The first is for the song "Don't Let It Rain", from the 1976 album Spitfire. In her journal, Steen also recalled Kantner exclaiming, within earshot of several employees, "Look at that bitch over there. Jefferson Airplane, named in part after blues artist Blind Lemon Jefferson, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and is scheduled to receive the Recording Academys lifetime achievement award this year. The local news you read here every day is crafted for you, but right now, we need your help to keep it going. Paul Kantner was born on March 17, 1941 in San Francisco, California, USA. "It's rare for [workers] especially women, not to have experienced some form of harassment working in restaurants.". Just make people enjoy themselves. ", He warned that if KPCC/LAist broadcast or published this story "containing these false and defamatory claims about Mr. Kantner, it will be acting at its own peril.". She is a native of San Francisco, living first in the city itself, and later in Marin County, just north of the city, and is an alumna of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California and Redwood High School, Larkspur, California. Brettler also questioned Steen's credibility because, he wrote, she "spent significant time at Cafe Stella" after she stopped working there. Paul was the catalyst that brought the whole thing together, said the Airplanes guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. Kantner, 74, suffered a heart attack a. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. "When a young woman is told, 'Dress more sexy, show more cleavage, wear tighter clothing, this is how you get ahead,'" she said, "then she thinks that's acceptable, tolerable, legal, that's what you do, that's your job. Grimm Espinoza declined to be interviewed for this story but said via email that the statement in her EDD filing "is an abbreviated summary of a certified letter sent to Cafe Stella which detailed the ways I felt mistreated by Gareth Kantner. "It's in all restaurants, all kinds of food service, because of the intensity of the job. In 1970 Kantner had signalled a possible new future for himself by embarking on a side project that led to a concept album, Blows Against the Empire, recorded with an ad hoc group of musicians he called Jefferson Starship and revealing his fascination with science fiction writers such as Arthur C Clarke and Robert Heinlein. For the latest national news from NPR and our live radio broadcast, visit LAist.com/radio. He believed deeply in the '60s dream, often citing an anecdote that for a few days in 1966 the stars were so aligned that you could expect any wish to be granted. (Susanica Tam for LAist). LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. The guitarist suffered a heart attack earlier in the week, and his death on 28 January 2016 is being attributed to "multiple organ failure". The albumwas nominated for a Hugo Award presented to the best science-fiction and fantasy works. "One night, he was wasted, and he grabbed my dick by the computer," Demaray said. The restaurant business has the highest rates of sexual harassment of any industry in the United States, according to The Glass Floor, a 2014 report publish by Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a national organization that advocates for restaurant workers. The Top 5 newsletter catches you up with LAs top 5 stories in just 3 minutes. So powerless!" He started to revolt against authority after spending his youth in military schools and was inspired to become a musician because of Pete Seeger. Kantner was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of two Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship bandmembers, singer Grace Slick (born Grace Wing) and guitarist Paul Kantner. 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. Just sitting around having a good time with all this shit going on around us. Kantner, who spent much of his life in his native city, would look back years later and remember a golden age of art, free love and joyous possibility. He had suffered a heart attack earlier. All Rights Reserved. Court documents are not available online for Family cases in California. Their sound softened and, with Balin back, they had hit singles with Miracles and Count On Me among others and a No1 album, Red Octopus. Most of the former employees who spoke with KPCC/LAist said they were motivated by the #MeToo movement to share what they experienced or witnessed. 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. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Formed by veterans of the folk circuit in the mid 60s, the Airplane combined folk, rock, blues and jazz and were the first group from a Bay Area scene that also featured Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead to achieve mainstream success, thanks to the classics Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. UniCourt uses cookies to improve your online experience, for more information please see our Privacy Policy. Kantner was born in 1941, the musical and nonconforming son of a traveling salesman. 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. Oklahoma-style smash burgers and Georgian dumplings make for some excellent cheap bites in Glendale, Husband and wife Felix Agyei and Hazel Rojas combine food from their heritages, creating a marriage of West African and Filipino cooking. That climate often extends to the front-of-house, where most servers are women. To hear Jefferson Airplane perform "Somebody to Love" click on the player below. Paul Lorin Kantner, musician, born 17 March 1941; died 28 January 2016, Leading light in Jefferson Airplane and San Franciscos Summer of Love, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. 