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Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: lbpesq on January 28, 2016, 04:46:52 PM

I just heard on the radio that Paul Kantner has passed away.  Another icon is gone.
 May the four winds blow you safely home
 
Think I'll listen to Blows Against the Empire.
 
Bill, tgo

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: mtjam on January 28, 2016, 04:53:06 PM

I also just heard about this. Currently listening to the Volunteers album.
 
RIP Paul Kantner

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: sonicus on January 28, 2016, 05:08:46 PM

This is really sad . I cannot even begin to count all the ways that his music and  philosophical concepts affected me . Paul you will be remembered as an important aspect of  the San Francisco sound and as a philosopher of the 60's experience forever.  I send my sincere love and respect.  
 
 Wolf

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: David Houck on January 28, 2016, 07:54:45 PM

Jefferson Airplane were a major influence, musically and culturally, for me and for our world.  And for that, I am grateful.

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on January 28, 2016, 07:57:29 PM

Well, hell...............
 
Peter

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: JuancarlinBass on January 29, 2016, 04:11:27 AM

Oh man....

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: benson_murrensun on January 29, 2016, 06:43:23 AM

Blows is in my top 5 list of all time.

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: tomhug on January 29, 2016, 08:29:21 AM

Listening to Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, which I probably haven't sought out in 30 years, although I listened to it a lot earlier. ( Back before I even knew what an Alembic was. )
 
I never realized most of that album was actually recorded in my home-town (Chicago)
 
RIP PK

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: ed_zeppelin on January 29, 2016, 09:35:11 AM

I was just reading about Blows Against The Empire. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kantner)
 
quote:This earliest edition of Jefferson Starship included members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (David Crosby and Graham Nash) and members of the Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart), as well as some of the other members of Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick, Joey Covington, and Jack Casady)
 
Wow. I listened to it approximately a million times and never knew who I was actually hearing. Maybe because I had cassettes and the cheap plastic cases self-destructed so you wound up with a pile of cassettes with no liner notes. Anyway, I had no idea. It's so great now, because all I knew was that it was terrific music, with a real message.
 
I also just discovered that he was the only member who appeared on every Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship album (during the lawsuit era of the band, the deal he worked out was that no grouping could call itself Jefferson Airplane unless it included him, nor Jefferson Starship unless it included Grace Slick. That's pretty creative, I think.)
 
People talk about musicians being an influence, but I discovered Bless Its Pointed Little Head and Blows in '72, when I was 13 or 14 and absolutely obsessed with Jack Casady (in particular, Bear Melt for some reason, though over the decades I think I figured out who Bear was and what melting was about  ).  
 
I remember sitting by the record player, dropping the needle into the groove over and over, trying to capture genius note for note. It's weird how that stuff distills itself into your playing over time, because I play nothing like Casady.  
 
Same with Tom Fowler from Zappa's Overnight Sensation and Greg Lake: it's in there somewhere and pops out in odd places, but overall it's like comparing a Formula One driver and a geezer on a tractor.
 
The main impression I have of Paul Kantner is that he stuck to his principles throughout his career and his life.  
 
quote:It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than-the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted. ... You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
 
                                       Paul Kantner

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: 5a_quilt_top on February 01, 2016, 11:10:56 AM

Too many losses so far this year...and they all hurt.
 
But this one really hurts.
 
He and the Airplane were both part of the musical foundation that grounded me during my transition into the dreaded teen-aged years. JA also inspired me to pick up a guitar (and eventually a bass) and attempt to find my own musical voice.
 
Paul: thanks for all of your inspiration and your contributions to music and culture, you'll be missed.

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: benson_murrensun on February 02, 2016, 08:50:57 AM

Turns out Signe Toly Anderson Ettlin died the same day. Weird.

Title: RIP Paul Kantner
Post by: pas on February 04, 2016, 04:00:59 PM

There are things you can replace, and others you can not...