Thursday, January 28, 2016

Paul Kantner, R. I. P.

 SFGate: Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday. Mr. Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, was 74 and had suffered a heart attack this week.

5 comments:

Jeff Meyerson said...

We were just watching one of those PBS pledge drive shows last week and he was playing with Jefferson Starship. I remember seeing him with the Airplane when Grace Slick was pregnant with their daughter.

They really are dropping like flies, aren't they?

RIP

Deb said...

Jeez--I can't remember another month when we lost so many high-profile rockers. Chrissie Hynde's prediction about all of our music heroes dying in the next ten years is beginning to seem very accurate.

George said...

I love the JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and JEFFERSON STARSHIP music. And 74 seems too young.

Don Coffin said...

Folks, when people start dying in their mid-70s (or even late 60s), it's not so surprising. I do admit to becoming afraid I'll wake up some morning and learn that Mr. Zimmerman is no longer with us.

Beyond that, I am a major fan of the Jefferson Airplane/Starship, and think that Nuclear Furniture--which is mostly Kantner's music ("Rose Goes to Yale" and "Champion" are particularly great, but songs you never heard on the radio--performance of "Rose..." here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVoxZVB-tIk) and of Volunteers. (And of course, Surrealistic Pillow is dynamite--am I the only person who tried to calculate exactly how fast "3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds" is?)

mybillcrider said...

I don't think any of my fellow English majors tried to make that calculation.