This is definitely a tripping song.. trust me. I'm old enough to have experienced it in the 70s as a teenager :)

@mariajobson739

2 ай бұрын

Same here 😅❤

@mariajobson739

2 ай бұрын

Welcomed this new age in music from the "pop" stuff before!

@renmuffett

2 ай бұрын

Yes, me too. 😉

@bella-xp7qd

2 ай бұрын

Black light, dropping acid.

@jabreck1934

2 ай бұрын

@@bella-xp7qd The black light poster of the caterpillar sitting on the mushroom👍 And blue lava lamp.

If you were a teen in the 1960s or 1970s this song would have seemed perfectly normal and made perfect sense.

@davidjones5269

2 ай бұрын

Ten years in sixty eight

@hlawrencepowell

2 ай бұрын

@@davidjones5269 same.

@emmasurf8109

2 ай бұрын

15 yo and knee deep in it back then. How do you describe those times to someone today

@Itsakindamagic

13 күн бұрын

Graduated high school in '67 so yes, this was normal and everyone understood it.

This was the Great Acid Anthem. They're using Alice as a metaphor for being stoned out of your mind.

@richdiddens4059

2 ай бұрын

The music is based on a classical piece; Ravel's Bolero.

@rapson672

2 ай бұрын

around 1970 they had a TV movie ' Go ask Alice ' It was a anti drug movie .

@briancarr4607

2 ай бұрын

Well yeah man 😊

@TheMollyPitchers

2 ай бұрын

Then there's the Alice B Toklas (where we got the slang term Toke for smoking pot) cookbook recipe for "brownies from paradise" in which she included Marijuana as an ingredient. 😃

@kenneth2875

2 ай бұрын

Wrong from Wikipedia-Slick said the composition was supposed to be a wake-up call to parents who read their children novels such as these and then would wonder why their children used drugs. She later commented that all fairytales read to little girls have a Prince Charming who comes and saves them. But Alice did not; she was "on her own...in a very strange place, but she kept on going and she followed her curiosity - that's the White Rabbit. A lot of women could have taken a message from that story about how you can push your own agenda." Slick added that "The line in the song 'feed your head' is both about reading and psychedelics...feeding your head by paying attention: read some books, pay attention."

Grace Slick is the lead singer and queen of acid rock

@bkm2797

2 ай бұрын

Grace had a fantastic voice, but her alcoholism and drug addiction really destroyed her career, very sad.

@renmuffett

2 ай бұрын

Yes and had another hit when in the band Starship. Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. A fabulous video.

@brianclassen5221

2 ай бұрын

4:20 ✌

@shortaybrown

2 ай бұрын

Psychedelic music

@Thomas-we5cy

2 ай бұрын

I’m way younger than Grace. Named my daughter after her. She was born in ‘05.

FEED YOUR HEAD!!!! FEEEEDDDD YOUR HEAD!!!!!!

@rebeccahuth4060

2 ай бұрын

Even today my friends and I make reference to the doormouse

@mdog86

Ай бұрын

"And when White Rabbit comes to that fantastic note where the rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to throw that fuckin' radio into the tub with me!"

I'm 71 years old. Anyone my age knows this intro instantly. Jefferson Airplane played homecoming at my college when I was a freshman.

@ericaespinosa4030

2 ай бұрын

Yes. Even us Gen X folks from the 70s and 80s all know this song. It was so iconic.

@robynfedalen1777

Ай бұрын

Yes! This song wasn’t!❤️✌🏻🎶🍄‍🟫

Thanks for your reaction! Actually a "Jefferson airplane" was a handmade roach clip that was somewhat shaped like an airplane not realized by the establishment at first. Once the band's title was figured out they had a lot of pressure to change the band's name if they wanted radio play. (they eventually changed the name to "Jefferson Starship" and later "Starship" when there were transitions and member changes.) This is the genre known as Psychedelic Rock (or acid rock) from the 60's and 70's with lots of drug references that were unnoticed at first and played on the radio. Some other Psychedelic rock songs you may want to check out are Status Quo's "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" and Brewer and Shipley's "One Toke Over The Line". Once some of the lingo and drug references were figured out, the US radio stations were banned from playing certain songs including "One Toke Over The Line" but Lawrence Welk created a bit of a scandal when he had singers do that song on his show because he was not familiar with the word "toke" and thought the song was religious! (the video of that Lawrence Welk episode is on You Tube.) I am an older woman living in a retirement community and at our last Woodstock anniversary event "White Rabbit" was one of the most requested song for the band to play by our oldest residents as it really was sort of a cultural anthem for that time period.

