Marty Balin, founding member of Jefferson Airplane, dies at age 76
Source: Yahoo
Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane, longtime member of Jefferson Starship, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, has died at age 76. Balin’s publicity company, Jensen Communications, announced Friday that Balin passed away on Sept. 27, with his wife, Susan Joy Balin, by his side.
“Marty and I shared the deepest of love — he often called it Nirvana — and it was. But really, we were all touched by his love. His presence will be within my entire being forever,” Susan Balin said in statement released via Jensen on Friday afternoon.
Balin’s cause of death was not disclosed as of press time. However, he had a recent history of serious health problems: In March 2016, he underwent open-heart surgery at New York City’s Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, and in a subsequent lawsuit, he alleged that the hospital’s negligence had caused him to suffer a paralyzed vocal cord, loss of his left thumb and half of his tongue, bedsores, and kidney damage.
Balin was born Martyn Jerel Buchwald on Jan. 30, 1942, in Cincinnati; he changed his name to Marty Balin in 1962 when he recorded two solo songs for Challenge Records: “Nobody But You” and “I Specialize in Love.” After those singles failed to take off, and after a brief stint in a folk music quartet called the Town Criers, he purchased a San Francisco pizza parlor and converted it into the rock club the Matrix, putting on shows by such esteemed artists as the Doors, Janis Joplin, and the Velvet Underground.
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Another voice from the 60's leaving us.
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R-I-P
Rest in peace great one!
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Miracles
& recommend. 
My childhood is leaving me
Gonna have to crank up my old stereo and listen to Spitfire tonight .....
HELP
RIP Marty
GMTA. 
My 12 year-old grandson, who's a drummer, loves this song because he isn't driven to study the drums in it.
In their day, Jefferson Airplane's Balin and Kaukonen produced the best guitar sounds in rock.
After I posted to you, I noticed that the post directly above yours ALSO linked to the same song. 
He was a poet. This song was released the year I was born.
RIP, Marty.
I was 17 when "Surrealistic Pillow" was released. This song from that album was written by Marty Balin:
- it's what immediately leaped into my mind on reading this sad news. 
Thanks for all the music you made here.
My original album is barely holding together at this point. I LOVE his vocals! What a great band.
Too young to die. He left a legacy of some good music.
dropping at an ever increasing rate. 
I guess that means I'm getting old as well. 
Which reminds me of another Airplane song, 'Lather'.
Lather was thirty years old today,
And Lather came foam from his tongue.
He looked at me eyes wide and plainly said,
Is it true that I'm no longer young?
And the children call him famous,
what the old men call insane,
And sometimes he's so nameless,
That he hardly knows which game to play...
Which words to say...
And I should have told him, "No, you're not old."
And I should have let him go on...smiling...baby-wide.
RIP, Marty.
and saving or using my bagging grocery money from the base commissary in SD, and I can still remember going to see them when I lived in California
Not only were they popular at the time but I was going to see legends from the '60's as well.
Marty Balin was a no show and Grace Slick was drunk and belligerent toward the audience. Oh well, I cherished those albums and his voice.
He lived a low profile life in Carrollwood (north of Tampa) but was pretty active on social media.
RIP
