Grace Slick "Welcome To The Wrecking Ball!" LP (1981)

Details: Grace Slick's 1981 RCA Victor release "Welcome To The Wrecking Ball!" comes in a gatefold sleeve, gold promo stamp on back left-top corner. Very little wear on cover of album (light wear is on corner/edges, and opening). Insert has light creases (looks great) and record looks untouched. Theatrical and punkily progressive classic-rock--unleashed!

Description: "... Grace Slick was already riding that Wrecking Ball. Perfectly cast as the chemically-fuelled acid ice-queen of psychedelia, Grace found adapting to musical landscapes following the messy fragmentation of Jefferson Airplane-Starship, somewhat problematic. She adopted different guises across four solo albums, each with a separate and not-entirely satisfactory character. These two-for-one albums (no bonus tracks) follow ‘Manhole’ and her big shot at power-balladry, ‘Dreams’. Using the same producer, engineer, and guitar trio of Ron Frangipane, Ed Sprigg, and Scott Zito ‘Welcome To The Wrecking Ball’ from 1981 tries on a clean AM-radio friendly guitar-heavy AOR sound, with the grit of Grace’s strident contralto set to attack. She adds lyrics to four tracks, including the jack-hammering title and the anti-militarist marching-feet and tape-effects of standout “No More Heroes” – even if it does steal melodically from “Bang Bang”. From 1984, ‘Software’ radically shifts focus to electro-digital modernity with Linn-programming from ex-Zappa and future-Starship Peter Wolf, with sharply satiric Techno-Pop near-hit “All The Machines” poking fun at gadget-addiction ..." - A Darlington

Grade: VG+ (Cover) / NM (Record)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. Wrecking Ball
A2. Mistreater
A3. Shot In The Dark
A4. Round & Round
A5. Shooting Star

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. Just A Little Love
B2. Sea Of Love
B3. Lines
B4. Right Kind
B5. No More Heroes