What "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane is Really About
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- Written by Grace Slick, the "Acid Queen," and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow, "White Rabbit" is the quintessential psychedelic anthem of the Summer of Love, an LSD trip of a song that draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
It was released as a single and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Let us take time to appreciate this masterpiece by examining its message and history through its lyrics, and delve into its hidden meanings together as we go through line by line with a fine toothed comb to answer the question as to what White Rabbit is truly all about.
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Grace Slick was beautiful when she was young,and had such powerful vocals.
@@markmiller8137 Grace Slick is still beautiful.
@@Morethanacolor Absolutely
I don't think there was ever any confusion about the real meaning of White Rabbit ✌👍
I thought it was about the Easter bunny.
Nope
*@JammyGit* Holy crap, wait a minute ... White Rabbit was a _drug song?_
I had no idea.
(hee hee hee)
Although, more seriously, I bet less than half the people who loved it in the 60s knew it was about drugs rather than Alice in Wonderland.
*Reply to:* _"I don't think there was ever any confusion about the real meaning of White Rabbit"_
@@Luked0g440 You're getting warmer! 😂
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 I had avoided drug use and lived a mostly drug free life here in Ohio. I was in the Army when they released the song in 1967. Even so, I knew from the first verse exactly what the song was about. believe me, all of us who loved the song knew what every word signified and what the song was about. Some of us saw it as a warning and some of us saw it as praise for the drug life, but all of us knew and understood it. Beyond that we loved it as just plain good music.
'I never thought there were corners in time til I was told to stand in one" - Grace Slick - Hyperdrive
What a great eye-opening video! This provided me with some new perspectives on the meaning of this very classic song! Thanks! :)
Very many thanks in return! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Good times those! I kind of remember them so, I must've been there.
Favorite song.
Obligatory algorithm comment.Great analysis. Thank you.
I know the guy who convinced them to change their name from Airplane to Starship. Kind of a Forest Gump type moment, like “Shit Happens”.
Very cool!
I’d pick white bird as a anthem instead of this
Great song by it's a beautiful day.
Rebeliousness is not a word. It's Rebellion.
rebelliousness
uk /rɪˈbel.i.əs.nəs/ us /rɪˈbel.i.əs.nəs/
the act of opposing the ideas of the people in authority and planning to change the system, often using force:
- Cambridge Dictionary
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rebelliousness
/rɪˈbeljəsnəs/
[uncountable] the fact of being unwilling to obey rules or follow generally accepted standards of behaviour, dress, etc. teenage rebelliousness.
- Oxford Dictionary
Grace Slick-the voice that launched a thousand trips.
Actually millions I would imagine 😀
Well at least hundreds of thousands!😅
Now that's clever! Lol
You do realize, of course, that song is 57 years old... I remember acid from those days. It was still legal when this song was released.
@@Bigfoot-px9gj did you see that helicopter being flown by the planet of the apes? Right into a wall of fire that turned into a box of endless pop tarts.
"Feed your head" i heard and i did. Did ten years down and worked in the Library and read 2500 books. Recently my granddaughter said i was the smartest person she had ever met or knew. i told her about all the book i read of various genre and now she has a voracious appetite for reading and not on her phone.
That's VERY refreshing to hear!
I'm 70 and I love the way you described the influence and power this song has on the memories of those of us that were there!!!!!!!
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it!!
Me too. Brother great years.
I don't usually like this type of review / analysis. But this one was very good. Now 77, been there, done that.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Same age, same thought.
1969 I’m walking through a lobby in a hotel in Bangkok Thailand on R&R from the war in Vietnam and I hear White
Rabbit playing on a jukebox. I had just finished a pot and hash joint . In a way I had just left Wonderland. There were people shooting at me for real and in 2 days I had to go back to the war. Next song up on the jukebox was Hey Jude. I went back and I am a survivor not unscathed but 77 years old and still a survivor that will never forget that moment in a hotel lobby in Bangkok Thailand. And the numerous terrifying encounters and memories that are an integral part of who I am.
Thank you for everything.
What's this crap about smoking some of that REEFER type stuff!!!!
