What They Say

Mike:

talented, good sex appeal, has mice clean her teeth, strange! but me like.

Bill:

Grace was is and forever shall be the goddess of sixties rock- side by side with Janis Joplin- though in a league all their own, these women were THE pioneers in a male-dominated world and their work and actions were/are no less significant than the 1st female firefighters, astronauts, etc.
Grace-if you ever take a moment to read these [mostly] tributes: thank you for all the music and the "Dreams" those songs inspird for these past 37 years!

With admiration-Bill.

Mimi:

Grace Slick was and still is one of my favorite vocalists, and I've been fortunate in having seen her and the Jefferson Airplane/Starship in person.
I always admired the fact that she wasn't afraid to tell off somebody who made her angry.
I love to sing and accompany myself on "White Rabbit" as well as listen to her solo albums which should have gotten more recognition than they did.
Hope someday she will appear with the Jefferson Airplane. It isn't the same without her.

Gary O'Sheilds:

I think Grace Slick,was one of the leaders of the world in that great time period.She is a great person.Just wish she was still touring,but don't don't agree with her feeling on older people in Rock and Roll,as Jorma and Jack still kick ass,as I've seen both over 95 times.What can you say about one of the greatest of ALL TIME! Grace may you live forevever! From the Gresh/Gary O.
GRESH AUDIO-For The Emotion of Music

Steen Lustrup

Dear Grace Slick.
I've just read your book "Somebody to love?". Great book. Now I feel I know you more as a person and not just as a rock icon. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I still remember one day in 1978, 17 years old and already a fan. I was reading a newspaper and then this picture that's on the frontpage of your book shows up. Singing like that and looking like that, You can't blame us teenageboys for being hopelessly in love with You. I also like your pianoplaying, especially on "Blows against the Empire". Your artistic vein is apparent in your paintings and illustrations as well. In the portrait of Janis Joplin one sees the pain in her eyes, and yet she's able to come up with a brave smile. Great portrait.
With regards
Steen Lustrup
Roskilde, Denmark

Tami French:

To Grace: I love you. You made my teen years bearable. You taught me that intelligence isn't a weakness. You taught me that individualism is freedom. You will never know the impact that you have had on my life. Thank you.

A Message To Grace:

I am a 14 year old girl (just thought youd like to know that) and i am in love with your music! I was introduced to White Rabbit when i was 13 on the T.V. show " This Is Your Big Break" with a woman who could sing white rabbit almost just like you. I heard it and decided i had to get your songs with YOU singing them.
I have made myself to look like you, although i already had the hair color and skin color and eye color. But i have clothes somewhat like yours and pictures of you in my locker at school.
I just love to sit in the dark and listen to your music(especially white rabbit). Also i love to dress up like you and do my hair like yours and get in front of a mirror and play white rabbit and sing with it!
A lot of people think i am a little weird, but i dont care. I was just wondering if you could sent me the words to white rabbit and a picture of you singing it. If you cannot that is okay though.

Your Biggest Fan,
Lindsay Garner

Maxine Roper:

"If Grace were a car, she'd be...... a Ford Mustang- not too flash or glamorous but an amazing performer.
If Grace were a food, she'd be..... a box of chocolates.... because, as Mr Gump so perceptively said...
you never know what you're gonna get.
If Grace were a sport she'd be....... tennis- a lot of balls (if you get my meaning!)
If Grace were an animal, she'd be........not a white rabbit but a panda
If Grace were a book she'd be....... "The Lost Weekend" (hehe)
If Grace were a painting she'd be...... anything by Salvador Dali
.....and if she hadn't been a rock singer, she'd have to have been a comedian.
What an amazing woman."

Alexis:

Grace.....what can I say. I first heard her in 1967 when I was only 8 years old and I was changed forever! Now at 41 I still like to crank "White Rabbit" and sing along with her at the top of my lungs! When I got her biograpy I lit some incense, stuck a flower in my hair and started reading!
Thanks Grace, for being who you are!

Dave Eaton:

The attraction of Grace Slick can be reduced to a single quality: The Human Spirit. It's not her body, her looks, even her voice. Grace is vibrantly alive with the human spirit. We should all be so blessed.

Bill Allen:

You don't know how happy I am to see a page like this! History (and evidently life) have not been nearly as kind to Grace as her work with GS,JA, and (early) JS deserve. Along with Ken Thompson (the Bell Labs inventor of Unix), I'd award her the "Most Influential Person Rarely Acknowleged As An Influence" prize.