@aliciahager2961

2 ай бұрын

Love your story! I'm an older sister and learned a few things from you! Thanks!

@sublimnalphish7232

2 ай бұрын

Not in St Louis 🤣🤣🤣 we enjoyed all that the producers pushed and some that were passed out by local or close by bands and managers.

@acorrado5529

2 ай бұрын

@@sublimnalphish7232 Lucky you! Sometimes we had songs played with sound effects to cover certain lyrics or words were even changed at times or just not played at all.

@251omega

2 ай бұрын

It always bothered me that Brewer and Shipley got it so wrong. There is a line in their song = "It says right here in the Constitution, that it's A-OK to have a Revolution..." ---> BUT The Constitution NEVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT! It is ONLY found in the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, a Legally, NON-BINDING DOCUMENT, the same with the idea, of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. (Wikipedia) ---> "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect. ---> HOWEVER, The concepts enumerated in the DOI were not codified into our laws (The Constitution). LIFE and LIBERTY made it, but somehow they omitted "The pursuit of Happiness". ---> If it's NOT in the Constitution, it's not part of our country's Foundation. The DOI is not a Legally BINDING DOCUMENT in the USA, It was a letter to King George, written by members of his Colonies, BEFORE THE USA EXISTED! ---> I have always felt that the DOI SHOULD BE a US Legally Binding Document, and all our laws and Court cases should be interpreted and judged in the light of the DOI and they must be consistent with the concepts expressed therein, or they are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Unfortunately, the Founding "Fathers" did not agree with my POV!

@TheDivayenta

2 ай бұрын

But why “ Jefferson”?

Plenty of Vietnam movies have this in the soundtrack

@judedornisch4946

2 ай бұрын

Stranger Things has this several times.

@thischannelsucks3471

2 ай бұрын

Fear and loathing

@mariajobson739

2 ай бұрын

Vietnam War had soldiers blasting Led Zep as well...natives didn't know what the he'll was coming!!

@miketucker-fy3be

2 ай бұрын

Vietnam War playlist required for any films etc, White Rabbit. Paint it Black -Rolling Stones. Eve of Destruction -? We Gotta get Out of This Place -The Animals. Volunteers of America -also Jefferson Airplane. The End Unknown Soldier -both by The Doors. Purple Haze -Jimi Hendrix.

@kathyastrom1315

2 ай бұрын

The Vietnam War tv show China Beach had an episode where they used this when one of the female characters is breaking her years-long sobriety at a bar, and it is sooo freakin’ ominous.

THE HOOKA SMOKIN CATEPILLAR!!!!

@badplay156

6 күн бұрын

If you haven't read Alice In Wonderland that is directly from the book. Even In the original illustrations

What I love about this song is that it is a no-bridge song that only escalates and escalates in intensity until it inevitably ends in a single crescendo.

@joeydepalmer4457

2 ай бұрын

do you know what the song is about though?

@catherinelynnfraser2001

2 ай бұрын

It’s a bolero about drugs with perfect multilayered references to Alice in Wonderland.

@joeydepalmer4457

2 ай бұрын

@@catherinelynnfraser2001 Someone who gets it! And I was the stupid kid on the block and I knew. Ok I did not say it like that (but I am lucky to get my name straight)

@PlateOshrimp499

2 ай бұрын

@@catherinelynnfraser2001 I kept looking for someone to mention the correct musical form. It was relatively rare at the time in a pop song format and of course even rarer today. It's mood is pretty polarizing, and if you aren't open to being swept up in a two and a half minute crescendo, then you get a reaction like this one.

This is a performance on the Smothers Brothers show. Anyone watching them, would love this. If you do not know the Smothers Brothers ... you should. They got kicked of TV for speaking the truth. This is an awesome song when elevated.

@joeydepalmer4457

2 ай бұрын

watch this on acid and it freaked us out

@AzaleaLuna

2 ай бұрын

When I was a kid my family watched the Smothers Brothers.

@unrulyjulie4382

2 ай бұрын

My mom loved the Smothers Brothers and was pissed that they got canceled. My mom was so cool!

