Always loved this picture. Over the years they have slowly become my #1. Meaning if I'm looking for a song to play, it's more likely from them than early 70's Stones.
Story about Mickey Thomas in Scranton in 1989 when their show at the local Triple A field was cancelled due to weather and led to Thomas getting his face broken by a band mate and needing reconstructive surgery at the hospital where my wife works!
One of rock's most dramatic feuds boiled over on Sept. 24, 1989, when Starship's tour in support of Love Among the Cannibals reached Scranton, Pennsylvania. By the time it was over, Mickey Thomas would need facial reconstructive surgery and his longtime friend Donny Baldwin would be out of the group.
Their brutal altercation that night was all the more astonishing because Baldwin had served as drummer in the Elvin Bishop Band, where Thomas rose to early fame on the strength of their No. 3 1976 hit "Fooled Around and Fell in Love." It was Thomas who brought Baldwin on board in 1982 to replace Aynsley Dunbar in Jefferson Starship -- an act that originally grew out of one of the '60s signature flower-power groups, Jefferson Airplane.