Been So Long: My Life & Music By Jorma Kaukonen 368 pp. $29.99 St. Martin’s Press As a band, the Jefferson Airplane were right at the epicenter of San Francisco’s Summer of Love and its hippie ...

Jefferson Airplane wanted you to know they were getting weird. Other moments on After Bathing at Baxter’s fully incorporated the jam element the band had on stage.

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 ...

Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady ultimately decided to focus on Hot Tuna, an offshoot band they formed in 1970. Singer Marty Balin eventually went solo.

Jefferson Airplane’s debut show was on Aug. 13, 1965, at San Francisco’s The Matrix nightclub, which Balin had converted into a music outlet from a pizza parlor.

Using a group of ad hoc musicians with Airplane members in the mix, the album was credited to Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship. The name was recycled when the new band was formed in 1974.

Here are five defining moments from Balin’s time in Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. “It’s No Secret,” from Jefferson Airplane’s 1966 debut, “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off” ...