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John Barbata Dies: Jefferson Starship’s Original Drummer & The Turtles, CSN&Y Alum Was 79
John Barbata, who drummed for Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, The Turtles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and many others, died May 8. He was 79.
The group’s sophomore set Red Octopus topped the Billboard 200 for a month in the summer of 1975, spawned the smash single “Miracles” and has sold more than 2 million copies. Barbata left The Turtles in 1969, just ahead of their split, and joined Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, who were hot off the seminal album Déjà Vu. He played on the Neil Young-penned Kent State elegy “Ohio,” which made the U.S. Top 15 and became a rock classic, and appears on the chart-topping 1974 live album Four-Way Street.
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