The group's founder was 23-year-old vocalist Marty Balin ( born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 30, 1942, but raised in San Francisco ), who had established a minor career as a pop singer in the early 1960s and had made several recordings under his own name.

Marty Balin was knocked out during a scuffle with Hells Angels members who had been hired to act as " security.

In October 1978 Balin too left the group, leaving Kantner and company to find a new lead singer in Mickey Thomas ( who had sung lead on Elvin Bishop's " Fooled Around and Fell in Love ").

To make up for his poaching of Spence, Balin suggested that they contact drummer Greg Elmore and guitarist – singer Gary Duncan, who had played together in a group called The Brogues.

Balin had intended to record lead vocals for two tracks for Jefferson Starship's album, Jefferson's Tree of Liberty.

Co-starring with Jerry Lewis in the 1964 hit comedy The Patsy, Balin also had a secondary, but important part in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Most recently he has been cast as Balin in the upcoming live-action adaptation of The Hobbit.

With the new line-up, Warlock recorded in the US their fourth and last studio album, Triumph and Agony, produced by Joey Balin in 1987.

First introduced as a new bandmember of Big Brother, she brought what the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, and Big Brother did not seem at that point to have-a lead singer to match Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin and Grace Slick.

After Jefferson Airplane broke up again, Kantner, Aguilar, and Gorman formed a new band, Jefferson Starship-The Next Generation, which Casady and Balin would join once again.

On July 2, 2007, music publishing firm Bicycle Music, Inc. announced that it acquired an interest in songs written or performed by Balin, including hits from his days with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.

This led to a formal reunion of the original Jefferson Airplane, featuring nearly all the main members, including founder Marty Balin, but without Spencer Dryden.

Individual poems detail the deeds of various knights, including Lancelot, Geraint, Galahad, and Balin and Balan, and also Merlin and the Lady of the Lake.

Other artists including comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons, Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Beach Boys ' Al Jardine, Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin, Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas, banjo master Tony Trischka, pop groups ABBA and The Bee Gees, Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner, Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay, Byrds co-founder Gene Clark, roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman, singer-songwriters Tom Paxton, Harry Chapin, Jimmy Buffett, Tim Buckley, Steve Goodman ( composer of " The City Of New Orleans "), Steve Gillette, Michael Smith ( composer of " The Dutchman "), and Shawn Colvin, folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan, folk and rock musician Jerry Yester, and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer among many others cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers.

2989 Balin left Erebor and entered Moria with a company of dwarves including Flói, Óin, Ori, Frár, Lóni, and Náli.

During races the suites were full of celebrities, including Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Dick Smothers, John Wayne, James Garner and Ina Balin, as well as many astronauts, including Pete Conrad.

The track has been covered by many artists, including Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Doors and Van Morrison's Them band at the Whisky a Go Go ( 1966 ), Johnny Rivers who also recorded it live at the Whisky a Go Go in 1966, the Grateful Dead ( who often played it as a closer to their sets in 1966 and 1967 ), Jefferson Airplane used to play a hard rocking version featuring Marty Balin on lead vocals, Chris Farlowe, The Mirettes, The Rascals, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, the Chocolate Watch Band, Razzy Bailey, Roxy Music, Jackie Wilson, The Jam, Johnny Thunders, The Chambers Brothers, Roger Troutman, The Toasters, Buddy Guy, The Rock Bottom Remainders, The Commitments, Cross Country, Echo & the Bunnymen, Samantha Sang, George Faith, B.

Balin guest-starred on dozens of television shows, including Bonanza, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Battlestar Galactica, Get Smart, Ironside, Quincy, M. E.

* Balin ( Middle-earth ), a Dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium of Middle-earth

Balin is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

After the Beatles-led British invasion of 1964, Balin was inspired by the merging of folk with rock, spearheaded by the success of The Byrds and Simon & Garfunkel, and decided to form a group in 1965 to play this hybrid style.

In 1996, Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Balin, Casady, Dryden, Kantner & Kaukonen attending & performing at the ceremony.

