It seems inevitable that for every major recording act, there is a stray recording which, by some legal technicality, gets out from its legitimate catalog and is replicated endlessly by disreputable firms all over the world. For Jefferson Airplane, that stray recording seems to be their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, which began turning up on albums of questionable legality in the 1980s, sometimes packaged with tracks copied from the group's RCA albums and other material. British label Success' Somebody to Love & Other Great Hits is a good example of this sort of thing. It actually contains all of the tracks previously released on the Creative Sounds albums Preflight and White Rabbit. Of the 16 tracks, six come from the Monterey show; three are copied from the RCA live album Bless Its Pointed Little Head; three are from RCA studio recordings (notably "White Rabbit"); and four aren't by Jefferson Airplane at all. According to the credits on Preflight, they are by a group called Steel Riders; the present album doesn't bother to mention this. (Note that the track listed as "Watch Her Ride" is actually a song called "Ride" by Steel Riders.) Of course, the counterfeiting of six RCA tracks is blatantly illegal, but to the consumer it's no worse a crime than padding out a Jefferson Airplane release with recordings by someone else. Ironically, the CD sleeve contains a copyright warning to others, which, under the circumstances, shows an amazing amount of gall. ~ William Ruhlmann