grace slick & the great society-white rabbit

[brianallancobb]

What's poor Grace supposed to do while they're noodling around on their guitars?

[67psych]

@brianallancobb She plays the Bass on this track!!

[brianallancobb]

@67psych

Do tell...a double-threat. :-)

[FrequentlyFried]

guitar player sounds like a rookie lol I heard her band was totally inspired to play from the airplane so it's like the guitar player is borrowing from Jorma's style but it's weird because it's such an icionic song that it's hard to wrap ur brain around the fact that he played this song first..it sounds like a cover band and that's in a way what they were doing but with their own songs..great songs. Jorma and the gang just improved the playing of guys who were trying to sound like them.lol

[lizaftm]

what a performance!!!i prefer this version

[FunKitYourSelf]

backflash

[philmart]

Grace looks loaded... bwaaah ahahaha!

[sirorson]

Flashback!



[sirorson]

Flashback!

[merseymain]

Excellent

[zonkov88]

the images are from woodstock though right?

[celebrant9]

Grace simply ROCKS that bass in the introduction. One trippy and addictive bassline she played!

[oudzuidNL]

fantastic bassplayer

[peaceloveandrecords]

It really has that San Fransisco sound! so pretty much 1 word, "Groovy"

[67psych]

@peaceloveandrecords 'Lookin Drawn & Haggard Thru the Dawn They Staggered,With a Sound That They Found Over Frisco Way!!'

[TheHippieTeenager]

this version is as groovy as the airplanes version maybe even better....

[JrFLYnnIV]

wow, this is so much better than the studio version.

[HIPHOPrevoltion]

it is litearture by lewis..a"alice in Wonderland'

[HIPHOPrevoltion]

enya

[Asifk88]

i agree, amazing intro, the rest is indeed better in the JA version

[canadianheadhunter]

The long instrumental at the beginning is great -- but the song portion, the second half of this recording, is better in the Jefferson Airplane version

[TheHippie206]

As I am sure most of you said, this version is better than the Surrealistic Pillow version by Jefferson Airplane. Also, before Slick joined JA, it was just the Marty Balin band. Signe only sang one song on the debut of JA. When Slick joined, the power shifted around to more of a democracy. She brought JA to stardom. Had she stayed with GS, they would be the one that was at Woodstock and such. She made both bands. Despite JA was more disciplined, they would not have made it without her.

[elps84]

i've always thought this version was superior to JA's

[Vermiliontea]

@elps84 IMO some 80% of everything Great Society did is superior to JA's very best. JA was fairly known in the days, but if Grace hadn't brought White Rabbit and Somebody to Love to JA, no one would know of Jefferson Airplane today. They'd be utterly forgotten. With the creative groove Derby (her brother in law) and Grace had going in G.Society, had she stayed, Great Society might have become one of history's greatest bands. Pity.

[66agosto]

THE WORLD NEED LSD TO LIVE HAPPY (FEED YOUR HEAD)

[LesbianVampireLover]

This predated The Airplane, but man, Grace Slick was oh so important in the psychedelic days. Those of us old enough to have lived through the day remember tha she was pretty hot. But first with The Great Society and then of course, The Airplane, she was so much on the leading edge of it all.

[rxbecca]

man the book Go Ask Alice, named from this song, is fuckin incredible. If you haven't read I highly recommend it. It's a diary of a 13 year old girl who gets into the drug world. Epic book and a true story.

[767fife]

@rxbecca

The "true story" is highly questionable, read the Wikipedia page about it.

[rubyrose456]

Incredible... Thanks

[Hucking]

Shit! What an intro :O

[Grave187RIP13]

Drawing a portrait of her for my art class.

The shit looks groovy as fuck.

[SingerSeeksBand]

I really like this. I HAVE a cover song of GRACE's SOMebody TO LOVE. CHECK IT... please leave comments

[celebrant9]

Man,that intro is trippy as hell!

Love both Great Societys and Jefferson Airplanes versions, they do actually sound like entirely different songs, if thats even possible,lol.

Grace is the queen anyhow.

Her voice,Im speechless.

[Halliday7895]

My uncle Peter Van Gelder played bass and sax on this! this is my first time hearing this! Now he's an accomplished Sitar player Check him out! Peter Van Gelder!

[thankGodforDavidG]

trippy intro leading to 4:28 and Grace's powerful voice, she's really great in either version !

[violentpsdhb]

THIS IS THE SHIT

[millicentium]

you all make this old man very happy Mahalo.

Darby Slick

[RatherLargeAllan]

This is from the album "Conspicuous Only In It's Absence" and I think it was recorded live at Bill Graham's Fillmore. I've still got the vinyl somewhere but I can't be bothered to dig it out. This and 'Somebody to Love' are the stand out tracks but the whole disc is a must have for rock historians

[henkstrekpek]

thanks, been looking for this for a long time now

[jitterbug121]

really dig this version

[MyInnerEyeMike]

This is the version that should have been performed on the Smothers Brothers show!!

