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KBC Band KBC Band (also sometimes referred to as The Kantner Balin Casady Band) was formed in 1985 by former Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship) members Paul Kantner (guitar and vocals), Marty Balin (vocals and guitar) and Jack Casady ( bass). ...

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Paul Kantner Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He cont ...

Marty Balin Martyn Jerel Buchwald (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018), known as Marty Balin (), was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the founder/leader and one of the lead singers and songwriters of Jefferson Airplane and ...

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Jack Casady John William "Jack" Casady (born April 13, 1944) is an American bass guitarist, best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco Sound. Singles including " So ...

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. The single "It's Not You, It's Not Me" was released shortly before the album's release. When originally released, the album cover was printed on both the outside and inside. In one vinyl release, the inside jacket of the album had a picture of a road with a car traveling on it with sign in the distance that said: "Life is a test. Had this been a real life, you would have been told where to go and what to do" — a satire of the message broadcast by the

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. Outtakes were included on the Marty Balin albums ''

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'' and ''Nothin' 2 Lose: The Lost Studio Recordings''.

Track listing

;Side one #"Mariel" (Paul Kantner, Marty Balin) – 4:30 #"It's Not You, It's Not Me" (

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, Phil Brown) – 3:33 #"Hold Me" (David Evan, Gene Heart) – 6:30 #"America" (Kantner, Balin) – 6:18 ;Side two #"No More Heartaches" (Cary Sharaf) – 3:30 #"Wrecking Crew" (Mark "Slick" Aguilar, Tim Gorman) – 3:42 #"When Love Comes" (Heart, Evan) – 4:22 #"Dream Motorcycle" (Kantner, Balin) – 3:47 #"Sayonara" (

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Personnel

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Mark "Slick" Aguilar Mark "Slick" Aguilar (born 1954) is an American guitarist. He has worked with a number of notable musicians but is probably best known as a member of Jefferson Starship. From 1974-1980 he was an in house guitar player for TK studios in N. Miami ...

– lead guitar, background vocals *Keith Crossan –

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Tim Gorman Tim Gorman is an American pianist, composer, arranger and record producer. Gorman studied music composition at the University of Portland in Oregon, under Philippe De La Mare, himself a former student of Nadia Boulanger. Biography Gorman graduat ...

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, background vocals *Darrell Verdusco –

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, background vocals ;Additional personnel *

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– percussion on "Mariel"

Production

*KBC Band – producer on all tracks *Jim Gaines – producer and engineer on all tracks except "Sayonara" *John Boylan – producer on "It's Not You, It's Not Me" and "Sayonara", additional production on "When Love Comes" and "No More Heartaches" *Paul Grupp – engineer on "Sayonara" *Stephen Hart, Rick Sanchez, Robert Missbach, Maureen Droney – assistant engineers *Stephen Hart – additional engineering *Frank Filipetti – mixing engineer *Moira Marquis – assistant mixing engineer *Steven Shmerler – art direction *Leon Leach – innersleeve photography *Dyer/Kahn, Inc. – design *Milton Sincoff – art production *Vincent Lynch, Lynchpin Productions – management *Cynthia Bowman – public relations *Recorded at the Plant, Sausalito and

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, Berkeley *Mixed at Right Track Recording, New York

Charts

;Singles

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kbc Band 1986 debut albums Albums produced by John Boylan (record producer) Arista Records albums KBC Band albums