Helen of Troy was known as "the face that launched a thousand ships." Grace Slick was known as "the voice that launched a thousand trips." ( and probably a lot more than a thousand)
Exactly, chasing the white rabbit is a term used in that scene for tripping, right? Also, Jefferson Airplane used the code words and story of Alice in Wonderland to fly under the censors' radar. The door mouse said feed your head. lol so obvious but they can just say "it's just about Alice in wonderland"
Yes, it's about drugs, but more specifically, it's about expanding ones mind and growing as a person (one pill makes you larger, feed your head), not so much about getting 'wasted'. Also, I feel that 'feed your head' isn't just referring to ingesting psychoactives, but also having a 'healthy media diet', as we call it these days!..
@@laziojohnny79 Excellent retort! Personally, I always just had fun doin' acid. For the record, I'm 70 years old and I've never murdered anyone. Not yet, anyway...LOL!
Jefferson Airplane begat Jefferson Starship... There is a cut on you tube of just the isolated vocal, it's spine tingling. The song refers to the book Alice in Wonderland.
And Jefferson Starship begat Starship. It is hard to believe the band that gave us "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" eventually became the band that gave us "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now", all of them featuring the vocals of Grace Slick.
Jefferson Airplane was straight out of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 1960's, the peak of the "Hippie" drug scene. Grace Slick was the Queen of the psychedelic rock and a great singer. She is still alive living in San Francisco and is an artist these days. Seen some of her paintings, she's quite good. Refuses to perform any more, says she doesn't want the be the old broad trying to sing on stage.
Yeah I hated it when he became Jefferson Starship Starship with built this city and others I know it was good but it just sounded they sold out to the corporate music.
She uses a lot of vibrato; I think that's part of what you're talking about in her voice. Lewis Carroll included various drug references in his Alice in Wonderland book, and the Disney studio surprisingly emphasized these in its Sixties cartoon adaptation. Jefferson Airplane emphasized them even more.
1967! Yes, the song is about drugs. And yes, the lyrical imagery does come from Alice in Wonderland. "Feed your head" became "Turn on, tune in, drop out" as Timothy Leary -- the Johhny Appleseed of LSD -- phrased it before a crowd of 30,000 people gathered together to party in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco that year of the Summer of Love. Since then this song has been used numerous times to evoke the psychedelic sixties, for example, in the 1986 Vietnam War movie Platoon. The 2013 crime drama American Hustle -- starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper -- featured a great Turkish language cover of "White Rabbit" by Mayssa Karaa that puts a whole different spin on the song.
Saw them twice during that era, along with a few dozen other bands, and, yes, she sounded that powerful on stage. It was fun being a teenager in the’60’s in Southern California. Sure, we had problems, every era does, and our music carried us.
Two Jefferson Airplane/Starship songs you really, really need to hear: Airplane’s ‘Somebody to Love’ and - especially - ‘Miracles’ by Jefferson Starship. I’ll give you a no-questions-asked money-back guarantee on Miracles.
Definitely listen to “Miracles” for another really unique voice, Marty Balin. He had a single “Hearts”, that I would also highly recommend--link below. th-cam.com/video/3nKNQsJtum8/w-d-xo.html
Psilocybin is not Lysergic acid diethylamide. Try taking seven grams of LSD and see where that gets you. 400 μgrams would usually do the trick. (Note: these are NOT considered safe dosages.)
The book of Alice in Wonderland wasn't about drugs, however this song definitely is. In the 60s people interpreted the book's weirdness as being an LSD trip, and the idea was reinforced by Disney's adaptation.
Baby girl she is talking about both the joke is the author of Alice in wonderland may have eaten mushrooms. Think out the box girl shamans since ancient times ingested mushrooms and weed .But in those days their was little documentation and data on usage .
Shrooms can allow you to be in two places at once, even see yourself in both places, and to know what any group of people are talking about before you even join them.
Grace Slick has a VERY strong vibrato to her voice. Yeah, it was a about Alice in Wonderland AND comparing it to drugs. Actually the book has LONG been discussed on this subject. Check out the songs, "Today" and "Somebody to Love" off of the same album.
Yaàas! If you like this , try their "Don't you want somebody to love" the live video of this at Woodstock is awesome. This song is a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Jefferson Airplane changed their band name to Starship in the 80's
Actually they changed their name to Jefferson Starship first in 1974. The name Starship came about because of a law suit. That group(Starship) had none of the original members of Jefferson Starship or Jefferson Airplane. That is why they had to drop Jefferson from the name.
@@jessegreen6138 Huh??? Grace Slick sang co-lead on the song, "We Built This City" which was Starship. SHE absolutely was an original member of all three groups. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_(band)
@@Motown-1966 Go read about why they had to drop Jefferson from their name. Grace never sang with Starship again she got into an brew ha, ha with Thomas over this song. In 1978 Grace Slick was asked to resign after their July, 1978 show in Hamburg, West Germany because of her drunken antics on stage. In October Marty Balin left the group. That left them without a singer. They had to get a singer in came Mickey Thomas. When Paul Kantner left he sued them over the use of the name Jefferson Starship which is why the group had to change their name to Starship. Grace had been in and out of the group twice before this. She was with Starship for "We built this City". The name of the group had changed by then. to Starship. I hope this clears up the confusion. Just look up Jefferson Starship on Wikipedia it can spell it out a bit better.
Jorma Kaukonen is the guitarist and founding member of Jefferson Airplane. His name tells he is partly of Finnish descent. The population of Finland is only 5,5M so we like to keep track of people of Finnish descent living outside Finland.
Grace's voice had a great power. Interesting that everyone seems to start with this one - maybe because Pink covered it a while back. Some other great JA choices are 'Volunteers,' 'Wooden Ships,' 'Somebody to Love.' Also the giant with the guitar, Jorma Kaukonen and the bassist Jack Cassidy, spun off a band called "Hot Tuna" that you should check out - 'Surphase Tension,' 'Keep On Truckin',' 'Hesitation Blues' etc.
In the beginning it was Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship which was first used on the album "Blows Against the Empire", then after leaving Jefferson Starship because it got too commercial, one of the founders (Paul Kantner) sued the band and they became just Starship. Starship was even worse despite the return of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner. Grace eventually went on to do two albums with Paul ("Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun" and "Sunfighter")and others. She also did 4 solo albums ("Manhole", "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball", "Dreams", and "Software".) My favorite Grace Slick heavy songs are : "Rejoyce", "Two Heads", "Eskimo Blue Day", "Lather", "Silver Spoon", "Better Lying Down", "Theme from Manhole", "Easter?", and "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball".
Jefferson Airplane morphed into Jefferson Starship and then just Starship. I saw them LAST YEAR at a free concert on the beach at Santa Cruz. The new female singer really sounds like Grace Slick, and Mickey Thomas still sounds amazing.
Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship, who then became Starship. JA were one of the biggest bands of hippie era San Francisco. This song was about hypocrisy of adults saying drugs were bad yet reading children stories full of subtle drug references like Alice in Wonderland. It's in a style called a bolero - it doesn't have verses or choruses, it just slowly builds and builds and builds. Some other top JA songs are "Somebody to love", "We can be together", "Volunteers", and "Coming back to me".
White Rabbit, as sung by Grace Slick (1967), is the epitome of the 1960s as its meanings encapsulate and reflect several cultural and social facets of the 1960s generation of teens and 20-somethings.
It's refreshing to see such a open mind and heart reacting to these great songs of the past, you get it right away (even the more complicated compositions) and provide intelligent and funny comments. Thank you Jayy!! i would love to hear you do a Joni Mitchell reaction video (A Case of You, Coyote, Amelia any one of these is great).
It was Jefferson Airplane in the 60s when this came out, they changed the name to Jefferson Starship after the band split into 2 different bands in 1972. This song is based on Alice in Wonderland used as drug references.
