@@Bigfoot-px9gj did you see that helicopter being flown by the planet of the apes? Right into a wall of fire that turned into a box of endless pop tarts.
*@JammyGit* Holy crap, wait a minute ... White Rabbit was a _drug song?_ I had no idea. (hee hee hee) Although, more seriously, I bet less than half the people who loved it in the 60s knew it was about drugs rather than Alice in Wonderland. *Reply to:* _"I don't think there was ever any confusion about the real meaning of White Rabbit"_
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 I had avoided drug use and lived a mostly drug free life here in Ohio. I was in the Army when they released the song in 1967. Even so, I knew from the first verse exactly what the song was about. believe me, all of us who loved the song knew what every word signified and what the song was about. Some of us saw it as a warning and some of us saw it as praise for the drug life, but all of us knew and understood it. Beyond that we loved it as just plain good music.
1969 I’m walking through a lobby in a hotel in Bangkok Thailand on R&R from the war in Vietnam and I hear White Rabbit playing on a jukebox. I had just finished a pot and hash joint . In a way I had just left Wonderland. There were people shooting at me for real and in 2 days I had to go back to the war. Next song up on the jukebox was Hey Jude. I went back and I am a survivor not unscathed but 77 years old and still a survivor that will never forget that moment in a hotel lobby in Bangkok Thailand. And the numerous terrifying encounters and memories that are an integral part of who I am.
Thank you for what our government put you through and then didn't support you after you came home. I was born in March of 68 it was a crazy time to grow up ,but way better than this bizarro clown world. I'm out of fucks to give. Thank you for what you had to endure in your youth nothing but mad respect 🙏 🫡
I spent the late 60's in Berkeley at the Free Clinic. Many of our 'clients' were men coming out of Vietnam with massive problems. Including the HONG KONG flu which I got from one of them and he and I nearly died, it was terrible. As for the music, Jefferson Airplane crashed and burned and the people went solo, too. Not good.
I will be 75 in Nov. Thank you for reminding me of times that were both wonderful and horrible. But I've always said, never forget your past because the past is what made you who you are today. I graduated H.S. in 67 and was starting my "experimentation" years. Great times and great music. (Which I still listen to on a regular basis)
@@celticgypsy11 Don't leave out: "it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness". I'm not too sure about the age of wisdom, but definitely (for me)it was the age of foolishness.
@@MissMarinaCapri Those days are long gone. I have no use for any form of mind altering drugs. I wouldn't take anything now that prevented me from having control of my thoughts.
Grace Slick will always be my number one female rocker. From her very name, to her smoldering beauty, to her brilliant writing, to her powerful voice, to her brutal honesty, she's the whole package!
I remember those times well. Rock & roll on a $2000 stereo I bought in the army was the music, pot was $20 a bag, and good clean blotter was only $1. Mostly in my old 1967 Rambler 8 seat station wagon. Far cry from today.
"Feed your head" i heard and i did. Did ten years down and worked in the Library and read 2500 books. Recently my granddaughter said i was the smartest person she had ever met or knew. i told her about all the book i read of various genre and now she has a voracious appetite for reading and not on her phone.
Much as I appreciated the verbose description and interpretations of the white rabbit and those psychedelic times, a word salad does not accurately reflect the 60's! It's experiencing each moment , just fully experiencing your emotions in each moment.
Although the war in Vietnam was tragic and many of us suffered through it with tears and loss, the song White Rabbit was a symbol of a counterculture that yet gave us hope to persevere. Even the drugs at that time were available to help us get through it all. Then we matured, some married, raised families, and led semi normal lives. But the Zeitgeist of the time was never really lost in our minds and hearts. We believed in peace and love, and the strangeness of a culture that embraced war was something foreign to our hearts and minds, and this continues to this day.
I interpreted the '...feed your head...' lyric to mean, learn all you can. Experience everything. This song influenced my journeys when I was a teenager. I hitch-hiked extensively up and down the East coast of Australia, meeting and living with all different people: hippies, pig hunters, coal miners, krishnas, indigenous Australians, and even Baptists. The song taught me to learn about humanity.
@@LowkeyScream Feed your head was slang in the drug culture of the sixties and seventies. Your head was the need for the drug you were taking at the time. acid head was LSD, Pot head was marijuana, etc... Feed your head meant keep a supply handy of your chosen drug so you can take it as soon as the need takes you.
This was Grace Slick's brilliant interpretation of the times in which she lived. in the summer of free love and hallucinogenic drugs. and the many oddities that were available to experience. in that very crucial time in this Country's history. and Grace Slick expressed it so very well. that if you never took any drug in your life? you would know what taking hallucinogenic drugs was all about. after listening to the song white rabbit.
As a 70 year old woman I believe Grace Slick had one of the Best Voices in rock ! If you listen to her when she speaks she is Extremely Intelligent and logically she attributes a part of that to be because of the Trips she took while never leaving the room. She expanded her mind without losing it. I sincerely wish that I could have had/known her as one of my personal friends because conversations with her must have been so enlightening. I want to Thank her for ALL of the music she's made regardless of the band/group she was with at any given time. A Big portion of the happy, exploring life time's as a wild teenage girl were accomplished with Grace Slick Blasting in the background of My Life ! Thanks Grace ! Travel Safely wherever you may wander even if you don't leave the house ! ✌️
@Tamara-J27D18 Oh wow, that was my first 45 I bought with babysitting money. I absolutely agree on that. She is unbelievably powerful in that song. One of my favorite lifetime songs. Good memories and it's on my "best" playlist. Good call.
It was the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school when White Rabbit came out...became my and my friends theme song...good times...
I was a year older and had done no drugs. But the seed was planted. It took a few years and observation of my friends and myself under the influence, to finally realize it was not taking me where I wanted to go. I have no regrets. I saw the uselessness of the war and the power of peace with the help of substances and the influences in war protests and even the media at that time.
In 1968, I was 19 ys and went to the Airplane concert in Hamburg, Germany, with my 15ys old brother. It took place in a very conservative 19th century baroque Music Hall. Aiplane showed a psychedelic light show of wobbling color dots on a big screen. The music knocked us out. My brother and I did not say a single word on the whole sub ride into our outskirt home.
I've always seen "White Rabbit" as an invitation/warning about hallucinogens. I've never taken any, but if the song is about taking a trip and coming back with a different paradigm, I've never needed chemicals to achieve that state of mind. I've paid attention to people around me and have gained a bit of the way they viewed the world through their experiences. I've been able to take a bit of another person's life and then sit back and let my imagination extrapolate what the world looks like through their eyes. While not perfect or all that accurate it has given me the ability to offer compassion to those around me and a level of understanding. I've always had the ability to automatically create scenes in my head when reading stories, so it's not that big of a stretch to imagine someone else's life experiences. This is also one of my all time favorite songs.
