Stuck, Ch. 15 Coda: What Jefferson Airplane Became
The following is a coda to the Stuck chapter on Jefferson Airplane, published at 3 Quarks Daily on February 16, 2020. A full Table of Contents with links is available at the Stuck page on this website. CODA (noun): 1. a concluding musical passage typically forming an addition to the basic structure; 2. a concluding event, remark, or section. Fleetwood Mac looks like the Brady Bunch compared to Jefferson Airplane’s decades of fighting and fucking. They loved and hated each other into becoming and re-becoming seemingly endless incarnations of themselves, only some of which I have the patience to figure out and the space to recount. One family tree I found online lists a dozen incarnations of just Jefferson Airplane just from the years 1965-1972, with no less than 16 different musicians filtering in and out. And several more separate bands were destined to spin off from the original. What follows is a highly abridged Annotated Jefferson Airplane, sans the footnotes. In 1969, Grace Slick began having an affair with band mate Paul Kantner. She finally divorced husband Jerry Slick in 1971; by then she was pregnant with Kantner’s child. Now an established artist, she kept the surname Slick, but named her daughter China Wing-Kantner. The group took a hiatus in 1970, but many members continued to work with each other on various side projects. That year, Kantner teamed with several studio musicians and select members of Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. The collective was later dubbed the Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra.
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