Psychedelic rock baby. My generation owned it and we're just sharing it with you

@joeydepalmer4457

2 ай бұрын

to bad they do not understand it. thinking this has to do with the story of Alice in Wonderland

@heatherjohnson338

2 ай бұрын

As soon as it came on I closed my eyes, big smile and swayed, I was right back there and it was glorious.

@VIDSTORAGE

2 ай бұрын

@@joeydepalmer4457 Alice in Wonderland yes it is an influence on the song , Grace Slick talked about how parts of the story were used in the lyrics ..Hookah Smoking Caterpillar for example

@joeydepalmer4457

2 ай бұрын

@@VIDSTORAGE How old are you? Where you even orn back than?

@joeydepalmer4457

2 ай бұрын

@@VIDSTORAGE can you not understand its aout someones trip on drugs and sharing it with people. its about ot having the sog anned ecause of it Alice In Wonderland is the Psychedelic trip. the story just represents the psychedelic trip and what they see while on the trip

all Alice in wonderland references AND THE RED QUEEN OFFS HER HEAD

@motleydigger

2 ай бұрын

And Alice in wonderland is a rabbit hole

Great vocals in their song "Somebody to Love" and Starship "We built this City"

Don is on the right track with the name change. Started as Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship, and then Starship. All the name changes were because of legal reasons when members changed. Song was played at the original Woodstock festival in '69. "Somebody to Love" is another of their bigger songs.

@pb68slab18

2 ай бұрын

Jefferson Starship, Miracles; ''Love is a magic word, ooh, yeah (Baby) Few ever find in a lifetime But from that very first look in your eyes I knew you and I had but one heart (Baby) Only our bodies were apart (It's making me crazy) That was so easy (Baby) So easy (Oh, baby) I had a taste of the real world (Didn't waste a drop of it) When I went down on you, girl"

Their Woodstock performance of this is iconic. Grace nails it.

Diamonds Are Forever sang by the beautiful Shirley Bassey ❤

@cherylb309

2 ай бұрын

Don’t remember hearing White Rabbit but loved it!

@pamelaesparza1586

2 ай бұрын

Did she also sing Goldfinger?❤

@pamelaesparza1586

2 ай бұрын

​@@cherylb309did she also sing Goldfinger?❤

@AlexanderCalderon-kd6mh

2 ай бұрын

​@@pamelaesparza1586yes, she sang goldfinger

@cherylb309

2 ай бұрын

@@pamelaesparza1586 yes….it was theme song for the James Bond movie Goldfinger.

Back in the 60s a Jefferson Airplane was an improvised roach clip.

@1982maxgill

2 ай бұрын

I never knew that! I swear! So cool!

@bkm2797

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I didn't know that either.

If you heard any FM radio, from the 1960s (obviously before you were born) to at least the early 2000s (when I pretty much stopped listening to radio), this song was in constant rotation. You couldn't miss it. Like so many other classics, it was just part of classic rock FM radio, for decades 👍

One of the 10 greatest rock songs ever; tight, powerful, so short you can listen to it repeatedly trying to get enough of it, and at volume 11 when possible.

In the 60s and 70s, music groups had to get creative when the song was about drugs. Otherwise, radio stations wouldn't play their music.

Grace Slick was the singer. "Somebody to Love" is another iconic 60's song by them, and yes, they did become Jefferson Starship. They had numerous hits as both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Their biggest hit as Jefferson Starship was probably "Miracles", although Grace Slick did not sing that one.

@traceybull

2 ай бұрын

One of the best songs by Grace Slick was Pissing in the river..... Brilliant!!!

@cindyerick2968

2 ай бұрын

That was not Grace Slick. Grace Slick was black and the original singer for this song. You can’t find the video with Grace Slick. Everyone always uses this one.

@rickrasmussen4231

2 ай бұрын

They finally ended up being called starship. But I don't rember anything starship did.

@traceybull

2 ай бұрын

@@cindyerick2968 Grace Slick was not Black and that is her in the video.... You need to check your facts.

@justinbeverly7895

2 ай бұрын

Starship’s best song was “We Built This City On Rock and Roll.”

A psychedelic take on Ravel's "Bolero"

@sylvanaire

2 ай бұрын

Yes! I was thinking the beginning sounded like a Bolero but wasn’t sure enough to comment. Thanks!

