Of course, Daddy...
Booze and interpersonal relationships, Queen Josh.
She actually sang with the Aitplane straight on through until they disbanded in the 1970's. It was Jefferson Starship she kept walking out on.
The first female vocalist of the Airplane was another woman, Signe Anderson. She sang on only their first album, and then left to raise a family and Gracie was asked to join.
Having seen her perform a bunch of times in my youth, I have to say that her voice was twice as powerful live as it was recorded. It had to be-- those were the days when onstage monitors were pretty poor in a loud rock situation. But it was her onstage patter that blew away young and impressionable me. She swore like a sailor, drank and smoked like a truck driver, was sexually aggressive ahead of her time and made no bones about her drug intake... between songs, she would deliver these amazing stream-of-conciousness personal and political monologues that were a whole show unto themselves. And of course, she had this gorge brunette, ex-model, sorta ice princesss look... at a time when the "california Blonde" had just come into her own.
