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Jefferson Airplane: Grace Slick
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One of the original members of Jefferson Airplane, Signe Toly was a respected folk singer before joining the band. Soon after joining the Airplane, she married the Matrix's lighting director (and former Prankster) Jerry Anderson. It was her departure in 1966, following the birth of her first daughter, which bought Grace Slick into the band.
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Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco. The band was one of the pioneers of the psychedelic rock (or [A]cid rock) genre of rock music, which is rock music influenced by the effects of LSD, a psychoactive substance. Their past and present members include rock music heavyweights such as Grace Slick. Though fans often refer to the band using the short name "the Airplane", its official name is "Jefferson Airplane", not the Jefferson Airplane.
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After Kantner\'s "Watch Her Ride," released as a single from After Bathing at Baxter\'s, stalled at number 61, RCA released a new Jefferson Airplane single written and sung by Slick in the spring of 1968. But radio was even more resistant, and "Greasy Heart" stopped at number 98. It was included in the band\'s fourth album, Crown of Creation, released in August. The title track got to number 64 as a single, and the LP, which featured more concise, less experimental tracks than After Bathing at Baxter\'s, marked a resurgence in the group\'s commercial success, reaching the Top Ten and eventually going gold. Jefferson Airplane\'s live appeal was chronicled on the concert album Bless Its Pointed Little Head, released in February 1969. In August, the group appeared at the Woodstock festival, and it was featured on the million-selling triple-LP soundtrack album to the resulting film in 1970, though it did not appear onscreen in the version initially released.
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Jefferson Airplane performed this tune durin their morning set at Woodstock on August 17, 1969. Although it did not make it into the movie, you can see it in the dvd WOODSTOCK DIARY. Grace looks out of it due to exteme exhaustion.
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Although no official announcement was ever released, the Winterland shows proved to be the last live performances by Jefferson Airplane until their reunion in 1989. By the beginning of 1973 Casady and Kaukonen had left the group to concentrate on Hot Tuna and their recently acquired love of speed skating, which Freiberg had reluctantly taken up in an attempt to bolster group camaraderie. With Kantner and Slick, he would record Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun before the creation of their own Airplane offshoot, Jefferson Starship; both Kantner and Slick would record further solo albums.
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Anderson departed shortly after the release of Jefferson Airplane's moderately successful debut Takes Off and was replaced in October 1966 by Grace Slick (b. Grace Barnett Wing, 30 October 1939, Evanston, Illinois, USA; vocals). Slick was already well known with her former band, the Great Society, and donated two of their songs, "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love", to the Jefferson Airplane. Both titles were on their influential second album, Surrealistic Pillow, and both became US Top 10 hits. They have now achieved classic status as definitive songs from that era. The lyrics of "White Rabbit" combined the harmless tale of Alice In Wonderland with an LSD trip.
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