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A SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION,
'--_____.. ..1 TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING.
REO SPEEDWAGON'S "A DECADE OF ROCK AND ROLL 1970 TO 1980:'
FEATURING "ROLL WITH THE CHANGES'; "RIDIN' THE STORM OUT,"
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;J I Black Sabbath
Dabblers with the occult, they ex·
plored a dark vision at high vol
ume-(Richard Hogan)
• Grace Slick &
Jefferson Airplane
An exclusive interview with Grace
wherein she recounts her old days
with the Airplane and explains why
she split---(David Fricke)
The Beatles
The classic supertrio's sound lives
on, even if the band doesn't. See them, hear them, touch them,
remember them
The Grateful Dead Led Zeppelin
The trippy wizards of San Francis Robert Plant recounts their earty
co were there when the power was flights in a vintage interview
flower. (Richard Hogan)
I HISTORIC LED
Traffic
ZEPPELIN
Early fast-lane life with Stevie
Winwood, Chris Wood, Oave Ma
POSTER
son and Jim capaldi.
The Rollina Stones
Jeff Beck A look back at rOCks classic bad
Rowdiness, outrage and a great boys
imagination for guitar playing were
among his inimitable traits.
Jimi Hendrix
Deep Purple "The Star Spangled Banner" will
never be the same because of
They were masters of the kind of
him. Neither will rock-(Oavid
rock that shaUered eardrums
Fricke)
(Richard Hogan)
Jim Morrison &
Blue Oyster Cult
The Doors
Exploits of a thinking-man's ver
sion of macabre musicians. A look back at Morrison with exclu
sive excerpts from a forthooming
E biography.
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Grand Funk
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Railroad a~l ( Janis Joplin
Roger Daltrey of the Infamous The brief, fiery ride of this classic
Who, p. 36 rock mama-(Carl Arrington)
Marc Bolan
Notes on this poetJperfonner who
banged a gong and got it on
--(David Fricke) ENTERTAINMENT. MUStC AND
Publisher-Editor in Chief
Elvis Presley Gerald Rothberg
There was nothin' hound dog Managing Editor Carl Arrington
about The King An Director Lonnie Heller
Associate Editors David Fricke
Richard Hogan
Special Features George Nobbe
Concen Guide Renee Ford
Associate
An Director Jeffrey Salzer
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., Illustrator Kimble Mead
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~,o Mamas & Papas, Beaell Boys, Correspondents
G Herman Hermit, Paul Revere & New York Shel Kagan
Mick Jagger of the Stones The Raiders, The Young Rascals Scott Cohen
mugs, p. 42 and MORE-(David Fricke)
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Contributing
Photographers
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Was ever there a star so gloriously New York Glenn Brown
arrayed?
Christopher Makos
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Robin Platzer
New York Dotls Mark Weiss
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They were punks before there was
Ebet Roberts
a word for it.
Garry A. Tausinger
Washington Robert Sherbow
Europe Peter Mazel
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David Bowie Office Manager Roslyn McKofke
Staff Lorelle Alexander
There was method to his artful
Derek Freedman
madness that made him a strange
legend--(Carl Arnngton) Eric Lerner
Associate
Publisher An Ford
Circulation Gerald Levine
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Advenising Director Dennis S. Page
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spect-(Carl Arrington)
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THE ACID AGE
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~ Grace Slick & Jefferson
Airplane: Some bodies to love
by David Fricke
T hey :-;ClY lifp begin:, at 40. and :::et the p:-,ychedelic ball rolling for a band I ~illing there and there i:::n't
Grace SliCk-wh.o turned 40 fa:-,cin<twd young America ready u,:-,hed enough going all. if I'm high enough, I'll
la;-;t Ocwber-:-;a\'::: that [01' what \\'a~ left of it~ inhibition~. jll~t about throw 3n a~htl'ay against the
her it HeYer ~lopi)cd. The former Grace Wing ha:-, ~pent \\'all jll~t to j!ct ~()mC'lhing going."
