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Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1965.One of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to achieve international commercial success.
2400 Fulton Street is a compilation album of music from the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane, originally released in 1987 as a double LP containing 25 tracks.The title is taken from the street address of a mansion the band bought in 1966 and used as a residence.
Jefferson Airplane was formed in mid-1965 by vocalist and guitarist Marty Balin.He selected rhythm guitarist and vocalist Paul Kantner, to join the band, the two men then recruited the remaining initial members: vocalist Signe Toly Anderson, lead guitarist and vocalist Jorma Kaukonen, double bassist Bob Harvey and drummer Jerry Peloquin. [4]
Paul Lorin Kantner [1] (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era.
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John Barbata, the classic rock drummer for the Turtles, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, has died. The 'Happy Together' performer was 79.
Toly was a locally-known and well-respected jazz and folk singer in San Francisco, where Marty Balin heard her perform and invited her to join his band, soon named Jefferson Airplane. [ 2 ] Soon after joining the Airplane, Signe married one of the Merry Pranksters , Jerry Anderson; the marriage lasted from 1965 to 1974.
Jefferson Airplane performed the song live from the roof of the Schuyler Hotel in New York City in 1968 while being filmed by Jean-Luc Godard for his project One A.M., later repurposed and released as One P.M. It was the only song that the band had completed when police stopped the show. [3]