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the 60s was a Great time to be 17 and going out into the world for the first time exploring with NO parents rules . it was a WILD Ride...😏😶🌫😵💫🙃🤣😂🤩🥰 Feed your head.
The voice that launched a million trips. The lighting effect was known as Liquid Light, used by most psychedelic rock groups, and used in clubs as well. Those were the days!
HAHAHAHAHA, at one point it started to rain, I can't remember when, because we were was hi as kites, but we ended up covered in mud. Then I had to hitchhike again back to the city. I'm 74 now but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. And yet, in spite of it all we managed to graduate college and become productive adults because we understood that it was just a phase. We knew if we were strong enough for a "trip" or not because those of us who weren't, did not make it. The question is: what happened to young people today?
I was 14 when this song was released. I thought Grace Slick was the grooviest female singer ever! Still love me some Jefferson Airplane. Ahhh... the memories. 😃
I was born in the sixties and I love this song! When I do the dishes, and I hate doing the dishes, I play this on repeat. And suddenly the dishes are done. Amazing what music can do.
The song is about curiosity and discovery, and uses a lot of Alice in Wonderland references as metaphors for experiencing the mind altering characteristics of psychedelics. It was also a way to sneak drug references in the song and past the music censors and even when they started to figure that shit out the song was a big hit and couldn't be ignored. Their second album Surrealistic Pillow is a classic. I saw them around the same time as this video (from the Smothers Bros tv show) and they were very excellent. Being high on hash didn't hurt either. Grace Slick was tripping on something that night I'm sure because she wasn't singing she'd sit on the edge of the stage and stare up at the light show behind them.
When this song hit the charts it blew everyone's mind. Grace Slick using a strong, full bodied voice was a rarity at the time. She threw the sweet, melodious, feminine sound right out the window and we loved it. The group later became Jefferson Starship and then just Starship. They had many hit songs and you might be more familiar with songs like "We Built this City" on Rock and Roll. Absolutely loved this performance from The Smothers Brothers show. The brothers were good singers but they were funny as hell and I had all their albums. If your want to pee your pants laughing you might check out some of their skits.
"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead." That lyric always gets me - and I can't really explain why - except to say it sounds exactly like what happens when one is dreaming. I think people will still be giving their reactions to this song 100 years from now. Maybe a 1000 years. _White Rabbit_ takes you out of this world and into another.
JA were the foremost practitioners of acid rock. It was intended to evoke an LSD trip. Others were the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver, and the list goes on. They were all San Francisco-based. Grace Slick was the greatest singer of her generation and the band was without peer. Their catalog is deep and vast, some of the most thoughtful music ever recorded. They could be just straight up weird too. "Bear Melt" for instance. I've been listening for over 50 years and I still don't know what it's actually about. You noted immediately that this song references Alice in Wonderland. I guess you're one of those rare individuals who actually read :)
Yes the song is a series of references to the works of Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodson)...not (just) a kid's book! And then there is Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest was written while he was a volunteer 'Guinea Pig' in the trials of the new military 'truth drug' LSD, alongside Owsley. Kesey was involved with the Pranksters and then The Dead who were following the Airplane. In the UK we had Hawkwind and others of the Ladbroke Grove set, and the Bonzo Dog Band. LSD stood for Pounds Shillings and Pence (the then currency) so a drug called LSD was a great joke! ("You've heard of Ali Baba, forty thieves had he, out for what we all want, lots of LSD !" Check out the Molly Tuttle White Rabbit too; keeps evolving. Happy Daze !
@@peteannells4218 Oh yes, Hawkwind. Lemmy. I read that at one gig the entire stage was built out of amps. He allegedly doused front row fans with LSD from an eyedropper. Lemmy: "I don't remember no one complainin' about it." :) Cuckoos Nest was autobiographical. He'd had a similar harrowing experience in a psych unit. Kesey's favorite SF band was Quicksilver FWIW. There is considerable evidence that LSD and the hippie movement were CIA mind control psy-ops. One objective was to dissipate the energy of the coalescing antiwar movement. Tim Leary was a CIA contract agent. Owsley too probably. The CIA bought up all the legal LSD in the 60's, mostly from Sandoz labs in Switzerland (back in the day it was our guarantee of quality: "It's Sandoz man") and used the Hells Angels among others to distribute it. It was everywhere. I had no trouble obtaining it and I lived in rural backwoods Maine. Happy (for the most part) Daze!
Not that familiar with Hawkwind's music but I'm thinking they were the UK equivalent to our Blue Cheer, also SF-based. "But..but.. Blue Cheer is just volume and feedback!" Me: "So?"
San Francisco band -same time frame as grateful Dead.... back in the day they used to do impromptu concerts in Golden Gate Park ...free. (they were also at Woodstock.)
@@setonhillstudios most of the time I don't know if my silly comments even help people to get a deeper understanding of stuff that I know about but ...anyway....
of at woodtock they were up for days no sleep and to quote Dave Mustaine about himself in the 80s as head of Megadeth, probably had half a dozen things ON him and a dozen more IN him. They were completely out of their gourds by the time 10pm came around. Later in the 70's the band changed its name to Jefferson Starship, then just Starship. You may have heard We built this city on Rock n' roll? early 80's hit. Same band more or less . How these people survived for decades in defies belief. or spurs certain beliefs about the idea of certain contracts signed to certain infernal beings exchanging something very ummnn personal for success and a long lfe. I am not going there but others do. I just advise staying away from booze,tobacco and recreational pharmaceuticals. Don't break the law now. 😊
Jefferson Airplane has often put out incredible pieces. This happens to be one of them! Grace Slick has an amazing voice & the band members all move well together. Thank you for sharing this one!
Grace Slick was my teenage female vocalist obsession 😂. They played this song at Woodstock. Insane voice. Her nickname was ‘Acid Queen’ was obvious reasons. Saw Jefferson Airplane in concert in 1974 and she was higher than a kite but was so good her voice stuck in my head for a week. She’s been clean for like 20 years now and is 84. Jefferson Airplane’s other big hit ‘Somebody To Love’ is amazing! I’m sure you’ve heard it. Should review that one it’s popular! Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship in 1974. They have some really banging songs too. Check out ‘We Built This City’ and ‘Find Your Way Back’ She’s unique!
Hello Seton Hills, I thought I'd suggest another one of their most popular hits, if interested. "Starship - We Built This City (na, sowas!, 11.01.1986)" (by the channel: Starship) --Grace Slick was initially the lead vocalist and frontwoman for the band Jefferson Airplane. However, there were spinoff versions of this band along with several band members revolving through each band. I believe she started with the band "The Great Society" and then came "Jefferson Airplane" followed by "Jefferson Starship" and finally "Starship". This song that I've suggested was the final band "Starships" biggest commercially successful hit single. And as always, I enjoyed hanging out rocking with you. Thanks for sharing. peace out~
Like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane came out of the San Francisco scene in the 1960s. The year this song was released, 1967, was called “the summer of love” centered in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in SF.
Jefferson Airplane was an American psychedelic rock band in the 60's-70's. Their lead singer Grace Slick has a very powerful voice. Their 2 biggest hits are "Somebody To Love" & "White Rabbit" but they had other good songs. Later on in 1974 Jefferson Starship was formed with many of the former members of Jefferson Airplane & they had some hits too.
@@lethasatterfield9615 I loved that book as a preteen and I thought it was real at the time, but it was really a work of fiction (by Beatrice Sparks), that the publishers presented as a real diary.
They had several excellent lead singers throughout their variations. For Miracles, Marty Balin does a fantastic job and it's hard to top Mickey Thomas singing Jane with Grace doing accompanying and backup vocals throughout. Millions of babies probably resulted from Miracles!
A 2 minute song unique style, with Amazing vocals. Lyrics based on literature. That don't repeat once, let alone of thousands of "Baby, baby baby". And Grace has no need to wear black rubber underwear or shake her thang one. bit. Major respect for that genre of music.
I am 70years old and live in the UK. The mid to late 60s were great, as were the pre-disco 70s. For psychedlia you may want to check out I Am The Walrus by the Beatles, I Can See For Miles by The Who, Kites by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Hole In My Shoe by Traffic, Fire by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, See Emily Play by Pink Floyd, Flowers In The Rain by The Move, Eight Miles High by The Byrds, Strawberry Fields by The Beatles, Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd, Paper Sun by Traffic, Happenings Ten Years Ago by The Yardbirds, and Light My Fire by The Doors.
Tune into some of the other songs on that album, "Surrealistic Pillow" and some tunes from their "Volunteers" album. Another great '60's group was "Eric Burdon andThe Animals". Check out their : " When I was Young", We Gotta Get Out of this Place", "Don't Bring Me Down". Great stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion! We checked out “House of the Rising Son” from them here on the channel! I loved it and the video was so awesome! Go to our homepage and look under the playlist ‘Bands • Groups’ if you want to check it out! Have a great one! 😄
Great song but I hope that you consider reacting to the better, longer version of this which starts with about a 2 minute guitar solo. TH-cam doesn't always let people post links in comments so this is the title of the video for you to search: Jefferson Starship - White Rabbit (Winterland - Nov 8,1975)
......go back and re-read Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass. All the lyrics of this song are based on scenes from those books.... 😇
Grace Slick wrote this song. In the band before she joined Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick and The Great Society) she did a 6+minutes version of this which was just as psychedelic. Other songs of hers/theirs that I like are "Rejoyce", "Two Heads", "Hey Frederick", "Mexico", "Mau Mau" (under Paul Kantner and the Jefferson Starship), "The Theme from Manhole" (Grace Slick solo album), "The House on Pooneil Corner", "Son of Jesus", "Easter?" and "Silver Spoon" (Grace Slick & Paul Kantner).
Beginning as the Jefferson Airplane in the mid-60s, they would later become Jefferson Starship and then Starship. They were famous in the 80's for We Built This City On Rock and Roll.
there was an album titled THE WORST OF THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and it is a great album. this song is the epitome of acid rock. VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA at woodstock was fabulous.
Grace Slick the singer described the cadence as a "Spanish march." They had three vocalists, either solo or in harmony: Grace, Marty Balin, and Paul Kantner (rhythm guitar). Their music is highly varied but yes you are right psychedelic/acid rock/pre-prog. Jack Casady's prominent bass in most songs along with Jorma Kaukonen's acid lead guitar are a key part of their sound, more highly developed in later albums. In 1969 still with JA, Jack and Jorma formed a blues-based band Hot Tuna, and they are still touring in 2024! For single I suggest "Crown of Creation" to hear how the bass moves the song and some very acid guitar! "Wooden Ships" (co-written by Paul Kantner, David Crosby, and Stephen Stills) recorded by both Crosby Stills and Nash and Jefferson Airplane, shows off all of it. A Paul Kantner futuristic epic maybe try "The House at Pooneil Corners." And for very experimental and amazingly good, Grace Slick's "Never Argue with a German When You're Tired or European Song." She sings in German, plays piano and recorder, plus adds a variety of Moog operatic voices for musical harmony, while Jack supplies bass and Joey Covington drums! Oh if you want to hear them jam the last third of a song try "Hey Frederick." They worked out their songs onstage before they recorded them.
Steven, I got nothing for you today, my friend. Loved this song for many decades now and I just always assumed it was about tripping. But that's bc I've never seen Alice In Wonderland - I KNOW, I KNOW, hard to believe but true. And don't worry about telling us to get rolling...I had that ready to go before I hit play. ;-)
Finally! I've been waiting for a reaction to where someone understood the Alice in wonderland reference... Love your reaction thanks for what you do..❤
Yes, LSD had a huge influence on a lot of the music of the time, but you are mistaken if you that we (I'm in my 70s) were all out of our tree. The LSD experience is something that lead to so much societal change even if you'd never taken it. My whole attitude to life changed after my first trip. Everyone should have one trip, at least. It takes you out of yourself. ✌
Drugs mother gives you don’t anything at. This white rabbit is a true story of a girl named Alice. She died of drug overdose. Her mother wanted to share her daughter story so they made a movie called… Go ask Alice. I saw this movie in 1970 in school. It was meant to discourage students from trying drugs. Very very sad movie here friends betrayed her in turned caused her. Alice locked herself in the closet so she wouldn’t harm the babies. Very sad. Watch it. Then you will understand the song. Alice in wonderland has nothing to do with this lyrics. Alice in the wonderland didn’t do drug silly.
for sure "alice" and "through the looking glass". check out "the annotated alice" for a deep dive into all the jokes and references in alice in wonderland. all those characters are from the story. humorously, jefferson airplane changed some members and modernized as jefferson starship. haha.
Brilliant song (and book !) , plenty of this vibe from those great bands around the end of the 60s. Check out Molly Tuttle's version for a great modern rendition...'New Grass' indeed! She has also written Alice in the Bluegrass which is a great follow on.
The "motto" of the 60's, at least the Timothy Leary version, was "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out". Alternately "Make love, not war." It was all about peace, love, mind expansion/enlightenment, and dropping out of a failed society of permanent war and mindless consumerism. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the operative philosophy of the Punk movement which came later. Debauchery and nihilism. The Airplane fractured when it began to drift away from peace and love and veered into Marxist politics. It devolved to Starship and became far more commerical. JS was a HUGE step down from JA artistically
@@setonhillstudios Well, yes and no. The musical heart of the band, guitarist extraordinaire Jorma Kaukonen, "remarkable" (so described by no less an authority than Miles Davis) bass player Jack Casady, and drummer Spencer Dryden - the great grand-nephew of Charlie Chaplin - became disillusioned with the direction the larger band was taking and went off on their own. Grace and Paul Kantner had a child together and named her god. That was a step too far and they got blowback so they renamed her China. Grace for her part eventually ended up "in recovery" and attended 12-step groups. Don't know if she is still with us. If so she has been disregarded and forgotten. You can learn a lot about where we have been as a society by listening to the music of the time. Dig deeper, don't just scratch the surface
How can a person not know who Jefferson Airplane is? I have 9 year old granddaughter and she knows who they are, but I may have had something to do with that.q
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This was a WILD ride!!! We went deep down the rabbit hole with this one!
the 60s was a Great time to be 17 and going out into the world for the first time exploring with NO parents rules . it was a WILD Ride...😏😶🌫😵💫🙃🤣😂🤩🥰 Feed your head.
@@xonnadarkangel I bet it was! The world is sadly a much different place now! 😞 This is such a great song and thanks for hanging out! 😄
For me their song 'Somebody To Love' is one of the greatest female vocal performance EVER!
"What in the LSD trip is this?" Yes, exactly.
🤣😂🤣
Apparently you have not read Alice in Wonderland.
The voice that launched a million trips. The lighting effect was known as Liquid Light, used by most psychedelic rock groups, and used in clubs as well. Those were the days!
When I woke up Sunday morning at Woodstock they were playing. Breakfast with the Airplane. Pretty cool.
HAHAHAHAHA, at one point it started to rain, I can't remember when, because we were was hi as kites, but we ended up covered in mud. Then I had to hitchhike again back to the city. I'm 74 now but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. And yet, in spite of it all we managed to graduate college and become productive adults because we understood that it was just a phase. We knew if we were strong enough for a "trip" or not because those of us who weren't, did not make it. The question is: what happened to young people today?
The 'cadence' of the song is called a Bolero.
I still cannot understand how people that are in to rock haven’t heard this song.
I feed my head all the time. Best place to be on earth
Amen, Maybe they have to be born in the 60s at least
@@cidmedini3444 well I’m an 80s child so what the hell lol I know each to his own but nothing like tripping to this type of music.
Grace Slick the voice that launched a thousand trips!!!!
I was 14 when this song was released. I thought Grace Slick was the grooviest female singer ever! Still love me some Jefferson Airplane. Ahhh... the memories. 😃
Her voice is off the charts 😊
Grace slick had an amazing vibratto
Absolutely!
I was born in the sixties and I love this song! When I do the dishes, and I hate doing the dishes, I play this on repeat. And suddenly the dishes are done. Amazing what music can do.
Yessss! Great music does make everything alittle easier! 😁
They were from Haight -Asbury San Francisco
The song is about curiosity and discovery, and uses a lot of Alice in Wonderland references as metaphors for experiencing the mind altering characteristics of psychedelics. It was also a way to sneak drug references in the song and past the music censors and even when they started to figure that shit out the song was a big hit and couldn't be ignored. Their second album Surrealistic Pillow is a classic. I saw them around the same time as this video (from the Smothers Bros tv show) and they were very excellent. Being high on hash didn't hurt either. Grace Slick was tripping on something that night I'm sure because she wasn't singing she'd sit on the edge of the stage and stare up at the light show behind them.
Ah ok, that makes sense!
When this song hit the charts it blew everyone's mind. Grace Slick using a strong, full bodied voice was a rarity at the time. She threw the sweet, melodious, feminine sound right out the window and we loved it. The group later became Jefferson Starship and then just Starship. They had many hit songs and you might be more familiar with songs like "We Built this City" on Rock and Roll. Absolutely loved this performance from The Smothers Brothers show. The brothers were good singers but they were funny as hell and I had all their albums. If your want to pee your pants laughing you might check out some of their skits.
Haha 😂 I’ll have to check some of those out! Thanks!
@@setonhillstudios Enjoy! The Smothers Brothers sang in the Folk Singer genre but it was their comedy that brought them fame.
Link to video of Grace Slick's vocals isolated from "White Rabbit" th-cam.com/video/khZ7e9ytm-g/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JeffThibaud
Oh cool, thanks for the link!
"When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead." That lyric always gets me - and I can't really explain why - except to say it sounds exactly like what happens when one is dreaming. I think people will still be giving their reactions to this song 100 years from now. Maybe a 1000 years. _White Rabbit_ takes you out of this world and into another.
You’re probably right! Such a great tune! Thanks for watching and swinging by the channel! 😁
Feed Your Head!
Yes , many Vietnam movies had this on their soundtrack.
JA were the foremost practitioners of acid rock. It was intended to evoke an LSD trip. Others were the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver, and the list goes on. They were all San Francisco-based. Grace Slick was the greatest singer of her generation and the band was without peer. Their catalog is deep and vast, some of the most thoughtful music ever recorded. They could be just straight up weird too. "Bear Melt" for instance. I've been listening for over 50 years and I still don't know what it's actually about. You noted immediately that this song references Alice in Wonderland. I guess you're one of those rare individuals who actually read :)
Yes the song is a series of references to the works of Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodson)...not (just) a kid's book! And then there is Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest was written while he was a volunteer 'Guinea Pig' in the trials of the new military 'truth drug' LSD, alongside Owsley. Kesey was involved with the Pranksters and then The Dead who were following the Airplane. In the UK we had Hawkwind and others of the Ladbroke Grove set, and the Bonzo Dog Band. LSD stood for Pounds Shillings and Pence (the then currency) so a drug called LSD was a great joke! ("You've heard of Ali Baba, forty thieves had he, out for what we all want, lots of LSD !"
Check out the Molly Tuttle White Rabbit too; keeps evolving. Happy Daze !
@@peteannells4218 Oh yes, Hawkwind. Lemmy. I read that at one gig the entire stage was built out of amps. He allegedly doused front row fans with LSD from an eyedropper. Lemmy: "I don't remember no one complainin' about it." :) Cuckoos Nest was autobiographical. He'd had a similar harrowing experience in a psych unit. Kesey's favorite SF band was Quicksilver FWIW. There is considerable evidence that LSD and the hippie movement were CIA mind control psy-ops. One objective was to dissipate the energy of the coalescing antiwar movement. Tim Leary was a CIA contract agent. Owsley too probably. The CIA bought up all the legal LSD in the 60's, mostly from Sandoz labs in Switzerland (back in the day it was our guarantee of quality: "It's Sandoz man") and used the Hells Angels among others to distribute it. It was everywhere. I had no trouble obtaining it and I lived in rural backwoods Maine. Happy (for the most part) Daze!
Not that familiar with Hawkwind's music but I'm thinking they were the UK equivalent to our Blue Cheer, also SF-based. "But..but.. Blue Cheer is just volume and feedback!" Me: "So?"
San Francisco band -same time frame as grateful Dead.... back in the day they used to do impromptu concerts in Golden Gate Park ...free.
(they were also at Woodstock.)
That’s awesome!
@@setonhillstudios most of the time I don't know if my silly comments even help people to get a deeper understanding of stuff that I know about but ...anyway....
@@hopeklemann1 Of course they do! We appreciate ya! 😁
of at woodtock they were up for days no sleep and to quote Dave Mustaine about himself in the 80s as head of Megadeth, probably had half a dozen things ON him and a dozen more IN him. They were completely out of their gourds by the time 10pm came around.
Later in the 70's the band changed its name to Jefferson Starship, then just Starship. You may have heard We built this city on Rock n' roll? early 80's hit. Same band more or less .
How these people survived for decades in defies belief. or spurs certain beliefs about the idea of certain contracts signed to certain infernal beings exchanging something very ummnn personal for success and a long lfe.
I am not going there but others do.
I just advise staying away from booze,tobacco and recreational pharmaceuticals.
Don't break the law now. 😊
they have a song called "plastic fantastic lover" that I absolutely adore.
Jefferson Airplane has often put out incredible pieces. This happens to be one of them! Grace Slick has an amazing voice & the band members all move well together. Thank you for sharing this one!
Couldn't agree more, glad you enjoyed!
woo digging em out of woodwork! Amazing cut!!!
It was awesome!
One of the greatest bands of the '60's. Her voice was phenomenal.
Absolutely!!! This tune was so much fun!
Grace Slick , greatest female rock vocalist of all time.
I can't think, or have I heard, anyone better.
Grace Slick was my teenage female vocalist obsession 😂. They played this song at Woodstock. Insane voice. Her nickname was ‘Acid Queen’ was obvious reasons. Saw Jefferson Airplane in concert in 1974 and she was higher than a kite but was so good her voice stuck in my head for a week. She’s been clean for like 20 years now and is 84. Jefferson Airplane’s other big hit ‘Somebody To Love’ is amazing! I’m sure you’ve heard it. Should review that one it’s popular!
Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship in 1974. They have some really banging songs too.
Check out ‘We Built This City’ and ‘Find Your Way Back’
She’s unique!
The drum rudiment is called the bolero beat written by a Spanish composer named Ravel
Oh cool!
welcome to the 60s
Hallucinogens were running rampant my man. Altered states of consciousness....
It was the best of times and yet the worst of times, but I made it. I'm grateful.
Their rendition of Wooden Ships is beautiful.
The intro could go on for five minutes and I'd be in heaven.
Welcome to the 60's! You had to be there!! It was the best!
Check out their song Lather. It will leave you scratching your - head.
Hello Seton Hills, I thought I'd suggest another one of their most popular hits, if interested. "Starship - We Built This City (na, sowas!, 11.01.1986)" (by the channel: Starship) --Grace Slick was initially the lead vocalist and frontwoman for the band Jefferson Airplane. However, there were spinoff versions of this band along with several band members revolving through each band. I believe she started with the band "The Great Society" and then came "Jefferson Airplane" followed by "Jefferson Starship" and finally "Starship". This song that I've suggested was the final band "Starships" biggest commercially successful hit single. And as always, I enjoyed hanging out rocking with you. Thanks for sharing. peace out~
Thanks for the info and suggestion!
Like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane came out of the San Francisco scene in the 1960s. The year this song was released, 1967, was called “the summer of love” centered in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in SF.
There is so much hidden in this sound.
Jefferson Airplane was an American psychedelic rock band in the 60's-70's. Their lead singer Grace Slick has a very powerful voice. Their 2 biggest hits are "Somebody To Love" & "White Rabbit" but they had other good songs. Later on in 1974 Jefferson Starship was formed with many of the former members of Jefferson Airplane & they had some hits too.
Thanks for the info!
They're actually pretty mellow with Marty Balin in the band. But Grace had something to say and she said it loud!!!
Watch out because she'll blow out the speakers in your car. I've replaced speakers twice because of that voice.
Will you see old people differently now?😅
Haha 🤣 Not at all! Everyone was young at some point!
We were partying in the 60's
Massive hit back then.
From the same album Surrealistic Pillow was the big hit Somebody To Love which isn't so psychedelic!
They were an excellent band in the day. Big part of the San Francisco Scene.
There was a movie out in 73 about teen drug addiction called Go Ask Alice.
Actually, that was based on a young girl's diary, and a true story. It's an interesting read. Her father published it after her death.
@@lethasatterfield9615 I loved that book as a preteen and I thought it was real at the time, but it was really a work of fiction (by Beatrice Sparks), that the publishers presented as a real diary.
@@heidiv5488 OMG! I thought it was a true story also. I read it when I was 13 (I'm 57 now).
What were we doing in the 60s, enjoying ourselves. Now we are running the world, very badly.
Rolling Stone Magazine has this song listed as one of the best 500 songs of all time. You should listen to the studio version. ❤
Lot of folks saying that!
You wanna go stepping back in time to the 60s, ya better be prepared for the "trip". 😊
I guess so!
"They" say that "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was all a drug trip that Alice took.
Oh wow!!! I can see it though! 🤣
Jefferson Starship songs to check out-Miracles, Runaway and as Starship in the 80s-Jane and We Built this city.
Thanks for the suggestions!
They had several excellent lead singers throughout their variations. For Miracles, Marty Balin does a fantastic job and it's hard to top Mickey Thomas singing Jane with Grace doing accompanying and backup vocals throughout. Millions of babies probably resulted from Miracles!
This song is a roadmap for hallucinogens. It starts with aspirin, and progresses with each verse through weed, mushrooms, and LSD.
😳😳
A 2 minute song unique style, with Amazing vocals. Lyrics based on literature. That don't repeat once, let alone of thousands of "Baby, baby baby". And Grace has no need to wear black rubber underwear or shake her thang one. bit. Major respect for that genre of music.
I am 70years old and live in the UK. The mid to late 60s were great, as were the pre-disco 70s. For psychedlia you may want to check out I Am The Walrus by the Beatles, I Can See For Miles by The Who, Kites by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Hole In My Shoe by Traffic, Fire by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, See Emily Play by Pink Floyd, Flowers In The Rain by The Move, Eight Miles High by The Byrds, Strawberry Fields by The Beatles, Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd, Paper Sun by Traffic, Happenings Ten Years Ago by The Yardbirds, and Light My Fire by The Doors.
They seem to be making it appear as though Grace Slick is floating in air.
Tune into some of the other songs on that album, "Surrealistic Pillow" and some tunes from their "Volunteers" album. Another great '60's group was "Eric Burdon andThe Animals". Check out their : " When I was Young", We Gotta Get Out of this Place", "Don't Bring Me Down". Great stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion! We checked out “House of the Rising Son” from them here on the channel! I loved it and the video was so awesome! Go to our homepage and look under the playlist ‘Bands • Groups’ if you want to check it out! Have a great one! 😄
I saw Jefferson Airplane in 1969 and 1970. There one of my favorite live bands.
Acid baby 😁
Lather, Crown of Creation, It's No Secret, Somebody to Love, Volunteers.
Great song but I hope that you consider reacting to the better, longer version of this which starts with about a 2 minute guitar solo. TH-cam doesn't always let people post links in comments so this is the title of the video for you to search: Jefferson Starship - White Rabbit (Winterland - Nov 8,1975)
Oh wow, I bet that’s awesome!
@@setonhillstudios The Guitarist of the Dynamic Seton Hill Studios should react to it !
If you you'd teact to Somebody To Love, choose the original studio version.
I’ll have to check it out, thanks for the heads up!
......go back and re-read Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass. All the lyrics of this song are based on scenes from those books.... 😇
Grace Slick wrote this song. In the band before she joined Jefferson Airplane (Grace Slick and The Great Society) she did a 6+minutes version of this which was just as psychedelic. Other songs of hers/theirs that I like are "Rejoyce", "Two Heads", "Hey Frederick", "Mexico", "Mau Mau" (under Paul Kantner and the Jefferson Starship), "The Theme from Manhole" (Grace Slick solo album), "The House on Pooneil Corner", "Son of Jesus", "Easter?" and "Silver Spoon" (Grace Slick & Paul Kantner).
Jefferson Airplane ✌😊
Sounds like Ravels Bolero!
Grace Slick: “Feed your head" means read a book.” Particularly after dining on mushroom risotto, I suppose.
Ah ok!
Just talking to the little kids. Feed your head? With what you ask? Go ask alice.😅
Fabulous Fabulous song!
They were around for a long time. They eventually became Jefferson Starship. They evolved
Oh ok! Thanks for the info! Great song indeed!
Was in my pre- teens at that time 🤗my brother bought their album 💿 for .50, gave it to me 😳😬
That’s awesome!
The animation music video is very good.
Beginning as the Jefferson Airplane in the mid-60s, they would later become Jefferson Starship and then Starship. They were famous in the 80's for We Built This City On Rock and Roll.
Gotcha! This was a wild one for sure but I loved every minute of it!
Love Grace Slick ! Please do DONT YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO LOVE by Jefferson Airplane
Acid trip
Haha 🤣
I think Grace Slick took a pill or 5 before this performance
Maybe so
there was an album titled THE WORST OF THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and it is a great album. this song is the epitome of acid rock. VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA at woodstock was fabulous.
Listen to the Surrealistic Pillow lp. Forget the videos.
Jack and Jorma are unparalleled. Still performing as Hot Tuna.
Check out Crown of Creation , Ballad of You me and Pooneil, and We can be Together 🎉❤🎉
Thanks for the suggestions!
the Airplane and the Dead were known as big on acid. hence, acid rock
Grace Slick the singer described the cadence as a "Spanish march." They had three vocalists, either solo or in harmony: Grace, Marty Balin, and Paul Kantner (rhythm guitar). Their music is highly varied but yes you are right psychedelic/acid rock/pre-prog. Jack Casady's prominent bass in most songs along with Jorma Kaukonen's acid lead guitar are a key part of their sound, more highly developed in later albums. In 1969 still with JA, Jack and Jorma formed a blues-based band Hot Tuna, and they are still touring in 2024! For single I suggest "Crown of Creation" to hear how the bass moves the song and some very acid guitar! "Wooden Ships" (co-written by Paul Kantner, David Crosby, and Stephen Stills) recorded by both Crosby Stills and Nash and Jefferson Airplane, shows off all of it. A Paul Kantner futuristic epic maybe try "The House at Pooneil Corners." And for very experimental and amazingly good, Grace Slick's "Never Argue with a German When You're Tired or European Song." She sings in German, plays piano and recorder, plus adds a variety of Moog operatic voices for musical harmony, while Jack supplies bass and Joey Covington drums! Oh if you want to hear them jam the last third of a song try "Hey Frederick." They worked out their songs onstage before they recorded them.