That'll get you in real trouble, boy!!!😎
@@painkillerjones6232 😂 right. I'm not telling.
Thank you for what our government put you through and then didn't support you after you came home. I was born in March of 68 it was a crazy time to grow up ,but way better than this bizarro clown world. I'm out of fucks to give. Thank you for what you had to endure in your youth nothing but mad respect 🙏 🫡
I spent the late 60's in Berkeley at the Free Clinic. Many of our 'clients' were men coming out of Vietnam with massive problems. Including the HONG KONG flu which I got from one of them and he and I nearly died, it was terrible. As for the music, Jefferson Airplane crashed and burned and the people went solo, too. Not good.
It was the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school when White Rabbit came out...became my and my friends theme song...good times...
I was a year older and had done no drugs. But the seed was planted. It took a few years and observation of my friends and myself under the influence, to finally realize it was not taking me where I wanted to go. I have no regrets. I saw the uselessness of the war and the power of peace with the help of substances and the influences in war protests and even the media at that time.
I interpreted the '...feed your head...' lyric to mean, learn all you can. Experience everything. This song influenced my journeys when I was a teenager. I hitch-hiked extensively up and down the East coast of Australia, meeting and living with all different people: hippies, pig hunters, coal miners, krishnas, indigenous Australians, and even Baptists. The song taught me to learn about humanity.
At the time, "feed your head" was another way of saying "satisfy your addiction". Your "head" was whatever drug you were in the habit of using.
@emmitstewart1921 Well, yeah, I did a lot of that head feeding, too, lol.
I will be 75 in Nov. Thank you for reminding me of times that were both wonderful and horrible. But I've always said, never forget your past because the past is what made you who you are today. I graduated H.S. in 67 and was starting my "experimentation" years. Great times and great music. (Which I still listen to on a regular basis)
73 in November. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."-- Charles Dickens
@@celticgypsy11 Don't leave out: "it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness".
I'm not too sure about the age of wisdom, but definitely (for me)it was the age of foolishness.
Would you consider another trip to see if there’s anything new to learn? Perhaps put your consciousness in a different place?
@@MissMarinaCapri Those days are long gone. I have no use for any form of mind altering drugs. I wouldn't take anything now that prevented me from having control of my thoughts.
@@reb1050not to mention, who knows what extra stuff they put in now!
Being 74 years old I saw Grace and Janis Joplin together as they were best Friends
Very cool!
You are lucky ... ❤
Awesome!
I loved that song since the day it came out and I first heard it. Still do and sing along as always because it brings back good memories of when people were not as angry and brutal as they are today. The summer of love never should have ended, then maybe we would be a better race of people than we are now. Just saying.
Love this!
The trouble with drugs that take you inside yourself is that a lot of people can't peacefully handle what they find there. Charles Manson might have been a case in point.
This was Grace Slick's brilliant interpretation of the times in which she lived. in the summer of free love and hallucinogenic drugs. and the many oddities that were available to experience. in that very crucial time in this Country's history. and Grace Slick expressed it so very well. that if you never took any drug in your life? you would know what taking hallucinogenic drugs was all about. after listening to the song white rabbit.
GRACE SLICK and JEFFERSON AIRPLANE ... The SONG - PERFECT EXECUTION ... NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE DONE IT .
White Rabbit was written by Jerry Slick, not the Jefferson Airplane.
I believe in the Vietnam analogy, but also the childlike psychedelic thing. Curiouser and curiouser the song becomes. Made me love Grace Slick. 🍄🍄🍄
Don't forget the "follow the White Rabbit" instruction at the beginning of the Matrix
In 1968, I was 19 ys and went to the Airplane concert in Hamburg, Germany, with my 15ys old brother. It took place in a very conservative 19th century baroque Music Hall. Aiplane showed a psychedelic light show of wobbling color dots on a big screen. The music knocked us out. My brother and I did not say a single word on the whole sub ride into our outskirt home.
Awesome!
