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Today (Jefferson Airplane song) " Today " is a folk rock ballad written by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner from the band Jefferson Airplane. It first appeared on their album Surrealistic Pillow with a live version later appearing on the expanded rerelease of Bless Its Pointed Little Head. Marty Balin said, "I wrote it to try to meet Tony Bennett.
Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (/ ˈ j ɔːr m ə ˈ k aʊ k ə n ɛ n /; YOR-mə KOW-kə-nen; born December 23, 1940) is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist. Kaukonen performed with Jefferson Airplane and still performs regularly on tour with Hot Tuna, which started as a side project with bassist Jack Casady, and as of early 2024 has continued for 55 years.
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock. [1] Formed in 1965, the group defined the San Francisco Sound and was the first from the Bay Area to achieve international commercial success. They headlined the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), Woodstock ...
Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) [1] is a retired American musician and a painter 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. [2]
1962–2016. Labels. Challenge, EMI, RCA Victor, Grunt Records, GWE. Balin performing at a concert in Hallandale, Florida. Martyn Jerel Buchwald (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018), known as Marty Balin ( / ˈbælɪn / ), was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. [1]
Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals. Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals. Jack Casady – bass. Skip Spence – drums. Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (1966) May – October 1966. Signe Toly Anderson – vocals, percussion. Marty Balin – vocals, rhythm guitar. Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals.
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. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band.
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelia in the mid-1960s, and later as part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, who helped popularize the California sound of the 1970s.