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Jefferson Airplane

Music video    White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock    1969

 

Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit ,

Live from Woodstock 1969 with Lyrics by John Anderson

@ Kilo Kilo Studio (UK).

 

Grace Slick's Lyrics

are based on her early life as a child,

being read the books of Lewis Carroll's

1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass ...

hence the references to the hookah-smoking caterpillar,

the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.

 

YouTube > Kilo Kilo Studio (UK)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Kantner, center, with glasses,

and the rest of Jefferson Airplane in San Francisco

in 1968.

 

From left,

singer Marty Balin,

singer Grace Slick,

drummer Spencer Dryden,

Mr. Kantner,

guitarist Jorma Kaukonen

and bass guitarist Jack Casady.

 

Photogfraph: Associated Press

 

Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane Dies at 74

By WILLIAM GRIMES

NYT

JAN. 28, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/
arts/music/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jefferson Airplane in the mid-1960s.

 

From left,

Paul Kantner,

Skip Spence,

Marty Balin,

Signe Toly Anderson,

Jorma Kaukonen

and Jack Casady.

 

Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives

Getty Images

 

Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane Singer, Dies at 74

NYT

FEB. 2, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/
arts/music/signe-anderson-jefferson-airplane-singer-dies-at-74.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jefferson Airplane    1965-1972

 

one of the definitive

San Francisco psychedelic groups of the 1960s,

and the guiding spirit of its successor,

Jefferson Starship

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/
arts/music/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jefferson_Airplane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jefferson_Airplane_discography

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/25/
grace-slick-on-sex-drugs-and-jefferson-airplane-
i-was-sober-in-the-80s-that-was-a-mistake

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/aug/23/
grace-slick-and-jack-casady-of-jefferson-airplane-how-we-made-white-rabbit

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/
obituaries/marty-balin-dead.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/29/
652934717/jefferson-airplane-co-founder-singer-and-songwriter-marty-balin-
dead-at-76

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/
arts/music/signe-anderson-jefferson-airplane-singer-dies-at-74.html

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/29/
464833846/remembering-jefferson-airplane-s-paul-kantner-
who-helped-defined-psychedelic-roc

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/
arts/music/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/29/
jefferson-airplane-founder-paul-kantner-dies-aged-74

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marty Balin    1942-2018

 

 (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald)

 

founder, lead singer and songwriter

of the groundbreaking San Francisco

psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane

and a key member of that band’s

1970s successor, Jefferson Starship

 

(...)

 

Mr. Balin was a prime mover

in the flowering of psychedelic rock

in mid-1960s San Francisco,

not only as a founding member

of Jefferson Airplane in 1965,

but also as an original owner of the Matrix,

a club that opened that year

and nurtured bands and artists

like the Grateful Dead, Big Brother

and the Holding Company,

Santana and Steppenwolf.

 

Mr. Balin’s voice could offer

the intimate solace of ballads

like Jefferson Airplane’s “Today,”

the siren wails of a frantic acid-rocker

like the group’s “Plastic Fantastic Lover”

or the soul-pop entreaties

of Jefferson Starship’s “Miracles.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/
obituaries/marty-balin-dead.html

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/29/
652934717/jefferson-airplane-co-founder-singer-and-songwriter-marty-balin-
dead-at-76

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/
obituaries/marty-balin-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Lorin Kantner    1941-2016

 

Paul Kantner,

a founding member of Jefferson Airplane,

one of the definitive San Francisco

psychedelic groups of the 1960s,

and the guiding spirit of its successor,

Jefferson Starship

 

(...)

 

Mr. Kantner,

who started as a folk singer,

had a mellow baritone voice

that blended ideally

with the penetrating tenor of Marty Balin,

and the powerful mezzo of Grace Slick,

who joined the band after its first album.

 

He played a steady rhythm guitar

that anchored the freak-out style

of the group’s lead guitarist, Jorma Kaukonen,

and the adventurous bass lines of Jack Casady.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/
arts/music/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/
arts/music/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signe Toly / Signe Toly Anderson    1941-2016

 

original female vocalist with Jefferson Airplane,

who left the band after its first album

and was replaced by Grace Slick

 

(...)

 

Ms. Anderson died the same day

as another original member of the Airplane,

the singer and guitarist Paul Kantner,

who was also 74.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/
arts/music/signe-anderson-jefferson-airplane-singer-dies-at-74.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/
arts/music/signe-anderson-jefferson-airplane-singer-dies-at-74.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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