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Dudes😋😋😋😋🍄👍 yep this is going back to the psychedelic archives Mind Expand👍now later on they became Jefferson Starship they had some heavy rock songs like Jane and find your way back that don't sound nothing like this whatsoever 🎸🎸🎸👍👍
Andy & Alex Hey guys! I’ve never heard this song but I liked it! So it was a reaction for me as well! When possible, Touch of grey by the grateful dead would be awesome! ✌️ ☮️
You asked last week if Hot Tuna was a band. JorMa and Jack left the Airplane to form Tuna.
Porcupine Tree - Arriving somewhere but not here.
The greatest band u havent heard of!!
Guys.. Very simple,old Journey and April Wine
Grace Slick: the voice that launched 1000 trips.
Lmao THAT my friend, is awesome
I've had a "thing" for Grace Slick for years.
Check out the isolated voice version.
Oxmustube I heard that a few months ago.
Grace Slick does paintings these days!
There are great short songs that take you to the top of the mountain...and leave you there. Is it quality? Is it timelength? Is it both?
Compare this song with the '69 live at Woodstock 'White Rabbit' version.
This song gives me chills every time I hear it. It is pure psychedelic gold. It's a shame that you guys didn't love it that much.
It's cause they over think the reaction too much...music either is good and makes you feel something....!
They didnt grow up in the 60s.
Try Grace Potters white Rabbit.
I love the song Jane.
Agreed 100%. I'm surprised they didn't like it more.
@@careson8244 i didnt grow up in the 60s and all i listen to is classic and psychedelic rock been playing this since i was 12 with my grandpa
I’m reminded of the famous quote: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” White Rabbit belongs to a specific time and place. It’s a part of history now, a long ago time that will never be repeated. We can argue all day about whether or not it rocks. But, dammit, it’s art.
I think that was Frank Zappa. If it wasn’t, it certainly sounds like something he would say.
Heaposan for years I thought it was a Steve Martin quote, but evidently the popular consensus seems to say it was Martin Mull.
Absolutely.
Well said.
Yes that quote is Frank's...the best wordsmith of all time!
This song is spectacular. The bass guitar, the drums and her vocals.
1: That is not a marching band beat, it's Bolero. 2: This came out 53 years ago, it was revolutionary at the time. It changed music as we knew it, it opened up the San Francisco sound. Seeing how old you are, this might predate your parents. 3: Songs had to be short back then to get played on the radio, this is pre-album rock. 4: Grace Slick had the best female rock voice I have ever heard out of about a hundred live.
All true . I am only Gen X but this band blew me away when I was 10 and heard 3/5th of a mile from Surrealistic Pillow for the first time . My mom actually gave me her copy from 1967.
I'd love to hear the London Symphony Orchestra perform White Rabbit. Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" melody is haunting (See
MChelovek2012 (TH-cam Channel) | Bolero (Gergiev) | 17m:30s [ th-cam.com/video/ODeNHRtVNO4/w-d-xo.html ])
And her voice isn’t “shakey”... it’s vibrato
@DHamster1 They were drinking, lol
re: 4 - have you heard Floor Jansen of Nightwish?
The music was inspired by Ravel's "Bolero" in that it is basically one long crescendo.
It IS a bolero.
@@HemlockRidge thank you. Yes, this song is simply using a bolero rhythm. Maurice Ravel just happened to compose the most celebrated piece of music that is based on the bolero and he named the piece Bolero. Ravel almost went to different direction and would have had a piece named Fandango.
Ravels bolero would be a good recommendation for these guys
I'd agree if they listened to classical music on this station. Then again, just because they *haven't*, doesn't mean they *won't*, I suppose.
I never thought of Bolero. Thanks.
That flower child sure can sing!, listen to her voice on , “Somebody to love” (Grace Slick)
Jefferson Airplane’s Somebody to Love, not to be confused with Queen’s song of the same name.
Yup. Much better song.
@@davearonow65 Nope
Yes. A must listen.
No, it's their most overplayed song by far and it's too repetitive. I'd be happy never to hear it again. The live versions were better, turned into a blues song. They had much better songs than this one.
"Somebody to Love" is the quintessential Jefferson Airplane song
"Power of the voice". You can't imagine being back a ways in the audience one time, during a guitar jam, and Grace was back behind the amps, no mic, wailing, and her voice soared back to us. I've never been the same.
