Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Shares Video Interview With Jorma Kaukonen

Legendary musician Jorma Kaukonen was inducted in 1996 into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a founding member of the 1960s pioneering psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. The current guitarist in Hot Tuna alongside his Airplane mate bassist Jack Casady, Kaukonen recently sat down with the Rock Hall for an engaging video interview.

Filmed as part of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Digital Classroom series, Jorma talks meeting late Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner around the time they formed the Airplane and the Bay Area scene they helped establish. He explains how politics can influence an artist’s decisions, promoter Bill Graham and seeing Cream and Janis Joplin at his famed San Francisco venue The Fillmore, his career as a teacher and his finger picking style and more. Watch the chat below: