Jefferson Starship - Winds of Change
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Artist: Jefferson StarshipEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-01-22
Music Label: Bmg Japan
Soundtracks:
- Winds of Change
- Keep on Dreamin'
- Be My Lady
- I Will Stay
- Out of Control
- Can't Find Love
- Black Widow
- I Came Back from the Jaws of the Dragon
- Quit Wasting Time
Free Music Notes for Winds of Change
Free Music Review: GLAM VIDEOS WERE NEEDED FOR THIS RELEASE
Hit: 5 Stars
The most important fact about this 1983 release is that Grace Slick is back with JS and not taking a subordinate position within the band as she did with 1981's Modern Times. She is front and center here whether singing by herself or singing with Mickey Thomas.
This came out in late 1982 (last year of high school for me) I thought this was an exceptionally good recording for the time. Truthfully this recording had me pretty riled up. We weren't hearing energized English new wave or punk back then and I always hated the raunchy male-led hardcore bands like AC/DC and there weren't any hard rock female bands who had the powerful quality sound and signature voice of Grace Slick in my opinion. Too many of them were popular for their looks and not for their singing at the time and I didn't respect them or think they were genuine rockers like I knew Grace Slick was.
"Black Window" was my favorite because of the hard guitar and Grace Slick's powerful singing.
This came out when disco (or dance music) was long dead and the New Wave invasion was still at least 6 months away from taking over and there wasn't much good rock music being played on radio at the time, even though now I'd gladly take what was being played on the radio back in 1982 in exchange for the juvenile, no-musical-ability idiocy being marketed now as being made by "serious artists." If they weren't so gross they'd be funny. I now know there was some great underground dance music and new wave music made at the time but radio refused to play it.
Anyway, some of the local radio stations did advertise that they had an hour- long Jefferson Starship special to air on the radio back in late 1982 and I heard this Jefferson Starship radio special one night on the car radio, and after hearing this radio special I couldn't get to the record store soon enough to buy Winds Of Change. I was knocked out by lots of these songs at the time. My favorites were "Black Widow" and "Can't Find Love" which were played on the official radio specials but never simply as a staple on a radio station's playlist.
I did hear Winds Of Change & "Be My Lady" played on the radio a little bit and also on half hour TV shows which were showing music videos which weren't too well made yet the "Winds Of Change" video was a good one. MTV was not prevalent yet. For some reason radio wouldn't play the rock of Jefferson Starship during the late 1970s or early 1980s and that wasn't right because they made some great music and too many new breeds at the time (like me at the time) didn't get exposed to their music. Rock stations had a serious bias against these rockers and also against Grace Slick because her 1981 solo release Welcome to the Wrecking Ball had some awesome hard rock songs on it.
More than 25 years later I still like this cd but for some reason I don't think all of the band members were taking themselves seriously when marketing this music just before MTV became a huge force to promote music. Instead of producing serious videos for hardcore songs like "Black Widow" they seem to just be joking around during the video concert made for this recording as if the concert footage was something to be aired between Saturday afternoon wresting shows or something. This was a bad mistake and they should have made glam videos instead. They were regrettably not taking themselves serious enough with the video marketing of this music. I love the dreamy, spaced-out sounds contained within these songs but I think Jefferson Starship would have been better off with an image that resembled medieval glam like lots of the later hair bands sported while still keeping their signature spaced-out, dream-like, arena rock sound many of their songs have. I also now think 8 songs was too few and there should have been 9 or 10 songs on this cd.
These songs bring back the some good memories of the shiftless times after high school and before becoming tied to adult commitments. I always thought Grace Slick was a powerhouse rocker not properly acknowledged during the early 1980s simply because she was not a young vixon .
I have to admit the New Wave invasion which was everywhere by the spring of 1983 brought new life to the sorry state music was in during the early 1980s and I think the new wave invasion (thankfully in most cases) knocked a lot of older bands down. My personal observation was that this great JS music had completely disappeared a mere 8 months after its Oct. 1982 release date except for on a few jukeboxes. Nonetheless, this release didn't get enough airplay because of rock and pop radio's bias against Jefferson Starship and not the new wave invasion. Radio played the well-connected billy joel's "Uptown Girl" a billion times back then but too few got to hear this quality music.
Fortunately in 1984 Jefferson Starship released another recording and I got to see them live for the first time back in 1984 in Hampton, Virgina. I think they did their best commercially one year later in 1985 with another album. Unfortunately, I never got to see them live again. Grace Slick is the true queen of rock even though Classic Vh1 would try to get you to think otherwise.
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