The :-:clf-de:-:cl'ibed "(:ombinalion mu mo.:-'t of her life .:-'hedding her inhibition.:-' i\ ow emerging confidentl~r from a
si c ia nl ~o ng \\' r j lC' 1'1:-; l' III i-to n t c rt a inc 1'1 and challenging tho~e of the people ~elf-impo~ed retirement following her
pm'liai a~~holc" from Palo A ilo. Califor around her. In 1959. ~he boldly walked ~torm'y exit from the Slar~hip in '78.
nia alrcctd,\' ha:-: behind her a turbulent into the ba~ement unite of a blatk 1'(' Gnlcc Slick ha:-, mal'ked the end of one
decade :-;(:aiin).{ oclaye:-: and ruffling- e1' cord cumpan.'· in San Fl'anci:::co and period \\'ith the publication of Grace
tabli:-:hmenl feather:, a:-:. the face. voice. auditioned for a contract by .:-'inJ.,ring ...· Nick: A Hiography by Barbara Rowes
and acidic public LOllb'1lC of the Jeffel'::,ol1 "Summertime" from Por,qy (Ii/d Hel'i8 and the :::tart of another with her new
Airplane and it:-: commercial mutation (,'1'11 bet they were jU.:-'l cracking up"). ~olo LP Dreams (RCA). Dismis~ingher
Jeffcl':,on Star::;hip. It \\"a~ (;1"<1(':c':-; She asked her fil'.:-'t hu:-;band .Jerry Slick '73 album .Hwdwle a~ "an cxpel'imel1l,"
:-:.ong:-: "Somebody to Lo\'e" and "While to malTv her. told Paul Kanlllel' ~he
Rabbit"-\\,I'itten during hpr prcviou:-; wanted 'to have a baby by him. and (;/'(U'f' 0" 1I01l/(>II/O!.:;"9: ··11· .... ('uf/ .... lip(lling
tenure with the Great SOCif'lV-lhat admits even no\\' that ';if I \\'alk into a for 11/(>. I /n",1 10 h(> ('itlu'r dl'(Ill'i"9 01'
look the Airplane LO the Top Tel; in 1~ room and :$ee Skip IJohn~ol1. her hu~- It/a!.:i''9 IIII/sic."
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The Airplane .'Jlrikelf a clnssic pose-lrom left, (;roce. Jorma, Marty (ill hat).
she expresses more enthusiasm about housewife for six months, they were past excesses, the alcohol and the
Drelt1ns, an eclectic affair that features becoming a unit. dJ1.1gs?
her in exceptional voice on a punkish Circus: Now you're embarking on a Slick: When I first started, we were
rocker, an "MGl\'l-Kismet" spectacul3l', full-time solo car'eer, but at the same slamming our parents and the '50s gen
a three-year-old song she calls "the clos time you're the subject of a new biogra eration, saying "You're hanging on to
est I ever come to a ballad," and an phy. And the thing about a biogl'aphy the old stuff, you're afraid of change,
exotic Spanish item called "EI Diablo," written about someone youI' age is that just a bunch of old lumps sitting there."
he's kicked her notoJious alcohol it suggests that your best years are And it occurred to me in the last three
ism, has retained all her curves despite already behind you. or four years that I'm doing the same
a "compulsive" fondness for Black For Slick: Yeah, it does and that annoyed thing-" Let's all take (h-ugs and get
est cake, and joyously admits enjoying me. Because the thing ends in Ham high and be hedonistic, fuck responsibil
playing mother to nine-year-old China. burg, but the problem is that the book ity." And that doesn't work all the time.
Circus: After you quit the Starship in ends in a fier'y rubble [after Grace quit That me-me-me is nice for a short peri
'78 during the German tour, you pretty the band, the Starship cancelled a od of time, but I was trying to hang on to
much disappeared from the face of rock FI'ankfurt show and Sloo,OOO wOI·th of that" Let's just be high forever" atti
music. Where did you go? equipment was destroyed by rioting tude. I didn't bum myself out to the
Grace Slick: The Starship got kind of fansl. It's like here's this old burned·up extent that anything went wrong phys
tangled up and I sort of fired myself. I piece of something. ically, but I saw that coming.
thought, "Oh Chlist, the music business Circus! During the interviews fol' the Circus: But you did have two very
stuff is so crazy and it's all falling apart, book, did you have any trouble remem serious auto accidents. Didn't that indi
so I'm just going to go home and knit." beJing old times'? cate to you the end product of what you
So 1 just stayed home for about six Slick: Oh Christ, yeah. I'm amnesiatic. were driving yourself to?
months-I did some cooking, look Chi· I don't I'emember my name unless 1 look Slick: No. I tried to fool myself. Forthe
na to school, which I still do. at my driver's license, first one, I fibrtll'ed it was foul' o'clock in
But it's constipating for me, I want to Circus: But did you ever get a feeling the mOl'l1ing, it was raining, I hit oil and
be either ch-awing or making music. I of pain in conjuring up memories you'd water on the road. And I'm not consid
couldn't stay away. prefer to forgeL-the alcoholism, car ering the fact that I'd been drinking and
Circus: Paul Kantner said recently accidents, lovers, bad band scenes? snorting coke for ten houl's. I'm real
that you attended some Stal'ship re Slick: Not really. Well, maybe undm' good at fooling myself-forever.
