Drinking Gourd in the Summer of 1963, The Town Criers (Balin, Bill Collins, Jan Ellickson and Larry Vargo) played the club circuit for a year before breaking up and Balin, no doubt drawing on this experience, subsequently opened his club The Matrix. The rest is history, informatively recounted here by band member Bill Collins along with pictures from his private archives. Includes 'Daddy Roll ’Em; 900 Miles; Virgin Mary; Go Home to the Valley; Hellbound Train; The Lesson; 99 Years to Go', and 'Jubilee'. Marty proves to be quite the raconteur as he introduces each song…a missing chapter in the Airplane saga!  (less)