Conspicuous Only in Its Absence | ||||
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Released | March 1968 | |||
Recorded | 1966 | |||
Venue | The Matrix, San Francisco | |||
Genre | Psychedelic rock, raga rock | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Peter Abram | |||
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Conspicuous Only in Its Absence is a live album by the American psychedelic rock band the Great Society, released in 1968 by Columbia Records. [1] It was their first album released and consists of recordings made during a live concert performance by the band at The Matrix club in San Francisco in 1966. [2] Additional recordings from the same concert were released later in 1968 on the album How It Was. [3] These two albums were repackaged in 1971 as a double album called Collector's Item. [1]
Upon its initial release in 1968, Conspicuous Only in Its Absence reached No. 166 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. [4] A single featuring "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" and "Didn't Think So" was released in conjunction with the album by Columbia Records but it failed to chart. [5]
Singer Grace Slick took her song "White Rabbit" and Darby Slick's song "Somebody to Love" to her next band, Jefferson Airplane.