Jorma Kaukonen initially planned to move to Denmark in the '60s, but joined Jefferson Airplane after being invited by Paul Kantner The band solidified itself with its first album, Jefferson Airplane ...

Bands often look to one another for inspiration and advice, sometimes even spiritually. Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen knows this all too well. Kaukonen, now 85, talks to PEOPLE about the ...

This June 20, 2001 file photo shows Jefferson Starship's Paul Kantner, left, performing in front of Diana Mangano during the 'Freedom Sings' benefit concert in New York. Kantner, an original member of ...

NEW YORK -- Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s "San Francisco Sound" both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other Bay Area bands ...

Jefferson Airplane was a pioneering band of the 1960s’ era of psychedelic and acid rock. And psychedelic rock is known for its odd, disjointed, and trippy elements. With Halloween just around the ...

Starship Featuring Mickey Thomas will headline Springfield’s Route 66 centennial celebration in November.

It was emblematic of the turbulent path San Francisco's Jefferson Airplane navigated in the 1960s and '70s that when the group showed up to play a 1969 festival that was supposed to be the West Coast ...