Name: Grace Slick Recorded Her Album In The Nude | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Grace Slick Recorded Her Album In The Nude | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-16. Transcript available.

And let me introduce my first guest tonight.
Very entertaining person, both on and off the concert stage.
We're delighted to have her with us tonight.
This is her latest solo album entitled Software.
Let me get it for you.
There it is, Software.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to this program, Grace Slick.
Grace!
So nice to see you.
How you doing?
That was very nice.
Wait a minute.
You moved your chair.
You're going to tumble out of there.
We'll have Osha in here if anybody gets hurt.
One more.
One more.
You've got to come up.
One more.
Come on.
Come on.
There you go.
All right.
Is that uncomfortable for you?
Well, you're way over here.
No, I'll do the moving around.
I'll be all right.
This will work out fine.
There.
Hey, David, I tried ordering toast on a stick room service in my hotel this
morning,
and they said, what for?
Yeah, that's probably the reaction you'd get.
I didn't want to tell him.
No, I don't blame you.
How you been?
Okay.
Yeah.
How's your daughter?
Thirteen.
That says it all.
Is that, I don't have a 13-year-old.
Is that good or bad?
Well, what we've done is we've repapered the entire room, her bedroom, with Duran
Duran stuff.
Uh-huh.
There's no wallpaper left anymore.
It's all Duran Duran.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's by choice.
Now, what did the room look like a year ago?
It looked like a regular suburban room.
Uh-huh.
I have a very regular kind of house.
It's so that, uh...
Where do you live?
In Marin County, in California.
It's a beautiful part of the world, isn't it?
Yeah, it is pretty.
Yeah.
Now what?
Oh, I don't know.
I thought you were going to tell us about your house.
I'm sorry.
Hey, David?
Yeah.
What have you been doing lately?
Seriously?
Yeah.
Well, uh...
Any big deals or anything?
No.
Over the weekend, you know what my hobby is?
I sack my own groceries.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And we had a big order.
We had six bags.
Yeah.
And that's what I did on Saturday.
And then Sunday, of course, I rested up.
It will keep you busy.
I'll tell you something else, damn it.
I bought two bundles of firewood.
I'm all out of firewood, so I had to go buy two bundles.
Yeah.
Two bundles.
What do you suppose I paid for this load of firewood?
About this big.
I can carry both of them.
Ten bucks.
Do you know the amount of money that he just signed a contract for, and we're
hearing about
this ten dollars?
Look how of a show is this?
Now, now, Grace...
I know about contracts.
I look at all...
I find out about all that stuff.
Now, let me...
I want to ask you about...
Now, what I was getting to about your daughter and your house and so on and so
forth.
Now, when you...
In your wilder days, maybe you're still wild.
No, that's why we don't have much to talk about, David.
You and me, or you...
Oh, no.
Does she...
How do you think she would react to the...
In the old days, Grace Slick?
I think right now she likes...
She went from a preppy to a punk in about two months.
And I think right now she'd probably like it if I was a little more active and
disgusting.
Now, looking back on those times, what was your most actively disgusting thing?
Too numerous to go into.
There isn't any one effort that stood above the rest.
Yeah.
Did you ever onstage undress?
No.
One guy in the middle of a show in Chicago said,
Take off your chastity belt, Gracie, and I don't happen to wear any underpants.
So I just went, What do you mean?
No.
No, that's nothing like undressing, is it?
Now, wait a minute.
I noticed that when you had on Jamie Lee Curtis,
you mentioned that 75% of her film that she didn't have any clothes on.
But you haven't mentioned yet that 75% of my record,
when I made it, I didn't have any clothes on.
You haven't mentioned that because my breasts are not as large as hers.
This was...
This was...
He's a big breast man.
This album was...
Recorded in the nude.
Jamie gets all the plugs.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'll tell you what we're going to do.
We're going to go away for a commercial,
and then when we get back, we'll get into some real stuff.
Yeah, okay.
Hi there.
They're good, aren't they?
Yeah.
Very exciting.
Yeah, they're terrific.
What'd you say?
A little bit of Spanish castle magic.
Very nice.
They're also very loud.
Oh, they're good.
What?
Grace, Grace, darling, come on.
For me, that's a compliment.
Thank you, darling.
This afternoon, we were talking about your appearance here,
and it was brought to my attention that...
Is this or is this not true?
There's a book of rumors concerning famous people
that you attended the wedding of...
Was it Trisha Nixon?
Does that ring a bell?
Yes.
Did you attend that wedding?
No, I didn't.
The rumor's not true.
I didn't attend the wedding.
I was invited to a tea party at the White House
because Trisha had gone to Finch College.
