Grace Slick
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Queen of rock. The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship.
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I wrote White Rabbit on a red upright piano that cost me about $50. It had eight or 10 keys missing, but that was OK because I could hear in my head the notes that weren’t there.
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"25 years ago, David took me to rehab and saved my life - I wish I could have saved his this time. I will miss his humor, his intelligence, and his deep body of work." -Grace Slick
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
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Here’s something from earlier this year…
It WAS the sixties after all.
#GraceSlick
#JanisJoplin
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.
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"White Rabbit" was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a "Bolero" rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of "Alice in Wonderland." You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.
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"Grace had one of the great voices of all time… Very few women back then walked to the edge of the stage like a guy and sang right into the eyes of the audience [like Grace did]." -Jorma Kaukonen & Jack Casady
Everyone wish a happy birthday to Grace Slick! 💛🍄
📸Getty Images
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In a CBC interview, Joni Mitchell called out Grace Slick and
@JanisJoplin
for “sleeping with their whole bands and falling down drunk.”
Grace responds, “we didn’t really fall down all that much.”
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33 years ago today we lost an icon. Remembering the talented Stevie Ray Vaughan. ❤️
#StevieRayVaughan
#GraceSlick
#Guitar
#Art
#RocknRoll
#Sketching
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I would like to be a Spanish loose woman. Lots of people think I'm Spanish, and I let them think it. But really I'm a Norwegian liar.
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Merry Christmas, and happy holidays!
May your store-bought holiday cookies pass as homemade this year.
📸: Roger Ressmeyer/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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“Mr. Creach may have been best known for his years with the San Francisco-based rock group Jefferson Airplane, which later became Jefferson Starship.” -NY TIMES
Today we remember Papa John Creach, who played the fiddle with the Airplane & Jefferson Starship.
📸: Getty Images.
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“In terms of countercultural heroines, you do not get more iconic than Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. Kindred spirits, whose friendship was symbiotic, both were radicals who showed that not only could women keep up with men in the misogynistic world and music industry,..."
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I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned.
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Kantner once told me, “You're never going to grow up,” and I'm making a determined effort at it.
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“Feed your head" means read a book.
Want to keep up with the latest? Sign up for the newsletter here:
📸: Getty Images
#Newsletter
#GraceSlick
#News
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
#Starship
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If there’s one thing you’re born with and you can’t do much about it, it’s the vocal box. You have a certain kind of voice, and mine is for rock & roll.
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Happy New Year’s Eve!🎉
Are your New Year’s resolutions in order?
📸: Michael Putland/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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Don’t you want somebody to love? Happy Valentine’s Day.
Photo courtesy of Robert Altman/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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London, circa 1968.
The Airplane made it to London in ‘68 with five tons of equipment & a party of 15, driving around the city in a double-decker bus. The concerts were outside, which was not common in the UK. Even in the rain, people came to hear the music.
📸: Getty Images.
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If you were in a rock’n’ roll band in the ’60s, the only thing you couldn’t do was k*ll people. Everything else was acceptable.
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"[Janis] had the balls to do her thing by herself. A white girl from Texas, singing the blues? What gumption, what spirit! I don't think I had that fearlessness." -Grace Slick
Remembering the fearless Rock ‘n’ Roll legend,
@JanisJoplin
.💕🕊
Photos: Henry Diltz.
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I think anybody who's got a real vague sense of music can, if they have the desire to do it, make music. I've never heard of anybody who doesn't hum or whistle sometimes.
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“The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.” -Jorma Kaukonen
Happy birthday, Jorma! Show some birthday love for this Rock & Roll legend below.
📸: Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#JormaKaukonen
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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“Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of versions of the song where singers don’t have the attitude or vocal force you need on it.
@Pink
knows how to sing.” -
#GraceSlick
Remember that one time
#Pink
covered
#WhiteRabbit
& Grace LOVED it?
#ThrowbackThursday
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When you are older, generally, you’re a bit quieter. Rock and roll is a young expression — it’s strong, loud, and ironic. There are just things you do when you’re 25 you don’t do when you’re 70 because you look silly.
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If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.
