> Billy wrote: > > > God knows Grace Slick's never done time (yet), and she was shooting at > cops > > for Christ-sakes! Not to mention that little 'near' incident at the White > > House with Tricky Dicky ;-D > > LOL - I remember the news alert about Grace's altercation with the cops. I > was worried for her! Can't remember how it all came out in the end, but > think she had some defense about them snooping around her property. Maybe > some of the Grace fans here know the details (Mark E.). I recall that she > got off or maybe had to do some community service hours.
I was trying to locate this story in her book. The only one I could find that comes close is when she was staying in a house in Tiburon after her house in Sausalito burned down. She was separated from Skip Johnson at the time & was having a fling with an old friend. The two of them were pretty tanked up one night and were shooting at bottles in the back yard. The guy got into a snit when Grace, fearing that the neighbors might call the police, wanted to stop for the night. They argued, he went to the back of the house & she went upstairs to bed. Around 2 or 3 am the doorbell rings. Grace said she'd been robbed three times in Mill Valley so she grabbed a shotgun not thinking at first that a thief would be unlikely to ring the doorbell. When she got to the front door there were four cops standing around her friend who was on his knees in handcuffs yelling 'Shoot me!' Grace demanded to know what was going on. The cops told her to put the gun down. Grace wouldn't. They finally subdued her & took her to the Marin County drunk tank. I couldn't find anything that said how she avoided doing real jail time. Grace says elsewhere in the book that alcohol almost always makes her belligerent & sarcastic when confronted by police. It seems that after all of the other drugs she experimented with that booze is her biggest downfall. I think she pretty much has it under control now. She's been through AA but I don't think she's ever completely stopped drinking. > > What was the White House deal? Was that when she thought about putting some > LSD in Tricia's drink?? Billy covered that one pretty well. Part of her appeal for me was her wildness. She didn't seem to care what anybody said or thought about her. She also didn't seem to be afraid to say or do just about anything. Her book does say, however, that she is aware that her various antics have caused pain & inconvenience to her loved ones and that she is sorry for that. Mark E. Here are some (prophetic?) words from the 'Bark' album written by Grace back in 1971: Lawman Well I'm afraid you just walked in here At the wrong time You know my old man's gun has never been fired But there's a first time And this could be, this could be the first time Lawman You know you look to be a lot younger than me And I'd hate to shoot a baby You've got a long way to go before you're old and slow It could be, it could be a good time If you'd change your mind Well I'm tired & sweet from making love And it's just too late, you'll have to wait Bring your business around here in the morning Well I've heard your line and you've heard mine And I'm just too tired to take a side Bring your business around here in the morning Don't you wanna be easy? look there Let some of the things you see go on by Or you could burn them into your brain Go on home Don't you see the children they're just like you They want everything to be fine But they let it slide And the laughing lets you know That smiling breaks the rules Ah lawbreaker Well it could be me and if you had your way We'd all be down Under the face of a clock That's just too old to be wound And you can see now The old hands won't move around One way or the other Fool card brother This could be This could be The first Time