This is her vocals from the recording session, isolated so that you can appreciate her skill and ability. It was shocking in a time of "60's girl bands" to actually hear a woman sing with attitude! Shocking and mesmerizing.
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PS - since this song is written in the "Bolero" style, it's likely they were using the snare drum to mimic the sound of castanets.
or the war.
“Somebody To Love.”
It’s the only next logical Jefferson Airplane joint.
yep and then Ride the Tiger, although technically that one's Jefferson Starship, I believe
This is a classic song. That being said, yes, it wears its age on its sleeve.
Basically the song uses Alice In Wonderland to describe an acid trip lol.
Guess you had to be there ;)
Acid....what is that? jk
Alice in Wonderland WAS an acid trip...
Yep.
@@gordowg1wg145 Victorian Authors Be Trippin' Yo!
Feed Your Head is a Hallucinogenic reference that we would suggest to each other regularly back then.
When I saw them in concert Grace Slick was flirting with the new guitar player and singing "Give me head." after grabbing his balls.
@@armadillotoe I definitely believe it, back then there were no rules, especially for women in rock
@@armadillotoe Craig Chacito?
this is a " Drug " song ! there are tons of references to Pot, LSD, Ups, Downs . It was a punch in the face to the current culture , the music was not the point , it was the Politics of the time they were hitting.
ronvk. Indeed.
It was an anti-drug song, actually. The Airplane lived near Haight-Ashbury section of SF and Slick was seeing a lot of lost stoner kids and young runaways. The Airplane members definitely loved getting high but saw a lot of the seedy side of hippie culture in 1967.
@@angelseari4 No, they lived IN the Haight, on Fulton St. across from the park. And the song is about an acid trip, written by Grace when she was still in the Great Society, I'm thinking probably around 1965.
@@taknothing4896 I read an interview with her in the 90s, saying that she came to see the song a different way.
Made a movie based off this song, saw it several times decades ago.
Aww come on guys! The first time I heard this, I couldn’t help thinking it was so strange and trippy that it pleased me on some weird level that I don’t think I’ll ever understand. Grace Slick’s voice was straight up mesmerizing. She was holding it back but you could still feel the massive power lurking just below the surface threatening to devour you just like a great white shark.
These guys dont get it, on some songs. This song is a classic
If you didn't take mushrooms beforehand then it's not a proper reaction lol
Amen
LOL
True story, mushroom tea
the song lasts alot longer on shrooms 4shor
If a song requires drugs to enjoy, it's not a good song.
Keep in mind this song came out in the 2.30 era of songs being played on the radio. Anything much longer would not have been played.
Tom Fries until fm radio started.
Remember that songs had to fit the limited time available on 45 rpm records.
Whisky ain't the best "thing" to imbibe to appreciate Jefferson Airplane. lol
However, listen to GRACE SLICK VOCALS ISOLATED - WHITE RABBIT. That kinda works with whiskey.
rundoetx I never was high listening to it, and I enjoyed the heck out of this song every time. And if they were high in San Fran when they wrote it, I'm glad of it.
True. But it helps...
How do you know that? Did you go ask Alice?
You're right , it kinda defeats the purpose.
The majority of songs in the '60's were short like that due to the format of AM radio. Songwriters began to break free of that time limit, paving the way for future rock'n'roll bands: Jim Morrison (Light My Fire, The Doors) might have been the first, or one of them.
Dylan
Robby Krieger wrote light my fire
You guys realize that Alice in Wonderland was a book before there was a movie..., right?
I'm not sure they do..or understand what's behind the music and motif
Dudes, it is a classic, all about the lyrics, it is what it is, don't try to make it something it ain't, every song isn't Freebird.
Thank God.
Thank God X3
studied the lyrics in high school (had an old hippie as a teacher) because of its references to Alice in Wonderland
Thank God x 4
Thank God.
When you're 16 and had "some kind of mushroom" and you're sitting in a blacklight room it seemed a lot cooler.
kathy greager Then someone turned on the strobe light, and if you were tripping, it sucked crap !
@@christineschmidt8494 YES!!!
Although there was a few seconds of watching your hand wave back and forth in front of your face.
