Originally posted by meurglysIII Has anyone heard Slick's solo material? I was wondering which was the best to get first... Manhole Dreams Welcome to the Wreckingball Software (Is this like We Built this City???) Any others???? (I've heard the collaborations though)

     The best of the solo work is the album with Kantner, "Blows Against the Empire", very poetic, and about as progressive as they ever got (though "After Bathing at Baxter's" was a really great album, Zappa was supposed to produce it, but it didn't work out) a psychedelic masterpiece. Also highly recommended is the DVD history of JA, "Fly Jefferson Airplane", for actual films and TV appearances of the acid goddess.

Since stebo is going through a hippie phase he might be interested to know that Yoko Ono is just 74 years young ...

And even if she is not the looker anymore , I betcha she is the one of best bed-wrestling partner you could find even in her sixties!! Certainly more of a lady than most of those prima donnas likes Britney etc....

I am not so sure I would refuse a one on one with Gracie, just because she is a legend!!!

Well men can also be starf***ers, no?!?

Originally posted by Bulbous 45  My favorate would have to be  Rejoyce off of "After Bathing At Baxter's"(possibly the best album the best album the Jefferson Airplane ever did)

Yes, After Bathing is probably my favourite album ... but the ultimate Grace Slick tune for me has to be Lather off Crown Of Creation.

^hahaha... that's good to know!

                 Now to keep the Gracie fest going... Which is your favorite Jefferson Airplane song?!?!?! (with her singing)... I like WOODEN SHIPS, but a song in which only SHE sings, I'd say WHITE RABBIT!

C'mon Stebo, drop the age-ism ... true desire burns more intenselywith time. Besides it's not as if 65 year-olds don't have something tooffer ... just ask Sean Trane ... he'll be turning 65 soon andapparently his virility is legendary ... or so he told me!

Back to the Gracie fest ...

Great Society (lead by brother-in-law Darby Slick surely) predates Jefferson Airplane, and their live album is strongly recommended for some real proto-pro - (recorded 1965?) - the version of White Rabbit (especially with it psychedelic arabo-jazz rock opening) is so much better than the increasingly tired versions heard on JA live recordings.

Isn't Triad a song written about Gracie as one of 3 in a bed...................................

Man, I feel the exact same way! Traveling back to the 1960's would be great; I would see all my favorate psychedelic bands when they were in their prime, I'd  buy sh*tload of underground comix(and possibly meat the ZAP comix team),  and not only that, but LSD was legal for a while back then( so of course, I'd have to try that).

Originally posted by meurglysIII Has anyone heard Slick's solo material? I was wondering which was the best to get first... Any others???? (I've heard the collaborations though)

Great Society... sort of...

"Conspicuous Only By It's Absence" is fantastic, and fascinating if you like the 1960s Jefferson Airplane material.

The safest bet is to start chronologically!

I never heard any of it (maybe a bit of Dreams when it came out), but I would suspect that the quality of her solo album took the same trend that JA and then JS did!!

But this is an assumption and not certainty!

The best Jefferson Starship album is Blows Against The Empire although this is a Kantner?slick solo album.

I would say that the Jeff Starship are still correct until 77 and Mitales track , but they were on a steady downward slide and it slid even faster down the drain  after that.

As for the Starship albums

We Buit this City On RNR was roghtfully voted as the worst single track to have topped the charts. Really annoying tune that was force-fed and brainwashed to the masses. The 80's were really troubled times!

at least the Jefferson part of the name had been forcefully taken away after a court case!

Originally posted by meurglysIII Originally posted by The Doctor I'm a pretty big fan of both JA and JS.  I have almost all of the JA albums, minus their very first one.  I also have all of the JS albums which had Marty Balin, but the only Mickey Thomas JS album I have is Modern Times.  Fairly decent album.  I also have all of Paul Kantner's "solo" albums and if you don't have Dragonfly, you are missing out on a great JS album, even if it wasn't an official JS release.  The band was all there.  Check out the song Hyperdrive for some great proggy stuff, I love the line "I never thought there were corners in time, till I was told to stand in one." Yeah, I really need to get Dragonfly, and I've heard "Hyperdrive," great song. "Awakening" is another great proggy track off of Freedom at Point Zero.

I have Spitfire ... and it's got some decent stuff too ... I think the Kantner songs Dance With the Dragon and  Song to the Sun: Ozymandias/Don't Let It Rain are best (I wouldn't really call them proggy, but they are interesting), the Slick tunes are very listenable ... Balin's tunes don't stand out though and the one sung by Barbata is awful ...

Originally posted by The Wizard Grace Slick is by far the hottest chick man kind will ever experience. Gotta love that finger picture..................................................... ..............................................

You are so goddamn right man!!!

Originally posted by greenback

I saw that same photo session where she gives the finger  and it was funny.

of course some thirty years ofd drug and rock abuse , will destroy any living organism and render a rather aged look! 

But man ... the 70s sure were tough on our dear lady ...

We Built This City on Rock and Roll...

But then, "Jane" and "Girl With The Hungry Eyes" on "Freedom at Point Zero" were damned good songs!

Is anyone else familiar with Grace's amazing songwriting (and singing, of course) with "The Great Society" (pre Jefferson Airplane)?

Jefferson Airplane is my top ten (maybe even top 5) most important rock group and formany things , they were even ahead of the Beatles. Certainly the most important US group in my mind;

But JEff Airplane 5*, Jeff Starship 2,5 * and the awful Starship 0*

CASADY is the top in bass playing: rewrote the book with Entwistle and Jack Bruce

Superbly interesting book about them called Got A Revolution? written by jeff Tamarkin

Yes Slick was a fairly easy lay. She was very promiscuous: she slept with Casady to thank him for the JA singer job, then she was in a liaison  with Spencer Dryden for three yearts, she had bouts of sleepîng with Kaukkonen and then had a kid with Kantner.

Only Balin never shagged her!

Her real maiden name is Grace Wing , and thanks to that she got invited to the White house for a bithrday reception of Nixon's daughter who had been to classmates in high school. She went dressed very RNR to that reception but got ejected very quick!!! Wonder why????

haha im 16, and well.. ha...

But yea, I like the Grace from the 60's.. you crazy, I dont dig a 65 yr old... I just hope I could time travel to the 60's

Grace was gorgeous - and so was Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue), who had a rivalling voice.

http://www.geocities.com/ofmang/greg/shockbl2.html

(on the left )

Damn. I love Jefferson Airplane... Why cant I live in the 60s-70s, girls were so much hotter...long loose hair... hippyish... I envy you oldies 50+.