Marty Balin wrote and sang some of the best-loved songs of both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson ... Soon joined by Grace Slick, this song pretty much defines Jefferson Aiplane stylistically. 2 ...

Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin has died at the age of 76. ... The band found mainstream success in 1967 when vocalist Grace Slick joined the group.

The rock band Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balin, from left, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, as they pose in their Pacific Heights, San Francisco apartment ...

The rock band Jefferson Airplane poses in their Pacific Heights, San Francisco, apartment on Dec. 5, 1968. They are, from left: Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen ...

Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s " San ... "Every time I did something, it was always Grace Slick and the Airplane and Grace Slick and the Starship," he told Relix magazine in 1993.

While Grace Slick’s “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love” were the big hits on the record, it was the Marty Balin ballads that moved me the most. And I’m sure I’m not alone in that.

Last spring, Paul Kantner rung up his old Jefferson Airplane bandmate Marty Balin at home in Tampa<b> </b>and invited him out on tour. Balin took one look at the "crazy, ridiculous" schedule ...

A 1968 photo of Jefferson Airplane in San Francisco. (From left) Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, and Jack Casady.

This Dec. 5, 1968 file photo shows the rock band Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balin (from left), Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, as they pose in their ...

The Altamont incident was reflective of the wild state of rock music in late-1960s, and for a time, Balin and his co-horts in the Airplane — singer Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, guitarist Jorma ...

NEW YORK-- Marty Balin, ... "Every time I did something, it was always Grace Slick and the Airplane and Grace Slick and the Starship," he told Relix magazine in 1993.