Jefferson Airplane, White Rabbit - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction

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  • @shacharh5470
    @shacharh5470 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +617

    "I have fallen in love with the singer"
    Well, Grace Slick definitely is somebody to love.

    • @rasraster
      @rasraster 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      Haha - I see what you did there 😅

    • @vetstadiumastroturf5756
      @vetstadiumastroturf5756 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't you want somebody to love?
      You better find somebody to love.
      th-cam.com/video/2EdLasOrG6c/w-d-xo.html

    • @monsterhog1118
      @monsterhog1118 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@shacharh5470 nice 🤣

    • @garryiglesias4074
      @garryiglesias4074 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I may add: somebody we NEED to love.
      (edit: fixed my clumsy English :) ).

    • @granfall00n
      @granfall00n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      So glad you fell in love with that magnificent voice. Recognisable in two notes.

  • @stevem1965
    @stevem1965 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +356

    Grace Slick, the Voice That Launched a Thousand Trips!

    • @Rogue0257
      @Rogue0257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I think you're missing a few zeros.

    • @bamacopeland4372
      @bamacopeland4372 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@Rogue0257 Definitely but it doesn't have the great sounding appeal as a thousand

    • @andybricks576
      @andybricks576 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Totally dude, Peace out

    • @lolxmew6114
      @lolxmew6114 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      i want you to throw the radio in the tub when white rabbit peaks

    • @samanthat6901
      @samanthat6901 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅​@@Rogue0257

  • @joemarchi1
    @joemarchi1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +214

    Slick herself admitted that Bolero inspired the snare and the slow crescendo. Great piece of imaginative music.

    • @timothygermann780
      @timothygermann780 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I've never heard that, but now that you mention it, I can definitely see Bolero influencing it.

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think she also said that this was influenced by Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis which she was listening to at the time

    • @joemarchi1
      @joemarchi1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Hartlor_Tayley I hadn't read that but I can certainly understand how that could be. Sketches of Spain begins with his jazz riff on the Concerto de Aranjuez. Sure. Why not.

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@joemarchi1 I heard her say as much somewhere and I’m sure she was familiar with Ravel Bolero too.

  • @red-stapler574
    @red-stapler574 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +215

    Grace Slick is one of the most unique singing voices in all rock music.

    • @dampergoldenrod4156
      @dampergoldenrod4156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Grace slick is a tragic victim of males humiliating females... for some reason she allowed people to depict her as a flake and erratic when she was the best singer of the 60s and 1970s and early 1980s

    • @karagi101
      @karagi101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@dampergoldenrod4156OK. Nice theory. She was just a puppet.

    • @petiewheat82
      @petiewheat82 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Her annunciation and accent in this song was reminiscent to me, for the first time upon this listen, of that childlike voice women used to use as an affectation in the golden age of Hollywood (Judy Garland). Anyone else hear it that way?

    • @katesjanice
      @katesjanice 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Try the Doors - psychedelic long before Pink Floyd & better than Jefferson Airplane.

    • @parkerbrown-nesbit1747
      @parkerbrown-nesbit1747 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@petiewheat82 I don't hear that at all. I love her enunciation (it frustrates me when singers don't).

  • @bengerson7064
    @bengerson7064 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    It's a Spanish scale, reflecting a Moorish influence. It breaks through its scale, as the Kinks do on "You Really Got Me," the breakthrough being the climax. Jorma's electric guitar is inflected with flamenco. Jefferson Airplane's first hit was "Somebody to Love," also sung by Grace, one of three lead singers and writers in the group. She is also one of rock's great personalities. One of the band's most interesting albums is "After Bathing at Baxter's."

    • @dampergoldenrod4156
      @dampergoldenrod4156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It has an eerie March toward death very appropriate for the Vietnam war ...has nothing to do with the kinks

    • @orlock20
      @orlock20 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It;s technically the Indian scale also known as the Egyptian scale and the Spanish Scale.

    • @PenroseBunnington
      @PenroseBunnington หลายเดือนก่อน

      She has mentioned, at some point (I think it was referenced in Jorma Kaukonen's autobiography) that the song had some influence from "Sketches of Spain" by Miles Davis.

  • @r.awilliams9815
    @r.awilliams9815 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    There weren't a lot of female rock singers with a trained voice back in the 60s, and Grace knocked us flat with that powerful contralto.

  • @josefschiltz2192
    @josefschiltz2192 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +194

    Grace's White Rabbit vocals will be heard at the very end of the universe, just before it blinks out.

    • @T-bone1950
      @T-bone1950 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      It will be playing at The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.😊

    • @josefschiltz2192
      @josefschiltz2192 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@T-bone1950 That would be really together.

