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Marty Balin - Dead

Posted on 09/28/2018 7:06:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76

Lead vocalist for song such as "Count On You", "Hearts" and "Miracles" with Jefferson Airplane/Starship and also solo.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 2; balin; bodaciousdf; jeffersonairplane; jeffersonstarship; martybalin; music
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To: Joe 6-pack

#7. Thanks for posting the words to “Hearts”, a great song about love and pain.


41 posted on 09/28/2018 9:27:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SamAdams76

Odd thing... just the other day I saw a commercial on tv that had a catchy song and I said to my significant other “gee, that sounds just like Mary Balin”.... it sounded so close I had to follow it up and check. It wasn’t of course but the resemblance was uncanny.


42 posted on 09/28/2018 9:49:59 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: SamAdams76
That sucks so heavily.

That guy had a voice for the ages.

I remember reading something about how powerful his voice was, they had to have him turn his back to the mic so as to not overpower Grace Slick.

43 posted on 09/28/2018 10:00:14 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: MplsSteve

Jefferson Starship reinvented themselves and became much more mainstream in sound, exactly what also happened to Chicago.
They began selling to specific types of consumers.
It was a business decision, I’m sure.


44 posted on 09/28/2018 10:27:29 PM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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Hearts
https://youtu.be/dIF74lH4KPM


45 posted on 09/28/2018 10:52:43 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Paladin2

‘It’s No Secret’ was always one of my favorites.


46 posted on 09/28/2018 10:52:49 PM PDT by Daaave ("You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.")
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To: Beowulf9

thank you... Surrealistic Pillow was always my favorite Airplane ride


47 posted on 09/28/2018 10:53:22 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

RIP


48 posted on 09/28/2018 10:55:03 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: God luvs America; Pelham

I loved Jefferson Airplane

Pillow was the first 33 rpm I ever bought

Mainly for Somebody to Love

I was infatuated with the whole San Francisco scene as a kid and up into college

I went and hung out eight years late for summer of Love

Dope and hang arounds

Yosemite was much better and more to our liking ....the friends with me

Actually mid 70s Santa Cruz was better....an old friend of mine ....acid chemist....Mickey

Little bitty guy with hair to his waist

Famous in those parts

Being a Mississippi southern style freak ....folks who left town for the scene went to San Francisco or Austin or Boulder

Folks didn’t go to Portland or Seattle or Nashville then as a youth thing


49 posted on 09/28/2018 11:12:22 PM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......The Hill just zotted me for saying libtard)
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To: God luvs America; mylife; Pelham; hardspunned

I can’t deny there was a time that song mattered to me

The slower more piano oriented version on Worst....which is the single version that had We Can Be Together is better to me

I think in her day Grace Slick could flat out wail...serious pipes..
A rock singer chick...

And Jorma Kaukonen is a very underrated axeman....he’s good enough you hear the first few notes you know it’s him if you know the airplane or tuna

I know hippie bands are eschewed here and JA is not nearly as musical as CSN

But their raw energy just did more for me ....and the psychedelia spoke to me....I’m listening to Eskimo Blue Day right now....

Man it brings back memories

Hell I even liked Grunt


50 posted on 09/28/2018 11:25:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (I donÂ’t care that youÂ’re not a racist......The Hill just zotted me for saying libtard)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Oh my, what were they thinking?


51 posted on 09/29/2018 12:41:37 AM PDT by donna (Corporations are using censorship to destroy President Trump and achieve Globalism.)
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To: Rusty0604

You were at Altamont?? Wow, how does it feel to have been at such a historic event? I’ll bet you have some stories to tell...


52 posted on 09/29/2018 1:56:26 AM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: hecticskeptic

Mary = Marty (obviously.... what a dumb error I made)


53 posted on 09/29/2018 9:17:13 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: wardaddy; God luvs America; mylife; hardspunned
Then you'll remember this Marty Balin ballad from the Surrealistic Pillow album:

Today

And the album had the Jorma Kaukonen tune that should have convinced every guitar player that here was a major guitar talent:

Embryonic Journey

54 posted on 09/29/2018 12:30:19 PM PDT by Pelham (Non-Hispanic whites decreased from about 78% of CaliforniaÂ’s population in 1970 to 38.0% in 2015)
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To: Chode

Oh, yes. What a great album.


55 posted on 09/29/2018 12:39:23 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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