Posted on 11/07/2009 7:39:54 PM PST by Lancey Howard
A popular saying among those who considered themselves part of the '60s counterculture went something like, "Never trust anyone over 30." In that context, it's interesting that quite a few of that era's iconic figures celebrated the applicable birthday before the calendar turned to 1970.
One of them was Grace Slick, who rose to fame singing two hit singles by the San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." She turned 30 on Oct. 30, 1969, which of course makes her 70 today
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OMG, I am getting old.
TTIPBWP
[This thread is profoundly better without pictures]
Well, that makes me feel old.
Okay, this story is actually from a week ago, and I’m sorry I missed it then.
I always liked Jefferson Airplane.
My first thought exactly. I remember a minor riot at Penn State when Jefferson Airplane came to play Rec Hall in Spring of 1971.
well, she kind of looks the same...
Thanks Grace for not touring on the oldies circuit.
(I'm thinkin White Rabbit must be where Obummer got his red pill, blue pill crapola.)
Jefferson Airplane was great. Jefferson Starship was pretty good. But I’m not sure I will ever be able to forgive Grace and the boys for the mid-80’s incarnation known only as Starship.
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON (crappy soulless corporate) ROCK AND ROLLLLLLL!
I hate that song with the passion of ten thousand burning suns!
Er, happy b-day anyway, Grace. :-)
I loved Gracie then and now. She looks great non-surgically altered!
I read her autobiography. She’s a nasty, leftist skank.
That woman was so damned beautiful! And she’s aging well, too!
One that makes me feel even older...Brian Johnson of AC/DC is 62.
LOL I hate that song and band with a passion, too. Well, I hope Grace and company had fun and made lots of money with that... not much to do with music imo. :)
Grace is good. She has gained a lot of weight and let her hair go natural, but her beauty still shines through. Most folks don’t know Grace has been dying her hair since she went gray in her early twenties.
One night with Gracie when I was in college...priceless! /dream
Make an aperture with your hands and look at that pic through the opening, covering all but her eyes. Yep, Gracie still looks spacey.
I saw Bon Scott with AC/DC in the late 70’s just before he died...I was 12 or 13...awesome rock and roll...still one of my favorites.
She’s aged well.
We all need somebody to love, happy birthday Grace!
LOL!
Well, I have wondered why all these entertainers, et al that I know have been dying in droves lately.
There is a section of the paper (yes I still read it) that gives birthdays. Even the younger ones that I am familiar with aren’t spring chickens.
But Grace Slick is 70!!! Really brought it home. I am officially a geezer.
I try really hard not to be a geezer and keep up with current musicians, actors, etc....but the scenery just changes too darn fast.
Grace went from being an investment banker’s daughter to an upper middle class wife to a big success in the music business. Grace has never been broke or wanted for a thing in her life. That made it easy to age well. :)
Me? I look like hell.
Chemical preservation.
She's pickled.
She and I share the same BD - just not the same birth year.
The elder sister of a best friend of mine was Jefferson Airplane’s original lead singer, Signe Anderson...
I saw grace Slick in ‘68 at a small venue outside of D.C. I was in the second row, she came to the edge of the stage, literally stoned out of her mind, looked down at me with glazed over eyes and said “My God I’m on a boat.” Who knows what was going on with her, but, when she sang, her voice was unbelievably strong and clear.
Whover wrote this doesn’t know their Jefferson Airplane from their Yellow Submarine. “White Rabbit” was written during the mid-sixties and was released on the Surrealistic Pillow album in 1967. JA appeared on American Bandstand to perform “White Rabbit” in 1968, not the mid-seventies.
- JP
That was written in 1998.
Since then, she’s renounced all her leftist beliefs.
Hell she was old back then.
Have you seen Signe lately? She has/had cancer and she looks like Aunt Bea’s spinster older sister.
Yep. I think I still have my 'Somebody to Love' 45rpm up in the attic. I still remember listening to 'After Bathing at Baxters' in Penn State's Pattee library. The library was "state of the art" and they had records you could listen to on earphones! Wow!
She is a very attractive woman at 70, as she was as a “youngster”.
I saw her at the Fillmore. She could do things with a recorder that I will never forget. In the immortal words of Tiny Tim: God bless us everyone.
Liked the first Airplane album [with Signe tole Anderson doing leads]. LOVED Surrealistic Pillow. Everything after that was self indulgent crap, although I liked “Miracles’ and tolerated the other ‘pop’ stuff they did.
Older people are more conservative - the earliest boomers are 63 this year - and millions will follow - right into the Republican party...
Grace wrote ‘White Rabbit’ as well as a bunch of other songs for the band.
I think she’s great.
Grace is still my all time favorite female vocalist. Her “Theme from Manhole” album is the best ever. Back in the day, she would never sing “Across The Board” in concert. Always wondered why.
Kind of liked the pop stuff [especially ‘Miracles]. But after “Surrealistic Pillow” they were the prototypical practitioners of self indulgent tripe. “Ater Bathing at Baxter’s” was one of the worse albums ever made, IMO.
Try the fact that Dion turned 70 on July 18th. When you can do the opening bass singer riff on “I Wonder Why”, you’re old.
Did you know that the lyrics for ‘We Built This City’ were written by Bernie Taupin?
Hey!!!I really like that positive spin!! :)
Happy birthday to her.
I had no idea! Well, that’s good to know....
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