    • @keyserxx
      @keyserxx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      See you there, Slick! :)

    • @dianecourtney2724
      @dianecourtney2724 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love Surrealistic Pillow. Probably played my album unit it was sheer😂 Grace Slick ruled the universe for a very long time 🌟⚡️💫

    • @GreatWhiteBud420.
      @GreatWhiteBud420. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would be so epic!

  • @MinionofNobody
    @MinionofNobody 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    I am a retired cop. I was on patrol with my partner one night when this song came on the radio. Just as the line about chasing rabbits was sung, a white rabbit ran across an alley in front of our police car. My partner promptly yelled at me not to chase the rabbit. I sometimes think I should have chased the rabbit.

    • @iamsria
      @iamsria 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Great story and, yes, you probably should have chased the rabbit.

    • @acharney55416
      @acharney55416 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You might have fallen down a hole.

    • @Noneyo-Bidness
      @Noneyo-Bidness 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That's a White Rabbit gang trap, if ever heard of one.

    • @iwanbottos5128
      @iwanbottos5128 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      But how about that Grace Slick?

    • @toddbalazic4884
      @toddbalazic4884 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Never regret decisions made in the past when you weren't even the same person you are now. Lest the white rabbit return like the one in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

  • @joepierce1672
    @joepierce1672 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    Grace wasn't merely a singer. She qualifies as a force of nature.

  • @OriginalLictre
    @OriginalLictre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    I'm not sure why, but for me, the marching drumbeat, as a contrast to the psychedelic sound of the stringed instruments and lyrics, paints an audio picture of the American society during the Vietnam war. The consistent presence of a military tone to the society being reflected by the marching drumbeat, but with a shift to the surreal in the musical counter-culture and experimentation with chemical consciousness-expansion.

    • @jacobbaran
      @jacobbaran 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I think that is a great observation. Reminds me of how Oliver Stone used this song in Platoon, when Charlie Sheen is first accepted into the group of "heads" in the underworld.

    • @mr-peabody
      @mr-peabody 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not really a march and I can't imagine marching to it - lines of soldiers bumping into each other and tripping over one another.

    • @LeTrashPanda
      @LeTrashPanda 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There's definitely a sense of foreboding with that beat, the guitar is also "Nam era" in the way it sounds.

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well said

    • @MsLouisVee
      @MsLouisVee 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heavy, dude.

  • @korail4
    @korail4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    I am called Alice thanks to this song, so happy you react to it! ❤️

  • @patmcgroin6916
    @patmcgroin6916 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    8 Miles High - The Byrds. Another classic psychedelic 60's masterpiece.

    • @althealligator1467
      @althealligator1467 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Often cited as the first Psychedelic Rock song

    • @erikahlander3489
      @erikahlander3489 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And In-a-gadda-da-vida!

    • @patmcgroin6916
      @patmcgroin6916 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@erikahlander3489 Ha ha! YT is asking if I want to translate that to English!

    • @bobblowhard8823
      @bobblowhard8823 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Don't forget "Spirit In the Sky" by Norman Grennbaum.

    • @jedinightstalker
      @jedinightstalker 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The byrds born to follow

  • @hollyg6912
    @hollyg6912 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    You're such a beautiful soul. I watch your videos for hours. You paint music into a picture. You bring it to life in ways I've never perceived before. Thank you for giving us your time and sharing your knowledge and thoughts. ❤

    • @DavidClark-es1ww
      @DavidClark-es1ww 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have to agree with Hollyg6912,....you are a truly good soul and a sweet one as well,...you also seem to know your way around the harp, which is really not surprising as you are, for all intents and purposes, an angel!❤️😉♊😁👍

  • @popsmcgee9775
    @popsmcgee9775 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    Oh for sure, 5 more minutes of this song is every rock fan's dream lol!

    • @9211goat
      @9211goat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I like to play it on a loop over and over and over again.

    • @JulioLeonFandinho
      @JulioLeonFandinho 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not mine 💤🥱

    • @dianecourtney2724
      @dianecourtney2724 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amen ✌🏼

    • @ellenlewis9860
      @ellenlewis9860 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great classic rock!!!!😯😯😯😁

    • @9211goat
      @9211goat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ellenlewis9860 Thanks!😆

  • @BogWraith1
    @BogWraith1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    The most powerful female voice, (along with Janis), that ever was!
    Grace is a legend in every sense.
    Thank the stars for the genius of Jefferson Airplane!

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Psychedelic is an aesthetic more than a style or genre. It’s hard to describe but you know it when you hear it.

    • @richardbradbury3658
      @richardbradbury3658 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      There is one shared ethos: LSD - it is big, and it is clever :D

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@richardbradbury3658 yes indeed

    • @dampergoldenrod4156
      @dampergoldenrod4156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was called avant-garde at one time

    • @willasacco9898
      @willasacco9898 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That is an astute observation. It is a state of mind - pun intended.

