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Summary: Awsome, just what I expected.
Review: Not a rehashing of the same old 60's stories we hear over and over. I was about Grace and her life. I'm glad it wasn't all about the Airplane/Starship, you can get that anywhere.
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Summary: 3 Stars Because Grace is Truly An Icon!
Review: Okay, so the book may not be what most people might have anticipated...myself included. I am a HUGE fan of Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane. She has always been my favorite singer, and I have always believed her to be the most interesting, quotable, unique individual to have come from the 60's era. She is truly an icon and a great talent who influenced many, and I am sure that many fans looked forward to this read. Overall, I have to agree with several other's who expected more. I believe that while Grace attacks the book with some of her typical cynacism, sarcasm and wit, I believe that her book basically covers aspects of her life that she believes to be the most pertinent (her upbringing, influences, loves, music, most notable Airplane moments, her daughter...), and even the chapters in which she discusses these parts of her life seem to be rather skimmed. Grace Slick was at the forefront of an era that influenced and impacted many...she was a part of music and social history that I am sure so many, whether they were alive or not, would be interested in knowing from one who lived through it...but as Grace so pointedly reminds and quotes, and I paraphrase, she can barely remember most of what went on herself! Regardless, her memories are basically watered-down versions of certain or specific aspects (and I repeat) of her own upbringing, her joining a band (The Great Society...and it is a bit odd that although she was legally married to Jerry Slick until the early 1970's, he basically disappears from the scene altogether!), her becoming part of a great band, poignant moments in both Grace and the band's history (personal and professional)...yet it does seem to be go by quite quickly and condensed...I finished the book in a day. Also, there are a few black and white photos peppered throughout the book, including a few glimpses of Grace's artwork. I would have liked to learn more about this interesting individual, and perhaps there is so much history it would or could fill volumes, so this is the result...a mildly interesting, yet brief peek into the life and times of one of rock n' roll's few female legends. Because Grace Slick is who she is, I give her book three stars; if she was anyone else, the book would have probably received one star!
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Summary: Not all that I hoped for!
Review: Overall I'd say this book was mildly interesting. I'd hoped for a lot more discussion and details about rock n'roll in the 60s but what I wound up with was pretty much a hodge-podge of disjointed events. Grace also has a tendency to promote her personal social and political agendas which gets tiring.
Since I picked it up at the local library, at least I didn't have to shell out any cash!
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Summary: Not all that I hoped for!
Review: Overall I'd say this book was mildly interesting. I'd hoped for a lot more discussion and details about rock n'roll in the 60s but what I wound up with was pretty much a hodge-podge of disjointed events. Grace also has a tendency to promote her personal social and political agendas which gets tiring.
Since I picked it up at the local library, at least I didn't have to shell out any cash!
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Summary: Waste of money and boring, boring, boring
Review: Review of audiocassette -- Grace Slick is unbelievably self-absorbed and unforgivably boring. For example, do we really care that she was a blond when she was eight years old? I listened to this on a long drive one evening and kept waiting for the tape to get better but it never did. It's a miracle that it didn't put me to sleep and cause me to drive off the road! Grace reads her self-indulgent musings in a wooden voice without a trace of real insight or even humor. After listening to this tape, I didn't know a lot more about Jefferson Airplane or Starship or the sixties or even Grace Slick -- I just knew that I wanted my money back.
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Summary: Honesty rocks!
Review: Thank you Grace for sparing us the melancholic has- been prose common to a lot of relics of the 60ies. This book is a great read for anyone who is aging and wonders how the hell to transition for wild youth to mature adult without becoming one's parents(!) Grace book is honest, contemporary and introduces a bold new voice in the boring politically correct 90ies. I would love to see Grace do a column on life at 60( she is 58-59?), AA, art, love, kids, politics, and whatever else she is interested in. What a funny, vibrant woman and what a great read.
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Summary: Just a Few Tabs from Finishing School To Altamont
Review: The incomparable Grace Slick lets loose with an in-your-face frank, raunchy, intelligent, extremely funny, and riveting account of life as THE psychedelic rock goddess and queen of the San Francisco hippie movement. Gargantuan doses of sex, drugs, rock, and cop clashes mix well with Slick's wonderful flair for putting the reader right there - front row center...and that's some mighty interesting/intense places to be. Great anecdotes and portraits of Woodstock, Altamont, Abbie Hoffman (and THAT plan to drop Pres. Nixon acid at a White House tea party!!!) Morrison, Hendrix, Janis, The Grateful Dead, and even Jill St. John! In addition to presenting the music and ideals of an era, it's also a fascinating account of a VERY strong woman coming into her own, adapting her priorities, and shifting focus as she ages. Treat yourself to an incredible slice of life!!!
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Summary: Lame and Disappointing
Review: This book contained no information about Grace Slick that I found interesting. I am only twenty, but I have been a Jefferson Airplane fan for several years. I was very excited to see the book published and then disappointed with the outcome. Slick and Cagan left out important parts of Slick's life, music, and relationships. I put down the book wanting more and even a little bit confused. The writers skip from one decade to the next while referring to events unknown to the reader and not even mentioned within the pages. Hopefully next time that Grace Slick publishes her memoirs, she will be more specific and organized.
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Summary: A great look into the psychedelic era of the 60's.
Review: This book is great and I've not even finished, I see Grace as one of my idols and after reading this book, she seems to be just how I'd imagined her to be. I love her her expression and the way she talks, she's not afraid to say what's in her head. I love the part where she talks about Jim Morrison, reminds me of a sexual encounter with Ben (Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd) in a infamous book called "Groupie". The descriptions of the things from her childhood, I seem to have gone through the same things if a little less weird. I also loved her seriousness concerning politics and her song "Panda", I also love Pandas I collect anything to do with them. So to find she also likes them is uncanny. The way she worked through the Jefferson Airplane members, excellent. The descriptions. I liked the way that she was given a topic and then had to think around it in the format of her book. I had to get it straight away. Excellent Grace.
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Summary: Grace is somebody to love!
Review: This book was incredibly readable and re-readable for me. I read it for the first time in a twenty four hour period and re-read it almost as fast about a month later just because I wanted to experience it again or more. It's subjective, the whole idea of reviews, no matter how you look at it; in my case, it might be because I am not looking for a timeline history of the sixties or technical analyses of the recording world that I found this book so easy to just enjoy: New things and even old things re-told in her own words about Grace were fun to read and reading about the times as they went on, choppy or jumping around as another reviewer had noted, made me also slip back to what I was doing and who I was in those times, too. The jumping around was no problem: Experience the samples and the variety on the table that's laid out and it's really very tasty! She takes you through her choice of highlights with the wit and humor that have been her trademark and, as the narrative leaps from childhood to the present in 366 pages (I refer to the hardcover), the reader can fly along easily because of the down to earth approach here. She has had extraordinary experiences--judge them 'good' or 'bad' or 'wise' or 'foolish,' it doesn't matter--but she certainly took me as reader along for the story in a way that I felt right at home. She speaks to the reader, not down at the reader, in a very accessible way. Getting on somewhat in my life too, I appreciated the straight talk and humor about aging. Sometimes the best memoirs to me are not those that rehash the 'official stuff,' what you've read in the newspapers or magazines or what's hit the media over the last 35 years, but the new story or the personal touch to whatever old tales do reappear. That's what makes this a beautiful collage that is topped off generously with the color display of her paintings. That someone else would have done a tighter chronology and more organized presentation than Slick and Cagan I'm not going to argue one way or the other. (Text books are good for that but a little on the dry side). But no one can give her presence--and what a presence,loud and clear, like her voice!--like these two women have.
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