Jefferson Starship: The Definitive Concert

This hour-long concert, shot in Vancouver, Canada, in 1983, finds the latter day Jefferson Starship (that is, the edition of the band in which Mickey Thomas has replaced Marty Balin as co-lead singer with Grace Slick) running through numbers from such albums as Freedom at Point Zero (1979), Modern Times (1981), and Winds of Change (1982), with a few glimpses of earlier times (“Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” from Jefferson Airplane, “Ride the Tiger” from 1974’s Dragon Fly). This is an efficient seven-member arena rock band, with Slick and Thomas backed by Paul Kantner, David Freiberg, and Pete Sears, who switch around from guitar to bass to keyboards, plus lead guitarist Craig Chaquico and drummer Donny Baldwin, all of them chiming in with vocals here and there.