She was the poster girl for the Monterey and Woodstock era but never saw herself as an icon. Those who saw Grace Slick in her pomp still put her on a pedestal. Slick and Kantner broke up in the late 1970s and Kantner had a son, Alexander, with Bowman, and another son, Gareth. He was 39 years old at the time and beat considerable odds with a full recovery without surgery. They painted their new HQ black, moved in their personal coke dealer and installed a medieval-style torture rack in the basement, which was first tried out on David Crosby. RCA never told us what to do because we put arses on seats, and the producer, Rick Jarrard, was always drunk, so he didn’t interfere. I was a snob.”, Her last husband, former Airplane lighting man Skip Johnson, told her she was becoming too Jekyll and Hyde for comfort. For example, it takes a lot of hospital morphine to make me pass out. Even Grace was shocked. The first LP I did with the Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow, was easy. It was all just like a small vacation." She could still get into it because, like everyone else on the West Coast rock scene in 1966, she was snorting acid, doing speed and uppers, so she didn’t eat. I wanted to look good. His wife, Susan Joy Balin, ... Balin was a young folksinger in San Francisco when he formed a band with fellow folkie Paul Kantner, who specialized in 12-string guitar. This was disappointing. “My only regret is that I didn’t get Jimi Hendrix or Peter O’Toole.”, Jim Morrison was another matter, though. Paul Kantner, a founding member and guitarist in the ‘60s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its successor, Jefferson Starship, has died, the Grammy Awards Twitter page said. Believe me. “Most of them are famous, but my friends aren’t. Friend of Joplin. So did the follow-up, Mexico, a savage repudiation of Richard Nixon’s Operation Intercept, which effectively closed the US/Mexico border to stop marijuana smuggling. We’ve rescued each other numerous times for drug-related problems but we’ve been sober for a long time now.”. “I shaved my legs, but I talked like a truck driver,” she said. I’ve got very little gate between what I think and what I say. Slick knew it was starting to get ugly when the Hells Angels invaded the stage during the Airplane’s set: “Marty Balin told ’em to fuck off and they backed down a bit.”, Not much, though. Quite an evening. People only got fat when they discovered cocaine. I love bass players, and he’s the best.”, After Jack, she began a relationship with drummer Spencer Dryden. Genealogy profile for Paul Schell Kantner Paul Schell Kantner (1889 - 1979) - Genealogy Genealogy for Paul Schell Kantner (1889 - 1979) family tree on Geni, with … Somebody To Love, written by her brother-in-law Darby (she was married to drummer Jerry Slick) and sung by Grace in her previous band the Great! Grace’s own White Rabbit, a strident combination of bastardised Spanish bolero rhythm and psychedelic lyrics paraphrased from Lewis Carroll’s book Alice In Wonderland, confirmed her position as the Acid Queen of Haight Ashbury. They wore Western riverboat gambler suits. I wrote a few good songs. His death was announced on Friday by his wife, Susan Joy Balin. It is also very illegal.”, The 70s were increasingly a blur for Slick and the Airplane. After 15 minutes I was so tripped out I stopped singing and playing piano and listened to Jack Casady’s bass. It had a wooden floor. Ray Manzarek remembers him stumbling on stage during the Airplane’s set. So apparently I’m a terrible lay.”, Grace got her own back. Grace Slick dated Paul Kantner in the past, but they broke up in 1975. The band played in Fargo, North Dakota, once and our tour manager had a plastic box full of drugs in various compartments – powders and pills. According to Balin, he was rushed by several Angels with pool cues. They’re great if you’re a speed freak or an alcohol and coke user. I loved it. I got knocked out and woke up with boot tattoos all over my body. The Airplane had released five gold albums in three years. All rights reserved. Come on! “I liked Jim. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Grace Slick dated Paul Kantner for 6 years. Paul Kantner was in relationships with Cynthia Bowman (1978 - 1985) and Grace Slick (1969 - 1975). In October 1980, Kantner was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in serious condition from a cerebral hemorrhage. Yeah, it’s a new dawn.”, As epic as such moments were, she prefers her more mundane account. “Janis had been a friend for a short period when we were younger. It’s stunning I’m still alive. Maybe he was jealous of me ‘cos I was so fabulous,” she laughs. Today she leads a relatively quiet life in Malibu, a paradise for well-heeled rockers of a certain age. Arrested more times than Lemmy. We had complete artistic control. The Brits were different. My dad, who was a merchant banker, always told me: put one third into savings, one third for bills and screw around with the rest.”