The Great Society的艺人档案
小简介
Grace Slick在顶替掉Signe Anderson加入Jefferson Airplane以后，Jefferson Airplane才开始大红大紫，专辑单曲到处上榜，其实之前Grace Slick已经有相当的名气了，领着这支叫做The Great Society的乐队，和当时的The Grateful Dead ,Janis Joplin不相上下,虽然不是乐团主导，但是Jefferson Airplane的女主唱Grace Slick能写能唱，慧黠、犀利而发人深省的歌词，触及药物、左翼、反战等六○年代的发烧议题，加上充满爆发力的美好嗓音，让她充满个人魅力。
by Richie Unterberger
Before joining Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick sang lead and played various instruments for the Great Society, who were nearly as popular as Jefferson Airplane in the early days of the San Francisco psychedelic scene. Instrumentally, the Great Society were not as disciplined as Airplane. But they were at least their equals in imagination, infusing their probing songwriting with Indian influences, minor key melodic shifts, and groundbreaking, reverb-soaked psychedelic guitar by Slicks brother-in-law, Darby Slick. Darby was also responsible for penning Somebody to Love, which Grace brought with her to Airplane, who took it into the Top Five in 1967. The Great Society broke up in late 1966 after recording only one locally released single; after Jefferson Airplane became stars, Columbia issued a couple of live albums of the Great Society performing at San Franciscos Matrix Club in 1966.
小简介
Grace Slick在顶替掉Signe Anderson加入Jefferson Airplane以后，Jefferson Airplane才开始大红大紫，专辑单曲到处上榜，其实之前Grace Slick已经有相当的名气了，领着这支叫做The Great Society的乐队，和当时的The Grateful Dead ,Janis Joplin不相上下,虽然不是乐团主导，但是Jefferson Airplane的女主唱Grace Slick能写能唱，慧黠、犀利而发人深省的歌词，触及药物、左翼、反战等六○年代的发烧议题，加上充满爆发力的美好嗓音，让她充满个人魅力。
by Richie Unterberger
Before joining Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick sang lead and played various instruments for the Great Society, who were nearly as popular as Jefferson Airplane in the early days of the San Francisco psychedelic scene. Instrumentally, the Great Society were not as disciplined as Airplane. But they were at least their equals in imagination, infusing their probing songwriting with Indian influences, minor key melodic shifts, and groundbreaking, reverb-soaked psychedelic guitar by Slicks brother-in-law, Darby Slick. Darby was also responsible for penning Somebody to Love, which Grace brought with her to Airplane, who took it into the Top Five in 1967. The Great Society broke up in late 1966 after recording only one locally released single; after Jefferson Airplane became stars, Columbia issued a couple of live albums of the Great Society performing at San Franciscos Matrix Club in 1966.