The most applicable line is the last one. Remember what the Dor Mouse Said. Feed Your Head. At the time many folks thought feed your head meant using LSD or some other psychedelic. It really means feed your head with knowledge. 👍
Grace Slick - what a voice! Try listening to some Shocking Blue. 'Venus' is the obvious 1st choice (nothing wrong with it, it's a classic!), but other recommendations are 'Hot Sand' or 'Mighty Joe'.
I have heard Grace wrote this song for the band she was in before Airplane but they didn't like it. Surrealistic Pillow is a great album. This song Alice in Wonderland yes
Jorma the guitarist here in early Jefferson Airplane IS THE MAN. Check out some solo Jorma Kaukonen....genesis, water song, etc., as well as Hot Tuna. Great, great music. Jorma shreds!
Alice in wonderland was social commentary,it's obvious when the queen says words mean what I say they mean,that's done now,I was in a shelter,and yes that's done
60’s psychedelic music. Jefferson Airplane was part of the Haight-Ashbury crowd. The birth of the 1960’s hippie movement. But you know who has almost the same voice as Grace Slick? Florence Welch from “Florence and the Machine”. Check out their “Dog Days of Summer”.
You are correct about the lyrics, it is based on the poem "Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carrol who was a heroin addict at the time. The lead singer Grace Slick used Acid(LSD) and a lot of weed
I read where Grace Slick was recently asked what they meant by "Feed Your Head." Her response? "Read a book." Anybody else out there doubting that too?
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, "WHITE RABBIT" YOU ARE CORRECT ON BOTH FRONTS. ALICE AND WONDERLAND. AND THE 60'S PSCHODELIC ROCK AND THE DRUG SCENE... HAPPY NEW YEAR... SO HAPPY AS THIS PAST ONE SUCKED...
You really should have watched the Woodstock live version of this song. It is so wonderful. :) . And personally to me Grace Slick is beautiful and hot.
the exit line "Feed your head"...was an instigation for doing LSD/Acid to enlighten and discover yourself. And at that time till the late 80ties you had to put lyricwise a drug topic in a song in form of double meaning allegories otherwise the song wouldn´t had been released, and therefore the topic Alice in Wonderland is simply made for that, which is evident for everybody having LSD experience. the Beatles did it as well by singing "Strawberry fields forever"..refering to a popular type of acid called "Strawberry" And certain types of music/sounds are harmonizing to certain types of drugs..so alone the sound of those songs is already refering to certain drugs as well, where additional distinct lyrics aren´t necessary to get what the song is refering to.. And Psychodelic music which "White Rabbit" is was LSD music.
You're right on both counts: It is about drugs (namely, shrooms; and it is about "Alice in Wonderland" (which is rumored to have been written by author Lewis Carroll about a psychedelic trip - though there's no proof of that).
Acid Rock - Its all about Alice in the Wonderland. Grace Slick is sing about Alice tripping Wonderland. Timeless classic. Never tire of hearing it. Grace is still going strong. The song, the band and the singer define an era.
The song is about mind expansion through the use of psychedelic drugs, using Alice in Wonderland as a reference point. The last line says it all, feed your head, which was commonly said regarding drug use in the 60's and 70's.
Also Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship they are the same group.I guess it was an update to the name for they were around from the 60's to the 80's .
Yes, it is about Alice in Wondeland AND drugs! This was the sixties - drugs were everywhere ... definitely on that stage! It was a "hippie trippy" song - very popular!!!
I remember this group well. I was a flower child then. I was against the status quo and, the hipocracy of the burguose society. This song is about getting high baby.👍👌👌❤❤❤❤❤❤
Lewis Carrol, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" filled the books, (based on stories he used to tell to children), with a plethora of thinly-veiled drug references. Mind-expanding drugs were also widely available during the psychedelic '60s and bands as well as their fans were very experimental. Thematically this song was ripe for the time.
