jeudi 28 janvier 2016

another rock star passes

Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane passed away - Damn - I so loved that group. That sucks. I got into Scientology the same year I found The Jefferson Air Plane and it was when I got into drugs. If there's anything that one can say about Scientology - it was down on drugs - and for that I can thank Hubbard. My life could have gone a whole other direction. Back to Kanter and the Airplane, who I saw in Rochester when I was in college - though the drug influence was there - there was so much more to the group's music. I recall seeing them play in Glendale when they had those shows on Brand boulevard - and Kantner was speaking and the man sure wasn't the "hey dude! What strings do you use on your strat?" shallow self possessed half baked musician, but an eloquent well spoken man. Amazing. Sad to see him go.

Mimsey

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Paul Kantner, an original member of the 1960s rock group Jefferson Airplane who stayed with the San Francisco-based band through its transformation from hippies to hit makers as the eventual leader of successor group Jefferson Starship, has died at age 74.

Kantner, who drew upon his passion for politics and science fiction to help write seminal favorites such as "Wooden Ships" and "Volunteers," died on Thursday of organ failure and septic shock at a San Francisco hospital where he was admitted after falling ill earlier in the week, his former girlfriend and publicist Cynthia Bowman, the mother of one of his three children, told The Associated Press.

The guitarist and songwriter had survived close brushes with death as a younger man, including a motorcycle accident during the early 1960s and a 1980 cerebral hemorrhage, and gone on to recover from a heart attack last year. His death first was reported Thursday by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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