. Why didn’t she look into a mirror before she went on?’”, Why worry? HOME TOP-10 DIRECTORY PROFILE 1+1 VS. SIX-DEGREES Paul Kantner and Cynthia Bowman. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Paul Kantner, Marty Balin and later Keith Richards were the only three rockers who were documented at Altamont pointedly standing up to the Angels. Marty Balin made a more protracted exit before deciding he’d had enough of “playing that messed-up cocaine music”. After the breakup of the KBC band, a 1989 reunion album and tour with Jefferson Airplane followed. It also features the family of San Francisco Bay Area musicians, including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and other current members of Jefferson Airplane and future members of Jefferson Starship. Balin continued recording solo albums in the years following the reunion and reunited with Kantner in the latest incarnation of Jefferson Starship. Follow @ShagTree. Alcohol was a downfall because it was easier to get. “I am frozen to the bone!” Grace shouted. I lived on it, because the two things even each other out. I could afford it. “I was wearing feathers and shells and this white dress. My best friends are a former air stewardess and a caterer. Jagger’s house was like my parents’. Marty Balin, far left, with members of Jefferson Airplane - from left, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady - in 1968. He had oriental rugs, Louis XIV furniture. With hits such as "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit," Jefferson Airplane wrote anthems for the hippie movement and the memorable "Summer of Love" in which young people took … Cynthia Bowman and Paul Kantner dated from 1978 to 1985. Max Bell We had a formal chat and Altamont was arranged – we would support the Rolling Stones.”, The now infamous Altamont concert was a disaster. BA1 1UA. He is most remembered for Founder member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. With his wife Vanessa, Kaukonen currently owns and operates the Fur Peace Ranch, a 119-acre (0.48 km 2) music and guitar camp in the hills of southeast Ohio, … “The way I saw it was this: I’m young, healthy, I’m not miserable, I can take all the drugs I want, screw whoever I want, ‘cos they don’t have Aids yet, and I’m being paid to travel all over the world and dress any way I want. I was scared because I thought we were going to walk into an orgy. Slick used it to open her autobiography Somebody To Love? You will receive a verification email shortly. Ha!” In the late summer of 1968, the Airplane toured Europe, amazing audiences with their brutal PA and psychedelic light show. No votes. Royalty cheques are great. He was never married. The Romans built London. The land Cafe Stella sits on — the Sunset Junction shopping complex, with its famous arrow sign — belongs to an LLC that's registered to Kantner and his wife, Christine. By “It wasn’t easy. “That was a sell-out band. “Boom! Grace had joined the band initially “because I wanted to have an affair with bassist Jack Casady. Slick looked at the huge crowd in awe before telling them: “You’ve heard the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music. I did because they didn’t make me angry like alcohol does. Paul Kantner is a member of the following lists: American rock singers, American male singers and Musicians from California. Took more drugs than Winehouse. to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. Shut her up.’ If I saw anyone in a uniform, it was over for me. Stupid. Corporate people. The only person who said anything to me was Jorma Kaukonen: ‘You’re a crazy motherfucker.’ And here’s a guy who travels with machineguns, knives, macho bullshit lead guitarist crap.”, Back to Grace: “We started watching the Stones but decided to leave in a hurry. For Grace, “it was all a hoot. Marty was less chivalrous. American Guitarist Paul Kantner was born Paul Lorin Kanter on 17th March, 1941 in San Francisco, California and passed away on 28th Jan 2016 aged 74. That’s how Jim Morrison stayed so skinny. Balin is survived by his wife, Susan Joy Balin, daughters Jennifer Edwards and Delaney Balin, and stepdaughters Rebekah Geier and Moriah Geier. It’s the luck of the draw. Bath I wore the same clothes on the street as on the stage. We ended up producing with the engineer, Dave Hassinger, and tripped through it all with Jerry Garcia as our ‘spiritual adviser’. Paul Kantner sacked her on the spot, which meant she missed playing the Knebworth Festival a few days later. She paints what she knows: white rabbits, portraits of dead rock stars, wine labels, marijuana plants, ice-cream- guzzling kids as metaphors for the obesity epidemic. She got on the cover of Life magazine wearing her Girl Scout uniform, which seemed amazing at the time. I can hear the guys in the band behind me muttering: ‘Oh, Jesus.’”