White Rabbit compares Alice in Wonderland to an acid trip. One of the most talented groups of the sixties. Everyone brought something to the table whether it was trippy, soul, jazzy, or straight ahead rock jamming.
@kageakuma3009
Жыл бұрын
yeah, white rabbit was not referencing a narcotic at all but psychedelics like acid or shrooms.
@bradforward850
Жыл бұрын
How do you not know this song?
@gsparkman
Жыл бұрын
@@kageakuma3009 Of course! Anyone who has done acid knows that it is NO narcotic.
@robrobinson8597
Жыл бұрын
@@gsparkman I think he got confused between chasing rabbits and chasing dragons. It happens.
@danonhennessey9662
Жыл бұрын
You nailed the Joplin connection. Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company were both part of the amazing late 60s San Francisco scene.
@sarahmitchell5206
Жыл бұрын
Agreed on the Joplin reference. But Grace had an uncanny ability to make the shit look easy, like Whitney. Barely breaking a sweat with some crazy vocals.
@matthewclarke4127
Жыл бұрын
There is a famous photo of the two singers together.
@Stupha_Kinpendous
Жыл бұрын
White Rabbit is one of my all-time favorites. This song is just fucking superb.
@jasonlebeau1288
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane was beyond genius for White Rabbit. It's a song retelling the story of 'Through the Looking Glass'. If you get drug references in the song it's because they're in the book lol.
@griffengate
Жыл бұрын
White Rabbit is Also an allegory of the 60’s
@huginmunin8253
Жыл бұрын
Also Alice's adventure in wonderland, from that album she also had influences from Miles Davies
@JenevieveDeFer
Жыл бұрын
The "Keep your Head" she repeats at the end, I always thought that was her telling folks on LSD to not freak out, no matter what you see and hear.
@jasonlebeau1288
Жыл бұрын
@@JenevieveDeFer except the lyric is "feed your head".
@huginmunin8253
Жыл бұрын
@@flingonber well knowlage about pshycadelic drugs is possible that he had, it has existed in europe long before he lived (dont know all cultures that used it) but i dont know his knowlage about it. But i agree with you he most likely did not use drugs of any kind from what i know. But im curious why you said he probebly was a pedophile?
@stephenignatz8364
Жыл бұрын
Love Grace Slick soo much!!!. Always. She was a LEGEND.
@BKLYN_TZU
Жыл бұрын
It's crazy to think Grace Slick vocally still sounded the same in the '80s when she was in Starship singing " We Built This City" and " nothing Gonna Stop Us"
@brucetucker4847
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, too bad the songs sucked though. The stuff the various projects and incarnations did after Volunteers had its moments, but none of them never had anything like the magic the Slick-Kantner-Balin-Casady-Kaukonen-Dryden lineup did.
@BKLYN_TZU
Жыл бұрын
@@brucetucker4847 Bruce Tucker those songs sucks for you those songs are classics '80s songs when I was a kid back then compared to the BS they got nowadays give me that.
@brucetucker4847
Жыл бұрын
@@BKLYN_TZU Sorry, I won't. They were just as commercial, uninspired, and formulaic as anything today, just a different formula. All very carefully calculated to push t-shirts and other merch without threatening to inspire any dangerous or unconventional thoughts. There was FANTASTIC and innovative rock music being made in 1985, but it wasn't mainstream commercial stuff like Starship, it was postpunk/alternative music like the Cocteau Twins, REM, Kate Bush, or Echo & the Bunnymen, just to name just a few, or thrash metal by groups like Metallica, Slayer, and Celtic Frost. And the closest thing to the underground psychedelic scene that gave birth to Airplane, Janis, and the Dead was the underground hardcore punk scene with bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, and the Dead Kennedys. Like Grace's and Marty's Airplane, very carefully calculated to provoke every possible dangerous or unconventional thought. I graduated HS in 1984 so it's the music of my youth too, and I have very fond memories of those days and those scenes, but not of "corporate rock" like _Knee Deep in the Hoopla_ which is just sad if you listen to it next to _Surrealistic Pillow_ or _Volunteers_ .
