Magnet Magazine — 50 years ago today, David Crosby released If I Could Only Remember My Name. Neil Young! Grateful Dead! Joni Mitchell! Graham Nash! Members of Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Santana! Where the fuck was Stephen Stills?!
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JamBase — To celebrate legendary Jefferson Airplane vocalist Grace Slick's 80th birthday, check out Grace and Airplane performing live at the studio of renowned sound engineer Wally Heider in 1970. more info
Aquarium Drunkard — Real life human muppets on acid. Two nights before Halloween, forty-plus years ago, plastic-fantastic freaks (truly) Flo & Eddie exorcized all manner of demons and lesser deities at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ. Throughout the performance the p... more info
JamBase — Celebrate what would have been Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner’s birthday today by revisiting the legendary psychedelic band’s ‘Dick Cavett Show’ appearance. more info
Sky News — Singer Marty Balin, the co-founder of US psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died while being taken to a hospital in Tampa, Florida. more info
L.A. Times - Entertainment — Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s "San Francisco Sound" both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other bands performed, has died. He was 76. Balin died Thursday in Tampa, Florida, on t... more info
New York Times — A guitarist, singer and songwriter for a San Francisco band that defined the psychedelic rock era of the late 1960s, then morphed into Jefferson Starship. more info
Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Balin was an ex-folk musician who, like like many of his peers,switched to electronic music after the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night" was released. more info
Reuters — Marty Balin, a co-founder of the legendary rock band Jefferson Airplane whose soulful tenor gave the band its distinctive sound, has died at the age of 76, his representative said on Friday.
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