Forum MVP Michael Doc Watson Posted January 29, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday of multiple organ failure. Mr. Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, was 74 and had suffered a heart attack this week. “Wooden Ships”, “Martha”, “Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon”, “Watch Her Ride”, “Today”, “We Can Be Together”, “Volunteers” for America, “Crown of Creation”, “Have You Seen the Stars Tonight”, “ The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil”, “The House at Pooneil Corners”, “A Child Is Coming”, and many other songs http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Jefferson-Airplane-s-Paul-Kantner-dies-at-74-6791483.php?t=b26db710676c5a3c1f&cmpid=fb-premium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted January 29, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 This hurts. The Airplane was my first love, and you never forget that. It is a part of you for life. Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters, Bless Its Pointed Little Head, Volunteers, Blows Against the Empire; the grooves were worn out on them before I ever saw a Grateful Dead show. Then there were 30 Seconds and the Kantner Slick Albums to go with the regular GD releases of the '70s. So much cross pollination with Jerry and others. Fritz the Cat said it best: "happy times, heavy times." At first I was iridescent Then I became transparent Finally I was absent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP acududeman Posted January 29, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 My goodness....who's next....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian NJ Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 This is sad news. Two of my Kantner favorites are Your Mind Has Left Your Body and Sketches of China and of course the early Airplane mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP bs69 Posted January 29, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 Very sad news. Tough start to the year in the music business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian NJ Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 Paul Kantner – Your Mind Has Left Your Body Lyrics Lyrics & Music: Paul Kantner You have left your body be aware if you care Your mind has left your body and for this one moment you are Under the polar ice cap in a place we call home How is it there white bear like that where you grow... Now all of you come back to here and now elsewhen to there Move on out the other way where... Do you find yourself floating growing there chorus Riders of the rainbow Let it grow let it grow You can exercise your mind on where you want to go And why'can see the city lights flashin' two thousand miles below you You can feel the sands of Zanzibar or pierce the nearest sun Find out what and who you are and if you need to run Chorus Riders of the rainbow Let it grow let it grow There is one moment in your life and it can come at any time And you remember all of what went on from the instant you were born Through your early years And if you can fasten on that moment and expand through the afterglow You can reverse your mind in time and travel back to when The earth was formed The sky was born And the universe began chorus Riders of the rainbow Let it grow let it grow You have left your body Return when you may Save it for another day... beyond you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetivanmarshall Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 He left for The Other Side of This Life. Greg in N.J. loves you Paul. (Sorry, I think your going to have to rewind this to the beginning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMx7pUgCPQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetivanmarshall Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 My goodness....who's next....? Who's Next ..Roger or Pete?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Rude Posted January 31, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 I'm going with one of the Stones. But then again Keith will likely outlive everyone on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Michael Doc Watson Posted January 31, 2016 Author Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Vocalist who preceded Grace Slick passes away on same day as Paul Kantner Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane's original female vocalist who sang on the band's 1966 debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, passed away January 28th. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/signe-anderson-original-jefferson-airplane-singer-dead-at-74-20160131#ixzz3yrtj4tnk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Ammagamalin Crew Posted February 1, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Vocalist who preceded Grace Slick passes away on same day as Paul Kantner Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane's original female vocalist who sang on the band's 1966 debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, passed away January 28th. While Grace was participating with great society? Was low flying bird Signe's Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/signe-anderson-original-jefferson-airplane-singer-dead-at-74-20160131#ixzz3yrtj4tnk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetivanmarshall Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Vocalist who preceded Grace Slick passes away on same day as Paul Kantner Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane's original female vocalist who sang on the band's 1966 debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, passed away January 28th. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/signe-anderson-original-jefferson-airplane-singer-dead-at-74-20160131#ixzz3yrtj4tnk same age too! that's ironic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP cm_hayden Posted February 1, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'm speechless, I grew up in the sixties and now all my music heroes are dropping like flies. Makes me face my own mortality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP John A Posted February 2, 2016 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Some good Garcia on Blows Against The Empire, as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidsmoke Posted February 9, 2016 Report Share Posted February 9, 2016 This is very sad. It's weird timing for me too because although I've been an Airplane fan for a long time I randomly got way more into them over the last few months, hadn't heard After Bathing in many years and it completely blew me away after I started listening to it again. Then of course I had to go back and visit the other albums and particularly Surrealistic, Crown, and Volunteers also hit me harder than ever before. That lineup, that music, I have to say for me it's better than what the Dead were doing at the time, as incredible as their stuff also was. I really don't even have the words to properly explain how mind blowing that stuff is for me. It's so many things at once, changing moment by moment in the most brilliant ways possible. Now I MUST see Reverend Jefferson! If DSO could somehow do even a short run with them I would travel to see those shows. I know Paul was about so much more than just JA and my knowledge of most of his career after is spotty.. but man, as far as I am concerned that band ruled the '60s global rock scene and to this day I think that material stands out in ways that very few music does. RIP Paul Kantner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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