Grace Slick and The Great Society
Grace Barnett Wing was born on October 30, 1939, in Chicago. She went to a private all-girls school in Palo Alto, attended college in both NYC and Florida, and married a man named Gerald “Jerry” Slick, an aspiring filmmaker. Grace worked as a model at an I. Magnin department store for a few years while she worked on composing her own music.
Grace Slick. Source: Flickr
Slick half-heartedly considered music for a profession, that is, until she saw the band The Matrix. After that, she formed a band with her husband (Grace as vocals, Jerry on drums), Jerry’s brother Darby Slick (on lead guitar), and David Miner (on bass guitar). They called themselves The Great Society.