Grace Slick

This early poster by Wes Wilson features a haunting image of Grace Slick when she was still playing with the Great Society, a band that included her then-husband Jerry Slick on guitar and his brother Darby Slick on drums. In another six weeks or so Grace would be invited to join the Jefferson Airplane after their lead female singer, the pregnant Signe Anderson stepped away for the rock and roll lifestyle. Interestingly, the Airplane’s two biggest hits, “Somebody to Love,” and “White Rabbit,” were both Great Society songs that Grace brought over to the group.

The 13th Floor Elevators were an Austin, Texas based group led by lead singer Roky Erickson. Considered pioneers of psychedelic music, they actually had business cards printed in January 1966 with the word “Psychedelic” on them. They had a rising single at the time of these shows, “You’re Gonna Miss Me.” In November 1966 they released the album “The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators”, which became popular among the burgeoning counterculture. Tommy Hall's sleeve-notes for the album, which advocated chemical agents (such as LSD) as a gateway to a higher, 'non-Aristotelian' state of consciousness, has also contributed to the album's cult