With most of the members of Jefferson Airplane missing in action, Paul Kantner and Grace Slick holed up in a San Francisco studio in 1970 alongside a cast of West Coast rock n roll legends like Jerry Garcia and David Crosby to cut what became Kantners finest solo work. Fueled by his lifelong obsession with science fiction, Blows Against The Empire is Kantners rock space-opera: Young people hijack a starship and establish a brave new world in some distant galaxy, light-years away from the earthbound reality of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. 1. Mau Mau (Amerikon) 2. The Baby Tree 3. Lets Go Together 4. A Child is Coming 5. Sunrise 6. Hijack 7. Home 8. Have You Seen the Stars Tonite 9. X-M 10. Starship 11. Lets Go Together (Alternate Lyrics) 12. Sunrise (Graces Acoustic Demo Tk 13. Hijack (Pauls Acoustic Demo Tk 14. Sfx 15. Starship (Live)
