Cancellation and Refund Policy, Privacy Policy, and He also recorded with the KBC Band, which featured fellow Airplane members Balinand Casady. Later that year, Steen said, she inquired about picking up a few shifts at Cafe Stella and was told by a staffer that Kantner didn't want her to come back. Steen said she'd also been in the restaurant to record a few interviews for a video project she was working on with a current employee. Paul Kantner, founding member, guitarist and singer for Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, died Thursday of multiple organ failure and septic shock. [Were] trying to make consciousness, he said. KPCC/LAist was not granted an interview with Kantner, and subsequently submitted a total of more than two dozen questions to his representatives. (Company founder Matthew Hiltzik was the corporate communications chief at Miramax and a spokesman for Harvey Weinstein.) "If it was that hard and that scary for me to say something [about Kantner], what must it be like for these 20-year-old girls who come in and work for him or other people?". He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage that year but recovered and continued with the band. He also recalled her discussing Kantner's penchant for grabbing female employees and making sexually inappropriate remarks. In a phone call, Steen's mother, Kathy Shapiro, told KPCC/LAist that her email was a response to a series of conversations in which Steen described "lewd behavior, touching, cornering," adding that her daughter "felt very harassed and very much like her job was at stake.". Regular live performing soon brought changes, with Jack Casady coming in on bass he was one of the most inventive and admired practitioners of the era and the drum stool commandeered first by Skip Spence and then Spencer Dryden. She believes the true toll is much higher. He had been admitted to a San Francisco hospital after falling ill earlier in the week, his former girlfriend and publicist Cynthia Bowman, the mother of one of his three children, said. He dropped out of college to pursue a career in folk music and became friendly with Crosby and future Starship member David Freiberg, spending days and nights on the beach, strumming guitars and indulging in Crosbys premium stash of marijuana. KPCC/LAist determined the person's identity but she declined to be interviewed. UniCourt uses cookies to improve your online experience, for more information please see our Privacy Policy. The groups 1966 debut, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, was a modest hit, charting in the lower half of the Top 200, but their fortune would change when lineup changes would welcome model-turned-singer Grace Slick, whod been playing with the Great Society, into the fold. The first is for the song "Don't Let It Rain", from the 1976 album Spitfire. Kantner, a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer, is the first of Jefferson Airplane's founding members to have passed away. Brown, A. I would only ever go if I knew he wasn't there.". Steen said she talked to her mother about Kantner's behavior at the time, and provided KPCC/LAist with an email in which her mother offered support. And the best part of all, documents in their CrowdSourced Library are FREE! I was like, 'Don't ever do that again.'". Case Summary On 05/06/2019 KANTNER, GARETH filed a Family - Marriage Dissolution/Divorce lawsuit against KANTNER, CHRISTINE. The albumwas nominated for a Hugo Award presented to the best science-fiction and fantasy works. Theater Besides Kantner, who played rhythm guitar and added backing vocals, the Airplane's best-known lineup included singers Grace Slick and Marty Balin; lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen; bassist Jack Casady; and drummer Spencer Dryden, who died in 2005. He and Slick collaborated with several other San Francisco musicians. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's successor band. "I feel so vulnerable! His father sent him away to be educated by the Christian Brothers and then to a Jesuit school in Santa Clara. Kantner made a handful of solo and Jefferson Starships albums and used various musicians in the studio and on the road, including daughter China on vocals and son Alexander on bass. [2] She is a native of San Francisco, living first in the city itself, and later in Mill Valley. In an email to KPCC/LAist, Brettler said Grimm Espinoza "never accused Mr. Kantner, or anyone else at Cafe Stella, of misconduct, sexual harassment, or other inappropriate behavior. Six of Kantner's former employees say their old boss sexually harassed them and other workers at Cafe Stella. The Airplane, with their anti-authority stance, espousal of drug culture and communal ideals, then cemented themselves at the epicentre of the Summer of Love with a stirring performance at the Monterey pop festival. Steen said Kantner apologized profusely for making her feel uncomfortable and promised to change his behavior. The guitarist suffered a heart attack earlier in the week, and his death on 28 January 2016 is being attributed to "multiple organ failure". "I think that's part of the difficulty of people speaking out in these contexts, because we were a family," she said. Kantner quit after their 1984 album, Nuclear Furniture, declaring himself unhappy with the groups too-commercial direction. "It was kind of the same predatory behavior. Before Fame He started to revolt against authority after spending his youth in military schools and was inspired to become a musician because of Pete Seeger. In these uncertain times, your support is even