PAPA JOHN CREACH - QUADRAPHONIC 8 TRACK

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     PAPA  JOHN   CREACH   -    PAPA  JOHN  CREACH   -   QUADRAPHONIC   8 TRACK    -      1971  GRUNT  RECORDS  /   RCA   RECORDS      Q8    PQFT-1003

VIOLIN  &  VOCALS:    PAPA  JOHN  CREACH

PRODUCED  BY   PAPA  JOHN

THIS  QUAD  IS   REALLY  GREAT  LOOKING  -   ALMOST  EXCELLENT  CONDITION

Violinist Papa John Creach first came to the notice of rock fans when he joined Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off group, Hot Tuna, in 1970. By that time, he was already in his early fifties, a veteran of jazz and blues associations, while his fellow bandmembers were still approaching 30. Nevertheless, using an electrified violin, Creach added a new psychedelic edge to the Airplane in its final days. The band split in 1972, by which time Creach had begun to release solo albums on its custom label, Grunt. The Airplane was reorganized and relaunched as Jefferson Starship, and Creach was with it through its million-selling Red Octopus album in 1975. He continued to make solo albums through 1992, when he released Papa Blues. Papa John Creach died of heart failure in 1994 at the age of 76.

At the time this album was recorded, Jefferson Airplane had expanded from a rock group into something of a San Francisco collective of musicians and launched its own record label, Grunt, necessitating a flow of product. As a result, there was a flurry of releases by the Airplane itself and several offshoots, with each of these records featuring several members of the loose aggregation informally dubbed PERRO (the Planet Earth Rock 'N' Roll Orchestra). Papa John Creach, violinist for the Airplane and its spin-off group, Hot Tuna, was the leader on this set, which featured members of the Airplane (Grace Slick, for example, duets with Creach on the lead-off track, "The Janitor Drives a Cadillac"), Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the Grateful Dead. The result sounds like the Airplane records of the period, with a bit more of Creach's electric violin soaring over the proceedings.

PROGRAM   1:    THE  JANITOR   DRIVES  A  CADILLAC,      SAINT   LOUIS  BLUES,     PAPA  JOHN'S   DOWN   HOME  BLUES,    PLUNK   A  LITTLE  FUNK,    DANNY  BOY

PROGRAM   2:    STRING   JET  ROCK,     OVER  THE  RAINBOW,      HUMAN  SPRING,     SOUL  FEVER,      EVERYTIME   I  HEAR   HER   NAME 

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