Paul Kantner RIP

Sean Trane wrote: I don't know why, but Kantner's death (and Signe's) touch me much deeper than Squire's or a few others like Bowie's ...

It signals the end of a time period in its entirety ... just about no one left, other than Carlos Santana, and Grace Slick, for big names ... that made a huge difference on the music scene in the area. I think it started way back when when Mark Donohue first died, and you knew that an age had come to an end, or was now on the way out the door.

I have almost all of Paul's work, and his work with Grace, both of which I always found to be very nice and much more interesting work, than most folks that were simply writing a couple of songs for the radio ... Paul was writing for his heart.

With the Grateful Dead finished, and any chance of some more stuff from the Starship/Airplane impossible, SF and California has lost what was one of the most vibrant and important music scenes that has ever been in the history of music ... they changed the "values" of pop music with one song, by ripping apart your ideas of one writer and story, and then proceeded to also add a voice to your feelings for many years ... from the anti-war sentiment to the inner growth later in with the first Starship album and "Ride the Tiger", thereby demonstrating his taste in music, was a lot more than just a song.

I'm pretty sure that right now, Grace Slick is not feeling super well at all, and my care and respects to her and their child, and hopefully you will both be stronger for it all.

And thank you for the great music ... RIP ... and Grace, I know you said you don't want to be a geriatric old hippie singing, but now is the time to add a few more notes to it all. It's only fitting!