I heard an interview with Singer -Grace Slick ( hope that's the correct spelling ) where she says the song is about the fact that parents read their children stories like Alice IWL. Where Alice takes pills ,the caterpillar smokes a Hooker and there's also mushrooms involved .Then those same parents get annoyed when their children decide to experiment with those same kind of drugs. Those Psychedelic songs from the late 60 where almost all about drugs LOL
Old Miller Lite Beer Commercial: V1: 'Tastes great' V2: ... 'Less Filling'... Left/Right Hemispheres of Brain in Harmony: 'Relax ur Both Right' Yes, it's about drugs AND it's about Lewis Caroll's, 'Alice in Wonderland' (also about drugs) This Old Man: 'Amazing Grace, SLICK & DEEP... Nice to see her (1967), look'in sooo young & Scrumdiddly-Dee-licious, back in the day'... Ah, it pains me to say, she didn't age well... "the bloom is off the rose"... yet, still an exquisite flower...still beautiful, to me... PS: Pretty sure Grace composed this ditty... all that 'going on', plus soul of a poet
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Helen of Troy was known as "the face that launched a thousand ships." Grace Slick was known as "the voice that launched a thousand trips." ( and probably a lot more than a thousand)
I resemble that comment!
@@klevesmith the boomer hath spoken. Vanity, my favorite sin.
"Am I tripping?", lol. No, but they all were.
😂
Yup so was I
I died when she said that!
It's a Hookah not hooker. An oriental pipe often used with opium.
@@ehekkert I thought they originated from Persia
Yes, it was Alice in Wonderland and yes it was about doing drugs. This was my generation. They were big in the 60’s.
The 1860s! ;-)
@@willrichardson519 True 😂
Exactly, chasing the white rabbit is a term used in that scene for tripping, right? Also, Jefferson Airplane used the code words and story of Alice in Wonderland to fly under the censors' radar. The door mouse said feed your head. lol so obvious but they can just say "it's just about Alice in wonderland"
Awesome song, love Grace Slick...ALL about drugs...Vietnam days...........................Ole Vet...
Yes, it's about drugs, but more specifically, it's about expanding ones mind and growing as a person (one pill makes you larger, feed your head), not so much about getting 'wasted'.
Also, I feel that 'feed your head' isn't just referring to ingesting psychoactives, but also having a 'healthy media diet', as we call it these days!..
That's Grace Slick, a rock legend.
You were talking about the vibrato in her voice is unique
Yes, her vibrato as well as her timbre is strong & clear! One of the best female singers✌🏾
Yes… something today’s singers don’t have… vocal training.
LSD was part of that era. Jefferson Airplane born here in 1965 and one of many bands from San Francisco.
People who say they do not make music like that anymore forget that no one else could sing like Grace Slick back in the 60s either.
And that kids, is what LSD does to you...
It brings out the creative genius living deep down inside you.
Yeah, right...lol
Charles Manson and his followers also did a lot of LSD...Do you call those murderous psychopaths creative geniuses too?
@@alamc200 Dunno, never heard their songs ...
@@laziojohnny79 LOL!
@@laziojohnny79 Excellent retort! Personally, I always just had fun doin' acid. For the record, I'm 70 years old and I've never murdered anyone. Not yet, anyway...LOL!
Jefferson Airplane begat Jefferson Starship... There is a cut on you tube of just the isolated vocal, it's spine tingling. The song refers to the book Alice in Wonderland.
This song is about tripping ( lsd , mushrooms) Alice in wonderland is a way of expressing what tripping out is about . Ilusinating
About drugs, the Alice in wonderland theme was so they cou.d sneak the drug references past the censors, and it worked😁😁😁😁
That isolated vocal version gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it! 🎧 🎤 🎵 😍
And Jefferson Starship begat Starship. It is hard to believe the band that gave us "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" eventually became the band that gave us "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now", all of them featuring the vocals of Grace Slick.
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You should hear Grace Slick's isolated vocals on this. Absolutely gorgeous and haunting.
A friend who was at Woodstock in 69 said he woke up as Jefferson Airplane took the stage and Grace started singing.
serendipity
The Woodstock version of this track is on TH-cam. Amazing!
"the way she does her notes" is called Vibrato. Grace is insanely talented when it comes to this.
