PAUL KANTNER
PAUL KANTNER
(1941-2016. Jefferson Airplane)
Don’t you want…
Something different from those straight singers,
Fresh faced kids in suits or beach wear;
Something better than a Willy Loman future,
War in Vietnam and conscription;
Soldiers with guns on campus
And the politicians
The ones you wouldn’t…
Somebody to love…
Yeah she was a banker’s daughter
Oh man, but her voice
Was unlike anything you’d ever heard
And those summers;
You were at the epicentre
Monterey, Woodstock
All of them.
Wouldn’t you love…
Altamont too, unfortunately
That didn’t go right;
Things started to get
Too heavy even
For an Airplane to lift
And the sixties were over.
You better find…
It wasn’t the same afterwards;
The kids from the boy bands
Running the country;
They didn’t know you anymore,
Wouldn’t admit it anyway,
Didn’t inhale they said.
Yeah right.
Somebody to love…
You still messed around
A few reunions
And folk tunes;
But you got old, you know
That wasn’t meant
To happen
To any of us.
David Subacchi
February 2016.
Adam Whitworth
Mon 1st Feb 2016 22:18
No! That's the first I've heard of Paul kantner passing away. Airplane were great, Cheers David.