What are you listening to, right now................
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@mariner4life A legend - effectively established the template for a female Rock singer
First person to say muthafucker on TV
Tried to spike Nixon's drink with acid
Came out of retirement to sing at a 9/11 gig. Came on stage dressed in a burqa and stripped it off to reveal a stars and stripes beneath
Prodigious appetite for drink, drugs and sex - allegedly -
@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Prodigious appetite for drink, drugs and sex - allegedly
in San Fran in the late 60s? naaaah
she was fine too
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Back in the day my life's ambition was to die of a drug overdose in Haight Ashbury.
Ms Slick may have also featured in my silly little teenage dreams.
Youth truly is wasted on the young!
Shame Starship sort of ruined the legacy of Airplane.
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When I was in San Francisco in the early 2000s I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge down to Sausalito. There was an art gallery in the main street (Google says it was Fingerhut Gallery) that had a painting of Jimi Hendrix in the front window. A closer inspection showed that the artist was Grace Slick. She painted a lot of portraits of other musicians.
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life A legend - effectively established the template for a female Rock singer
First person to say muthafucker on TV
Tried to spike Nixon's drink with acid
Came out of retirement to sing at a 9/11 gig. Came on stage dressed in a burqa and stripped it off to reveal a stars and stripes beneath
Prodigious appetite for drink, drugs and sex - allegedlyShe had a go at Hendrix apparently but no go.
She is also single handedly responsible for at least one massive hole in the ozone layer too. Starship epitomised everything cringy about the 80s.
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
She is also single handedly responsible for at least one massive hole in the ozone layer too. Starship epitomised everything cringy about the 80s.
I think she agrees with you
Mind you we can’t let Mickey and the rest of the band get off too lightly. They looked like a walking thatch cottages with their “do’s”.
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Grace Slick had been a massive alcoholic until the early/mid-80s, and was probably broke. She came out of that and wanted hits and money. Deliberately went for the most commercial and pop oriented sound and songs they could pull off.
We Built This City may be the worst song of the 80s.
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@tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
We Built This City may be the worst song of the 80s
yeah i am on board with this
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@tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
She came out of that and wanted hits and money.
It worked. Last time I read one of those value lists she was around US$35 Mill.
For that sort of coin I'd sing any old shit too.
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@tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Grace Slick had been a massive alcoholic until the early/mid-80s, and was probably broke. She came out of that and wanted hits and money. Deliberately went for the most commercial and pop oriented sound and songs they could pull off.
We Built This City
maybeis the worst songofthe80severFIFY
Massive call considering ‘nothings gonna stop us now’ is fucken horrific too.
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
You know not of what you speak.
Take this #1 hit in NZ from 1968 (I think) I do remember it was in the charts at the same time as Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower. Proof positive of the tyranny of the majority
Homer did a good version
I love Hendrix but despise ‘All along the watchtower’. Terrible song.
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Something from the doctor to make you feelgood
My Dad LOVED these guys…..so as a result Mum and I had to as well. Can’t deny they did some good tunes……I always liked this one, pretty sure this is the song I thrashed when I figured out how to use the record player in the early 80s when we lived in Nelson.
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Something from the doctor to make you feelgood
My Dad LOVED these guys…..so as a result Mum and I had to as well. Can’t deny they did some good tunes……I always liked this one, pretty sure this is the song I thrashed when I figured out how to use the record player in the early 80s when we lived in Nelson.
Good dad. Bring the kids up on Milk and Alcohol.
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@antipodean said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Right at the arse end of Deep Purple still being good, and this is coming from someone who absolutely loves them. Their releases from 1970 to 1973 were some of the greatest in rock history. This tune ( and album ) were bloody good but by the time of ‘The Battle Rages on” which was released in 1993 they already sounded like a bunch of tired old has beens. They’ve released EIGHT albums since then and I have no desire to listen to any of them ( Richie not being there is a massive factor but having seen Steve Morse live with them he is excellent )
One thing Zep had over Sabbath and Purple ( amongst others ) was knowing when to quit.
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Something from the doctor to make you feelgood
My Dad LOVED these guys…..so as a result Mum and I had to as well. Can’t deny they did some good tunes……I always liked this one, pretty sure this is the song I thrashed when I figured out how to use the record player in the early 80s when we lived in Nelson.