At the end of the second show the group was joined on stage by Marty Balin, who sang lead vocals on " Volunteers " and the final song, " You Wear Your Dresses Too Short.

In 1962, Martyn renamed himself Marty Balin and began recording with Challenge Records, releasing the singles " Nobody But You " and " I Specialize in Love ".

This was to be both Jefferson Airplane's founder Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden's last album with the group, ( although they did both appear on the " Mexico " single released in 1970 and its B-side " Have You Seen the Saucers?

Balin recorded ( without commercial success ) for Challenge Records in 1962, releasing two singles, the most notable being " I Specialize in Love ," and was a member of a folk group called the Town Criers in 1963 – 1964.

Balin sang on one song, " Caroline ," and in addition to Kantner and Slick the band consisted of David Freiberg ( keyboards, bass ), Craig Chaquico ( lead guitar ), Pete Sears ( bass, keyboards ), John Barbata ( drums ) and Papa John Creach ( electric violin ).

*" Livin ' the Good Life ," Nicole Balin, The Source.

The text is said to mean " Balin son of Fundin, Lord of Moria " in both Khuzdul and Westron, but while the first part of the inscription is in Khuzdul, the second part is actually plain English, just written in certar.

With a group of investors, Balin purchased a former pizza parlor on Fillmore Street, which he transformed into a music club, The Matrix, and began searching for members for his group.

Jefferson Airplane ended 1970 with their traditional Thanksgiving Day engagement at the Fillmore East ( the final performance of the short-lived Kantner / Balin / Slick / Kaukonen / Casady / Creach / Covington line-up ) and the release of their first compilation album, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane, which continued their unbroken run of chart success, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard album chart.

Balan offers to hunt the demon, and before he departs warns Balin against his terrible rages, which were the cause of their exile.

Balin, in search of a drummer for the band he was organizing ( which became Jefferson Airplane ) convinced Spence to switch instruments and groups.

Balin was among the dwarves who travelled with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf in the Quest of Erebor, which the plot of The Hobbit centers around.

Dryden quit Jefferson Airplane in February 1970, motivated in part by the group's unpleasant experiences at the notorious Altamont Festival, during which lead singer Marty Balin was knocked unconscious by Hells Angels bikers and a festival patron, Meredith Hunter, was fatally stabbed.

A scene which featured Ina Balin nude climbing from a bath was also removed.

She is later beheaded by Sir Balin as a result of a kin feud between them ( she blames him for the death of her brother and he blames her for the death of his mother ) and a dispute over an enchanted sword.

A year later, Balin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress — Motion Picture for her performance opposite Paul Newman in From the Terrace.

The KBC Band was formed in 1985 by former Jefferson Airplane ( later Jefferson Starship ) members Paul Kantner ( guitar and vocals ), Marty Balin ( vocals and guitar ) and Jack Casady ( bass ).

") and the inscription on Balin's tombstone, reading: BALIN FUNDINUL UZBAD KHAZAD-DÛMU, or Balin son of Fundin Lord of Moria.

Even after the departure of Balin, major creative and personal divisions persisted between Slick and Kantner on the one side and Kaukonen and Casady on the other.

" Balin and Balan " is based on the tale of Sir Balin in Book II of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

When Garlon casts aspersions on the Queen, Balin kills him and flees.

Steel magnate Fritz Krupp and shipowner Albert Balin of the Hamburg-America Line were invited to speak on the benefits of the bill to trade and industry.

Lucky did not match the performance of Balin on the Billboard charts, and Balin's contract with EMI ended.

An early incarnation of Hot Tuna included Jefferson Airplane vocalist Marty Balin and featured Joey Covington on drums and vocals.

Ina Balin ( November 12, 1937 – June 20, 1990 ) was an American actress on Broadway and in film.

In 1970, Balin toured Vietnam with the USO on the first of many trips to the war-torn region.

Balin died on June 20, 1990, in New Haven, Connecticut, at age 52 from pulmonary hypertension brought on by coronary heart disease.