Kaukonen, the band’s guitarist, was the one to suggest the moniker, Jefferson Airplane. He had previously been given the nickname, Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane, by his friend, Steve Talbot.

Starship still tinges the legacy of Jefferson Airplane, which partly explains why the band’s epochal Sixties work — as well as its uneven but sporadically brilliant output in the Seventies and ...

Mickey Thomas joined Jefferson Starship as the lead vocalist and recorded hits including “Jane,” “No Way Out” and “Find Your Way Back." ...

Kantner formed Jefferson Airplane in 1965 with his friend, singer Marty Balin, and the band's initial lineup also included singer Signe Anderson, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, bassist Jack Casady and ...

“To me, the Jefferson Airplane was the band that invented the San Francisco psychedelic style of that time,” said promoter Dave Frey, who worked to arrange a 50-year celebration of the band at ...

Signe Anderson, the first female vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, died Thursday, the same day the band’s Paul Kantner also died. She was 74. A cause of death has yet to be revealed, but former ...

Paul Kantner, who drew upon his passion for politics and science fiction to help write seminal favorites such as "Wooden Ships" and "Volunteers," died on Thursday of organ failure and septic shock ...

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The 2nd Jefferson Airplane album was a major shift in the band’s sound Jefferson Airplane debuted with the album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off . It wasn’t much of a hit, but the band’s follow ...

Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane‘s original female vocalist who sang on the band’s 1966 debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, passed away January 28th.Anderson was 74. No cause of death was ...