Watch Jefferson Starship’s Hilarious Voyage into the Far-Out Splendor of an Underground Concert Hall

We’ve all heard about the underground music scene, but this unusual venue literally is 333 feet beneath the Earth’s surface.

Located just outside McMinnville, Tennessee between Nashville and Chattanooga, Cumberland Caverns’ Volcano Room offers one of the most extraordinary gigging experiences for performers and audiences alike.

Set among 27 miles of caves and underground passages featuring otherworldly underground rock formations, waterfalls and pools, this concert hall is a world away from anything else.

Maintaining a cool 56 degrees, regardless of outside weather conditions, the amphitheater’s jagged structure naturally breaks up reverberations, resulting in what has been described as near-perfect acoustics.

“Primordial silence and perpetual darkness give way to the sounds of the finest music on earth,” declares some recent gig promo literature.

Suffice to say, there have been no noise complaints by neighbors.

Last month, platinum-selling rockers Jefferson Starship descended the depths to perform a show in a markedly different space from their epic arena concerts of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Currently comprising guitarist/vocalist David Freiberg, guitarist/vocalist Cathy Richardson, keyboardist Chris Smith and drummer Donny Baldwin, Jefferson Starship’s passage into the world-famous music spot was captured on camera by Guitar Player’s very own Jude Gold who plays lead guitar in the band.

The same lineup tracked Jefferson Starship's latest release, Mother of the Sun. The first of the band’s studio works without founding member Paul Kantner (1941-2016), this 7-song recording was released in 2020 via Golden Robot Records.

Keeping the magic of Jefferson Starship’s music alive, the band are continuing to tour extensively this year above ground in North America, Europe and New Zealand.

Browse the Jefferson Starship catalog here.