Paul Kantner Puts on His Wings

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Paul Kantner Puts on His Wings

Postby Sunbeam » Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:45 am

From the Guardian, Jan. 29, 2016:

"Associated Press

Friday 29 January 2016 08.01 GMT
Last modified on Friday 29 January 2016 08.35 GMT

Paul Kantner
, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane who stayed with the seminal San Francisco psychedelic band through its transformation from 1960s hippies to 1970s hit makers under the name Jefferson Starship, has died, aged 74.

Kantner, who drew upon his passion for politics and science fiction to help write such classics as Wooden Ships and Volunteers, died on Thursday of organ failure and septic shock. He had been admitted to a San Francisco hospital after falling ill earlier in the week, his former girlfriend and publicist Cynthia Bowman, the mother of one of his three children, said.

The guitarist and songwriter had survived close brushes with death as a younger man, including a motorcycle accident during the early 60s and a 1980 cerebral haemorrhage, and he recovered from a heart attack last year.

Few bands were so identified with San Francisco or so well-embodied the idealism and hedonism of the late 60s as Jefferson Airplane, its message boldly stated on buttons and bumper stickers that read “THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE LOVES YOU.”

The Airplane advocated sex, psychedelic drugs, rebellion and a communal lifestyle, operating out of an eccentric, colonial revival house near Haight-Ashbury. Its members supported various political and social causes, tossed out LSD at concerts and played at both the Monterey and Woodstock festivals."

Time to break out that Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun album. My favourite ex-Jefferson Airplane album. Good night, Paul.
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