Marty Balin's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Martyn Jerel Buchwald (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018), known as Marty Balin , was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. The birth-card coordinate for January 30 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1996 Performers — inducted member of Jefferson Airplane

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Marty Balin's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Marty Balin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

Live 10 of Clubs meaning page

Marty Balin in the public record

Balin was born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Catherine Eugenia "Jean" (née Talbot) and Joseph Buchwald. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe. His father was Jewish and his mother was Episcopalian. Balin attended Washington High School in San Francisco, California. As a child, Balin was diagnosed with autism. In 1962, Buchwald changed his name to Marty Balin and began recording with Challenge Records in Los Angeles, releasing the singles "Nobody But You" and "I Specialize in Love". By 1964, Balin was leading a folk music quartet named The Town Criers. Balin was the primary founder of Jefferson Airplane, which he "launched" from a restaurant-turned-club he created and named The Matrix, and was also one of its lead vocalists and songwriters from 1965 to 1971.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Marty Balin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Marty Balin, and not a forecast of induction.

You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it. You have the gift of saying what needs to be said, even when it's hard. You're the one who speaks up when others stay silent.

Balin remained active in the San Francisco Bay Area rock scene, managing and producing an album for the Berkeley-based sextet Grootna before briefly joining funk-inflected hard rock ensemble Bodacious DF as lead vocalist on their eponymous 1973 debut album.

Paired on shared wording: hard, remained.

Also on the record

1. In the group's 1966–1971 iteration, Balin served as co-lead vocalist alongside Grace Slick.
2. Balin's songwriting output diminished after Surrealistic Pillow (1967) as Slick, Paul Kantner and Jorma Kaukonen matured as songwriters, a process compounded by personality clashes.
3. Balin's most enduring songwriting contributions were often imbued with a romantic, pop-oriented lilt that was atypical of the band's characteristic forays into psychedelic rock.
4. Among Balin's most notable songs were "Comin' Back to Me" (a folk rock ballad later covered by Ritchie Havens and Rickie Lee Jones), "Today" (a collaboration with Kantner initially written on spec for Tony Bennett that was prominently covered by Tom Scott) and again with Kantner, the topical 1969 top-100 hit "Volunteers".

Other inductees with this card

• Billy Guy — 1987 Performers with The Coasters
• Bobby Elliott — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
• Brian Jones — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
• Brian Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
• Calvin Simon — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Danny Cedrone — 2012 Performers with The Comets
• Diana Ross — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
• Dion — 1989 Performers
• Doug Clifford — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Ed King — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Glen Buxton — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
• Gregg Allman — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• 22 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Marty Balin's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. January 30 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Marty Balin's dates come from?

Birth date 1942-01-30 is the day-precision date on Marty Balin's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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