@roystonmason9125
Жыл бұрын
@@brucetucker4847 opinions ! I am sure any bandmember would prefer a number 1 HIT!
@roystonmason9125
Жыл бұрын
They already made the GROOVE
@com4tme
Жыл бұрын
It's psychedelic man! You need to read Alice in Wonderland then listen. I'm older than dirt and still recovering from that song. I luv it!
@racing2cat
Жыл бұрын
About "White Rabbit." Partaking in "O" or "H" leads to chasing the dragon, I think. This is certainly about the recreational use of substances, with the backstory of Alice in Wonderland. Very enjoyable reaction. 🙂❤ They performed at Woodstock and were definitely partaking for that set! Hard to believe this is the same band that did "We Built This City." Another great one of theirs is "Comin' Back to Me" from 1967. Lovely and haunting. Highly recommend.
@mollymcallister1671
Жыл бұрын
I may be wrong, but 'chasing the rabbit' being a reference to drug use CAME from this very song.
@oldeskul
Жыл бұрын
I always felt that chasing rabbits was a reference to partaking in certain psychotropics.
@debjorgo
Жыл бұрын
@@oldeskul Chasing the rabbit is a reference to Alice following the rabbit down the rabbit hole and having her adventure in Wonderland. Contrary to popular beliefs, Louis Carroll did not do drugs.
@JenevieveDeFer
Жыл бұрын
Technically "Starship" was a different band with Grace in it. Starship gave us some cringe like "We built This City".
@oldeskul
Жыл бұрын
@@debjorgo The song itself is full of metaphors about the consumption of certain controlled substances that are consumed for their hallucinatory effects. I never said that Louis Carroll took mind-altering substances, he wrote stories and poems for children, the drug culture took some of the imagery from his most famous stories to represent certain substances. And given Grace Slick's history of substance abuse, it's safe to say she was most likely trippin' balls when she wrote this song. Ergo my interpretation of the line about chasing rabbits is a metaphor for the consumption of psychedelics may be right. Either way, it's about what each individual takes from the song
@vorlon1
Жыл бұрын
Here are some details about "White Rabbit," for you. "This was “one of the defining songs of the 1967 ‘Summer of Love’” SF and “one of the crucial sounds of the late ‘60s freak scene” DT of the psychedelic rock movement. When St. Louis radio station KSHE switched from an easy listening format to rock in 1967, “White Rabbit” was the first song they played to make it clear they “were aligning themselves with the counterculture.” SF Grace Slick wrote the song while in her first band, the Great Society. The music came to her after taking LSD and listening to Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain for hours. SF The “insistent, militaristic rhythms and the way the song gradually builds to its menacing peak” TB were loosely based on the classical piece “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel. SJ Of course, the lyrics were famously inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She said, “Our parents read us stories like Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz…They all have a place where children get drugs, and are able to fly or see an Emerald City or experience extraordinary animals and people….And our parents are suddenly saying, ‘Why are you taking drugs?’ Well, hello!’” RS500 The FCC came down on the song as drug-related and it was banished from the airwaves, but not until the Nixon administration. Slick has said the song isn’t just about drug use, but “about opening up, looking around, checking out what’s happening…Feeding your head is not necessarily pumping chemicals into it.” SJ She’s also said, “I don’t think most people realize the song was aimed at parents who drank and told their kids not to do drugs.” SF
@cyana5867
Жыл бұрын
Alice in wonderland!
@rachel-in-the-208
Жыл бұрын
Yes, all the characters were there … but some people are not familiar I guess
@MrWestie1985
6 ай бұрын
One of the most profound songs ever written
@oldeskul
Жыл бұрын
Grace Slick has a very powerful voice. I love her vocals in White Rabbit, they start off subdued and build until they are extremely powerful. The last sustained note in White Rabbit always gives me goose bumps. If you've ever seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, its soundtrack has several songs from Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship.