[Xamsky]

Видеоряд выдернут из фильма "Woodstock 3 days of peace and music" 1970 года о фестивале Woodstock '69 В это время The great society уже не существовало. А Грэйс уже играла в составе Jefferson Airplane.

[Fedejr712]

PLEASE A LINK TO DOWNLOAD IT!

[annhnna]

la puedes descargar de ARES un programa para descargar musica buscalo.... suerte

[impulsobytheshades]

in this you can really hear that sketches of spain and bolero reminiscences but I can't say this is better, I think both are quite good but in different ways, this maybe have more lsd and psychodelic taste but the other has an amazing cadence that get your whole self into an irresistible and inexplicable trip...now if you let me I'm going to get myself high

[goblinking169]

cool this is the best version, score some nice lsd in australia last night. Wow LSD still kicks my arse.

[Blabbleah]

Much better than the usual version!

[Gertrudis67]

This is what the 60's were about. F'in cool.!!!!!Great Society was damn cool! Luv the Eastern Indian sound. Sounds today are gutter. No beauty or love.

[JusshereChillin]

ne one kno when n where thizz was recorded

[marrrrrrks]

I do, 1966 at the matrix

[tinkerbelly1000]

Absolutely outstanding. Its a close call between Grace and the lead singer of Shocking Blue, i cant remember her name. You can tell a lot of the new so called "artists", especially florence and the machine have copied this style. Or tried anyway.

[grimgrimdeath666]

this is some good shit i never heard this before but i have herd great society - free advice

[beterc0re20]

damn, this intro is great!

[unclebobunclebob]

Hear those colors.

Man.

[espfan1027]

and you`ve just had some kind of a mushroom and your mind is moving Slow. thanks so much for posting. Such filling and satisfying version!!!

[goblinking169]

best version

[fishcat42]

Agreed. JA lost a nice instrumental, presumably to make it more marketable, and no other cover I've heard really has much spirit to it. Everything in this version is nicely balanced and is important to the song.

[xxxxxxxabbiexxxxxxx]

some one said she sounds like thats florence and a machine person

[kermankalle]

what is this. Blaa...yeah.

[lukauskis]

well she was with JA in woodstock, so this early band must great society must be feel like these people who didn't get to the moon of expeditions that were goin to ze moooon... u know what i mean

[TheKirillx]

ease up on weed dude :)

[lukauskis]

damn, i thought it's not my comment. but after 5 times reading it i understood what i mean :D

[fishcat42]

The secret is to read it backwards at half speed.

[peterbremer30]

mooi stukkie muziek mag zeker geschreven worden, Peter Bremer

[jonneyd]

xcN U GET THIS ON CD

[drn1023]

On CD...yes. I used to have it on 8 track. along with Quicksilver Happy Trails. If you like this, check it out...both out of the mid 60's San Francisco music scene. good shit.

[Nooreazy]

Grace slick is sooo pretty :D

[phishisgood]

she is sooo old now... but she's still cool

[nicodagger]

@Nooreazy she was. Now.....it's depressing and horrible to see her picture.

[bsastarfire250]

@nicodagger You're wrong. She has aged and hasn't tried to hide it by cosmetic surgery etc. She's 71 not 25 and comfortable in herself.

1965 version is hot tho!

[foolintherain2272]

@nicodagger who gives a shit what she looked or looks like, music doesnt have a specific face.. just listen.

[ToxicHolocaust2050]

@Nooreazy WAS you mean? Look beneath the flesh, you'll see we all have inner beauty, well, except for GW Bush, his family, Hitler, John Howard, bill Gates, awww damn it, maybe not many at all, ...

[walkthrougheRr]

@Nooreazy Was! pretty :D

[azfabio]

Simply fantastic! Amazing! Thank you very much for posting this video.

[Iberianwildwolf]

What a great intro and what a great load of LSD they must have on. lol

[cokeydear]

The longest intro EVER! But still very amazing

[2206411411]

No worse than Iron Butterfly's IGoE 's musical interlude.

[cokeydear]

...So true haha, and I love that one too. :D

[767fife]

well, if you look at some prog rock song they have intros as long as this song

[BruceK10032]

God, I would never have thought this music was from 1965! These people were so ahead of their time!

[2206411411]

This was definitely very sophisticated for the time, musically very rich in sounds and the lyrics are rich in imagery. This original version also puts a lot of work into the intro - an area of the song few bands (ACDC being one) bother to concentrate on. It's a pity later versions cut most of it out.

[RatherLargeAllan]

Nah....you should listen to what Jazz was up to 5 years earlier!

[imbob1234566]

DONT EVER TAKE THIS VIDEO OFF PLEASZE!!! =) -peace *

[mistyw49686]

it was the 60 70's and they all was on drugz of some sort.

[HemiHead66]

Why can't I get this dam thing to play? Figures, it's the only full length version on the net. Somebody's probably screaming copy write infringement.

[cristo0627]

Excellent-thanks for posting this!!!!!!

[radiofreesimulacrum]

aww how come this is gone?

[Blabbleah]

Best version

[richardc0077]

Awesome version. I do like both versions. This is the first time I have heard this. Thanks for posting.

