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Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) [1] is an American retired musician and painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco 's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
Jefferson Airplane in 1966. Clockwise from top left: Jack Casady, Grace Slick, Marty Balin, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner and Jorma Kaukonen. Jefferson Airplane was an American psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, California.
The group initially featured the five remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick (vocals, piano), Paul Kantner (rhythm guitar, vocals), David Freiberg (bass, keyboards, vocals), Papa John Creach (violin), and John Barbata (drums, vocals); in addition to new members Craig Chaquico on lead guitar and Peter Kaukonen (brother of Jorma Kaukonen) on bass. [1]
However, by the time the contract arrived in the mail, Grace had decided to join the Airplane to replace their departing vocalist Signe Toly Anderson. [6] Because Grace had been both the visual and musical focal point, the band could not survive without her; it disbanded in the fall of 1966. [4] Grace and Jerry Slick soon divorced.
Band members Slick, Balin, Kantner, Kaukonen, Casady and Dryden were all interviewed for the episode, along with David Crosby, longtime Airplane manager Bill Thompson and China Kantner, daughter of Paul Kantner and Grace Slick. [citation needed] In 2004, the film Fly Jefferson Airplane (directed by Bob Sarles) was released on DVD. It covers the ...
Recorded during the Long John Silver tour, Thirty Seconds Over Winterland was the band's second live album, ... Grace Slick, Papa John Creach, Roger Spotts: 3:57: 3.
Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner was removed from the board of directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation after comments he made about women and Black artists to the New York Times.
Modern Times is the sixth album by Jefferson Starship and was released in 1981. Grace Slick appeared on this album after a three-year absence. She returned near the end of the recording sessions, providing background vocals on some tracks as well as lead vocals on the single "Stranger" as a duet with lead singer Mickey Thomas.