so give your son

And I'd rather have my country die for me.

There are so many of you.

Sell your mother for a Hershey bar

Grow up looking like a car,

There are;

All you want to do is live,

All you want to do is give,

But, somehow, it all falls apart!

Copyright 1967, 1968 Icebag Corp.

[Tony Pusey]

Could the flute be Slick? I dont know why but I always thought it was.

[Jim Alfredson]

More importantly, how did Jefferson Airplane turn into a complete monstrousity during the 80s? Or is that question redundant?

[7/4]

I could see Grace Slick being good at oboe.

[Tony Pusey]

7/4, you ara a naughty boy!