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“The introduction of Grace Slick into the band ranks among some of the best decisions ever made in music... it helped to truly crystallize a band who would go on to soundtrack the hazy dream of the counterculture.” -FAR OUT MAGAZINE
📸: Getty Images.
@JeffersonAirp
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I get most of my ideas for songs from either books or movies – and then I translate in my own way. I've always liked fantasy stories, ever since I was a little kid.
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It’s a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that’s going down, they’re capable of showing up.
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I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.
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“Slick smashed barriers with her distinctive vocals, fantastic tunes, and candor…[her] career encompassed a philosophy of love, humanity, and doing things differently while inspiring women along the way.” -SKIDDLE
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
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“Grace Slick is one of the most recognizable voices of 1960s psychedelic rock.” -IDOLATOR
Photo courtesy of Robert Altman/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
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#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
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I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
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Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. “White Rabbit” is not well written, and no amount of applause can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
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Happy heavenly birthday to
#PaulKantner
! His musical talents with
@JeffersonAirp
were a driving force of the
#SanFrancisco
sound of the ‘60s and ‘70s. What’s your favorite Paul-penned song?
📸: Getty & Henry Diltz.
#PaulKantner
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
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Happy Birthday Jorma!
Few bands can claim to have played with a lead-guitarist as talented and versatile as Jorma. He’s responsible for helping shape the psychedelic rockin' sound that has come to define the ‘60s. Share some birthday love for this rockstar.
📸: Getty Images
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“I wrote 'White Rabbit' as a fantasy song. I get most of my ideas for songs from either books or movies – and then I translate in my own way. I've always liked fantasy stories, ever since I was a little kid.” - Grace Slick
📸: Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WhiteRabbit
#Fantasy
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“The perception of Jerry has gotten skewed over the years, so I drew the man I knew. Someone who was smart, who listened, & who was interested in a lot of things.” -
#GraceSlick
Happy Birthday to the legendary
#GratefulDead
frontman,
#JerryGarcia
. Painting by Grace.
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Happy birthday Jack Casady!
Jack's contribution to the development of the psychedelic rock sound in San Francisco during the ‘60s left a profound impact, shaping the cultural identity of an entire generation. Share your birthday love for this legend in the comments.
📸: Getty
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Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.
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“[Grace is] an outspoken, rebel-rousing troublemaker, dynamic singer, multi-instrumentalist and daring songwriter, a strong woman who insisted on being an equal to the guys in the band.” - TIMES SQUARE CHRONICLES
👑
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRACE SLICK!
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I thought you could change people with media blitzing, books and knowledge, but you can’t. The only person I can change is me.
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Remembering Spencer Dryden today, drummer of Jefferson Airplane.
“When you're a drummer it's very hard to distinguish the many variations of sounds electric instruments are capable of producing...
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“The introduction of Grace Slick into [Jefferson Airplane] ranks among some of the best decisions ever made in music… It helped to truly crystallise a band who would go on to soundtrack the hazy dream of the counterculture.” -FAR OUT MAGAZINE
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Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.
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“[Jefferson Airplane’s music is about] real love, honest love... You have to interpret it yourself. It means whatever you want it to mean” -Marty Balin
Happy heavenly birthday, Marty. ❤️
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#MartyBalin
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
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Seemingly out of nowhere, Jack said, “What do you think about singing with Airplane”' …My reaction to Jack was a calm (trying to be cool), “Yeah, that might work.”
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On this day in Jefferson Starship history, the band attended the 28th Annual Grammy Awards 37 years ago, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Photo courtesy of Ron Galella/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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We are heartbroken with the news that Jim Ladd passed away of a sudden heart attack peacefully at home with his wife Helene by his side.
Jim’s curiosity and care could be felt in each of his broadcasts.
Grace was interviewed by Jim on several occasions, most recently in 2010,
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They said Altamont was the end of an era, which more or less is true. It coincided with the way things rise and fall. Everything does that. Look at the Roman Empire. Sometimes it takes two years, sometimes it takes 500. Everything is born, rises and then dies.
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“While helping to create the freewheeling San Francisco psychedelic scene and sound that gave rise to his Jefferson Airplane, [Marty Balin] possessed a richly fluid and romantic tenor unusual for rock’s early raw power.” –VARIETY
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Wishing a happy birthday to the great
@thedavidcrosby
!