    • @gerritsteenbreker4781
      @gerritsteenbreker4781 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      She said it actually: from an other world.

  • @lucvilleneuve9826
    @lucvilleneuve9826 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    Their performance of White Rabbit at Woodstock in '69, was one of the most epic live moment in rock history.
    You should really check it out!

    • @cosmonatty4614
      @cosmonatty4614 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      No, we need whole Woodstock 1970 documentary reaction. Maybe for 200k subscribers

    • @amazinggrace5692
      @amazinggrace5692 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fun fact about that Woodstock performance, they were supposed to go on much later but got bumped up. Grace was super because she thought she had some time.

  • @walterpanovs
    @walterpanovs 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    Their first hit was "Somebody to Love" which is more fast-paced but Slick's voice is equally dramatic and powerful.

    • @LeTrashPanda
      @LeTrashPanda 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If this doesn't give you goosebumps....you're dead: th-cam.com/video/XbBlcLXsSbU/w-d-xo.html

  • @gregorykellerman3876
    @gregorykellerman3876 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I'm fortunate to have been able to grow up with this music. As Rick Beato said: "Before there was Pro Tunes there were Pro's"

    • @tornoutlaw
      @tornoutlaw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "before there were Pro Tools", I assume

  • @LeeKennison
    @LeeKennison 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I loved this reaction. I am glad that you enjoyed it so much and found so much to like, particularly in Grace Slick's voice and vocal delivery. Good observation on how she showed similar techniques as a painter in the way she adds various textures. While I think she always had a love for art, I think she began to focus more on painting after she retired from music in the 90s. According to Wikipedia she is still active as a painter at the age of 84. You have started to get a good intro to psychedelic rock recently, and they don't get much more psychedelic than this one. I enjoyed all your comments and observations. Great reaction!

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It’s a perfect song imho

    • @LeeKennison
      @LeeKennison 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Hartlor_Tayley For what this song conveys on a deeper level and the mind journey it takes you on, I agree on this being the perfect song. Then again, Peter Frampton thought that "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was the perfect song (Amy did this yesterday). At least based on what he said in the Beato interview. So Socrates would ask: Can there be two perfect songs? Wouldn't they be the same song if they were perfect?

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LeeKennison well those questions are above my pay grade Lee. I love the pokum vid yesterday. It’s interesting about psychedelic music, it’s presented as a genre but it’s really not, it’s an aesthetic, a you know it when you hear it kind of thing but can’t describe it.

    • @LeeKennison
      @LeeKennison 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Hartlor_Tayley Yeah, above my pay grade too.😉 I just happened to be watching a philosophy lecture on Plato and Socrates at the time (yes I'm weird I know). Plato through Socrates was speaking in terms of absolute truths and perfection, so your comment was perfectly timed. Yeah, I like your: "you know it when you hear it kind of thing but can’t describe it" statement. That sums it up.

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LeeKennison I should have specified that Perfect was not in the platonic sense.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    This song works on so many levels. A two minute miracle of a song. Perfection. Great analysis and I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Virgin rock

  • @ryanclark6402
    @ryanclark6402 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Note that in the first verse, Grace’s voice shifts down when the bass/guitar shift up their chords, and vice versa as the chord comes back down, even through the end progression. It makes space and some tension. In the last verse, she follows the bass and guitar upwards to the finale, giving it drive. A masterpiece of a song.

    • @gettingkilt
      @gettingkilt 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Reminds me of the shift into major at the end of Ravel's Bolero.

  • @ormonde2007
    @ormonde2007 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    Context this song was released in the same year as the Doors "light My fire" and "Sergeant Pepper's lonely heart club band" "Penny Lane" "strawberry Fields" and "Ode to Billie Joe" "Ruby Tuesday " it was a powerful year of music!

    • @Barbaste
      @Barbaste 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I was born too!

    • @andybricks576
      @andybricks576 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Barbaste Me too!

    • @TurtleDave
      @TurtleDave 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Also "Whiter Shade of Pale"

    • @canucklehead11
      @canucklehead11 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Safe As Milk by Captain Beefheart is one of the top 5 albums of 1967 and hardly anyone has heard it. It was one of John Lennon's favorites as well.

    • @scottfrench4139
      @scottfrench4139 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love's "Forever Changes" album, Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced," Moby Grape's debut album, Buffalo Springfield's second album ...

  • @rsp8999
    @rsp8999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Brilliant and fun analysis. Few pieces immediately evoke and transport one back to the 60s like this one

  • @OcotilloTom
    @OcotilloTom 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Grace Slick lived down the street from us in Mill Valley, California in the 80's and 90's. Her house burned in Sept. of 1993 and a lot of great rock history was sadly lost but no one was hurt.

