I stayed out of this one, because quite frankly I was kind of busy, but I'd echo some of the things Eric has said in response.
She was also a brilliant, caustic witty songwriter and some of her songs on Volunteers, etc. are among the most wicked fun in rock. ("Hey Fredrick", "Law Man", "Lather", "Milk Train", "Fast Freddie") Even into the early part of JS (not after they dropped the J) she had some great cuts, but never the big singles, which were usually shlockey ballads that Marty Balin wrote/sang.
I will admit to not being deeply familiar w/ SD, but I suspect some of you might be a bit superficial about your knowledge of GS. Then again, I admit the bias: Grace was one of my first rock crushes.
I also don't recall Sandy Denny ever plotting to spike Nixon's tea with LSD (she got to tag along w/ a friend to the white house and they were planning it) forget how that ended up getting stopped - think someone spotted her name on the list and said, um, no...
Of course I know Eric would probably be just as happy slogging in on the SD side of the argument (been there done that) ;-)
Grace Slick: See, Trish Nixon’s daughter went to Finch College, and it was so small that she invited all of the alumni to a tea at the White House. But my name when I went there was Grace Wing, that doesn’t mean anything right? Now, Grace Slick meant something. So I get an invitation to the White House and I call up Abbie Hoffman and say [Sing-songy] “Guess what I have….I’ve got an invitation to the White House.” So I put 600 mics of acid under a long fingernail I had for cocaine, and we go and we’re standing in line, and the security guard comes up to me and says, “I’m sorry you can’t go in. You’re a security risk.” And I go, “What?!” And he says, “You’re on the FBI list.” And I go, “What?!?!” And I found out that the members of Jefferson Airplane were on a list because of “suspect lyrics.” They didn’t know why I was a security threat, but they were right.
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Date: 2009-04-29 04:52 am (UTC)She was also a brilliant, caustic witty songwriter and some of her songs on Volunteers, etc. are among the most wicked fun in rock. ("Hey Fredrick", "Law Man", "Lather", "Milk Train", "Fast Freddie") Even into the early part of JS (not after they dropped the J) she had some great cuts, but never the big singles, which were usually shlockey ballads that Marty Balin wrote/sang.
I will admit to not being deeply familiar w/ SD, but I suspect some of you might be a bit superficial about your knowledge of GS. Then again, I admit the bias: Grace was one of my first rock crushes.
I also don't recall Sandy Denny ever plotting to spike Nixon's tea with LSD (she got to tag along w/ a friend to the white house and they were planning it) forget how that ended up getting stopped - think someone spotted her name on the list and said, um, no...
Of course I know Eric would probably be just as happy slogging in on the SD side of the argument (been there done that) ;-)
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Date: 2009-04-29 05:00 am (UTC)