I can't believe you guys kept a straight face when you were still talking about Alice In Wonderland after the video lol. Maybe you had to be alive in the 60s to really get some of this stuff.
You had to be a child of the 60's to really understand this. Times have certainly changed, it was a magical time. There was also a book that every school kid had to read by the same name. It was an actual diary of a teenage girl who ran away to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco during the "Summer Of Love" (1967). The girl ended up OD-ing and the diary was found after she died. We all had to read the book for school to learn about the "Dangers of Drug Addiction".
“Go Ask Alice”...
Yes! absolutly! "Go Ask Alice" is the diary of a teen aged girl. They also made a movie that is, basically, the same as the book. I have read the book and seen the movie and I am still totally creeped out.
I did the same thing!!
I'm skeptical of that. A lot of those drug-tragedy stories were simply made up, but hardly anybody actually fell for them.
Go Ask Alice was made up, BUT I read it as a teenager (thinking it was real) and I never tried drugs due to it. I probably wouldn’t any ways, but it was a powerful book!
To me this song is a masterpiece. It was a song that Vietnam soldiers listened to as they fought that impossible war. The drums are perfect, giving that military march into battle vibe. The content of the song touches on the psychedelic high. Also her voice is spectacular. It's not a banger, but a slow burn. I don't expect the younger generation to get this song. After all, it's been half a century since this history went down.
This is song where you kinda hadda be there. It's not the same song in 2020 that it was in 1968. The whole Haight Ashbury thing, the whole hippie scene, it just ain't happening today.
Peter Quinones Good point.
@Peter Quinones
Hey Peter! Yeah I feel like sometimes we lack a certain understanding of the cultural context just because we weren’t living the times. And different tracks hold up in different ways, some better than others. Still a great tune. Cheers to ya man!
@@andyandalex Yes you're right. Do some damn Neil Young will ya! The comments ask every vid you do!!! 😃
Peter Quinones yes, like the dead, you just have/had to be there
I know this is being picky...but the music scene was changing so damn fast back then that a few years make a big difference in putting bands in context. So I will quibble: Airplane broke out in either fall of 1965 or spring of 1966. that’s early in the progression. Same time as The Byrd’s, The Mamas and the Papas, Buffalo Springfield etc. I remember exactly because I was a freshman in college at the time.
If you want to be mesmerized listen to Grace Slick’s isolated vocals from this.
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Totally agree. Her voice is just... Pure magic.
YES
Once you listen several times, you'll love it.
@@lisaw5604 I'm in my 60s and to me, she had the best pipes of my generation. Powerful & forceful and one of my favourites of the 60s!
The singer, Grace Slick wrote and sang this song. She got the idea from parents who told their kids to not smoke while they smoked. Don't drink while they had a glass of scotch in their hands. They were preached at to not take drugs while their mothers were popping pills during the day. She felt like the young people hand to march in line for their demands.This is why there is that marching beat in the beginning. I always loved this song. Grace slick is a powerful singer. I love her!! Have a great day guys & stay safe!!
“I wish they would have given the song 4 more minutes to...” Gentlemen, I LOVE the fact that you are interested in OUR generations music, but your “critiques” have inherent limitations! The only reason musicians were able to monetize their music was because of RADIO. If you couldn’t cram EVERYTHING that you wanted to say into 3 minutes, it wasn’t going to get any airtime. (Look-up Lynyrd Skynyrd and “Free Bird.) Also, there was a severe distinction between AM & FM radio that impacted what music was made and heard. Previously, you’ve defined POP as “popular.” Your right...to a certain degree. For me (65), Pop music wasn’t just popular; Pop music was played on AM radio-period. FM radio was more obscure and “line of sight.” Not everyone could get it. Plus, sales of “45’s” was the predominant dictator of “popularity.” What’s a 45, you ask? Grab a “graybeard,” and ask them. While you’re at it; ask what the difference is between a “side A” an a “side B.” Maybe even ask if there was a difference between a song being played on a 45 on AM and the same song being played on the “album” version on FM. YOU HAVEN’T A CLUE. We lived it. We know. You’re just 2 young guys doing a “drive-by.” We don’t expect you to understand the why’s, where’s, and how’s of OUR music because that would entail an understanding of ‘60’s & ‘70’s “culture” and “technology.” Those were limiting factors that affected us and our music. Things that you don’t have to contend with. Seriously, if you want to understand “Classic Rock,” you need “graybeards” on your staff. Don’t get me wrong, WE LOVE what you’re doing and we’re all here to help you out. Just realize that you have limitations with understanding. You can give a “thumbs-up,” or a “B+,” but when you start questioning “why,” you’ve just opened a can ‘o worms that’s above your “maturity level,” ie. pay grade. I’ve got some homework for you: listen to “Muscle Shoals,” on DVD. It’s a history lesson that you NEED, if you are going to continue down this path...and I want you to continue!!!