Although the war in Vietnam was tragic and many of us suffered through it with tears and loss, the song White Rabbit was a symbol of a counterculture that yet gave us hope to persevere. Even the drugs at that time were available to help us get through it all. Then we matured, some married, raised families, and led semi normal lives. But the Zeitgeist of the time was never really lost in our minds and hearts. We believed in peace and love, and the strangeness of a culture that embraced war was something foreign to our hearts and minds, and this continues to this day.
I noticed the baby boomers never hated any war except the one they fought in🙄. Don't give me the peace and love BS
the important thing is ... that at least you believe that
I've always seen "White Rabbit" as an invitation/warning about hallucinogens.
I've never taken any, but if the song is about taking a trip and coming back with a different paradigm, I've never needed chemicals to achieve that state of mind.
I've paid attention to people around me and have gained a bit of the way they viewed the world through their experiences.
I've been able to take a bit of another person's life and then sit back and let my imagination extrapolate what the world looks like through their eyes.
While not perfect or all that accurate it has given me the ability to offer compassion to those around me and a level of understanding.
I've always had the ability to automatically create scenes in my head when reading stories, so it's not that big of a stretch to imagine someone else's life experiences.
This is also one of my all time favorite songs.
You're sounding a little bit envious. Most of what you think you know about psychedelics like acid and psilocybin was based in government sponsored propaganda. I remember when Art Linkletter blamed acid for his daughter's suicide...much easier than facing the fact he was a suite father.
@@rrhhwwgg
Not envious, but I did fear the use for awhile.
Later learned that at least for the first time, you should have an experienced guide. But the peers I hung around with were more into alcohol and or MJ.
The girl I married said she'd only done a hit of acid once. She saw the waitress's face melt.
She didn't have a bad trip, just never felt the need for any more. I never felt I really missed out on anything, just idle curiosity but no driving need.
NBC made a movie called, Go ask Alice. Based on the song.of course it was an "anti- drug" movie, but was still well made, & very controversial at the time.
"And you KNOW you're going to fall" - certainly not invitating
“Far East Goods” was one of the euphemisms used by British merchants to describe the opium trade. Silk, tea and spices were commodities that merchants were claiming to import but they weren’t too keen on admitting that those ships holds were full of opiates as well. Lots of artists in particular were using drugs to help them create their art. Louis Carroll as mentioned in this video, Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Van Gogh, Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, even Thomas Kincade………Salvador Dali would use psychoactive drugs before bedtime and hold a spoon in his hand as he drifted off to sleep. The idea was that he would drop the spoon and wake up allowing himself then to immediately paint what he had been dreaming about. We think about drugs and music as an invention of the 1960’s but yeah, that practice dates back hundreds of years.
Is psychedelics are far older than a few hundred years. They also are far more profound than heroin or cocaine.
That was a time when protesters wanted to end the Vietnam war and bring our troops home, but spit on them when they did.
Yeah no shit. Dont aid in a genocide then!
Tbh the US even behaved worse than ruZZia is doing rn. Its just not a popular topic amongst americans...
The spitting on was a very rare occurrence.
There were young people who had high passion and lower maturity.
Did that happen to you?
@@ronalderb9692 not partaking in genocide might have helped…
I never heard of any anger or spitting on soldiers. It is true they didn't get as much respect they deserved when they first came back but that has changed. Today disabled veterans from all the conflicts are not treated fairly by the V.A. and under the A.D.A.
@@halfsentry1 there were a lot of”people” performing “not so nice actions upon civilians” to put it mildly…
They deserved it. An UNIFORM does indicate a “uniform mind” afterall. If they deserve protection from legal prosecution, they deserve what happened…
And Gen Z make fun of Boomers. Hey, your grandparents did these drugs, listened to this music and protested against war. They were the counterculture.
I got to see Jefferson Starship in concert and see Grace sing this song. It was magical.
That would've been AWESOME!
❤ Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane. Watching in 🇬🇧
I am now 62 and loved that song ever since I heard it. Glad I have the 45 rpm record of it.❤❤
Awesome!
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71 years old and sounds just right to me. I did get some years older before I understood all of it.
Congratulations on surviving the 60's twice from another 71 year old who tripped the light fantastic!