@TresTrefusis

2 ай бұрын

oh.... holy shit, you're right! I knew that undertone sounded familiar. Her voice even has that slow crescendo and decrescendo that he trumpets have in that song.

@user-pf7jm9go6o

2 ай бұрын

Agree! Never thought of it but you are absolutely right!

@stevemiller6923

2 ай бұрын

nice catch. After almost 60 years hearing this song, I had never made that association. Now I can't unhear it

Perhaps the best use of the song in a movie was in Platoon where it was used in the juxtaposition between the drinkers and the stoners. Iconic song.

@SusanGordon-bf2cg

2 ай бұрын

I never heard the term 'stoner' until the '90s ... We used 'head' ... Stoner makes sense now ❤

@patriciaroberts308

2 ай бұрын

​@@SusanGordon-bf2cgThe term "Head" has been around, since the 1960's. They were referred to as "Head" Shops, in 2024 they are called "Smoke Shops. Same inventory, exception, more legal variety of inventory now!! "Stoners" was/is a term used for legal/ illegal drug users...

I remember hearing this as a kid and then finding out what it was really about (wink, wink, nod, nod). Psychedelic rock was so above parents heads. BP and Don, Jefferson Airplane played Woodstock too. You need to check out the group list. My eldest brother and his best friend tried to get there but ended up on a gas station roof about a mile away. The NY state thruway was jammed.

This was the beginning of the hippie era. San Francisco, the Greatfull Dead, Height and Ashbury and the summer of love! I know, I lived in SF then.

This is what was going on, the hippy era! Love this song, miss those days!

Grace Slick, one of the best female voices of rock!!

I graduated in 1969. This was HUGE, transgressive. Adults didn't get it. We were GLUED to our turntables, listening to this album - over and over. Even those of us who hadn't yet gone down the rabbit hole. And yeah, it's exactly the most iconic song of the era. This was IT.

This is one of the greatest songs of all time, and it's set to bolero

There is an "isolated vocal track" version of this that is well worth a listen. Graces voice is stunning.

song is a bolero, where it steadily builds to a crescendo...not the typical verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus. super bold and creative in the mid 60's, trippy and evocative. Black Pegasus, y'all need to see the movie Woodstock and see all the iconic banks of the time...

Grace Slick!!

@OdiousToad

2 ай бұрын

Love her voice!

I was a young teen in the middle 60s when I heard this, I bought this album and played it till I wore it out. The sixties were awesome for music.

To understand and appreciate this song you have to realize that it's from the late 60's. Drugs, free sex, counterculture, protests, Vietnam, civil rights, assassinations, riots, psychedelia, youth culture, hippies, dropping out, upheaval, the works. It perfectly fit those times the way that any given Taylor Swift song fits our times (read into that what you will) or disco and easy listening rock fit the 70's. There may be meaning in the lyrics but for most young people back then it was just a part of a lifestyle they adopted for a while and nothing more.

This song was an F-U to, more or less, the advocates who were saying “don’t do drugs” while the band responded, in a sense of - “drugs are in our culture, including childrens books” and used Alice in Wonderland as an example of all the drug refrences…

This song was on the Woodstock soundtrack because this group performed live at Woodstock so they captured this performance. The also perform this song at the Monterey jazz festival as well.

@danmonges1539

2 ай бұрын

Not sure if you meant to say that this is their Woodstock performance but that's how it's worded. This performance is from the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, two years before Woodstock.

If your ember the 60”s you weren’t there.this is pure hippie San Francisco glory

The smoking caterpillar, the Red Queen, the White Knight, the Rabbit.......all characters from 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

@aliciahager2961

2 ай бұрын

So glad you brought up the characters in this song. Lewis created a wonderful children's book Alice in Wonderland! Don't forget the doorknob!

@jimwilcox2964

2 ай бұрын

And now you have to wonder, was Lewis Carroll tripping on something when he came up with that story? Smoking something ither than tobacco in that hooka? Sampling magic mushrooms? What kind of pills?

@davidgross990

2 ай бұрын

@@jimwilcox2964 He actually was addicted to opium and I believe cocaine which were both legal back then, in certain areas, I love this song and you should react to J. A.'s song Lather if you like interesting lyrics.

