The same day Paul Kantner died, so did the first female vocalist of the Jefferson Airplane Signe Anderson. She appeared on the first album, The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, before departing to devote her life to family. She had been in ill health.
The same day Paul Kantner died, so did the first female vocalist of the Jefferson Airplane Signe Anderson. She appeared on the first album, The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, before departing to devote her life to family. She had been in ill health.
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Isn't that weird? RIP SigneOriginally Posted by Rune Blackwings
Phil Taylor, Lemmy, Paul and Signe...
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Signe Anderson Ettlin deserves her own thread. Rest in peace, Signe.
Here is a brief biography
http://www.jambands.com/news/2016/01...lin-dies-at-74
I find it interesting that of all the members of the Airplane, she alone read her entire contract and recognized early manager Matthew Katz to be a thieving asshole of major proportions, as several SF bands including Moby Grape, would learn the hard way. In an article I read yesterday and can't find today, it was noted that she only signed on after an escape clause was put in the contract so she could leave the band at any time and owe Katz nothing. A very smart woman and excellent singer.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
RIP
The only Signe era song I remember is It's No Secret. Great song. Marty Balin was a great singer.
How's that name pronounced? Is that Irish? Sig nee or Sanyee?......lol
Sig nee
There's an argument to be made that Signe's JA was the real JA, in the sense that it is the band they set out to form. Playing folk/rock, folk/blues, covering coffeehouse staples of the time like "Let's Get Together." I loved "Takes Off." While Signe was never much more than a co-vocalist, the Slick/Kantner-dominated Airplane became something very different than a Balin/Anderson centered band would have been. I often wondered at the time, when the LA country/folk/rock bands of the late 60s and early 70s arose, how an alternate-universe JA that was still more folk-centered and harmonically disciplined might have succeeded.
Not that what actually did happen wasn't wonderful too.
I remember when my parents' favorite performers started dying in droves 20, 30 years ago. Now I know what that was like for them.
Yeah I figured that but it doesn't sound right. Sig nee sounds like the typical, American way of pronouncing phonetically.
Pretty sure it's Scandinavian.
As far as I know it's an ancient Scandinavian name. It occurs in Swedish mythology and it was a common name in Sweden in the early 1900s. In Sweden it's pronounced Singneh (like in sing followed by a neh-sound like the ne in Genesis).
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Anderson is also a Swedish name, by the way.
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Just might be my age, but I definitely buy into that train of thought.
Don't get me wrong., Like just about every other 20-something male hippie at the time, I thought of Grace as the Psychedelic Mother of us all and had the same Grace fantasies then that many shared.
I believe, objectively, that Grace's JA succeeded far more than they would have as Signe's JA, but I too wonder what they would have evolved into had Signe stayed.
From "Pillow" up to JS's "Blows" is a hell of a resume afaic, but Grace would fail miserably trying to sing "Chauffeur Blues".
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Okay it's Scandinavian but how is it pronounced?.....lol
Sig - knee
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Scandinavian - Signe is typically Norwegian or Danish, Anderson would be Swedish if it had 2 ss'es, with 1 s it could also be Norwegian or Danish, but typically that would be Andersen.
Pronouciation: https://translate.google.com/#en/sv/Signe%20Anderson click on the right speaker ikon and get a swedish voice
Sig knee sounds dumb. It should be Sanjay.
Gupta?
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Yeah yeah.
Did you not see my post above?
You missed my post above? + Anderson is Swedish no matter if it has one or two s. Two is more common, but one is frequent.
... and pop/rock music is almost as full of Andersons as it is of Wilsons.
It so happens I am currently listening to ABBA, who of course involved both and Anderson and an Andersson. Then there is Jon, and Ian.
I always assumed "Signe" was French, but if so the pronunciation would be similar to the Swedish pronunciation given above.
Marty Balin's statement:
"SIGNE
"One sweet Lady has passed on. I imagine that she and Paul woke up in heaven and said "Hey what are you doing here? Let's start a band" and no sooner then said Spencer was there joining in!" Heartfelt thoughts to all their family and loved ones.
Marty Balin"
RIP Signe.
I was friends with Signe. Her birth name was Signe Ann Toly. One, and possibly both of her parents were Norwegian. Merry Prankster Jerry Anderson was her first husband.
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