Amoeba Music

By J Poet

Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady have played folk music all their lives, except for a few years in the ‘60s when they helped found Jefferson Airplane, a band named after a pseudonym one of Kaukonen’s friends gave him back in the 50s - Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane. According to legend, the band name was originally Hot Shit, but RCA wouldn’t put out a record with that name, even in the freewheeling 60s, so they settled on Hot Tuna. In 2008, the two principals celebrated 50 years of music making music together with another tour, looking back on 25 albums and a lifetime of music making. Between tours, Kaukonen and his wife run the Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp, in the Appalachian hills of Ohio, teaching folk... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Hard Rock, Blues Rock

City Of Origin:

San Francisco, ,California United States

Formed Date:

1969