Die Paul Kantner, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane – The Times

The guitarist Paul Kantner, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane. – The Times

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The guitarist Paul Kantner, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane -Band pioneer of rock and psicodélico- which published a newspaper with experience in Sandinista Nicaragua in the eighties, he died today at age 74 in San Francisco.

Known for its defense of the use of drugs, Kantner died for multiple organ failure after suffering a heart attack , as relatives told reporters.

With hits like “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” , Jefferson Airplane wrote the songs especially for the hippie movement and the memorable “Summer of Love” in which thousands of young people literally took San Francisco in 1967.

In the eighties traveled to Kantner Nicaragua to learn about the process of the Sandinista revolution and this journey were as witness a book and an album in which he sang poems Guatemalan guerrilla activist Otto René Castillo.

The Recording Academy (Recording Academy) He issued a statement to express their grief over the death. “The music community has lost a true icon,” said the organization, which Kantner defined as “a giant rock / folk and integral participant rock Stage 60″.

Jefferson Airplane was one of the first bands to perform at the Fillmore club Bill Graham, one of the epicenters of the hippie music that also gave birth to the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and The Doors.

As icons of the counterculture, the Jefferson Airplane headlined two of the emblematic festivals of the time: Monterey (California, 1967), where the participation of the band became a live album, and two years later they performed at Woodstock, where they began their presentation on Saturday night and ended at eight o’clock Sunday

-. “Wonderful exploration” -Born in San Francisco, Kantner had throughout his life access to the most varied influences in a city whose philosophy, as he himself liked to say, was breaking all the rules.

In 1969 he wrote the hymn “We Can Be Together “(We can be together) after listening to a motto of the rising movement of the Black Panthers. “We are obscene, we have no law, hateful, dangerous, dirty, violent and youth but should stick together,” concludes the issue.

In an interview at that time with Rolling Stone, Kantner He rejected that characterize his music as violent. “Violent in terms of transforming violently what is happening, it is not a violent blow up buildings,” he said.

Kantner openly advocated the use of drugs, particularly freedom of allowing enjoyment LSD and also advocated the legalization of marijuana, while alcohol qualified as “the greatest danger”.

always described his LSD trips as “the most formative time of my life” and in a statement made last year to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune said the psychedelic drug “gave me what I always hoped that religion gave me”.

For some time Kantner had a relationship with Slick singer, with whom he had a daughter, China, whose birth inspired the song “A Child Is Coming”.

With Slick created in the seventies a parallel band, Jefferson Starship, whose lighter sound led to several successes, but at the same time won critical for their concessions to a more commercial sound. Kantner disappointed broke with the group in 1984.

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