Happy Birthday Paul Kantner!
http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/paul.html
He never had a hit, he never was in the front, he was never the 'cute one"; but there never would have been a Jefferson Airplane without Kantner. The revolutionary rhetoric, the sci-fi epics, and the Eastern romanticism were all his doing. Combine that with Marty Balin's erotic love songs and Grace Slick's acidic challenges - and you've one of the best, and most interesting, bands of all time. Blows Against the Empire is still one of the best science fiction stories AND political polemics, ever. He is essential.
He never had a hit, he never was in the front, he was never the 'cute one"; but there never would have been a Jefferson Airplane without Kantner. The revolutionary rhetoric, the sci-fi epics, and the Eastern romanticism were all his doing. Combine that with Marty Balin's erotic love songs and Grace Slick's acidic challenges - and you've one of the best, and most interesting, bands of all time. Blows Against the Empire is still one of the best science fiction stories AND political polemics, ever. He is essential.
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