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THE ACID AGE , E (;rat'f' (t'I'lIlt'r) 1";111 tlu' S/(lrship: "'/'Il<' ·iO.~ rolled right (11,'('1" tht, 'IiOs /;1.:(' (I lliy Mul" " •c ~ Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane: Some bodies to love by David Fricke T hey :-;ClY lifp begin:, at 40. and :::et the p:-,ychedelic ball rolling for a band I ~illing there and there i:::n't Grace SliCk-wh.o turned 40 fa:-,cin<twd young America ready u,:-,hed enough going all. if I'm high enough, I'll la;-;t Ocwber-:-;a\'::: that [01' what \\'a~ left of it~ inhibition~. jll~t about throw 3n a~htl'ay against the her it HeYer ~lopi)cd. The former Grace Wing ha:-, ~pent \\'all jll~t to j!ct ~()mC'lhing going." The :-:clf-de:-:cl'ibed "(:ombinalion mu mo.:-'t of her life .:-'hedding her inhibition.:-' i\ ow emerging confidentl~r from a si c ia nl ~o ng \\' r j lC' 1'1:-; l' III i-to n t c rt a inc 1'1 and challenging tho~e of the people ~elf-impo~ed retirement following her pm'liai a~~holc" from Palo A ilo. Califor around her. In 1959. ~he boldly walked ~torm'y exit from the Slar~hip in '78. nia alrcctd,\' ha:-: behind her a turbulent into the ba~ement unite of a blatk 1'(' Gnlcc Slick ha:-, mal'ked the end of one decade :-;(:aiin).{ oclaye:-: and ruffling- e1' cord cumpan.'· in San Fl'anci:::co and period \\'ith the publication of Grace tabli:-:hmenl feather:, a:-:. the face. voice. auditioned for a contract by .:-'inJ.,ring ...· Nick: A Hiography by Barbara Rowes and acidic public LOllb'1lC of the Jeffel'::,ol1 "Summertime" from Por,qy (Ii/d Hel'i8 and the :::tart of another with her new Airplane and it:-: commercial mutation (,'1'11 bet they were jU.:-'l cracking up"). ~olo LP Dreams (RCA). Dismis~ingher Jeffcl':,on Star::;hip. It \\"a~ (;1"<1(':c':-; She asked her fil'.:-'t hu:-;band .Jerry Slick '73 album .Hwdwle a~ "an cxpel'imel1l," :-:.ong:-: "Somebody to Lo\'e" and "While to malTv her. told Paul Kanlllel' ~he Rabbit"-\\,I'itten during hpr prcviou:-; wanted 'to have a baby by him. and (;/'(U'f' 0" 1I01l/(>II/O!.:;"9: ··11· .... ('uf/ .... lip(lling tenure with the Great SOCif'lV-lhat admits even no\\' that ';if I \\'alk into a for 11/(>. I /n",1 10 h(> ('itlu'r dl'(Ill'i"9 01' look the Airplane LO the Top Tel; in 1~ room and :$ee Skip IJohn~ol1. her hu~- It/a!.:i''9 IIII/sic." 61 CIRCUS •c E ~ w ~ .;; The Airplane .'Jlrikelf a clnssic pose-lrom left, (;roce. Jorma, Marty (ill hat). she expresses more enthusiasm about housewife for six months, they were past excesses, the alcohol and the Drelt1ns, an eclectic affair that features becoming a unit. dJ1.1gs? her in exceptional voice on a punkish Circus: Now you're embarking on a Slick: When I first started, we were rocker, an "MGl\'l-Kismet" spectacul3l', full-time solo car'eer, but at the same slamming our parents and the '50s gen a three-year-old song she calls "the clos time you're the subject of a new biogra eration, saying "You're hanging on to est I ever come to a ballad," and an phy. And the thing about a biogl'aphy the old stuff, you're afraid of change, exotic Spanish item called "EI Diablo," written about someone youI' age is that just a bunch of old lumps sitting there." he's kicked her notoJious alcohol it suggests that your best years are And it occurred to me in the last three ism, has retained all her curves despite already behind you. or four years that I'm doing the same a "compulsive" fondness for Black For Slick: Yeah, it does and that annoyed thing-" Let's all take (h-ugs and get est cake, and joyously admits enjoying me. Because the thing ends in Ham high and be hedonistic, fuck responsibil playing mother to nine-year-old China. burg, but the problem is that the book ity." And that doesn't work all the time. Circus: After you quit the Starship in ends in a fier'y rubble [after Grace quit That me-me-me is nice for a short peri '78 during the German tour, you pretty the band, the Starship cancelled a od of time, but I was trying to hang on to much disappeared from the face of rock FI'ankfurt show and Sloo,OOO wOI·th of that" Let's just be high forever" atti music. Where did you go? equipment was destroyed by rioting tude. I didn't bum myself out to the Grace Slick: The Starship got kind of fansl. It's like here's this old burned·up extent that anything went wrong phys tangled up and I sort of fired myself. I piece of something. ically, but I saw that coming. thought, "Oh Chlist, the music business Circus! During the interviews fol' the Circus: But you did have two very stuff is so crazy and it's all falling apart, book, did you have any trouble remem serious auto accidents. Didn't that indi so I'm just going to go home and knit." beJing old times'? cate to you the end product of what you So 1 just stayed home for about six Slick: Oh Christ, yeah. I'm amnesiatic. were driving yourself to? months-I did some cooking, look Chi· I don't I'emember my name unless 1 look Slick: No. I tried to fool myself. Forthe na to school, which I still do. at my driver's license, first one, I fibrtll'ed it was foul' o'clock in But it's constipating for me, I want to Circus: But did you ever get a feeling the mOl'l1ing, it was raining, I hit oil and be either ch-awing or making music. I