That's all true, but it was common even back then to have a fully developed 5+ minute song on the LP and a ~3 minute version on the 45 for radio play. The Fifth Dimension's "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" is that way, to give one well-known example.
Totally agree well said
Also, watch Echo in the Canyon.
Also, there was no such thing as FM rock radio until 1967. Before that, the only rock on radio was AM top 40.
I just don't think they are capable of reacting to the songs of the 60s. Maybe they go too far back. The 60s was so mared in Vietnam and that war was the creation of the 60s culture. The songs of the 60s were different from the 70s. Easier to react/critique music of the 70s versus 60s.
It peaks like an acid trip. Starts off slow and gentle growing into chaos until it reaches a pinnacle of surreal self realization.
Yeah, but an acid trip doesn't just stop, You spend some time trailin' after you peak.
"Criminally short" is a good description. I love the song, but it always feels unfinished, like there's another half of the song still to come.
The LSD usually only delivered 2-3 mins of song playing.
This length, or lack of it, is the fault of the fuckin' record company. They wanted ALL songs friendly for radio play...under 3 minutes. This created interest and curiosity in the listener, causing him/her to go to the record stores and buy it.
As long as it were of a certain length of time the radio stations would give it airplay. Shorter tunes meant more time for more record play. More payola for the disc jockeys, who were usually too old to have any interest in the music as art. It was all in numbers for most of them. 😑
There were not many long songs back then. It was 1967 and 45's were still a HUGE deal. So studios still coveted a short good song because of how popular they were. One song front, usually the big hit on the album and a throw away on the backside. Although the backside had a nice hidden gem from time to time.
@@michaelbochnia5686 I built an FM stereo receiver so I could hear full length albums and songs like Hendrix' Star Spangled Banner or Steppenwolf's The Pusher on the pirate radio stations. The record companies limited the songs to two and a half minutes to fit the 45's, and that's all the AM stations or the jukeboxes would play.
This song is 53 years old.
This song is as familiar to me as Happy Birthday. I am 67. This is the first time these guy have heard this, unbelievable.
And I am 68 years old. Your point?
"Shaky" ...LOL...it's called VIBRATO~
The song has to be appreciated for its time and place. It was written in 1965. The Beatles were singing "I want to hold your hand" in 1964. It had to be shocking to hear about a hallucinogenic trip with a hookah smoking caterpillar and chess board pieces coming alive, but she couched it in the world of Alice in Wonderland. To me the Bolero inspired drum beat is perfect. You're on a trip, it doesn't speed up, it doesn't slow down, it's over when it's over and you have no control over it.
Yes, they need to understand the context of the times when this song was released.
Hey genius, White Rabbit came out in 1967, not in 1965. Secondly, comparing Jefferson Airplane and any SF Bay Area band that is equivalent to anything The Beatles did with psychedelic pop is just incorrect. They barely existed (if you don’t Starship). You think White Rabbit is some sort of genius? Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields, I Am The Walrus, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, A Day in the Life and countless other tracks from The Beatles starting in 1966, still is the peak. If it weren’t for I want to hold your hand in 1964, Airplane would never knew how to take off n the first place.
@@mattdepinto7959 Written in late 1965 or early 1966, released in 1967 genius.
Just to add my 2 cents, White Rabbit was on the 1966 album 'Grace Slick and the Great Society'. If I remember correctly, it started off with a long sax intro.
@@tomhaskett5161 Yes, it was released in 1966 and reportedly written in late 1965.
This is a psychedelic masterpiece
Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
Jefferson Starship: Show Yourself.
Edit: Show Yourself is not a famous or even popular track ( possibly because of its scathing political statement at the time, and even more appropriate today) but it really shows what Grace can do with her voice when she wants.
