They're only paying her 2 grams for a one-woman abstract show

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In a further attempt to destabilize alexmacpherson's moral center, I went YouTubing for Grace Slick over on the first Peel thread. I'm reposting my results here. A crucial player is Jefferson Airplane's bass player, Jack Casady: truly unique, would play improvisatory licks from a basis of funk and soul, but since the licks didn't come with the label "FUNK and SOUL," no one quite noticed this aspect, though it explains why the Airplane were danceable. (But nonetheless evidence on YouTube is Jefferson Airplane were sometimes the soundtrack for the worst dancing in the history of the universe.)

Here's my favorite Airplane song (the YouTube guy did a weak rip unfortunately, so turn it up), Marty rather than Grace singing lead. Listen to what happens after a couple of stanzas when the bass comes in:

Jefferson Airplane "If You Feel"

And here's Grace:

Jefferson Airplane "Lather"

Jefferson Airplane "Greasy Heart"

Jefferson Airplane on American Bandstand "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love"

Jefferson Airplane "Hey Frederick"

Jefferson Airplance "Eskimo Blue Day"

Great Society "White Rabbit" circa 1965 (Grace's previous band, though the vid confuses things by showing clips of the Airplane in 1969)

Couldn't find a couple of my favorites, "Rejoyce" and "Sunrise" (the latter by Jefferson Starship, but the versions on YouTube are with someone other than Grace singing).

By the way, I can definitely hear a lot of Jefferson Airplane in Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" and the live version of "Rhiannon" that I keep linking, though you could say that those two songs succeed at what the Airplane was merely trying to do in its vamp at the end of "Wooden Ships" (which was my favorite Airplane song c. 1969-70 but in retrospect really doesn't hold up: is awfully static until you get to the rave-up about four and a half minutes in; Jorma is ace all the way through, however).