Airplane's Balin Busted

MINNEAPOLIS — Marty Balin, the Jefferson Airplane’s lead singer, and sound men Terry Cost and Graydon Odel were arrested here Saturday morning (May 16) and each charged with two counts of unlawful possession of narcotics. Odell and Cost were arrested about six a.m. at their motel, originally for “contributing to the delinquency” of minors which, of course, was changed when they were found to be in possession of marijuana -and cocaine.

Returning with search warrants, police found Balin holding more weed and a little hash, too.

This apparently all started when some groupie’s parent called police and complained that she had been at an Airplane pot party after their concert Friday night. And since this is not totally unheard of...

They were released on $5000 bail each during arraignment early Monday j afternoon by Hennepin County ' Municipal Judge O. Harold Odland. Marty commented after leaving the -courtroom, “Those Bloomington cops are really nice guys, they even gave me this (indicating a small gold pig-pin on his leather jacket). They use them for tie bars.”