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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Slick, Grace
| Grace Slick was born in the city of ____________ ? | Grace Slick
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Chicago. Grace moved to California as a child, but was born a Chicagoan.
| Before her career as a singer, Grace was employed as _____________ ? | Grace Slick
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a model. Grace worked as a model in a store for a short period.
Jerry Slick. Grace had known Jerry throughout school and felt almost required to marry him. Their marriage, however, soon grew to be passionless.
1939. Grace was born October 30, 1939.
University of Miami. Grace attended University of Miami because of its lovely locale.
| Which 'rock god' did Grace have a passionate one-night stand with? | Grace Slick
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Jim Morrison. According to Grace, Jim did not make any sense when he spoke and took any drug handed to him.
Paul Kantner. Grace only had one child. Her daughter was the result of a long and happy union with Paul, whom she never married.
| The name of Grace's daughter ORIGINALLY was ______ ? | Grace Slick
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God. Grace changed her daughter's name to China when she was three and had no idea that Michelle Philips had recently named her child Chyna.
| Grace has battled an addiction to _________ ? | Grace Slick
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alcohol. Grace's drug of choice has always been alcohol.
Skip Johnson . Skip Johnson was a lighting director for Jefferson Airplane and was several years Grace's junior.
Chicago. Grace was born to parents Ivan, an investment banker, and Virginia, who in the early 30's made a living as an actress and singer.
Jerry Slick . The two were married August 26, 1961. At the time, Jerry was a film student and later became a successful cinematographer. The union didn't last, there was no real passion between them.
f. Grace was in a band called The Great Society before she replaced Signe Anderson as lead in Jefferson Airplane.
Aston Martin. In May of 1971, Grace was involved in a near-fatal drunk driving accident. While drag racing on the Golden Gate Bridge, Grace lost control of her car and slammed into a retaining wall. Amazingly, she survived with only a serious concussion.
f. It was actually Jim Morrison when their two bands were headlining together in Europe.
God. China was born on January 25, 1971.
four. They were: 'Manhole'(1973), 'Dreams'(1980), 'Welcome to the Wrecking Ball'(1981), and 'Software'(1984)
t . The fire was said to be started by careless county welders putting up a sign nearby.
| According to Grace's biography, 'Somebody To Love', what did she say her favorite way of dying would be? | Rock Diva Grace Slick
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explosion. Probably the best book of rock and roll memoires I've ever read.
| Which Grace Slick composition is based on a story by Lewis Carroll? | Grace Slick
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White Rabbit. "White Rabbit" is based on Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"(1865). It was on 'Jefferson Airplane's' album 'Surrealistic Pillow' in 1967.
Many of the images in the book are included in the song; Alice's change in size after ingesting an unknown liquid, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the Red Queen, White Knight and the Dormouse are all included, and tied in to the prevalent drug references of the era. Slick has mentioned in interviews that the song was in response to parents asking why their children were taking drugs. She said that books such as "Alice in Wonderland," may have encouraged them to experiment. The song was released as a single and peaked in the eight spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
| Which Grace Slick song was parodied by Jim Carrey in "The Cable Guy"? | Grace Slick
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Somebody To Love. Carry parodies the song during a party, imitating Slick's vibrato by pulling on his throat. He didn't even come close to her voice. The song was not written by Grace, but by her brother-in-law who played guitar in the band she was in before Jefferson Airplane.
| "But ___ still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands." What name fits in the blank? | Grace Slick
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Lather. The song's lyrics refer to a man named who just hit his thirtieth birthday. Lather realizes that the world expects him to grow up before he wants to. The song was written for Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden's 30th birthday. The lyric referred to in the question pertains to an incident when Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady was arrested nude on a beach while on drugs.
| What title person in this Grace Slick penned song 'lived on propaganda'? | Grace Slick
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Crazy Miranda. "Crazy Miranda
lives on propaganda she believes anything she reads
it could be one side or the other
Free Press or Time Life covers
she follows newsprint anywhere it leads
but still she can't seem to read and nobody
knows nobody knows what she needs it could be love
All the pretty ladies textbooks
tell her how to have the "next look"
The Bible tells her stay as plain as you are
she wants all the pretty boys beside her
to write some pretty words to guide her
to tell her than they love her body as well as her mind
she wants some kind of sign--a sign of love
oh never mind--she's not your kind."
| What band did Grace Slick appear in prior to Jefferson Airplane?
| Grace Slick
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Great Society. The Great Society was a 1960s San Francisco rock band. It was the original band that performed the songs "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" which were popularized by the Jefferson Airplane. The other founding band members were her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby Slick on guitar, David Miner on vocals and guitar, Bard DuPont on bass, and Peter Vandergelder on saxophone. The Great Society was often an opening band for the Jefferson Airplane and when the first female singer for Airplane, Signe Toly Anderson, left the band, they invited Grace to join.
| In 1970, Grace Slick was invited to the US White House for a luncheon with Tricia, the daughter of President Nixon. They both had graduated from Finch University. Who was Grace's guest? | Grace Slick
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Abbie Hoffman. Grace was invited to the White House because she went to Finch, the problem was that she was invited under her maiden name...Grace Wing. She was stopped at the gate when the Secret Service recognized her and Hoffman, a known political protester. It was a good thing because in her purse, Grace allegedly had doses of LSD. She had intended to put them in President Nixon's beverage.
| Since retiring from singing in 1988 what has Grace Slick been doing? | Grace Slick
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Painting. Grace has been painting. She is a successful artist with many of her subjects having to do with the song 'White Rabbit'. She also has done some fantastic portraits of 60s musicians such as Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia. She shows her art at many galleries and has even sold lithographs on QVC, a TV shopping network.
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