@@hannabaal150 A fine time was had by all, even if we can not remember all of it. Peace and Love baby
The power of Grace Slick's vocal on this track suggests something a bit darker going on than just standard Sixties psychedelia. As it builds to its climax there is something almost psychotic in its accusatory tone, that foreshadows punk era singers like Siouxsie Sioux and Patti Smith. While it certainly encapsulate the harder edge of the Sixties zeitgeist, it also, for me, seems to transcend the rather naive idealism of that time. An "All-Time" classic, I'd say.
I'll have to pay attention for the "almost psychotic...accusatory tone" next time I listen to the song. Haven't discerned it previously and I kinda doubt it right now. Doesn't seem to fit with recent interviews of Gracie Slick that I've watched. Is there a particular version or performance where it is more noticeable than others?
She had an amazing voice.
Nicely done. I don't regret a single trip I took.
As it happened, I became a soldier after I'd taken a...few trips. As as it happened, I never had to kill anybody. I've known a bunch, a bunch of guys who did, who--who...had. Psychedelics, today, are saving are saving people's lives whose memories are otherwise unbearable.
Bless you, Gracie.
Same mate. I only ever had 1 uncomfortable time on mushrooms and that wasn't too bad. I think everyone should take mushrooms or acid at least 3 times in their life, I still vividly remember the first time I ate mushies. I knew that my life had changed and I just wouldn't be the same again.....and I was right 😆
A bit of psychedelic will definitely open your eyes and mind, but too much will burn your soul, so it demands that you give it respect ✌️
This song is the perfect anthem for 2024.
ditto !
@@NotInMYName_AntiZionistJew yep!😅👍🏻
lucky for you cause I had some bad trips, man
Pushing 80,and I still love Grace!!!!
Having been born in the 50s, my friends and I would listen to this, and others such as, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, etc...THX for posting.👍
You born in a GREAT era!
Do younger generations not get this song? It is so obvious! I'm 63 years old and I still love this song, and still love hallucinating on shrooms and L.S.D.!!!
They don't get it!
Another meaning of Alice Through the Looking Glass is focus on Adolescence. and Alice's struggles with it. Oddly during the 19th Century, Adolescence was a new ideal which Victorian Society had struggled to understand. The opposite end of the Chessboard represents the end of childhood. When Alice becomes a Queen, it represents that she became a young woman. Of course, there are other symbols representing other elements like specific drugs in Through the Looking Glass.
One of my all-time favourite songs ever, and I think you hit It on the nail of what this song Is about, cuz I always thought the same way for the last 50 years
Also one of my all time favorites!
As a 54 year old man, always loved the song and everything about it. Since 1991 have taken LSD twice a year. It keeps your mind open. It keeps my cravings for alcohol under control.😊
Right on brother. I was a full blown alcoholic when I got out of the US Army in 1988. I started going to Native American Church meetings in 1989 and by the year you started your journey in 1991 my alcoholism was cured.
It's still a preferred method of clearing your mind along with meditation. just ask Sam Harris?
I didn't at first use it "for" the purpose of controlling alcohol use. First few times I just noticed that after a standard 12 hour trip that my use of alcohol would drop for 2-4 months. Just didn't have the urge. Just a curiosity until it dawned on me that my booze habit was going way beyond social use. Then the dawning horror of realizing I really couldn't quit drinking. I can't tell you why LSD has this effect on me, I just know it does work. Shrooms work for me as well, not as well tho, seems too me. Anyway if you can find good acid, not super common but it's around, I recommend it for help with cravings for alcohol. Not sure about other addictions or compulsions.😃
Wish I knew where to get the real deal these days.....
Used to do that. Pretty much for the same reasons. Quality acid became impossible to find about 30+ years ago. So it's been that long since I dropped any.😉
Hey Mom, do you want to know what drugs are about? Listen to this song...🌟🌠
Go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall.
WindowPane, Micro Dot, Mescaline LSD 25 And LSD 47, Yep I Remember Orange Sunshine Yep
When I was in elementary school in the late 1960s the “drug lady” played this song for our class and told us it was about taking drugs. She then passed around a board with samples of drugs attached. By the time she got it back several of the drug samples were missing.
