29-01-2016 17:54 via feeds.theguardian.com

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 changeMy appointment with the great Paul Kantner, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, was for 7am at a coffee bar on North Beach, San Francisco. Except that, throughout the night, the rendezvous kept changing: 7.30am, then 6.30, then back to 7. Kantner seemed to presume I was, like him, frantically awake, frantically online.I arrived at the bar long before 7 – just
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