@KimmyGibson
Жыл бұрын
You know how we relate to certain songs representing certain dates/memories in our lives? I was a junior in high school, 1974, and I was broken to pieces over the end of a relationship. I took a bus to my older sister's and she played this album over and over until I learned all the words to this song, She kept me focused on the song because I was falling to pieces. She never told me what it was about though....I had no idea until much later on in my life. The breakup was silly, but the memory of her trying to care for me will always be with me.
@michaelcoffey1991
Жыл бұрын
Your older Sister was amazing :)
@roystonmason9125
Жыл бұрын
DEBBIE ?
@baskervillebee6097
Жыл бұрын
Alice In Wonderland references: Red Queen, White Queen, Doormouse, White Rabbit, Hooka smoking Caterpillar, etc
@tgriffin8179
11 ай бұрын
I prefer the studio versions for first listening. The beauty of her vocals and the bands musicality come through much better. Thank you for the reaction.
@haintedhouse2990
10 ай бұрын
agree. although i'm glad Grace's vocals were live on the show, the studio track is amazing. I also recommend the White Rabbit vocal track with no music, you can hear how stunning her vocals really were.
@EdwardGregoryNYC
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane was the 60s psychodelia. In the 70s they split into two groups: Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna. I highly recommend checking out Hot Tuna - "Keep on Truckin," "Surphase Tension," "Another Man Done Gone." In the Jefferson Airplane catalogue, there's "Wooden Ships" - which was co-written with Crosby Stills and Nash - they both released their versions about the same time. "Volunteers," oh, and "Plastic Fantastic Lover."
@gsparkman
Жыл бұрын
Yep, Definitely a 60s band. San Francisco based like the Grateful Dead and many others that embraced psychedelics.
@jeffmalloy8200
Жыл бұрын
More like late '60's. Jorma Kaukonen is the guitar player and he is fabulous and always had a very unique sound. He came from an acoustic folk and blues background like many of the artists back in that era .He is in his early 80's and he and his wife still run a music camp called Fur Peace Ranch which I believe is in Ohio. They have a Performing Arts Theater and they have guest artists come in along with Jorma and they also put on classes for musicians with guest teachers and concerts for the public Jack Cassidy the bass player is also still active musically. After Jefferson Airplane disbanded Jack and Jorma formed the band Hot Tuna. You should really check out some of their music too, it's fabulous! White Rabbit is based on the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and is probably not necessarily a positive commentary of the effects or at least the side effects of the drug lifestyle. I've always felt like that song was tongue in cheek sarcasm/ somewhat condemnation of that whole dead end. Although Carroll did suffer from migraines there is no evidence ever been found which would link him to drug use. Although it is a fact that opium use was very common in society at that time. He was an extremely brilliant mathematician and very creative otter author with a fertile imagination. The fact that there may or may not be some references to drug use in Alice in Wonderland is up for debate and it probably as I said before was not meant to promote the use but more to make a statement regarding how it altered people and their perceptions. From a scientific standpoint there is no evidence in any studies or literature that drug use enhances peoples creativity.
@dougca7086
Жыл бұрын
This was performed on The Dick Cavett Show the day after they appeared at Woodstock and of course you know Woodstock was a three-day affair. appearing with them on the show was David Crosby, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Judy Collins as well as Stephen Stills! Grace Slicks nickname was the Acid Queen!
@marningritaguy
Жыл бұрын
She and Hendrix were lovers. This band was so amazing, yes it was in the psychedelic era and many drugs were experienced in the creation of music.
@robertsousa9550
Ай бұрын
She never got it on with Hendrix but she did have a fling with Jim Morrison.
@kf8346
Жыл бұрын
Love that you made that cable guy connection. Jim Carrey nails this song.
@susanw8471
Жыл бұрын
The lyrics are playing with the book "Alice in Wonderland"...
@smartin807
Жыл бұрын
Late 60's Grace Slick (the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane) and Janis Joplin were friends in the Hippy San Francisco scene.
@Hartlor_Tayley
Жыл бұрын
White rabbit couched in acid innuendo is more specifically about reading books and engaging your imagination “feed your head”. Rather than using the book Alice in wonderland as a metaphor for taking drugs. Taking drugs are used as a metaphor for reading a book. It’s just a brilliant song.
