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The Grunt label was formed on August 7, 1971 by the group Jefferson Airplane. The label was a
subsidiary of RCA. It was intended as a vehicle for release of Jefferson Airplane albums, group member
solo projects and new artists that the group members felt were worthy of public interest.
The first Grunt release was the Jefferson Airplane's seventh LP, titled Bark, in September of 1971.
Because of disagreements among the group, the album was their first in two years. By this time Marty
Balin and Spencer Dryden were gone. The new lineup for the Jefferson Airplane was Paul Kantner,
Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Grace Slick and Joey Covington plus an unofficial member Papa John
Creach. The album reached number 11 and was one of the Airplane's best sellers.
At the same time Bark was being recorded, Paul Kantner and Grace Slick recorded Sunfighter which
was released in December and reached number 89. Also in December, Papa John Creach released his
first solo album.
In 1972 the Jefferson Airplane recorded its eighth album titled Long John Silver and at the same time
Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady recorded the third Hot Tuna album titled "Burgers" for the Grunt
label. Hot Tuna's LP "Burgers" was released in April, and went to number 68 in the charts. Three months
later, Long John Silver was released and reached number 20, earning a gold record.
Acts not part of the Jefferson Airplane to appear on Grunt were woodwind player Jack Bonus in 1972, a
Richmond Talbott album titled "Gettin' Plenty", and an album titled "Child of Nature" by the band Jack
Traylor & Steelwind, which featured Craig Chaquico on guitar released in June of 1973.
Albums continued to be released on the Grunt label into the early 1980's but almost all of them were by
Jefferson Airplane, a later (and even more successful) incarnation called Jefferson Starship, then simply
Starship, or by members of those bands.
The Grunt label stayed the same for the whole of its releases. It is black with white lettering and
® GRUNT ¯ written in stylized red and white lettering in the form of an arc on the top half of the label.
The following text is written in the form of an arc at the bottom of the label : ® AFTERTHOUGHT
PRODUCTIONS CORP. ¯. Beginning with FTR 1006, this text changed to ® GRUNT RECORDS.
MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED BY RCA ¯. For the RCA consolidated series, some records has
the following text ® RCA RECORDS. GRUNT RECORDS. MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED BY
RCA ¯.
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GRUNT ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] Contents
1000 series:
FTR 1001 - Bark - Jefferson Airplane [1971] The album cardboard sleeve was inserted
in a brown paper bag. When The Earth Moves Again/Feel So Good/Crazy Miranda/Pretty As You
Feel/Wild Turkey//Law Man/Rock And Roll Island/Third Week In The Chelsea/Never Argue With A
German If You're Tired, Or European Song/Thunk/War Movie
FTR 1002 - Sunfighter - Paul Kantner & Grace Slick [1971] Silver Spoon/Diana (Part
1)/Sunfighter/Titanic/Look At The Wood/When I Was A Boy I Watched The Wolves//Million/China/Earth
Mother/Diana (Part 2)/Universal Copernican Mumbles/Holding Together
FTR 1003 - Papa John Creach - Papa John Creach [1971] Reissued as BXL 1-1003.
The Janitor Drives A Cadillac/Saint Louis Blues/Papa John's Down Home Blues/Plunk A Little
Funk/Over The Rainbow//String Jet Rock/Danny Boy/Human Spring/Soul Fever/Everytime I Hear Her
Name
FTR 1004 - Burgers - Hot Tuna [1972] True Religion/Highway Song/99 Year Blues/Sea
Child//Keep On Truckin'/Water Song/Ode For Billy Dean/Let Us Get Together Right Down Here/Sunny
Day Strut
FTR 1005 - Jack Bonus - Jack Bonus [1972] The Hobo Song/St. Louis Missouri
Boy/Cold Chicago Wind/Aphro-Kay/Pecan Pie (Extract)//Sweet Mahidabelle/Let The Children Be/The
Little Boy Who Flew Away/Mother Dear/Ay Qu‚ Lyn
FTR 1006 - Black Kangaroo - Peter Kaukonen [1972] Up Or Down/Postcard/What We
All Know And Love/Billy's Tune//Barking Dog Blues/Dynamo Snackbar/Prisoner/That's A Good Question
