ZUM TOD DES US-AMERIKANISCHEN ROCK-GITARRISTEN UND -SÄNGERS PAUL KANTNER

29.01.2016 Der am 17. März 1941 in San Francisco geborene US-amerikanische Rocksänger und –gitarrist Paul Kantner (Bild) ist am 28. Januar 2016 gestorben. Er war Mitbegründer von Jefferson Airplane.

Foto: Carl Lender at http://www.flickr.com/people/clender, 2006 - CC-Lizenz: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PaulKantnerPerforming.jpg

Der Gitarrist, der eigentlich aus der Folk-Szene kam, wurde mit Jefferson Airplane zu den Wegbereitern des psychedelischen Rocks, der in den 1960er-Jahren aufkam. Hits der Band wie «Somebody to love» oder «White Rabbit» wurden zu Hymnen der Hippie-Bewegung.

sda

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/er-war-ein-wegbereiter-des-psychedelischen-rocks/story/15448704

Er schrieb den Soundtrack zum Hippie-Gefühl der Sechzigerjahre und trat mit seiner Band beim legendären Woodstock-Festival auf.

cri/AP

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/jefferson-airplane-saenger-paul-kantner-ist-tot-a-1074569.html

Mr. Kantner died just weeks after it was announced that Jefferson Airplane would receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award next month.

William Grimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/arts/music/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html?_r=0

With Jefferson Airplane, Kantner helped pioneer the oft-imitated psychedelic sound: simple, fuzzy guitar lines steeped in dreamlike reverb. The group formed in 1965 and, within a few years, scored hits with "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." In their first run, five of the band's seven albums went gold, including 1967's Surrealistic Pillow and 1968's Crown of Creation.

Kory Grow

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-paul-kantner-dead-at-74-20160128

From 1965-1972, Jefferson Airplane was a pioneer in the Bay Area counterculture psychedelic rock scene, first defining what became known as the "San Francisco sound."

Colin Stutz

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6859188/paul-kantner-jefferson-airplane-co-founder-dies-at-74

Paul Kantner remained a revolutionary to the end

The Jefferson Airplane founder saw his band as explicitly political, and never gave up his faith that music could effect change

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/29/paul-kantner-revolutionary-jefferson-airplane

Videos:

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love (Live at Woodstock Music & Art Fair, 1969)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdLasOrG6c

Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

Jefferson Airplane Dec 7 1968 Rooftop Concert One Pm.mpg, Jean-Luc Godard Captures It (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr5D4lqC0w