You're sounding a little bit envious. Most of what you think you know about psychedelics like acid and psilocybin was based in government sponsored propaganda. I remember when Art Linkletter blamed acid for his daughter's suicide...much easier than facing the fact he was a suite father.
@@rrhhwwgg Not envious, but I did fear the use for awhile. Later learned that at least for the first time, you should have an experienced guide. But the peers I hung around with were more into alcohol and or MJ. The girl I married said she'd only done a hit of acid once. She saw the waitress's face melt. She didn't have a bad trip, just never felt the need for any more. I never felt I really missed out on anything, just idle curiosity but no driving need.
NBC made a movie called, Go ask Alice. Based on the song.of course it was an "anti- drug" movie, but was still well made, & very controversial at the time.
I hate hallucinogenic substances even organic, I ve done the same in life through vicarious means , living in others shoes, taking once by mistake given to me by a couple of friends who told me it was like having 10 cups of coffee, I found out it was mescaline, I went through 12 hours of hell , always being a sheltered person,to this day still a hermit,fool on the hill
I loved that song since the day it came out and I first heard it. Still do and sing along as always because it brings back good memories of when people were not as angry and brutal as they are today. The summer of love never should have ended, then maybe we would be a better race of people than we are now. Just saying.
The trouble with drugs that take you inside yourself is that a lot of people can't peacefully handle what they find there. Charles Manson might have been a case in point.
Nicely done. I don't regret a single trip I took. As it happened, I became a soldier after I'd taken a...few trips. As as it happened, I never had to kill anybody. I've known a bunch, a bunch of guys who did, who--who...had. Psychedelics, today, are saving are saving people's lives whose memories are otherwise unbearable. Bless you, Gracie.
Same mate. I only ever had 1 uncomfortable time on mushrooms and that wasn't too bad. I think everyone should take mushrooms or acid at least 3 times in their life, I still vividly remember the first time I ate mushies. I knew that my life had changed and I just wouldn't be the same again.....and I was right 😆 A bit of psychedelic will definitely open your eyes and mind, but too much will burn your soul, so it demands that you give it respect ✌️
As a 54 year old man, always loved the song and everything about it. Since 1991 have taken LSD twice a year. It keeps your mind open. It keeps my cravings for alcohol under control.😊
Right on brother. I was a full blown alcoholic when I got out of the US Army in 1988. I started going to Native American Church meetings in 1989 and by the year you started your journey in 1991 my alcoholism was cured.
I didn't at first use it "for" the purpose of controlling alcohol use. First few times I just noticed that after a standard 12 hour trip that my use of alcohol would drop for 2-4 months. Just didn't have the urge. Just a curiosity until it dawned on me that my booze habit was going way beyond social use. Then the dawning horror of realizing I really couldn't quit drinking. I can't tell you why LSD has this effect on me, I just know it does work. Shrooms work for me as well, not as well tho, seems too me. Anyway if you can find good acid, not super common but it's around, I recommend it for help with cravings for alcohol. Not sure about other addictions or compulsions.😃
Used to do that. Pretty much for the same reasons. Quality acid became impossible to find about 30+ years ago. So it's been that long since I dropped any.😉
When I was in elementary school in the late 1960s the “drug lady” played this song for our class and told us it was about taking drugs. She then passed around a board with samples of drugs attached. By the time she got it back several of the drug samples were missing.
I grew up in the SF bay area and was a teen in the 60s and 70s and went to many concerts. They were very affordable then. I got to see Jefferson Airplane live twice and still love their music at 70 years old!! So happy Grace is still going!! I love you forever Grace!! Jim
“Far East Goods” was one of the euphemisms used by British merchants to describe the opium trade. Silk, tea and spices were commodities that merchants were claiming to import but they weren’t too keen on admitting that those ships holds were full of opiates as well. Lots of artists in particular were using drugs to help them create their art. Louis Carroll as mentioned in this video, Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Van Gogh, Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, even Thomas Kincade………Salvador Dali would use psychoactive drugs before bedtime and hold a spoon in his hand as he drifted off to sleep. The idea was that he would drop the spoon and wake up allowing himself then to immediately paint what he had been dreaming about. We think about drugs and music as an invention of the 1960’s but yeah, that practice dates back hundreds of years.
One of my all-time favourite songs ever, and I think you hit It on the nail of what this song Is about, cuz I always thought the same way for the last 50 years
Having been born in the 50s, my friends and I would listen to this, and others such as, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, etc...THX for posting.👍
I think that I have "White Rabbit" on a 45 rpm. If memory serves me, which it usually does, "Somebody to Love" is on the flip side. The latter song doesn't get its just acclaim. When Grace Slick belts out, "Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his, but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is". The way that she rolls out *HIS* is amazing.
I absolutely LOVE the song "somebody to love" My favorite. Grace's voice is so strong and powerful, yet still beautiful. I agree, that song doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves. The music that accompanies the song is just, THE BEST! Impossible to not to dance while hearing it.
I saw the Airplane live in ‘67. When the first chords of “Somebody To Love” came on & Grace in a long white gown spun around, thousands of young male hearts started beating with love for her. After that, “White Rabbit” was one of the songs. Great concert & I still enjoy her music at 76 years old! 🎶
Before Grace Slick joined Jefferson Airplane, she was in a band called 'The Great Society'. They did a wonderful version about 6 minutes long, with most of the extra time accounted for by a fabulous intro on a clarinet. It is on the album 'Conspicuous Only in Its Absence', which has some really great tracks. Find it, everyone, and enjoy.
I have that Great Society album on CD and I like it a lot, especially the songs Darkly Smiling and Often As I May but the entire album is a gem. Jefferson Airplane albums are all excellent!
The power of Grace Slick's vocal on this track suggests something a bit darker going on than just standard Sixties psychedelia. As it builds to its climax there is something almost psychotic in its accusatory tone, that foreshadows punk era singers like Siouxsie Sioux and Patti Smith. While it certainly encapsulate the harder edge of the Sixties zeitgeist, it also, for me, seems to transcend the rather naive idealism of that time. An "All-Time" classic, I'd say.