FTR 1007 - Long John Silver - Jefferson Airplane [1972] The album sleeve comes out
as a DIY cigar box. Long John Silver/Aerie (Gang Of Eagles)/Twilight Double Leader/Milk Train/The Son
Of Jesus//Easter?/Trial By Fire/Alexander The Medium/Eat Strach Mom
FTR 1008 - Come - 1 [1972] 1 Of A Kind/II Car Raga/Free Rain//3 Songs/Old Englishhh
FTR 1009 - Filthy! - Papa John Creach [1972] Reissued as BXL 1-1009. Filthy
Funky/No More Country Girls/Don't Tell It To No One/Mother's Day/Walking The Tou-Tou/Everybody
Wants My Good Thing/Far Out/Give Me An Hour In Your Garden (And I'll Show You How To Plant A
Rose)/Time Out For Sex/Up In The Alley
FTR 1010 - Getting' Plenty - Richmond Talbott [1973]
RCA "APL" consolidated series:
BFL 1-0147 - Thirty Seconds Over Winterland - Jefferson Airplane [1973] Have You
See The Saucers/Feel So Good/Crown Of Creation//When The Earth Moves Again/Milk Train/Trial By
Fire/Twilight Double Leader
BXL 1-0148 - Baron Von Tollbooth And The Chrome Nun - Paul Kantner, Grace Slick &
David Freiberg [1973] Ballad Of The Chrome Nun/Fat/Flowers Of The Night/Walkin/Your Mind Has
Left Your Body//Across The Board/Harp Free Lament/White Boy (Transcaucasian Airmachine
Blues)/Fishman/Sketches Of China
BFL 1-0149 - Joe E. Covington's Fat Fandango - Joe E. Covington's Fat Fandango
[1973] Your Heart Is My Heart/Country Girl/Moonbeam/Mama Neptune//Miss Unaverse/Hideout (A
Crook's Best Friend)/Vapor Lady
BFL 1-0194 - Child Of Nature - Jack Traylor & Steelwind [1973] Child Of Nature/Birds
And Beasts And Bumblebees/I've Got You/Smile/Time To Be Happy//Come On, Children/Fifteen Years
After/Gone To Canada/Caveat Emptor
BFL/BXL 1-0209 - Quah - Jorma Kaukonen With Tom Hobson [1973] Genesis/I'll Be
Alright/Song For The North Star/I'll Let You Know Before I Leave/Flying Clouds/Another Man Done
Gone//I Am The Light Of This World/Police Dog Blues/Blue Prelude/Sweet Hawaiian Sunshine/Hamar
Promenade
BFL 1-0347 - Manhole - Grace Slick [1973] Jay/Theme From Manhole//Come Again?
Toucan/It's Only Music/Better Lying Down/Epic (#38)
BFL 1-0348 - The Phosphorescent Rat - Hot Tuna [1973] I See The Light/Letter To The
North Star/Easy Now/Corners Without Exits/Day To Day Out The Window Blues//In The
Kingdom/Seeweed Strut/Living Just For You/Soliloquy For 2/Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From?
BFL 1-0418 - Playing My Fiddle For You - Papa John Creach & Zulu [1974] Friendly
Possibilities/Milk Train/I Miss You So/String Jet Continues//Playing My Music/Git It Up/Gretchen/One
Sweet Song/Golden Dreams
CYL 1-0437 - Early Flight - Jefferson Airplane [1974] High Flyin' Bird/Runnin' Round
This World/It's Alright/In The Morning/J.P.P. McStep B. Blues//Go To Her/Up Or Down/Mexico/Have You
Seen The Saucers
BFD/BFL 1-0717 - Dragon Fly - Grace Slick, Paul Kantner & The Jefferson Starship
[1974] Ride The Tiger/Thats For Sure/Be Young You/Caroline//Devils Den/Come To Life/All Fly
Away/Hyperdrive
BFD/BFL 1-0820 - America's Choice - Hot Tuna [1975] Sleep Song/Funky #7/Walkin'
Blues/Invitation//Hit Single #1/Serpent Of Dreams/I Don't Wanna Go/Great Divide: Revisited
BFD/BFL 1-0999 - Red Octopus - The Jefferson Starship [1975] Fast Buck
Freddie/Miracles/Git Fiddler/Ai Garimasu (There Is Love)/Sweeter Than Honey//Play On Love/Tumblin/I
Want To See Another World/Sandalphon/There Will Be Love
BFD/BFL 1-1238 - Yellow Fever - Hot Tuna [1975] Baby What You Want Me To Do/Hot
Jelly Roll Blues/Free Rein/Sunrise Dance With The Devil//Song For The Fire Maiden/Bar Room Crystal
Ball/Half/Time Saturation/Surphase Tension
*CYL 2-1255 - Flight Log (1966-1976) - Jefferson Airplane [1977] Two-LP set. Come
Again? Toucan - Grace Slick/Come Up The Years/Comin' Back To Me/Feel So Good/Genesis - Jorma
Kaukonen & Tom Hobson/Greasy Heart/Have You Seen The Stars Tonite/Hesitation Blues - Hot Tuna/If
You Feel/Ja Da (Keep On Truckin') - Hot Tuna/Milk Train/Please Come Back/Pretty As You Feel/Ride
The Tiger - The Jefferson Starship/Silver Spoon - Paul Kantner & Grace Slick/Sketches Of China - Paul
Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg/Somebody To Love/Volunteers/White Rabbit/Won't You Try-