Jefferson Airplane aka Jefferson Starship
Didn't they change their name from Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship in the early 1980s...? 🖖
Not sure? Did they? 🤷🏻♂️
Steven, I got nothing for you today, my friend. Loved this song for many decades now and I just always assumed it was about tripping. But that's bc I've never seen Alice In Wonderland - I KNOW, I KNOW, hard to believe but true. And don't worry about telling us to get rolling...I had that ready to go before I hit play. ;-)
Finally! I've been waiting for a reaction to where someone understood the Alice in wonderland reference... Love your reaction thanks for what you do..❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
I can't believe that a person has never heard of Jefferson Airplane... and yes, I'm a child of the 60's.
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Yes, LSD had a huge influence on a lot of the music of the time, but you are mistaken if you that we (I'm in my 70s) were all out of our tree.
The LSD experience is something that lead to so much societal change even if you'd never taken it.
My whole attitude to life changed after my first trip. Everyone should have one trip, at least. It takes you out of yourself. ✌
Drugs mother gives you don’t anything at. This white rabbit is a true story of a girl named Alice. She died of drug overdose. Her mother wanted to share her daughter story so they made a movie called… Go ask Alice. I saw this movie in 1970 in school. It was meant to discourage students from trying drugs. Very very sad movie here friends betrayed her in turned caused her. Alice locked herself in the closet so she wouldn’t harm the babies. Very sad. Watch it. Then you will understand the song. Alice in wonderland has nothing to do with this lyrics. Alice in the wonderland didn’t do drug silly.
Oh snap! I just remember Alice taking something that made her tiny so she could enter Wonderland! 🤣😂 That’s where my mind went! 🤦🏻♂️
You and many others. lol it’s all cool
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for sure "alice" and "through the looking glass". check out "the annotated alice" for a deep dive into all the jokes and references in alice in wonderland. all those characters are from the story.
humorously, jefferson airplane changed some members and modernized as jefferson starship. haha.
Brilliant song (and book !) , plenty of this vibe from those great bands around the end of the 60s. Check out Molly Tuttle's version for a great modern rendition...'New Grass' indeed! She has also written Alice in the Bluegrass which is a great follow on.
Thanks for the suggestions!
ya Alice In Wonder Land RIIIIGHT. Just remember FEED YOU HEAD lol. Dig your channel.
Glad you’re enjoying the video!
Moral of the story: drugs are illogical, "feed your head" instead. (Wise up)
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I always thought the ones from mother were birth control pills.
Gotcha! Thanks for the info! Definitely a wild tune! 🤪
Oops hit send too early. There is so much in this song! The pills from mother are birth control pills. Then talking about LSD tripping!
Another great song from them is Crown of Creation.
You are one of the very few reactors who have heard of Alice in Wonderland.
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for hanging with us!
White rabbit is based on the original Alice in wonderland watch the movie and then listen to white rabbit and you'll see the big resemblance
Oh awesome! Appreciate the insight!
The motto of the 60's was "Sex, Drugs. and Rock & Roll"
Just sayin'.
Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship, then Starship.
They lived it out for sure!
The "motto" of the 60's, at least the Timothy Leary version, was "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out". Alternately "Make love, not war." It was all about peace, love, mind expansion/enlightenment, and dropping out of a failed society of permanent war and mindless consumerism. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the operative philosophy of the Punk movement which came later. Debauchery and nihilism. The Airplane fractured when it began to drift away from peace and love and veered into Marxist politics. It devolved to Starship and became far more commerical. JS was a HUGE step down from JA artistically
@@setonhillstudios Well, yes and no. The musical heart of the band, guitarist extraordinaire Jorma Kaukonen, "remarkable" (so described by no less an authority than Miles Davis) bass player Jack Casady, and drummer Spencer Dryden - the great grand-nephew of Charlie Chaplin - became disillusioned with the direction the larger band was taking and went off on their own. Grace and Paul Kantner had a child together and named her god. That was a step too far and they got blowback so they renamed her China. Grace for her part eventually ended up "in recovery" and attended 12-step groups. Don't know if she is still with us. If so she has been disregarded and forgotten. You can learn a lot about where we have been as a society by listening to the music of the time. Dig deeper, don't just scratch the surface
LSD
ALL of the lyrics reference Alice in Wonderland.
You should have checked out the true live version at Woodstock, so much better than this version!
How can a person not know who Jefferson Airplane is? I have 9 year old granddaughter and she knows who they are, but I may have had something to do with that.q
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