2&2: Grace Slick
03/23/07
.
(PR) Morley spoke with rock legend Grace Slick this week about a variety of topics including her art exhibits this weekend in Southern California. Here is just a sample of this intriguing interview: antiMUSIC: When you hear that some people are painting who have been in music or other fields, you just kinda go, yeah right. I mean, there's some people out there that when I see their paintings I just wonder what they're thinking showing them to people. ** Grace: A whole bunch of musicians and actors and so forth do that. Like Jane Seymour, Jonathan Winters, Anthony Quinn, Tony Bennett, Marty Balin, let's see, the guy who shows in the same galleries as me, is one of the Rolling Stones [Ronnie Wood] Joni Mitchell, and you know
and Myles Davis and some of these people are really good. Jerry Garcia was good. He drew and unlike me, he's a multi-tasker. I'm not. So he used to take his paints and stuff on the road. But I've seen some of his stuff and some of it's good. But I think it's kinda normal because it's all the same part of the brain. The arts. But you don't want any of us doing your accounting or fixing your television set, right? Because we uh suck in those areas. (laughs) Pretty much. Some don't. Gene Simmons is a musician but he doesn't do any drugs. His addiction is sex. I don't what he's doing any more, but I know my ex-husband was the lighting director for KISS for a while and we went over to talk to Gene about something or other. Money or, you know, the tour or something and he asked, "Do you want to see my Polaroids?" And he shows Polaroids of every woman he's ever screwed. ** antiMUSIC: Yeah right, the famous scrapbook. ** Grace: And I'm just going, 'Ah, Jesus do I have to look at this?' I so don't care, you know. My ex husband pretty much cared because he was kind of a sex addict or you know whatever they call they call that kinda stuff. But you know, a woman (pfff) I could care less. But Gene's very good at business. Frank Zappa was pretty good at business. And Frank Zappa didn't do drugs either. Drugs really get in the way of paying attention to what your accountant's saying because it's so boring. Jefferson Airplane, when we first started making, you know, big money, we brought in a financial advisor who advised that we buy train, cargo cars for trains in the south somewhere, and we looked at him, like, 'Are you fucking serious? Do we give a flying
?' You know, so we didn't do that and consequently, you know Paul Kantner is having trouble. He has to go around the country pretending he's Jefferson Starship and so does Mickey Thomas
and basically I own the name along with our manager. And so it's illegal for them to be doing it but I don't care. They have to make money. As long as they don't do product. Once they do product, then I'll step in and say, 'Okay we get a percent. You know, you can't do that'. So you know it's a little gnarly, but I don't care if they use the name. I didn't care for Starship anyway. Like the '80s version of Starship was just all
songs were written by other people and ah, God, it was just dumb. [You have to check out the rest of the interview, it's worth the click over, plus get the details on the art exhibits and check out some photos of her amazing artwork! It all can be had at the full story link] - Click here for the Full Story
Click here to read Today's full Day in Rock report
Related News for Grace Slick
Preview and Purchase Grace Slick music
Grace Slick Tour Dates/Tickets
tell a friend about this article know of a news item we should cover? antiMUSIC News featured on RockNews.info and Yahoo News
.
Rant or Rave? Your turn, post your comments and thoughts on this news item. But hey keep it clean, we wouldn't want to have to wash your mouth out with Old Spice.
register | forgot your password?
...end |