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"Miracles" is the highlight of Starship's career in my opinion.
I agree! That might have been a better first song to hear?
Starship. We Built This City. 😲😲😲😲😲
Uncle Sam Blues
You boys just don’t understand this song. Your grade shows that.
Agreed 👍
They don’t understand any music.. if they took a moment to research songs before listening to them it might help but I doubt it ,, 😂
@@pop-sd8cq ouch!
@@pop-sd8cq I thought it was a reaction channel. If they research first, that takes away a lot of their first impressions. It tells them what to think ahead of time. Maybe some basics about the artist...
Thats for damn sure....one of the best pro drug songs ever wrote.....nobody can belt them out like Grace Slick!
“So you want me to throw this radio in the tub when White Rabbit peaks?”
We were five miles outside Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. . . . .
get a Vida Blue grip on that grapefruit
Just don't take adrenochrome while you're listening to it.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country
Awww.... I miss him too...
Wow, this was the anthem for the SF hippie movement in the 60's! Love Grace Slick's vocals!!!
"When men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go". What a great lyric.
Traffic “Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys” & Billy Thorpe “Children of the Sun”
Karen Champs Seconded
Yes and yes. Also...th-cam.com/video/ZJFh3_jifoA/w-d-xo.html
"Can't Find My Way Home" should probably be their first Winwood song.
@@markhardwicke5345 oh yes!
No on the first, Yes on the second.
She’s got a unique and awesome voice
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
Dylan Young I'm worried it will get the same reaction as White Rabbit, not enough vocal, guitar didn't do enough, it's not a banger... :-(
Dylan Young Great tune But not a banger. I’ve been asking for Powderfinger to get Neil some love on the channel. That’s more of a banger, will get their attention.
To go along with "Needle and the Damage Done", you should listen to "Snowblind Friend" by Steppenwolf.
Dylan.... another good one would be "A Man Needs a Maid" off of the Harvest album.
Cowgirl in the sand or cortez the killer
It takes a lot to appreciate this song. It’s different. It’s not your typical song that has a regular climax and beat. It’s revolutionary.
Neither of you have read Alice In Wonderland?
You miss the entire point of the song if you haven't.
I DO agree that it is way too short.
A musical interlude would have been incredible.
White Rabbit and Fortunate Son were the soundtrack of the Vietnam War era.
I think a musical interlude would have broken the continuity of the song, where could you break into the lyrics and then recapture the flow...jmo
I do agree it's to short, would love another 1 or 2 minutes of this.
Check out the original. With 'Great Society'. It's much longer. Same singer, she brought the song with her to J.A.
The 'shakiness' in the voice is surely vibrato.
The song is a upwards curve. Short, sweet and trippy.
I can’t believe Grace Slick’s voice on this song didn’t blow you away 😳 DUDES ‼️
They need to check out the audio file of just Grace's vocal from this song, with all the instruments damped out. Then again, the "kinda shaky" comment re her voice may just mean that they'll never get it.
Do yourselves a favor sometime and find some interviews with Grace Slick. She's a lot of fun because she says exactly what she thinks and DOES NOT suffer fools gladly...
There are some awesome live videos of these guys performing this song... Grace Slick was so beautiful too.
Any woman who was banned from the White House I Love.
I remember the first time I heard this song, I was 9 and am now 14 in 2020. I thought ``my god this stuff is awesome!`` and ever since then I pretty much listen to all 60`s rock music, but especially Jefferson Airplane almost religiously!
Try to get your hands on some live bootlegs, they were so much better live than in the studio! The one titled "a Weekend In Winterland" is a must for any JA fan!
@@SSHitMan So true!! Have you ever seen the one of the first TV appearances they did? It was the Dick Clark show I think from 1967, and it is just amazing!!
Very cool
I was 20 years old in 1967 and I find your reaction hilarious, that you knew nothing about Grace Slick or Jefferson Airplane. They were revolutionary. If you were not alive at the time then you have no understanding of the context of their time. There is so much more to this band. Explore!
You have to understand this was very new for the time.....and a big song for the troops in Vietnam.