Chris:

After I finished the book I feel like I want to go back to being naive about Grace. She was of limited talent, her words, she fell into fame and fortune which she did not want or care about, she only wanted a safe place to get stoned. She always ignored, or disliked the fact that people thought she was a a star. She hated the hand that feed her and tried to bite it off, then she ask for more food and complained where the food was coming from and how it was acquired. She had no respect for any authority, typical far left wing ignorance. And most of her trouble and attitudes came from being stoned out of her mind a good part of her life. I still like the music, but I can see why she did not want to write the book, and I see why I should never had read it.

Panoptes {Aster Argos}:

Thirty one years of inspiration and counting.......

Terry Stewart:

What do I say about the voice that after first hearing it over 30 years ago, is still today the only voice that makes my spine tingle, that brings a smile to my face and a rush of some of the most fabulous memories of my years growing up in the 60's.

Maybe someday I will be able to thank her personally. My wish for her is a wonderfull life.

A request of her (if I may be so bold) Please record again.

Jeff L. Beck:

She's a goddamn liberal left-wing she-devil and I love her!!!! My wife introduced her to me with "After Bathing At Baxter's" and "Crown of Creation," when I was in search of new musical frontiers. Apart from Jack Casady's excellent bassmanship and the wildly strangling guitar sounds of Jorma Kaukonen, not to mention Spencer Dryden's chaotic cymbal crashes, behind the chorale of Messrs. Balin and Kantner, was Grace Slick.

Beautiful? Yes, if not in the classic sense. She has a unique voice and does not have the tiresome unisex image a lot of 1990s women try to cultivate. She writes some of the most expressive, biting Airplane songs, "rejoyce," "Lather," and "Greasy Heart."

If Grace ever reads this, then I hope she takes heart -- she will be remembered!

Joe Marousek:

How do I express my feelings about Grace Slick. She is totally unique. In a world full of copycats, I've heard no-one that equals her intensity, her total command over her material. She might be the only female vocalist who has never relied on the vulnerablity factor to get her message across. Her voice cuts through all other sounds on any recording and becomes the only thing that matters. It's seems strange to me when I read some of these "Women In Rock" articles and books, Grace is never given the credit she deserves as being the first woman at the forefront of rock music. From the first moment I heard "When the truth is found!" coming over the car radio, I knew I was hearing someone who was going to express herself on her terms, and hers alone. Being part of a band did'nt seem to alter that. Grace was the first. She has not been equalled.

Paul Kantner (from a Guide Through the Chaos):

"Lover, songer, natural woman, trouble, as we all are, handling it most of the time. Umm, Great lover, great mother. Not entirely a great mother in the normal term, but an instructive, impressionistic mother. Probably has some things to teach to her child. Not in the normal way. Extrordinary singer...

Tim Roney :

"She is a Godess - and probably had some phenomenol past lives too. Her hot body and gorgeous face, her sarcastic sense of humor, her sensuality,? her?overt sexuality, her rebeliousness, her strength and her sensitivity, her suspicion of authority, her willingness to explore inner worlds,? all her eccentricites, her unique vocal style and
most of all, that haunting voice.?IMHO no other voice is as interesting to listen to. Those magical seamless shifts from melody to harmony.? When I hear that voice within the larger contrapuntal elements of the band and
other vocals, it is magic! And Grace live on stage - I couldn't take my eyes off her - especially when she'd stalk the stage or pose "duelling microphones" with Marty.
Right now I'm listening alot to Great Societ Conspicuous Only In Its Absence.?The cuts of Somebody To Love and Sally Go Round The Roses are incredible!?Every vocal nuance is a knock-out.?You can already hear the all-knowing Godess in her voice.?I've been seduced by this woman since the first time I heard her voice!"

Sloop John B :

"My favorite thing about Grace was that she never seemed too impressed with anything or anybody (except maybe
Zappa: he seemed to impress her by being more cynical and arch than even she was/is). She always looked around,
sort of detached, just taking things in, throwing a snide comment in here and there. A great observer, commentator
I think. She seemed very blase: seemed to be saying, "seen it all, done it all, now check this out:

                   "aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrm-aaaaaaaaaa
                  ? dill ill ill ill

                  ? dilllllllllo!"

She was always so matter-of-fact, staring right through you. She broke out of the mold for what we all were expecting a woman to be (in the sixties)."

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