The legendary sexual encounter between Jim Morrison and Grace Slick: “I’m a terrible slob”
It was at the end of the 60s and in rock dominated the music scene thanks to the widespread consumption of the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (commonly known as LSD or just acid) among young people in the United States. At that time, in 1969, Woodstock Festivalwhich historically brought together a large number hippieswhose lifestyle began to spread through his thoughts pacifists and sexual freedom.
Two great figures of this time were singers Jim Morrison and Grace Slickwho even briefly engaged sexually.
One as the central figure of The Doors and the other as the lead vocals of Jefferson Airplane, Jim and Grace were the sexiest faces and most brilliant minds of the movement. youth counterculturebut they were definitely not made for each other. And Slick herself admitted that during an interview for the magazine Louder sound in 2019, in which he recounted a legendary anecdote of a single time she and Jim had sex.
While his bands toured Europe in 1968, Jim Morrison and Grace Slick They met at the same place very by chance. They traveled to the UK for the first annual Isle of Wight Festival and their arrival was highly anticipated by fans and press alike.
It was in this presentation Jim and Grace had a duet during one of the performances Jefferson Airplane. They finally saw each other face to face and embraced towards the end of the song improvisation… And it didn’t end there. After the concert, the singers continued the tension on stage in a hotel bed that Slick doesn’t remember after so many years.
“Jim was a very well equipped boy.Grace remembered mischievously. “Bigger than normal“. At first he believed that all was well that night of passion, Morrison never heard from her again.. “As I was leaving, I said, ‘Call me if you want.’ And he never did. So apparently I’m a terrible slob“, he told in his interview with Louder sound.
Grace Slick She may have been offended, but she was no stranger to the drug problems she faced. Jim Morrison at that time. In between, the singer and songwriter tried a little bit of everything psychedelic drugs; but he LSD and drug They were not absent from his daily routine. That was part of the culture. hippie: lack of control and unbridled love. Although according to what Slick reveals, it is frontman from The Doors I didn’t have such deep feelings for her. Eventually casual sex Even for the rock legend, it was part of everyday life.
“I remember coming back from an Airplane concert in 1967 and arriving at the Tropicana Motel with (Paul) Kantner and Morrison was in the hallway, a sour idiot, completely naked and barking like a dog.“, Slick revealed about the situation before their sexual encounter, when he had the opportunity to see the musician up close in the company of his bandmate and founder Jefferson Airplanewho didn’t like the atmosphere too much. “Paul just avoided him and went to his room.
Grace never took it personally that she was ignored after that intimate episode. He knew that the chances of someone like Jim remembering his phone were slim because his mind was always somewhere else, “I liked Jim“, he admitted. “Most women liked him. He was beautiful, but he was so crazy that you couldn’t talk to him half the time. “He was used as a human guinea pig to see how far the human brain could be pushed.”
As far as she was concerned, her relationship with drugs was like that of the average hippie of the time, however she didn’t go that far with addiction because she didn’t have the emotional issues that could cause drug addiction. LSD.
“Personally, I’ve never been crazy about acid” he assured in the same interview. “I didn’t think it would affect you unless you had mental issues to begin with, and I didn’t. It should be noted that in 1970 he almost went to jail after going to the White House on an invitation Tricia Nixon, daughter of President Richard Nixonwho established a strong in his government narcotics control principles.
Grace Slick’s attitude towards drugs was very critical of the hypocrisy between the elderly and their addictions behind closed doors and their children who consumed drugs freely and in public. That’s what he expresses in the lyrics of the song”White rabbit“, one of his biggest hits with Jefferson Airplane:
One pill will make you bigger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones your mother gives you
Do nothing at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
Once Grace gave birth to her first daughter in January 1971, everything stopped. and the acid era slowly died to give way to new currents in music. It is worth noting that this little girl will become actress China Kantner.
In July of the same year Jim Morrison He left this world forever.
Singer in his apartment in the Le Marais district of Paris, France died of cardiac arrest, probably caused by a heroin overdose. He was 27 years old, and to this day theories are still being formed about his sudden death. His grave is located in Paris Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
Grace Slick He is currently 84 years old and stopped playing music in 1990. After that he started performing arts. In recent years, he has shared details about the origins of his musical creations Jefferson Airplane and their subsequent grouping Jefferson’s starship.
In his special article in Louder sound in 2019, he opened up about his biggest regret: “Things I wish I had done and not done sleeping with Jimi Hendrix and riding horses“.