FIRST TIME HEARING Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit | REACTION
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I am not a musicologist, but the song is structured in the style of Bolero, a repetitive musical base that becomes more forceful throughout the performance. That is why (IMHO) that Grace Slick’ s vocals may seemed understated at first but continue rise in power throughout the song till the ending.
"Im not a musicologist, but I DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
Ravel's Bolero is my favorite classical piece. It is a military march according to my college Music Appreciation class. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra flashmob is an excellent version.
In the 70s Bolero gained some notoriety as a song for doin the horizontal bop to.
Perfect analysis!
They were influenced by the bolero on Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain" LP
Groundbreaking at the time!!! Nothing like it musically or vocally! I’m a child of the 70’s and this song is amazing with 🍄 and surround sound! 😎
I think the minimalist accompaniment sounds right for this song. To me this focus is on her voice. I don't think the song really needed any more than what's already there.
The controversy with Airplane and starship is argued as much as Van Halen and Van Halen
Try Stairway to cleveland. ITS their song that takes on all the critics of the evolution of the band..... in other words, Fuck you, we do what we want
Thanks, you for pointing this out. Too many young fans are too used to the imitators and wannabes...
Number one on the list 🍄
This is from 1966…it was ground-breaking, earth-shattering! Yet you want more…
Grace's voice was the star of the song. So, it didn't need a lot of other instruments taking center stage. Also, many songs in the 60's were very short because that was pretty standard for getting them played on the radio.
It’s easy to look back at something over fifty years old and feel it was pretty basic but that’s because you have the luxury of experiencing everything that’s been built upon it since then. I’m sure when this first came out no one had ever heard anything like it before and it was such a thrill people still enjoy reliving the excitement of it. I personally love it for the sheer power of Grace’s voice.
How very true.
It still shits on most things produced this century
agree. in 67 this was new territory with a new singer that was making people sit up and take notice. Grace and the Airplane were a force to be reckoned with during the Summer of Love.
Grace had a voice that ‘could launch a thousand trips’
with apologies to Helen of Troy.
You have to remember this was 1967. Most of us had never heard anything like it before, definitely nothing like it had ever been on TV until then.
It was 1966 man - they didn't have synths and whatnot. They were only carving out the psychedelic niche with what they had, a bit like the Beatles on Revolver before they started to introduce lots of studio trickery on Sgt peppers
I saw them live at a pop fest in '69. It's the bass, the psychedelic guitar riffs, the buildup, Grace's voice. Nothing more needed. It was a different world then.🐰🍄
how fantastic for you! did they stick to the set list from' bless its pointed little head' ? whether LP, 8-track, cassette or CD that album has been played around here for nearly 55 years!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Pop_Festival
Yep, it was a great time for the music we heard. Nothing quite like it since. We were really blessed, I think.
Gracie Slick ..."The
Voice that launched a thousand trips...". That vibrato... My first musician crush as a 13 yr old back then.
It's easy to want this song to be longer cuz it's just so damn cool. The whole thing is just one big crescendo and throwing in a bunch of extraneous elements would likely ruin it.
Don't gild the lily, man. 😊
yes i've heard repeatedly "it's too short". i disagree, it builds, gets to the point and leaves you with "what just hit me.." a short but powerful classic from Grace and the boys.
Jefferson Airplane was an American psychedelic rock band in the 60's-70's. Their lead singer Grace Slick has a very powerful voice. Their 2 biggest hits are "Somebody To Love" & "White Rabbit" but they had other good songs. Later on in 1974 Jefferson Starship was formed with many of the former members of Jefferson Airplane & they had some hits too.
Hey, Dagmar!!
Slick's voice is haunting. I also love listening to the voice isolated version.
I’ll have to look for that!
almost haunting!
Welcome to psychedelic rock🤯. It was a trip back in the day. The whole album is mind expanding.
Acid rock . . . says it all.
I'll smoke a joint to that! 😁😉
Great song off of a legendary album, and Grace Slick was one of the early female rockers with a unique voice. Try "Somebody to Love" if you want something a little spicier.
My wedding song "Today" was also off the Surrealistic Pillow Album. You shoulda seen the faces when that was announced at the reception. Had a live band who were phenomenal!
Worst thing about this song is how short it is! I could listen to it over and over, so hypnotically good.
For Slick, “White Rabbit is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity.” For her & others in the 60’s, drugs were a part of mind expansion & social experimentation. This song became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. ☮️ 🌻✌️
Think about it.We went from Que Sera Sera, A Tisket a Tasket, She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah to THIS. I don't know if our parents suspected what this was really about - but even I as a 12-year-old girl got it. As for it not being long enough, I just kept playing it over and over. Trying to sound like Grace Slick.
As a teenager in the 60s - this was my music
One of the most innovative and powerful pieces of genius in the history of rock music
For those of us in our 70’s this was our powerful song even though we didn’t use psychedelics. It was and is good stuff for our high school and college days.
Agree 100%. You didn't need to do drugs for this song to make an impact. Just crank it up to 11 and take the ride.😊
Well...some of us did 😊
I was 17. This was Height-Ashberry, Hell's Angels and Hippies in San Francisco. Yes, it is short but it sent out a dream that everyone could relate to. Long hair, beads and dark clothing. Quiet candle-lit gatherings where the conversation was around the lyrics and little else.
Nice timing - today is the 58th anniversary of the original Jefferson Airplane's first performance at the Matrix Club in San Francisco, owned by band member Marty Balin (co-founder of the band with Paul Kantner). Although this is a signature song of the band it is only one small side of the music they created over the years. She Has Funny Cars, Today, Crown of Creation, House at Pooneil Corners, Eskimo Blue Day (those last 3 veer into prog-rock) are all separate sides of this amazing band. Grace brought the song to the band when she joined the band when Signe Anderson had left. It had been performed and recorded by The Great Society, the band she was in with her 1st husband, before Jefferson Airplane.
Their big hit off this album was Somebody To Love. Also on this album are two very soft "dreamy songs" - Comin' Back To Me and Today. These are Don't Miss songs!
Who would have thought a band synonymous with psychedelics could have produced one of the most beautiful love songs ever in "Today". The genius of Marty Balin.
This entire album is just great...that is all.
Freakin song damn near gave me a flashback. This entire album is Amazing.
The song is about Alice in Wonderland and how the story is actually about Alice doing drugs. "One pill makes you larger and one makes you small". In the story Alice drinks potions, takes pills, smokes mushrooms causing her to hallucinate and go on this fantastic journey into Wonderland. There's a talking rabbit who's focused on time and how he "can't be late". There's a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah pipe. The pieces on the chess board become men who want to attack her. She comes across an endless tea party hosted by the Mad Hatter. Then there's the Red Queen who wants to cut off her head. The song warns you not to waste your time on "the pills that mother gives you cause they don't do anything at all'. If you want to go on a trip, 'go ask Alice she knows" what pills will get you to Wonderland.
Dude! This was the epitome of an acid trip song, not meant to be a MUSICAL masterpiece. It was meant as a LYRICAL masterpiece and a showcase to one of the most iconic, unique voices of the entire decade of the 60s. The simplicity is the whole reason this song is so respected and brought their own facet of definition to the music of that era.
This is perfect as it is! This is 1967 on the edge of time!
Why would you want the Airplane to sound like Yes or Tull? Seems like that's like wanting your green shirt to look more red.
With acid anything is possible.
@@kd8199 And then some.
The leaders and pioneers of Psychedelic Rock!!! Great lyrics!!!! Still used today in many movie especially war movies and drug movies!!!
