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I’ve just transcribed one of my interviews with guitar great Jorma Kaukonen, of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna fame. Jorma not only played a major role in the creation of San Francisco-style psychedelic music back in the 1960s, but also inspired a generation of acoustic fingerpickers with his beautiful dropped-D instrumental “Embryonic Journey” on Surrealistic Pillow, which he played with a Gibson acoustic. He was also one of the few psychedelic rockers to rely heavily on a Gibson ES-345. 

In this 1996 interview, we focused on the birth of psychedelic guitar playing and the early years of Jefferson Airplane. Jorma provided a lot of interesting information. For instance, outside of “Somebody to Love,” he didn’t consider Surrealistic Pillow to be that psychedelic of an album, pointing instead to After Bathing at Baxter’s as the band’s truest psychedelic work. Asked about the change in volume (when he began using four Fender twins onstage), Jorma said, “We escalated quickly. Well, of course now with the technology of electric guitars being the way it is, you can get all that overdriven stuff at acoustic volumes. But in those days, it was before all the master volumes and fuzz boxes and all that stuff. Well, they had fuzz boxes, but they really sucked. And in order to do it, you had to use volume. And also, if you’ll recall back then, the P.A.’s in venues were slim to none, so they could barely handle the vocal and some of the drums. Everything else was pretty much up to the instrumentalists. So it was just a necessity.” 

His guitar of choice on Surrealistic Pillow – the one heard on the “Somebody to Love” solo – was a Guild Thunderbird. He then switched to a Gibson ES-345 for his subsequent J.A. albums, running the guitar’s neck pickup through a fuzztone and the other through a wah-wah. His favorite fuzz box? The Ampeg Scrambler. 




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  • About
    • About Steven
    • What is vintage guitar
    • The Man Cave
  • Evolution of Rock
    • The Music, Event, Artist, Guitar
    • Timeline
  • The Artist & The Guitar
    • Jimi Hendrix (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
    • Elvis Presley
    • Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
    • Duane Alllman (The Allman Brothers)
    • Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
    • Neil Young (Buffalo Springfield, CSNY)
    • Alan (Blind Owl) Wilson (Canned Heat)
    • Paul Kossoff (Free)
    • Pete Townshend (The Who)
    • George Harrison (The Beatles)
    • Eric Clapton (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith)
    • Robby Krieger (The Doors)
    • Carlos Santana (Santana)
    • Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
    • Johnny Winter
    • Steven Stills (Buffalo Springfield, CSNY)
    • Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
    • David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
    • Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
    • Mick Taylor (The Rolling Stones)
    • Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)
    • Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
    • John Fogerty (CCR)
    • Jeff Beck (Jeff Beck Group)
    • Jerry Garcia (The Grateful Dead)
    • Mike Bloomfield (Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
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      • 1965 Fender Stratocaster (Olympic White)
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      • 1969 Fender Stratocaster
      • 1974 Fender Stratocaster (Sonic Blue)
      • 1985 Fender Telecaster
      • 1986 Fender Telecaster MIJ '52 Reissue
      • 1994 Fender Stratocaster '62 reissue
      • 2007 Fender Telecaster Blonde '50s Reissue
    • My Gibson Collection >
      • 1961 Gibson ES-355 (Mono)
      • 1961 Gibson SG Special
      • 1963 Gibson ES-335 TDC
      • 1968 Gibson Les Paul Standard Goldtop
      • 1968 Gibson ES-335 TD Iced Tea Burst
      • 1969 Gibson Les Paul Standard Goldtop
      • 1969 Gibson Les Paul Custom
      • 1969 Gibson ES-330 TD Sunburst
      • 1969 Gibson SG Standard
      • 1970 Gibson ES-335 TDC
      • 1971 Gibson SG Special
      • 1972 Gibson Les Paul Standard
      • 1973 Gibson SG Standard
      • 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom
      • 2007 Gibson ES-335 Dot VS
      • 2009 Gibson Les Paul Standard
    • My Gretsch Collection >
      • 1956 Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet
      • 1958 Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet
      • 1958 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins
      • 1959 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins
      • 1961 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins
      • 1962 Gretsch 6120
      • 1964 Gretsch 6122 Country Gentleman
    • My Rickenbacker Collection >
      • 1960 Rickenbacker 365 Capri Fireglo
      • 1964 Rickenbacker Rose Morris 1998 (345)
      • 1967 Rickenbacker 360 Fireglo
    • My Epiphone Collection >
      • 1966 Epiphone Crestwood
      • 1970s' Epiphone ET-270
    • My Other Collection >
      • 1960s' Kay Pro Thinline model 1993
      • 1960s' Framus Strato
      • 1996 Squier Jagmaster
      • 2002 Ibanez Pat Metheny PM-120 BK
    • My Acoustic Collection >
      • 1950 Gibson L-50
      • 1960/61 Hofner Congress
      • Early '60s Hofner 455 Senator
      • 1994 Taylor 510E
      • 1996 Taylor 814-CE
      • 1996 Taylor 855-DLX
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