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.

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” ...

Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Musician Marty Balin, a co-founder of the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died at the age of 76. "We have lost a true legend. Marty Balin helped start a revolution ...

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.

Formed as Jefferson Airplane in 1965 in the counterculture haven of San Francisco, the band has experienced several incarnations. And David Freiberg has been there for at least part of all of them.

When one thinks of Jefferson Airplane, one often thinks of psychedelic soundscapes, the Summer of Love, and Grace Slick’s incomparable vocals. When one thinks of Frank Zappa, one doesn’t ...

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 ...