📸: Getty Images.
#DavidCrosby
#GraceSlick
#CrosbyStillsandNash
#Classics
#RocknRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
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I’m lazy. But that Laziness keeps my focus right here in my chair, so I keep drawing.
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The family dog.
📸: Gary Gershoff/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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I feel funny singing that stuff with white hair. I think it’s ridiculous. As far as I’m concerned, rock ‘n’ roll is a young person’s arena.
📸: Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#1980s
#music
#Starship
#RockNRoll
#RockMusic
#Pop
#Psychedelic
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53 years ago today, the Airplane put on a legendary one-hundred-minute set at 7 AM during
@woodstockfest
, featuring hits like “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.”
Who was lucky enough to be there? Take a listen!
📸: Getty Images
#GraceSlick
#Woodstock
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I can't do anything in the middle of the road. My music is either very polite, with classical instruments, or, it's rude and offensive.
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I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
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"Marijuana helps a great number of illnesses or discomforts and doesn't have the extraordinary side effects pharmaceuticals do. The biggest side effect of marijuana is that you might want a brownie." -Grace Slick
Happy 4/20 folks!
Pic by Henry Diltz.
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Happy birthday, Jim.
Here’s an original piece, called Pretty Boy.
#GraceSlick
#JimMorrison
#TheDoors
#RockNRoll
#GraceSlickArt
#PrettyBoy
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“Sarcasm was always a family trait, but the real reason for my tendency toward raucous behavior can best be explained by a 1949 film that I watched when I was a young girl. I recently saw a rerun, and it was all right up there on the screen: a combination of humor and fantasy..."
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“Hear that voice, that intent, wailing, uninhibiting, grabbing voice. You will rock, you will forget who you are. Six young people built Jefferson Airplane, but this girl, Grace Slick, is the one who makes it fly.” - LOOK MAGAZINE
Photo: Getty Images
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“I wrote 'White Rabbit' as a fantasy song. I get most of my ideas for songs from either books or movies – and then I translate in my own way. I've always liked fantasy stories, ever since I was a little kid.” - Grace Slick
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
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Fun Fact: Grace Slick was reported to be the first person to say the word “fuck” on American television on the Dick Cavett show in 1969. 🤘🏻
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
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Remembering Marty Balin on the fourth anniversary of his passing. He will always be revered as one of the greatest and most soulful of musicians. Rest in peace Marty, and rock on.🕊
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
#MartyBalin
#RestInPeace
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
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Remembering Paul and Signe today. ❤️
Remembering two legendary members of Jefferson Airplane today, Paul Kantner and Signe Toly Anderson. Paul, guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, & catalyst. Signe, founding member & vocalist, the "den mother" of the Airplane.
Listen to album feat. both here:
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I’m not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren’t, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you’re really focused on one thing.
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“We played on a rooftop in New York and naturally got busted very fast because we were playing some loud music. There were all sorts of people leaning out of windows from the surrounding buildings screaming at us. Some people enjoyed it and a whole lot more didn't..."
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You are the crown of creation, and you've got no place to go.
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“I was performing ‘White Rabbit’ with The Great Society and
@JeffersonAirp
asked me to join the band. I said ‘you betcha!’ because I really liked Jack Casady’s playing – the sound of his bass just knocked my socks off.” -Grace Slick
Happy Birthday Jack Casady!
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
!
Celebrate the
#women
who paved the way for future generations of
#femalemusicians
. Listen to this playlist today and honor these influential
#womeninrockmusic
:
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“[GRACE SLICK & THE GREAT SOCIETY] is a genuinely exciting glimpse into the birth of psychedelic music, and essential listening for any devotees of the latter, or the San Francisco sound in any of its manifestations.” -ALLMUSIC
51 years ago, this self-titled album from Grace
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Happy birthday, China!
Listen to her song on her special day:
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
#ChinaKantner
#GraceSlick
#PaulKantner
#RockNRoll
#HappyBirthday
#Sunfighter
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Thank you
@keziahgyll
for this detailed drawing. Nice work!✏️
If you want to see your art featured on this page too, tag
#GraceSlickArt
on your post.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.
