Posted on 02/24/2010 8:05:14 PM PST by woofie
Side One of the Jefferson Airplane's classic 1967 album 'Surealistic Pillow' gets a heavy workout in the Coen brothers' latest film, 'A Serious Man,' loosely based on the directors' own coming-of-age in suburban Minnesota in the era of acid rock. Bar mitzvah boy Danny listens to 'Somebody to Love' on transistor-radio earphones to get through Hebrew school.
The powerful voice on that hit single belonged to Grace Slick, one of the first true female rock stars, and one of the most unrepentant characters to emerge from the hedonistic '60s. Her appetite was legendary, even among her famously indulgent peers. And she had a nose for trouble: As recently as the 1990s, she was having run-ins with the law.
As the San Francisco rock scene began to form in the mid-1960s, the young department store model born Grace Wing started a rock band called the Great Society with her then-husband, Jerry Slick, and his brother Darby. When another local band, Jefferson Airplane, lost a singer to maternity leave, they offered to buy Grace out of her contract. She brought two songs with her from the Great Society: the Darby Slick composition 'Somebody to Love' and her own 'White Rabbit' -- a dirgelike drug-culture anthem teeming with trippy 'Alice in Wonderland' imagery that would follow the former song into the Top 10 during the Summer of Love.
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Oh No!!! If she got old Does that mean I got old ?
I guess she believes in gun rights.
>>Oh No!!! If she got old Does that mean I got old ?<<
A wise friend of mine told me once “we don’t get old — everyone else does.”
Never. Me neither!
I like Grace - she has a voice like no other.
I thought she died while eating a sandwich?
Her most recent picture makes her an excellent candidate for Dean Wormer’s Maxim:
“Fat, drunk (drugged) and stupid (and slutty) is no way to go through life - Bitch!”
She was my favorite until the Starship incarnation. She still had the distinctive voice but when she got away from the Airplane crew, she lost a lot. Same with the others. They put out blah solo albums.Grace was the best in Great Society then in the Airplane.
We built this city on rock and roll!
I'm afraid so, I was 17 when Jefferson Airplane first hit the radio airwaves and it just occured to me that that was a long time ago!
She has aged very ‘Grace’fully. Too much rock-n-roll candy! One of her song’s lyrics, ‘Earth mother your children are here, high and feeling dandy, earth mother your children are here, ripped on coke and candy’.
Perhaps we should have died at 30
One pill makes you matronly...
Now thats funny!!!!!
Is your name Lather?
And another makes you resemble Roger Ebert...
Her voice was only marginally better than that lady from The Rattles.
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