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gave the album three-and-a-half stars, concluding it "was more than the sum of its parts, boasting the sort of vocal interplay and instrumental virtuosity that had always been the hallmarks of
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drew the album's cover illustration of a green
Chinese dragon holding a white ball of fire in one paw, with a sultry woman named "the dragon princess" riding its torso. Many mistook the woman on the cover to be Grace Slick, but it was model
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spontaneous incoming lyric inspirations in a yellow legal notebook. We all played what we wanted while riffing off each other live without a real arrangement in mind to follow or anything like a master conductor at first."
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1717:discography
1705:discography
1693:discography
1610:October 12,
1465:Kent, David
1440:"LaserRock"
1339:January 28,
865:Ron Slenzak
813:Bobbye Hall
770:Marty Balin
764:Grace Slick
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567:Marty Balin
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2076:Flight Log
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1772:Volunteers
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1396:August 24,
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1359:"Spitfire"
1308:089919026X
1232:August 24,
1137:References
1121:1,000,000
829:Production
794:Pete Sears
721:"Big City"
577:Pete Sears
291:Pete Sears
220:Background
146:chronology
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66:March 1976
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232:Miracles
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