The best part of this song is the “Feed your head” part at the end. Folks still think it’s a license to take drugs but Slick herself said it’s basically just “Read a f***ing book once in a while.”
In the book, Alice was not taking drugs. She was a kid bored with the routine of life and she fell asleep and dreamed. The trippyness of the story comes from dreaming as your imagination takes over.
SECONDED! Recommend you guys listen to “Nothings gonna stop us now” by starship to hear more melody from Grace Slick. You’ve heard it before without knowing it!
Grace's voice was a powerhouse but so was Grace. She had (and still has) exactly zero F's to give. She's one of the first women to lead a major rock band and not just be a babe in the band. EVERY female major performer since owes a debt to Grace.
@@haintedhouse2990 Influence and actual talent are 2 massively different things. But then, compared to what else we hear nowadays, she is indeed a lot better than most.
Please react to somebody to love AUDIO version. Because live versión are diferent vibes, much better oficial audio studio version that are we all know and love.
The exact moment you two heard Grace Slick's voice for the first time-WOW! The priceless expression on both of your faces! You're groovin', heads bobbing up and down in rhythm, and then- I'm a classically trained composer, and I've always noticed something interesting about this song. In composition we can write a marking of "crescendo" which means "start making the music louder and more intense." Usually this is followed by the opposite marking: decrescendo. Ebb and flow, right? One thing I've always loved about this song is that it is basically a 2.5 minute crescendo from beginning to end. It starts small and quiet. Very low range on Grace Slick's voice. But it just amps up from beginning to end, the voice reaching higher and higher, unrelenting. It's one of the reasons this song feels so trippy. It gives you that rush.
1967 Feed Your Head. I was 17. Everything was trippy. Feed your head also meant to obtain knowledge. My generation explored different cultures, ideas, philosophies...it was a great time to grow up. But still..everything WAS trippy lol!
I agree! I think most ‘reactors’ miss how her voice intensifies as the song goes on and how strong a vocalists Grace really is to pull it off like she does.
That's what I came to say, imagine never experiencing Grace Slick and BOOM, there she is. Look up her isolated audio for this song and you will see how powerful and not a little creepy her voice is.
Trippy, yes this is the psychedelic era and Jefferson Airplane was at ground zero being a San Francisco band. I saw them in 1967 and must say they gave a memorable concert along with Strawberry Alarm Clock, Moby Grape, and Quicksilver. Great choice and your reference to shrooms are totally on point.
in '89 she said that. You think that's what she meant then? Jesus.... people are so determined to undermine counterculture if it's not their jam. She meant do drugs, don't be a fucking square. Do you even understand what they were up to?
The last line in the song 'Feed your head' may be her reference to drugs but it also means acquire knowledge, educate yourself, pay attention to developing your mind. Physically people age, but a well stocked mind will always remains an asset and a store of pleasure.
No, Its remember what the good book said, feed your head, with the word of God , but you liberals wouldn't understand because you dont know God. " Not really your fault ".
Your making the mistake of presuming Head means cortex memory machine, its not, its about lower , the part of the brain that mummy controls baby with , but her imagination is not told , funny aint it nature
@@heliotropezzz333 I Know, amazing that this wonderful fact has been obliterated by the Slavers , You take LSD for what it does to the Lower brain , your first Brain the 2nd brain the cortex and its functionality are not why you take LSD, Your comment is cortex Focused
I truly enjoy sometimes watching you guys. I came up through the ‘60’s & ‘70’s. So it’s refreshing to watch young people realize that mom and dad were pretty cool after all. Edit: Responding to the comments about shrooms and trippy: Many of us are guilty of over-indulgence back then… ‘Nuff said.
I had a very dear friend who used to live a few houses down from the garage where they all used to practice! She told me how she would open the windows and sit by the window and listen to them practice! She had so many wonderful memories of Haight Ashbury! She was called home, she was 93 years young! I miss her so much. Thank you for a trip down memory lane!😊
Grace Slick is def a US Icon for sure. This song performed at Woodstock and Somebody to Love, when you can see clearly everybody is off their melons, she just pulled out one of the most amazing female vocals on both songs live, in a time when it meant everything. So digging your reactions guys. Thanks for keeping a single dad on the other side of the pond sane and happy to be here. Thank you!
You two are killing it on this Female Friday!! This song sounds so menacing; it scared me as a kid, lol!! Grace Slick is a powerhouse; you are right, Amber, she is talking about "Alice In Wonderland", and, as this was in the 60's, they were fans of psychedelic drugs, especially Grace, lol.
this was a late 60s psychedelic song. jefferson airplane was one of the biggest bands of the late 60s. they were very popular. another song to react to by them is “somebody to love”
Her voice is absolutely amazing, considering how stoned they were back then it is amazing that any of them could stand up let alone perform. There is film of her performing at Woodstock just 4 years later & she looks 15 years older.
