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Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner dies at 74
SF GATE ^ | 1/28/16

Posted on 01/28/2016 3:59:34 PM PST by Jolla

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To: dennisw

We’re going to see that Keith pic a lot in the foreseeable future.


101 posted on 01/29/2016 6:48:28 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: blam

This is a very beautiful song.My mother died ten years ago and I remember about a year ago i was driving and this song came on the radio. I just cried my eyes out. Man, they just don’t write music like this anymore.


102 posted on 01/29/2016 7:06:30 AM PST by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: SamAdams76

The only exception to this rule appears to be Keith Richards! Except, I’m not sure if he ever quit.

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I’ve read that he’s cut down to alcohol and pot.


103 posted on 01/29/2016 7:09:25 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: skeeter

Another good one gone. RIP I will be toasting to the Eagles this weekend and Jefferson Airplane.


104 posted on 01/29/2016 7:10:24 AM PST by angcat
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To: SamAdams76

KR doesn’t look all that bad when he cleans up and covers his eyes. Of course, in other pictures he still looks like he’s a million years old.

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/events/Keith+Richards/keith-richards-gq-men-of-the-year-awards-2015-03.html


105 posted on 01/29/2016 7:12:39 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: angcat
Yeah. Gotta get out and see these folks while they're still with us. There are quite a few old bands still touring.

We have a really good venue here where many of them still stop every summer.

106 posted on 01/29/2016 7:27:50 AM PST by skeeter
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To: a fool in paradise

Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Scotty Moore, and Fats Domino are all still around.

They probably didn’t do the designer drugs that the rockers in the 70s and 80s did.


107 posted on 01/29/2016 8:18:05 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: jmacusa
"This is a very beautiful song.My mother died ten years ago and I remember about a year ago i was driving and this song came on the radio. I just cried my eyes out. Man, they just don’t write music like this anymore."

That' a touching story.

Here's another true one.

In 1967 ("The Summer Of Love"), I was living in the SF Bay area when that song was released and I imagined that it was about a wayward girl that I was in love with, " I saw You Coming Back To Me."

Well....she did come back and we had a son who was born Feburary 1968. He is now 47 years old and a physicist living in SOCAL.

108 posted on 01/29/2016 12:30:06 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

Wow, that’s cool. The Airplane was a power house group alright. I’m glad to have been able to see and hear all the good bands back in the day. Todays music just plain sucks.


109 posted on 01/29/2016 1:13:47 PM PST by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: Jolla

Well at least Paul had the good sense to leave before they recorded “We Built This City.”


110 posted on 01/29/2016 1:17:28 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Moonman62

Keith actually looks better since he stopped trying to dye his hair and just let it be gray.


111 posted on 01/29/2016 1:18:43 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: LydiaLong

Jerry Lee didn’t do designer drugs but he was pill popping at least into the 80s if not 90s and washing it down with liquor.


112 posted on 01/29/2016 7:55:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: dfwgator

“We’re going to see that Keith pic a lot in the foreseeable future.”

I mean Keith outlive Glenn Frey? That guy worked out and looked the epitome of health. David Bowie I could see because that guy smoked like a chimney and vacuumed up cocaine at least in his younger years. He always smoked ciggies

Keep your Keith pic at the ready!


113 posted on 01/30/2016 6:24:12 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Jolla

I ran into Kantner at Guitar Center in San Francisco back around 2002 or so. Smelled like the inside of an abandoned tobacco factory from all the chain-smoking he did.


114 posted on 01/30/2016 7:04:08 AM PST by stratman1969 (Cruz or Lose)
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To: stratman1969

LOL it’s funny these days with so many less people smoking, when you encounter one, it really stands out smell wise.


115 posted on 01/30/2016 7:07:29 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: BenLurkin; Jolla; skeeter
I feel the loss of Paul Kantner. A great musician and a man who did a fairly big percentage of his own thinking.

Yes, in some ways he remained the "Grand Old Man" of the Bay Area Left, but he also stunned people from time to time by voicing pro-life (anti-abortion) principles. He commented on how people defend the baby whales and the seal pups, and then easily slide the other way to advocate the killing of their own young.

Paul Kantner was a psychedelics user in the 60's, but quit and later came out against drugs AND alcohol. Eventually, he'd been around enough years to realize that junk had killed the most promising people of his (our) generation.

"Open your hands and build a park/Clear your mind and touch the dark."

Rest in peace, Paul. May the Lord give you a merciful judgment, clean you up and make you still quirky in His kingdom.

116 posted on 01/31/2016 6:05:27 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Feel us singing electric in your body." - Paul Kantner)
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