14 Facts About Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Kaukonen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.

Jorma Kaukonen had Finnish paternal grandparents and Russian Jewish ancestry on his mother's side.

Jorma Kaukonen is the older brother of fellow musician Peter Kaukonen.

Jorma Kaukonen attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where his friend Ian Buchanan taught him fingerstyle guitar playing.

In 1962, Jorma Kaukonen moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and enrolled at the University of Santa Clara.

Jorma Kaukonen played as a solo act in coffee houses and accompanied Janis Joplin on acoustic guitar on the 1964 recording known as "The Typewriter Tapes" because of the obtrusive sound of Kaukonen's first wife, Margareta, typing in the background.

Casady left to form the new wave band SVT, while Jorma Kaukonen played as a solo act at venues that had been booked for Hot Tuna's cancelled 1978 tour.

Jorma Kaukonen had begun his solo career several years prior to the breakup, when he recorded the 1974 album Quah; produced by Jack Casady, Quah featured string overdubs on some tracks, as well as several tracks written and sung by Jorma Kaukonen's friend Tom Hobson.

Jorma Kaukonen recorded the album Barbeque King, which was released in 1980.

Jorma Kaukonen continued playing as a solo artist throughout the 1980s at such venues as The Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia, The Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey, and in Port Chester, New York.

In 1985, Jorma Kaukonen performed with the band There Goes the Neighborhood with Jaco Pastorius, Doug McClean, Whitie Melvin, Ben Prevo, and Rashied Ali.

Jorma Kaukonen married his first wife, Lena "Margareta" Pettersson, in January 1964.

Jorma Kaukonen met his second wife, Vanessa, in Key West, Florida, on July 3,1988; they married on December 7 of that year.

Jorma Kaukonen currently plays Flammang Acoustic Guitars, build by Luthier David Flammang in Iowa.