I'll have to pay attention for the "almost psychotic...accusatory tone" next time I listen to the song. Haven't discerned it previously and I kinda doubt it right now. Doesn't seem to fit with recent interviews of Gracie Slick that I've watched. Is there a particular version or performance where it is more noticeable than others?
Do younger generations not get this song? It is so obvious! I'm 63 years old and I still love this song, and still love hallucinating on shrooms and L.S.D.!!!
I've watched quite a few videos of teens and young adults listening to music from the 60s and 70s, including this song. It wasn't a complete surprise that they missed the psychedelic references, but what startled and saddened me the most was that they didn't recognize the "Alice in Wonderland" part either. I could understand if it was only a book, but there have been multiple movies made about Alice's adventures in Wonderland. I remember the joy this story brought me as a child and It's a shame that (at least some of) today's youth are missing out on such a fun and magical tale . 😟
I had an audio cassette tape called The Worst of The Jefferson Airplane. About 25 years ago it became, for a while, the favourite listening of my then 15 year old son. One day he asked whether I knew where a piece of the lyrics to Crown of Creation came from ("In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction"). I didn't know. He informed me, and proved it, that they were from the book The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, a book I had read many years before.
Fantastic story , my friend ,And WR is the anthem of my youth . I was 13 when it came out and fell madly in love with this girl and her magical journey. All way stayed one of my most favorite songs. It's absolutely perfect and a masterpiece. Being 500+ if Rolling Stone's Top 1000 most iconic (rock)songs is an insult. Should be at least in first 10 places,
I turned 18 in the spring of 1967. I also read Leary’s interview in Playboy ( which I was reading for the many fine articles) and was instantly ready to go there. Made it to San Francisco in the spring of 68. My personal opinion is that White Rabbit, along with several other Airplane songs dove far deeper than anything by the Beatles, Stones, etc. 😎
Interesting comment in that I too ACTUALLY READ Playboy Magazine. (Though I did NOT read the Timothy Leary interview you make reference to.) I mention THAT, because today, Playboy as a publication, and for that matter, Hugh Hefner himself, has dropped tremendously in over all respect....Even though the "white rabbit" of Playboy itself as a SIGIL still makes its appearance today in the form of tattoos or on clothing or other "trendy" accouterments that can still be purchased for mainly young women to wear to advertise their hipness as well as sexiness?? I also mention that, because of a pretty stupid "joke" or cliche that often cropped up when I mentioned that I, even at one point, subscribed to the magazine: "Oh, I bet you read Playboy JUST FOR THE ARTICLES right?" The question was often asked with MORE than just a note of sarcasm. But, yes, despite the naked girls/women Playboy WAS a source of intelligent reading....Or so I once thought because despite its general lean to the "left"**, it DID eventually dawn on me that such a magazine was mainly for the rich(ER) upper classes. And despite my efforts at educating myself (even through the reading of Playboy Magazine itself), I realized that I wasn't going to be invited down to "The Mansion" anytime soon if at all.😶) ** Actually Playboy, despite it's general "leftiness" did manage to comment against political correctness that was catching fire around the late 1980s and early 1990's and has basically continued unabated to the point that pronoun usage is being seriously and often ABSURDLY debated, TODAY. Also on a cynical/sarcastic note, as far as Playboy being considered "sexual pornography", it was basically "blown right out of the water" by the subsequent emergence of Penthouse, Hustler, and the numerous other magazines that Hugh Hefner himself MAY have thought were "vulgar" at worst or simply "without class or taste" at best?
Just a joke about suburban teenage sexuality in the 60’s . There is an excellent bio series on Hefner on Netflix (I think). The T&A was a great vehicle for mainstreaming much more serious stuff. Jessie Jackson spoke very highly of Hefner, for instance. The Leary interview changed my life.
I graduated in 69 and the majority of my fellow students were not "tripping " or even smoking weed, but I had some friends who would feed our heads on a regular basis.
good job; you did a good take apart of the words without losing the feeling of the song. I remember hearing the song played in a train station in some small German town in 70 or 71. The place was empty and was like an echo chamber. It was a song of its day, that is almost just as fresh now. It should be mentioned that acid has found a small home in the treatment of depression and other sicknesses.
Grace Slick isn't only talented beyond words Musically and Artistically, she is also absolutely brilliant. Grace has the most unique voice I think, in history. Nobody has ever come close to being able to sing like her in any of the tribute bands that came after the Jefferson Starship. There will never be a band like the Jefferson Airplane and that truly makes me sad. ✌️💙
You are exactly correct about the meaning behind this song. When I was a sophomore in high school, our four piece band played White Rabbit at a school concert. This was in 1968.
I just started listening to your videos. They are all fantastic and in-depth to these classic rock songs I grew up with. I so appreciate your insight and it really gets you to thinking about the songs, the lyrics and what all went on during that time of our lives. It's amazing but Grace Slick was probably right on when referring to all those Mother Goose rhymes we grew up with. I always thought many of them were strange. Rock a Bye Baby in the Treetop was kinda morbid. Thank you for these. I'll continue to listen to others and subscribe.
I never heard of any anger or spitting on soldiers. It is true they didn't get as much respect they deserved when they first came back but that has changed. Today disabled veterans from all the conflicts are not treated fairly by the V.A. and under the A.D.A.
@@halfsentry1 there were a lot of”people” performing “not so nice actions upon civilians” to put it mildly… They deserved it. An UNIFORM does indicate a “uniform mind” afterall. If they deserve protection from legal prosecution, they deserve what happened…
Was anybody at All confused about the meaning of that song? I was a teenaged reject walking nervous breakdown at the time. But I could read and had read Lewis Carrol's Alice books a few years b4. Even the fully unhip knew what this song meant to say. I liked that song but some kids did not. I didn't know anyone to talk to about it, but I turned on every psychedelic available, kept my counsel and got the Hell Out of Texas at the age of 15 and stayed awake since then. Still dig those books; read em every few years.
@@Henry-dg1ez tabs ,barrels, micro dots and blotter for me! ...WHO.,WHO,WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU damn music was good back then and sun rises where great, what a feeling to be alive
"Feed your head" is the punchline of the song. Some years back, one of the network morning talk shows came up with the slogan "breakfast for your head." Whichever network executive whop signed off on that slogan, oblivious to the obvious resrmblance to the song lyric, probably went on to become the network president.
It seems we lost our way when we left that behind. Hope and possibility are the only things that keep me trying. LSD is one of the things that helped blossom that hope. As I said then and still think today. It would behoove the world leaders to get together at the G7 or G8 go to a redwood grove and drop a high dose of LSD. All of the leaders in the Middle East need their own retreat. They have a lot to work out before joining the larger group. 🙂
I was thinking about Bolero when you described the adding of instruments to the crescendo. White Rabbit was a masterpiece; both lyrically and instrumentally.