The big hit off the Surrealistic Pillow album was Somebody To Love. Other great songs from that album are Comin' Back To Me and Today.

@alanwitty1665

2 ай бұрын

Saw them live a couple of times

Oh, I love that bass

Song is so trippy. The group had three names that I recall- Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship..then Starship. I love their later song We Built This City.

@captainmoretokin2172

2 ай бұрын

Paul Kantner had a group towards the end before he died.,without a ship though called Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra . With his and Grace's daughter singing lead vocals.

These lyrics, written by Grace Slick was a reminder that there was a historical fascination regarding the psychotropic drug use of the 1960’s counter culture , mainly LSD tripping and the fantasy world of Lewis Carrol’s “ Alice in Wonderland”. Marty Balin’s lead guitar, was an attempt to bring one into the slow beginning of a Trip against the militaristic background of the government’s desire towards regimentation. there is also the allusion to how 1950’s parents believed that their children could be brought into a “ Normal” condition by the use of medication for supposed disturbances. For another perspective on this era listen to “ Mother’s Little Helper”.

The degree to which The Smothers Brothers were badass is seriously underrated. They did so much for counterculture back in the day. Respect

the name? LSD SON! LSD

Grace Slick was every guys heartthrob, this song an early psychedelic classic.

You should have watched the Woodstock live version. Epic!!!

@msvickiGa

2 ай бұрын

Good idea

One of the lead vocalists for Starship was Mickey Thomas, and he was also the lead singer on the #3 hit Fooled Around and Fell In Love by Elvin Bishop.

Welcome to the psychdelic 60's. No Mary Jane here....lol

@Serai3

2 ай бұрын

LOL, yes there was.

@claranielsen3382

2 ай бұрын

Lol no lie! 😂😂😂 I need psychedelics for this .

@JaquelineGoodspeed

2 ай бұрын

​@@claranielsen3382 Why? The music is the psychedelic. Lol

@Serai3

2 ай бұрын

@@JaquelineGoodspeed LOL, you're missing half the fun.

@dereknewton4247

2 ай бұрын

Just, "ALICE be Lovely" YAY!

Here's something worth a listen to: there's a KZread of her singing, and it's just her voice, no music. Even just that is insane. Gives me the moose bumps every time.

@Ozziecatsmom

2 ай бұрын

They should absolutely listen to it!

The ultimate psychedelic song. Yes, follow along as my beloved Grace takes you through Wonderland. Now you need to do Somebody to Love, Lather, Wooden Ships is a MUST...so much more. Cheap out their Woodstock set.

If you’re gonna watch another Jefferson Airplane song definitely recommend “Somebody to love”, might be their most famous song. Gotta love Grace Slick’s vocals, she sounds like an ice queen about to freeze someone alive.

This is great. I used to hear this all the time! I’m glad you are checking out

@kens32052

2 ай бұрын

Back in 2017, "PINK" sings a version of this song.

Shirley Bassey sang "Diamonds are Forever". Jefferson Airplanes singer is Grace Slick.

Grace Slick what a voice and talent! Hit's through through the 80's. Listen to "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".

Jefferson Airplane was formed in San Francisco in 1965, but became a nationally known breakout in 1967 with the release of their album Surrealistic Pillows. Their first big show was the Monterrey Pop Festival in June, 1967. For context, Big Brother and the Holding Company was also formed in San Francisco in 1965, added Janis Joplin in 1966, and the Monterey Pop Festival was where they were discovered. Other performers who had their breakout at Monterrey Pop were The Who, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar. The Beatles had released Rubber Soul and Revolver in the previous two years, and some mark this as the beginning of the Psychedelic Movement. But when they released Sgt Pepper in May 1967, Timothy Leary became famous in 1963, when he was fired from Harvard for advocating the use of LSD in psychiatry. He began to find a following in San Francisco, and the psychedelic movement was gaining ground at this time. 1967, 'The Summer of Love" was a cultural shift and featured an explosion of creativity. It was a glorious time for music.

Great Pick, guys,DON brings a special spice to the show..love it

@mariajobson739

2 ай бұрын

Yeah love hos take on things for sure!

Yes. Now you are moving past weed music to full on psychedelic music. Somebody to Love is another good Airplane song worth checking out. Now to move on their second incarnation Jefferson Starship. Yeah I they're better stoned

@karensilvera6694

3 ай бұрын

I agree. Somebody to love is a great choice.