Jefferson Airplane was straight out of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 1960's, the peak of the "Hippie" drug scene. Grace Slick was the Queen of the psychedelic rock and a great singer. She is still alive living in San Francisco and is an artist these days. Seen some of her paintings, she's quite good. Refuses to perform any more, says she doesn't want the be the old broad trying to sing on stage.
Welcome to the world of acid rock, psychedelic music ,lol
Yes, Virginia... It is definitely about drugs... -don
Alice and Wonderland references, but definitive about drugs. The guy who wrote Alice was a big time druggie!
Yeah I hated it when he became Jefferson Starship Starship with built this city and others I know it was good but it just sounded they sold out to the corporate music.
Her isolated vocals are phenomenal! It's on TH-cam.
She could hit and hold every note to perfection.
She uses a lot of vibrato; I think that's part of what you're talking about in her voice. Lewis Carroll included various drug references in his Alice in Wonderland book, and the Disney studio surprisingly emphasized these in its Sixties cartoon adaptation. Jefferson Airplane emphasized them even more.
Exactly!
1967! Yes, the song is about drugs. And yes, the lyrical imagery does come from Alice in Wonderland. "Feed your head" became "Turn on, tune in, drop out" as Timothy Leary -- the Johhny Appleseed of LSD -- phrased it before a crowd of 30,000 people gathered together to party in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco that year of the Summer of Love. Since then this song has been used numerous times to evoke the psychedelic sixties, for example, in the 1986 Vietnam War movie Platoon. The 2013 crime drama American Hustle -- starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper -- featured a great Turkish language cover of "White Rabbit" by Mayssa Karaa that puts a whole different spin on the song.
"Am I trippin...." Why yes Jayy! lol Perfect comment!
Jefferson Airplane in the 60’s & 70’s, Jefferson Starship 70’s- early 80’s, Starship late 80’s all the same group
Saw them twice during that era, along with a few dozen other bands, and, yes, she sounded that powerful on stage. It was fun being a teenager in the’60’s in Southern California. Sure, we had problems, every era does, and our music carried us.
"Hold on, what she say?" LOL.... everyone has that reaction the first time they hear this song. Love your reactions. ✌️
Two Jefferson Airplane/Starship songs you really, really need to hear: Airplane’s ‘Somebody to Love’ and - especially - ‘Miracles’ by Jefferson Starship. I’ll give you a no-questions-asked money-back guarantee on Miracles.
Definitely listen to “Miracles” for another really unique voice, Marty Balin. He had a single “Hearts”, that I would also highly recommend--link below.
th-cam.com/video/3nKNQsJtum8/w-d-xo.html
That vocal quality that you referred to was Gracie's "warble" ... a kind of vocal vibrato that she was noted for.
White Rabbit was a song about acid. The mushroom she mentioned was a Magic mushroom which is acid.
Psilocybin is not Lysergic acid diethylamide. Try taking seven grams of LSD and see where that gets you. 400 μgrams would usually do the trick. (Note: these are NOT considered safe dosages.)
The book of Alice in Wonderland wasn't about drugs, however this song definitely is. In the 60s people interpreted the book's weirdness as being an LSD trip, and the idea was reinforced by Disney's adaptation.
Grace Slick has always been my favorite female rock vocalist.
Baby girl she is talking about both the joke is the author of Alice in wonderland may have eaten mushrooms. Think out the box girl shamans since ancient times ingested mushrooms and weed .But in those days their was little documentation and data on usage .
Shrooms can allow you to be in two places at once, even see yourself in both places, and to know what any group of people are talking about before you even join them.
Grace Slick has a VERY strong vibrato to her voice. Yeah, it was a about Alice in Wonderland AND comparing it to drugs. Actually the book has LONG been discussed on this subject. Check out the songs, "Today" and "Somebody to Love" off of the same album.
You got it, drugs, Alice in Wonderland and lots more drugs.
Yaàas! If you like this , try their "Don't you want somebody to love" the live video of this at Woodstock is awesome. This song is a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Jefferson Airplane changed their band name to Starship in the 80's
💁🏾♀️ The title actually is "Somebody to Love" & here's the link✌🏾!
