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Grace Slick replaced Mrs. Anderson and Spencer Dryden took over Skip Spence's drums before the release of Jefferson Airplane's second album, "Surrealistic Pillow", in 1967, the year of Summer of Love. "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" – two songs that Mrs. Slick brought to the band – became the top 10 songs. (Mr. Kantner and Mrs. Anderson died in 2016, Mr. Dryden in 2005 and Mr. Spence in 1999.)
For Mr. Balin, Jefferson Airplane focused on live performance, not the business formula. "We came to a place where music played us, we did not do it," Balin told Relix magazine in 1993. "That's where you want to go." And from the first note you knock, wherever you are, even in the biggest room in the world, right from the first note of the first song, you know at that moment that you are there or that you are not there.
Mr. Balin stayed with Jefferson Airplane through three other studio albums that resisted like psychedelic touches: "After Bathing at Baxter's", "Crown of Creation" and "Volunteers", for which he and Mr. Kantner wrote the title . Yet the growing tension within the group, as well as his grief at the death of a friend, Janis Joplin, in 1970, led him to leave Jefferson Airplane in 1971.
Mr. Kantner invited Mr. Balin to complete a song that would become "Caroline" on Jeff Jefferson Starship's 1974 Jeff Fly Starship album, with Mr. Balin on lead vocals. He joined the group as a full member in 1975 and was his leader for pop hits including "Miracles", "Count on Me", "Runaway" and "With Your Love" before leaving in 1978. first solo album, "Balin," included two Top 40 hits, "Hearts" and "Atlanta Lady (Something About Your Love)," both written by a friend, Jesse Barish. And as Mr. Balin continued to move into the projects of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, he continued to record solo projects – most recently the album "The Greatest Love" in 2016.
On tour in 2016, he felt chest pain and underwent open heart surgery at Mt. Beth Israel Beth Hospital in New York. Subsequently, he sued the hospital for care during his recovery, when he lost an inch and a vocal cord was paralyzed. But in 2018, he stated that he had recovered enough to continue writing songs and making music.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Balin is survived by two daughters, Jennifer Edwards and Delaney Balin, and two daughters-in-law Rebekah Geier and Moriah Geier.
In 2016, the year the Jefferson plane received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Mr. Balin told Relix magazine that he was happy to direct his own acoustic group. "People want me to sing and that's what I'm doing now; I'm just singing. All night, it's me – and if you dig, cool, he says. "Let's go to music, man. That's what I'm doing.
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