😄 🤣 😂
I've watched quite a few videos of teens and young adults listening to music from the 60s and 70s, including this song. It wasn't a complete surprise that they missed the psychedelic references, but what startled and saddened me the most was that they didn't recognize the "Alice in Wonderland" part either.
I could understand if it was only a book, but there have been multiple movies made about Alice's adventures in Wonderland. I remember the joy this story brought me as a child and It's a shame that (at least some of) today's youth are missing out on such a fun and magical tale . 😟
Well said!
I had an audio cassette tape called The Worst of The Jefferson Airplane. About 25 years ago it became, for a while, the favourite listening of my then 15 year old son. One day he asked whether I knew where a piece of the lyrics to Crown of Creation came from ("In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction"). I didn't know. He informed me, and proved it, that they were from the book The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, a book I had read many years before.
I graduated from high school in 1965. What an exciting time it was to be 18 years old.
We are seeing it again -- look at college campuses, and this time without drugs
Now it's ritalin
I always liked White Rabbit.. As a kid I never thought about what it meant.... The musical arrangement was different from anything else on the radio... It was just a great song... I liked smell of incense, Many songs of that time period, really said nothing at all.. They were just cool... Check out, girls weren't design to pump iron... on you tube.. It could have fit in that era..
Grace Slick's recorded live rendition of this song at Woodstock was my go to for years. She exuded sexuality and trippiness in one magnificent performance. I still have it in my library and listen to it often when I need a lift. Oh, I'm 60 now. Still tripping and smoking herb.
So does life imitate art
Or is art imitating life,
I the 60's there was a girl named Alice that came from a affluent family, that ran away from home to the streets of San Francisco, she kept a diary of her escapades and what her life on the street was like, she also kept a writing after she returned home and tried to get sober,
After her death her mother published her diary with the intentions and hopes that it would serve as a reason not to go down the same path.
It had the adverse effect,
Society got a hold of the origianal diary and edited it, watered it down, made it politically correct, and in doing so basically killed the story.
I am not sure how true the story of Alice actually is,. I am not sure which came first her original published diary, or the song white rabbit,. But they both had a very profound impact on my life,
The original published diary follows the song, all the way from her mother, once Alice has returned and tried to get sober, giving her pills that were supposed to help the withdraws, but they didn't help,
The urges still and forever remained,
And the door mouse was the jealous girlfriend of the local connect,. That was believed to have helped Alice OD at the end, Alice's story, her published diary, the original published diary and the song are almost identical in story line etc,
Not sure which came first or the truth behind either one, don't care either,
The belief that the one was created as a symbol, honor, as a statute, as a way not to forget, to the other is all that matters,.
The book was a hoax; Alice never existed.
I noticed this myself many years ago. White Rabbit has no chorus. Not many popular songs have no chorus.
In 1967 the LSD wasn't laced with Fentanyl. The times they are a changing.
I always thought it was from Beatrice Sparks " go ask Alice " book, but Beatrice took it from Jefferson Airplane 5 years after the song came out.
'White Rabbit' has always been about Lewis Carroll and LSD.
It’s about mushrooms, but basically the same thing
Onnnnne makes you larger, aaaannnd, onnne makes you small.... 🍄
Follow the White Rabbit 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰 🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇
One of my all time favorite songs-whatever the meaning. The music is phenomenal.
One of my favorite 60 drug songs........ with eight miles high
Pink sang this also... very well... id like to see a duet with these two
White Rabbit strangely still applies today in the political as well as the known matrix ideologies behind one pill you stay oblivious to what's going on, or the other and you learn the truth of things you can never unsee internally your choices
I was 13 during the time of the Summer of Love. I think it nearly killed my brother that he was too young to go to San Francisco. However, as young as I was, I knew the song was about drugs. I was going into 9th grade. Back then it was the last year of 'Junior High School.' I have to say that as I aged, I really got into the meaning of the song. I never did the kinds of drugs that she was writing about, but I probably had a better understanding of why someone might use them. I met enough people who would say 'Oh, I never did downers" or "I never got into speed." And I understood why then and I still understand now. I love the song. My stupid body sometimes decides it is going to give me a trip like experience. I'm glad to say that it doesn't happen as much now as in the past.