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Actually they changed their name to Jefferson Starship first in 1974. The name Starship came about because of a law suit. That group(Starship) had none of the original members of Jefferson Starship or Jefferson Airplane. That is why they had to drop Jefferson from the name.
@@jessegreen6138 Huh??? Grace Slick sang co-lead on the song, "We Built This City" which was Starship. SHE absolutely was an original member of all three groups.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_(band)
@@Motown-1966 Go read about why they had to drop Jefferson from their name. Grace never sang with Starship again she got into an brew ha, ha with Thomas over this song. In 1978 Grace Slick was asked to resign after their July, 1978 show in Hamburg, West Germany because of her drunken antics on stage. In October Marty Balin left the group. That left them without a singer. They had to get a singer in came Mickey Thomas. When Paul Kantner left he sued them over the use of the name Jefferson Starship which is why the group had to change their name to Starship. Grace had been in and out of the group twice before this. She was with Starship for "We built this City". The name of the group had changed by then. to Starship. I hope this clears up the confusion. Just look up Jefferson Starship on Wikipedia it can spell it out a bit better.
Oh wow. So many boys were so so I’m love and lust with grace slick back in the day!!! Lol
Jorma Kaukonen is the guitarist and founding member of Jefferson Airplane. His name tells he is partly of Finnish descent. The population of Finland is only 5,5M so we like to keep track of people of Finnish descent living outside Finland.
Grace's voice had a great power. Interesting that everyone seems to start with this one - maybe because Pink covered it a while back. Some other great JA choices are 'Volunteers,' 'Wooden Ships,' 'Somebody to Love.' Also the giant with the guitar, Jorma Kaukonen and the bassist Jack Cassidy, spun off a band called "Hot Tuna" that you should check out - 'Surphase Tension,' 'Keep On Truckin',' 'Hesitation Blues' etc.
Hey Grace Slick was a legend. She was also the voice that launched a thousand trips........
In the beginning it was Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship which was first used on the album "Blows Against the Empire", then after leaving Jefferson Starship because it got too commercial, one of the founders (Paul Kantner) sued the band and they became just Starship. Starship was even worse despite the return of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner. Grace eventually went on to do two albums with Paul ("Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun" and "Sunfighter")and others. She also did 4 solo albums ("Manhole", "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball", "Dreams", and "Software".)
My favorite Grace Slick heavy songs are : "Rejoyce", "Two Heads", "Eskimo Blue Day", "Lather", "Silver Spoon", "Better Lying Down", "Theme from Manhole", "Easter?", and "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball".
4:04 vibrato. lady gaga has a really good vibrato in her vocals
Jefferson Airplane morphed into Jefferson Starship and then just Starship. I saw them LAST YEAR at a free concert on the beach at Santa Cruz. The new female singer really sounds like Grace Slick, and Mickey Thomas still sounds amazing.
Definitely about drugs and alice in wonderland
Grace Slick!!! Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship. 👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟. ✌❤🎶🎶🎶
"Somebody to Love"please 🙏 🙏 🙏 "Find Your Way Back" "Count On Me"
Grace Slick has a beast of a voice. Somebody to Love is a good next song.
You have to think of the era when it was recorded when you listen to it, 1967. Great song and Grace was very attractive.
Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship, who then became Starship. JA were one of the biggest bands of hippie era San Francisco. This song was about hypocrisy of adults saying drugs were bad yet reading children stories full of subtle drug references like Alice in Wonderland. It's in a style called a bolero - it doesn't have verses or choruses, it just slowly builds and builds and builds. Some other top JA songs are "Somebody to love", "We can be together", "Volunteers", and "Coming back to me".
Yup, Grace was a legend, but she sang to her world audience and they understand every word. Pink does a good version of White Rabbit.
THE most recognized voice in the industry!!!!!
