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In this Feb. 15, 2016, file photo, Marty Balin arrives at the 58th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Singer Balin of the Jefferson Airplane has died at age 76. Spokesman Ryan Romenesko said Balin died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in Tampa, Fla., where he was on the way to the hospital. The cause of death was not immediately available. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane, dies on the way to the hospital

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018 photo, Jorma Kaukonen, 77, poses for a photo as his Hot Tuna bandmates do a sound check before a gig at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. Long before he wrote and recorded the Jefferson Airplane classic &quot;Embryonic Journey,&quot; Kaukonen was on a decades-long journey of his own discovery. It began as a globe-circling embassy brat in the 1950s, continued as a psychedelic rock star in the '60s and shows no signs of slowing as the youthful co-founder Hot Tuna guitarist is still recording and touring. He stops long enough to recount much of it in his recent memoir &quot;Been So Long: My Life &amp; Music.&quot; (AP Photo/John Rogers)

Jefferson Airplane’s Kaukonen is still on embryonic journey

By JOHN ROGERS - Associated Press