For 1966 this was pretty progressive psychedelia. A year before the Beatles Sgt. Pepper. Before the Moody Blues Symphonic Progressive first album in 1967. Way before Yes…the cool things about this song are the lyrics and the gradual crescendo of the voice through the whole song. Well done…and I’m a seventies child! 😂😂😂
This was so much earlier than those bands. This was during the Summer of Love in San Francisco. This, as another poster said before me, was based on "Bolero", a song that was relentless in constantly building intensity until it crescendos at the very end. Grace Slick is one of the great female rock vocalists of all time.
This such a seminal psychedelic classic. Airplane was a Haight Ashbury, San Fran band. One could argue one could argue a psychedelic stronghold. It put every other Free Love city/area to shame. It’s a Dead Head Mecca. L.C. set out to write a story for his niece? but he was a trippy/opium Dude & wrote 2 masterpieces. As for Grace’s voice she was incredible. Outstanding cover Pink.
I was so excited when I saw the title because I haven't heard this song in decades. It's like a childhood memory comfort song to me, if that makes sense. Try 'Somebody to Love' by them. I think it'll give you what you want.
You just need to understand the context of the style of music and culture at the time. to appreciate the respect those of us that were living through that time, had for a song that "put our culture" so directly - although using Alice in Wonderland references. The simplicity of the song actually seemed to make it more impactful with just her powerful voice driving it. There were others, but she was definitely up in the forefront of the counter-culture of the time
Alice in Wonderland references.
The songs and bands you refer to post date this by many years. This song was groundbreaking for us back in the day. Peace.
Only basic instruments back then, for most bands... specialists cropped up in the 70s, moog being rare advanced piece... tech, synth-digi sound effects and studio engineering ramped up and took over in the 80s and with New Wave. Rock went formulaic and image and riffs/hooks, and HAIR became King...... iverdone, so grunge then came into vogue.
Oh how I love this song and a great band too🧡try Somebody to Love as well. A kind of psychodelic group
The story is what makes in an important song!
seriously appreciate that you listened to both versions. it's only 2 minutes!
It's easy to not be blown away with this song due to the acclaim you read about it before listening. At the time, there were plenty of songs about drugs, but they were veiled in the lyrics. This was one of the first songs that was blatantly about drugs. It was groundbreaking at the time, and really, nothing on the radio sounded anything like this. You have to remember, there were no FM rock only stations at the time, all radio was top 40 pop. So yes, this song was really cool at the time but can definitely sound pretty dated and less than exciting today. Always great to hear it though!
Yup. It's not a story telling based on Alice in Wonderland, it's a song about tripping one's ass off. I believe you had to have been there in the time period to appreciate it.
Definitely!@@bluelionvintage8134
Naw, the song never sounds lacking to me. Nope. I still love its build-up momentum, the guitar chords, and, of course, Grace's voice.
I don't find it lacking either, I think it's a masterpiece. But I can understand someone expecting more with the build up it receives. But I absolutely love it.@@robinkleinsteuber5217
When this song came out received wisdom in the radio broadcast was that no song over 3 minutes *could* *not* be played on air. That’s why it’s so short. And Progressive Rock was kind of born about this time in history and Airplane was part of the beginning of that movement. There are several more great songs from them. IIRC Rabbit was their first hit.
Songs weren't that long in 1966. The fact that they got on a TV show with a song like that was amazing.
Every song of hers has "something" that is cool. She could really belt it out on some bluesy tunes they have.
Actually the closest longer song that sound a little bit like this is Pink Floyd's great lost track "Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun" , which you would probably really like.
This added to the Rock and Roll discography and culture because there were very few examples of women with very strong voices singing lead for Rock Bands. She and Janis Joplin were leading the pack.
Oh god I miss living in this era, all the great music we had. I appreciate all you reactors for playing this great music of my young life!👍👏👏👏🥰🎼🎹🥁🎸🎺🎷🪘🪈🎻🎶🎵
One needs to remember that the song was short because it was meant to be played on AM radio as a hit single. AM radio at that time demanded songs to be less than 3 minutes. And it was a huge radio hit
Jefferson Airplane was one of the band from San Francisco Haight Ashbury that probably had more cultural influence than musical influence. That was the Mecca for the flower power hippie movement and Jefferson Airplane was right in the middle of it. White Rabbit was one of the anthems with it's reference to mind expansion via drugs. Peace, love and rock-n-roll baby.
Grace Slick was both an amazing singer and beautiful. I love her.
Appreciate your honesty! Of course I get excited when a reactor loves a song that I do. But music is subjective. Reactors should be able to say what they want without repercussions. These aren't 'agree with me' channels!! LOL 😊❤
the voice that launched a thousand trips.
When this song came out it was part of a movement of more sophisticated rock and roll. Moving away from the teeny bopper sound and into music with more depth.
The starkness of the production was appropriate for this song. If there were synths, they were not in general use. Also, this was the time period when radio play was much more important than today. There were tons of songs that were sub-3 minutes to make sure they garnered time on commercial radio rotation. For a different perspective on the song, look for Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway’s version. They play it with a “bluegrass” twist.
Love it!
That song is PERFECTION!
It's minimalised and unbloated .If it ain't broke then don't fix it .Grace Slick sang it to perfection without autotune and it is just perfect .
"And you just ate some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving slow" - This is a song that might be on your play list while so indulging.
Isn't it better to have a great song having you want more than have a good song leaving you with the thought that maybe it was just a tiny bit too much? I think White Rabbit is soo good because it is what it is. Would it have been more it probably wouldn't have been this good. Just my two cents.
Yes Grace had a very unique voice, not really like anyone else.
You really need to hear the band "CAKE" do 'SHORT SKIRT and a LONG JACKET'.
A more “normal” Jefferson airplane song which will give you a lot of what you wanted from the same album is “somebody to love”
First time I've ever heard Pet Shop Boys and JeffersonAirplane in the same breath. Bifuckingzarre
Listen to theirSomebody to Love!!!
The pinnacle of psychedelic rock. Jefferson Airplane, the first and the best. And they couldnt have had a better frontperson than Grace Slick.
Many, many great songs but imho "White Rabbit" is the gold standard.
This will always be their best song, in my opinion
What's really fun about the song is that everything she sang about is in the books about Alice In Wonderland. Books written 150 years ago.
Been watching your reaction videos for a few here now. I love that you appreciate this music even if it’s not your bag. It’s ok if it’s not and that’s why I like watching your videos. It’s going to be an honest reaction. I also love that you dove into the artists. That’s the best!
I've seen that a couple of times recently reactors just say screwed I want to hear the whole thing over again I think it's great Good for you Keep up the great work
Someone posted a video of her singing but without any of the music. Her voice was incredible!
Grace's voice is isolated in a vid on RUclips. I think it is the studio version. Try it. Her voice is really one of a kind! A great honest reaction! That's why we come here.
The band evolved into Jefferson Starship in the 1970's and eventually Starship in the 1980's, all with different males singing lead but all featuring Grace Slick as well.
Grace Slick’s voice is memorable.
The original version was on the album by Great Society with Grace Slick. Totally different. Jim
If you care for a third listen, check out the live at Woodstock 1969 version. Her voice had matured a bit and (I think)was even stronger.
Quick note: Many of the things you suggest "to spice it up" weren't even around yet. The first Synth use in a song was still a year away, Prog was a number of years off. Compare this to The Beatles EARLY work (Help and earlier), or the typical straightforward Rock of the early 60s.
Before joining Jefferson Airplane, Grace was with The Great Society. They did an extended version of this song (can be found on YT).
As you know (by now) the lyrics are a reference to a person on a 'trip' (acid, 60's) and relating to the classic animated Disney movie 'Alice In Wonderland" while on their trip. This was the time where acid exploded, and the SF Bay area, which produced this band, was the epicenter of everything related. ('67)
For some resson, multiple young reactors just dont feel this song the way that we do. I love the marching drum beat. And the Spanish guitar. I LOVE Grace. Love the trippy Alice In Wonderland lyrics. Maybe repetition wedged it into our hearts. Some songs grow on you with repetition, and you end up loving them so much.
