They don’t make singers like this anymore

[javadog]

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

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

[Por_sha911]

and she did it without auto-tune.

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

[look 171]

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

[Sooner or later]

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..

[rcooled]

[wdfifteen]

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?

[Seahawk]

That was great - brought back a lot of memories.

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

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

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?

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 .

[sc_rufctr]

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!

[javadog]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

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?

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.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

That was great - brought back a lot of memories.

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

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

[sammyg2]

That was a long, long time ago.

[sc_rufctr]

[sammyg2]

Recent photo of Grace Slick




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

[flatbutt]

Here's some singin' for ya'



I have this on vinyl

[Rusty Heap]

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.


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

[javadog]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Recent photo of Grace Slick




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

Nope, that be that little freak from The Cure.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

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.


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

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

[gwood]

Grace Potter's cover isn't bad.

[flatbutt]

this what you meant?




so smokin'!