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Title: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Fansome on January 29, 2016, 0314 UTC
 Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74

August BrownContact Reporter

Paul Kantner, the Jefferson Airplane guitarist, songwriter and fixture of the San Francisco '60s rock scene, died Thursday of septic shock and organ failure, according to his publicist, who confirmed his death with the San Francisco Chronicle. He was 74.

"Paul was a key architect in the development of what became known as the San Francisco Sound," wrote Recording Academy President Neil Portnow in a statement released Thursday. "The music community has lost a true icon, and we share our deepest condolences with Paul’s family and friends."

Kantner's sound -- a blues-based, psychedelic style -- formed the backbone of Jefferson Airplane, a band best known for such hits as "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love."

He cofounded the group with Marty Balin at the onset of the San Francisco hippie movement. After releasing their debut album, "The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off" in 1966, they soon recruited singer Grace Slick to add powerhouse vocals to their acid-tripping rock sounds that also featured lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, bassist Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden, who replaced the band's original drummer, Skip Spence.

The band's 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow" is considered a high point of the psychedelic era. The group came to define the local scene and played the first headline gig at legendary rock promoter Bill Graham's venue the Fillmore Auditorium.

They performed one of the most acclaimed sets at Woodstock in 1969, though like many in their scene, saw their movement cut short by the violence at the Altamont festival just months later. At a concert headlined by the Rolling Stones and seen in the 1970 documentary "Gimme Shelter," Balin was attacked during Jefferson Airplane's set by a member of the Hell's Angels, who were hired as security.

Kantner and Slick re-formed the group as Jefferson Starship in 1974, after the band was derailed in its prime by infighting and legal troubles. Kantner officially left that group in 1985, though he toured and recorded under similar monikers for years after. The group also briefly reunited under its original name in 1989.

Kantner was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with Jefferson Airplane in 1996. He had suffered heart attacks last year and earlier this week, amid other health problems. He is survived by sons Gareth and Alexander and daughter China.
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Nella F. on January 29, 2016, 2353 UTC

One of the few times where a classic rock tune gets redone by another group & equals it in originality:
                                                            "Wooden Ships".
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Skipmuck on January 30, 2016, 0043 UTC

Ironically, there is a good reason for that Nella....Paul Kantner cowrote Wooden Ships with David Crosby and Stephen Stills 8)

Quote from: Nella F. on January 29, 2016, 2353 UTC

One of the few times where a classic rock tune gets redone by another group & equals it in originality:
                                                            "Wooden Ships".
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Pigmeat on January 30, 2016, 0148 UTC
"Blue Boy" Fansome promoting the crumb-bum hippy lifestyle again. Joe Friday warned me about you, bub!
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Fansome on January 30, 2016, 0321 UTC
Brings back memories of when Grace and I were shacked up together in the Haight. Good times. peace, love, and understanding.

Quote from: Pigmeat on January 30, 2016, 0148 UTC
"Blue Boy" Fansome promoting the crumb-bum hippy lifestyle again. Joe Friday warned me about you, bub!
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Pigmeat on January 30, 2016, 2313 UTC
Quote from: Fansome on January 30, 2016, 0321 UTC
Brings back memories of when Grace and I were shacked up together in the Haight. Good times. peace, love, and understanding.

Quote from: Pigmeat on January 30, 2016, 0148 UTC
"Blue Boy" Fansome promoting the crumb-bum hippy lifestyle again. Joe Friday warned me about you, bub!

Understanding, ha! You've never been intelligible, much less understandable, Manson..... I mean Fansome!
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Skipmuck on January 30, 2016, 2324 UTC
Take my advice
Don't listen to me
It ain't paradise
But it used to be
There was a time
When the river was wide
And the water
came running down
To the rising tide
But the wooden ships
Were just a hippie dream
Just a hippie dream.

Don't bat an eye
Don't waste a word
Don't mention nothin'
That could go unheard
'Cause the tie-dye sails
Are the screamin' sheets
And the dusty trail
Leads to blood
in the streets
And the wooden ships
Are a hippie dream
Capsized in excess
If you know what I mean.

Just because
it's over for you
Don't mean
it's over for me
It's a victory
for the heart
Every time
the music starts
So please
don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine
Don't kill the machine.

Another flower child
goes to seed
In an ether-filled
room of meat-hooks
It's so ugly
So ugly.

HIPPIE DREAM-NEIL YOUNG
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Pigmeat on January 31, 2016, 0031 UTC
I thought we told Neil we don't need him around.
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Skipmuck on January 31, 2016, 0408 UTC
Look at the picture below Mr. Pigmeat....can you guess which one is Ed King?

Quote from: Pigmeat on January 31, 2016, 0031 UTC
I thought we told Neil we don't need him around.
Title: Re: Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner dies at 74
Post by: Pigmeat on February 01, 2016, 0341 UTC
That lil' feller that looks like a toad, but I'm cheating.