Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)

Subject: Grace Slick's birthday
From: The Shambles
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 12:17 PM

Grace Slick was born this day (30 October) in 1939.

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 05:59 PM

I remember her from her days with the Great Society & then onto the Jefferson Airplane what a front woman. Loved her singing.
Barry

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: Mick Tems
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 09:55 PM

With Jefferson Airplane, she composed and recorded the magnificent drug anthem White Rabbit:

When logic and proportion have fallen softly dead
And the white knight is talking backwards and the red queen's off her head,
Remember what the dormouse said:
Feed your head, feed your head!

Gypsy Reel, that lovely band from Vermont, resurrected White Rabbit as a tribute to Grace while they toured over here in September - and Llantrisant Folk Club (and me) rose to a man/woman and bellowed the lines. All very sad, really!

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:24 AM

Why am I not surprised that Grace is a Halloween baby?

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:04 PM

If she was born on 30th October she isn't a Halloween baby.

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: RiGGy
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 09:45 PM

I knew her brother-in-law, Darby Slick, for many years. He introduced her to his brother, John, giving her that last name.
Darby wrote "Don't You Want Somebody to Love" - really ! - and was in The Great Society with them both prior to the Airplane.
I knew him because we both had deaf sons who went to school together. One time our kids were going to the same deaf summer camp,
and we had to drop them off at a meeting spot in the central valley. A whole crowd was jammed in the swimming pool, and I asked Darby a favor: I wanted to ask my son - actually my late wife's son - if I could ask his mom to marry me while he was away at camp.
I was pretty bad at sign language at the time and Darby interpreted for me. Here I thought we were having a real private talk, but the whole pool-full exploded in cheers because they could "see" the conversation !   Grace was actually a neighbor in Mill Valley later in that long-ago life.    A utility worker was clearing brush on the wild land next to her house and set it on fire. It survived but she moved along.    Riggy

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: Ferrara
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 10:53 PM

Loved Jefferson Airplane, loved White Rabbit (still do.) LaMarca sings it very, very well. I can't even hum along with it but I'm an appreciative listener.

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 11:51 PM

Shambles has a calendar and way too much time on his hands.

Subject: RE: Grace Slick's birthday (30 October 1939)
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 01:16 AM

Actually, Guest, this is quite interesting.
And thanks for that story Riggy.
Thanks, Shambles.

Seamus