| Marty Balin: Live On The Boston Esplanade, June 14, 2008 Release Date: November 3, 2009 Label: MVD - Music Video Distributors - MVD Visual Producer/Director: Joseph Viglione Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Marty Balin live in Boston with Didi Stewart
TRACK LISTING: Main Program: Intro: 0:13 M.C. Mike Finnegan 1) 3/5th of a Mile in 10 Seconds (Balin, Marty) 4:20
2) Runaway (Dewey, Nicholas) 3:35
3) Count On Me (Barish, Jesse) 4:38
4) Somebody To Love (Slick, Darby) 3:58
5) Miracles (Balin, Marty) 7:49
6) Hearts (Barish, Jesse) 8:56
7) White Rabbit (Slick, Grace) 3:02
8) Volunteers (Balin, Marty) 5:03 encore
9) If I Had A Rocket Launcher (Cockburn, Bruce) 5:25
10) Dewey Bunnell of the group/duo America says "Hello" 0:08
11) Closing Credits 1:20 Main Program: 52:02 BONUS TRACKS PART 1 INTERVIEWS 1) Visual Radio #1 50 minutes Marty Balin interview including the song "Later On"
2) Visual Radio #292 Jeff Tamarkin 4:15 "They ended up something completely different than what they started out being" Jeff Tamarkin 3) Visual Radio #403 Signe Anderson, Craig Fenton 4:25 Bonus Tracks Part 2 SONGS: 4) Marty & Mark "Slick" Aguilar - Fitzgeralds, Berwyn IL 6/8/06 Set 1: Do It For Love (Barish, Jesse) 4:36 Brat fest 5-26-07 Madison Wisconsin
Marty Balin - guitar, vocals
Mark "Slick" Aguilar - lead guitar, backing vocals video by Rick Martin 5) Somebody To Love 4:25
6) Summer of Love 4:17
7) Today 3:41 NewBury Media Session 6-13-08 8) Shaping The Night 5:29
9) Somehow The Tired Reach Home 4:40
10) Count On Me 3:30 Bonus Track culled from 1995 interview in Cambridge 11) Later On (Balin, Marty) 1:49
CREDITS
Balin, Marty/Vocals, Guitar, Tambourine
Stewart, Didi/Vocals, Backing vocals
Baldwin, Donnie/Drums
Aguilar, Mark "Slick"/guitar, backing vocals
Gebert, Gordon G.G./Keyboards, vocals, camera
Trupia, David/bass guitar, camera
Viglione, Joe/producer, director, camera, interviewer, liner notes
Bunnell, Dewey/interview
Tamarkin, Jeff/interview
Anderson, Signe/interview
Fenton, Craig/interview, liner notes
Fraboni, Rob/remastering
Centola, Marco/remastering
Settlemyer, Shannon/editing, DVD authoring
Coyne, Bill/camera
Kelly, Sean/camera
Brennan, Alice/camera
Brabazon, Jason/camera
Bergsten Music/sound
Kanavos, Ken/audio, camera
Gould, Darby/Photography
Koerber, Sabrina/art direction
Bieber, David/liner note editing
Finnegan, Mike/master of ceremonies
 TITLE: MARTY BALIN, LIVE AT BOSTON ESPLANADE JUNE 14, 2008
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Liner Notes, Craig Fenton It’s no secret that for decades, Marty Balin’s Hall of Fame voice has captivated the record-buying
Public from America to Australia. Omitted from the equation has been the opportunity to see and
hear Marty on stage commanding his own brigade. A perfect June night in Boston will forever be a living document. Marty Balin has been captured!
Marty Balin, along with five ready and able musical accomplices, have commandeered the
Esplanade. It’s not an illusion when it’s reality and it certainly was magical. With a concoction of sounds penned from 1966 to 1984, Marty had taken the pulse of the
audience and knew several doses of rock and roll would provide a memorable night in a
legendary setting. I have met few with Marty’s resume that don’t have an ego the size of the
current United States debt. Marty has always been about the music buyer and those that possess
a concert ticket. That is why he continues to perform several songs he didn’t create. Didi Stewart
can fly high on two numbers because Marty Balin doesn’t need to monopolize the spotlight. A
band is a team, and Marty leads them to the head of the pack. It was ballads and rockers with Marty and friends performing four from the Jefferson Airplane
days - “3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds,” “Somebody To Love,” “White Rabbit,” and “Volunteers.”
On board from the Jefferson Starship classic period were “Runaway,” “Count On Me,” and
“Miracles”. Marty’s worldwide hit “Hearts” along with the cover of the Bruce Cockburn tune
“If I Had A Rocket Launcher” rounded out the odyssey. I look forward to seeing you in the front row. All the best,
Craig Fenton
Author: Jefferson Airplane 'Take Me To A Circus Tent'
Jefferson Starship 'Have You Seen The Stars Tonite'
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PRODUCER'S NOTES: On the 1st anniversary of this June 14, 2008 recording of Marty Balin live in
Boston, Woodstock Ventures was gearing up for the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival,
and with Sony/Legacy promoting the release of the complete audio of The Jefferson Airplane
recorded at Woodstock on August 17,1969, the timing is perfect for a Marty Balin solo release in
this anniversary year. Shannon Settlemyer actually transferred there mastered audio from Real
Mastering on August 17, 2009, on the anniversary of the Woodstock show, fourteen months after
this concert performance was taped.