. Where would the farmers be? Not me, doc. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band. Paul Lorin Kantner was born on March 17, 1941, in San Francisco. Balin was a folk guitarist in San Francisco when he joined Paul Kantner to launch Jefferson Airplane in 1965. See all Paul Kantner's marriages, divorces, hookups, break ups, affairs, and dating relationships plus celebrity photos, latest Paul Kantner news, gossip, and biography. Help us build our profile of Paul Kantner! My favourite drug was Quaaludes [depressants] but you had to beg to get those. “Did I sleep with her? They took Quaaludes off the market. West Coast archivist Alec Palao wrote: “More than anyone else, she was the most original and unique talent to emerge from the whole San Francisco 1960s milieu.”. Years later, Kantner would go into more detail about that day with Bay Area music writer David Gans , explaining that rock festivals shouldn’t be exercises in control — particularly by a motorcycle gang whose members were paid in beer. Marty Balin gave Anderson flowers. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. music, I didn’t think it could affect you unless you had psychological problems to begin with, and I didn’t.”, She can recall most of her drug episodes. It was all your fucking fault” – was a good idea. It was going to be called Feed Your Head. We went into RCA’s Hollywood studios, where they’d recorded Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones. The story, like most of the tales that surround the legendary pin-up girl for the Summer of Love, isn’t apocryphal. ‘Course, if we were all singers we’d be in terrible shape. She bought a child’s Heidi outfit, then got so smashed she decided that dressing like a Nazi, goose-stepping and giving the ‘heil Hitler’ salute – while asking: “Who won the fucking war? San Francisco was built on the gold rush. Kantner rejoined Balin and Slick, who was by then his wife, in 1974 under the name Jefferson Starship. and more from FamousFix.com, Founder member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Glass Harmonica, harmonica, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, KBC Band, Holographic Band Member (as The Jefferson Starship). “Larger than average.” But it was just the once, she sighs. Took ages to get it looking right. “The Charlatans were the best. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Many in the audience wept. Our big hit single, We Built This City, was awful. Coke was so cheap and we were rock’n’rollers. I felt like I’d throw up on the front row but I smiled and did it anyway. She was the bohemian who defined a generation in the USA. Rather than make an anonymous backstage entrance, Slick toughed it out and queued up with the San Franciscan faithful. “Jim was a well-built boy,” Grace remembered. We all took a nail full of what we thought was cocaine but turned out to be acid. I’ve got a strong constitution, apparently. In 1969, the Airplane were the wealthiest band on the West Coast. Anderson, who survived cancer in her 30s, died on the same day that another Airplane member, Paul Kantner, died. Eventually, Slick faced her known demons, and she became the first high-profile rock star to admit to attending AA. Before things got ugly. I could sing it – and the others – because I can fake enthusiasm. But then later someone says: ‘Damn. Slick persevered with Kantner’s new venture, Jefferson Starship, but she grimaces at the memories. Paul Kantner: It changed my life too. The story of him taking his wife to Europe when she was dying of cancer is a beautiful, marvelous story. I’m glad I didn’t do heroin. finds beauty in the gradual pain of human existence, The 100 most influential guitarists ever: only in Classic Rock, on sale now. The audience rioted, stormed the stage and set fire to the band’s equipment, before chucking it into the river. It was his second brush with serious il… Despite Jefferson Airplane’s string of classic albums – Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing At Baxter’s, Crown Of Creation, the live Bless Its Pointed Little Head and the ‘up against the wall, motherfuckers’ epic Volunteers – the pair prowled around each other, on stage and off. They marvelled at her attire – she was modelling at the time – a chic striped silk vest and a hip-hugging mod herringbone skirt. Slick, better known as their singer, exchanges banter with her home-town crowd. We were rock’n’rollers, not bankers.”