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Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship
American rock band
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Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane
American rock band
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Jack Casady
Jack Casady
American bass player
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Starship
Starship
American rock band
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Papa John Creach
Papa John Creach
American musician (1917-1994)
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Hot Tuna
Hot Tuna
American blues-rock band, spin-off of Jefferson Airplane
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Marty Balin
Marty Balin
American singer, songwriter, and musician
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Craig Chaquico
Craig Chaquico
American musician
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Jorma Kaukonen
Jorma Kaukonen
American blues, folk, and rock guitarist, songwriter
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Pete Sears
Pete Sears
British musician
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Grace Slick
Grace Slick
American musician, writer and painter
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Spencer Dryden
Spencer Dryden
American musician; rock drummer for a number of San Francisco-based bands
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Signe Toly Anderson
Signe Toly Anderson
American singer
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service
American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco
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Joey Covington
Joey Covington
American drummer
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The Ace of Cups
The Ace of Cups
rock band
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American musician
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Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and 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.

Jefferson Airplane formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late-1960s period. In 1970, while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded the album Blows Against the Empire, which was co-credited to both Paul Kantner and "Jefferson Starship".

Jefferson Airplane continued to record and perform until 1973. Kantner revived the Jefferson Starship name in 1974 and continued to record and perform with them through 1984. He later led a reformed Jefferson Starship from 1992 until his death in 2016. Kantner had the longest continuous membership with the band, with 19 years in the original run of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship and 24 years in the revived Jefferson Starship. At times, he was the only founding Jefferson Airplane member to remain in Jefferson Starship. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane in 1996.