Another meaning of Alice Through the Looking Glass is focus on Adolescence. and Alice's struggles with it. Oddly during the 19th Century, Adolescence was a new ideal which Victorian Society had struggled to understand. The opposite end of the Chessboard represents the end of childhood. When Alice becomes a Queen, it represents that she became a young woman. Of course, there are other symbols representing other elements like specific drugs in Through the Looking Glass.
Yep, when the first bars sound and Grace starts singing you can just go astral....and know you were not alone. I don't quite agree with the narrator. Well, maybe it was a bit difficult your first time, and I must confess the one time I really tried to blow the walls out I had to call for aid, but I had help and it was a journey I still treasure, I know I am immortal, even if this incarnation isn't forever. Feed Your Head! My Dad did sound for his highschool theater's musical shows. One day when he was in the sound cubby in the theater he patched the turntable into the school PA during class and put Bolero on. It took a long time for the Principal to figure out where it was coming from after he realized the volume was not staying low... he got pretty frantic!
I was 13 during the time of the Summer of Love. I think it nearly killed my brother that he was too young to go to San Francisco. However, as young as I was, I knew the song was about drugs. I was going into 9th grade. Back then it was the last year of 'Junior High School.' I have to say that as I aged, I really got into the meaning of the song. I never did the kinds of drugs that she was writing about, but I probably had a better understanding of why someone might use them. I met enough people who would say 'Oh, I never did downers" or "I never got into speed." And I understood why then and I still understand now. I love the song. My stupid body sometimes decides it is going to give me a trip like experience. I'm glad to say that it doesn't happen as much now as in the past.
I think the song advocates only one drug, that being found in a mushroom, and only one kind of mushroom, that being the Amanita muscaria, a big mushroom with speckled red cap. In England, in Carroll's time and later, this mushroom was more commonly called fly agaric, and was dissolved and used to coat the sticky hanging fly-killing papers. So this mushroom, quite different in psychological effect from the psilocybe types, is poisonous, and should be used in small doses. As with mescalin/peyote, there is usually a period of nausea at the beginning of a trip that has to be endured.
Grace Slick-the voice that launched a thousand trips.
Actually millions I would imagine 😀
Well at least hundreds of thousands!😅
Now that's clever! Lol
You do realize, of course, that song is 57 years old... I remember acid from those days. It was still legal when this song was released.
@@Bigfoot-px9gj did you see that helicopter being flown by the planet of the apes? Right into a wall of fire that turned into a box of endless pop tarts.
I don't think there was ever any confusion about the real meaning of White Rabbit ✌👍
I thought it was about the Easter bunny.
Nope
*@JammyGit* Holy crap, wait a minute ... White Rabbit was a _drug song?_
I had no idea.
(hee hee hee)
Although, more seriously, I bet less than half the people who loved it in the 60s knew it was about drugs rather than Alice in Wonderland.
*Reply to:* _"I don't think there was ever any confusion about the real meaning of White Rabbit"_
@@Luked0g440 You're getting warmer! 😂
@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 I had avoided drug use and lived a mostly drug free life here in Ohio. I was in the Army when they released the song in 1967. Even so, I knew from the first verse exactly what the song was about. believe me, all of us who loved the song knew what every word signified and what the song was about. Some of us saw it as a warning and some of us saw it as praise for the drug life, but all of us knew and understood it. Beyond that we loved it as just plain good music.
I'm 70 and I love the way you described the influence and power this song has on the memories of those of us that were there!!!!!!!
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it!!
Me too. Brother great years.
Well done well done thank you Rock On❤
Well done well done thank you Rock On❤
Oh Boy I was there alright.
At 79 with 3.5 yrs in 'Nam, White Rabbit is one of the songs on my 'forever playlist''.
Grace Slick was beautiful when she was young,and had such powerful vocals.
@@markmiller8137 Grace Slick is still beautiful.
@@Morethanacolor Absolutely
@@Morethanacolor I. Totally aggree
her body is much different today ...but her PRESENCE is still the same ...she was 1 of a kind " ballsy" + un-pologetic
1969 I’m walking through a lobby in a hotel in Bangkok Thailand on R&R from the war in Vietnam and I hear White
Rabbit playing on a jukebox. I had just finished a pot and hash joint . In a way I had just left Wonderland. There were people shooting at me for real and in 2 days I had to go back to the war. Next song up on the jukebox was Hey Jude. I went back and I am a survivor not unscathed but 77 years old and still a survivor that will never forget that moment in a hotel lobby in Bangkok Thailand. And the numerous terrifying encounters and memories that are an integral part of who I am.
Thank you for everything.
What's this crap about smoking some of that REEFER type stuff!!!!
That'll get you in real trouble, boy!!!😎
@@painkillerjones6232 😂 right. I'm not telling.
Thank you for what our government put you through and then didn't support you after you came home. I was born in March of 68 it was a crazy time to grow up ,but way better than this bizarro clown world. I'm out of fucks to give. Thank you for what you had to endure in your youth nothing but mad respect 🙏 🫡
I spent the late 60's in Berkeley at the Free Clinic. Many of our 'clients' were men coming out of Vietnam with massive problems. Including the HONG KONG flu which I got from one of them and he and I nearly died, it was terrible. As for the music, Jefferson Airplane crashed and burned and the people went solo, too. Not good.
I will be 75 in Nov. Thank you for reminding me of times that were both wonderful and horrible. But I've always said, never forget your past because the past is what made you who you are today. I graduated H.S. in 67 and was starting my "experimentation" years. Great times and great music. (Which I still listen to on a regular basis)
73 in November. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."-- Charles Dickens
@@celticgypsy11 Don't leave out: "it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness".
I'm not too sure about the age of wisdom, but definitely (for me)it was the age of foolishness.
Would you consider another trip to see if there’s anything new to learn? Perhaps put your consciousness in a different place?
@@MissMarinaCapri Those days are long gone. I have no use for any form of mind altering drugs. I wouldn't take anything now that prevented me from having control of my thoughts.
@@reb1050not to mention, who knows what extra stuff they put in now!
The one and only amazing haunting voice of Grace Slick. No other singer can make "White Rabbit" tick. 🤸🥂🎉🐬 Thanks Grace.
Grace Slick will always be my number one female rocker. From her very name, to her smoldering beauty, to her brilliant writing, to her powerful voice, to her brutal honesty, she's the whole package!
