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RIP Paul Kantner


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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

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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

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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

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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.
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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

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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.

 

same age too! that's ironic.

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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.

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