(1941-03-17)March 17, 1941 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died
January 28, 2016(2016-01-28) (aged 74) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres
Psychedelic rock, folk rock, acid rock
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Guitar
vocals
Years active
1964–2016
Labels
RCA, Grunt, Arista
Musical artist
Paul Lorin Kantner[1] (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band.
Jefferson Airplane formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late-1960s period. In 1970, while still active with Jefferson Airplane, Kantner and several Bay Area musicians recorded the album Blows Against the Empire, which was co-credited to both Paul Kantner and "Jefferson Starship".
Jefferson Airplane continued to record and perform until 1973. Kantner revived the Jefferson Starship name in 1974 and continued to record and perform with them through 1984. He later led a reformed Jefferson Starship from 1992 until his death in 2016. Kantner had the longest continuous membership with the band, with 19 years in the original run of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship and 24 years in the revived Jefferson Starship. At times, he was the only founding Jefferson Airplane member to remain in Jefferson Starship.[2] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Jefferson Airplane in 1996.
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Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and a secondary...
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while, he shared a house in Venice, California, with David Crosby and PaulKantner before being briefly jailed for marijuana possession. Prior to being...
1970 lineup of Jefferson Airplane, consisting of Marty Balin (vocals), PaulKantner (guitar, vocals), Grace Slick (vocals, keyboards), Jorma Kaukonen (lead...
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oh baby", from the song "Keep On Truckin' ". Kaukonen, Jack Casady, PaulKantner and new drummer Joey Covington played several shows around San Francisco...
Sunfighter is a 1971 album created by PaulKantner and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane. The album was released shortly after the Airplane album Bark...
remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick (vocals, piano), PaulKantner (rhythm guitar, vocals), David Freiberg (bass, keyboards, vocals), Papa...
guitarist and vocalist PaulKantner, bassist Bob Harvey and drummer Jerry Peloquin. The band's 1966 to 1970 lineup of Balin, Kaukonen, Kantner, vocalist and keyboardist...
after sending in a demo recording; "Columbia didn't like us," reflected PaulKantner, "because we weren't in their model. The Byrds were much more orderly...
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David Crosby, PaulKantner, and Stephen Stills, of which versions were eventually recorded both by Crosby, Stills & Nash and by Kantner with Jefferson...
years in live performance with the Airplane, Casady's showcase was the PaulKantner composition "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil", which gave the bassist...
focus on their project Hot Tuna, Slick formed Jefferson Starship with PaulKantner and other bandmates, and also began a string of solo albums with Manhole...
King Crimson's new drummer. Blue Whale recorded one album, which featured Paul Williams (vocals), Ivan Zagni (guitar), Roger Sutton (guitar), Tommy Eyre...
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