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. Over the past 30 years, Kantner, Balin and Casady occasionally performed as the KBC Band and a reunited Airplane briefly toured and recorded. 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, told The Associated Press. For a while around 1989, she also presented a Saturday night phone-in request show on a local Bay Area radio station, KRQR-FM. Jefferson Airplane perform Somebody to Love in 1967, Jefferson Airplane play their song Volunteers at the Woodstock festival in 1969. Kantnerquit the group in 1984, but would rejoin in 1992 and continue to play with them until his death. When she started working for the station at the age of 15, she was, at the time, the youngest MTV VJ ever. Rolling Stone would note their contrasting styles, labeling Slick the Acid Queen of outrageousness and Kantner her calm, dry, sardonic flip side. In 1971, Slick gave birth to their daughter, whom the couple originally wanted to call God, but decided to name China. [3] But he became the conscience of the band and by the end of the '60s was shaping its increasingly radical direction, whether co-writing the militant "Volunteers" with Balin or inserting a profane taunt into his own incendiary "We Can Be Together," leading to an extended fight with their record company, RCA. Gab Chabrn reflects on growing up in L.A. in a Latino home that doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving and the traditions they formed instead. Paul Kantner, fourth from left, in 1968 with Jefferson Airplane members (from left), Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. A man Steen dated for part of the time she worked at Cafe Stella, who also asked KPCC/LAist not to use his name, confirmed that she had told him about Kantner's behavior while she was working there. However, this would not preclude him from taking an autocratic approach to his bandmates when he considered it necessary. "Moon, I'll Get It - The China Kantner Story" Liverpool, UK: Kantner, C. (2008). And the best part of all, documents in their CrowdSourced Library are FREE! she wrote. "For a few weeks, it seemed like it was better for everybody," she said. He joked that San Francisco was a privileged haven, "49 square miles surrounded by reality." After retiring from acting, she studied art history at UCLA. Steen said she's talking about it now because she doesn't want other women to go through what she experienced. The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived. One of its founding partners, Marty Singer, is well-known in Hollywood for his bare-knuckled defenses of A-list celebrities. Kantner appeared as credited lead vocalist on the song "Declaration Of Independence" and contributing vocalist on "The Sky Is No Limit" and "Let's Go", all of which appear on Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra. The Airplane advocated sex, psychedelic drugs, rebellion and a communal lifestyle, operating out of an eccentric, colonial revival house near Haight-Ashbury. Gareth Alexander Kantner has been associated with three companies, according to public records. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Username and password are case sensitive. Menu. Sturges's husband, Kalen Egan, told KPCC/LAist he remembers Sturges telling him details of both incidents shortly after they began dating in 2010. She first appeared as an infant on the cover of the Kantner/Slick 1971 solo LP Sunfighter. He said absent "egregious misconduct by the terminated employee, Mr. Kantner typically does not challenge claims for unemployment benefits. I think sexual harassment has just always been part of that job.". This was followed by credits for "Things to Come" (Freedom at Point Zero, 1979), "Out of Control" (Winds of Change, 1982), and "The Sky Is No Limit" on her father's 1983 solo album Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra. She is also a former MTV VJ, sometimes credited on-screen as China Slick Kantner. [citation needed] She did, however, provide a few brief quotes for Jeff Tamarkin's book on the history of Jefferson Airplane. DocketDeclaration - Service of Preliminary Dec. of Disclosure; Filed by Petitioner, DocketNotice - Acknowledgment of Receipt of Summons & Petition; Filed by Petitioner, DocketPetition - Dissolution w/ Minor Child; Filed by Petitioner, DocketOrder - Financial Information (FAM 111), DocketDeclaration - UCCJEA; Filed by Petitioner, DocketFamily Law Case Cover Sheet - FAM-020; Filed by Petitioner, Los Angeles County Superior Courts | Family | Sturges, Steen and Demaray said Kantner didn't try to hide his behavior. Please try again. Cases involving marriage dissolutions or divorces, Declaration - Service of Preliminary Dec. of Disclosure; Filed by Petitioner, Notice - Acknowledgment of Receipt of Summons & Petition; Filed by Petitioner, Petition - Dissolution w/ Minor Child; Filed by Petitioner, Declaration - UCCJEA; Filed by Petitioner, Family Law Case Cover Sheet - FAM-020; Filed by Petitioner. Art history at UCLA not preclude him from taking an autocratic approach to his when... 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