Name: Grace Slick on Letterman, August 12, 1987
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Grace Slick on Letterman, August 12, 1987' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-06-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Grace Slick on Letterman, August 12, 1987' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-06-28. Transcript available.

our next guest a legend in uh in these times for more than two decades she has
been with of course
the jefferson airplane and the jefferson starship this is their latest album
right here it's
entitled no protection folks please welcome back to this show grace slick oh
great
did you know that our lead singer in starship his name is mickey thomas and he
has a close
personal working relationship with anton figg anton fig our fine drummer what
what do uh
what do they do together they they write music well there's a song on the album
on this album that
we're plugging i noticed you mentioned to tony randall earlier i love you
because you're not
plugging anything and you don't love me because i am plugging something no but
i i'm upset with you
for another reason though i'll tell you that in a minute there's this you can
plug all you want
okay there's a song called transatlantic that they didn't just play uh and anton
uh wrote that yeah
well it would have been nice to have heard that tonight it would have but anton
didn't teach it to
the band did he no but now but now why now grace why didn't you come on the
show and sing something
from the album you could have sung anything you wanted thank you we we wanted
to hear you sing we
desperately wanted to have you on so we could hear you sing and then we'd visit
a little bit oh i'd make
something up but i'm not going to it's just terrible horrifying blind fears is
what it is well i go
through that nightly so i know exactly i know exactly what you're talking about
now uh your daughter is she on
this mtv all the time well that's up for grabs she does it during the summer
and then she did last
summer and then went to school her name is china her last name is and well some
people call her slick
some people call her cantner it depends upon uh who you like or don't like or
what you can remember
what do you call her i call her the goon the goon actually yeah and she is now
a vj on mtv yeah yeah and so
she may uh or may not be full uh on vj that's up to mtv uh and she's just a kid
17 right she's 16 16.
she's been good at it though i think well yeah i'm sure she is but in all
fairness to the rest of us how
good do you have to be to introduce videos you have to be at least 16. i think
all the vj's ought to be
16. you know because then it's more kind of honest yeah we aren't lying about
our brain level or anything
else now uh does does your daughter love was that wrong was that cruel was that
stupid was
it sarcastic no it was fine it was fine uh now how does your daughter enjoy the
music that you were
responsible for 15 years ago i don't think she cares one way or the other
really she likes duran duran
and she likes uh what she ought to like which is uh people who are more or less
modern although she does
like david bowie and she likes the idea of uh what i do in other words the fact
that i am rock in rock
and roll she likes i'm not sure if the as i said before on some other network
our music blows her
skirt up or anything but she thinks it's all right blows her skirt up now this
is your own daughter
you're talking about here let me mention mickey thomas's name again because
that's actually his
line when he's lukewarm about something he says well i don't know it doesn't
really blow my skirt up
and i just stole it from him and it's stupid because it doesn't make any sense
uh involving a woman
what is all this stuff what do you mean what is all this stuff well i mean does
that do something
well yeah what do you mean does it do something you think we'd put that there
if it didn't do
something okay do you want to see a tight shot of this stuff here and like
maybe put the camera
right over it and then have it do whatever it does that'd be good should paul
should we show it to
or not don't aim it at me though just show it to you
i think i think i've just had a spiritual experience yeah i bet that would blow
what's
his name skirt up huh that would do it um but now let's talk a minute more here
about your daughter
was there ever a point in your relationship when she had listened to your music
or saw you guys
perform or heard a song on the radio no no no and came to you and said geez i
really enjoy this or
really i really think this is nice or oh yeah she was mad we put the first
single which is what they
played it's not over till it's over uh she said what's the first single gonna
be and i told her and she
said that's crazy it ought to be transatlantic she loves that song so she does
make uh real specific
comments about what she likes and doesn't like yeah but i mean i'm not just
saying that because
the early the early stuff was there ever a point where she had dawned on her
that her mother was
a rock and roll star and this was the music she was responsible for no she was
embarrassed by us for
a while that's interesting i had a delorean which is a mistake kind of but i
had one do you still have
the delorean no no but it has the delorean had things that come up like that
the the seat windows
doors what do you call they were gold wings they would come up and they came up
like this and she
was a preppy when she was about eight or whatever it was and she wouldn't let
me drive that to school
to pick her up because it was too flashy yeah she didn't want me to wear black
and boots and all
come but now we're friends she's just as foolish as i am uh you worked as a
model for a while
yeah i i worked as a model before i started in this business but i wouldn't
have lasted long
uh because there's a problem with my legs see how tall are you david uh six
eight
six eight from the very bottom of my butt and the very bottom of your butt to
the top of both of our
heads would probably measure the same or even from the knee to the top of our
heads would measure the
same amount of inches but from here to here my legs are as long as about a four
foot tall human being
something like this is really short here it's uh it's truncated it's it's well
no it's wrong is what
it is and it's too short so i wouldn't have gotten out of san francisco as a
model they don't send
short legs to la or new york yeah but i was a model for a while where did you
work as a model
in the couturier department of eye magnets oh so you would model the fashions
there yeah you put on a
eight thousand dollar uh suit every 15 minutes you change it and walk around
model it for these
that must get to be old after a while well no there were old people though that
had the money to buy
them and they'd come up and say oh dear you must do something put a little
cream on your elbows and i
cream on my elbows i'm 20 years old and you're 85 who cares if i have cream on
my elbows
so it's a fun job exciting too uh jesus nice to see you again yeah now listen
now see it right here
the next time you come in here on the show sing something please
oh oh god another commitment no it'll be it'll be fine you'll love it
everything where you got like
three months to think this over it'll be great thanks we'll be right back here
with john witherspoon
We'll see you next time.