[0ewelina0]

Ty chamie! Za blad, ktory smiales popelnic nasle na ciebie goscia tak zlego ... Tak ZLEGO ... TAK ZLEGO ze az sila woli rozwali ci dzwiek w komputerze i nigdy juz niczego nie posluchasz, nigdy juz nieczego nie zamiescisz w necie i nigdy juz nikogo nie wprowadzisz w tak podla zasadzke!!! buziaczki ...

[lKingLouisl]

I personally prefer this version. Each to his own.

[ErikVaughnDillinger]

to each his own.

[lKingLouisl]

Indeed.

[Uodnelome]

As mentioned, the Jefferson Airplane version is much tighter...though it is neat to hear that the chord progression from the line "go ask alice..." carried over.

[raysalsa1]

@Uodnelome As grace has said in interviews JA were better musicians than gr society. jack and jorma really are ouitstanding musicians. that said i think this version of WRabbit has better feel to it than JA version. hypnotic intro awesome. the half ass bolero sound in JA as grace would call it was more marketable being only 2 and half minutes. san fran bands in 60's were great. immense vision!

[marrrrrrks]

I love the guitar

[ledzeprebecca]

Wow! It's absolutely amazing what 6 minutes can do! I think that JA's version is a little better, as the intro and verses mesh well. If the Great Society had merged the intro and singing parts more, it would have been a stellar version as well because the background music and the vocals don't exactly go together that well. Still sounds great though! Grace Slick sure was a musical genius, supposedly she wrote this song in 30 minutes.

[JimmyPage7777]

thats called drugs

that why it took her 30 min

[cokeydear]

Hey even with drugs, it still took some talent. If you gave me some drugs and 30 minutes, no way in hell would I have come up with something like this

[zalen292]

lmfao nice.

[oldlps45s]

Love the GREAT SOCIETY!!! The plucking guitar is awesome. I have this album on vinyl. Great posting! Do you have any more tracks?

[mobyboy]

wow ! i just found out today that this is the origion and not 67 jefferson airplane version

[DaisyJoy]

mobyboy, Grace brought this song and "Somebody To Love" to the Airplane...they were on "Surrealistic Pillow"... but they were Great Society songs first :)

Fantastic to hear this version!!!

[Olsporky]

Its pretty cool to hear the Great Society version of this sing. The into is a little to long but its still good, Thanks for adding this video :)

[boerborn]

I love this song.

Grace Slick had a fine band with The Great Society.

Can someone please post the song " Arbitration" by The Great Society.

[marrrrrrks]

I did

[radiofreesimulacrum]

I....Am.....Freaking....Out...­.Man

[imagine775]

Interesting to hear, but I definitely like the JA version better. The intro felt too long, and musically the backup and the melody doesn't mesh as well. Very cool to hear though, thanks for putting this up!

[paolandreaa]

my freinds dad is david miner fromm the great society.

:D

[gerontophil]

Damn , this intro is awesome !

[JimmiDensen]

this version is very different from jefferson airplane version. difficult to say which one is better, i love them both.

[CWIENBERG]

thanks for putting this on, it's very good - been searching for the great society's version. can't help but feeling bad for TGS that JA went on to break thru with their two songs as their biggest hits. but the 4-minute prelude in this version before singing begings perhaps suggests that TGS didn't have the mainstream-ish aspirations of JA and would therefor never have been able to immortalize the songs like JA did.

[2206411411]

You're probably right, and it's a pity that the mainstream and the truly original so rarely get along. I guess there's a side of me that wonders if there'd been another way, some way for TGS and JA to partner with TGS experimenting and JA commercializing. Probably not, but many mainstream groups produce little that's interesting, many experimental groups never get heard, and the crossovers (especially with this song) produced results.

[truthtalk77]

grace has never seemed the same without Jack casady rumbling away on the bass behind her

[SEAOFGREEN]

A+++++++

[Whistledawgs]

Nice-thanks!!

[lilic1]

I never heard a Great Society song before!!! It is very different from what the Airplane recorded in late 1966.

Woooow, thanks for posting it!:))

[sinhed]

DMT

[LightMyFire92]

LSD

[sevenender]

feed my head

[stairway9]

I wish i was there...:(

[JerryWE]

This is the Original Version of White Rabbit when Grace Slick was with The Great Society. Before she joined Jefferson Airplane.

[plueschinger]

Darby Slick and Grace are incredible.

Good old stuff.

regards

Plueschinger

[joekelly250]

Damn, man, look at the last shot... Grace is fuuuuuuuuuucked uuuuuuuup.

...Oh, right -- far out song. Better than the Airplane version, in fact.

[jackhillty]

I think grace plays bass on this....? peter van gelder plays the soprano sax

[electrohippie09]

hermosa versión, me gusta mucho tanto esta versión como la de Don´t you love Somebody to love son mas lentas y tranquilas y se puede apreciar mas la voz de Grace... la verdad que the great society sonaba muy bien..

hermoso.

gracias.

[Pigeon55]

It Fed My Head,thanks

[Jopy98]

Dude.  Whoa.