It was also during this tour that Slick and Morrison allegedly engaged in a brief sexual relationship, described in Slick's 1998 autobiography.

Slick's recruitment proved pivotal to the Airplane's commercial breakthrough — she possessed a powerful and supple contralto voice that complemented Balin's and was well-suited to the group's amplified psychedelic music, and as a former model, her good looks and stage presence greatly enhanced the group's live impact.

Grace Slick and Paul Kantner had begun a relationship during 1970, and on January 25, 1971, their daughter China Wing Kantner (" Wing " was Slick's maiden name ) was born.

" Light the Sky on Fire " ( backed with Sears ' and Slick's " Hyperdrive ", from Dragon Fly ) was included as a bonus single in the original packaging of album.

Driven by Slick's forceful vocal, the song's hard-rock sound was atypical of the group's more folk-oriented psychedelia that comprised most of their previous style and some of the album.

Slick's interest in cryptozoology was little known until the 1989 publication of the biography Tom Slick and the Search for Yeti, by Loren Coleman.

Stewart, for example, assisted a Slick-backed expedition in smuggling a piece of the Pangboche Yeti hand back to England for scientific analysis, Loren Coleman was to discover from Slick's files and confirmation from Stewart before his death.

Slick's ends with this: " Lather was 30 years old today, they took away all of his toys.

However, Graham's condition was such that he could no longer handle the physical demands of being a wrestler, so Reed and Slick's newest acquisition, the One Man Gang, " injured " Graham in a sneak attack that was used to explain his permanent retirement.

In 1959, supposed Yeti feces were collected by one of Slick's expeditions ; fecal analysis found a parasite which could not be classified.

Grace Slick's " Lather ," which opens the album, is said to be about her affair with drummer Spencer Dryden and his 30th birthday.

Slick's recuperation took a few months, forcing the Airplane to curtail their concert and touring commitments.

) These problems were exacerbated by escalating drug use — especially Slick's alcoholism — which caused the Airplane to become increasingly unreliable in their live commitments and led to some chaotic situations at concerts.

Balin's reluctance to tour had kept the band off the road for over a year, and Slick's alcoholism increasingly became a problem, which led to two consecutive nights of disastrous concerts in Germany in June 1978.

After the debacle, Kantner asked for Slick's resignation from the band.

During the same period, he worked as a staff record producer for Autumn Records, producing for San Francisco-area bands such as The Beau Brummels, The Mojo Men, Bobby Freeman, and Grace Slick's first band, the Great Society.

In emergencies when Tom and Lucy must contact Henry, they tie messages on Slick's back and send them to Henry.

Slick's father, Thomas Baker Slick, Sr., a. k. a. " The King of the Wildcatters ", had made a fortune during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s.

That book mentions many of Tom Slick's adventures, in politics, art, science, and cryptozoology, including his involvement with the CIA and Howard Hughes.

In 1959 Peter Byrne, a member of Slick's expedition that year, reportedly stole pieces of the artifact after the monks who owned it refused to allow its removal for study.

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman rediscovered this story while writing Tom Slick's biography in the 1980s.

* With other Jefferson Airplane members as session musicians on ex-member Grace Slick's album Manhole.

When Cottonmouth stated that the supposed records were in Slick's mind, Luke Cage slammed Cottonmouth into an oak desk where Cottonmouth fell unconscious and then called the police to come pick up Cottonmouth.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Monfreid also wrote in several places about men of his crew suffering stingray wounds while standing and wading into Red Sea shallows to load or unload smuggled wares: he wrote that to " save the man's life ", searing the wound with a red-hot iron was necessary.

However Cavendish was one a number of riders to withdraw having suffered in the searing Spanish heat.

" As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground.

" " Cry to Me " was written ( as Bert Russell ) and produced by Bert Berns, " a roly-poly white New Yorker with a deep love and empathy for black music despite a formal music education at the Juilliard School Of Music and a music background far removed from the searing soul in which, by 1963, he specialised ", with whom Burke had a difficult relationship.

I was a big Vanilla Fudge fan, with their Hammond organ and searing guitar on top, and we had David's high vibrato vocals anyway so that's how we decided to shape it ", Box recalled.

The sound of swamp blues was characterised by " eerie echo, shuffle beats, tremolo guitars, searing harmonica and sparse percussion ".

Increasingly, the photos that Life was printing of the war in Vietnam were searing images of death and loss.

Sharkey was known for playing searing hot and technically virtuoso trumpet with a beautiful tone.

Throughout his career he was known for a distinctive tone, akin to the tenor saxophone and often described with such adjectives as " bitter-sweet ", piercing, or searing ; a slightly sharp pitch ; and a strong foundation in the blues.

A searing portrait of the bomb and its effects, the article was a publishing sensation.

Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

After the fall of Pagan, the Mongols left the searing Irrawaddy valley but the Pagan Kingdom was irreparably broken up into several small kingdoms.

On March 30, it was reported that Sadr, through clerics speaking on his behalf, " delivered a searing speech ... condemning the American presence in Iraq ... call for an anti-occupation mass protest on April 9 ...." This call to protest was significant in that, since the beginning of the American troop surge ( which began on February 14, 2007 ), Sadr had ordered his " militia to lie low during the new Baghdad security plan so as not to provoke a direct confrontation with the Americans.

When he was finally brought to the stake his courage left him, and as the fires were lit he is said to have quickly cried out to recant and was pulled from the fire, although by then he had been “ well scorched .” Two or three weeks later he was again brought before the courts and, no longer fearing the searing flames, refused and “ blasphemed more audaciously than before .” The King quickly ordered his final execution, and on 11 April 1612, he was once more led to the stake.

Käthe Kollwitz ( July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945 ) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century.

Critics praised her lyrics for their " searing imagery ", " seething poetics ", and " intelligence " " My approach was always that I had something to say, I had a point of view ," Iyall said, commenting on her outspokeness.

He is credited as writer of classic heavy metal tunes " If I Were King ", " Lets Go ", and " 100mph "; was voted one of the top 15 guitarists of the 1980s and was famed for his searing Fender Telecaster sound.

Mike was known for searing lead guitar runs performed on his collection of Gibson SG guitars.