POP/ROCK - May 5, 1987

Former members of the Jefferson Airplane are still fighting to get paid for writing such songs as “White Rabbit” and “Volunteers.” Lawyers for the band last week asked a San Francisco Superior Court judge to order the release of about $2 million in royalties that RCA records has held for two decades. RCA lawyers told Judge Ollie Marie-Victoire that the company would gladly pay the band--if she would dismiss an old lawsuit brought by the band’s first manager, Matthew Katz. “What I can’t understand,” Marie-Victoire said, “is why this lawsuit hasn’t been dismissed before. The case is 20 years old.”