That song always reminds me of Vietnam. That's where I first heard Surrealistic Pillow in '66.😁
I think the song advocates only one drug, that being found in a mushroom, and only one kind of mushroom, that being the Amanita muscaria, a big mushroom with speckled red cap. In England, in Carroll's time and later, this mushroom was more commonly called fly agaric, and was dissolved and used to coat the sticky hanging fly-killing papers. So this mushroom, quite different in psychological effect from the psilocybe types, is poisonous, and should be used in small doses. As with mescalin/peyote, there is usually a period of nausea at the beginning of a trip that has to be endured.
back when music was far out!!!
I enjoyed your insightful presentation but the song was very clear.
Thanks! That means a lot!
Happiness is a Warm Gun ~ain't about firearms.
I've wondered if it also had something to do with the ClownsInAmerica MK Ultra program. Alice In Wonderland's combined with vast amounts of drugs, are said to play a major role in the trauma based mind control/programming of children. Considering that the ClownsInAmerica were rumored to be behind some of the most popular bands, music, icons, and the drug movement of the 1960's, it doesn't seem so far fetched. Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, and Lee Harvey Oswald, are just a few people that were rumoured to have been associated with the "Clowns....". Given the fact that LSD was a governmental/military invention to possibly be used as a weapon of war, it does create a very deep rabbit hole to explore. Cheers
Gotta love Gracie Slick!
…if you really want to know, go ask Alice.
I was just becoming aware, I think we all knew it was about drugs. Fabulous song. I understand it being used I; Platoon, not the others.
I turned 18 in the spring of 1967. I also read Leary’s interview in Playboy ( which
I was reading for the many fine articles) and was instantly ready to go there. Made it to San Francisco in the spring of 68. My personal opinion
is that White Rabbit, along with several other Airplane songs dove far deeper than anything by the Beatles, Stones, etc. 😎
Interesting comment in that I too ACTUALLY READ Playboy Magazine. (Though I did NOT read the Timothy Leary interview you make reference to.) I mention THAT, because today, Playboy as a publication, and for that matter, Hugh Hefner himself, has dropped tremendously in over all respect....Even though the "white rabbit" of Playboy itself as a SIGIL still makes its appearance today in the form of tattoos or on clothing or other "trendy" accouterments that can still be purchased for mainly young women to wear to advertise their hipness as well as sexiness??
I also mention that, because of a pretty stupid "joke" or cliche that often cropped up when I mentioned that I, even at one point, subscribed to the magazine:
"Oh, I bet you read Playboy JUST FOR THE ARTICLES right?"
The question was often asked with MORE than just a note of sarcasm.
But, yes, despite the naked girls/women Playboy WAS a source of intelligent reading....Or so I once thought because despite its general lean to the "left"**, it DID eventually dawn on me that such a magazine was mainly for the rich(ER) upper classes. And despite my efforts at educating myself (even through the reading of Playboy Magazine itself), I realized that I wasn't going to be invited down to "The Mansion" anytime soon if at all.😶)
** Actually Playboy, despite it's general "leftiness" did manage to comment against political correctness that was catching fire around the late 1980s and early 1990's and has basically continued unabated to the point that pronoun usage is being seriously and often ABSURDLY debated, TODAY.
Also on a cynical/sarcastic note, as far as Playboy being considered "sexual pornography", it was basically "blown right out of the water" by the subsequent emergence of Penthouse, Hustler, and the numerous other magazines that Hugh Hefner himself MAY have thought were "vulgar" at worst or simply "without class or taste" at best?
Just a joke about suburban teenage sexuality in the 60’s . There is an excellent bio series on Hefner on Netflix (I think). The T&A was a great vehicle for mainstreaming much more serious stuff. Jessie Jackson spoke very highly of Hefner, for instance. The Leary interview changed my life.
I agree about the depth of its dive, and didn't/still don't think it was Slick's or Airplane's/Starship's deepest song.
Do a video about Cracklin Rose. (you're a store bought woman)
I'll add to the list. It's a long list, but it'll get on there for me to look into. Thanks!
@@Lyristoric Great stuff !