Saturday Afternoon/Wooden Ships
BFD/BFL 1-1557 - Spitfire - The Jefferson Starship [1976] Cruisin'/Dance With The
Dragon/Hot Water/St. Charles//Ozymandias/Don't Let It Rain/With Your Love/Switchblade/Big City/Love
Lovely Love
BFL 1-1920 - Hoppkorv - Hot Tuna [1976] Santa Claus Retreat/Watch The North Wind
Rise/It's So Easy/Bowlegged Woman, Knock Kneed Man/Drivin' Around//I Wish You Would/I Can't Be
Satisfied/Talking Bout You/Extrication Love Song/Song From The Stainless Cymbal
BXL 1-2515 - Earth - The Jefferson Starship [1978] Love Too Good/Count On Me/Take
Your Time/Crazy Feelin'/Skateboard//Fire/Show Yourself/Runaway/All Nite Long
CYL 2-2545 - Double Dose - Hot Tuna [1978] Two-LP set. Winin' Boy Blues/Keep Your
Lamps Trimmed And Burning/Embryonic Journey/Killing Time In The Crystal City//I Wish You
Would/Genesis/Extrication Love Song/Talking Bout You//Funky #7/Serpent Of Dreams/Bowlegged
Woman, Knock Kneed Man//I See The Light/Watch The North Wind Rise/Sunrise Dance With The
Devil/I Can't Be Satisfied
BXL 1-2591 - Burgers - Hot Tuna [1978] Reissue of Grunt FTR 1004
DJL 1-2852 - The Last Interview - Hot Tuna [1978] Promo only
BZL 1-3247 - Gold - The Jefferson Starship [1979] Includes free 7". Ride The
Tiger/Caroline/Play On Love/Miracles/Fast Buck Freddie//With Your Love/St. Charles/Count On Me/Love
Too Good/Runaway//Light The Sky On Fire//Hyperdrive
BXL 1-3357 - Final Vinyl - Hot Tuna [1979] Hesitation Blues/Candy Man/Keep On
Truckin'/Water Song/Day To Day Out The Window Blues//Easy Now/Funky #7/Hot Jelly Roll Blues/Song
From The Stainless Cymbal/I Wish You Would
DJL 1-3363 - Gold - The Jefferson Starship [1979] Promo picture disc. Reissue of
Grunt BZL 1-3247
BZL 1-3452 - Freedom At Point Zero - The Jefferson Starship [1979] Jane/Lightning
Rose (Carry The Fire)/Things To Come/Awakening//Girl With The Hungry Eyes/Just The Same/Rock
Music/Fading Lady Light/Freedom At Point Zero (Clmibing Tiger Mountain Through The Sky)
AYL 1-3660 - Red Octopus - The Jefferson Starship [1980] Reissue of Grunt BFL 1-
0999
AYL 1-3747 - Quah - Jorma Kaukonen With Tom Hobson [1980] Reissue of Grunt
BFL/BXL 1-0209
AYL 1-3796 - Dragon Fly - Grace Slick, Paul Kantner & The Jefferson Starship [1980]
Reissue of Grunt BFL 1-0717
AYL 1-3799 - Baron Von Tollbooth And The Chrome Nun - Paul Kantner, Grace Slick &
David Freiberg [1980] Reissue of Grunt BXL 1-0148
BZL 1-3848 - Modern Times - The Jefferson Starship [1981] Find Your Way
Back/Stranger/Wild Eyes (Angel)/Save Your Love//Modern Times/Mary/Free/Alien/Stairway To
Cleveland (We Do What We Want)
AYL 1-3951 - Burgers - Hot Tuna [1981] Reissue of Grunt FTR 1004
AYL 1-3953 - Spitfire - The Jefferson Starship [1981] Reissue of Grunt BFL 1-1557
AYL 1-4172 - Earth - The Jefferson Starship [1981] Reissue of Grunt BXL 1-2515
BXL 1-4372 - Winds Of Change - The Jefferson Starship [1982] Winds Of
Change/Keep On Dreamin'/Be My Lady/I Will Stay/Out Of Control//Can't Find Love/Black Widow/I Came
Back From The Jaws Of The Dragon/Quit Wasting Time
AYL 1-4385 - Sunfighter - Paul Kantner & Grace Slick [1982] Reissue of Grunt FTR
1002
AYL 1-4386 - Bark - Jefferson Airplane [1981] Reissue of Grunt FTR 1001
AYL 1-4391 - Thirty Seconds Over Winterland - Jefferson Airplane [1981] Reissue of
Grunt BFL 1-0147
BXL 1-4921 - Nuclear Furniture - The Jefferson Starship [1984] Layin' It On The
Line/No Way Out/Sorry Me, Sorry You/Live And Let Live/Connection//Rose Goes To
Yale/Magician/Assassin/Shining In The Moonlight/Showdown/Champion
AYL 1-5161 - Freedom At Point Zero - The Jefferson Starship [1984] Reissue of Grunt
BZL 1-3452
BXL 1-5488 - Knee Deep In The Hoopla - Starship [1985] We Built This
City/Sara/Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight/Rock Myself To Sleep/Desperate Heart//Private
Room/Before I Go/Hearts Of The World Will Understand/Love Rusts
RCA 6000 consolidated series:
6413-1 R - No Protection - Starship [1987] Beat Patrol/Nothing's Gonna Stop Us
Now/It's Not Over ( Til It's Over)/Girls Like You/Wings Of A Lie//The Children/I Don't Know
Why/Transatlantic/Babylon/Set The Night To Music
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