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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]
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.
Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) [1] is an American painter and retired musician whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
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"White Rabbit" was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with her previous band, the Great Society.Slick then left the Great Society to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson (who left the band to give birth to her child).
In 2016, Jefferson Airplane was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. [106] In 2022, Jefferson Airplane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [107] [108] Spencer Dryden died of colon cancer on January 11, 2005. [109] Signe Anderson and Paul Kantner both died on January 28, 2016. [110] Marty Balin died on September 27, 2018. [111]
"She Has Funny Cars" is a song by the American rock group Jefferson Airplane. Vocalist Marty Balin wrote the lyrics, while guitarist Jorma Kaukonen supplied the music. The song appeared as the opening track on their breakthrough album, Surrealistic Pillow (1967).
Shōnen manga (少年漫画, lit. "boys' comics", also romanized as shonen, shounen or syônen) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys and young men.