As Craig Fenton noted, four of the Airplane songs from the Woodstock festival appear on this disc,
Marty Balin performing those titles again at the huge Hatch Shell along the Charles River where
the Boston Pops perform every 4th of July. This is also where the Arthur Fiedler footbridge
provides fans a path over Storrow Drive and onto the great big park where thousands of people
gathered for a very special concert with the group America (now a duo) and Marty Balin. The DVD you are holding is a huge labor of love and what has turned out to be a long-term project.
You can now hear the heart of the Jefferson Airplane, featuring its founding member, backed up by
Elvin Bishop Group and Starship drummer Donnie Baldwin and his long-time guitarist who toured
with the KBC Band and Jefferson Starship, Mark "Slick" Aguilar. Keyboardist Gordon G.G. Gebert and
bassist Dave Trupia had performed with Marty prior to the event and were essential in helping us
get this video together. The DVD also brings a new face to the Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship discography, in the
tradition of the great ladies who have performed Grace Slick's two signature tunes. Boston legend
Diane "Didi" Stewart teaches at Berklee College of Music and was lead singer of Girls Night Out, one
of New England's premiere bands in the 1980s. She saw the Airplane in Central Park and her
participation here is a special moment. (Didi and her friend Ellie Marshall of the Modern Lovers were
actually scheduled to be on Marty Balin's Better Generation sessions in 1992, a CDI coordinated with
Wayne Green, owner of CD Review magazine. To quote an old Sly Stone advertisement "Sixteen
Years is not too long to wait".) And another note of importance is that Darby Gould, former
singer with Jefferson Starship, is the photographer of the cover picture of Marty Balin! It was my partnership with Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller which brought me in touch with
Marty Balin in 1986, thanks to a mutual friend, Rob Ward. I had been a huge fan, of course, since my
teenage years in the 1970s, and getting to meet Marty was a huge honor back then. Working with
him so closely years later continues to be a great honor. Having followed Balin's solo career, KBC
(Kantner, Balin & Casady) and his work with the Jefferson Starship concerts in Connecticut, Rhode
Island, Boston, Western Massachusetts, West Palm Beach and other regions during the past couple
of decades, it is obvious to me that the Jefferson Airplane could not have been launched without
Marty Balin. Marty is certainly deserving of iconic stature for being the founding member of the
group with the distinction of having played the three major festivals - Monterey, Woodstock and
Altamont - and getting their well-deserved induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The songs on this DVD are the evidence that it was Marty Balin's vision that helped carry his friends
and associates into the history books as part of one of the most influential rock bands of the 60s
and beyond. Play the Woodstock DVD next to this disc and you'll have to agree. Thirty nine years
after that famous New York festival, the voice and presence of Marty Balin emerges as the key
component that brought huge commercial success to the Jefferson Starship and blazed a path with
The Jefferson Airplane that gave a platform to Grace Slick and a counter culture mantra for Paul
Kantner in the song they composed together, "Volunteers". This DVD is a nice way to celebrate the
40th Anniversary of that major event with miracles, magic and more.
Producer/Director
Joe Viglione
Monday, August 10, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://myspace.com/martybalinmiracles
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special thanks to Gordon G.G. Gebert and Dave Trupia for their help in capturing the moment –
running cameras while performing in the band – and to Bergsten Music Company for running the
soundboard audio for us. Craig Fenton and Rick Martin must be commended for their tireless
documenting of Marty Balin, and to Jason Brabazon who, behind the scenes, helped me tape the
Harvard Square interview for my TV show, Visual Radio, in 1995 as with this concert in 2008. Cameras: Joe Viglione, Gordon G.G. Gebert, Dave Trupia, Bill Coyne, Sean Kelly, Alice Brennan,
Jason Brabazon
Special Thanks to: Joseph M. Cortese, Paula Street, Karen Blake, J.J. Wright, Dale Dorman and our
M.C. Mike Finnegan at WODS, Oldies 103.3, Larry "Chachi" Loprete at WZLX 100.7, Harvey
Wharfield of WZLX, WCGY, WAAF fame, Howie Cusack at Pretty Polly Productions, the group
AMERICA (Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell), Ernie & The Automatics - Ernie Boch Jr., Brian Maes,
Tim Archibald, Barry Goudreau and Syb Hashian, Joe Buchwald - Marty Balin Management, Karen
Deal Balin, Delaney Balin, Attorney Bruce Colfin of Jacobson & Colfin, P.C. (The Firm), Mike Cabral
and the staff at WCAT Winthrop Community Access Television, Amy, George & Stoneham TV, the
City of Boston, Keith Lockhart & the Boston Pops for letting us play on their stage, Gary Bockser
who was our 8th cameraman (perhaps we'll use the footage in a re-release down the road), the
members of Girls Night Out, Hirsh Gardner at Daddy's Junkie Music, Ken Kanavos at Newbury
Media, Andy Bergsten at Bergsten Music, Inc., Dave Maxwell, Steve Holley, Greg Tarbox, Anthony
Caliendo who were all on standby to help out. Ed Seaman, Clint Weiler, art director Sabrina
Koerber and everyone at MVD Entertainment, Shannon Settlemyre at Results Production & Post/
Swirl Films, Rob Fraboni and Marco Centola at Real Mastering, Darby Gould for the cover photo,
David Bieber at The Boston Phoenix for editing these liner notes and to all those whose efforts
helped make this event so special.
Joe Viglione
http://myspace.com/martybalinmiracles
PO box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'd like to thank Dewey Bunnell of America for the quick interview Here's an article by Ben Wener
on the "coolness" of AMERICA
Thursday, January 11, 2007 America is cool?? Yes, say members of Fountains of Wayne, the Smashing Pumpkins, My Morning Jacket and Nada Surf,
all of whom helped America make its best album since the '70s. |
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