I remember those times well. Rock & roll on a $2000 stereo I bought in the army was the music, pot was $20 a bag, and good clean blotter was only $1. Mostly in my old 1967 Rambler 8 seat station wagon. Far cry from today.
Ohhhhh yeahhhhh
"Feed your head" i heard and i did. Did ten years down and worked in the Library and read 2500 books. Recently my granddaughter said i was the smartest person she had ever met or knew. i told her about all the book i read of various genre and now she has a voracious appetite for reading and not on her phone.
That's VERY refreshing to hear!
Much as I appreciated the verbose description and interpretations of the white rabbit and those psychedelic times, a word salad does not accurately reflect the 60's! It's experiencing each moment , just fully experiencing your emotions in each moment.
I too have read a lot of books under the same circumstances,8 1 /2 years on this last spin in.
Best way to stay out of trouble for me!
Although the war in Vietnam was tragic and many of us suffered through it with tears and loss, the song White Rabbit was a symbol of a counterculture that yet gave us hope to persevere. Even the drugs at that time were available to help us get through it all. Then we matured, some married, raised families, and led semi normal lives. But the Zeitgeist of the time was never really lost in our minds and hearts. We believed in peace and love, and the strangeness of a culture that embraced war was something foreign to our hearts and minds, and this continues to this day.
I noticed the baby boomers never hated any war except the one they fought in🙄. Don't give me the peace and love BS
the important thing is ... that at least you believe that
I interpreted the '...feed your head...' lyric to mean, learn all you can. Experience everything. This song influenced my journeys when I was a teenager. I hitch-hiked extensively up and down the East coast of Australia, meeting and living with all different people: hippies, pig hunters, coal miners, krishnas, indigenous Australians, and even Baptists. The song taught me to learn about humanity.
At the time, "feed your head" was another way of saying "satisfy your addiction". Your "head" was whatever drug you were in the habit of using.
@emmitstewart1921 Well, yeah, I did a lot of that head feeding, too, lol.
I have always thought it was “ keep your dead”
@@LowkeyScream Feed your head was slang in the drug culture of the sixties and seventies. Your head was the need for the drug you were taking at the time. acid head was LSD, Pot head was marijuana, etc... Feed your head meant keep a supply handy of your chosen drug so you can take it as soon as the need takes you.
The wonderful Amazing Grace, just hit 85, shine on....
Pushing 80,and I still love Grace!!!!
This was Grace Slick's brilliant interpretation of the times in which she lived. in the summer of free love and hallucinogenic drugs. and the many oddities that were available to experience. in that very crucial time in this Country's history. and Grace Slick expressed it so very well. that if you never took any drug in your life? you would know what taking hallucinogenic drugs was all about. after listening to the song white rabbit.
My wife and I got to hear her sing this song in person. Her voice just penetrated your soul!
That would've been incredible!!
I graduated from high school in 1965. What an exciting time it was to be 18 years old.
As a 70 year old woman I believe Grace Slick had one of the Best Voices in rock ! If you listen to her when she speaks she is Extremely Intelligent and logically she attributes a part of that to be because of the Trips she took while never leaving the room. She expanded her mind without losing it. I sincerely wish that I could have had/known her as one of my personal friends because conversations with her must have been so enlightening. I want to Thank her for ALL of the music she's made regardless of the band/group she was with at any given time. A Big portion of the happy, exploring life time's as a wild teenage girl were accomplished with Grace Slick Blasting in the background of My Life ! Thanks Grace ! Travel Safely wherever you may wander even if you don't leave the house ! ✌️
Since I was a child, maybe 8 or 9, Grace has been my absolute favorite female singer. Nobody does it better.
I love her powerful voice, especially in the song 'somebody to love'
@Tamara-J27D18 Oh wow, that was my first 45 I bought with babysitting money. I absolutely agree on that. She is unbelievably powerful in that song. One of my favorite lifetime songs. Good memories and it's on my "best" playlist. Good call.
She is definitely up there for me, too! I can really only listen to Airplane and Starship songs she sings.
I don't usually like this type of review / analysis. But this one was very good. Now 77, been there, done that.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Same age, same thought.
It was the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school when White Rabbit came out...became my and my friends theme song...good times...
I was a year older and had done no drugs. But the seed was planted. It took a few years and observation of my friends and myself under the influence, to finally realize it was not taking me where I wanted to go. I have no regrets. I saw the uselessness of the war and the power of peace with the help of substances and the influences in war protests and even the media at that time.
In 1968, I was 19 ys and went to the Airplane concert in Hamburg, Germany, with my 15ys old brother. It took place in a very conservative 19th century baroque Music Hall. Aiplane showed a psychedelic light show of wobbling color dots on a big screen. The music knocked us out. My brother and I did not say a single word on the whole sub ride into our outskirt home.
Awesome!
One of my favorite songs! Vietnam veteran 68-69 thanks for the journey!
Many, many thanks in return!
I am now 62 and loved that song ever since I heard it. Glad I have the 45 rpm record of it.❤❤
Awesome!
Being 74 years old I saw Grace and Janis Joplin together as they were best Friends
Very cool!
You are lucky ... ❤
Awesome!
I've always seen "White Rabbit" as an invitation/warning about hallucinogens.
I've never taken any, but if the song is about taking a trip and coming back with a different paradigm, I've never needed chemicals to achieve that state of mind.
I've paid attention to people around me and have gained a bit of the way they viewed the world through their experiences.
I've been able to take a bit of another person's life and then sit back and let my imagination extrapolate what the world looks like through their eyes.
While not perfect or all that accurate it has given me the ability to offer compassion to those around me and a level of understanding.
I've always had the ability to automatically create scenes in my head when reading stories, so it's not that big of a stretch to imagine someone else's life experiences.
This is also one of my all time favorite songs.
You're sounding a little bit envious. Most of what you think you know about psychedelics like acid and psilocybin was based in government sponsored propaganda. I remember when Art Linkletter blamed acid for his daughter's suicide...much easier than facing the fact he was a suite father.
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Not envious, but I did fear the use for awhile.
Later learned that at least for the first time, you should have an experienced guide. But the peers I hung around with were more into alcohol and or MJ.
The girl I married said she'd only done a hit of acid once. She saw the waitress's face melt.
She didn't have a bad trip, just never felt the need for any more. I never felt I really missed out on anything, just idle curiosity but no driving need.
NBC made a movie called, Go ask Alice. Based on the song.of course it was an "anti- drug" movie, but was still well made, & very controversial at the time.
