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Jack Cassidy single cover, 2020 | Fair Trade Services. I was born in the year of the rabbit and all kinds of white rabbit stuff has happened to me. In the 60s, the drugs were not ones like heroin and alcohol that you take to blot out a terrible life, but psychedelics: marijuana, LSD and shroomies. GW: First of all, thanks for taking the time to chat Jack. A year and a half later the instrument and the pickups came together in the way that I wanted. The seventy-four-year-old Rock'n'Roll Hall of Famer was inducted with Jefferson Airplane, but his musician partnership with Jorma Kaukonen as the celebrated revival blues group Hot Tuna goes back even farther. Show more Show more Comments 114 He was one of a kind there will never be another. (Later, Casady told Anthony Jackson and Chris Jisi in a 1993 Bass Player interview, I admired many of my peers Phil Lesh, of course, John Entwistle, Paul McCartney, and Jack Bruce, who appealed to me because he was also playing melodies with a vengeance.), The jazz influence can be heard in Jacks early work with the Airplane, where he often played long, fluid runs that twined all the way up rather than sticking to root-5 lines or basic blues patterns. The timing was just perfect. SHIRLEY JONES'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE DANCER, JEAN. All fairytales that are read to little girls feature a Prince Charming who comes and saves them. It only opens out. We werent playing together then, but the first year he was back from Antioch he took me down to his basement and showed me his guitar and that approach. We would get more control in the studio. Shirley Jones at the Pantages Theatre on June 1, 2014. This was in 1960, when I was 16. The actor's son knew about Cassidy's bisexuality and also once confirmed his affair with the composer. Grateful Web recently had the privilege of catching up with classic rock bassist Jack Casady. The seventy-four-year-old RocknRoll Hall of Famer was inducted with Jefferson Airplane, but his musician partnership with Jorma Kaukonen as the celebrated revival blues group Hot Tuna goes back even farther. Thats where the Jefferson Airplane came in. The 29-year-old daughter of former Today co-host Kathie Lee Gifford and the late NFL star Frank Gifford shared the . Its only got four strings. So there it began., Casady took to bass immediately I loved the sonic area but struggled with the neck on the P-Bass. In her memoir, the actress said she was madly in love with Cassidy. The builders took the name Alembic an operation that was, as I wrote in my book American Basses, more of a concept than a company. The key players were Ron Wickersham and his wife, Susan; audio engineer Bob Matthews; and musician/sound mixer/luthier Rick Turner. For the live album we wanted to show the kind of energy we were getting at concerts that the whole San Francisco scene was built around; we were using the songs to expand our awareness on our instruments, and Somebody was no exception. The live album captured the Jefferson Airplane in absolutely top form, as Kaukonen wrote in his autobiography, and Casadys bass playing was the driving force. That run of hollow-bodied Les Paul basses was only for a couple of years in the early 70s, and then that was it.