How To Get Kicked Out Of A Band When You’re Playing In Germany, By Grace Slick
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship and then just Starship) was always the living incarnation of psychedelic San Francisco weirdness. She cared very little for societal norms, she did tons of drugs, she slept with whomever she wanted and didn’t mind telling stories afterward. In 1978, Jefferson Starship was in Hamburg, Germany, to play a concert and Slick got incredibly loaded. And the things that struck her as funny in this state were not funny at all. She took to the stage taunting the audience, repeatedly asking the question “Who won the war?” She called them Nazis and gave the heil-Hitler salute. The audience rioted and set the band’s instruments on fire, then tossed them in the river.