Prayer Request Paul Kantner, R.I.P

Mr. Laz · 01-28-2016, 08:31 PM

Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane Co-Founder & Guitarist, Dies at 74
January 28, 2016

Kantner passed away on Thursday (Jan. 28) of multiple organ failure, following a heart attack earlier in the week.

From 1965-1972, Jefferson Airplane was a pioneer in the Bay Area counterculture psychedelic rock scene, first defining what became known as the "San Francisco sound."

Kantner and guitarist and vocalist Marty Balin formed the band in a bar called the Drinking Gourd, intending the group to be a folk-rock group. Amidst the city's drug experimentation, they developed something far more interesting.

"Jefferson Airplane had the fortune or misfortune of discovering Fender Twin Reverb amps and LSD in the same week while in college. That’s a great step forward," Kantner told author and music historian Harvey Kubernik. "We went into it our normal selves.... The point is if you find something that makes you joyful take note of it. Amplify it if you can. Tell other people about it. That's what San Francisco was about. Both musically, idealistically and metaphorically and every other way. That's what we did here."

As more and more flower children moved to San Francisco, Jefferson Airplane's local following grew and it became the first of the city's psych-rock bands to sign to a major label, releasing its debut Jefferson Airplane Takes Off in 1966. That same year, they became the first band to headline concert promoter Bill Graham's now legendary Fillmore Auditorium.

By the following year, the band's second album, Surrealistic Pillow, became a soundtrack to the Summer of Love. It hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with the help of singles "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit," as the rest of the country began following in San Francisco's hippy footsteps.

"On our first U.S. tour we were in cities where all the kids came in prom gowns and tuxedos. Then we came back to Iowa a year later and they were having nude mud love-ins and everybody had their faces painted," Kantner told Kubernik.

Jefferson Airplane performed at the three most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s' -- Monterey in 1967 and Woodstock and Altamont in 1969. In 1996, Kantner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with the band.

Kantner is the first of Jefferson Airplane's founding members to have passed away. He was also a founding member of the group's spinoff band, Jefferson Starship. which took off in 1974.

Kantner is survived by three children: sons Gareth and Alexander and daughter China. Funeral arrangements are pending.

2bikemike · 01-28-2016, 08:40 PM

At this rate it is going to be a rough year for Celebs.

splatbass · 01-28-2016, 08:40 PM

I saw him with Jefferson Starship at Kemper Arena in 1981. Grace Slick had just rejoined the band, and "Jane" had just come out. They were great. Shooting Star opened for them.

ClevelandBronco · 01-28-2016, 08:50 PM

ILChief · 01-28-2016, 09:43 PM

Rough year for musicians

splatbass · 01-28-2016, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ILChief

Rough year for musicians

And it is only January.

Potato · 01-28-2016, 10:41 PM

God must be planning a nice party up there with all the talent he's got lately.

cosmo20002 · 01-28-2016, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane Co-Founder & Guitarist, Dies at 74

If he had anything to do with "We Built This City"...Well, bye.

splatbass · 01-28-2016, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by cosmo20002

If he had anything to do with "We Built This City"...Well, bye.

You pick their worst song, ignoring the great songs like "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love".

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are too young to know better.

cosmo20002 · 01-28-2016, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by splatbass

You pick their worst song, ignoring the great songs like "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love".

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are too young to know better.

It appears Kanter had nothing to do with We Built This City. So, R.I.P. to him.

rabblerouser · 01-28-2016, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by splatbass

You pick their worst song, ignoring the great songs like "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love".

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are too young to know better.

Plastic Fantastic Lover...Volunteers...the entire Blows Against the Empire album...the entire Bless Its Pointed Little Head album...Thirty Seconds Over Winterland...

GREAT music.

KChiefs1 · 01-28-2016, 11:37 PM

How old is Grace Slick?

splatbass · 01-28-2016, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by KChiefs1

How old is Grace Slick?

Old. But she was a beauty back in the day.

**DaneMcCloud** · 01-28-2016, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by cosmo20002

If he had anything to do with "We Built This City"...Well, bye.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

It appears Kanter had nothing to do with We Built This City. So, R.I.P. to him.

You're a such a ****ing unbearable twat.

Have you ever even had sex?

Who would want to **** you?

**Bugeater** · 01-29-2016, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by cosmo20002

If he had anything to do with "We Built This City"...Well, bye.

That was neither Jefferson Airplane nor Jefferson Starship.

01-28-2016, 08:31 PM
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