| Author | Message | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 6331 Registered: 7-2004 |
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 | ||
| mtjam
Advanced Member Username: mtjam Post Number: 354 Registered: 11-2011 |
I also just heard about this. Currently listening to the Volunteers album. RIP Paul Kantner | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 4732 Registered: 5-2009 |
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 | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12035 Registered: 5-2002 |
Jefferson Airplane were a major influence, musically and culturally, for me and for our world. And for that, I am grateful. | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 2008 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, hell............... Peter | ||
| jcdlc72
Senior Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 468 Registered: 11-2009 |
Oh man.... | ||
| benson_murrensun
Senior Member Username: benson_murrensun Post Number: 656 Registered: 5-2007 |
"Blows" is in my top 5 list of all time. | ||
| tomhug
Advanced Member Username: tomhug Post Number: 211 Registered: 7-2008 |
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 | ||
| ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin Post Number: 241 Registered: 2-2010 |
I was just reading about "Blows Against The Empire."
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.
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| 5a_quilt_top
Junior Username: 5a_quilt_top Post Number: 44 Registered: 6-2012 |
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. | ||
| benson_murrensun
Senior Member Username: benson_murrensun Post Number: 658 Registered: 5-2007 |
Turns out Signe Toly Anderson Ettlin died the same day. Weird. | ||
| pas
Advanced Member Username: pas Post Number: 317 Registered: 3-2003 |
"There are things you can replace, and others you can not..." |