    • @carsonfran
      @carsonfran 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Was that about the same time that she confronted reporters and/or lookey-loo's on her property ... with a shotgun?

    • @terriwhite6733
      @terriwhite6733 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@carsonfranyep

    • @terriwhite6733
      @terriwhite6733 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @carsonfran no, no. That incident was around 1970, I want to say. Neighbors called police because they thought she had a gun. But "it was a beer can and we all know how much a beer can looks like a gun." They were young guns that showed up.

    • @terriwhite6733
      @terriwhite6733 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lawman is on the Bark album released in 1971

  • @willtopper
    @willtopper 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    my second rock concert - Nov 1969, Wilkes Barre Pa... Grace was very pregnant. They played for 2 hours ... took a break and came back out for another hour. In my top five concerts ever. I suggest the song 'Lather'

    • @Pawsk
      @Pawsk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Lather is overlooked but great, thinks for the reminder have not given that a listen for years

    • @willtopper
      @willtopper 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Pawsk one of my favorite Airplane songs

    • @slackthompson9231
      @slackthompson9231 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah, if Amy thought White Rabbit was a quirky fun little song, she would love Lather. I bought The Worst Of Jefferson Airplane as a teen in early 80’s, and Lather has always just stood out to me. I love that there is a credit for the “nose solo” on the song.

    • @johnclibbens6803
      @johnclibbens6803 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, I love Lather!

  • @user-gv4cx7vz8t
    @user-gv4cx7vz8t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I discovered this album on a bright, hot summer day in a darkened living room, on an excursion out in the country. Having the house to myself, I played "White Rabbit" over and over until someone came in and made me stop. I would have continued for hours, completely enthralled. Down the rabbit hole, indeed!

  • @hilmarkoerner2603
    @hilmarkoerner2603 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Jorma Kaukonen, another underrated guitarist. Thank you for doing this one. And then Grace Slick, what a voice. Her Silver Spoon is another one I recommend. I'm glad you mention Bolero, because every time I hear this I think about that.

    • @JamesDrumm-c2z
      @JamesDrumm-c2z 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      She needs to hear "Embryonic Journey" next.

    • @9211goat
      @9211goat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sunfighter is a great and much overlooked album.... the celebration of the birth of China... Paul and Grace's daughter.

    • @rsm3t
      @rsm3t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sketches of China is another one for me.

    • @philipgior3312
      @philipgior3312 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Silver Spoon blows me away every time

    • @RebeccaRaven
      @RebeccaRaven หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jack's bass runs are epic. And Spencer Dryden? Just a nursery room snare drum to carry us.

  • @marcusalmeida1254
    @marcusalmeida1254 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Quite impressive how greatness becomes something that stands alone on its own apart from everything....from time, place, moment or even their own creators! Amy's reaction to hearing it for the first time is EXACTLY the same as from those who heard this song was released for the first time, from those who heard it for the first time in the 80's and today Amy had the same reaction as everyone who hears this song for the first time. That is what greatness do!

    • @willasacco9898
      @willasacco9898 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes - Her reactions are always on target as and she really appreciates most of what she listens to.

  • @lawrencebrissenden
    @lawrencebrissenden 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    This is Grace’s best song ever by a mile. Jack, Jorma, Spencer (Charlie Chaplin’s nephew) deserve a lot of credit for their magical performance.

    • @LonelyTropicalFish
      @LonelyTropicalFish 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      By a mile? Her "Lather" is a very close second. Only a hundred feet behind.

  • @heartlarva
    @heartlarva 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I've never seen you so enamored with a song. I love this track. Glad you do too

  • @wayne_twentyfive
    @wayne_twentyfive 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Great reaction ! .. Glad you loved the song too, like I do .. And yes, like you I always think of Ravel's "Bolero" whenever I hear this .. They are both perfect examples of a magnificent crescendo.

  • @richardcurley5798
    @richardcurley5798 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    There is a video on TH-cam with Grace Slick’s vocals isolated that I find mesmerizing.

    • @stefanovitali2925
      @stefanovitali2925 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It is Amazing!

    • @thethegreenmachine
      @thethegreenmachine 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I came across that years ago. It's good.

    • @richardedenfield5167
      @richardedenfield5167 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is great. Some isolated vocals are just magical. Jim Morrison doing Roadhouse Blues isolated just blows you out of the room. Also The Beatles harmonies on the isolated vocals for Day Tripper are simply other worldly.

  • @modernworldiscrap
    @modernworldiscrap 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would simply like to congratulate you on your videos which are very qualitative. Maybe the best I have seen, continue like that Madam.

