TCB
by Christopher Gray

Surrealists' Pillow
Once she sang about white rabbits, now she paints them. Former Jefferson Airplane/Starship singer Grace Slick retired from the stage a few years ago, and parlayed a couple of drawings for her autobiography into a painting career. "I'll draw rock stars, I'll draw bunnies, I'll draw whatever you want," said the effusive Slick.
TCB: Are you interested in certain themes and images?

Grace Slick: Union. That can be universal, it can be personal. I draw animals a lot, because they're wiser. They've been around longer. We're a new species, and we haven't got our shit together. You never hear of 40 raccoons from L.A. going up to have a war with 40 raccoons from San Francisco.

TCB: When you draw someone like Jimi Hendrix or Jerry Garcia, do you go back and reconsider your experiences with them?

GS: Oh yeah. For instance, Garcia. Most of the photographs of him make him look like the village idiot, and he wasn't by any means. He would look you in the eye, he was very direct, very funny, very interesting, and interested. I'm not a big Grateful Dead fan, of the music, but I liked him as a person – a lot.

TCB: Why has Alice in Wonderland always intrigued you?

GS: Well, because it's my life. She comes out of Victorian England. It's very straight, and the Fifties in this country were very straight. I went from the Fifties into Sixties rock & roll, [which was] pretty much like Wonderland. Alice takes at least five different drugs. The bottle literally says "drink me" on it, and she literally gets high. About 10 feet high.