no olie - you have your bands mixed up.
Jefferson Starship became Starship after Nuclear Furniture when Kantner left, after a legal battle.
The band Starship still performs under the leadership of Mickey Thomas. Grace was in that band for awhile, then left. This was the band that gave us (or dumped on us) We Built this City , Nothin's gonna stop us Now, etc. Jack was never in Starship.
In the early 90s Kantner formed Paul Kantner's Wooden Ships : among these shows,he did a few shows that were just him & Jack. This group metamorphosed into Jefferson Starship: The Next Generation (not Starship, which is now a totally different group with NO Airplane members), the first incarnation of which is the group you have a pic of above. Jack stayed in this group until about 1999, when a few shows were billed (perhaps mistakenly)as Jefferson Airplane - Jack withdrew while they all sued each other & has never returned (actually JA Corp. sued Kantner, which was interesting, since he was part of JA Corp, hence was suing himself! :-).
Jefferson Starship did pared down shows as Acoustic Shuttlecraft and Acoustic Explorer, which had no drums, lead guitar or Marty Balin - just keyboards,rhythmn guitar and Kantner & the current female singer (either Darby Gould or Diana Mangano). These shows feature some of the most astonishing bass playing of all time - Casady carries the band - and is essentially simultaneously the bottom end and the lead instrument.
Frank
(Message edited by yggdrasil on June 13, 2006)