You hit the nail on the head...'She definitely has got her own thing!' lol
Jefferson airplane surrealistic pillow I first saw this album in 1967 my aunt had it,and I like it bye
White Rabbit, as sung by Grace Slick (1967), is the epitome of the 1960s as its meanings encapsulate and reflect several cultural and social facets of the 1960s generation of teens and 20-somethings.
Good analysis of what she's talking about. Jefferson Airplane changed their name later on to Jefferson Starship.
Ashes are burning - this song is my favorite.
""SOMEBODY TO LOVE""
Jefferson Airplane
you had to live in the 60,s to understand this song, never to be repeated,
It's refreshing to see such a open mind and heart reacting to these great songs of the past, you get it right away (even the more complicated compositions) and provide intelligent and funny comments. Thank you Jayy!! i would love to hear you do a Joni Mitchell reaction video (A Case of You, Coyote, Amelia any one of these is great).
Love Jefferson Airplane,
"Am I trippin'?" Best reaction to this on the internet!
It was Jefferson Airplane in the 60s when this came out, they changed the name to Jefferson Starship after the band split into 2 different bands in 1972. This song is based on Alice in Wonderland used as drug references.
The most applicable line is the last one.
Remember what the Dor Mouse Said. Feed Your Head. At the time many folks thought feed your head meant using LSD or some other psychedelic. It really means feed your head with knowledge. 👍
Fantastic voice. No autotune back then.
Grace Slick - what a voice!
Try listening to some Shocking Blue. 'Venus' is the obvious 1st choice (nothing wrong with it, it's a classic!), but other recommendations are 'Hot Sand' or 'Mighty Joe'.
I have heard Grace wrote this song for the band she was in before Airplane but they didn't like it. Surrealistic Pillow is a great album. This song Alice in Wonderland yes
Omg ...the voice
Jorma the guitarist here in early Jefferson Airplane IS THE MAN. Check out some solo Jorma Kaukonen....genesis, water song, etc., as well as Hot Tuna. Great, great music. Jorma shreds!
In 1971 a book called GO ASK ALICE came out. Then in 1973 they made the movie. Scared many teens straight.
The song is based on Alice in wonderland because the book has drug references
The crazy thing is that Lewis Carroll didn't even need drugs to dream that crazy stuff up.
Alice in wonderland was social commentary,it's obvious when the queen says words mean what I say they mean,that's done now,I was in a shelter,and yes that's done
@@rogermoore9477 Same with the crazy stuff in "The Fairy Queen" and the Book of Revelations. But Alice in Wonderland is still incredibly trippy.
Thanks for message,actually I have looked the book of revelation but I don't read the King James I read the William Tyndale version the original
Yes,drug references and I've done mushrooms it's all for self discovery
Yes, that's why Grace said: "Go Ask Alice" it was about Alice in Wonderland. Slick reportedly wrote the song after an acid trip.
60’s psychedelic music. Jefferson Airplane was part of the Haight-Ashbury crowd. The birth of the 1960’s hippie movement.
But you know who has almost the same voice as Grace Slick? Florence Welch from “Florence and the Machine”. Check out their “Dog Days of Summer”.
You are correct about the lyrics, it is based on the poem "Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carrol who was a heroin addict at the time. The lead singer Grace Slick used Acid(LSD) and a lot of weed
Love this song.❤️ the Woodstock era
I read where Grace Slick was recently asked what they meant by "Feed Your Head."
Her response? "Read a book."
Anybody else out there doubting that too?
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, "WHITE RABBIT" YOU ARE CORRECT ON BOTH FRONTS. ALICE AND WONDERLAND. AND THE 60'S PSCHODELIC ROCK AND THE DRUG SCENE... HAPPY NEW YEAR... SO HAPPY AS THIS PAST ONE SUCKED...
You're correct, it was about drugs but back then, the message, the culture and drugs were all one package. It was a great time to be alive.
You really should have watched the Woodstock live version of this song. It is so wonderful. :)
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And personally to me Grace Slick is beautiful and hot.
the exit line "Feed your head"...was an instigation for doing LSD/Acid to enlighten and discover yourself.
