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.

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.

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.

Balin was also reportedly becoming increasingly disenchanted with the " star trips " and inflated egos generated by the band's runaway commercial success.

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.

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.

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.

The other members, gravitating toward a harder-edged style, openly criticized Balin for his ballad-oriented compositions.

Balin stayed with the group for nearly the remainder of the decade.

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

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.

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.

* Ivor Balin Pannell ( 1964-2009 ), Advocate for improving health services and support networks for Sickle Cell Anemia patients

Among the dwarves in The Hobbit, Balin was the second-eldest dwarf ( after Thorin ), and so he spoke for the party when they were captured by the Elvenking, as Thorin wasn't present.

Balin was the founder and one of the lead vocalists for Jefferson Airplane from 1965 to 1971.

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

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.

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

Balin continued with EMI as a solo artist and in 1981, he released his first solo album, Balin, featuring two Top 40 hits, " Hearts " (# 8 ) and " Atlanta Lady " (# 27 ).

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 ").

Balin had recently completed several new songs, including " Emergency " and the elongated R & B-infused " You Wear Your Dresses Too Short ," both of which later appeared on archival releases.

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 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.

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

The final idyll, " Balin and Balan ", was published in Tiresias and Other Poems in 1885.

Viviane was killed by her son Balan's foster-brother, Balin.

In the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, the Fisher King's wound was given to him by Sir Balin in the " Dolorous Stroke ", when Balin grabs a spear and stabs Pellam in self-defense.

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.

Balin was part of the company assembled by Thorin Oakenshield to kill the dragon Smaug and retake the mountain kingdom of Erebor.

Balin's colony was overrun by orcs soon afterward, and Balin was killed by an orc archer in the Dimrill Dale in 2994.

Gandalf finds the dwarves ' book of records, and discovers from it that Balin was killed by orcs.

Balin was born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Catherine Eugenia " Jean " ( née Talbot ) and Joseph Buchwald.

By 1964, Balin was leading a folk music quartet called The Town Criers, with fellow band members Larry Vargo, Jan Ellickson and Bill Collins.

The cast recording was produced by Balin but did not feature him in performance.

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.

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

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.

Balin met folk musician Paul Kantner at another local club, The Drinking Gourd.