We didn't go on stage until 6 o'clock the next morning. So we were all on that platform all night. We had lots of cocaine, and alcohol, and marijuana, and whatever else was going around -- and that's the '60s.
And that is not necessarily a good idea. It's not necessarily a bad idea. It just is. This country is talking about having problems with money. If you legalized marijuana and taxed it, you could take care of a whole bunch of business. And alcohol's legal! I am what is called a nonpracticing alcoholic, which means I don't drink, but I'm still an alcoholic. But if I hadn't had alcohol, I wouldn't ever have gotten up on stage and leapt around like that.
I don't know why I'm still here. It amazes everybody. People are turning this thing on indicates the TV saying, "Who is this? Slick: Yeah. And I was so stupid that -- [one of the guys] in Jefferson Airplane -- when Janis died, he stopped using drugs. But I was so dumb that every time somebody died, I thought, "That's them, not me" -- because I always thought it was heroin.
Well, I'm sorry, but you can run into a wall -- which I did -- with alcohol at 80 miles an hour. I'm amazed I walked out of that one. Do you see yourself as Alice? Slick: Yeah, because I came out of the '50s. Alice came out of Victorian times, which were very rigid -- and she went down to Wonderland, down the rabbit hole, and I went into the '60s.
If it's smaller, it's less because it takes less time. Now, I can't go around charging a whole bunch of money when people don't have the money to pay that, and it's not an item you need -- like food. So I've got to get real and bring the prices down, which we have. She soon started her own group, calling it the Great Society. Johnson to describe his programs for social reform.
They found inspiration for their lyrics from the social and political turmoil bubbling over in the United States at the time. After her band split up in , Slick became one of the lead singers for Jefferson Airplane, after vocalist Signe Anderson left the group to focus on her family. By this time, the group had a recording contract, and had already released their first album: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off For the group's second album Surrealistic Pillow , Slick joined as its vocalist.
She revisited two songs she had done with the Great Society with her new group. Slick recorded a new version of the ballad she penned, "White Rabbit," which proved to be one of Jefferson Airplane's biggest hits. She later revealed to journalist James M.
Clash that she wrote the Spanish ballad on a second-hand upright piano filled with broken keys. In addition to "White Rabbit," the album also featured the hit "Somebody to Love," which was written by Darby. With Slick as their frontwoman, Jefferson Airplane appeared at many of the music festivals that defined the late s, including Monterey in and Woodstock in Slick's vibrant persona was admired by fans, and she quickly emerged as one of the most well-known personalities in rock during the s.
Offstage, Slick lived in the spirit of the era, engaging in drug experimentation and in romantic dalliances even before she and her husband officially split in She eventually got involved with Jefferson Airplane's rhythm guitarist and singer, Paul Kantner. The couple welcomed a child, daughter China, in December That same year, Slick released the album Sunfighter , which she worked on with Kantner. Slick struck out on her own with 's Manhole , but neither effort matched the success of Jefferson Airplane.
Around this time, Slick and Kantner formed the group Jefferson Starship, which featured some of members of the Jefferson Airplane. The new entity enjoyed some success with 's Red Octopus , 's Spitfire and 's Earth. In , Slick married Skip Johnson, a lighting director who had worked with the group.
She quit Jefferson Starship two years later, after their tour in Germany. Slick also started composing music, including a contribution to a short film by Jerry Slick. She has a daughter named China Kantner. Back in Northern California in , Slick took some time to find a direction for her life. She auditioned to be a singer but was met with little success. In , she married Jerry Slick, a childhood friend, and aspiring filmmaker.
After a short stint in San Diego, the couple moved back to San Francisco. She soon found work there as a model for an I. Slick also started writing music, contributing a song to the soundtrack of a short film created by Jerry.
In , Slick found more musical inspiration after watching the band Jefferson Airplane at a San Francisco nightclub. She soon started her own group, calling it the Great Society. Johnson to describe his programs for social reform. They found inspiration for their lyrics from the social and political turmoil bubbling over in the United States at the time.
Slick and her band became part of the San Francisco rock scene, and she befriended members of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. After her band split up in , Slick became one of the lead singers for Jefferson Airplane, after vocalist Signe Anderson left the group to focus on her family.
By this time, the group had a recording contract, and had already released their first album: Jefferson Airplane Takes Off Offstage, Slick lived in the spirit of the era, engaging in drug experimentation and in romantic dalliances even before she and her husband officially split in The couple welcomed a child, daughter China, in December
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