If 'Dream Motorcycle' seems a bit indulgent, 'No More Heartaches' rocks with authority, proving again this was the true direction the Jefferson Starship should have taken around the time they found Freedom at Point Zero. David Evan and Gene Hart's 'Hold Me' is a beautiful ballad à la what Jesse Barish brought to the Marty Balin catalog, and Paul Kantner does an unusually commercial job on the very interesting 'Mariel.' Not only have Kantner and Balin settled their differences, they co-write three tracks, find strong outside material, and, more often than not here, deliver the goods. This album, though, is the genuine article. 'It's Not You, It's Not Me' gives Marty Balin that opportunity to sing on a natural progression from the days of the Jefferson Airplane to what Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas were doing on 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.' The difference is that No Protection, released around the same point in time, had Narada Michael Walden giving the techno/industrial sound of Starship the commercial edge.

Aguilar's presence stretches into the new millennium, giving him a longer time with Balin and Kantner than his predecessors.

It's the Jefferson Airplane without Grace Slick, Mark Aguilar accepting the mantle from Jorma Kaukonen and Craig Chaquico. Band is the missing link between Jefferson Airplane and what became the Starship. The album sounds better with age, Marty Balin taking a 1975 tune, 'Sayonara,' and giving it the rock edge missing from much of his solo work, as well as his beautiful soft rock performances with Jefferson Starship. Band got lost in the shuffle, despite Boston producer John Boylan's presence (he produced the aforementioned Carly Simon record as well), but this one-off was an admirable project by exiled Jefferson Starship members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner, along with their Jefferson Airplane comrade Jack Casady. Carly Simon's resurrection that was Coming Around Again - a VH1 special and inclusion on a soundtrack did the trick for her, while Whitney Houston's version of 'The Greatest Love of All' continued that diva's supremacy. 1986 was a banner year for Arista records with some ridiculous percentage of their releases going gold if memory serves, it was around 85 percent.

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