Jefferson Airplane: Rest In Peace Paul Kantner

Any week, it turns out another stone star during the sixties or seventies goes on upon. Which season, we have already gave up Joe Cocker, Glenn Frey and David Bowie. After that recently, Paul Kantner and Signe Toly Anderson, both founders of Jefferson Aeroplane, died on the equal day, Jan. 28. Which serve as odds on that?

Part of which phenomenon is actually actuarial games, the data corporations use to assess policy rates. Both the older death on the boomer generation is at a place when death rates are upon both the rise, and also unfortunately will final to scale.


Months back, I made the pleasure on interviewing two on Kantner’s and Toly Anderson’s ex-band friends, Jorma Kaukonen and also Jack Casady. The job interview, full of twists and changes about songs to plenty of humor, final on an hour and also a half. Automatically we hit on the early time of Airplane, that Kantner, Kaukonen, Casady, Toly Anderson and Sophistication Refined had helped access.


With the passing on the two Airplane users, I went back and also obeyed that job interview which weekend. Which struck me remained the absolutely love an band member nevertheless had for both the other, irrespective both the bitter breakup beneath 1972 on Kantner and Refined formed Jefferson Starship and Kaukonen and also Casady took one other path, to Hot Tuna, a band which still tours currently.

Later which 7 days, we would like to post some relevant excerpts from the job interview. However for right now, I consider Kaukonen sums this off best with both of his blog posts past due last week: