Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (REACTION)
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Time for ' Somebody to Love ".
Grace Slick & The Great Society live version please.
It certainly showcases the power of Grace's voice.
Sneaker pimps?
@@BenjWarrant Grace Slick & The Great Society
There is first Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship, then Starship. Technically, all the same band but different eras with some band members added, deleted, changed for many different reasons. Some folks have their favorite incarnations. The earlier the better is my opinion but I am not necessarily in the majority.
Indeed, weren't starship terrible?
True though some great songs and albums as Jefferson Starship.St. chRles, With Your Love,Miracles,Sara, Jane, And Count On Me!
@@joelliebler5690 I was a bit young but I recall starship being very middle of the road AOR type stuff..Are my memories nonsense?
Spitfire album and Red Octopus were very good albums that she worth listening to and even buying. Try them, you’ll like them!😀👍🏻❤️☮️✌🏻
@@joelliebler5690 I will thanks, it's not all like "I built this city" is it?
The arc of this song is quite ingenious, the way it builds to that peak in such a short amount of time. Definitely one of the great vocal performances in rock
Ravel’s Bolero
The VOICE that launched a thousand trips!!!
Great reaction, as always. While Helen of Troy is known as "the face that launched a thousand ships", Grace was called "the voice that launched a thousand trips". Great mood music and an amazing voice.
lol
“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships"
From the poem Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. The line is considered a perfect example of iambic pentameter.
Gracie's voice is one of the most iconic in the history of Rock and Roll
I know it launched a few trips for me...lol
I can still picture Grace being cornered by a reporter back then, and asked if she was advocating drugs. But she was ready, and replied “ I’m telling people to feed their head with knowledge and information, man ! “
This creates such an ambiance, especially when your a teenager getting high in the mid 70’s
Or, one in the late '60s, wandering around the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco (honest, Mom, I was just going to Golden Gate Park...it was a short-cut!!)...one of the great psychodelic rock songs, and I can remember that *we* all got what the song was about (and, by "we," I mean my age-group) even though a lot of adults had no clue at all...
Or when you're 66 taking a couple of medicinal hits at bedtime for sleep and chronic pain!
Truer words have never been spoken.Oh Yeah
@@bardaghohio I was born in 1966, so I missed it by a few years, but I’ve always felt that I was meant to have been a teenager in the 60s. I was always drawn to my Mom’s music from that time.
The song doesn't just build with Grace's voice. It also builds by changing the key of the song, the key rising with each verse.
Um, no, it doesn't. It ends in the same key that it starts with, albeit in a higher register. Perhaps you should visit your neighborhood otolaryngologist.
@@ericminch - and you might visit your local proctologist.
Jefferson Airplane and The Great Society both arose out of San Francisco in the mid-60's. Grace Slick moved from the Great Society to Jefferson Airplane, bringing with her "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love," for the Airplane's second album, "Surrealistic Pillow." Jefferson Airplane ended when bassist Jack Casady and lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen left the band to focus on their own project, Hot Tuna (who are still performing and touring). After a handful of (brilliant) albums by Airplane members Paul Kantner and Grace Slick (and The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra), including Kantner's "Jefferson Starship, Blows Against the Empire," Kantner took the name and ran with it. Jefferson Starship's first album was Dragonfly, with three of the members of Jefferson Airplane, followed by the equally classic Red Octopus. By the time Starship formed, most of the band members (except Grace) had left. Many fans see a decline from Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship, and a steeper decline from Jefferson Starship to Starship. Hot Tuna shunned stadium concerts for smaller venues, which they have consistently sold out since 1970). Each of the bands had very distinctive sounds, so it's more than a simple "renaming."
The live Woodstock version is great. As is Gracie Slick.
I moved into a house in Bolinas, CA, that was owned by Grace Slick. The day I moved in I found the gold record to this song. It was glued to the bottom of the toilet lid.
"The ones that Mother gives you don't do anything at all".
As various members left, they took the name. Airplane, Starship.
Feed Your Head. Feed Your Head. That's is the theme of the 60s.
One of the greatest voices ever! Love this song.....it’s just not long enough! Starship followed Airplane after acquiring Mickey Thomas from the Elvin Bishop Band out of Tulsa who sang the classic hit “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”!
Surrealistic Pillow, one of the classic albums from the sixties. Many great songs.
Yes, Yes! The whole album is fantastic. If I had to narrow it down, besides White Rabbit and Somebody To Love, my favorite is Comin' Back To Me. The song takes you to San Francisco, fog, hills, ocean, shadows in the mist and transparent dreams read between the pages of a book.
Saw this live when I was in college in the late 60s. Grace Slick went to the side of the stage and sang it to an Albany NY policeman who was standing there. Oh the 60s were great.😊
That quote was wrong. It’s: “If you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there.”
Famous quote.
Both of the phrases work. If you were there and remember it, you DIDN'T do it right.
Feed your head, a common phrase in the 60's and early 70's. And we did.
A story if you don't mind. I grew up, my teenage years, on a Dairy farm and I had alwas wanted to have a horse. Not a pony but a horse and I worked, sold produce from a garden I tended, babysat, sold raw milk to customers I'd solicited and saved almost every cent because farmer who's farm was up the road came to offer his mares foal when she became pregnant. He knew about my desire to have a horse of my own so I could ride whenever I wanted instead of going to a riding stable. I was ecstatic when he told us of her impending delivery in a short 8 months but I would be short of the $150 price he was asking but close. He had a proposition that settled the mony issue by having me paint his milking parlor and 100 dollaes. I would even have some money for a halter and a grooming brush. One morning Mr. Gunderson, the horse owner came over and gave me the news that I had a pure white filly and that she had the most beautiful cornflower blue eyes he'd ever seen. So after chores were done my Father drove me up the road to meet my beloved filly. I named her Phoebe which means Shining Bright Light which she was in my eyes and in her coloration. In the end her whole name was Phoebe Grace Slick Rieder. Grace Slick because of " White Rabbit" because she was pure white and Rieder because that is my maiden name. I hope you don't mind my bellicose story and I apologize if I overstepped. ❤ 🐎
Your story was worth it for use of “bellicose” alone.
@@theplanetruth Thank You. I hope it made you smile. Lol
@@theplanetruth, you do know that I meant verbose and not bellicose. Sometimes my aged mind doesn't work like it once did but one positive is that the mistakes that I make are usually kinda funny,. Giggle Giggle
What a wonderful memory! Thanks for sharing.
@@roseannelobbezoo7638, Thank You for your kind words. I have written six short stories about the shenanigans our animals and my family got up to the years we had our dairy farm. I am writing a few more and I hope to perhaps publish them. The one about Phoebe is funny and poignant as are most of them, but writing about my beloved companion was at times quite emotional. Again Thank you and I hooe you have a good day. 🐴 Whinny Whinny, Neigh Neigh. Lol. 😆
I actually saw the Jefferson Airplane do this and "Somebody To Love" at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in '68. Cool memory. I was in the Navy at the time so if you were there, I was the guy with the short hair. Anyway, good reaction from upstate NY.
Far out!!
I always loved the rising tension in this song.
The entire album "Surrealistic Pillow" is excellent!!
Mother little helper is one of my top two favorite stones songs
Songs were shorter in those days. There’s another few songs but overall the album is only half strength. Besides the head hit song “somebody to love,” try also “embryonic Journey.”
Grace Slick, for those of us who remember, one of the best of all time.
Grace Slick was the premier singer of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. 😁✅
She has such an amazing voice!
Thanks Daniel! 🎸
The live performance video of this song is great..& u can see what they all look like! Coolest song..& thx 4 this one 🙂🙂☮☮✌✌❤❤
Jorma Kaukenen and Jack Cassidy guitar and bass left and STARTED HOT TUNA! Marty Balin Grace and the rest became Jefferson Starship
Psychedelic... perfect description.... trippy... hippy.... love Graces voice & this one of my all time favorite songs!
That's Grace Slick singing. She was definitely a wild child but very talented. Might check out the live Woodstock version of this to get an idea what the band looked like.
I had a crush on Grace Slick this came out when I was 16 or 17 still one of my favorites. There was a movie that used this as a theme. Lathe is another favorite makes me sad though especially now that I am 71. Glad you discovered the Airplane. Songs had to be short like 3 min. or they would not get air time. Grace Slick is now an artist selling in SF has most requests for white rabbit paintings
It took me over 40 years to realize White Rabbit is a bolero then you read that review confirming it.
Jefferson Airplane morphed into Jefferson Starship plus all the while throughout and still today is the band Hot Tuna which is the lead guitarist and bass player from Jefferson Airplane/Starship...
I love Hot Tuna!
Don't forget Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun and Sunfighter as spinoffs as well.
Jorma Kaukonen (guitar) and Jack Casady (bass). After they left the Airplane and the group was reformed into the Starship, I lost interest in them -- for me the magic was gone. Still like Hot Tuna, however. Jorma is doing some great stuff and free TH-cam concerts from Fur Peace Ranch.
One of my favorite sayings to my grandsons Is " remember what the door mouse said feed your head feed your head" and Grace Slick besides being a singer is an accomplished artist I have scene some of works in a gallery in Laguna Beach, California. They played it at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Fast vibrato...chills.
Two members of Jefferson Airplane left and became Hot Tuna, a more blues oriented group. Those who remained, along with the additions, became Jefferson Starship. This song and their other big hit, Somebody to Love, were actually covers that Grace Slick had written and recorded with her previous band, The Great Society.
“Beck’s Bolero”, a great electric guitar instrumental by Jeff Beck. Or “Ravel’s Bolero”, in the classic style.
Yes absolutely! I would recommend listening to Ravel's Bolero first and then listen to Jeff Beck take it to another level.
Heh, every time I hear or someone mentions this song, I recall the classic scene in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". The one where Dr. Gonzo wants Raoul to toss the tape recorder into the tub when the song peaks.
Dr. Gonzo: "When it comes to that fantastic note where the... rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to - throw - that - f**k*n - radio - into the tub - with me."
Raoul Duke: "F**k, man. You've gone completely sideways! That'll blast you right through the wall. You'll be stone dead in ten seconds. F**k, they'll make me explain things. S**t.
Raoul Duke: "Alright, man. It's probably the only solution. Let me make sure I've got this all lined up. You want me to, uh, throw this into the tub when the white rabbit peaks? Is that it?"
Tom Petty make use of the hookah smoking caterpillar in his video for "Don't Come Around Here No More", played by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and playing a sitar. It's pretty dope!
Charles, :)
That's my favorite Tom Petty song & video!! His videos were so original & somehow made sense in how they went with certain songs. :)
Dave Stewart had told an interesting story about his night with Stevie Nicks, ultimately leading to that song.
Lately I am listening to a Dave Stewart produced artist from Louisiana. Sounds like an older black woman, but it's a man, which was a surprise to Stewart. Thomas Lindsey. An intriguing voice. Great range exhibited on some songs. But it took my second listen to be in the mood. Maybe you have to be multitasking to appreciate it. Kitchen music for me.
That's one of my favorite Petty songs! One of those videos where the song really has little to do with the music video but it totally works out great in this case. One of the classic MTV songs of all time... Plus - sitars rule! lol
Somebody to love is another great song
Grace Slick is a VERY underrated singer. So much power in her vocals. Also she was a Hottie! She was a model before joining the Airplane.
"Somebody to Love" is the original band's most famous number. The original band, I think, was their best iteration. Later, as Jefferson Starship, they produced some numbers that just make you cringe.
Feed your head is a drug reference
Gracie has a voice that is one of THE best in the history of rock and roll..............and your friend's grandpa was right!
thanks for including White Rabbit. I think the shortness of the song adds to it's impact. by the time it builds to it's crescendo, and abruptly ends, you're wondering what was I just hit with? a true classic.
Listen to Somebody to Love by the Airplane (not to be confused with Queen which was an entirely different song).
♥ this song. One of the all time classic rock songs & one of the best female vocalist
I bet your parents always encouraged you to read. Such great parents you have.
THERE WAS A MOVIE ABOUT THE 60 S DRUG CULTURE WAY BACK THEN ABOUT THIS...YES IT IS BASED ON ALICE IN WONDER LAND....I STILL GET VIBES FROM MY ACID TRIPS FROM THIS SONG
Classic 60’s song, I remember loving the lyrics when I was a young whippersnapper
Grace Slick is still pretty amusing in interviews .unbelievable that she is the same singer that sang "We built this city" rubbish.
Jefferson Airplane,Jefferson Starship, Then just Starship. Grace Slick is a talented lady. This song makes people go nuts.
Take care. That song is all about acid. Madness lies in that direction.
PS- the Door Mouse only says that when you're on acid.
More likely mushrooms, Which this kid knows nothing about
This song is about Alice in wonderland through the lens of acid. Jefferson Airplane was the first and best. With each incarnation members dropped out and quality dropped too. By the time it became simply starship there were no original members and it was a completely different band as far as I know. 😎✌🏽☮️🎸
And if you weren't in on the drug culture in the 60s it was still a good song.
Linda Nicholson ... I don’t get what you’re saying, The song is only about psychedelics, without them there is no song
@@rmhanseniii In 1967 when I was 17 years old, I was not really aware of the drug culture and music was just music. The song is also about Alice, in case you hadn't noticed.
After 1972, Jefferson Airplane effectively split into two groups. Kaukonen and Casady moved on full-time to their own band, Hot Tuna. Slick, Kantner, and the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane recruited new members and regrouped as Jefferson Starship in 1974, with Marty Balin eventually joining them.
A' jefferson airplane ' is when you take a paper match ( unstruck ) & peel apart from the bottom where the paper is frayed , into 2 separate layers til the match head stops you. Put your roach between the 2 layers of paper, then twist the remainder like a twist tie & it acts as a roach clip.
The device is called a ' jefferson airplane '. The band changed it's name to jefferson starship , when? IDK.
Welcome aboard The Airplane! No need to worry about getting off.......We've had the "short song" discussion before. EVERYTHING in this period was geared at getting airplay on radio at the time. Funny you mentioned the bass line immediately, you've just been introduced to the great Jack Casady! One of the best to ever strap a bass guitar on! He and Jorma (lead guitarist in this song) are still playing together as Hot Tuna. On your journey, you will be treated to much more of Grace's wonderful voice, as well as Marty Balin, Jorma, and Paul Kantner. That's right, 4 vocalists. This is important music, and I would encourage you to listen to it all! "After Bathing at Baxter's" "Crown of Creation" "Bless It's Pointed Little Head" (killer live album) "Volunteers" "Bark" "Long John Silver" are all fantastic albums and the core of the Airplane catalog, though I find myself listening to Baxter, Crown, Pointed Head, and Volunteers the most. Jefferson Starship started as a side project dreamed up by Kantner, and the "Blows Against The Empire" album is absolutely terrific!! This album features tons of great guest musicians, among them, David Crosby and Graham Nash (CSN), Jerry Garcia, Billy Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart of The Grateful Dead, David Freiberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service and others. Try this straight fire rocker from Pointed Little Head, "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds". Jack absolutely goes off on the bass line and Grace and Marty share the lead vocals. Enjoy your ride, you have much to look forward to! th-cam.com/video/HY3F9hSVU5I/w-d-xo.html
Yes, yes, and YES!!
Jefferson Airplane were a part of the same San Francisco psychedelic/folk rock scene in the mid-late 60's as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Jerry Garcia was very involved with the making of the album Surrealist Pillow, which this song is from, and he continued to collaborate with the band and its members on projects for several years before the Dead became the huge worldwide touring phenomenon they are now known as.
Seeing your eyes light up when you got that first hit of Grace Slick’s voice said it all. 🔥🔥🔥
I was there and I remember the 60’s very well.😎✌🏽☮️🎸
its usually coupled with 'somebody to love'.. white rabbit builds to the crescendo, and somebody to love takes it from there.
Jefferson Airplane was formed in 1966 by Marty Balin. Grace Slick joined for their second album Surrealistic Pillow. Around 1971 JA became Jefferson Starship with original member Paul Kantner and Slick. Marty Balin re-joined and they produced a number of hits during that time. JS eventually became the more commercially radio friendly Starship fronted by Slick.
Grace Slick has such a powerful voice. Love it!
From the late, great year of 1967 -- hands down, the best year ever in pop-rock music. It overflowed with amazing rock, soul, vocal and country music, all played together on radio. And the bands that debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in '67 included the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Jimi Hendrix Experience and Bee Gees. Wow!
I love your observations. Their so apt and meaningful. And I agree - this wonderful music is too short. It should go on and on.
It's a musical form in the style of a bolero. It's short cause in the 60s if it wasn't under 3 minutes it had a small chance of getting airplay.
If any song exemplifies psychedelic rock, it's this one!! Grace Slick is the vocalist.
Still gives me goosebumps after all these years.
Looking through your videos, you are taking me back to high school and earlier. When Jefferson Airplane arrived on the scene, there was nothing like them. Grace Slick is one of the queens of rock. Somebody to Love is shattering. Go Ask Alice was also the name of a very popular book in the seventies, a 1971 diary about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. Thanks for the reaction.
Love Grace Slick, favorite female vocalist. Does paintings now using White Rabbit theme.
Eric burdon when I was young Roy Clark yesterday when I was Young
There is an extended version of this song as well the song was very well put together by Grace Slick. She wasn't amazing musical artist in 1960s say she was well above her time and age and very evolved this is my favorite song from Jefferson Airplane I can't stop listening to it the lyrics Bring me into another solar system the base instruments and other instruments move through the soul I have seen this song in the official video that is something I would suggest you see Grace Slick is dancing on the beach you hear the song it gives you that sense of freedom an inner peace that the 1960s was all about Peace Love Mother Earth Gaia moving through your soul along with these amazing lyrics...
🦄🧘♀️☮🕉☯️💚🦋🦋🦋
I remember when one of my older sisters brought the 45 record home with this song on one side and Somebody to Love on the other. When I heard it, I knew music had changed. Anyway, I'm late, I'm late. Time for bed. Thanks Daniel! Got to GOOOoooooo
I think you will love "She Has Funny Cars," "My Best Friend," and "Fast Buck Freddie," to name a few.
Good choice!
I vividly remember an interview with Grace. At the time a very popular song claimed ( If your going to SanFransisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair) Grace touted that her two songs were a better representation of the current scene going on there, and kinda warned people away from going. She brought this song and Somebody To Love to the group, two wildly popular hits, she wasn't a great people person she loved the art of music and hated touring. She once during a number climbed off stage and shoved her two fingers up some guy's nose because he was gawking at her. Then walked out of the building into the night and disappeared for a time.
Emiliana Terrini covered "White Rabbit" in the film, "Sucker Punch," starring Emily Browning.
Fun fact: Grace Slick is now 81 years old (born October, 1939). One of my favorite vocalists of either gender.
There was a movie out in the 70s, the plot derived from this song. The movie was called "Go Ask Alice". Teenager sucked into the world of drugs.
The guitar sound are incredible great jefferson. this groupe is so much hippiemusic and so great. Grace at her bedst just art of the greatest !!! Bedst from Denmark
Awesome thanks for listening to the great ones!!
Airplane had a unique and distinctive voice and feel that embodied the sixties as much as any other band. Their music is not always so accessible to pop sensibilities, and might sound a bit dated these days, but they made some nice interesting music. The bassist Jack Casady was widely acknowledged to be among the best in rock at the time, and Jorma Kaukonen was/is no slouch on the guitar.
Somebody to Love, Crown of Creation, Volunteers, We Can Be Together, Wooden Ships, Good Shepherd, Plastic Fantastic Lover, Today, Pretty As You Feel are all worth a listen. If you want a Starship song with some killer lead guitar parts, try Ride the Tiger.
Cool listen. One of my all time faves and along with “Somebody to Love “ the best of their repertoire, IMHO😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Didn't realize I never commented on this one. THIS, Daniel, represents your true core audience. You cover everything, and should continue to do so. I've learned so much myself in the almost 2 years. 1968-1985. The sweet spot.
FWIW :)
I got the chance to see Grace Slick and Jefferson airplane at Woodstock in 1969 that version was a lot longer if I remember correctly.
Grace basically was saying to parents why do you get down on drugs when you read stories like Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Wizard of Oz to us when they all had drug references in them.
So glad you got the Lewis Carroll reference! So many young people have no idea what this is about cuz they don't read. My mother was a library and when I was little and I grew up in the library. Nice to see a young man who knows this literature.
Dont forget, there was also
"The Jeffersons" sit- com TV show in the early 1980s
Yeah...summer of love, Golden Gate Park, tripping on acid, transported by music to places unknown.
But, really, this song is great because Grace Slick just knocks it out of the park, with power and urgency.
Songs were so short because AM Radio was the only Radio Network that played all the Bands from the 60's. In order to get Air Play your songs had to be Tragically short. The Beatle's had a lot of songs that were too short and for the same reason had short songs in the early 60's FM finally arrived in the late 60's and 70's.
Thanks for the thoughtful and insightful reaction. I also appreciated the background info on the song from Grace Slick that I'd never heard, even though I grew up listening to Jefferson Airplane. Looking forward to more of your reaction videos.
tv performances are slightly different vocals because those were usually live to backing track of instruments
Grace slick has such a haunting voice, I just love this song.
I heard that the music to this song is written as a classical bolero, which was usually meant to accompany flamenco dancing, and rises throughout the whole song in tempo, intensity and pitch. The snare drum mimics castanets. It's actually a rather intellectual song that helped define the anti-war or hippie era.
Great reaction. I watched a documentary, don't know the title, where Grace belittled the fuss about her voice. She said something along the lines of "I was good at screaming and that's about it". Also there was a very compelling movie that was said to be based loosely on Grace's life. Title "Maybe I'll be home in the spring".
One of the songs in the soundtrack of my childhood: a counter-culture manifesto loaded with drug references. Imagine hearing this at the Fillmore in San Francisco, a barn of a place where quite a few legendary 60s bands played back in the day.
It could be that she's telling us to remember what the Dormouse said (whatever that was), and then telling us to "feed your head." It doesn't necessarily mean that the Dormouse said to "feed your head."
Awww... Daniel... One of my favourite Jefferson Airplane songs... yes... I have done THIS one in karaoke as well! LOL I had always thought this was based on the book "Go Ask Alice", (referenced, obviously, with "Alice in Wonderland"). If you've never read it, "Go Ask Alice" is the diary of a runaway. VERY haunting! Her parents found it and had it published.
Anyway... Another song... that is FUN is "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from the 80's movie "Mannequin". I've always loved it cuz it's just a fun song.
One of my favorites, started as airplane ended as starship
Completely off-topic, but, seeing your screen-name...I used to model the ATSF in N-scale, 1950s-1960s, primarily....
Grace Slick has an amazing voice! They performed at Woodstock
When this song came out, I was in college and a singer in a rock band. Drugs, especially LSD were everywhere and freely distributed. For us , it was free. This song was obvious to us and we understood it immediately and embraced it. I am 70 years old now and haven't taken any drugs for many, many years but I still understand it and have no regrets. It was a part of our culture at the time and Grace Slick was a spokesperson. I still believe in "Feed your head' but in a different way.
I've always appreciated Jorma Kaukonen's Spanish-influenced guitar at the beginning of this tune. "Go To Her" and "DCBA-25" are also great tunes by The Jefferson Airplane.