  • @bookishbridgers
    @bookishbridgers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Another great singer./painter is Joni Mitchell. Folk though. Amazing voice and lyrics Her paintings are often used as album covers.

  • @popsmcgee9775
    @popsmcgee9775 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Love that you did this one, Amy. Thank you!

  • @lloydharris4565
    @lloydharris4565 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    White Rabbit, definitely great song crafting! It draws you in like a cyclone 🌀 getting deeper and deeper with great intensity! Grace Slicks voice is Legendary on this wonderful dreamlike song!❤🎶

  • @garryiglesias4074
    @garryiglesias4074 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Inspired by Miles Davis'album "Sketches of Spain"... A must listen to...

    • @splitimage137.
      @splitimage137. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Interesting to know.

    • @drivers99
      @drivers99 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m intrigued. Will check it out

    • @jeffmartin1026
      @jeffmartin1026 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Inspired by listening to it while tripping on LSD.

    • @JobyOtero
      @JobyOtero 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep. Always thought I head Concierto de Aranjuez in White Rabbit, especially Miles' version. Then I recently read the Wikipedia page, where Slick is quoted, saying that Miles recording was a big influence. Fun too that Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck recorded Beck's Bolero around the same time. Seems several musical adventurers of the time were charmed by those epic march vibes, whether French or Spanish tinged or from elsewhere far away. A great foundation for building all sorts of musical stories.

    • @richardlovell4713
      @richardlovell4713 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JobyOtero John Martyn had an idea why so many were attracted to the Bolero, expounded between songs on his ‘Live at Leeds’ album.

  • @stlmopoet
    @stlmopoet 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Everyone wishes this perfect song was longer or was an into into something else. Great review! So glad you enjoyed it. It boggles my mind that Grace Slick is now 84 or 85. Time keeps marching.

    • @jeffmartin1026
      @jeffmartin1026 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When this was played by the first band she was in, The Great Society, they did a long, swirling intro to the song.

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The entire Surrealistic Pillow album is wonderful. Highly recommended

    • @avlisk
      @avlisk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I think it's one of the 5 LP's of 1967 that define that year. (My other 4 are Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Sgt. Pepper, Satanic Majesties, and Days of Future Passed.)

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@avlisk forever changes by Love, easter everywhere by the Thirteenth floor elevators. Something else by the kinks and so many more. What a year for music that was

    • @dock_yard1149
      @dock_yard1149 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@avlisk chip in The Doors debut album into that 1967 summer!

  • @olive2292
    @olive2292 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    can we imagine Jefferson Airplane performing this song on the very polite & gentle American Bandstand show, back in 1967 ?
    what kind of UFO it was 😁

  • @KM769
    @KM769 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    First hit by Jefferson Airplane was probably 'Somebody to love'.

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah that’s the one. Good song for Virgin Rock to do.

    • @stephencolbertcheese7354
      @stephencolbertcheese7354 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      wil amy prefer it 2 the queen version? ;)

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stephencolbertcheese7354 lol

    • @marvinroos3520
      @marvinroos3520 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Actually, It's No Secret, off JA Takes Off was a regional hit with Grace's predecessor, Signe Toly Anderson and Marty Balin lead vocals. Nothing like White Rabbit's worldwide impact.

    • @Hartlor_Tayley
      @Hartlor_Tayley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@marvinroos3520 yes it’s no secret was their first hit. They were really good before Grace.

  • @robison5396
    @robison5396 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It's one of rocks' great performances.
    A masterpiece of musical minimalism and space.. perfect.

  • @JamesDrumm-c2z
    @JamesDrumm-c2z 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I think you would also enjoy their version of "Wooden Ships" for the vocal harmonies. Also, "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" has excellent harmonies.

  • @charlesmarkley220
    @charlesmarkley220 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    There is an isolated vocal out there of this. Very much worth a listen.😊

  • @thomasalbrecht5914
    @thomasalbrecht5914 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    You’re a woman of great taste and musical education. That’s why you like the song!

    • @lopa-u9f
      @lopa-u9f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no, she's a hack and can do better
      she needs to stop pausing to actually appreciate and listen to music

  • @paulsonornot
    @paulsonornot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Pink Floyd that you listened to is prog rock Pink Floyd. Psychedelic PinkFloyd was on early records

    • @hemlock399
      @hemlock399 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ya, The Wall isn't remotely psychedelic. Pink Floyd left psychedelic behind by the early 70s.

    • @scottfrench4139
      @scottfrench4139 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They were still psychedelic into the '70s. Different things can work in tandem, no hard borders.

