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Its the White Rabbit song though that will probably live on for another thousand years. It became like an official anthem of the 'San Francisco Sound' of the late 1960's early '70's. A famous tell all book of the times was called 'Go Ask Alice' - the supposedly true story of a young girl's decent into rabid drug use and eventual death with all the stock depradations on the way down. The flick was done with such an ambivalent tone though that it never rose to the status of being counter-counter culturally effective. Starship was a little overblown with tunes like 'We Built This City' which was a kind of anti-yuppie top 40 radio hit whose own respectability drained its attitude of any credibility. That whole last stage of the band's career just pointed out how the non-conformist 60's revolution was never going to be anything but a pastiche when revamped for a culture hamstrung by the Reaganite era.
Grace Slick was one of those not so rare personas of the times, a hippie rock chick who came off as actually dangerous and out of control. That breed virtually vanished until punk, and now, what's left, Kelly Clarkson?
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