Chords for Grace Slick Interview 5.18.13

And now 46 years after the summer of love,
Grace Slick is still rocking to a different part.
Yeah, she also gave KPIX5's Lindy Yee
some pretty surprising revelations
from those psychedelic days.
[G] _ You're only a few small.
Grace Slick [C#] was the queen of rock.
She and the Jefferson [B] Air plays White Rabbit,
the anthem of the acid rock era.
Well, that sounds weird.
[Gm] Weird to a [G#] now [D#] 73-year-old Grace Slick,
because it surprises her how big [B] the song became.
Her inspiration, Alice in Wonderland,
and composer [G] Maurice Ravel's Bolero, a Spanish march.
It isn't even rock and roll,
and it's talking about Alice in Wonderland.
And the thing's sold now.
Wow.
There's a lot more screwballs out there
than I thought there were.
Slick now lives a quiet life in [E] Malibu.
A medical condition causes pain
if she stands more than 10 minutes at a time. She paints.
White Rabbits, of [G] course.
_ [A] _ _ It's far [F#] from those drug and [Dm]
alcohol-fueled days
[A] during and after that summer of love in San Francisco.
But [N] her life still rocks.
I was built for rock and roll,
because I have a very loud voice.
Could never sing _ lullabies to my daughter
when she was a baby,
because it's,
♪ Lullaby
But I can't,
♪ Lullaby
I can't sing softly.
She didn't speak softly when it came to politics either.
In the 1970s, Slick got an invitation
to a White House tea party for Finch College alumni.
She brought LSD with her,
planning to spike the President's Cup.
I'm talking to Richard Nixon
and have the _ _ LSD in my fingernail,
and just gesture over his teacup.
He would have been talking about the walls melting,
and _ _ _ we were just,
we just laughed just thinking about it.
So you were serious.
Yeah, I was.
But White House security recognized her.
She never got past the gate.
In 1968, the band bought this mansion.
It's right across from Golden Gate Park,
not far from the hate.
They painted it black,
[D] and this was the place to be.
[N] The parties were legendary.
We had a lot of extraordinary animals
shot David Crosby in there.
Someone broke into the house,
and she got a gun hidden in bandmate Paul Kantner's room.
I was sitting on Paul's bed,
and I heard footsteps,
and I aimed the gun right at the bedroom door,
and _ David walks in, David Crosby,
and he looks at me, he says,
good girl, I said, good girl, I'm gonna shot you. _
Today, art in any form,
like writing or painting, is her life.
If I'm not doing one of them, I get crazy.
How about singing in a band again?
No, I don't like old people
flapping their wrinkles around on [D#] stage.
What a [F#] jolly! _
She now indulges her obsession
with [N] Alice and the White Rabbit in her paintings.
The collection now on display
at the San Francisco Art Exchange.
Slick is bad over alcohol,
but says she's been sober for 16 years.
You still do LSD, drop acid?
No.
If Roar made Quaaludes again,
that's the only drug I do.
I don't take any so-called fun drugs,
because I'm not good at [E] it.
Can't call you the acid queen anymore.
[N] No, _ can't do that.
_ Nobody does anyway.
_ Acid tongue, maybe, but not queen.
_ Just ask Alice, she knows.
In San Francisco, Linda Yee, KPIX5.
_ Still hearing the voice, still there.
Grace Slick's paintings will be
at the San Francisco Art Exchange for another week.
And for a link to her website,
you can go to kpix5