    • @hemlock399
      @hemlock399 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@scottfrench4139 I agree that the borders aren't hard, but The Wall is pretty far to the non-psychedelic side of the border; it's a prog rock concept album.

    • @newremote
      @newremote 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree. Pink Floyd's true psychedelic period included singles like See Emily Play and Arnold Layne. They drifted away from a psychedelic aesthetic after Syd Barrett left and had pretty much left it behind by the 70s, although some elements remained in their sound.

  • @renepeterse1884
    @renepeterse1884 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Brilliant band, had everything, dreaming hippies, hardrocking core and Grace Slick

  • @monkeyshot74
    @monkeyshot74 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They way you explain and feel the music makes it even more enjoyable, especially knowing you are discovering these songs we have heard many time. It brings a new perspective and understanding to the piece. Keep up the journey and the wonderful breakdown!

  • @curtisw502
    @curtisw502 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Imagine hearing this for the first time in 2024

  • @wishawweather5421
    @wishawweather5421 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of your finest reviews. Your reaction to this is similar to mine on first hearing it. The military drumbeat and the half step rise and fall. Exciting! And Grace Slick has a very unique voice.

  • @IDLERACER
    @IDLERACER 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    😎👍 If you're going to take a deep dive into the music of The Jefferson Airplane, there's one thing you should know first...Grace Slick is but one of four vocalists in the group who all share singing duties just about equally. Marty Balin, Paul Kantner and Jorma Kaukonen also sing lead on many tunes, and on a lot of them, Grace, Paul and Marty sing in three-part harmony. 😉

  • @ronjones1077
    @ronjones1077 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I was in high school out in a bush village in Alaska when this song came out. The album was mind bending as we used to say.
    I have an antique half speed virgin vinyl album of Ravels Bolero. Yes the build up to crescendo in both are wonderful especially with a great set of speakers! Thumps you right in the chest. Ear phones can’t do that.
    Another album from that same time is The Moody Blues “Days Of Future Past”. On of the very first Thyme albums. The final song is Nights in White Satin, but you really need to listen to the entire album to grasp the power the final orchestra brings out.

  • @AdDewaard-hu3xk
    @AdDewaard-hu3xk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Nothing like a crescendo. 0 to 100.

  • @edopiri
    @edopiri 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I know this song so long and never realised the bolero comparison. now I will always remember that. thank you

    • @SpiroFleecy
      @SpiroFleecy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too and now it seems so obvious lol

  • @MartinBryan
    @MartinBryan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Excellent excellent job really enjoyed that analysis.

  • @bobbys4327
    @bobbys4327 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just found this channel and I love it! The fantastic way she explains what a piece of music means to her is wonderful. This musician, really gets it!

  • @alansmith1989
    @alansmith1989 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    If we are heading into `Trippy` regions, then another that I would submit is "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces- also from 1967.

    • @splitimage137.
      @splitimage137. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A cute song, that one.

    • @stuarthein3444
      @stuarthein3444 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amy needs to explore the bands from the 60s and 70s that all the later bands emulated. Airplane is a good start. Early Who and Kinks. All the great midwest bands from the 70s (Chicago, Styx, REO, Seeger, Kansas and even Uncle Ted)! Then there is Bad Co., Foreigner, and Frampton.

    • @mikeb7379
      @mikeb7379 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't think that trip hop got much traction on the US side of the pond? I would love her and you to listen to Portishead, if you haven't already?

    • @simonwatkins3236
      @simonwatkins3236 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mikeb7379 for all Portishead insist they are not trip hop. they pretty much define it for a lot of people,

  • @jasonc5413
    @jasonc5413 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I thought of Ravel too. Great video. I'm enjoying your journey into rock, thank you.

  • @axandio
    @axandio 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Their deep tracks are pretty amazing hidden gems too like "Today".

  • @coldlakealta4043
    @coldlakealta4043 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Back in the day when Grace got to "Feed Your Head" you rose to your feet (if you could ) and pumped your fist along with Grace. I saw Jeff Air 3 times - I'll never forget a minute of any of them. ☮☯☮

  • @XFLexiconMatt
    @XFLexiconMatt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The album this came from "Surrealistic Pillow" which is a terrific album, their work was hit and miss for me, but another great album is "Volunteers", brilliant track

  • @Andy-l6y
    @Andy-l6y 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love your in depth commentary Amy. It brought so much more appreciation of this song for me…and I previously loved this song!

  • @proflcr8779
    @proflcr8779 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    For your covers series, you should do the song "Wooden Ships" by Crosby, Stills, & Nash and by Jefferson Airplane!

  • @TheMrSlartibartfast
    @TheMrSlartibartfast 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I would occasionally play it over the intercom at the VA ward I worked at before giving morning meds.