. Some guy in the audience shouts: ‘Hey Gracie! Evidently a force of nature, Slick regularly performed live with the Airplane while under the influence. It sounded like we were bragging, even though Bernie Taupin, an Englishman, wrote the lyric. I haven’t, so I don’t. Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician. “He’s the only one [of the band] I never speak to anymore. His wife calls me once a year ... Paul Kantner sacked her on the spot, which meant she missed playing the Knebworth Festival a few days later. These days, Grace rises at 4am every day and starts painting. Give me Quaaludes and I’m feelin’ fine.”. We put up our four huge Altec speakers and rocked. Kaukonen and Casady stuck around but poured their energies into their emerging other band, Hot Tuna, effectively leaving the Airplane in Kantner and Slick’s care. A representative, Ryan Romenesko, said Mr. Balin, who lived in Tampa, had died en route to a … “There’s a fuzz on the ocean today so I can’t see my neighbours,” she says. There was a problem. Being sober is weird. And I’ve never bounced a cheque in my life.”. Michael Madrigale and his wife, Colleen, Celeste Mangan, Lauren Mangan, Wende Toombs and her husband, Shane, Kylie Noll, Paul A. Kantner and his wife, Kristin, Bryan Ross and his wife… I thought you could change people with media blitzing, books and knowledge, but you can’t. Then you do more. He was in one celebrity relationship averaging approximately 6.0 years. It's Chicago Auditorium, 1973. (Classic Rock) 30 October 2017, Say hello to Grace Slick: Lover to Morrison. Not Marty. It isn’t a syndrome, I’ve just got a lack of discretion. “Marty was never very communicative, which is odd when you’re singing duets. I like one man, one child, one house and one car. The iconic band established its place in ’60s heaven when acid queen Grace Slick, who joined the group two years later, belted out the psychedelic anthem “White Rabbit.” Kantner had been working in Los Angeleson an album when he became ill. Indeed, as their music became more bombastic, the Airplane’s record sales started to slide. “It wasn’t easy. It’s raining. I was invited with Kantner to meet Mick Jagger at his Chelsea home to discuss the Altamont concert. Slick bought a shotgun and amused herself by firing it from her window over the trees of Golden Gate Park. The Airplane was a smorgasbord, but the Starship I hated. You couldn’t escape her. After Europe, the Airplane paid $73,000 for an outrageously palatial mansion at 24000 Fulton Street, San Francisco. Paul Kantner and Grace Slick dated from 1969 to December, 1975. Visit our corporate site. What are you talking about? It killed all of them. I didn’t drive funny and get arrested. But she was certainly gorgeous and she expanded to fill a stage. Jefferson Airplane are tuning up. “Women have always been singers. “Jim started singing with Grace and hugging her. I’ve always been very fond of him. [Airplane guitarist/singer] Paul Kantner said: ‘Sing that Arabic jamming thing you do.’”. About American Guitarist Paul Kantner was born Paul Lorin Kanter on 17th March, 1941 in San Francisco, California and passed away on 28th Jan 2016 aged 74. Cynthia Bowman and Paul Kantner separated in ... Paul Kantner and Grace Slick separated in Dec... See He used himself as a human guinea pig, see how far you can push the human brain. I always knew once the Airplane became famous that it would be around until I drop dead.”, “Anyway,” she laughs, “I deserve it. Everybody knew I was a big drunk. Drummer Spencer Dryden quit in 1970, still shattered by Altamont. He is best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and occasional vocalist of Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. I’m easily embarrassed for people. Mouth like a trucker, Psych-rock legend Grace Slick is in the middle of telling us a story. The only famous person I know is David Crosby. