great society

...right from the get go a totally drugged beatnik vibe is thrown up with a doomed folk rock jangle going on and grace wailing in a modal eastern vibe like a possessed inter-dimensional being as she's definitely on another plane of consciousness, indeed they're well off in the dream state, totally grooved up...showing their love of rock'n'roll and r'n'b they blow up in a flowing jazz mode, everything is coming naturally and the whole combo are vibing off each other digging the moment...even when they get down with some folkpop, the currency of the day in the new super hip 'cher&sonny' world but by the time it moved north to frisco it had consumed a narcotic state of degeneracy and its sounds radical in the societies hands...they get down with english rhythm&blues straight from the crawdaddy club and some garage rock but the sound is different again with these cats, its much more loose and spread around bopping in hallucinogenic trance...partly gene vincent filtered through electric dylan...if dylan had done more acid instead of the speed the society could have been real cool working with him on a nearly equal level as the whole dylan ethic of getting real and getting free with the truth is happening here all the time...track nine is about their support for lenny bruce, the artschool bohos respect the free speech nightclub entertainer with the overdose of cuboid thinking pushing him under...if they had stayed around instead of getting involved with the airplane at gigs they'd been well hep with the ballroom crowd as they'd stretch out without knowing time was passing...this disk is their single plus demos and the non production is spot on with the vibe as these guys got only to have the tape on, no unnecessary knob twiddling as they get busy buzzing in superfried ether...one of the greatest combos of all time and all layabouts need to be digging the temporal wobbling vibrations that are liberated once more...

...this wax of live recordings from 1966 (not all recorded at the matrix according to cats who supposedly know about such important stuff) easily shows that at this time in the emerging new music evolution, the society were streets ahead of the pack when it came to forward thinking hep boho tranced out rocking vibes...these cats bolted together folk and jazz so they mingled and became some strange hybrid that only beatnix could understand, and then added some energy they copped from listening to fabfour disks and turned it into modal noise with proto psychedelic ballroom guitar noodle...the whole thing has reefered amateur hour ambitions that show if they stayed together they would have become important then and there in underground circles (squares ain't ever going to dig this bleat) instead of being just an adjunct to the airplane story...