Jefferson Starship Delays Flight Due To Floyd

09/16/1999 7:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(9/16/99, 4 p.m. PDT) - Jefferson Starship is set to play New York's Carnegie Hall for the first time in its career on Saturday (Sept. 18). The performance is in conjunction with the veteran group's new album, Jefferson Starship 1999: Greatest Hits--Live At The Filmore. However, there's one glitch. The members of the band were delayed by Hurricane Floyd, which affected air travel around New York today. They were scheduled to arrive Friday (Sept. 17) in preparation for their performance. The delay could affect rehearsals for the show.

The Starship's new live album was released on Tuesday (Sept.14). Guitarist/ vocalist Paul Kantner tells LAUNCH that fans should not expect the same old song and dance.

"'Ride The Tiger'--if you listen to the original version and you listen to this version, there are radical differences in them, and there are radical similarities," Kantner says. "A song for us is never finished. It's always a work in progress, because we almost never get it right, even when we first do it. Like an actor with a movie saying, 'Well, I could have done that scene better now that I'm wiser and older.' Yeah, but nobody wants to see you now and you're not as pretty as you used to be. "A song too takes its own life on as it's played before people more and more," he continues. "It edits itself in its own way. It adds things to itself, other things are added, and edited out. So a song is a continually working piece of moving art--a very mobile thing, in our experience anyway."

-- Darren Davis, New York

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