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! I thought I was hot. Eventually, Slick faced her known demons, and she became the first high-profile rock star to admit to attending AA. I got a lot from thrift shops in the Haight.”, Undoubtedly stylish, Slick provided a fashion template, especially when she started sporting a Girl Scout uniform. Jefferson Airplane members Paul Kantner (left), Diana Mangano and Marty Balin perform at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. I wouldn’t even let her give me head.”, In a male-dominated environment, Grace stood out. “Not sure I’d recommend that to everyone,” she says, “because taking drugs and working is gnarly. He once pulled her from the smouldering wreckage of a sports car after she’d crashed it into the Golden Gate Bridge. Within the year, rock’s relationship with hardcore drug abuse saw off Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Morrison, all aged just 27. People magazine broke my anonymity about AA but it wasn’t a surprise. And she had, as Patti Smith has noted, dark violet eyes like Elizabeth Taylor. A year later, Kantner talked about the experience, saying, "If there was a Big Guy up there willing to talk to me, I was willing to listen. Society, was already a Bay Area smash. The only person I can change is me.”. (Re)launched Jan. 21 1992, by July 1994 we had played over 250 shows! “I had no filter. Me and Ronnie Wood have the same agent and we sell to the class of people who don’t really need art or drugs, all the stuff I like. Paul Kantner. Most women did. “When I want my drugs, I want them now. He … Become a producer or something.’”, Kantner still does it. “I remember she wore a white Native American Indian outfit at Woodstock, and she hated the photos so much she tried to stop the Airplane footage being used in the film.”, In fact, the Airplane’s Woodstock performance was almost up there with Hendrix’s version of The Star Spangled Banner. Grace Slick is currently available. The weather was so bad that Slick’s first words were: “What’s wrong with you people? “I don’t like seeing people my age leaping around, singing about their feelings when they were 23,” she says. We were in our helicopter, looking down, and Kantner says: ‘I think they’re beating a man to death down there.’”, Paul Kantner would become Grace’s third Airplane sleeping partner, and father of her daughter China. I just thought I was a singer – not Bach or Mozart or Handel. Then, when its members went their separate ways in 1991, Thomas organized a new band, called The Starship featuring Mickey Thomas, while his old bandmate, Paul Kantner, toured with a … What city? I went to jail a lot for drunk mouth – verbal assault.”, On the road to sobriety, Slick decided to quit the stage. Thank you and goodbye.”. There was no orgy. Sometimes they gave you Valium, but it took days to get off those. news “Clothes were fun and I had some good stuff. On August Bank Holiday, they were paid £1,000 to headline the first Isle of Wight Festival. Female Supreme Court judges, that’s impressive. 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(Ebet Roberts/Getty Images) They came on at daybreak on the Sunday, August 17, just after The Who. So while the rest of the band were playing pool and getting fucked up in the hotel, I was trying on my accessories. “I pretty much nailed anybody that was handy,” she once claimed. Marty Balin was ambivalent towards his new fellow singer – he was firmly in the ‘keep Anderson’ camp. “That didn’t happen. Being sober is weird. Grace Slick was a superstar. Luckily for the authorities, Grace Slick has left the music business, although she appeared at a post-9/11 benefit for NYC firemen – wearing a burqa – and wrote a song for victims of the New Orleans oil spill. Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship at the taping of the Robert Klein Radio Hour at RCA Studios in New York City on November 20, 1979. “Most of the bands looked pretty sharp, apart from the Grateful Dead who walked around in jeans and T-shirts,” she says. Paul Kantner was in relationships with Cynthia Bowman (1978 - 1985) and Grace Slick (1969 - 1975). Photograph: AP Adam Sweeting The former model’s foghorn vocals, enormous charisma and drop-dead beauty aside, Slick gave the Airplane their biggest hit songs. The show must go on.”, While Kantner was obsessed with creating what Grace calls “let’s all go outer space, science-fiction shit”, she fell back on sarcasm, fuelled by boozy bravado. I’m not against orgies, but I’m not a good multi-tasker. Connect any celebrity with Paul Kantner to see how closely they are linked... romantically! Grace Slick had been earmarked to join Jefferson Airplane in 1966 as the replacement for the band’s original female singer, Signe Anderson, who had just given birth to daughter Lilith. When I was drunk, if someone was an arsehole I’d say so. Paul Kantner, died in January 2016, the same month the Recording Academy named Jefferson Airplane one of its annual Lifetime