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Remembering Timothy Leary today. Timothy was a psychologist who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs throughout the ‘60s. He coined the phrase, “think for yourself and question authority.” Sage advice!
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
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“Grace's tinkling piano, soaring voice and unique lyrics and music were at the forefront of the band from the second album SURREALISTIC PILLOW. She has a clear voice with control and depth.” -ZIGZAG
Photos courtesy of Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
@JeffersonAirp
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Remembering the enigmatic rock & roll legend
@JimMorrison
today.
@TheDoors
' frontman broke barriers in the psychedelic rock scene that inspired decades-worth of music to this day.
📸: Getty Images
#JimMorrison
#TheDoors
#Morrison
#RockNRoll
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I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
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Who’s missing the warm weather already? Throwback to this video from sunny August of this year…
Jefferson Airplane’s morning maniac music was the perfect wakeup at
@woodstock
‘69.
Photos courtesy of Henry Diltz/Getty Images.
#JeffersonAirplane
#Woodstock
#MusicFestivals
#60s
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“If you like your rock well played by one of the most powerful & vocally articulate groups of our times, then you cannot buy better than EARTH.” -ELSEWHERE
On this day 45 years ago, Jefferson Starship released EARTH.
Listen here:
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“I always felt like a good-looking school teacher singing ‘White Rabbit’… I sang the words slowly and precisely, so that people who needed to hear them wouldn’t miss the point. But they did.” - Grace Slick
Photo taken by the legendary Henry Diltz.
#Woodstock
#JeffersonAirplane
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Happy birthday,
@JanisJoplin
. 👑
As one of the first female rock stars,
#Janis
helped carve out a space where women could take center stage and let their voices do all the talking. Her music proved just how powerful women in Rock could be.
📸:
#HenryDiltz
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“Grace Slick [doesn't shy away] or pull back from extremes. She admits that her attitudes are often synonymous with a plan of action like – ‘let's go to the edge of the cliff and see how strong it is.’” -BAM, 1980
📸: Getty Images
#GraceSlick
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
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The only difference between the beatniks and the flower children is that the kids now are more positive in their beliefs and actions. A lot of people regard us as a spokesman-group for this new scene, but we didn't start off as that–it just happened really, because of our music.
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Pictured: The Chrome Nun on THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR, in November of ‘68.
Photo courtesy of CBS/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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“Via inspiring Slick to form the band or developing the piece ‘White Rabbit‘ as a countercultural anthem, in many ways, you could not have one without the other.” -FAR OUT MAGAZINE
Photos courtesy of Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WhiteRabbit
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“In a way, Marty's capacity for love reached me through his songs. And that was the main attraction—the music.” - Grace Slick
Missing Marty Balin a little extra today. Rest in peace, ol’ friend. ❤️
Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
#MartyBalin
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I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, "Do you miss the fourth grade?" I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.
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“[Grace Slick is] a woman who became a cultural icon — a face and voice of the ‘The Beautiful People.’” -LIMELIGHT AGENCY
Photo courtesy of Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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Mainly I make music or paint, and you can do those until you drop dead. But I can’t do cartwheels.
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Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
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Nothin’ like vintage threads. Which of these iconic outfits do you like best? Shout it out in the comments below!
Photos courtesy of Getty Images.
#GraceSlick
#Fashion
#WomenInRock
#RockNRoll
#JeffersonAirplane
#JeffersonStarship
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“The way I saw it was this: I’m young, healthy, I’m not miserable, I can take all the drugs I want, screw whoever I want… and I’m being paid to travel all over the world and dress any way I want. Come on! We were rock’n’rollers, not bankers.” - GS on taking acid
📷: Getty Images
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“Grace Slick: Lover to Morrison. Friend of Joplin. Arrested more times than Lemmy. Took more drugs than Winehouse. Mouth like a trucker.” - Classic Rock Magazine
Happy Birthday to the original badass of Rock N’ Roll, Grace Slick!
Art by Grace.
#GraceSlick
#Queen
#AcidQueen
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“I remember being in front of the microphone, then listening to the playback on four big Altec speakers in the control room. I remember thinking, ‘My God, that is amazing - they make it sound like I can really sing.’” - Grace Slick on recording SURREALISTIC PILLOW
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