Paul Kantner

[Albert Doyle]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/29/entertainm...rist-dies/

[Tracy Riddle]

And Glenn Frey. Too many of that generation leaving us now.

[Albert Doyle]

Signe Anderson also died on the same day as Kantner. She was the first singer for the Jefferson Airplane when it first formed. This was the coffee house era during which the Kennedy assassination occurred. When she had her child she left allowing Grace Slick to fill the opening:




http://ultimateclassicrock.com/signe-anderson-dies/

[Tracy Riddle]

I didn't know Signe died, let alone the same day. She was a great singer too.

[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.

http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjaz...rever.html

[Tracy Riddle]

I think the Jefferson Airplane, along with The Fugs, were the first really political rock band (as opposed to pure folk singers who were political). They were quite radical and dangerous for their time. The Jefferson Starship was a much more corporate band, and "Starship" in the 1980s was just horrendous.

[Albert Doyle]

You might be giving too much credit to the band for changing their direction instead of the murderous industry landscape where many of their peers didn't make it past the early 70's. PHOENIX brought home to Amerikka.


CIA probably freaked when 400,000 showed up at Camp Woodstock.

[Lauren Johnson]

I think the Jefferson Airplane, along with The Fugs, were the first really political rock band (as opposed to pure folk singers who were political). They were quite radical and dangerous for their time.

[Lauren Johnson]

Stuff like this was just not allowable.

[Albert Doyle]

If you have a musical knowledge of the 60's that jam at the end was heavily Hendrix-oriented and specifically sounds like the rhythms played by Jimi at Woodstock. There's no doubt these bands were actually trying to carry-out their mission to groove America into a new society. It took a while for CIA and the powers that be to coopt the money sources for music in the media and industry and slowly phase out this bohemian movement that had successfully taken down the Viet Nam War. Jimi was assassinated and the flowery movement crashed almost in synch.