Grace Slick and the Great Society - Nature Boy

[joshualerp]

many things.. fools and kings..... LOVE IT

[psyleooliva]

AMO A GRACE!!!

Hahahaha



[jackhillty]

peter van gelder plays the first flute - grace plays the response part on the recorder

[ROCKINAGOGO]

GANDOLF does

it much better!

[winggoddess]

imo, it seems like the pretty singers have ugly voices, and the ugly singers have pretty voices.

[hocuspocusfocusable]

one of my very first albums ... wish I still had them...damn ex-wives.

[clairevh1996]

GREAT, back in time

[lhemeon]

Thumbs up

[mamaglee]

Anyone know who played flute on this cut? It's a beautiful song.

[NicksandSlick]

@mamaglee

It's not flute, It is Grace Slick playing the Recorder. She often played recorder, most notably on the Jefferson Airplane songs "How Do You Feel" and "Coming Back To Me" on the album called Surrealistic Pillow.

[ConfusedSponge]

@NicksandSlick You sound like a very well - informed fan of Grace Slick. I thought I heard two recorders in this song. One played slightly behind on purpose. Did you know the other guy?

[mamaglee]

Anyone know who played flute on this cut? It's a beautiful song.

[Karamaknapp]

Is it in tune? Not always. Are the lyrics fresh and new after 45 years? Hmm. I find them less than breathtaking. And yet - despite its rough edges, I keep coming back to the Great Society - partly for GS's voice, partly for the original instrumentation, but most of all for the feeling that these people are sensing their power and freedom to make sounds the like of which nobody has ever heard before. What still connects after nearly half a century is the exhilaration of it.

[RikkuPaine01]

@Karamaknapp Kudossssss, I could not have said that better myself. :))) this music is awe inspiring...hypnotizing...

[hermounts]

@Karamaknapp You may no tknow this, but this was actually a cover of a song by Nat King Cole from about 1948. It was written by a sort of 1940's proto-hippie who called himself Eden Ahbez. It was used in the 1948 anti-war film "The Boy With Green Hair."

[ConfusedSponge]

@itsJoanfuckingJett I don't know but Kristen Stewart is a better Joan Jett than Joan Jett. LoL! But not voice and vocal wise though.

[ConfusedSponge]

......and yet her voice and vocal was way better and still maintain it's subtlety. she wasn't that attractive too. she's butch but compare to joan she looked like the world's most graceful angel ever existed. peace and make up. lol. have a nice day. ;-)

[ConfusedSponge]

@itsJoanfuckingJett okay, you're a little confusing. but you're okay. joan's okay. my problem with her is that okay find you're a lesbian. whatever. i'm open-minded. but you don't have to scream and yell in every song. and also act so butch and rough in every music video. you don't have to be uber manly. ever heard of the word subtlety. for instance, janis joplin was a lesbian (bi whatever), she didn't wear makeup. screamed a little.......

[ConfusedSponge]

......Just listen and look at her. What a lady! A legend!

[ConfusedSponge]

@itsJoanfuckingJett If you're Grace's fan, why dissed her? Why isn't she great? Huh? Why? What!!!! I mean what's your point? Decide. I mean seriously come on! What's the point, So Grace isn't great, huh? But Joan Jett is so fucking great! Is that it? I love Punk Rock. Give me Clash and Sex Pistols anytime. Love their music. Joan just screams and yells. Joan's okay but she's just mediocre at her best. Grace Slick is the queen of all Rock music. Not just Psychedelic Rock. She owns the genre.......

[ioriorioriorio]

@ConfusedSponge YOU ARE FORGETTING ONE THING:.....grace was way before punk rock...then in then 'round 1980 she did a bunch of punk that would make Joan Jett miss her period...as for the sex pistols- brainless twits cashin in on teen rebellion

[KadiKannibal]

I'm very envious of my father because he grew up with this amazing music. Most music now, is total shit. I really wish I was around then to experience this greatness!!

[ConfusedSponge]

GRACE SLICK is the MAN! I'm sorry but fuck Joan Jett!

[Agnu123]

@ConfusedSponge So hard, bugger Joan Jett, Grace is where it's at.

[doctorpsycho1960]

A good song, well-performed. And I agree with 23brookside below that it's kind of staggering to think that back in the day, you could go see this band perform live in a small room and meet them afterward.

I wonder what incredible new music I am missing right now....

[Mystefier]

Wow awesome! I've heard Nat King Cole's and David Bowie's version of this song and this one is so different and interesting.

[cocacolaveins]

many things, fools and kings..

[ThinkingOnlyOfYou]

I like that she tried to make the song her own, but no one can truly do this one better then nat king cole. She had a really nice voice though. I liked it, and will totally look up her other music.

[sk9utube]

Young Gracie singing this, or any hot woman for that matter, kind of takes the gay edge off the song. I mean think about it's a love song about meeting "a boy"

[porkfrieddylan]

ummm well first off this song has nothing to do with being gay. its about meeting a wise boy and hearing some things from him...

second Im pretty sure just about everyone has met atleast one boy somewhere in there life. probably atleast a few hundred....

[sk9utube]

Yeah, but at least this version gives me a boner because after all I am "nature boy" and Gracie was very sexy back when she sung this and would've agreed about who am I am!

[phoebehalliwell8989]

very nice!

[AlreadyKnows]

I love it! Her voice gets inside.

[PallMallblu20]

Oddiooooo che bella!!!!!

[itcgroup]

I needed to hear this music.

Life is so degrading sometimes, and a music like this can bring me some peace of mind.

Her voice is so nice and soft. I love Grace Slick.

[gogogadgetspoon]

Well said man.

Don't let the man get you down.

But if he does, let Grace pick you up.

[goback3spaces]

@itcgroup Yeah, she does beautifully with this song. What amazes me is that two dissimiliar singers like Grace Slick and Nat King Cole can make this song wonderful, each in his/her own way.

[23brookside]

wow. Grace does a great job with this song. Love when her voice soars.

Just think, in 1965 and 1966 you could hear this for a couple of bucks, and dance around to the music in the bargain--and maybe get a poster, too.

And you could walk right up to them, say hello, and have a conversation. It was all fresh and new, the cultchah, and no one knew where it would lead, if anywhere at all

No one thought of it as history, herstory, or whatever. And there was no big money in it.

Nice.

[passionpill]

i love grace, luv this song...its awesome

[KingCaillou]

awesome song

[kevin14455]

this version is better than nat king cole´s >.>

[marrrrrrks]

I agree

[goback3spaces]

I'd put Grace's version next to Nat King Cole's.  A different interpretation of a terrific song.

[pathop]

i wish there were a better recording of that, it's soo good.

[mathmatika]

Awesome cover...