Dragon Fly (album)

This article is about the Jefferson Starship album. For other albums with similar titles, see Dragonfly (disambiguation).

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Dragon Fly is a 1974 album credited to Grace Slick / Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship. It was the transitional release between the various shifting groups that Slick and Kantner had been recording with, as Jefferson Airplane dissolved in the early 1970s and the new group that Jefferson Starship began.

Background

Dragon Fly just missed the Top Ten and went gold within six months. It sold as well as any Jefferson Airplane record generally had. Although the single "Ride the Tiger" only reached #84 on the Billboard charts, the album itself hit #11.

"Hyperdrive" was used in the opening ceremonies of the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention, MidAmeriCon, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Ride the Tiger"	Byong Yu, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner	Kantner	5:11
2.	"That’s for Sure"	Jerry Gallup	Craig Chaquico	4:58
3.	"Be Young You"	Slick	Slick	3:49
4.	"Caroline"	Marty Balin	Kantner	7:29

Side two

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
5.	"Devil's Den"	Slick	Papa John Creach	4:03
6.	"Come to Life"	Robert Hunter	David Freiberg, Steven Schuster	3:46
7.	"All Fly Away"	Tom Pacheco	Pacheco	5:25
8.	"Hyperdrive"	Slick	Pete Sears	7:44

Singles

• "Ride the Tiger" (1974) #84 US
• "Caroline" (1974)

Personnel

• Grace Slick – vocals, piano (3)
• Papa John Creach – electric violin
• Craig Chaquico – lead guitar
• Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals
• David Freiberg – keyboards (1, 3, 4), vocals, piano (5, 6), organ (7), bass (2)
• Pete Sears – bass (all but 2), piano (2, 4, 7, 8), harpsichord (4), organ (8)
• John Barbata – drums, percussion

Additional Personnel

• Marty Balin – lead vocals (4)

Production

• Jefferson Starship – producer
• Larry Cox – producer, engineer
• Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator
• Steve Mantoani – recordist
• Paul Dowell – amp consultant
• Bill Thompson – manager
• Acy Lehman, Frank Mulvey – art directors
• Peter Lloyd – illustration
• Recorded and Mixed at Wally Heider's, San Francisco