Jack Casady

Jack Casady (born John William Casady, April 13 1944), is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era. First playing in Washington D.C. area rhythm and blues bands, he became one of the founding members of Jefferson Airplane when Jorma Kaukonen invited him to join in the summer of 1965. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco sound, characterised as loud, raw, unpolished powerful rock and roll with plenty of feeling. Their singles, which had a more polished style, successfully charted in 1967 and 1968. They are one of the best remembered bands of the "psychedelic sixties."

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Together with Kaukonen they founded Hot Tuna.

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Casady also occasionally played with the other key San Francisco band, the Grateful Dead.

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Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. Various successor incarnations of the band have performed under different names, reflecting changing times and performer lineups, known as Jefferson Starship, and later simply ...

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