Grace Slick used every 60’s and 70’s drug with the exception of heroin. When it came to drugs Grace Slick was not only the acid queen but very few of men could keep up with her drinking. When it came to sex Grace’s trophies include everyone in Jefferson Airplane except Marty Balin and a roster of 60’s rockstars that includes Jim Morrison. She embraced all of the excesses of a life centered in Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. Both songs were hits and Surrealistic Pillow was one of the albums that provided the soundtrack for The Summer of Love (1967).

She hit the ground running, contributing two songs she had recorded with The Great Society: “Somebody To Love” and “White Rabbit”. In 1966 Jefferson Airplane’s female vocalist Signe Toly Anderson left the band when her pregnancy made it uncomfortable to tour.

The Great Society was soon sharing the bill with bands like The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and The Holding Company and Jefferson Airplane. They formed The Great Society, a band with an eastern modal approach to psychedelic rock. Jerry was a drummer, his brother Darby played guitar and their friend David Miner was a bass player. Grace had been playing piano and organ since childhood. Third, after seeing The Jefferson Airplane perform Grace and Jerry decided that the embryonic San Francisco rock scene looked like a whole lot of fun and formed a band. Second, they would begin experimenting with LSD. First, they would embrace free love and polyamory (in the common vernacular they became swingers). In 1965 Grace Slick, a 26 year old San Francisco department store model, and her cinematographer husband Jerry had become bored with their conventional marriage. The famous Grace Slick Salute was giving the middle finger.

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