Grace Slick and The Great Society

Collector's Item 1971

Grace Slick and The Great Society was a band in 1965-1966. Grace Slick was the lead singer but went to Jefferson Airplane to replace Singe Anderson. Jefferson Airplane recorded the two biggest songs The Great Society sung, White Rabbit and Someone to Love, since Grace Slick composed the songs.

In Someone to Love the guitar and drums feel like they are each doing their own thing, yet it still seems to work together. The chorus bridges the gap between them the most. It is an interesting song. The song Sally Go ‘Round the Roses’ has an Indian feel to it, it is unique. There is a lot of dissonance in the song and what sounds like distortion of the guitar. I enjoyed it

White Rabbit feels like a snake charmer. Visualizing the music in my head, I see people sitting on carpets in the desert charming snakes and smoking hookah at sunset. The lyrics are in the last two minuets of the six-minuet song, a big lead up to a few words at the end.

Overall, the recordings have a rusty sound to them. It seems like the band is in a garage recording music. To me, it gives an amateurish feel that is pure instead fraudulent. The music is carefree, open and unplanned just like the era it was made in.