Happy Birthday Grace Slick!
Grace Barnett Wing was born October 30, 1939, in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois.
After moving several times, her family settled in the San Francisco suburb of Palo Alto in the early 1950s.
In 1961, she married Gerald Slick, an aspiring filmmaker
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Grace Slick worked as a model at an I. Magnin department store for three years.
She also started playing guitar and composing music
After watching the newly-formed Jefferson Airplane perform at The Matrix in San Francisco, Slick and her husband decided to start their own band.
She sang and played guitar, her husband, Jerry played drums, Jerry's brother, Darby Slick played lead guitar, and David Miner played bass guitar.
The band was named "The Great Society." and on October 15, 1965, the band made it's debut performance at a North Beach venue called "The Coffee Gallery."
Soon after that, Slick composed the psychedelic piece "White Rabbit."
Between October and December, 1965, "The Great Society" entered Golden Studios and recorded several tracks.
One single emerged from the demos called "Somebody To Love," which was written by Darby Slick.
In early 1967, Jefferson Airplane's singer, Signe Toly Anderson left the band to raise her child, and Jack Cassidy asked Slick to join them.
Slick stated that she joined the "Airplane" because it was run in a professional manner, unlike The Great Society.
With Slick on board, the "Airplane" began recording new music, and they turned in a more psychedelic direction from their former folk-rock style.
The album, "Surrealistic Pillow" included new recordings of "White Rabbit" and
"Somebody to Love," both of which became top 10 singles.
Jefferson Airplane became one of the most popular bands in the country and earned Slick a position of one of the most prominent female rock musicians of her time.
In an appearance on a 1969 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, she became the first person to say "motherfucker" on television during a performance of
"We Can Be Together."
Years later, after retiring, and after a house fire, divorce, and breakup, Slick began drawing and painting animals, mainly to amuse herself and because doing so made her happy during a difficult period in her life.
Soon thereafter, she was approached about writing her memoir, which ultimately became "Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir."
Grace Slick was inducted into the "Rock and Roll hall of Fame" in 1996 as a member of "Jefferson Airplane."
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in 1988. They played songs from their current album plus White Rabbit, Somebody To Love, etc...
Fantastic concert.
Happy Birthday Grace.
Only! 2018 - 2020.