THIS was tripping music... LSD, shrooms, whatever got you where you wanted to be... Alice in Wonderland... The rabbit, the hooka smoking caterpillar, the card people and the rest... The song has it all...

one of the oldest continuous rock Fm channels K-SHE 95 started their rock broadcast with this song in 1967 . 2024 they still play rock .

Fav starship song is “Miracles” a way different vibe ❤

@andreadeamon6419

2 ай бұрын

Incredible song

@kevinflynn4519

2 ай бұрын

That's because they hired the guy who sang "fooled around and fell in love ".. he wrote and sang it.

@bkm2797

2 ай бұрын

Totally different genre that's for sure.

@AlexanderCalderon-kd6mh

2 ай бұрын

Mickey Thomas

@TheDivayenta

2 ай бұрын

Looooove Marty Balin. He wrote and sang Miracles.

It's an interesting song because to my ears it just keeps building and building up to those last lines.

This was never a song for dancing. It was a song for listening while stoned. I believe it came out in early summer of 67 about the same time that The Doors song "Light My Fire" was released. I remember that I was waiting around enjoying my last days of freedom before I had to report to Navy basic training in August of 67. Yes, this is an essential 60s song as much as CCR's "Fortunate Son" or Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" (Cream was Eric Clapton's first band}. Jefferson Airplane has far more trippy songs then this. My favorite Jefferson Airplane album is probably their 'trippiest' album "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane". Songs like "Plastic Fantastic Lover", "Lather", "Martha", and "Today" give rise to thought".

@andreadeamon6419

2 ай бұрын

I was born April of that year. Some incredible musician friends of mine sang this. Nancy was incredible on vocals

@hockemeyer1

2 ай бұрын

You must be talking about Nancy Sinatra. Grace Slick was the female lead of Jefferson Airplane. Marty Balin was the male lead.

@andreadeamon6419

2 ай бұрын

@@hockemeyer1 mickey Thomas was also

@Ozziecatsmom

2 ай бұрын

I don’t think that Baker and Bruce would agree that Cream was Eric’s band!

I'm super proud of you for reacting to all these songs that outside the norm for you. At the same time, it's a mind blowing experience for me to watch someone talk about a song that's new for them but a staple for me. I'm screaming at the screen; how do you not know this song??? But I'm a 60's something white guy that grew up with all these songs that are new to you. It's an eye opening experience for both of us! 😁

Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship and finally just Starship.

Psychedelic at its best! LOVE this song ! Referring to Alice in Wonderland trip....trip !👍🎵☮️

My introduction to this song was the trailer for Matrix 4. Loved it and had to go listen to the original. I would think that's where most people of our generation would have heard of it recently. She's got such a memorizing and extremely strong voice.

It still gives me chills, even in my 70s. The whole song package is consistent. Drugs creep up slowly like the beat, then your mind follows the drugs (legit or otherwise). You might also want to listen to "Spill the Wine" which isn't about drugs, but instead wine. Same kind of effect. Eric Burdon.

I grew up with this song, but what I remember it most is the movie of the week in 1973, Go Ask Alice, based on the book of the same name.

Grace Slick, though!❤

I freaking LOVE this song. It’s a dare to go down the alternative music rabbit hole. It’s a rap form on its own. It reminds me of “ These boots are made for walking” by Nancy Sinatra. It’s got such a theatrical sound. Glad you listened.

It was in Platoon if you saw that.... I sing it in karaoke...and it "feed your head".

The opening is supposed to have a Bolero feel.

No need to over-analyze...pretty straightforward...In the 1960's we needed "head music" and this was one that definitely made our playlist . Psychedelic drugs were not new but were making a popular resurgence and Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice in Wonderland" (1865), was rumored to have been under the influence when he got the idea for the book. Read the book or see one of the films with that in mind. The version of the film with Johnny Depp is the most trippy, IMO. But of course everyone loves Disney's 1951 animated version as well.

@JaquelineGoodspeed

2 ай бұрын

I'll go with Disney's. Lol.

@mackdeen7021

2 ай бұрын

Well said.

Would recommend listening too it a few time.👍💕🦇

I loved this song as a teen. Saw the Jefferson Airplane in person. My friends and I were very much into rebellion, the hippie movement and psychedelics.

