Sixties Survivors #9: Grace Slick
October 30, 2008
Happy Birthday, Grace. 69 today.
Actually, I never could warm up to Grace’s singing that much. Just personal taste, I guess. She always sounded scary to me. Like a demon was showing her how to spit ice.
A lot of people liked that. But me, I like a voice where the singer sounds like he or she laughs from time to time. Not a cynical laugh - a big ha ha ha kind of laugh. Like Janis, if I might make an invidious comparison. Grace was like, run, here comes the ice storm!
I like this picture of her though. Makes me wonder if I had her all wrong?
Anyway, hope your painting is coming along well, that your studio gets plenty of light, and that you’ve found some peace in this world.
Ha. Grace was gonna dose Nixon’s tea, back in ‘71 when she was invited by Tricia for a Finch College soiree. Grace’s date? Abbie Hoffman. I don’t think they got past the front gate. Here comes the ice storm!
I love that Picture…
i love gracie.i think your confused…gracie knows what she can bring out in herself and it comes out in her voice…powerful vocals dont make you evil.anyways i wish i could meet her.
oh and she was gonna dose his tea she had the acid in her nail…but the band was on the fbi’s list or something they didnt make it past the front gate….haha but wouldnt that be fucking sick to see the president trippin.
GRACE LIVE FOREVER
Listen to her again dude. You must of missed out the first time around!!
Loved her then. Love her now. I’d see her everyday if I could and tell her so. I would go see her every chance I could back then. The last time was San Diego Sports Arena 1974. I miss that chick.
Grace has one of the most beautiful strong melodious voice ever!
Grace has a strong beautiful melodious voice ever!
When the earth moves. The best ever made
We all have our personal tastes, but Grace is high on my taste list. I thought JA and JS lacked a certain magic without her. I hope she’s well and happy – and this photo is beautiful! Grace, your politics may have been a bunch farther left than mine (and mine were out there), but your music was right on; thanks!
Excellent comment, Country Paul.
listen to Often As I May. Then listen to it again. Janis was way below her spirit.
I love her voice, but yes to each their own. But if you want to hear her laugh, just listen to “That’s How It Is” by The Great Society.
I have the “Great Society 2 album LP”. I always thought it was early Jefferson Airplane and they just changed their name. But they were 2 different bands and the Airplane bought Gracie’s Great Society contract for something like $150.
Grace was and still is the best of Woodstock Nation
Rock On!!
Funny – this little piece – which I spent all of 15 minutes on – is the Pig’s alltime most popular post. It gets hundred of hits every day and has since I posted it. You Grace fans are awesome, you deserve more. I never knew Grace but knew lots of people who did know her in her early days. Maybe I should do a real profile of her time with, say, The Great Society.
Grace sings so nice and powerfull. She is the most beautiful girl ever.
She was one the the core voices of the Hippie culture. She and the airplane could tweak that feeling we all shared as if they owned it. Thank you for Woodenships, Uncle Sam’s Blues, White Rabbit and all the rest.
Actually, I am tempted to agree with the p-pig here. Miss Slick’s voice (and the airplane’s musick) does not seem so groovy, hippie-dippie like, but icy, odd, distant, metallic. She’s sort of entertaining speaker, however (see the recent interview in Counterpunch…and sexxay).
Much 60s music, like Hendrix has that sound as well (tho’ Jimi perhaps a bit tighter than JA). Like a Bosch-painting come to life–or the Lewis Carroll world hinted at in White Rabbit. Let’s not forget ‘Nam’s going down, protests, and it’s only about 20 years after Hiroshima (and Hitler and Stalin for that matter). Rock–the musick of technological dystopia.