STARSHIP DISASTER!
The Starship arrived in Germany, by train, on Friday, June 16. Behind them stood a successful five-week U.S. tour and a chart-riding album. Their first European tour in eight years had opened positively with a well-received show in Amsterdam.
STARSHIP DISASTER!
Grace Slick Quits!
Crowd Destroys Kits!
Band Has Fits! Story & Pix!
by
Andy McConnell
The Starship arrived in Germany, by train, on Friday, June 16. Behind them stood a successful five-week U.S. tour and a chart-riding album. Their first European tour in eight years had opened positively with a well-received show in Amsterdam. Spirits were high. They would leave, four days later, under entirely different*circumstances.
The group checked into the Nassauer Hotel in Weisbaden, a short drive from Frankfurt. The road crew headed directly to the site of'Saturday's show; the Loreley Ampitheatre, 40 miles away, to set up the gear. The tour party awoke the following morning to the first inkling that all was not right. Grace Slick's husband, the Starship's lighting director, Skip Johnson, told drummer John Barbata, "Grace had a bit of a rough night. The doctor's coming,"