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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Grace had her points.
I don’t think Grace was the partier she was made out to be. If she was, she’s got some good genes, cause she always looked healthy and fit, as opposed to many of her contemporaries.
C'mon... at least spell it right.
Grace turned 70 last October.
That’s seven zero.
I love Jefferson Airplane music, and I think she looks pretty good for 70.
70? How much is that in dog years?
I missed the sixties by more than a decade, and I’m pleased I did.
LOL
It's a total drag, ain't it man?
Aw, don't be so silly. The sixties were fantastic for those of us young enough to enjoy it. I went from the age of 7, to the age of 17 in that decade.
Sure, we all sit around complaining about the bad that came out of that era, but if you'd been there, you would know that there was a lot of wonder and beauty that came out of that time, as well.
For all the crazy, terrible things that befell our nation during the sixties, there was also a great deal of brightness and hope for a better future. And the music was revolutionary.
I did a whole lot of things during that time that seem stupid, juvenile, or even nuts to me today. Naturally, my views on life and the world have shifted greatly since then, but I wouldn't trade those experiences for all the world.
Trust me, if you'd been there, you would have loved it.
I'm almost sure you meant Jimi.
Jefferson Airplane performing WHITE RABBIT and SOMEBODY TO LOVE on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour! (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM
That little problem may just have been solved...
Yeah.
She is 70, therefore she is not going on six decades but has already completed her seventh and is into her eighth. I wonder why the media can never get this right?
I knew you meant Jimi. He's my all-time favorite artist from the 60's (or any other era).
The body’s meatbolism changes coupled with the fact that as one ages, one’s “laziness” increases.
Reminds me of a fellow I was employed with at a large corporate culture out in the SF Bay area back in the 80’s-90’s. There was a woman (er a few) who were notorious for their appetites. He said she sc*****d everybody out there except him ;)
Agreed. The same thing happened to Janis Joplin after thebreak up of Big Brother,
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