Yes I think this whole generation doesn't understand the book or anything with this song it's a shame.
Alice in Wonderland was a wonderful book.
Feed your head!
Many songs from the 1960’s maxed out at 3 minutes because that was about the max they could fit in a 45rpm record
Grace Slick had a strong, haunting voice..if you like this Salvo, ck out Somebody to Love, "Don't you want Somebody to Love"...Surrealistic Album...wouldn't change a thing about this, it was the 60's!!!...FYI..White Rabbit has been used in many movies 👌....ty for sharing your discovery of Grace n Jefferson Airplane
The opening verse of Somebody to Love is one of the most profound you will ever hear. The Coen Brothers know this (A Serious Man).
This song came out the year I was born and it still sounds great 67 was a great year in music but then most of the 60s were great years for music. Not many reactors to this song catch on that it based on Alice In Wonderland
Gotta listen to this with their song somebody to love. The video of them performing both songs on American Bandstand is the best
Got to remember songs were short so they would be played on top 40 radio. Live performances are sometimes longer
You should watch the movie "Go Ask Alice" that goes with this song! It's an awesome movie about teenage drug addiction! Based on a true story!
In the late 60's...Jefferson Airplane was one of the top American rock groups, in terms of popularity, talent and record sales. Grace Slick is the Acid Queen! 🍄🌼☮
I am so glad you said that. 🍄
We ALL would like to hear it longer --- but groups were just limited on AM radio . That's the way it was !!! In the context of the times , it was radical !
I saw Jefferson Airplane in concert in 1969 and 1970. They did this song. They were my favorite life band, next to The Who.
The Dormouse did not say "Feed your head." However, it works well in the song and there has always been a certain mystery to the reference.
We Canadians know how to push a good song into the #1 spot. With all due respect, perhaps your ears are a wee bit too selfish as the song is perfect. After the line, 'And the Red Queen's off with her head', what else could you put after that except the finish? Nothing, it can build no further. Good reaction to a great song. Keep playing the good ones.
I also would add that it is a progressive song that could not have an instrument solo in the middle anywhere.
Sometimes less is more. No need for synthesizers here. I really like their performance at Woodstock. Now you know where the expression 'down the rabbit hole' comes from. Read the book.
Note the stuffed animal the bass player has draped over the neck of his instrument to modify the tone.
what you're asking for (progressive rock) and the bands you mentioned (Yes, Styx etc)were not formed yet. Remember this is 1966-you need the put the song in the proper time frame and what was being heard at the time. the song was progressive for its time and did surprisingly well given its drug inspired lyrics.
Lewis Carroll also known as Charles Dodson was a deacon and a university church type situation and he was the founder of deductive logic which is the basis of all Boolean algebra and computer language
No synthesizers. They had barely been invented. Just true musical artists playing real instruments, creating timeless art. That was the 60s.
I have an EXTREME NEED to see/hear ANGELINA JORDAN do a cover of WHITE RABBIT.
A perfect warm up song for a live concert.
No. If you add those things you say, it's not the same song. It was completely unique at it's release. Try "Somebody To Love."
Most people don't realize the person who wrote Alice in Wonderland was himself a heavy drug user. Also the song was meant to reference the 1960s drug culture. White Rabbit was acid. Human smoking was pot. Taking mushrooms obvious. The ending the Doormouse says keep your head.
This is one of those songs I grew up with that scared the begeesus out of me. Probably because Alice In Wonderland always felt like a bad trip. Even as a child with no reference point, that is what it feels like. She has a great voice tho.
lol, I had the opposite reaction. My memories of this song revolve around happy times with my older siblings.
If you were not there you have no idea. This is a song for the time and not for critique.