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Jorma Kaukonen will never forget taking the stage with Jefferson Airplane before almost half a million people during the original Woodstock on Aug. 17, 1969, at a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. In ...
The woman pictured on the 1970 “Woodstock” concert album died Saturday, according to the man holding her in a raggedy blanket amid a field of hippies in the iconic photo. Nick Ercoline ...
The one live album that Jefferson Airplane released during their initial run as a band, Bless Its Pointed Little Head, showed off a side of the band that you couldn’t find on any of their studio ...
Along with the Grateful Dead, Kantner's band the Jefferson Airplane became one of the biggest bands to emerge from the psychedelic-rock scene during the Summer of Love in 1967.
The rock band Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balin, from left, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, as they pose in their Pacific Heights, San Francisco apartment ...
Marty Balin, a co-founder of Jefferson Airplane and a member of its later incarnation Jefferson Starship, whose high and soulful voice defined many of both groups’ songs, died Thursday, his rep ...
The Airplane helped define the San Francisco music scene in the 1960s, debuting at the Matrix nightclub in 1965, about a year before its first album, "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off," was released.
Formed as Jefferson Airplane in 1965, Jefferson Starship has experienced several incarnations. David Freiberg has been there for part of all of them.
Although Jefferson Airplane hasn’t recorded since the mid-1970s, its music continues to be used in movies and TV, and a 1975 Jefferson Starship concert was released as a live album last summer.
Bobbi and Nick Ercoline, the couple featured on the Woodstock album cover, pose on the grounds 50 years later at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on August 15, 2019 in Bethel, New York.
Paul Kantner, the legendary rock star behind Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and numerous hits through the 60s and 70s, died Thursday, Jan. 28, of multiple organ failure. Mr. Kantner was ...
With Jefferson Airplane, Paul Kantner pioneered what became known as the San Francisco sound in the mid-1960s, with such hits as “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.” ...