I'd gone to Finch College,
and she sent out invitations to everybody
who's ever gone to Finch College.
And my name was under the name of Grace Wing,
so they didn't know who they were inviting.
What year was this?
60, 70, 69, 70.
Yeah.
And I thought you're supposed to go
and, like, with your husband
and be straight,
kind of the way people are from Finch College.
And a tea, those kind of teas,
people from Finch College,
you have a long thing,
tea service at either end,
you stand around and gesture
and talk to each other with a cup.
Right.
So I took Abby Hoffman and...
Now, did you think you were going to get into this
at the time with Abby Hoffman?
Well, yeah, because I had an invitation,
and I didn't think they knew who I was.
Yeah.
So I had acid in my pocket,
and I was just going to sort of gesture
into Richard's cup
because entertainers gesture a lot,
and we'd be standing there,
and he'd get a little into tea.
But the thing is, he's so goofy,
I don't think anybody would have noticed.
But I never made it in
because they said,
they came out to me and said,
I'm sorry, you can't come in?
I said, I have an invitation.
I went to Finch College.
Yeah.
The guy said, you're a security risk.
I said, no, I'm not.
I'm great slick, and I'm, you know,
but they wouldn't let me in.
Now, was it because of you
or because of Abby that you couldn't get in?
I'm not sure.
I think possibly they recognized Abby,
and maybe they didn't like me either,
just on a general principle.
And you thought it would be fun,
or were you just teasing
about loading up the guy's tea?
No, I was a sick person at the time.
I was not kidding.
Yeah.
Now, what about Finch College?
Not a big school, is it?
Well, it's where I'm,
I don't know if they even still exist,
but at the time, it seemed to me,
I could be wrong,
those of you who go to Finch
and are offended by this,
that people with money
send their girls there
who don't make straight A's
and can't get into Vassar
to learn how to pour tea, kind of,
and maybe speak French
and stuff like that.
And did you learn both of those things?
Well, I went there
because I wanted to see New York,
and I can't just say to my parents,
will you give me $10,000
to live in New York for a year?
That's no good.
But how about college in New York?
That sounds better.
They went for that.
Yeah, they went for that.
And they have a pretty good football team?
It's an old girl school, isn't it?
Yeah.
These, by the way, you can have this.
I want you to take that home.
That's our new collapsible drinking cups.
Now, Grace, are you...
Big budget on a show.
Yeah.
Are you still taking photographs of people
with your SX-70?
No, I did that for a while,
and I've got to start doing it again.
Now, what was the purpose of that?
Just for the heck of it?
Well, people were taking pictures of me,
and I thought it'd be a neat idea
to take pictures of the audience
when we were on stage
and shoot it back.
And people seemed to like that.
But it's awfully expensive.
Do you know how much S...
No, you don't care.
Yeah, you're the kind of guy
who does care.
$10 for a load of wood.
Yeah, it's about...
Who cares?
Is it more expensive than firewood?
Yeah.
Well, see, the firewood,
what I got there,
I counted them up.
It was easily a dollar a stick.
Doesn't that seem high for...
Well, high for firewood,
at any rate.
Don't you think?
Do I care?
Yeah, that's probably the question
that America is asking, too.
Now, oh, the country music.
You still a big fan of country music?
Well, now, let me get out of this one.
I do like Willie Nelson.
I like Waylon...
Not Waylon and Madam.
No, no.
Sorry, Waylon Shinnings.
Waylon Shinnings.
And the only thing
that I objected to
was the business of,
my baby has left me.
I'm so lonely.
I'm blue.
Won't you come back to me
because I can't live without you?
And if I hear one more configuration
of that sentiment,
you know,
uh...
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm guessing
there's none of that on this one.
This is software
with Grace Slick
and recorded,
ladies and gentlemen,
in the nude.
Grace, thank you very much
for being here again tonight.
Thanks.
Grace Slick.
We'll be back
to take a look at the Olympic team
from the Virgin Islands
right after you look at this, folks.
By the sea,
by the sea,
by the beautiful sea,
oh, there's nothing
like a day at the beach.
It's one of nature's wonders
until you start to starve.
Then what are you supposed to do?
Just collapse and die?
Well, how about a snack
that is easy to carry?
Toast on a stick
from Mr. Larry.
There's really nothing better
for a long day at the beach
than a whoop
melt in the sun
like a popsicle
or breaking the waves
like fried eggs.
It's the one snack
that actually improves
when it's wet and salty.
So when you're hungry,
here's a good trick.
Mr. Larry's toast
on a stick.
Oh, God.
Come on, my lord.
Hey!
Whew!