The incense smoke twirls lazily in the air... your senses are enhanced to a point you could never imagine. Your fingers can 'feel' color, your ears can 'hear' it, and your mind travels to places it's never been before. The subjects of paintings and pictures begin to move and dance inside their frames. You close your eyes and see an unending parade of moving images flashed onto the back of your eyelids. Everything is clearer, more sharply in focus, more "on the edge". And then...Grace Slick takes you on a trip into Wonderland and you can 'see' all of the characters moving around inside your mind, in 3D and technicolor. As she leaves, she reminds you of the wisdom of the door-mouses' statement "Feed your head." That was what listening to this on Acid in the late '60's was like.
Listening to music while tripping is unlike anything you've ever experienced. It's a different reality than the one you are used to, and it forces you to 'see' and 'hear' things in a different way. "Acid Rock" was written by people who took acid and played for people who took acid. It relates intimately to the experience of tripping. This is not a song that you can give a 'straight arrow' critique of because it wasn't made for 'straight arrows'. (As we called those who weren't a part of the counter-culture.)
I'm NOT coming down on you, I'm just trying to explain why this song doesn't 'speak' to you. Simply put, it's because you haven't fed your head. As Jimi put it, "Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? Well I have." and THAT changes everything.
Love you guys.
Very, very well put. I'm 70 and goddamit I miss those days terribly. In college my best friend's roommate was Lou Reed's lead guitarist for a number of years. He once put on a Ravi Shankar live raja with a roomful of tripping people and to this day I can still feel where we went. Got nothing against whiskey, but we couldn't have gone there on alcohol. My thumbnail is magnified trichomes...
That description takes me back to 1967 when I was a 13 year old runaway in San Francisco.
There is something missing from my adult life, and It's what we experienced way back when. I wonder how hard it is to score a hit of acid these days?
Otis Hertz and MsCatherineC, I sympanthize, nothing like tripping in the '70's. Fun as can be! But I wonder if we got a tab of acid these days, would we do it? I'm a bit trepidacious. At 63, does one need to upset reality, or is it already upset? I don't know, but I would shy away from it; confusion and mind-blowing isn't appealing now.
Wow, I am surprised you didn't like it! This is my favorite Jefferson Airplane song! The sound of the song was novel to me and I have never heard another one like it. It is full power and message. I understood it even more after I read "Alice in Wonderland" as a young adult. There are so many layers to it. It might just be that you had to be there.
Suzanne , one of my favorites of all time 💓🤩
Tragically to short is right , great song just to short 😊😊
Singing about acid at that point in time. Outrageous. Listen to her vocal isolated. It will make you cry.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
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Love this song, it just builds and builds like a wall of sound - fantastic.
you had to be there man, this was a total freakout when it made the scene.
BTW, this was a most appropriate choice for 4/20 (weed day). Accidentally, I'm guessing.
Why are you celebrating Hitler's birthday yuck!?
@@autodidact537 I think you're a tad confused.
I don't know when or if you guys are going to start smoking some weed... but when you smoke and listen to this song with a black light on 😊😊😊😊👍🧐😁
Not sure about both of them, but if the kid with the long hair doesn't smoke weed, then neither does Snoop Dog
If only they were in California...
Alone, headphones on, blacklight on, pipe in hand
It's amazing to hear them talk because they don't have the history and know the bigness of some of these bands... I love that they're open minded.I was telling them about Jefferson Starship Jane and find your way back
@@peck404 100% true! Best team on " The Tube" doing music reactions.
Fun facts: They played at the Matrix Club in SF... Must know... And:
- In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, there's a scene where the lawyer high on acid ask Gonzo to put this song while he's in the bath.
- In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, there's a flashback scene of Dr Gonzo, which happens to be at this very Matrix Club, while Jefferson Airplane plays another of their hit "Somebody to love" in background AND you can see the real HS Thompson doing a cameo as the "old Dr Gonzo"...
- In the film The Matrix, at the beginning Neo is recruited with this "Follow the white rabbit"... White Rabbit, Matrix... Yeah again reference to the Matrix club AND Jefferson Airplane...
Garry Iglesias Moreover, they owned and built the Matrix club
I'm 32 and I'm completely baffled as to how someone "college age" has never heard this song. From parents playing music, to classic rock radio and movies/TV and parties this song is iconic and I've heard it played many times.
They never heard “freebird”
@@mumbles215 Jeez, when I lived in Chicago in the 00's I heard Freebird on the radio 3-4 times a day 365 days a year.
