They don’t make singers like this anymore
 

Grace Slick, singing the vocal track from the song White Rabbit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyMtIwobqbI

and she did it without auto-tune.

I also have great respect for her attitude about old people doing comebacks and reunions.

Heard that some time ago on our local classic rock station while driving . S he's got an amazing voice. This station did a bunch of other's like that without music. Its very cool

She can sing. Saw her with Starship at the OKC zoo amphitheatre.

About halfway through the show she says. "We have to turn down the volume so the zoo animals can sleep. F*** EM!" And they continued to blast..

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Thanks for that. White Rabbit is a powerful song because of her voice.
How did she do that? Was she listening to the instrumental parts on headphones while she sang and they recorded her track to add to the mix?

That was great - brought back a lot of memories.

I thought the thread was going to be about...

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Yep...like most studio recordings ...that's just her vocal track off of what was mixed back then....mebbe a 16 track mixing board....who knows?

I saw Hot Tuna (Jorma and Jack ain't stopped since '70) a few years back and Grace wuz in town speaking or something....the rumor mill buzzed....(neber gonna happen). J&J left the rock star stuff behind....

But Jack...sly grin about half-way through....steps forward and starts dropping his thunderous Bass Bombs...intro to White Rabbit...

The packed house erupted....ya had to be there :)

Go see Hot Tuna...always a treat acoustic or electric...always ;).

For me that song defines a generation! I was 4 when she sang at Woodstock so it's before my time.

But her voice and passion makes it great!

Well, I wasn't there, but...

It's not uncommon to lay down the rhythm tracks first; drums, then base, then rhythm guitar, etc. She may not have had the whole song played back to her but she probably had at least the rhythm parts.

What I find interesting about artists of her generation is just how good they were at a young age. She was 27 when she recorded that, having taken up a career in music only 1 year before. I'm not aware of any formal training she had in singing.

She's said to have written the song in an hour. I think she performed it in an band that she formed with her husband in 1965, the year before she joined Jefferson Airplane and recorded the version we all know.

I got to see her up close, performing it live in the early 70's. An amazing talent, one of the few really gifted female singers of her generation.

I'm thankful it wasn't. Still put my surrealistic pillow LP on the turntable from time to time.

That was a long, long time ago.

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Recent photo of Grace Slick

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No wait that can't be right ..... ;)

Here's some singin' for ya'

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I have this on vinyl

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PAT BENATAR


She was clasiically trained in Opera............could cover 5 ranges of octaves if I remember.



Many People know that the first Video on MTV, was "the buggles - video killer the radio star"


BUT

no one remembers the 2nd video. "You better run, you better Hide" and wow she is young .


her jaw line was always a wet dream with my own Instrument.


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Nope, that be that little freak from The Cure.

You have very fine taste in young, short-haired brunette’s. I get what you’re saying...

Grace Potter's cover isn't bad.

this what you meant?

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so smokin'!

Hmmm disappointed this thread isn't about Geoff Tate...

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You know, I'd say that instead of their not being singers like that; you just don't spend time looking anymore.

Grace Potter gets my enthusiastic support. Me likely, for a long time.

I think most modern music is ****, you’re welcome to it.

Uh oh, I thought it was Elizabeth Taylor's zombie. ;)
But serial, I knew it was guy from the cure. I saw him on the R&R hall of fame and he looked really bad, but still sang great.


But as long as we're talking about great singers, let's not forget one of the greatest of all time ... Mario Cuomo's dad: Perry!

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Could have done without the echo though.

Hey, it was the 60s. She wrote the song while tripping on LSD.

I remember the Young Rascals doing that song in the 60s and you’re right, I don’t remember BENATAR doing it.

They don't make guitarists, musicians, like this anymore.

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It sounds overdone until you put the instruments to it and the echo gives that haunting sound that creates a mood which matches the song.

Exactly - there is no shortage of modern singers that absolutely rip up one side and down the other. And the same applies to all the, "they don't make guitarists, drummers, bands, etc., like this anymore" comments so often seen - those people are handcuffed to the past and must not listen to anything current.

Just post up your favorite Jonas Brothers song so we can all witness the modern greatness you speak of. Or maybe Nicki Manaj, there being no shortage and all.

Since you don't know who she is, I'll give you Sia. She's a modern day Grace Slick.

But I'm really curious to see what you come up with as a modern day version of Eddie Van Halen.

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;) ;)
SmileWavy

^^^

Shaun, I pollute the Music/Vid thread all the time with what I consider to be modern awesomeness (none of which are pop stars, such as you mentioned above) - screamers, wailers, growlers and shredders for the most part. I won't post any here, since Java has a serious humor deficiency, and would surely take great offence. :D

Dad911, Tina S is a beast on the guitar -her covers are really something else!

dad...

Sigh. Yes, there are plenty of talented people out there. But Eddie Van Halen is much more than that. It's easy to sing, to play, with enough practice and some double helix gifts, but Grace, Eddie, etc., are packages. Complex packages.

the girl is good, no doubt, but no emotion or passion. She just plays well. yawn. And worse, it's a cover. Let's hear her play something she wrote.

Let's see your favorite Jonas Brothers song. There are tons.SmileWavy

So you are saying you are scared. I get it. :D

^^^

Ha ha - that's great (and you suck biggly yuuuuuugggggeeeeeee!!!)! :D

That's a given my friend! :D

Just havin fun Shaun. I agree, lots of talent out there, some I didn't recognize until they passed, like Prince (below - FF to 3:45:) and Dolores (Cranberries)

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Nothing wrong with a good cover. Pink does a mean Me and Bobby McGee. Animals House of the rising sun was a cover...... so is this, I can appreciate both.

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noise, nuthin' but noise. YMMV