Jefferson Airplane had been rehearsing constantly in preparation, working on cover songs as well as their first original compositions, most of which came from Balin and guitarist Paul Kantner.

How Starship traded in the Summer of Love ideals espoused by their original incarnation, Jefferson Airplane, for a handful of Top 40 hits.

A live album of "Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More" features couple Bobbi and Nick Ercoline on the cover is seen on August 16, 2019 in Bethel, New York.

The Airplane also return to the favor to Donovan with an equally lengthy cover of his 1966 raga folk rock nugget “The Fat Angel,” in which Donovan had namedropped Jefferson Airplane.

It’s July 5th and here are some reasons why this day matters in rock history: In 1965, Marty Balin and Paul Kantner formed a ...

Spencer Dryden, the drummer for the Jefferson Airplane who once appeared with his group on the cover of Life magazine but had fallen on hard times, died Monday from cancer. He was 66 years old. Mr ...

Jefferson Airplane created some of the most iconic sounds of the ’60s; their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow yielded two top 10 hits, “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.

Jefferson Airplane, ‘Thirty Seconds Over Winterland’ Bruce Steinberg created the cover art for Jefferson Airplane’s live album Thirty Seconds Over Winterland from 1973.

At a concert headlined by the Rolling Stones and seen in the 1970 documentary “Gimme Shelter,” Balin was attacked during Jefferson Airplane’s set by a member of the Hell’s Angels, who were ...

Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin, now 76 years old, settled in Mill Valley as a young rocker in 1968. He will be honored with a Milley in October. (Photo by SJBuchwald) ...

“Marty was the one who started the San Francisco scene,” his onetime roommate Bill Thompson, manager the Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, once said of Balin.

Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday. Mr. Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, was 74 and had suffered a heart attack this week.