Jerry Slick

Jerry Slick was married to Grace Slick (the former Grace Wing) and an aspiring filmmaker when he, Grace, and his guitarist brother Darby decided to form a band in the mid-1960s. Jerry did not have much musical experience, but got in on the action by playing drums. Inexperienced drummers, and inexperienced musicians in general, weren't that rare in the days when the bohemian music of choice was switching from folk to rock, and people found themselves playing instruments they had never or rarely touched. Skip Spence of the early Jefferson Airplane, for instance, was a guitarist, switching to drums immediately when he was recruited for the drumkit by Marty Balin. Still, Slick's drumming on The Great Society tracks available on several albums' worth of live and studio material that was unreleased in the 1960s (as well as on their sole single) is raw, though adequate for the fledgling psychedelic band's needs.



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