of pain in conjuring up memories you'd water on the road. And I'm not consid couldn't stay away. prefer to forgeL-the alcoholism, car ering the fact that I'd been drinking and Circus: Paul Kantner said recently accidents, lovers, bad band scenes? snorting coke for ten houl's. I'm real that you attended some Stal'ship re Slick: Not really. Well, maybe undm' good at fooling myself-forever. heal'sals while they were working with neath. But she Ithe author] would say Circus: Were you consciously aware of singel' Mickey Thomas with the idea of :;tufflike "When this tenible event hap the fact that you were an alcoholic? maybe joining in. pened, how did you feel about it?" So I'd Slick: Yeah, and what I did was say Slick: The way Kantnel-'s house is set say, at the time I didn't really care, "I'm also Norwebrian and have black up-they practice there-there are Someone said it makes me sound cold. hair. So whal'! I'm an alcoholic and what these stail'S you can sit 011 down in the But it wasn't that I was cold- I really does an alcoholic do? Drink alcohol." room where they play. And J sat on the didn't c",·e. If you have a bottle of scotch That's what I did for a long time. until I steps for five hours everyday. But I and a gram of coke and a brtly says "I'm started to get thrown in jail, yelling at could never get on down and sing with leaving you fol' Sally," I say 1 don't give cops and waking up in the mOl'lling them because they sounded fine the a shit 'cause I don't. Go ahead, go away, thinking, "That's stupid. Okay, so way they were. I t wasn't them; it was I'll crank up the amplifier and play some you're an alcoholic, but it's not fun any me. I t was like looking at a puzzle that music. I t's not that I was cold of heart; I more. Just stop light there," was already done and thinking you're was just numb-a lot of lhe time. Circus: DUling your time in the Air the missing piece when thel'e isn1t one. Circus: Now that you've kicked the plane and St",·ship. did you ever feel While I wa' farting around being a bottle, how do you look back on your like a role model, the liberated example 8/CIRCUS THE ACID AGE of the hippie ethic the media made you then-president of RCA for about four Circus: How do you feel what you're out to be? hours everyday long distance to New doing with a recol'd like Dreams relates Slick: That's a lot of that '60s thing. York about whether that line should be to the '80s? Who are you trying to There 'Was a whole ethic and the people in the song, It was more spor't for him, reach? who were in the media-in rock & roll, for us to see just how far you can get Slick: I'm just trying to make music politics-the people who I'ead about it away with it. and talk through some form of commu would make their judgments and follow I wrote a song that said "Seven inches nication between human beings that is it to a certain extent. Yeah, probably of pleasure/Seven inches going home/ recognizable. The thing about kids say some of the stuff we did at that point Somebody must have measured down ing "Oh, fuck everybody else, he's a was emulated on ... it's too bad, too, the old bone." I was waiting. I 'wa.nted boring asshole," well, you have to do because a lot of that stuff you hang on to RCA to call up and say something, jW'5t that to concentrate on your own thing and you think it's never gonna change. so I could tell them I was talking about a and learn it and get it, have it imp};nted Part of the '60s-a lot of it was joyous pearl-handed .38. I was just waiting and on your head so you have your own and there was a lot of naive thinking, they didn't say anything. form. Then soon as you know your own this is gonna keep on and get better and Circus: Can you draw any paraliel be form, you can start. putting feelers out better. But I read The Decline and Fall tween the new wave and the revolution for other people's stuff. And the other afthe Roma1l Empire and knew better. ary atmosphere of the '60s? things are less offensive to you. Everything rolls uver itself. Some Slick: I see it more in myself than in There's a contrabassoon on one of the body's gonna come and roll right over anyone else I was with because the new songs. Ten years ago, I wouldn't us-and the '70s rolled right ovel' the people I was with were dope smokers have dreamed of putting a contrabas '60s like a big blob. and pleasant for the most part, They soon on a record because the guy behind Circus: Yel a 10l of the battles the weren't going around being objection it would be a square asshole wit.h a Wall Airplane had wilh RCA wel'e symbolic able on pUI1)ose, So when the punk-rock Street Journal in his lap, He still reads of the arlistic freedom }'ock bands were thing started, people jumping up and t.he Wall Street J01t1"na,l" but what pushing fOl'. down on each other in piles seemed sort comes out of his contrabassoon has Slick: I remember Paul Kantner in '70, of normal to me because I'd been doing nothing to do with reading the Wall '71 had a line in a song that said "Jesus that for years on pU'1)ose, for no other Street Journal. It's not my pl"Oblem 0 balled a lady." And he talked to the reason than "Why not?" what he reads. 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