Ok folks, I'm the taper so here's what happened. My D8 deck was broke and I brought my Hi8 HiFi stereo camcorder with me to film the show. After I get there, the gallery mgmt tells me that filming is not allowed. So I had RCA cables with me and a camera that recorded in HiFi. I patched the camera into a RCA output from the small board that controlled the sound. Then I took the audio from the Hi8 tape and put it on CDR which was used for this upload. It sounds good enough to me and given the location, it was a privilege to be there. Marty & Slick are good friends of mine, so I had to tape it for them anyway. Some of the sound effects in Summer Of Love was done for me, at my request, from the engineer running the board. I liked what he did. Go Ride The Music!

not a bad recording,probably deserves a five
just something about it
its hard being negative about the voice of
a generation(marty)

I love hearing some of these songs many different ways. Grateful to have them. The sound is great. There were some sound glitches in the last half of Comin' Back to Me unfortunately, 'cause it was otherwise nice. But the Summer of Love makes up for it sort of. It's not completely tight in the arrangements and Aguilar gets a little lost sometimes musically with some bad chords, particularly on Feelin' the Love and It's No Secret, which gets butchered but some bad with the good.

OK, it's not the full line-up. This was Marty singing at a gallery where his work was on display/sale, but the recording is excellent and Marty's voice has held up so well, so rich, over the years. I'd love to find some of the Kantner-Casady "Acoustic Starship" shows from the mid-90s, but this is a nice Airplane-related treat. Worth the download for Airplane-Starship fans.
Jac from Tucson
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After you figure out how to play these crazy flac files, Marty Balin fans will be thrilled with this exceedingly magnificent show. Several of these songs sound fresher than the original [perhaps overproduced] studio versions. Marty is having fun and his voice is crisp and dynamic. The sound jumps right out at ya too.
A perrrfect Marty show...he's always better solo as it's nice to hear his great vocal inflections without she-who-must-not-be-named watering down the vintage wine.
BruceB

damn fine, crisp clean.
balin gets full of himself, but when doesn't he?
my wife says "5 stars"
and i like to eat, and get laid (i must be gettin old, eat comes before laid now???)
...so...

Slcik Aguilar deserves more recognition. He has played with Jefferson Starhip, KBC Band, and Marty Balin since at least 1981. So Marty and he have a relaxed intuitive vibe that is very special.
Some have compared Slick to Jerry or Jorma or others, but he has his own tone and phrasing and is quite his own man.
Marty or someone once called Jefferson Starship a "variety show" since it features so many talented and diverse performers. Here we get a chance to bask in Marty's unique crooning voice, as he delivers a warm set of love songs and other songs, from Jefferson Airplane's first single "It's No Secret," through the seventies hits such as "Miracles", and rare solo material. A gem of a show.

Setlist lists this under Jefferson Starship but it might be more properly dubbed a Marty Balin concert -- it's just him and Slick Aguilara. What a duo! Marvelous performance, all acoustic. This show took place as part of a showing of Marty's paintings. Some dropouts or skips in two of the songs, but sound quality is still a 5.

Interesting to hear these songs in an acoustic vein...soft, unpolished, different. "Volunteers" takes on a whole new texture and feel...not the violent "shout-out" of the original, but almost a sad climax to an era that never reached its full potential.