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Twisted Tales: Grace Slick Exemplifies 1960s Hedonism -- Going on Six Decades
Spinner ^ | Feb 19th 2010 | James Sullivan

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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 1960s; graceslick; missinglink; rock
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To: woofie

Oh No!!! If she got old Does that mean I got old ?


2 posted on 02/24/2010 8:06:26 PM PST by woofie
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To: woofie

I guess she believes in gun rights.


3 posted on 02/24/2010 8:10:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: woofie

>>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.”


4 posted on 02/24/2010 8:12:00 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: woofie

Never. Me neither!


5 posted on 02/24/2010 8:12:47 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: freedumb2003

LINK TO ARTICLE

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6 posted on 02/24/2010 8:13:26 PM PST by woofie
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To: woofie

I like Grace - she has a voice like no other.


7 posted on 02/24/2010 8:13:48 PM PST by RockinRight (Obama Logic: Global Warming causes blizzards, and deficit spending balances budgets.)
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To: woofie

I thought she died while eating a sandwich?


8 posted on 02/24/2010 8:17:43 PM PST by PGR88
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To: freedumb2003; Salamander; Slings and Arrows; Markos33; JoeProBono

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!”


9 posted on 02/24/2010 8:17:53 PM PST by shibumi (Health and well being for S. and L. - in Jesus name we pray!)
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To: RockinRight

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.


10 posted on 02/24/2010 8:18:07 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: woofie

We built this city on rock and roll!


11 posted on 02/24/2010 8:18:13 PM PST by tommyboy (We'll do it live)
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To: woofie
Oh No!!! If she got old Does that mean I got old ?

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!

12 posted on 02/24/2010 8:18:24 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: woofie

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’.


13 posted on 02/24/2010 8:19:19 PM PST by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: tflabo

Perhaps we should have died at 30


14 posted on 02/24/2010 8:21:42 PM PST by woofie
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To: woofie

One pill makes you matronly...


15 posted on 02/24/2010 8:23:23 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: EyeGuy

Now thats funny!!!!!


16 posted on 02/24/2010 8:24:07 PM PST by woofie
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To: woofie
Oh No!!! If she got old Does that mean I got old ?

Is your name Lather?

17 posted on 02/24/2010 8:24:35 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.)
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To: EyeGuy

And another makes you resemble Roger Ebert...


19 posted on 02/24/2010 8:27:21 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: RockinRight

Her voice was only marginally better than that lady from The Rattles.


20 posted on 02/24/2010 8:27:23 PM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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