Creach began playing violin in Chicago bars when his family moved there in 1935, and eventually joined a local cabaret band, the Chocolate Music Bars.

As a result, Creach was immediately invited to join Hot Tuna and became a permanent member of the Airplane in time for their fall tour.

The line-up also included late-Airplane holdovers drummer John Barbata and fiddler Papa John Creach ( who also played with Hot Tuna ), Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter, who, after the group's 1974 spring tour, was replaced by Pete Sears ( who, like Freiberg, played bass and keyboards ) and twenty-year-old guitarist Craig Chaquico.

Papa John Creach was a blues violinist who played for Jefferson Airplane ( 1970 – 1975 ), Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship-The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars ( 1979 – 1984 ), The Dinosaurs ( 1982 – 1989 ), and Steve Taylor.

Creach was also a frequent guest at Grateful Dead concerts.

When Covington joined the Jefferson Airplane in 1970, he introduced them to Creach, who was invited to join Hot Tuna.

At night, he watched the Phare du Creach (), one of the most powerful lighthouse in the world, and was fascinated by the stunning scenery repeated every night.

Covington had met veteran jazz-blues violinist Papa John Creach in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s ; he invited Creach to sit in with the Airplane for a concert at Winterland in San Francisco on October 5, 1970.

Jefferson Airplane ended 1970 with their traditional Thanksgiving Day engagement at the Fillmore East ( the final performance of the short-lived Kantner / Balin / Slick / Kaukonen / Casady / Creach / Covington line-up ) and the release of their first compilation album, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane, which continued their unbroken run of chart success, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard album chart.

Balin sang on one song, " Caroline ," and in addition to Kantner and Slick the band consisted of David Freiberg ( keyboards, bass ), Craig Chaquico ( lead guitar ), Pete Sears ( bass, keyboards ), John Barbata ( drums ) and Papa John Creach ( electric violin ).

Creach toured with Jefferson Starship and played on the band's hit album Red Octopus in 1975.

With the dissolution of Jefferson Airplane in 1972, Hot Tuna went electric, with Airplane fiddler Papa John Creach joining for the next two albums.

* 1917 – Papa John Creach, American violinist ( Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and The Dinosaurs ) ( d. 1994 )

On March 4, 1988, during a Hot Tuna San Francisco gig at the Fillmore ( with Paul Kantner, as well as Papa John Creach joining in ) Grace Slick made a cameo appearance.

Creach left the band in August 1975 to pursue a solo career.

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In 1967, Creach met and befriended drummer Joey Covington.

Around 1976 Creach left to pursue a solo career.

A year later, Creach renewed his working relationship with Covington as a member of the San Francisco All-Stars, as well as with Covington's Airplane predecessor, Spencer Dryden, as a member of The Dinosaurs.

As a consequence of the heart attack, Creach contracted pneumonia, from which he died a month later at the age of 76.

He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach through an R & B group.

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