Helen of Troy was known as "the face that launched a thousand ships." Grace Slick was known as "the voice that launched a thousand trips." ( and probably a lot more than a thousand)

@klevesmith

2 жыл бұрын

I resemble that comment!

@WealthandReligion

Жыл бұрын

@@klevesmith the boomer hath spoken. Vanity, my favorite sin.

"Am I tripping?", lol. No, but they all were.

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@unclesalty9827

3 жыл бұрын

Yup so was I

@donfette5301

3 жыл бұрын

I died when she said that!

@ehekkert

3 жыл бұрын

It's a Hookah not hooker. An oriental pipe often used with opium.

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@ehekkert I thought they originated from Persia

That's Grace Slick, a rock legend.

Yes, it was Alice in Wonderland and yes it was about doing drugs. This was my generation. They were big in the 60’s.

@willrichardson519

3 жыл бұрын

The 1860s! ;-)

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@willrichardson519 True 😂

@EmmAPestilenciA

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, chasing the white rabbit is a term used in that scene for tripping, right? Also, Jefferson Airplane used the code words and story of Alice in Wonderland to fly under the censors' radar. The door mouse said feed your head. lol so obvious but they can just say "it's just about Alice in wonderland"

@tomjosker7065

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome song, love Grace Slick...ALL about drugs...Vietnam days...........................Ole Vet...

@vladtheinhaler93

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's about drugs, but more specifically, it's about expanding ones mind and growing as a person (one pill makes you larger, feed your head), not so much about getting 'wasted'. Also, I feel that 'feed your head' isn't just referring to ingesting psychoactives, but also having a 'healthy media diet', as we call it these days!..

You were talking about the vibrato in her voice is unique

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, her vibrato as well as her timbre is strong & clear! One of the best female singers✌🏾

@larrywarren6966

3 жыл бұрын

Yes… something today’s singers don’t have… vocal training.

LSD was part of that era. Jefferson Airplane born here in 1965 and one of many bands from San Francisco.

And that kids, is what LSD does to you... It brings out the creative genius living deep down inside you.

@snowbird9660

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, right...lol

@alamc200

3 жыл бұрын

Charles Manson and his followers also did a lot of LSD...Do you call those murderous psychopaths creative geniuses too?

@laziojohnny79

3 жыл бұрын

@@alamc200 Dunno, never heard their songs ...

@alamc200

3 жыл бұрын

@@laziojohnny79 LOL!

@guidosarducci

3 жыл бұрын

@@laziojohnny79 Excellent retort! Personally, I always just had fun doin' acid. For the record, I'm 70 years old and I've never murdered anyone. Not yet, anyway...LOL!

Welcome to the world of acid rock, psychedelic music ,lol

@donaldmoon

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Virginia... It is definitely about drugs... -don

@aliszar

3 жыл бұрын

Alice and Wonderland references, but definitive about drugs. The guy who wrote Alice was a big time druggie!

@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel9549

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I hated it when he became Jefferson Starship Starship with built this city and others I know it was good but it just sounded they sold out to the corporate music.

You should hear Grace Slick's isolated vocals on this. Absolutely gorgeous and haunting.

Jefferson Airplane begat Jefferson Starship... There is a cut on you tube of just the isolated vocal, it's spine tingling. The song refers to the book Alice in Wonderland.

@miketaverner4451

3 жыл бұрын

This song is about tripping ( lsd , mushrooms) Alice in wonderland is a way of expressing what tripping out is about . Ilusinating

@cleibenguth7563

3 жыл бұрын

About drugs, the Alice in wonderland theme was so they cou.d sneak the drug references past the censors, and it worked😁😁😁😁

@donrhule1424

3 жыл бұрын

That isolated vocal version gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it! 🎧 🎤 🎵 😍

@jsmith1746

3 жыл бұрын

And Jefferson Starship begat Starship. It is hard to believe the band that gave us "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" eventually became the band that gave us "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now", all of them featuring the vocals of Grace Slick.

@sopwithpuppy

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lq2B1quwn8XXkqw.html

A friend who was at Woodstock in 69 said he woke up as Jefferson Airplane took the stage and Grace started singing.

@neilclark2245

3 жыл бұрын

serendipity

@nibs7525

3 жыл бұрын

The Woodstock version of this track is on KZread. Amazing!

Her isolated vocals are phenomenal! It's on KZread.

@bobhenry6159

Жыл бұрын

She could hit and hold every note to perfection.

People who say they do not make music like that anymore forget that no one else could sing like Grace Slick back in the 60s either.

Jefferson Airplane was straight out of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 1960's, the peak of the "Hippie" drug scene. Grace Slick was the Queen of the psychedelic rock and a great singer. She is still alive living in San Francisco and is an artist these days. Seen some of her paintings, she's quite good. Refuses to perform any more, says she doesn't want the be the old broad trying to sing on stage.

"Am I trippin...." Why yes Jayy! lol Perfect comment!

1967! Yes, the song is about drugs. And yes, the lyrical imagery does come from Alice in Wonderland. "Feed your head" became "Turn on, tune in, drop out" as Timothy Leary -- the Johhny Appleseed of LSD -- phrased it before a crowd of 30,000 people gathered together to party in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco that year of the Summer of Love. Since then this song has been used numerous times to evoke the psychedelic sixties, for example, in the 1986 Vietnam War movie Platoon. The 2013 crime drama American Hustle -- starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, and Bradley Cooper -- featured a great Turkish language cover of "White Rabbit" by Mayssa Karaa that puts a whole different spin on the song.

"the way she does her notes" is called Vibrato. Grace is insanely talented when it comes to this.

Saw them twice during that era, along with a few dozen other bands, and, yes, she sounded that powerful on stage. It was fun being a teenager in the’60’s in Southern California. Sure, we had problems, every era does, and our music carried us.

Jefferson Airplane in the 60’s & 70’s, Jefferson Starship 70’s- early 80’s, Starship late 80’s all the same group

She uses a lot of vibrato; I think that's part of what you're talking about in her voice. Lewis Carroll included various drug references in his Alice in Wonderland book, and the Disney studio surprisingly emphasized these in its Sixties cartoon adaptation. Jefferson Airplane emphasized them even more.

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

"Hold on, what she say?" LOL.... everyone has that reaction the first time they hear this song. Love your reactions. ✌️

You got it, drugs, Alice in Wonderland and lots more drugs.

Two Jefferson Airplane/Starship songs you really, really need to hear: Airplane’s ‘Somebody to Love’ and - especially - ‘Miracles’ by Jefferson Starship. I’ll give you a no-questions-asked money-back guarantee on Miracles.

@davidharbrecht3011

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely listen to “Miracles” for another really unique voice, Marty Balin. He had a single “Hearts”, that I would also highly recommend--link below. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZaJ_sLOsetfbnZs.html

Definitely about drugs and alice in wonderland

Baby girl she is talking about both the joke is the author of Alice in wonderland may have eaten mushrooms. Think out the box girl shamans since ancient times ingested mushrooms and weed .But in those days their was little documentation and data on usage .

@woodysthoughts4032

3 жыл бұрын

Shrooms can allow you to be in two places at once, even see yourself in both places, and to know what any group of people are talking about before you even join them.

That vocal quality that you referred to was Gracie's "warble" ... a kind of vocal vibrato that she was noted for.

The book of Alice in Wonderland wasn't about drugs, however this song definitely is. In the 60s people interpreted the book's weirdness as being an LSD trip, and the idea was reinforced by Disney's adaptation.

White Rabbit was a song about acid. The mushroom she mentioned was a Magic mushroom which is acid.

@jameswilson8433

3 жыл бұрын

Psilocybin is not Lysergic acid diethylamide. Try taking seven grams of LSD and see where that gets you. 400 μgrams would usually do the trick. (Note: these are NOT considered safe dosages.)

Grace Slick has always been my favorite female rock vocalist.

Grace Slick has a VERY strong vibrato to her voice. Yeah, it was a about Alice in Wonderland AND comparing it to drugs. Actually the book has LONG been discussed on this subject. Check out the songs, "Today" and "Somebody to Love" off of the same album.

Yaàas! If you like this , try their "Don't you want somebody to love" the live video of this at Woodstock is awesome. This song is a twist on Alice in Wonderland. Jefferson Airplane changed their band name to Starship in the 80's

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

💁🏾‍♀️ The title actually is "Somebody to Love" & here's the link✌🏾! kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4V1qJSqdpfdeLg.html

@jessegreen6138

3 жыл бұрын

Actually they changed their name to Jefferson Starship first in 1974. The name Starship came about because of a law suit. That group(Starship) had none of the original members of Jefferson Starship or Jefferson Airplane. That is why they had to drop Jefferson from the name.

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessegreen6138 Huh??? Grace Slick sang co-lead on the song, "We Built This City" which was Starship. SHE absolutely was an original member of all three groups. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_(band)

@jessegreen6138

3 жыл бұрын

@@Motown-1966 Go read about why they had to drop Jefferson from their name. Grace never sang with Starship again she got into an brew ha, ha with Thomas over this song. In 1978 Grace Slick was asked to resign after their July, 1978 show in Hamburg, West Germany because of her drunken antics on stage. In October Marty Balin left the group. That left them without a singer. They had to get a singer in came Mickey Thomas. When Paul Kantner left he sued them over the use of the name Jefferson Starship which is why the group had to change their name to Starship. Grace had been in and out of the group twice before this. She was with Starship for "We built this City". The name of the group had changed by then. to Starship. I hope this clears up the confusion. Just look up Jefferson Starship on Wikipedia it can spell it out a bit better.

Grace's voice had a great power. Interesting that everyone seems to start with this one - maybe because Pink covered it a while back. Some other great JA choices are 'Volunteers,' 'Wooden Ships,' 'Somebody to Love.' Also the giant with the guitar, Jorma Kaukonen and the bassist Jack Cassidy, spun off a band called "Hot Tuna" that you should check out - 'Surphase Tension,' 'Keep On Truckin',' 'Hesitation Blues' etc.

Oh wow. So many boys were so so I’m love and lust with grace slick back in the day!!! Lol

""SOMEBODY TO LOVE"" Jefferson Airplane

4:04 vibrato. lady gaga has a really good vibrato in her vocals

Hey Grace Slick was a legend. She was also the voice that launched a thousand trips........

Omg ...the voice

The song is based on Alice in wonderland because the book has drug references

@martyslazenger935

3 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is that Lewis Carroll didn't even need drugs to dream that crazy stuff up.

@rogermoore9477

3 жыл бұрын

Alice in wonderland was social commentary,it's obvious when the queen says words mean what I say they mean,that's done now,I was in a shelter,and yes that's done

@martyslazenger935

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogermoore9477 Same with the crazy stuff in "The Fairy Queen" and the Book of Revelations. But Alice in Wonderland is still incredibly trippy.

@rogermoore9477

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for message,actually I have looked the book of revelation but I don't read the King James I read the William Tyndale version the original

@rogermoore9477

3 жыл бұрын

Yes,drug references and I've done mushrooms it's all for self discovery

You hit the nail on the head...'She definitely has got her own thing!' lol

Grace Slick!!! Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship. 👍👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟. ✌❤🎶🎶🎶 "Somebody to Love"please 🙏 🙏 🙏 "Find Your Way Back" "Count On Me"

Jefferson airplane surrealistic pillow I first saw this album in 1967 my aunt had it,and I like it bye

Grace Slick has a beast of a voice. Somebody to Love is a good next song.

It's refreshing to see such a open mind and heart reacting to these great songs of the past, you get it right away (even the more complicated compositions) and provide intelligent and funny comments. Thank you Jayy!! i would love to hear you do a Joni Mitchell reaction video (A Case of You, Coyote, Amelia any one of these is great).

Ashes are burning - this song is my favorite.

Fantastic voice. No autotune back then.

Love Jefferson Airplane,

In the beginning it was Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship which was first used on the album "Blows Against the Empire", then after leaving Jefferson Starship because it got too commercial, one of the founders (Paul Kantner) sued the band and they became just Starship. Starship was even worse despite the return of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner. Grace eventually went on to do two albums with Paul ("Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun" and "Sunfighter")and others. She also did 4 solo albums ("Manhole", "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball", "Dreams", and "Software".) My favorite Grace Slick heavy songs are : "Rejoyce", "Two Heads", "Eskimo Blue Day", "Lather", "Silver Spoon", "Better Lying Down", "Theme from Manhole", "Easter?", and "Welcome to the Wrecking Ball".

Good analysis of what she's talking about. Jefferson Airplane changed their name later on to Jefferson Starship.

"Am I trippin'?" Best reaction to this on the internet!

Jorma Kaukonen is the guitarist and founding member of Jefferson Airplane. His name tells he is partly of Finnish descent. The population of Finland is only 5,5M so we like to keep track of people of Finnish descent living outside Finland.

Love this song.❤️ the Woodstock era

Yup, Grace was a legend, but she sang to her world audience and they understand every word. Pink does a good version of White Rabbit.

You have to think of the era when it was recorded when you listen to it, 1967. Great song and Grace was very attractive.

THE most recognized voice in the industry!!!!!

I have heard Grace wrote this song for the band she was in before Airplane but they didn't like it. Surrealistic Pillow is a great album. This song Alice in Wonderland yes

You really should have watched the Woodstock live version of this song. It is so wonderful. :) . And personally to me Grace Slick is beautiful and hot.

Jefferson Airplane morphed into Jefferson Starship and then just Starship. I saw them LAST YEAR at a free concert on the beach at Santa Cruz. The new female singer really sounds like Grace Slick, and Mickey Thomas still sounds amazing.

Yes, you, them, us. We are all tirppin when this song is playing!!

Grace Slick - what a voice! Try listening to some Shocking Blue. 'Venus' is the obvious 1st choice (nothing wrong with it, it's a classic!), but other recommendations are 'Hot Sand' or 'Mighty Joe'.

you had to live in the 60,s to understand this song, never to be repeated,

“Am I tripping?” Lol No but all of us were.

Amazing voice!!!! 🤩🐇🐰

You should listen to “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson Airplane, then listen to “California Dreamin” and “Creeque Alley” by The Mamas and the Papas.

In 1971 a book called GO ASK ALICE came out. Then in 1973 they made the movie. Scared many teens straight.

vibrato is the word you were looking for

Jorma the guitarist here in early Jefferson Airplane IS THE MAN. Check out some solo Jorma Kaukonen....genesis, water song, etc., as well as Hot Tuna. Great, great music. Jorma shreds!

White Rabbit, as sung by Grace Slick (1967), is the epitome of the 1960s as its meanings encapsulate and reflect several cultural and social facets of the 1960s generation of teens and 20-somethings.

That waver in the voice is called vibrato.

You had me lmao! I'm very familiar with this song so I knew the lyrics would catch you by surprise. Great reaction. Thanks, Jaay.

Yes, that's why Grace said: "Go Ask Alice" it was about Alice in Wonderland. Slick reportedly wrote the song after an acid trip.

Grace Slick was amazing.

Hippies kind of adopted Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor for inner knowledge through drugs, but the original story wasn't about it, it's all full of symbolism and applying mathematics to writing... Anyway, it's a great song, maybe too attached to its time, but phenomenal nevertheless

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

😂 Wait so did Alice not take a pill to make her big and another to make smaller? Didn't the caterpillar & the Cheshire Cat smoke some pot? They were certainly getting down in the book LONG before hippies got to it and connected the dots/metaphors.

