In the Northern Lights Theater: Jefferson Starship

Price: $35/$25

Jefferson Starship brings its era-defining sound to The Northern Lights Theater inside Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in downtown Milwaukee.

It was Homer Simpson who most memorably explained the progression of classic rock in the ’70s: “Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson Starship,” he explained. “The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.” Not all of that is accurate, but Homer was right about the part about Jefferson Starship, which spun off of the legendary psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane in the early ‘70s and took their sound in ever-proggier directions. In 2016, the group lost founding member Paul Kantner, who died following a heart attack, leaving singer-guitarist David Freiberg its sole remaining original member and the lone carryover from the Jefferson Airplane days.