"And you KNOW you're going to fall" - certainly not invitating
I hate hallucinogenic substances even organic, I ve done the same in life through vicarious means , living in others shoes, taking once by mistake given to me by a couple of friends who told me it was like having 10 cups of coffee, I found out it was mescaline, I went through 12 hours of hell , always being a sheltered person,to this day still a hermit,fool on the hill
I loved that song since the day it came out and I first heard it. Still do and sing along as always because it brings back good memories of when people were not as angry and brutal as they are today. The summer of love never should have ended, then maybe we would be a better race of people than we are now. Just saying.
Love this!
The trouble with drugs that take you inside yourself is that a lot of people can't peacefully handle what they find there. Charles Manson might have been a case in point.
GRACE SLICK and JEFFERSON AIRPLANE ... The SONG - PERFECT EXECUTION ... NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE DONE IT .
White Rabbit was written by Jerry Slick, not the Jefferson Airplane.
❤ Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane. Watching in 🇬🇧
Nicely done. I don't regret a single trip I took.
As it happened, I became a soldier after I'd taken a...few trips. As as it happened, I never had to kill anybody. I've known a bunch, a bunch of guys who did, who--who...had. Psychedelics, today, are saving are saving people's lives whose memories are otherwise unbearable.
Bless you, Gracie.
Same mate. I only ever had 1 uncomfortable time on mushrooms and that wasn't too bad. I think everyone should take mushrooms or acid at least 3 times in their life, I still vividly remember the first time I ate mushies. I knew that my life had changed and I just wouldn't be the same again.....and I was right 😆
A bit of psychedelic will definitely open your eyes and mind, but too much will burn your soul, so it demands that you give it respect ✌️
This song is the perfect anthem for 2024.
ditto !
@@NotInMYName_AntiZionistJew yep!😅👍🏻
lucky for you cause I had some bad trips, man
A beautiful, clever song by a beautiful intelligent artist. Takes me back to that time of great personal discovery and understanding! 👍
As a 54 year old man, always loved the song and everything about it. Since 1991 have taken LSD twice a year. It keeps your mind open. It keeps my cravings for alcohol under control.😊
Right on brother. I was a full blown alcoholic when I got out of the US Army in 1988. I started going to Native American Church meetings in 1989 and by the year you started your journey in 1991 my alcoholism was cured.
It's still a preferred method of clearing your mind along with meditation. just ask Sam Harris?
I didn't at first use it "for" the purpose of controlling alcohol use. First few times I just noticed that after a standard 12 hour trip that my use of alcohol would drop for 2-4 months. Just didn't have the urge. Just a curiosity until it dawned on me that my booze habit was going way beyond social use. Then the dawning horror of realizing I really couldn't quit drinking. I can't tell you why LSD has this effect on me, I just know it does work. Shrooms work for me as well, not as well tho, seems too me. Anyway if you can find good acid, not super common but it's around, I recommend it for help with cravings for alcohol. Not sure about other addictions or compulsions.😃
Wish I knew where to get the real deal these days.....
Used to do that. Pretty much for the same reasons. Quality acid became impossible to find about 30+ years ago. So it's been that long since I dropped any.😉
71 years old and sounds just right to me. I did get some years older before I understood all of it.
Congratulations on surviving the 60's twice from another 71 year old who tripped the light fantastic!
@@hannabaal150 A fine time was had by all, even if we can not remember all of it. Peace and Love baby
When I was in elementary school in the late 1960s the “drug lady” played this song for our class and told us it was about taking drugs. She then passed around a board with samples of drugs attached. By the time she got it back several of the drug samples were missing.
😄 🤣 😂
She had an amazing voice.
I grew up in the SF bay area and was a teen in the 60s and 70s and went to many concerts. They were very affordable then. I got to see Jefferson Airplane live twice and still love their music at 70 years old!! So happy Grace is still going!! I love you forever Grace!! Jim
'I never thought there were corners in time til I was told to stand in one" - Grace Slick - Hyperdrive
“Far East Goods” was one of the euphemisms used by British merchants to describe the opium trade. Silk, tea and spices were commodities that merchants were claiming to import but they weren’t too keen on admitting that those ships holds were full of opiates as well. Lots of artists in particular were using drugs to help them create their art. Louis Carroll as mentioned in this video, Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Van Gogh, Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, even Thomas Kincade………Salvador Dali would use psychoactive drugs before bedtime and hold a spoon in his hand as he drifted off to sleep. The idea was that he would drop the spoon and wake up allowing himself then to immediately paint what he had been dreaming about. We think about drugs and music as an invention of the 1960’s but yeah, that practice dates back hundreds of years.
Is psychedelics are far older than a few hundred years. They also are far more profound than heroin or cocaine.
I believe in the Vietnam analogy, but also the childlike psychedelic thing. Curiouser and curiouser the song becomes. Made me love Grace Slick. 🍄🍄🍄
" I was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
Wonderful song.
One of my all-time favourite songs ever, and I think you hit It on the nail of what this song Is about, cuz I always thought the same way for the last 50 years
Also one of my all time favorites!
It was a great time to grow up in..im old now ..but would love to go back and do it all again..the world was alot better back then...then it is now..
Having been born in the 50s, my friends and I would listen to this, and others such as, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, etc...THX for posting.👍
You born in a GREAT era!
I went to Moody Blues concert on orange sunshine. Fantastic
I think that I have "White Rabbit" on a 45 rpm. If memory serves me, which it usually does, "Somebody to Love" is on the flip side. The latter song doesn't get its just acclaim. When Grace Slick belts out, "Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his, but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is". The way that she rolls out *HIS* is amazing.
Personally my favorite female vocalist!
I absolutely LOVE the song "somebody to love"
My favorite. Grace's voice is so strong and powerful, yet still beautiful. I agree, that song doesn't seem to get the recognition it deserves. The music that accompanies the song is just, THE BEST! Impossible to not to dance while hearing it.
Excellent
I saw the Airplane live in ‘67. When the first chords of “Somebody To Love” came on & Grace in a long white gown spun around, thousands of young male hearts started beating with love for her. After that, “White Rabbit” was one of the songs. Great concert & I still enjoy her music at 76 years old! 🎶
That would've been fantastic! So cool!
What a great eye-opening video! This provided me with some new perspectives on the meaning of this very classic song! Thanks! :)
Very many thanks in return! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Before Grace Slick joined Jefferson Airplane, she was in a band called 'The Great Society'. They did a wonderful version about 6 minutes long, with most of the extra time accounted for by a fabulous intro on a clarinet. It is on the album 'Conspicuous Only in Its Absence', which has some really great tracks. Find it, everyone, and enjoy.
I have that Great Society album on CD and I like it a lot, especially the songs Darkly Smiling and Often As I May but the entire album is a gem. Jefferson Airplane albums are all excellent!
The power of Grace Slick's vocal on this track suggests something a bit darker going on than just standard Sixties psychedelia. As it builds to its climax there is something almost psychotic in its accusatory tone, that foreshadows punk era singers like Siouxsie Sioux and Patti Smith. While it certainly encapsulate the harder edge of the Sixties zeitgeist, it also, for me, seems to transcend the rather naive idealism of that time. An "All-Time" classic, I'd say.
I'll have to pay attention for the "almost psychotic...accusatory tone" next time I listen to the song. Haven't discerned it previously and I kinda doubt it right now. Doesn't seem to fit with recent interviews of Gracie Slick that I've watched. Is there a particular version or performance where it is more noticeable than others?
One of my all time favorite songs-whatever the meaning. The music is phenomenal.
That was a truly excellent analysis and interpretation!
Thanks!! So happy to hear you enjoyed it!
Don't forget the "follow the White Rabbit" instruction at the beginning of the Matrix
Do younger generations not get this song? It is so obvious! I'm 63 years old and I still love this song, and still love hallucinating on shrooms and L.S.D.!!!
They don't get it!
I've watched quite a few videos of teens and young adults listening to music from the 60s and 70s, including this song. It wasn't a complete surprise that they missed the psychedelic references, but what startled and saddened me the most was that they didn't recognize the "Alice in Wonderland" part either.
I could understand if it was only a book, but there have been multiple movies made about Alice's adventures in Wonderland. I remember the joy this story brought me as a child and It's a shame that (at least some of) today's youth are missing out on such a fun and magical tale . 😟
Well said!
I had an audio cassette tape called The Worst of The Jefferson Airplane. About 25 years ago it became, for a while, the favourite listening of my then 15 year old son. One day he asked whether I knew where a piece of the lyrics to Crown of Creation came from ("In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction"). I didn't know. He informed me, and proved it, that they were from the book The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, a book I had read many years before.
Far out!! Excellent review of a supernatural song!!
White Rabbit is one of my all time favorite songs.
Fantastic story , my friend ,And WR is the anthem of my youth . I was 13 when it came out and fell madly in love with this girl and her magical journey. All way stayed one of my most favorite songs. It's absolutely perfect and a masterpiece. Being 500+ if Rolling Stone's Top 1000 most iconic (rock)songs is an insult. Should be at least in first 10 places,
Definitely!
I turned 18 in the spring of 1967. I also read Leary’s interview in Playboy ( which
I was reading for the many fine articles) and was instantly ready to go there. Made it to San Francisco in the spring of 68. My personal opinion
is that White Rabbit, along with several other Airplane songs dove far deeper than anything by the Beatles, Stones, etc. 😎
Interesting comment in that I too ACTUALLY READ Playboy Magazine. (Though I did NOT read the Timothy Leary interview you make reference to.) I mention THAT, because today, Playboy as a publication, and for that matter, Hugh Hefner himself, has dropped tremendously in over all respect....Even though the "white rabbit" of Playboy itself as a SIGIL still makes its appearance today in the form of tattoos or on clothing or other "trendy" accouterments that can still be purchased for mainly young women to wear to advertise their hipness as well as sexiness??
I also mention that, because of a pretty stupid "joke" or cliche that often cropped up when I mentioned that I, even at one point, subscribed to the magazine:
"Oh, I bet you read Playboy JUST FOR THE ARTICLES right?"
The question was often asked with MORE than just a note of sarcasm.
But, yes, despite the naked girls/women Playboy WAS a source of intelligent reading....Or so I once thought because despite its general lean to the "left"**, it DID eventually dawn on me that such a magazine was mainly for the rich(ER) upper classes. And despite my efforts at educating myself (even through the reading of Playboy Magazine itself), I realized that I wasn't going to be invited down to "The Mansion" anytime soon if at all.😶)
** Actually Playboy, despite it's general "leftiness" did manage to comment against political correctness that was catching fire around the late 1980s and early 1990's and has basically continued unabated to the point that pronoun usage is being seriously and often ABSURDLY debated, TODAY.
Also on a cynical/sarcastic note, as far as Playboy being considered "sexual pornography", it was basically "blown right out of the water" by the subsequent emergence of Penthouse, Hustler, and the numerous other magazines that Hugh Hefner himself MAY have thought were "vulgar" at worst or simply "without class or taste" at best?
Just a joke about suburban teenage sexuality in the 60’s . There is an excellent bio series on Hefner on Netflix (I think). The T&A was a great vehicle for mainstreaming much more serious stuff. Jessie Jackson spoke very highly of Hefner, for instance. The Leary interview changed my life.
I agree about the depth of its dive, and didn't/still don't think it was Slick's or Airplane's/Starship's deepest song.
One of my favorite 60 drug songs........ with eight miles high
Pink sang this also... very well... id like to see a duet with these two
I thoroughly enjoyed that. Now I have to listen to Grace sing it. The music grows into an intense state.
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Old rocker here,,you are spot on
I graduated in 69 and the majority of my fellow students were not "tripping " or even smoking weed, but I had some friends who would feed our heads on a regular basis.
good job; you did a good take apart of the words without losing the feeling of the song. I remember hearing the song played in a train station in some small German town in 70 or 71. The place was empty and was like an echo chamber. It was a song of its day, that is almost just as fresh now. It should be mentioned that acid has found a small home in the treatment of depression and other sicknesses.
Great comment and great points! Thanks!
Good times those! I kind of remember them so, I must've been there.
One of my favorite songs.
Me too!
Grace Slick isn't only talented beyond words Musically and Artistically, she is also absolutely brilliant. Grace has the most unique voice I think, in history. Nobody has ever come close to being able to sing like her in any of the tribute bands that came after the Jefferson Starship. There will never be a band like the Jefferson Airplane and that truly makes me sad. ✌️💙
I agree, Grace's voice is so powerful and awesome ❤
You are right about about that. One of my favorite song.
Great video filled with very interesting facts. Thanks.
Many thanks in return! Glad you enjoyed it!
Yep,im 63 this yr.did lotts of acid & shroms,very exciting!!! Loved it!!!!
I think you did a great job explaining the various meanings.
Many thanks!!
