Happy Birthday Grace Slick -- 80 years old today!

[Zorro]

It seems like only yesterday...

[dem4decades]

1. Now I feel really old.

[rampartc]

2. an all time favorite of mine

[calimary]

3. She's been such a towering figure for women in rock.

That voice! Still rings out across the years!

Shit - I remember covering some low-level event where, at the end a bunch of us were outside just chit-chatting. And - SHIT! There she was, just hanging out and schmoozing. “Oh Jorma!” She chuckled after longtime pal and bandmate Jorma Kaukonen had earlier said something goofy. And I noticed the low-heeled boots she was wearing and realized - “OMG! I have the same boots!” Just in a different color. Hers were white. Mine were red. Same style, though. Cool little moment that was. We were just being gossipy girls out there.

Love you, Gracie!

[Glorfindel]

9. What a wonderful memory, calimary!

And you're right: She is a towering figure in rock and a cultural icon. Hell, if she'd never done anything but "White Rabbit," I'd still love her.

[tavernier]

4. I'm 73 today. Didn't know we shared birthdays.

Happy Birthday also to Henry Winkler. That one I know!

[Roy Rolling]

5. To honor Grace...

Find somebody to love.

Happy Birthday.

[tavernier]

6. Thanks!

I’m also a Freddie Mercury fan, so I’ll try hard to do that!

[Ohiogal]

7. Happy birthday, tavernier!

[tavernier]

12. Thanks!

A good present would be if fatso resigned, but maybe I’ll have to live another year and help throw him out.

[CaptainTruth]

14. Happy birthday!

[tavernier]

15. Thanks!

One more candle and I’ll set off the smoke detector.

[Alliepoo]

27. Happy Birthday to You, tavernier!!!

Wishing you a wonderful day!!

[tavernier]

31. Aww

I really wasn’t trying to nose in to Gracie’s post, but thanks.

[pandr32]

28. Happy birthday!

[tavernier]

32. Make mine wine!

[shanti]

29. Happy Birthday to you!

My ex's birthday was today too, and you also share a birthday with Ivanka Trump *running away*

[tavernier]

30. And Andrea Mitchell

Gag.

Thanks anyway!

[Ohiogal]

8. A legend for women in rock n roll.

You can’t think of Woodstock without thinking of Grace. What a huge talent and huge personality. Long may she run....

[kentuck]

10. Happy Birthday Grace!

I became familiar with Grace on a tour to Vietnam in '67-68 . She was the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane. Lather was a trippy song.

[cab67]

11. She has a way of looking into a camera lens during a performance.

It's like she's looking right through your retinas and into your soul.

[bdamomma]

13. What a great singer and performer

Happy Birthday

[keithbvadu2]

16. White Rabbit- two versions

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Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit- On the Smothers Brothers show

White Rabbit at Woodstock - notice the difference in style.

[bdamomma]

20. wow

[samnsara]

17. nooooooaaaccckkkk well then how old does that make me???? :(

[Firestorm49]

18. Grey Rabbit?

[The_jackalope]

21. +1 nt

[world wide wally]

19. She doesn't look a day over 30 in the pic!

Thanks, Grace

[Blue_Tires]

22. kick

[Tom Rinaldo]

23. A towering figure in my music world (and for millions more also).

I saw her twice with the Airplane, both times full blown magic. The first time was in the Spring of 1970 at SUNY New Paltz, the last time was a free reunion concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Parkin 1989. Truly powerful performances.

You know she went on to become quite the visual artist also. Here's a link to a very fitting work of hers, "Her Mistresses Voice":
https://www.areaarts.com/shop/her-mistresses-voice-grace-slick/

[central scrutinizer]

24. "Feed your head" not "feed your wallet"

[link:https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7694143/jefferson-airplane-grace-slick-chick-fil-a-commercial-lgbtq|

[Raftergirl]

25. Wow!

Can’t believe she is 80.

My youth growing so old.

[Va Lefty]

26. Rock on Grace!

Link to tweet

?s=19

[kentuck]

33. Lather

[Brother Buzz]

34. Grace Slick used to be my neighbor....

That is, until the county burned her house down

Sep 17, 1993 - Grace Slick's home went up in smoke as a brush fire raced through the wooded hills of Marin County, Calif. The rock star, lead singer for Jefferson Airplane and its later incarnation as Jefferson Starship, arrived at the house soon after the fire was contained Thursday. "It was sad and very numbing," said Marin Fire Department spokesman Chris Collins, who walked through the wreckage with her. "It's a sad moment for her." Pushed by high winds, the fire burned 12 acres in upscale Mill Valley before it was contained.

It was later determined the fire was started by a ham-fisted welder repairing a fire road gate for the Marin Open Space District.