heal'sals while they were working with neath. But she Ithe author] would say Circus: Were you consciously aware of
singel' Mickey Thomas with the idea of :;tufflike "When this tenible event hap the fact that you were an alcoholic?
maybe joining in. pened, how did you feel about it?" So I'd Slick: Yeah, and what I did was say
Slick: The way Kantnel-'s house is set say, at the time I didn't really care, "I'm also Norwebrian and have black
up-they practice there-there are Someone said it makes me sound cold. hair. So whal'! I'm an alcoholic and what
these stail'S you can sit 011 down in the But it wasn't that I was cold- I really does an alcoholic do? Drink alcohol."
room where they play. And J sat on the didn't c",·e. If you have a bottle of scotch That's what I did for a long time. until I
steps for five hours everyday. But I and a gram of coke and a brtly says "I'm started to get thrown in jail, yelling at
could never get on down and sing with leaving you fol' Sally," I say 1 don't give cops and waking up in the mOl'lling
them because they sounded fine the a shit 'cause I don't. Go ahead, go away, thinking, "That's stupid. Okay, so
way they were. I t wasn't them; it was I'll crank up the amplifier and play some you're an alcoholic, but it's not fun any
me. I t was like looking at a puzzle that music. I t's not that I was cold of heart; I more. Just stop light there,"
was already done and thinking you're was just numb-a lot of lhe time. Circus: DUling your time in the Air
the missing piece when thel'e isn1t one. Circus: Now that you've kicked the plane and St",·ship. did you ever feel
While I wa' farting around being a bottle, how do you look back on your like a role model, the liberated example
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THE ACID AGE
of the hippie ethic the media made you then-president of RCA for about four Circus: How do you feel what you're
out to be? hours everyday long distance to New doing with a recol'd like Dreams relates
Slick: That's a lot of that '60s thing. York about whether that line should be to the '80s? Who are you trying to
There 'Was a whole ethic and the people in the song, It was more spor't for him, reach?
who were in the media-in rock & roll, for us to see just how far you can get Slick: I'm just trying to make music
politics-the people who I'ead about it away with it. and talk through some form of commu
would make their judgments and follow I wrote a song that said "Seven inches nication between human beings that is
it to a certain extent. Yeah, probably of pleasure/Seven inches going home/ recognizable. The thing about kids say
some of the stuff we did at that point Somebody must have measured down ing "Oh, fuck everybody else, he's a
was emulated on ... it's too bad, too, the old bone." I was waiting. I 'wa.nted boring asshole," well, you have to do
because a lot of that stuff you hang on to RCA to call up and say something, jW'5t that to concentrate on your own thing
and you think it's never gonna change. so I could tell them I was talking about a and learn it and get it, have it imp};nted
Part of the '60s-a lot of it was joyous pearl-handed .38. I was just waiting and on your head so you have your own
and there was a lot of naive thinking, they didn't say anything. form. Then soon as you know your own
this is gonna keep on and get better and Circus: Can you draw any paraliel be form, you can start. putting feelers out
better. But I read The Decline and Fall tween the new wave and the revolution for other people's stuff. And the other
afthe Roma1l Empire and knew better. ary atmosphere of the '60s? things are less offensive to you.
Everything rolls uver itself. Some Slick: I see it more in myself than in There's a contrabassoon on one of the
body's gonna come and roll right over anyone else I was with because the new songs. Ten years ago, I wouldn't
us-and the '70s rolled right ovel' the people I was with were dope smokers have dreamed of putting a contrabas
'60s like a big blob. and pleasant for the most part, They soon on a record because the guy behind
Circus: Yel a 10l of the battles the weren't going around being objection it would be a square asshole wit.h a Wall
Airplane had wilh RCA wel'e symbolic able on pUI1)ose, So when the punk-rock Street Journal in his lap, He still reads
of the arlistic freedom }'ock bands were thing started, people jumping up and t.he Wall Street J01t1"na,l" but what
pushing fOl'. down on each other in piles seemed sort comes out of his contrabassoon has
Slick: I remember Paul Kantner in '70, of normal to me because I'd been doing nothing to do with reading the Wall
'71 had a line in a song that said "Jesus that for years on pU'1)ose, for no other Street Journal. It's not my pl"Oblem
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balled a lady." And he talked to the reason than "Why not?" what he reads.
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