I enjoyed your insightful presentation but the song was very clear.
Thanks! That means a lot!
You are exactly correct about the meaning behind this song. When I was a sophomore in high school, our four piece band played White Rabbit at a school concert. This was in 1968.
Aweeome!!!
ONE of, the best tracks ever put down, fight me...
Thank you I really did enjoy that and looking forward to more of your content❤
I just started listening to your videos. They are all fantastic and in-depth to these classic rock songs I grew up with. I so appreciate your insight and it really gets you to thinking about the songs, the lyrics and what all went on during that time of our lives. It's amazing but Grace Slick was probably right on when referring to all those Mother Goose rhymes we grew up with. I always thought many of them were strange. Rock a Bye Baby in the Treetop was kinda morbid. Thank you for these. I'll continue to listen to others and subscribe.
Thanks so much! So glad you're enjoying my channel! I appreciate it!
An excellent exposition! And I learned a lot I didn't know before. Thank you.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Classic,...and love the history behind this vid..
Thanks for your insights to one of my favorite songs of the 60's,
Many thanks in return for tuning in! Happy to hear you enjoyed it!
That was a time when protesters wanted to end the Vietnam war and bring our troops home, but spit on them when they did.
Yeah no shit. Dont aid in a genocide then!
Tbh the US even behaved worse than ruZZia is doing rn. Its just not a popular topic amongst americans...
The spitting on was a very rare occurrence.
There were young people who had high passion and lower maturity.
Did that happen to you?
@@ronalderb9692 not partaking in genocide might have helped…
I never heard of any anger or spitting on soldiers. It is true they didn't get as much respect they deserved when they first came back but that has changed. Today disabled veterans from all the conflicts are not treated fairly by the V.A. and under the A.D.A.
@@halfsentry1 there were a lot of”people” performing “not so nice actions upon civilians” to put it mildly…
They deserved it. An UNIFORM does indicate a “uniform mind” afterall. If they deserve protection from legal prosecution, they deserve what happened…
What a song such good thanks again freaks rock 4ever
Was anybody at All confused about the meaning of that song? I was a teenaged reject walking nervous breakdown at the time. But I could read and had read Lewis Carrol's Alice books a few years b4. Even the fully unhip knew what this song meant to say. I liked that song but some kids did not. I didn't know anyone to talk to about it, but I turned on every psychedelic available, kept my counsel and got the Hell Out of Texas at the age of 15 and stayed awake since then. Still dig those books; read em every few years.
I'm now 70 years old. I remember Grace and that song. It was the time I used a lot of acid and Mary Jane, wonderful years.
Yeah, those 500+ mike blotter hits !!!
@@Henry-dg1ez tabs ,barrels, micro dots and blotter for me! ...WHO.,WHO,WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU damn music was good back then and sun rises where great, what a feeling to be alive
@@nelsonthibeau3303 Yeah man!!
I'm 78 and never did illegal drugs. It was the haunting voice and music that grabbed me and made it a fav song to this day.
Excellent..thank you!
Thank YOU! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
"Feed your head" is the punchline of the song.
Some years back, one of the network morning talk shows came up with the slogan "breakfast for your head."
Whichever network executive whop signed off on that slogan, oblivious to the obvious resrmblance to the song lyric, probably went on to become the network president.
Thank you. Reading some comments below are mind blowing. Cheers.
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Grace was way way before her time, and I still dig it a lot too find that rabbit these days!!
Been there, done that. Nice narrative.👍🤔😉
It seems we lost our way when we left that behind.
Hope and possibility are the only things that keep me trying.
LSD is one of the things that helped blossom that hope.
As I said then and still think today.
It would behoove the world leaders to get together at the G7 or G8 go to a redwood grove and drop a high dose of LSD.
All of the leaders in the Middle East need their own retreat. They have a lot to work out before joining the larger group. 🙂
I was thinking about Bolero when you described the adding of instruments to the crescendo. White Rabbit was a masterpiece; both lyrically and instrumentally.
I FULLY agree!
Another meaning of Alice Through the Looking Glass is focus on Adolescence. and Alice's struggles with it. Oddly during the 19th Century, Adolescence was a new ideal which Victorian Society had struggled to understand. The opposite end of the Chessboard represents the end of childhood. When Alice becomes a Queen, it represents that she became a young woman. Of course, there are other symbols representing other elements like specific drugs in Through the Looking Glass.
Great video!! Boy does it take me back to world of psychedelia 😊✌️🌈🥰
Glad you enjoyed the TRIP!
Yep, when the first bars sound and Grace starts singing you can just go astral....and know you were not alone. I don't quite agree with the narrator. Well, maybe it was a bit difficult your first time, and I must confess the one time I really tried to blow the walls out I had to call for aid, but I had help and it was a journey I still treasure, I know I am immortal, even if this incarnation isn't forever. Feed Your Head! My Dad did sound for his highschool theater's musical shows. One day when he was in the sound cubby in the theater he patched the turntable into the school PA during class and put Bolero on. It took a long time for the Principal to figure out where it was coming from after he realized the volume was not staying low... he got pretty frantic!
Haha! Great story!
Loved that song, on I believe my very first pre-teen album !!
I was six…
And I was never the same . . .
That song always reminded me of tripping!
I remember those days well, and my time in the canyon after getting out of the service.
Song is awesome 😎
I was 13 during the time of the Summer of Love. I think it nearly killed my brother that he was too young to go to San Francisco. However, as young as I was, I knew the song was about drugs. I was going into 9th grade. Back then it was the last year of 'Junior High School.' I have to say that as I aged, I really got into the meaning of the song. I never did the kinds of drugs that she was writing about, but I probably had a better understanding of why someone might use them. I met enough people who would say 'Oh, I never did downers" or "I never got into speed." And I understood why then and I still understand now. I love the song. My stupid body sometimes decides it is going to give me a trip like experience. I'm glad to say that it doesn't happen as much now as in the past.
That song always reminds me of Vietnam. That's where I first heard Surrealistic Pillow in '66.😁
I think the song advocates only one drug, that being found in a mushroom, and only one kind of mushroom, that being the Amanita muscaria, a big mushroom with speckled red cap. In England, in Carroll's time and later, this mushroom was more commonly called fly agaric, and was dissolved and used to coat the sticky hanging fly-killing papers. So this mushroom, quite different in psychological effect from the psilocybe types, is poisonous, and should be used in small doses. As with mescalin/peyote, there is usually a period of nausea at the beginning of a trip that has to be endured.
Gotta love Gracie Slick!