Grace Slick. To me, Grace epitomizes the 60's. What is was and how it made me feel. I was a small boy but she was California, the movement, the electricity that was resonating throughout the country. I adored her. She was a hero and someone to be looked up to, even though I didn't know why I felt that way. I love her voice, her delivery, and her essence. Someone wrote that they felt as if the tune "we built this city" was insipid. Maybe so but I loved it, at least the video version with the disc jockey inside of it. I loved it because it made me feel a part of San Francisco and took me back to those feelings of the 60's, which I cannot even explain but those who were there, regardless of location, know what I write of. And there are so many here who were actually there, in the midst of it all. Glorious and I am so happy to be amidst them. I adore the flick Heaven and Earth by Oliver Stone. The scene when they arrive back in California and it is the 60's. Ah, that brings it all back. The excitement, the furor, the indecision, the protests, the troops, Martin Luther King, Kent State, Vietnam every night on the television and the daily body count, Nixon, and Janis. Ah, Janis. Each time I hear Grace Slick, I am there again.
mack