Platoon and Simpsons
I agree! So many of these You Tube music "reaction" vids have people presenting themselves as some kind of music experts and they've never heard of Jeffeson Airplane, never knew about Rush or Jeff Healey, never knew about "Ohio" by CSNY. They just make themselves look silly.
@@mumbles215 sad
The film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" features an interesting use of this song.
Poor bastards will see it soon enough.
They didn't hear the rabbit bite its own head off.
Woodstock. Watch them on TH-cam at Woodstock and you'll get your visual. These guys were the top tier. Hippie political....band. and again drugs drugs drugs check them out on Wiki. They also has some beautiful ballads in the..70s
To me, this song is worth a listen as a snapshot of the culture at the time. It's not all that interesting musically. Meaning no drummer or guitar player thinks "damn, I could never play that."
The “Go Ask Alice” line is the inspiration for the title of the book “Go Ask Alice” which every teen girl and gay read in the 70s and 80s.
Elton John also has a song called All The Young Girls Love Alice as well.
Considering Plastic Fantastic Lover is on the same album they were sliding gay rights and lifestyle along with being comfortable with yourself and your sexuality in a way that wasn't blatant. Subtlety is always the better option when speaking on subjects that make people uncomfortable. It gives them the option to digest it in their own way and usually ends with a better point of view that they think they came to themselves. There is a lesson there.
Grew up then and never heard of that book!! Not every teen girl read it or knew it existed.
It was a movie too, go ask Alice.
Alice in Wonderland. The song is full of references to characters of the Lewis Carroll book.
Gotta remember back in the 60's most songs meant for AM airplay were geared for 2:30-3:00min. MAX
Ps - the bass player Jack Casady here is Geddy Lee's favorite bass player.
Who partnered with guitarist Jorma Kakounnen in the excellent folk blues duo Hot Tuna.
@@michaelkeefe8494 Yes!
No, not his favorite but one of them. Ged holds Entwistle and Squire in slightly higher esteem.
Mine too. I stole all his bass lines
The length of the tune got them serious airplay and rotation on AM and FM radio. Not to mention movie soundtrack play. It made them stars. Then....the tunes got longer.
All of us Old Hippies loved this! You've gotta check out the video of Grace Slick at Woodstock! San Francisco, LSD, pot and all the trimmings! This was at the beginning of everything!
"Remember what the door-mouse said, feed your head".
these 2 guys don't get it , feed your head means get HIGH !!!
Anthem of baby boomers
You’ve got to remember, this was the day the radio stations only played songs 2-3 minutes. This song is somewhat and anthem of the times. This song is eternal.
You have to remember that back in the day there was a three minute or less time limit on AM radio. When they played it in person they would extend it out with solos that they couldn't fit on the single.
Still one of my favorite songs ever. Also like their anti-war song "Volunteers". Gracie's voice is unrivaled, although Tina Turner is also unbelievable. Gracie said in an interview that the band chose her as lead vocalist not because she had a good voice but because she was "loud", but I would have to disagree with that.
Laurie Toma I decided to read a few more of the comments before throwing Volunteers out there glad I read some more ! It reminds me of Steppenwolf's Monster. Great thinking songs of the time, always fired me up. Caught myself falling for that stuff at the time. Great sentiment at the time but by the time I got back from Vietnam ( wife's tablet ) I realized that there are just too many evil people in the world for PEACE,LOVE AND BEATLE BOOTS ! My disillusion was shattered before even turning eighteen !
I heard Grace say in an interview that she had a strange voice. It sounds great if she's singing loud but if she sings softly, it's terrible. She said she couldn't sing a lullaby if her life depended on it.
There’s vocals and then there are Grace Slick vocals. She’s in a class all of her own. You have entered in to a whole new realm with this song.
Check out "Silver Spoons" by Grace Slick and Paul Kantner. It will blow your head off.
They don't get it...
Grace Slick was caught dropping acid into the DC water system. She figured that they all needed a good trip.
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@Maggie Audiss Really, I love Grace Slick even more now knowing that!
Grace was stopped at the gates of the White House where she had been invited as an alumni of the same school as Tricia Nixon. She and Abbie Hoffman were going to slip some LSD into Richard Nixon's tea. Putting LSD into the water supply is from the movie Wild In The Streets.