Achievement … He was gorgeous, but he was so screwy – half the time you couldn’t talk to him. Paul Kantner, who was a founding member and the guitarist for Jefferson Airplane, has died at the age of 74. “Personally I never freaked out on acid. Unfortunately, she was turned away at the gates by security once they realised she’d brought along Abbie Hoffman, who was co-founder of the anarchic Yippies, as well as being high on the CIA’s Most Wanted list. My own alcoholism was a slow decline. During the legendary Doors/Airplane European tour of 1968, she ended up in Morrison’s bedroom at the Belgravia Hotel, where they romped around and covered each other with strawberries and other courtesy hotel fruit. Before the concert in Amsterdam, the Airplane purchased a slab of Lebanese Gold hashish, which they offered to Morrison to nibble. Paul Kantner is deceased. When Paul Kantner suggested he get a Rickenbacker 12-string guitar because Roger McGuinn of the Byrds played one, Kaukonen, who already took his guitar choices very seriously, dutifully cashed in enough of the Israeli savings bonds his grandparents had given him and bought one. “When I left I said: ‘Call me if you want.’ And he never did. He was in a three-piece suit. Everybody loved ’em. Adopted by the Airplane, it became the West Coast anthem. Grace Slick. Login Grace had a gift in her bag – she was carrying a stash of powdered LSD, which she intended to slip into Tricky Dicky’s vodka martini. Volunteers flopped as a single. His wife, Susan Joy Balin, was “by his side,” according to the announcement. If I did, I’d be starving. Everything else is too confusing. My behaviour made that obvious. "This is something of a family album, co-credited to Paul Kantner and his wife, Grace Slick, and featuring on its cover a photograph of their infant daughter, China. “They used to sell well. A Rock And Roll Memoir, one of the funniest accounts of the whole West Coast psychedelic extravaganza ever written. What might have been a hoot in California didn’t go down well in Germany. Paul just stepped over him and went into his room.”, Befitting the times, the Airplane took prodigious amounts of drugs of all sorts. Hendrix died because heroin makes you puke. Greedily, he ate a huge chunk. © ‘Oh my God, honey, get off the stage. “When I was sober I was calm. Writer and scenester Eve Babitz – the Dorothy Parker of the West Coast scene – recalls: “Grace had a Napoleon complex because she’s kind of short, which pissed her off. Four decades later, the poster girl for the Monterey and Woodstock kids is as candid as ever. The band’s manager and promoter, Bill Graham, led a standing ovation. In 1985, he teamed with Paul Kantner and Jack Casady to form the KBC Band. “Well, if you’ve squandered your money and you have to play, be my guests. Nuclear Furniture is the eighth album by the American rock band Jefferson Starship and was released in 1984. The festival date was followed a few days later by a free concert for a few hundred curious folk in the dilapidated bandstand on Parliament Hill Fields in North London. “If you’re comfortable with it, go ahead. I was having a great time and everyone else was like, ‘Oh, Jesus. Relationship dating details of Paul Kantner and Cynthia Bowman and all the other celebrities they've hooked up with. I remember coming back from an Airplane gig in 1967 and going to the Tropicana Motel with Kantner, and Morrison was in the hallway, goofy on acid, stark naked and barking like a dog. He gave us tea; didn’t offer liquor, didn’t proffer drugs. Plus, booze and cocaine is an ugly combination. Paul Kantner, the co-founder of Jefferson Airplane whose psychedelic sound and free-spirited mindset helped define 1960s counterculture, died Thursday aged 74, media in his native San Francisco said. “Absolutely,” Slick says. Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner – anyone who’s alive is fine. In 1978, Slick’s antics, her no-show behaviour and total lack of self-control came to a head at a show in Hamburg. I saw how heroin affected people. God bless America for that.”, Sexism wasn’t on her agenda – she had just as much fun as the guys. But that didn’t stop them making Volunteers, a radical, revolutionary, call-to-arms album. photos, He was 76; the cause of death was not announced. “I wrote that after taking LSD and listening to Miles Davis’s Sketches Of Spain album for 24 hours. Who cares? I felt invincible and good but they didn’t turn me into a complete jerk. I don’t live off my art though. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen was more like a brother. 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