The Great Society Release Grace Slick Signature "Someone To Love" 50 Years Ago
Before Grace Slick's signature song "Somebody To Love" came to know Jefferson Airplane, it was known as The Great Society's "Someone To Love", the only single released from her first band before it's breakup. Known mostly throughout the San Fransisco area at the time, the song received little radio airplay elsewhere in the country, but would live on to be one of the most influential songs of the 60's after it's Airplane takeoff. Follow along for more.
Grace Slick is Rock & Roll's first all American bad ass Rebelle. She un-apologetically burst onto the scene in the 60's, and hasn't stopped since. With singles released in 1966 as well as 1996, and an album with Jefferson Starship in 1976, Grace Slick is a 3 Level Rebelle this year.
The Great Society's original version was definitely not as in your face as the later recorded version by Jefferson Airplane. Set to a much slower tempo the song stumbles forward, Grace Slick still honing her howling skills, showing all sorts of potential to be the huge success it would soon be. Grace and her two bands would all end up not only becoming Icons for the San Fransisco Psychedelic music movement of the late 60's, but for Rock & Roll altogether. The short lived Great Society broke up after a year or so of live performances, many of which were opening for at the time local band Jefferson Airplane. After being impressed with Slicks stage presence, and in need of a new front woman, they asked her aboard and that's when Jefferson Airplane really took flight!
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