Moody Blues: “Ride My Seesaw”!!! 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
Nights in White Satin!!!
Its amazing that you guys as are such great musicians and have little knowledge of the past. BUT I commend you for going and making your discoveries. This is one of my favorite channels. Thank you!
This song was on the soundtrack of an anti-drug movie they showed in my high school back in the day. I started smoking pot a couple of weeks later.
U made me LOL
One of the songs I requested my brother sing at my wedding was “Today” off the same album. Worth a listen!
One of the best love songs ever. Marty Balin sometimes gets ignored by people who don't appreciate the fullness of the band.
Such a great song
An all time favorite and one of the best voices ever! Grace has incredible vibrato!
Remember songs had to be 3:30 long to be played on the radio, longer songs were cut to fit the time slot
Watch the woodstock version and see just how good she was before she lost her grip with reality.
Fantastic song! That build in intensity is everything! Give this one a couple more listens before you give up on it.
The song is about alice in wonderland, the opening is inspired by bolero,the song is one long cresendo and there is no chorus.
hifijohn I remember the first time I heard Bolero was in the movie, ‘10,’ with Dudley Moore & Bo Derek. It really made an impact 🙂
The song is NOT about Alice in Wonderland. It is about drug use and uses Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor. It was a superbly written piece of music.
Susan MaggioraI think thats where most nonclasical listeners heard the song.
hifijohn That wouldn’t surprise me. At the time, I was 11, so I didn’t know much about classical music (or really any music yet). It definitely got me interested in it, though I didn’t start regularly listening to classical till I was in my 20’s..
This song still bows me away. Graces voice is epic! She has so many wonderful songs ❤️❤️
Can’t believe you guys gave this a B and B-. You’re showing your generations lack of understanding of AM radio play back then. This song was a big deal. Grace’s voice is iconic.
This song is a masterpiece!! The drumming. Wow
Blacklight **bong hit stars on the ceiling** psychedelic 🌈🌈🍄COOL TUNE IN TURN ON AND DROP OUT🍄
Never trust anyone over 30?
Loses something without the lava lamps, strobe lights and pulsating blobs.
Most of this trippy music hasnt aged that well for me anymore. It's cool, but it's not my thing anymore, and I stopped doing drugs 20 yrs ago 🙂
@@MrAitraining I keep telling Andy & Alex, when they get "tons and tons of requests" for a certain song, it's usually a song to avoid. People want to hear what they grew up with, not necessarily a better
introduction to a group.
Pure Psychedelic rock. This came out when everyone was doing drugs in the late 60's.
When everyone was doing Acid in the 60s...big difference...
And it wasn’t late sixties. It was late 65 or early 66......I was a freshman in college and we all had this album
YES!!! Of course, best listened to in an altered state. LOVE Jefferson Airplane!! Another CLASSIC!!
"Today" by Jefferson Airplane is a very beautiful song.
I agree with you but these guys don’t seem like the type to appreciate such slow love songs.
One of the best songs out of the psychedelic 60's
this was 53 years ago and the psychedelic era was in full swing. Most songs at this time were this short for radio play. Try reacting to Somebody To Love
Their song “Jane” is a banger and a must listen to.
7gelis love that song💜
Great fun song-Jefferson Starship
I’m 72 and I was lucky enough to make the trip to Woodstock along with some friends. God what a trip! I can still see her singing what a voice what a trip!
Lucky!
Jefferson Airplane started as a group called, Hot Tuna, and would go on to become Jefferson Starship. They were out of San Francisco, and as 'Starship', they sang, "We built this City on rock and roll."
They were a real powerhouse group with roots in folk rock.
FEED YOUR HEAD!! -- best line ever!
Jefferson starship (same band) - “jane” and “find your way back” , listen to jane atleast, you wont regret it lol
Jefferson starship is definately not the same band!!!!!!!!!! Though they do share several members. Without jack, jorma, ans spencer tjey are a much more crassly commercial band witha much weaker rytthm section.
Many would say that the real talent from Airplane went to Hot Tuna, not Starship.
Familiar Stranger is my favorite JS so g.
The album version gave another 4 minutes of instrumental leading into Grace. Classic
Grace Slick is amazing on the vocals! Music adds to the intensity! So glad I grew up during the best music era. Acid music!