An Italian import, put together by the late Jefferson Airplane Superfan, Gianluigi "Johnny" Blasi. Consists of a CD of Jefferson Airplane studio outtakes and a CD sized booklet of about 120 pages. The booklet presents side by side translations in both English and Italian, cutting the actual size from 120 to 60 pages. My 42-year-old eyes have a real hard time reading the microscopic text, hopefully your genes are superior to mine. The forward, by Matteo Guarnaccia, is unintentionally hilarious, with incredibly purple prose, exacerbated by a bad translation.
Johnny Blasi's history of Jefferson Airplane fills about half of the booklet. It's also badly translated, most likely by Johnny. Some of the mistranslations are quite amusing, most commonly when the lyrics go from English, to Italian, and then back to English: "nobody is an island...it is a peninsula" - "...but Mexico is compliant to a man that we call Richard and him one wills do call king." There's a lot of stuff here that I didn't know, but unfortunately, I can't consider most of it reliable, since Johnny often gets the facts wrong. Some examples: claiming Grace wrote "Wild Tyme", declaring Baxter's a commercial success, reporting that Paul Kantner underwent brain surgery after the 21 Aug 1972 Akron, Ohio incident, and, most unbelievably of all, insisting Jefferson Starship, the Next Generation toured "to great success." Since the booklet was published after his death, I'll have to assume it was a rough draft. I just hope that Johnny's family received some financial benefit from this package.
But the booklet is not a total loss, there's a great 1978 interview of Paul Kantner by Nick Ralph (from Dark Star #17 and #18) taking up about one third of the text. Thankfully, the original text wasn't cross-translated, but there's still a bit of amusing cross-cultural mistransmission. When Paul Kantner refers to RCA executives as "The Suits", Nick hears it as "The Pseuds."
The standard discography closes out the text. There are some photos representing the entire span of Jefferson Airplane/Starship/JSTNG, most of them pretty common, half of them poorly reproduced. Also a few color reproductions of Fillmore concert posters.
Musically, the CD is not particularly interesting. It contains alternate takes of "Pretty as You Feel" (14 Dec 1970, 14:00) and "Wild Turkey" (Jul 1971, 4:29), and a bit of silliness by Spencer Dryden, "The Saga of Sidney Spacepig" (31 May 1968, 11:57). The recording quality is good, the guitars are out of tune. With just a bare 30 minutes of non-essential recordings, I'd recommend this one for fanatics only.