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Jefferson Airplane: Grace Slick
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The Jefferson Airplane mansion at 2400 Fulton Street is a landmark in the annals of rock and roll history. Like the Grateful Dead, Airplane was a San Francisco band influencing American culture in the late 1960s. Members of Airplane bought the four-story mansion for $70,000 in 1968. It served as their studio, headquarters, home, court, castle, and party pad for over a decade. During this time, lead singer Grace Slick allegedly dosed the punch at Tricia Nixon's June 12, 1971 wedding to Edward Cox in Washingon D.C. The Blues Brothers stayed here following the New Year's Eve 1979 final show at the Winterland Ballroom.
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Jefferson Airplane's fourth LP, Crown of Creation (released in September 1968), was a huge commercial success, peaking at #6 on the album chart. Grace Slick's "Lather", which opens the album, is said to be about her affair with drummer Spencer Dryden. "Triad", a David Crosby piece, had been rejected by The Byrds because they deemed its subject matter (a ménage à trois) to be too "hot" to record. Slick's searing sex and drug anthem "Greasy Heart" had been released as a single in March 1968. Several tracks recorded for the LP were left off the album, including the freeform Grace Slick/Frank Zappa collaboration "Would You Like A Snack?"
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In 1971, Jefferson Airplane confronted a year of major upheaval. A relationship between Grace Slick and Paul Kantner had started in 1970 and their daughter China Wing Kantner was born on January 25, 1971. Shortly before this, Grace's divorced from her first husband. However, she and Kantner agreed not to marry.
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To those unfamiliar with early Jefferson Airplane, their 1966 debut may sound strikingly odd, simply because of Grace Slick's absence. That's not to say this incarnation of the band couldn't hold its own: songs such as "It's No Secret" and "Come Up the Years" prove they could. Still, the album pales in comparison to the supersonic Slick-led force who would emerge in 1967.
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In 1996, Jefferson Airplane were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Grace Slick, unable to travel for medical reasons, declined the invitation to attend, and instead, sent a rude note containing many four-letter words.
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Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the 1960s, primarily the vehicle of guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and vocalist Grace Slick. Initially, the female vocalist for the group was Signe Anderson, but due to a strong family commitment she was replaced by Grace Slick in 1966, originally from The Great Society. They then took a rather controversial path, adopting both the drug-taking hippie ethos and the left-wing, antiwar political movement of "hippie" counterculture.
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