Paul Kantner

[Albert Doyle]

NPR's Howard Mandel did an article asking why Paul Kantner's death got so little media attention. I posted the below comment and it is still saying "awaiting moderation". PBS never did any news piece on it on their 7pm News. Here's what I wrote:

I looked on television and saw nothing on Friday after learning of this. ABC Nighttime News did a brief 20 second piece. I think the truest answer would be this substance containing segment of American history is considered notorious by the status quo that sought to progressively phase it out. There was an unspoken yet very effective covert government movement against rock because it had managed to gain the hearts and minds of youth and effectively end the Viet Nam War. I think the institutional/cultural phasing out of this incensed and paisley-ed American gypsy movement totally consumed this culture by the MTV Reagan age subverting figures like Kantner to this deliberately diminished era. If you were too good a representative of that era like Kantner you simply faded into the tie die stored in the national attic. The 60's are something that simply don't serve this much more blunted corporate era.

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