more important. "At the end of the letter, she said, 'I'm leaving, and I'm going to file unemployment, and if you fight that, then I'm going to file a lawsuit against you," Demaray recalled. Soon after the release of the Airplane's first album, "The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off," the group underwent a fateful change: Vocalist Signe Toly Anderson left to have a baby in the fall of 1966 and was replaced by Slick, who had been a member of the Bay Area group The Great Society. A former waiter told KPCC/LAist that Kantner once grabbed him by the crotch. The land Cafe Stella sits on -- the Sunset Junction shopping complex, with its famous arrow sign --. I stand 100% behind it today as I did the day I filed it.". In one entry, dated March 28, 2012, Steen wrote that Kantner came up from behind her, pulled her ponytail to the side and kissed her neck with "a sexual lingering kiss w/ a little groan of pleasure.". "For a few weeks, it seemed like it was better for everybody," she said. Eve Sturges, a former server who worked at Cafe Stella for about a year starting in 2006, wrote broadly about Kantner's behavior on social media before talking to KPCC/LAist. In 1966 they released their debut album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, and sacked Katz. Afterwards Kantner and the Airplanes Grace Slick formed another group, Jefferson Starship, which also proved to be a great success. China Wing Kantner (born January 25, 1971, San Francisco, California, USA), is an American actress of television, theatre and the cinema. Slick and Kantner broke up in the late 1970s and Kantner had a son, Alexander, with Bowman, and another son, Gareth. They said he often made crude, sexually explicit remarks and talked about sexual acts he wanted to perform with customers and employees. For a while around 1989, she also presented a Saturday night phone-in request show on a local Bay Area radio station, KRQR-FM. She said she kept working there because she needed the money and she felt connected to her co-workers. Over the years, Kantner had several brushes with death. Paul Kantner was born on March 17, 1941 in San Francisco, CA. Sturges said she witnessed Kantner pull female employees into close and long embraces while telling them that everything they had was thanks to him. Bullying is common. Kantners writing would become more politicized toward the end of the Sixties, and as Jefferson Airplane became falling apart with Kaukonen and Casady forming Hot Tuna and Balin leaving, the guitarist stepped into a larger role. I think sexual harassment has just always been part of that job.". Paul Kantner, who piloted the Jefferson Airplane through its peak years and beyond, has died. Records from the California Employment Development Department show Grimm Espinoza claimed she had "endured constant sexual behavior, innuendo, erratic rages and been denied compensation of my overtime hours by Mr. Singer's clients have included Bill Cosby, Tony Robbins, director Brett Ratner and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Its members supported various political and social causes, tossed out LSD at concerts and played at both the Monterey and Woodstock festivals. When the Airplane folded, Kantner went on to record a pair of albums with Slick, who by then had become his partner, and with whom he had a daughter, China. The next three years saw the group reaching their peak, but by 1970 in-fighting was breaking out, and by 1971 both Dryden and Balin had left. ", He went on: "Ms. Grimm Espinoza never threatened verbally or in writing to sue Mr. Kantner if he contested her claim for unemployment benefits." Steen said she considered taking some kind of legal action and spoke to a lawyer in April 2012. The best result we found for your search is Gareth Te Kantner age 50s in Los Angeles, CA in the Silver Lake neighborhood. When she responded "maybe a touch too coldly for his liking," Kantner looked at her "almost angrily" and asked, "'What's up with you?'" "I was raised in a feminist family with a strong sense of self," she said. One person Hiltzik referred to as only a "current female employee" called the charges "false accusations" in her statement. [citation needed] Her 1998 appearance in season seven of Home Improvement as the recurring character Willow Branch Leaf Wilson (she 'pruned' the name back to Willow Wilson) was her final professional acting role, and she has now retired from acting. In 1974, Kantner and Slick brought in new musicians and renamed the group Jefferson Starship. Volcanic tiki drinks. The group formed in 1965 and, within a few years, scored hits with Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. In their first run, five of the bands seven albums went gold, including 1967s Surrealistic Pillow and 1968s Crown of Creation. Brettler also questioned Steen's credibility because, he wrote, she "spent significant time at Cafe Stella" after she stopped working there. Slick kept her bands momentum with Starship, which earned a big hit with We Built This City, without Kantner. In the early 1960s, riding a motorbike, he hit a tree at 40mph, resulting in a metal plate being implanted in his skull. 1971 January 25, 1971. Besides what he told KPCC/LAist about Kantner's treatment of Grimm Espinoza, Demaray said that on numerous occasions during that period he saw Kantner embrace other female staffers and heard him make demeaning, sexual comments to them. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. The cause of his Jan. 28 death was given as organ failure. 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