I guess the better word would be overshadowed. nobody uses this fucking cover when uploading stuff from Bark lol, might be because 1. it's ugly and 2. unsettling with the fish head with human teeth. The original vinyl record release had a really cool packaging gimmick, it came in this huge paper bag, which you had to unfold and it had neat illustrations of the band members.

the lyrics sheet had some fun illustrations as well, for one instrumental song called Wild Turkey they just had a picture of a turkey where the lyrics would normally go. Anyways the fish head is what's on the actual cardboard sleeve that holds the record but we all just collectively decided Bark's real cover is on the paper bag it came wrapped in. I think the general idea is a brown paper bag is what they used to give you when you went shopping before plastic bags (I guess they are coming back slowly now), so when you got Bark you didn't know what you were getting and you get: the fucked up fish head. I kinda love how direct it is. it has no relevance at all to the album, what you see is what you get.

Ah and the music.. Jefferson Airplane went a little sci-fi without Marty Balin, and Paul Kantner was into that at the time (See: Blows Against The Empire), I do love When The Earth Moves Again a lot, same for War Movie, any song that talks about "transforming systems" and "sunfinders" and battalions of "mind raiders" whatever the hell those are cannot be bad. My favorite track though is Third Week in the Chelsea, just an absolutely gorgeous acoustic track and with some heartfelt lyrics about things falling apart and trying to move on from that, the thing that was falling apart was the band, Kaukonen and Cassidy had already pretty much settled into doing Hot Tuna, Kantner and Slick had their plans to do other things and Jefferson Starship was staring to become its own thing.. This really feels like the last proper Airplane album for those many reasons (and more) and this one ties it all together.

