Jefferson Airplane's Joey Covington
Jeff Tamarkin, Goldmine, 22 December 1995
BORN IN EAST Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, Covington moved to Los Angeles, where he played in a band called Tsong before meeting the Airplane's male lead singer, Marty Balin.
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