@JulioLeonFandinho

3 жыл бұрын

@@Motown-1966 A pill that makes people change size is a drug? the Cheshire Cat smoked pot? some characters smoked in the book, but pot? tobacco is a drug, anyway, but not a psychedelic drug. Marijuana and Hashish are drugs, but not psychedelic ones, except some Marijuana varieties that in anyway, you have to smoke a big dose of it to get that psych effects... Psychedelia didn't exist in Lewis Carroll time, and he certainly didn't have the intention of making a book about something it didn't exist, so stop the anachronysm

@Motown-1966

3 жыл бұрын

@@JulioLeonFandinho 😂No need to get angry at me when ppl of the 1860's indeed were talking various drugs like hashish, smoking opium, eating mushrooms, & taking cocaine. The latter actually being prescribed.

yup. lsd was a fun time in my day. have a tat from this song for a reason

Love this song

I love your green hair! Looks fantastic on you!

Her voice is incredible. You are right RE the Alice thing

Tom Odell - Another Love ¡!!!!¡

One of the best songs, EVER. Freed your head!

You are correct about the lyrics, it is based on the poem "Through The Looking Glass" by Lewis Carrol who was a heroin addict at the time. The lead singer Grace Slick used Acid(LSD) and a lot of weed

Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship, who then became Starship. JA were one of the biggest bands of hippie era San Francisco. This song was about hypocrisy of adults saying drugs were bad yet reading children stories full of subtle drug references like Alice in Wonderland. It's in a style called a bolero - it doesn't have verses or choruses, it just slowly builds and builds and builds. Some other top JA songs are "Somebody to love", "We can be together", "Volunteers", and "Coming back to me".

Watch the live Woodstock version of her doing Somebody to Love

The most applicable line is the last one. Remember what the Dor Mouse Said. Feed Your Head. At the time many folks thought feed your head meant using LSD or some other psychedelic. It really means feed your head with knowledge. 👍

It was Jefferson Airplane in the 60s when this came out, they changed the name to Jefferson Starship after the band split into 2 different bands in 1972. This song is based on Alice in Wonderland used as drug references.

Grace has an amazing natural vibratto. Yes, IT IS about drugs and Alice.

One of my favourite songs ever

feed your head....hell yeah!!!!!

You're right on both counts: It is about drugs (namely, shrooms; and it is about "Alice in Wonderland" (which is rumored to have been written by author Lewis Carroll about a psychedelic trip - though there's no proof of that).

Interesting song

60’s psychedelic music. Jefferson Airplane was part of the Haight-Ashbury crowd. The birth of the 1960’s hippie movement. But you know who has almost the same voice as Grace Slick? Florence Welch from “Florence and the Machine”. Check out their “Dog Days of Summer”.

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, "WHITE RABBIT" YOU ARE CORRECT ON BOTH FRONTS. ALICE AND WONDERLAND. AND THE 60'S PSCHODELIC ROCK AND THE DRUG SCENE... HAPPY NEW YEAR... SO HAPPY AS THIS PAST ONE SUCKED...

It's pretty straight forward, Alice in wonderland, drugs, and how awesome some drugs are.

Grace Slick is now 81 years old.

I love this cultural mixing. Let's get it

Love that hair!

You're correct, it was about drugs but back then, the message, the culture and drugs were all one package. It was a great time to be alive.

"Feed your head" RIGHT ON!

Grace Slick nuff said

The song is about mind expansion through the use of psychedelic drugs, using Alice in Wonderland as a reference point. The last line says it all, feed your head, which was commonly said regarding drug use in the 60's and 70's.

I love this song

I remember this group well. I was a flower child then. I was against the status quo and, the hipocracy of the burguose society. This song is about getting high baby.👍👌👌❤❤❤❤❤❤