I watched this video because of its patently absurd title. There is no question about what the song is about…at least on one level. However,in its last moments the video actually came through with an intriguing possible alternative meaning. Pretty Kool. Along the way great art and interesting commentary. Not at all the brain dead piece I thought it could be.
Glad you ended up enjoying it!
@@Lyristoric Once I started, I enjoyed it from the beginning. I found the alternative meaning you posited intriguing. Well done!
Thank you I really did enjoy that and looking forward to more of your content❤
Seeking truth isn't an easy journey.
Well put!
You had to be there.
Grace Slick: "She did every drug known to man... and every man known to drug."
I took LSD and Psilocybin and they are very similar, LSD being a much longer trip and Psilocybin much shorter. :-)
Actually. "Grace Slick and The Great Society" in the middle 60's recorded this before "Airplane."
Excellent perspectives... I grew up with White Rabbit and have done Cid more times than I can remember... anyway, "if you can remember the '60s, you weren't there, so ya... lol I'm going to do some Shrooms "Golden Teacher" and listen to a bunch of '60s music... 🙂
Drugs, drugs and drugs. Put for PUPOSE OF learning is nor important as a social issue as MJ has become legally acceptable as "medical" and recreational. The song writers were, as is always the times, way ahead of the daily day to day of people who do not want to think, challenge or learn. At 76; I think that this was a very, very long time ago. At least it wasn't the Stones or the Beatle's. I'd be hPPIER WITH THE THUGS,MOTT THE HOOPLE, Alex Cooper or Warren Zevon. Things will change...Sometimes for the better and somethings nor
Mushrooms 😅 I’m 61 and at 16 I did some mushroom tea and it was an incredible experience! I was happy and laughed my ass at everything! Heck I’d do it again LOL😂
The story from “Alice in wonderland” on acid?
Just a guess. 🤦🏻♂️🤣
Fantastic story , my friend ,And WR is the anthem of my youth . I was 13 when it came out and fell madly in love with this girl and her magical journey. All way stayed one of my most favorite songs. It's absolutely perfect and a masterpiece. Being 500+ if Rolling Stone's Top 1000 most iconic (rock)songs is an insult. Should be at least in first 10 places,
Definitely!
I guess I’ve never liked JA, I tried, just couldn’t do it, but GS does have a great strong voice IMO 🤷🏼♀️
She was not far from the truth. Long live Jefferson ✈️ plane.😊😊😊
One of my favorite songs.
Me too!
In the 70s every time I was coming down from an acid trip White Rabbit played!!
I am glad this dude had this conversation, but I have to LAUGH at the idea that HE has to interpret this song to anyone form the sixties to the 90's. We all new what it was graphicly shouting out! It was only meant to mask it's literal meaning from our PARENTS! I guess that he just had to come up with something to post on TH-cam so that HE could get paid....
How about "The Night Before Christmas"? One line reads,
"And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;" Dang!
I'm a karaoke queen when I sing this. But I keep the 'shrooms off the stage!
Its inclusion on the Forest Gump film soundtrack, in which the war-rebellion's context is solidified, is an important part of the song's history.
Great point! The entire soundtrack is perfectly times in that movie. I think I counted 5 Doors songs.
this song by the jefferson airplane white rabbit is in the movie true life story Go Ask Alice [1973]. back then every one round the S.F. bay area had to watch this movie in school back then even every one in JR High school too. the movie is a true story that had happen back then. if you have not seen the movie Go Ask Alice [1973] you need to watch the movie.
What was Alice in Wonderland really about?
Everyone should read it sometime. It is hilarious at times with its absurbity.
Have you done 1 on Paradise by the dashboard lights ? That should be required at every wedding ! Several old country songs seem to have a hidden message. Ricky Skaggs 'Hummingbird ", and one by Mel Tillis .
I think you nailed it.
Thanks!!!
Listen to this song on acid sometime. You'll live Alice in Wonderland for real.
I'm 72 now and although l didn't consider all that was said here, l had a pretty good understanding.
Man I miss the 70's and 80's ! White Rabbit ? Have any of you ever chased that rabbit ? I love the answers I found on the other side !
The song was about taking recreational drugs.