The Fillmore West in San Francisco hosted The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and other bands in the 1960s. As NPR celebrates its 50th anniversary, we look back on important events of that year.

Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday. Mr. Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, was 74 and had suffered a heart attack this week.

If you know anything about San Francisco's Fillmore District, it's probably because it houses an auditorium of the same name, where the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead helped shape ...

She parted ways with the Jefferson Airplane after back-to-back performances on Oct. 15, 1966, at the Fillmore in San Francisco. A recording from those concerts was released in 2010.

Anderson’s final Jefferson Airplane performance, an October 15th, 1966 late show gig at San Francisco’s Fillmore, was officially released as a live album in 2010.

Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady ultimately decided to focus on Hot Tuna, an offshoot band they formed in 1970. Singer Marty Balin eventually went solo.

The scope of Sullivan’s business, coupled with the declining black population in the Fillmore, perhaps helps explain why he allowed Bill Graham to throw a benefit gig for the provocative San Francisco ...

Marty Balin, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane, dies at 76 By Randy Lewis Sept. 28, 2018 7:45 PM PT ...

If you know anything about San Francisco's Fillmore District, it's probably because it houses an auditorium of the same name, where the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead helped shape ...