  • @mfree80286
    @mfree80286 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Grace Slick is one of those artists who you just immediately know would have been just as famous had she appeared on Earth in any other generation.

  • @jesseelliott6843
    @jesseelliott6843 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just a masterful analysis of this song.Wow. You explained exactly what i felt about ir but couldn't express so perfectly.I could tell you genuinely enjoyed it, no condensation from a highly trained musician like yourself

  • @sonnymaupin9267
    @sonnymaupin9267 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    So much attention on Slick when Ballin was one of the greatest voices in rock and the best song writer in the group

  • @Pushing_Pixels
    @Pushing_Pixels 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I use this song as my alarm clock and it's perfect. Each little escalation draws me a little further out of sleep and into consciousness. When Grace starts with the wide vibrato about halfway through, my brain hears it as like a siren, but much less abrasive, so it doesn't snap me awake. By the end of the song I'm awake and I usually just lie there and listen to it repeat one time before getting up.
    I spent a couple of years searching for the perfect wake-up song, and this is it. It helps that it's an old recording that isn't compressed into being louder.

  • @caroleann_2142
    @caroleann_2142 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    She is a POWERHOUSE! GRACE SLICK❤❤❤

    • @CabinFever52
      @CabinFever52 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One of my favorite female vocalists.

  • @fredkrissman6527
    @fredkrissman6527 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've listened to a few dzn of your vids now Amy... Some are 30+ min.
    But, THIS is my absolutely my fav so far! I learn so much about the way music works by listening to VRock.

  • @99Narnia
    @99Narnia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of my favourites. My husband prefers the heavy metal version by "Sanctuary!" Jefferson Airplane's big hit was "Somebody to love," but "Today" is also very good. Grace also sang with "Starship" in the 80's with "Nothing's going to stop us now, " which was also a huge hit. Amazing voice.

    • @jonathanroberts8981
      @jonathanroberts8981 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      “Today” and “Comin’ Back to Me” form a wonderful pair.

  • @maggieshevelew1693
    @maggieshevelew1693 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Probably my favorite studio performance by a female rock singer. Ever. Glacé Slick’s voice here is absolutely magnificent. Magnificent.

  • @thomassharmer7127
    @thomassharmer7127 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Her voice is practically synonymous with "the sound of the sixties".

  • @charlespatrick1572
    @charlespatrick1572 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd love to have you as a music teacher. Your ability to translate the music to mental pictures and scenarios and the joy you express when doing so is fantastic. I feel just being around you would increase my musical ability and understanding. Thank you. BTW, I was 14 when this song was released. It's one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar.

  • @porgy29
    @porgy29 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You mentioned Pink Floyd as your only experience with psychedelic music, and how this felt very different. One thing to keep in mind is that most of the Floyd you have heard (mainly the wall) is from when they had gotten less psychedelic. They had not completely abandoned it, but it is less an influence by that point in their career.

  • @williamhamilton6643
    @williamhamilton6643 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Surrealistic Pillow was one of the first three albums I bought as a teenager in 1965/66. Great then, great now. You really should see the video of them performing White Rabbit at Woodstock. You have to see Grace Slick singing to fully appreciate it. And yes, the song's short length always left everyone wanting more.

  • @michaelwelsh7362
    @michaelwelsh7362 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of the shortest classics of all time and one of the keys is you wish the journey could continue🎶🎶🎶

  • @josephscarpaci3688
    @josephscarpaci3688 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    At the Halloween concert 1974 in the Omni, Grace came out to start the concert in a long black gown, barefoot & belted White Rabbit to the rafters! OMG I felt it was a life changing experience!
    Airplane's/Starship's version of Wooden Ships are really worth a listen...

  • @Dan-dg9pi
    @Dan-dg9pi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You might also check out an earlier version she did with The Great Society. There is a long instrumental at the beginning and then the vocals from Grace come in. The early version is live and raw compared to the Airplane. Both are great.

  • @craigkdillon
    @craigkdillon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You don't know what a sensation Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane were with this hit.
    It was revolutionary. It was a new sound.
    It transfixed and transformed.
    Glad you discovered it.

    • @Rips23
      @Rips23 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We fed our heads.

  • @thememdude
    @thememdude 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    She should pair this with watching The Big Lebowski on her other movie channel. Get all the Red Queen and chasing after Bunny over with at the same time lol

    • @Orio107
      @Orio107 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      she has a movie channel?

    • @dogsmusicbookstravelscience
      @dogsmusicbookstravelscience 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Orio107 Yep, it's called "Amy's Cuts".

