[4] While signed to Autumn Records, the band worked with the label's staff producer Sylvester Stewart, who at the time was still in the process of forming Sly and the Family Stone.

Purportedly, Stewart eventually walked out as the band's producer after it took the Great Society over 50 takes to record a version of the song "Free Advice" that was suitable for release.

However, by the time the contract arrived in the mail, Grace had decided to join the Airplane to replace their departing vocalist Signe Toly Anderson.

[7] To capitalize on Grace's fame with the Airplane, Columbia Records released tapes of live performances by the Great Society on the 1968 albums Conspicuous Only in Its Absence and How It Was.

In 1995, Sundazed Music released the Born to Be Burned compilation, featuring both sides of the band's debut single along with a number of previously unreleased studio recordings.

On one occasion, in Fort Worth, Texas, the Great Society (with Grace Slick) and a similarly named four-man group performed on opposite sides of the city on the same evening.