Clash: What’s your main memory of Woodstock?
Slick: Woodstock was a mess. We were in our hotel and the roads were clogged, so they sent a helicopter to pick up the band and drop us backstage a half-hour before we were to go on. We got there at 9 p.m. but didn’t play until six the next morning! Things kept getting screwed up.
Clash: Later that year you also played at Altamont, where a fan was killed by a member of the Hells Angels.
Slick: People say Altamont was the “end of the ”˜60s.” It was unfortunate, but at the time we didn’t think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.
Highly underated singer and artist in my opinion. She received a lot of negative publicity but I would not hold on to that as truthful. The music projects she surrounded herself with were intelligent, magical, one of a kind artistic work. I still stop and listen when I hear them and place myself back to the City or the Bay Area. Thank you Gracie.
Intercessor
I agree COMPLETELY, Intercessor… but then I did hear her sing in Golden Gate Park on the same bill as the Dead, and on that day the Airplane showed themselves the greater band. Alas for the unhealthy lifestyle of the sixties, however. Or, as Gary Snyder called those days, “The over-heavy blossoming of the sixties, which broke the branches of the tree on which it grew”
You are most fortuitous to have witnessed the Airplane take off Senior Priest. I saw the Dead at the Fillmore on New Years Eve in the City. Concert lasted until 5AM when breakfast was served. I was indeed “over-blossomed”…
I love Jefferson Airplane songs, but what happened with Jefferson Starship/ Starship? That was the worst kind of dreck.
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One hopes Starship is in a declining orbit somewhere around the closest black hole, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Q. [i]”…but what happened with Jefferson Starship/ Starship?”[/i]
A. Cocaine, which destroyed everything at that time.
Patchouli coupled with electric guitars seem to anchor permanently in the brain.
I always thought of Grace as the prototypical rocker chick. She had a ridiculously awesome voice that meshed well with Jefferson Airplane’s sound and paved the way for the Joan Jetts and Pat Benatars in my generation.