And at that time till the late 80ties you had to put lyricwise a drug topic in a song in form of double meaning allegories otherwise the song wouldn´t had been released, and therefore the topic Alice in Wonderland is simply made for that, which is evident for everybody having LSD experience.
the Beatles did it as well by singing "Strawberry fields forever"..refering to a popular type of acid called "Strawberry"
And certain types of music/sounds are harmonizing to certain types of drugs..so alone the sound of those songs is already refering to certain drugs as well, where additional distinct lyrics aren´t necessary to get what the song is refering to.. And Psychodelic music which "White Rabbit" is was LSD music.
Yes, you, them, us. We are all tirppin when this song is playing!!
Tom Odell - Another Love
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That waver in the voice is called vibrato.
“Am I tripping?” Lol No but all of us were.
Grace Slick was amazing.
The Jefferson Airplane lost 3 members and was reformed in the mid- 1970s as the Jefferson Starship and recorded until the late 1980's
vibrato is the word you were looking for
You're right on both counts: It is about drugs (namely, shrooms; and it is about "Alice in Wonderland" (which is rumored to have been written by author Lewis Carroll about a psychedelic trip - though there's no proof of that).
Acid Rock - Its all about Alice in the Wonderland. Grace Slick is sing about Alice tripping Wonderland. Timeless classic. Never tire of hearing it. Grace is still going strong. The song, the band and the singer define an era.
You should listen to “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane, then listen to “California Dreamin” and “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas.
I love your green hair! Looks fantastic on you!
I love this cultural mixing. Let's get it
Grace has an amazing natural vibratto. Yes, IT IS about drugs and Alice.
Grace Slick is now 81 years old.
The song is about mind expansion through the use of psychedelic drugs, using Alice in Wonderland as a reference point. The last line says it all, feed your head, which was commonly said regarding drug use in the 60's and 70's.
Her voice is incredible. You are right RE the Alice thing
Also Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship they are the same group.I guess it was an update to the name for they were around from the 60's to the 80's .
Originally it was Jefferson Big Wheel but it has evolved over time for interstellar travel.
Amazing voice!!!! 🤩🐇🐰
Yes, it is about Alice in Wondeland AND drugs! This was the sixties - drugs were everywhere ... definitely on that stage! It was a "hippie trippy" song - very popular!!!
One of the best songs, EVER.
Freed your head!
I remember this group well. I was a flower child then. I was against the status quo and, the hipocracy of the burguose society. This song is about getting high baby.👍👌👌❤❤❤❤❤❤
Arguably the greatest 2:29 in rock history.
Lewis Carrol, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" filled the books, (based on stories he used to tell to children), with a plethora of thinly-veiled drug references. Mind-expanding drugs were also widely available during the psychedelic '60s and bands as well as their fans were very experimental. Thematically this song was ripe for the time.
yup. lsd was a fun time in my day. have a tat from this song for a reason
Watch the live Woodstock version of her doing Somebody to Love
I heard an interview with Singer -Grace Slick ( hope that's the correct spelling ) where she says the song is about the fact that parents read their children stories like Alice IWL. Where Alice takes pills ,the caterpillar smokes a Hooker and there's also mushrooms involved .Then those same parents get annoyed when their children decide to experiment with those same kind of drugs. Those Psychedelic songs from the late 60 where almost all about drugs LOL
Old Miller Lite Beer Commercial:
V1: 'Tastes great'
V2: ... 'Less Filling'...
Left/Right Hemispheres of Brain in Harmony: 'Relax ur Both Right'
Yes, it's about drugs AND it's about Lewis Caroll's, 'Alice in Wonderland' (also about drugs)
This Old Man: 'Amazing Grace, SLICK & DEEP... Nice to see her (1967), look'in sooo young & Scrumdiddly-Dee-licious, back in the day'...
Ah, it pains me to say, she didn't age well... "the bloom is off the rose"... yet, still an exquisite flower...still beautiful, to me...
PS: Pretty sure Grace composed this ditty... all that 'going on', plus soul of a poet