Sunfighter
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Personnel

  • Paul Kantner
    Paul Kantner
    Paul Lorin Kantner is an American rock musician, known for co-founding the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off band Jefferson Starship.- Overview :...

     – vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Grace Slick
    Grace Slick
    Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...

     – vocals, piano
  • Jack Traylor – guitar on "Earth Mother", vocals on "Earth Mother"
  • Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia
    Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...

     – guitar on "When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves", "Million", and "Holding Together"
  • Papa John Creach
    Papa John Creach
    Papa John Creach played for Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars , The Dinosaurs , and Steve Taylor...

     – electric violin on "Silver Spoon" and "Earth Mother"
  • Craig Chaquico
    Craig Chaquico
    Craig Chaquico is an American guitarist of Portuguese and Native American descent. He has had over thirty years of success in a variety of genres: in the 1970s with the post-Summer of Love Jefferson Starship, in that band's 1980s incarnation, Starship, and in the 1990s and 2000s as a...

     – lead guitar on "Earth Mother"
  • Bill Laudner – vocals on "Million"
  • Jack Casady
    Jack Casady
    Jack Casady , is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C...

     – bass on "Silver Spoon" and "China"
  • Spencer Dryden
    Spencer Dryden
    Spencer Dryden was an American musician best known as the longest-serving drummer for Jefferson Airplane. He also played with New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Dinosaurs, and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.-Early life:...

     – drums on "Earth Mother"
  • David Crosby
    David Crosby
    David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...

     – vocals on "Look at the Wood", "When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves", and "Diana 2", tambourine on "Look at the Wood"
  • Jorma Kaukonen
    Jorma Kaukonen
    Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, best known for his work with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.-Biography:...

     – lead guitar on "Look at the Wood"
  • Graham Nash
    Graham Nash
    Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...

     – Arp on "Look at the Wood", vocals on "When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves" and "Diana 2"
  • Chris Wing – drums on "China"
  • Pat Gleeson – moog on "Universal Copernican Mumbles", piano on "Universal Copernican Mumbles"
  • John Vierra – synthesizer on "Universal Copernican Mumbles", keyboards on "Universal Copernican Mumbles"
  • Phill Sawyer – sound effects on "Titanic"
  • Peter Kaukonen
    Peter Kaukonen
    Peter Kaukonen is a San Francisco bay area guitarist/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter. He is the younger brother of Jorma Kaukonen from Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna...

     – guitar on "Sunfighter", mandolin on "When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves"
  • Shelley Silverman – drums on "When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves"
  • Joey Covington
    Joey Covington
    Joseph "Joey" Edward Covington is a US drummer, best known for his involvements with Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane.-Brief biography:...

     – drums on "Silver Spoon", "Sunfighter", "China", and "Holding Together"
  • Edwin Hawkins Singers (Edwin Hawkins
    Edwin Hawkins
    Edwin Hawkins is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir master, composer and arranger. He is one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He are best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" , which was included on the Songs of the Century list...

    , Walter Hawkins
    Walter Hawkins
    Walter Hawkins was an American gospel music singer, and a pastor. Hawkins was consecrated to the bishopic in 1992. He died at his home in Ripon, California, from pancreatic cancer....

    , Tramaine Davis Hawkins, Elaine Kelley, Norma J. King, Barbara Gill, Ruth Wyons, Daphne Henderson, Shirley Miller, Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...

    ) – vocals on "Sunfighter"
  • Steven Schuster – flute on "Silver Spoon" and "Sunfighter", saxophone on "Sunfighter" and "China", horn arrangements on "Sunfighter", and "China"
  • Tower of Power
    Tower of Power
    Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...

     (Greg Adams, Mic Gillette) – horns on "Sunfighter" and "China"

Production

  • Paul Kantner – producer
  • Grace Slick – producer, libretto booklet
  • Pat Ieraci (Maurice the Miracle Man) – engineer
  • Phill Sawyer – engineer
  • Acy Lehman – cover, assistant on libretto booklet
  • Heavy Water Lights (Mary Ann Mayer, Joan Chase) – lights inside
  • Gary Blackman – assistant on libretto booklet

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1972 Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Pop Albums
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