@davidtullis2810
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane like the Greatful Dead are both bands that lived in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury district during the Summer of Love period. Drugs free love and Rock n Roll was the daily activities
@lunardruidcyprian6572
Жыл бұрын
White Rabbit is a reference to a 3 letter hallucinogen. The rest is a mix of references to Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Alice in Wonderland. Chasing the White Dragon, or Dragon is a reference to O/H particularly to "O" Dens.
@Sunshine_day
Жыл бұрын
Somebody to Love and White Rabbit was both released 1967. Very powerful, it's awesome that she lived through the 60's and 70's if you've listened to Grace Slick's interviews describing her drug use. I loved them in the 70's when they were known as Jefferson Starship. (Look up their guest appearance on The Star Wars Holiday Special, very trippy 😀.)
@musicairplanes4884
Жыл бұрын
The legendary Grace Slick.
@jeromemilne561
Жыл бұрын
Grace Slick just celebrated her 83 birthday . She quit the music business well over 30 years ago
@christophernichols1379
Жыл бұрын
Grace Slik was very aware of a native American singer, and songwriter named Buffy St. Marie who was very influential in the music of the late sixties. Since Buffy was older Grace Slik was emulating her voice. Stevie Nicks later also followed suit. Try "The Vampire," and "Generation," studio versions a must. See if you don't agree. Love your work. Kudos.
@amyjones2490
Жыл бұрын
This group was at Woodstock. It was a revolution against the establishment. Peace, Love, and Rock n Roll was the mantra of the youth in this era.
@slkinia
2 ай бұрын
More accurately, it was "sex, drugs, and rock and roll," following logically on Timothy Leary's "turn on, tune in, drop out."
@fjdoucet1465
Жыл бұрын
This is from the 60s, same as Joplin. Grace Slick's vibrato is very powerful and quick, absolutely unmistakable.
@localnetsolutions
Жыл бұрын
Grace was multitalented she also did paintings I saw an exhibition of hers in Laguna Beach, Calif.
@reverance_pavane
Жыл бұрын
Their are lots of wonderful covers of White Rabbit. Grace Slicks solo albums, such as Dreams, really demonstrate the power of her voice.
@michaelcoffey1991
Жыл бұрын
@MrLboyd you remain the most knowledgeable reactor going. I am here til you stop doing it. I relish anytime I see a new video an it is on something I adore just to see your feedback on it. Best wishes
@susanstein6604
Жыл бұрын
Both songs were recorded in 1967 on Jefferson Airplane's album Surrealistic Pillow.
@plsandridge7225
Жыл бұрын
Grace and Paul Kantnor a dynamic duo ! White Rabbit. Hyperdrive from the album Dragonfly, is my favorite.
@kd8199
Ай бұрын
What’s hilarious is so many reactors are told to go down the rabbit hole and this song is exactly what this is about. “When if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall….😂
@georgesheffield1580
Жыл бұрын
Excellent analogy to the present hip hop
@miriamlester795
Жыл бұрын
Grace slick is awesome . Love hear voice💜💜💜💜The rest of Jefferson Airplane are excellent as well.
@donaldgilbreath4200
Жыл бұрын
You have to hear white rabbit with just vocals, no instruments. It's very haunting.
@wardka
Жыл бұрын
And now Grace Slick is an excellent painter also often using Alice in Wonderland references as subject matter.
@cyana5867
Жыл бұрын
One of the biggest bands ever
@sleepingninjaquiettime
Жыл бұрын
I love talking to old timers from that era. Usually they start conversation with how great and clean the acid was back then.
@pjj9491
Жыл бұрын
Like the recorded version...was slower and more melodic...love Gracie...grew up w her...they were crispy fried in this
@brucetucker4847
Жыл бұрын
They generally had a faster, harder, and looser style live than in the studio. Each style worked well for its own medium. It's very difficult to capture the energy of those live shows on tape.
@lindanicholson950
Жыл бұрын
We grew to love the recorded version we heard several times a day on the radio. Hearing it speeded up just feels wrong.
@plsandridge7225
Жыл бұрын
Grace and Paul Kantnor, dynamic duo ! White rabbit, and Hyperdrive from Dragonfly is my favorite !,
@sharonelliott2366
Жыл бұрын
Not really early 70s. They formed in 65. Psychedelic, yes. They were one of the bands that defined that era. And this was contemporary to Janis (who died in 1970). Grace Slick is still around (she's 83), you should listen to some of her youtube interviews. She and Janis were really our first examples of women doing what the boys were doing and inspirational to a bunch of rocker girls (like me) who were tired of being relegated to "groupie" status.
@christinerobinson9372
Жыл бұрын
A couple years ahead of Janis, 1965, this was the in music. The intro to the 2nd song was bluesy, but there's a heavy folk influence in their singing. And back to the blues. That march rhythm is very reminiscent of Revel's Bolero. If you are unfamiliar with "Alice in Wonderland" I highly recommend reading the story or watching a movie. And keep in mind that Alice, when Lewis Carrol met her, was a very young girl, seven or eight years old.
@dalmarampere6637
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane were a great group and as much as I love their sound, it was their transition to Jefferson Starship, that made one of my favorites.
@ReleaseTheQuackers
Жыл бұрын
To get the REAL feel of this song you should listen to the studio version where they were not so "speedy" on it
@jeffcooley1861
Жыл бұрын
This performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
@Doedelsaurus
Жыл бұрын
That were very powerfull songs, but they did a lot of different stuff, I hope you heard that too. Their Woodstock entrance is very good.
@zunbake3
Жыл бұрын
1967. The most creative of the 60's San Francisco Psychedelic Bands.
@shwicaz
Жыл бұрын
OMG! High Flying Bird! LOVE that one.
@trevorstewart1308
Жыл бұрын
The Washington Post once called my mom a Grace Slick lookalike
@JRcomments
Жыл бұрын
The 60's hippie trippy acid phase. JA were real big in the 60's, especially around here. Summer of love. When I walk around Haight / Ashbury you can still feel the ghosts of the past although it has dramatically changed and is just a memory now.
@cindyturner8756
Жыл бұрын
Grace Slick is the great female singer❤️Love Jefferson Airplane ❤️
@Otisthelesser
Жыл бұрын
The lady is Grace Slick. She had razor sharp double bladed axe of a voice back then.
@bjspeck4337
Жыл бұрын
Heard them doing this live and in person. I like the version she sang at the concert I was at. Variability is surprising to me.
@localnetsolutions
Жыл бұрын
White Rabbit is both Alice In Wonderland and drug references and was the most popular by far. I remember when it came out.
@brucetucker4847
Жыл бұрын
I love that version of High Flying Bird. Grace and Marty had learned to harmonize their vocals in much more interesting ways than Signe ever did (though to be fair she wasn't with the band all that long), and Paul, Jack and Jorma do the same with their instruments. Jack Casady is arguably the most underappreciated instrumentalist of the classic rock era.
@bobmessier5215
Жыл бұрын
There was a film soundtrack with this tune about a teen girl's drug addiction called "Go Ask Alice" in 1973. William Shatner and Andy Griffith were co-stars.
@johnwarner6858
Жыл бұрын
Bubble projector in the background was used with acid trips. If you had good acid everything looked like the projector
@jamiestewart149
Жыл бұрын
Awesome songs
@lcassamas
Жыл бұрын
In terms of the drug references, the difference between the point of drug use in the ‘60s and later eras is that the idea behind the use of illegal intoxicants in the ‘60s was to help an individual raise their consciousness as tools in a spiritual journey. By the ‘70s, the idea changes from Grace Slick, The Airplane, and the Dormouse telling a person to “feed your head” to the one presented by Pink Floyd: comfortably numb.
@willieboy3011
Жыл бұрын
They were a 60-70s era psychedelic band from Cali, like the Doors. Their Woodstock performance was totally far out. You are quite correct about the drugs. LSD was second only to marijuana then and only became illegal in the US in 1968.
@russellburress6240
Жыл бұрын
Late sixties, Summer of Love, San Francisco. They also played Woodstock that year
@scottwilson5624
Жыл бұрын
have you never read Alice in wonderland or through the looking glass? How you could not mention that when listening to 'white rabbit' stuns me. A strong message of the song is everything old is new again - for good or ill - because Lewis Carrol was playing with the same ideas, and substances for that matter, in the Victoria era.
@WalterGreenIII
Жыл бұрын
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, All the characters within the song white rabbit come from the story. Alice fell down a rabbit hole while chasing a rabbit, she met the hookah smoking caterpillar, she did drink or consume things that made change size, even saw chessmen move around on a chessboard on their own. Of course there are references seemingly about drug but something like chasing the rabbit are from the book. The references to drugs are likely there because some believe Carroll was doing "drugs". Mostly he drank sherry, and there were of course times he used Laudanum which was in common use back then. Laudanum was purchased and used for medicinal purposes, and did have some opiates in it, but there is actually no reason to believe he used Laudanum for getting high, as it was commonly used for specific medical reasons and not usually recreational use.
@KM769
Жыл бұрын
First 2 songs live performance Monterey Pop Festival 16-18.06.1967. The same event Janis Joplin/Big Brother debut. They were living in the same district of San Francisco.
@matthewatwood8641
Жыл бұрын
It's not glorifying drugs or promoting them. It's not condemning them either. Slick wrote it. She's talking about America. A nation of pill-poppers, even that far back.
@BDRmongoose
Жыл бұрын
"Please! Tell me about the fucking golf shoes!"
@roberttaylor5997
Жыл бұрын
White Rabbit is absolutely about drugs, but pretty much every line references the Victorian novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll. White Rabbit and Somebody to Love are both on the album Surrealistic Pillow. Before Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick was in a band called Great Society, which did early versions of some of Jefferson Airplane's hits.
@susanstein6604
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane and The Doors were part of the late sixties San Francisco scene.
@FedMikeDC
Жыл бұрын
They played this song at Woodstock.
@rogercaruso9337
Жыл бұрын
This is my era some of them were probably on acid or something this is what I grew up through I love it
@robertaistrope9602
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane...Blues influenced Acid rock of the 60's and 70's then they became Jefferson Starship. then they took a break during which Paul Kantor and Grace Slick did a couple of duet records. after that Grace Slick did 4 albums on her own. Then they got back together in the 80's and 90's as Starship. Grace Slick is an amazing singer in all in incarnations of the group and solo.
@beanfrankednow5391
Жыл бұрын
Music just hit differently in the past
@jackimareena7
Жыл бұрын
The cable guy! Yesssssss
@Irisnietnodiggg99
Жыл бұрын
Great songs! As a child I suffered from a condition called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. It was super weird. At night when I closed my eyes to sleep, objects were getting larger & larger till the point I felt my head would explode and I had to open my eyes. Never tried mushrooms though 😂
@johnp9477
Жыл бұрын
Jefferson Airplane founded in 1966 San Francisco by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner. Jefferson Starship founded in 1974. By Paul Kantner and Grace Slick in1974.
@beyo5
Жыл бұрын
Lewis Carroll was partaking in substances when he wrote Alice in Wonderland - and yet Disney made movies about Alice and the Looking Glass for the innocent little kidlets.
@wuxin5847
9 ай бұрын
grace slick has magical voice - on of a kind - she even wrote these two songs
@haintedhouse2990
8 ай бұрын
Grace wrote White Rabbit her brother-in-law Darby Slick wrote Somebody to Love
@jeffreyjenkins1242
Жыл бұрын
Feed your head. OMG! I still love Grace. Saw her when my ship was in Frisco. Good Lord, 1969. I want to be twenty-five again!
@jnovak9106
Жыл бұрын
Totally references Alice in Wonderland - chasing rabbits down the rabbit hole - Pills make you grow or shrink, Hookah smoking caterpillar, red queen "Off with their heads - all direct references to the story
@dlobrown3673
Жыл бұрын
I think Gracie was high from 63 to 93. Nice listening to high flying bird. Grace killed it on that one
@barbarafrazier3242
Жыл бұрын
Ok the White Rabbit song at the end is filled with imagery from Alice In Wonderland. The pills changing your size, a hookah smoking caterpillar, the talking white rabbit….All from Alice In Wonderland.
@mr.mxyzptlks8391
Жыл бұрын
Per Wikipedia ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. I just loved, still do, the song as a kid🎉 now I wonder, just what were they smoking in 1865 😂
@com4tme
Жыл бұрын
That's too funny! There was something around I think they called "snuff" that looked like fun.
@arjaylee
Жыл бұрын
Grace Slick was Queen of Haight Ashbury
@firefighterchick
Жыл бұрын
What's hilarious is that briefly, a cruise line used this in an ad. I'm doubting the ad person knew what this song was about. Alice in Wonderland is where all the references come from. The 'h' smoking caterpillar, the red queen, etc are all from that story.
@RudyCantGame
Жыл бұрын
It's Chasing The Dragon. That song is about drugs but also about Alice In Wonderland.
@brucetucker4847
Жыл бұрын
"And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar Has given you the call..." "Chasing rabbits" is of course an Alice in Wonderland reference, but it is also a wordplay on the old expression chasing the dragon. She is talking about using psychedelics as a tool of psychic exploration - "chasing rabbits" into an alternate reality - as opposed to traditional use of opium to dull the senses and numb the spirit - chasing the dragon.
@joshuas193
Жыл бұрын
Yes, Somebody to Love was in Cable Guy
@greygrey4
Жыл бұрын
For some beautiful ballads from these folks, listen to their album, Surrealistic Pillow. Thanks for your reviews !
@karengarrow5579
Жыл бұрын
Her name is grace slick she went on to form another group Jefferson starship they had a very famous song called we built this city
@kittymccarthy2111
Жыл бұрын
Grace Slick. Manhole album. Excellent.
@Pahdopony
Жыл бұрын
The voice that launched a thousand trips…
@klevesmith
Жыл бұрын
No matter what genre or mood I am trying to create building a playlist. White Rabbit is included. If you want a ballad. “Triad” would be an excellent choice. I saw them and The Grateful Dean in 1971, in Houston, on the campus of UofH. I was all of 14. It was an educational experience to say the least.
@markclark6824
Жыл бұрын
1960s not 1970s
@frederickbays405
Жыл бұрын
yes do "Triad next" form them
@klevesmith
Жыл бұрын
@@markclark6824 - you are correct it was October 5, 1969 when the Airplane, the Dead, the Byrds and Poco played Sam Houston Coliseum on the UH campus. After my comment I got to thinking about my first few concert and dug out my old cigar box of ticket stubs and memorabilia. It was Deep Purple I saw in ‘71 at Sam…
@theduckfromthejoke152
Жыл бұрын
I mean I know this song from a lot of things they've even used it in battle video game commercials but I was like the Cable Guy Cable Guy that was like the creepiest scene in that movie, what a great cult classic
@rachel-in-the-208
Жыл бұрын
It is pretty hard to pick the number 1 creep scene LOL … But yeah, I agree
@TheOnespeedbiker
Жыл бұрын
I would love to hear a second reaction after reading Alice in Wonderland. Not one person in all the reaction videos so far, has any idea that every single reference in the song comes from Alice in Wonderland; unless you know Alice in Wonderland it would be impossible to understand the sheer genius of the lyrics.
@SC-ej6zl
Жыл бұрын
Its about Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. All the drug references were in the book which was published December 1871. Alice is Alice in Wonderland.
@Mark-iv7np
Жыл бұрын
Throughly enjoyed this. White Rabbit definitely about drugs was never a favorite of mine back then. Tho really dig it now. Grace Slick had a great voice. Always dug Somebody to Love Yes these songs were in Janis Joplins era late 60s. They morphed into Jefferson Starship a few real good late 70s early 80s tunes.
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