“We are the people our parents warned us about,” Grace Slick yelled in the 60s. As the bluff lead singer with San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane, no-one embodied the free-thinking spirit of the ...

Many classic rock songs were inspired by books. For example, Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” was inspired by Alice in Wonderland. In addition, Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick said she ripped off ...

One of the funniest “rock life” stories I’ve heard is when China Kantner Isler — who I first became aware of when she was a VJ on MTV back in the ’80s — told me what it was like being a teenager and ...

If Jefferson Airplane come up in the context of today’s musical discourse, which doesn’t happen often, they’re usually seen as baby boomer relics with a couple enduring radio hits (“White Rabbit” and ...

Rock music tends to speak to the listeners on the fringes of societal norms and niceties, but Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” spoke directly to the authority figures so many music lovers of the ...

“I’m covered with paint, all colors,” says a spry Grace Slick on the phone at 7:00 a.m. Pacific time from her Malibu, California, home. The 61-year-old Slick, owner of the vigorous voice that guided ...