Hopefully, one day, you can do Fortunate Son. 1969. You have to hear the message CCR gave us with this song. It's so powerful.😊. Jefferson Airplane became Starship in 1974. A couple of years before that, they were reconstructing rebuilding and now rebranding...😊 Do you consider mind altering minds drugs always being bad or not? Hard to talk about on KZread.

GRACE SLICK: The voice that launched a thousand trips.

In 1967 I was 4 years old and my parents would watch the Smothers Brothers show, and it ran early enough I would see it. I was too young to really appreciate these songs. My teens started in the mid-70s and sometimes I feel like being at the tail-end of one of the biggest generations in history I missed out on some truly cool stuff.

@cehghanzi6477

2 ай бұрын

Born in 1960-I can relate.

Jefferson Airplane was one of the biggest bands in the USA in the '60s. They played at Monterey, Woodstock and Altimont. They became Jefferson Starship after Marty Balin left, he owner the Jefferson Airplane name and the remaining band members had to change the name

Please, please do Miracles....my favorite.

@Cosmo-Kramer

2 ай бұрын

The full-length album version.

You definitely need to give a listen to miracles by Jefferson starship I’d like to see your reaction to that one

The sound of my childhood ❤ 😍 Surrounded by hippies, it was cooooool.

Shirley Bassey sang "Diamonds are forever". One of my favorite songs from Airplane was "Embryonic Journey"

Yeah, Jefferson Airplane has nothing on the epic that is IRON BUTTERFLY- In the Gadda Da Vida. All 17.03 minutes of it. It's what I relax to on a summers day on the lawn with a G&T and not much else on. Love 60s psychedelia music.

@mariajobson739

2 ай бұрын

In-a -godda- da -Vida!! Excellent!!! Another " trippy".....

Dont go chasing wabbits

@jacquisampson-marat5277

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@seagull01-cp8pb

3 ай бұрын

Unless it’s wabbit it season.👍💕🦇

Jefferson Airplane, Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship were absolutely a powerhouse from the 60's into the 80's. You almost wouldn't even know they're the same group behind Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now 20 years later.

@renmuffett

2 ай бұрын

Love that song. Came out exactly 20 years later just like you said. From 1967 to that song in 1987.

This is a late 60s/70s acid scene anthem . I love this song

" Brought to you by the see aye aaa." Perfect! Your guest is based! So are you, BP, on a different level!❤

Grace's voice is perfect for this song. I love it!

I grew up listening to this song... LOL! I was born in 65 and this was one of my favorite songs and still is today! Be sure and check out this song live at Woodstock Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Grace Slick Woodstock 1969). My older brothers hitchhiked to Woodstock and saw them live. They were the beginning rebels in search of a better way of life. My brother was the first original "hippy" in Albuquerque who made front page news and it was an amazing time. There were many good things about the movement and many bad things about the movement but Jefferson Airplane was one of the good things.

Can definitely see how you got Willie Wonka vibes - specifically the background visuals in scene of everyone on he boat going through the tunnel.

Great song, great group. Love the old songs the best.

It's iconic. I grew up listening to my parent's play it. Over five decades later and it's def on my playlist

Song is iconic… been tripping balls countless times listening to this!

I loved this song then and I love it now! This song was so “Trippy “ (it still is) ❤️✌🏻🎶

This song was one of the best to listen while dropping a "tab" or two of acid and using quadraphonic head phones full blast. I wonder if anyone remembers quadraphonic head phones.

I grew up in a small city in Wyoming when this came out (very conservative area), & we knew instantly what this song was about. Huge huge hit. To this day, tho, I'm surprised by the amount of people from my generation in the southern section who have no idea what White Rabbit is referencing...the same area where farmers were actively growing pot on the sly in the '80s.

Jefferson Airplane/Starship was a seminal band in the 60s. One of the most innovative and influential bands of the time. As they progressed over the decades, they changed their style. At times they wrote outright rockers even love and pop songs. They really covered a lot of ground. If you want to hear something entirely different, try the song Jane by the Jefferson Starship. Total rocker. Another big hit of theirs was Miracles, a very long and complex, almost progressive love song. Great stuff by a great band.

My grandmother got me a little record player for my seventh birthday and she included the White Rabbit single. I played this song 'til the grooves wore out. You could rot every brain cell in my head and I would still know the lyrics.