    • @Orio107
      @Orio107 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dogsmusicbookstravelscience ty

  • @OmarTorrez
    @OmarTorrez 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    LOVE your videos. Classically trained musician here: Within Music Theory, this beginning progression can be described and "phrygian dominant" Kind of like a flat V7 chord > 6 chord (repeat several times) This progression is popular in many styles, flamenco, Turkish, Balkan, Heavy Metal... et al.

  • @jonathanpoole5316
    @jonathanpoole5316 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Hesitation Blues ❤

  • @robertpetre9378
    @robertpetre9378 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is definitely one of the many jewels 💎 in the Crown 👑 of psychedelic rock. Jefferson Airplane played at Woodstock in the 60s and they were amazing from what I’ve seen on TH-cam.

  • @garlooroztox
    @garlooroztox 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Every song on Surrealistic Pillow is amazing..

  • @scoobysnacks
    @scoobysnacks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your face is so expressive. I can immediately tell when you are really enjoying something, when you are questioning certain choices, and when you don't really care for something. Grace Slick was certainly a powerhouse. Such an amazing voice, and she was never one to beat around the bush about her opinions.

  • @grahamstubbs4962
    @grahamstubbs4962 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    'I love this voice'.
    Err, yes. It's entirely loveable 🙂

    • @lopa-u9f
      @lopa-u9f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      she didn't love it enough to keep her mouth shut or NOT PAUSE IT in the middle of the magic
      she's a hackfraud

  • @radish6740
    @radish6740 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Your analyses are fabulous. I love how you break down the composition for those of us not a musically gifted.

  • @UrsaMajorPrime
    @UrsaMajorPrime 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Oh yes yes yes - thank you Amy!
    Edit: You should watch the performance at Woodstock - it's amazing.

  • @RogerEbert-vy5pv
    @RogerEbert-vy5pv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Might want to watch the Woodstock video.

  • @Ehud1513
    @Ehud1513 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think this is my favorite reaction of yours so far. I can tell you really enjoyed this one, which made it a lot of fun.

  • @boris53703
    @boris53703 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Not to mention Grace's vibratto!!!

  • @mipsungvuclam
    @mipsungvuclam 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Speaking in terms of painting the song is the painting, the composer is the painter, and YOU are the brush in this moment! Love your interpretations and insights!!

  • @oopswrongplanet4964
    @oopswrongplanet4964 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I've found it amusing that in an era of paranoia regarding "hidden" drug messages in rock music, this song was deemed to be okay.

    • @taylorham9532
      @taylorham9532 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      go check out hokum blues. hidden messages and escapism has always been connected to music. having jazz being crated thru weed speakeasy’s and blues thru the drink it’s pretty obvious to see the ‘new’ lsd being sprinkled in rock. just as heroin and cocaine played a big part later on :) drugs aren’t bad when you realized we’ve been using some sort of substance for the entire human history

    • @dampergoldenrod4156
      @dampergoldenrod4156 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think the subliminal message now is buy really stupid sounds from someone who doesn't have any musical or singing ability and it has been this way for well over 30 years

    • @daisypooch4034
      @daisypooch4034 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That's because this song isn't really about drugs at all. It's about reading, and a books ability to take you anywhere. The whole song is about the characters in the two books about Alice in wonderland. The song closes with the line. "Remember....... What the doormouse said. Feed your head,
      Feed your head"
      In otherwords, to continue reading.
      What a great song. The Lyrica alone probably inspired people to want to read the Alice in Wonderland books.

    • @oopswrongplanet4964
      @oopswrongplanet4964 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@daisypooch4034 It's not primarily *about* drugs but it has plenty of unambiguous drug references.

    • @Deathbird_Mitch
      @Deathbird_Mitch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@oopswrongplanet4964 Much like the books that inspired it.

  • @sallymarkey3759
    @sallymarkey3759 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a pleasure to share your reaction to this work of art. Thank you, once again.

  • @loveandabcs
    @loveandabcs 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Impossible to agree with Rolling Stone's 400+ ranking of Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit in the most influential songs of rock music. I would place it in the top 50. 🤷

  • @NearFarAway
    @NearFarAway หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cat stevens was played often in my house when i was a child. This is the first piece of music i played to my first child when i took her home from the hospital. To me it was a special moment. Everthing in the world at that moment was in ballance. A beautiful son from a beautiful artist.❤

  • @fatimaerdogan8193
    @fatimaerdogan8193 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Well you've reached 1966 with the Beatles and this is only one year later... the expansion
    in rock was explosive in a couple of years, and by 1968 we had it all, acid, metal etc!
    With it's mysterious mood White Rabbit was a classic for movies.
    B.t.w. the very melodic and symphonic style of Pink Floyd began with the album
    Dark Side Of The Moon - before that they were, to put it short, ...WEIRD!

  • @Riatzi
    @Riatzi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a voice, goosebumps every time!!