Freedom at Point Zero by Jefferson Starship

Freedom at Point Zero, Jefferson Starship's fifth album, came out on Grunt and RCA in 1979, and it's a band rebuilt on the fly. Grace Slick and Marty Balin had both walked out the year before, so Paul Kantner and company drafted Mickey Thomas as the new lead singer and brought in Aynsley Dunbar, fresh out of Journey, on drums. Ron Nevison produced, and the result is tight, loud arena rock with Thomas wailing over the top.

"Jane" was the payoff, a hard-charging hit single that has refused to die: it opens the film Wet Hot American Summer and turned up in Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and in Cocaine Bear. Elsewhere, "Lightning Rose" introduced a character who would come back as the centerpiece of the concept on Nuclear Furniture. The cover was shot on San Francisco Bay, aboard the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Midgett.

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