They soon got a gig supporting Airplane, and when that band’s singer Signe Toly Anderson left, they came calling for Slick to replace her.
At her previous home, a fire started by welders working on a gate nearby in 1993 was not so merciful – it destroyed her property and all Slick’s possessions, including her music memorabilia.
Does any other track sum up the trippy Summer of Love quite like her song White Rabbit, a hypnotic two and a half minutes stuffed with references to pills and mushrooms?
Rock’n’roll might not be advertised as being good for your health, but it’s worked out all right for Grace Slick.
The former Jefferson Airplane singer is talking me through a life story that spans psychedelic drugs, free love, alcoholism, house fires and a high speed car crash.