When you talk about "Psychedelic", this band was heavily involved in the whole San Francisco music scene that spawned the Psychedelic culture. This song is from 1967. That year is pretty much when the whole Psychedelic thing exploded. They called it "The Summer of Love"...
Great song from a time that can not be repeated. Yes on the Alice in Wonderland. If you are an Alice in Wonderland fan, Tom Petty did a song with that theme. Don’t come around here no more? Someone will correct me.
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Great book. There’s also a book titled “Go Ask Alice” which is a real teen girl’s diary published anonymously. All books, like music, were new once. ❤
Grace Slick is the only woman who could ever pull off that warble in her voice and it sends shivers down my spine to this day... And considering this was LIVE... Dude...
Grace Slick has an amazing voice! You should listen to "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," which they released in the 80s after the group had evolved from Jefferson Airplane into Starship.
My favorite song is actually from the Jefferson Starship Red Octopus album, Miracles. I'm not much into love songs really, but THAT one, is a beautiful journey. I was so lucky, in 1989, I went with a high school boyfriend to Golden Gate Park, for a memorial tribute to Bill Graham, We got to see the original Jefferson Airplane perform a day concert for a homeless food drive in Graham's honor, anyone growing up in California between 1960 and 1990 had the words Bill Graham Presents printed on their concert tickets, Wavy Gravy even attended, and it was fun to see my teen vocal idol in person, and the reactions of older people who were surprised we knew all the lyrics, we were 19 and 22, had an absolute blast.
Please react to somebody to love AUDIO version. Because live versión are diferent vibes, much better oficial audio studio version that are we all know.
When someone asks about the 60's and wants an example of a psychedelic song, I suggest this one to start. There are many more, but this one suffices. Good Reaction!!! A lot of songs you are reacting to, are songs I still listen to a lot.
Grace Slick said she wrote this while on an acid trip. She said it was her take on parents reading such weird stuff as Alice in Wonderland, then wondering why their kids end up on drugs. It was one of the first songs to successfully get drug references past the censors. It is a great song
This was such a unique song. Grace had an amazing voice when she was young. Jefferson Airplane’s set at Woodstock was amazing. If you want another recommendation you could do worse than checkout Fairport Connvention with the Late Sandy Denny singing Who Knows Where The Time Goes. The best female vocals you will hear for a very long time.
Grace Slick was just awesome!! She had a big, powerful voice! Listen to "Don't You Want Somebody to Love", great and classic song!! Jefferson Airplane were in the midst of the whole psychedelic movement in the mid and late 60's. They made it big as Jefferson Airplane, the became Jefferson Starship, then Starship. Grace Slick is also a good artist. Enjoyed the reaction!
The song is of the era, when people were trying to find themselves. Some said yes, and some said no to drugs. Grace Slick, could captivate you and get you hooked on this song.
There has never been any evidence of him ingesting anything stronger than an occasional cup of wine, there certainly was no mention whatsoever of him using psychedelics.
@@WonjiDharma Or, you know, he might just not have seen any evidence for that (and you haven't provided any). So you could give him a break. I would say that although peyote has been used by South and Central American natives for thousands of years the drug mescaline was not chemically isolated as a separate substance until 1897 (some thirty years after Alice in Wonderland was written) and it wasn't widely used by people other than native Americans until the 1950s, when it was popularised by Aldous Huxley and others. So I, too, am calling bullshit on this. Unless, you have any legit evidence otherwise.
Fun fact, the book isn't about drugs at all. It was written when he was in college and they introduced a new form of math including imaginary numbers, etc. He was annoyed and thought the concept of that math was ridiculous and made no sense, so and wrote Alice In Wonderland about it.
Female friday: Etta James, I'd rather go blind Female friday: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Angel from Montgomery/Sugaree Female friday: Bonnie Raitt, I can't make you love me Female friday: Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddam Female friday: Roberta Flack, The first time ever I saw your face Female friday: Eva de Roovere, Fantastig toch
Check out the live version. The story was they were at Woodstock and their manager told them they were supposed to play Saturday at 7. So they stayed up all night taking acid, only to find out they were playing at 7 AM. They stumbled out onto stage, peaking on acid, and absolutely crushed it. One of the best performances in the entire festival.
In the mid 70's I moved into a house that the band lived in. The first time I used the toilet in my bedroom I found the gold record to this song glued to the botton of the toilet seat cover.
Born in the 50”s raised in the 60’s boy am I glad! I heard and seen most every old band you’ve played. Would not trade my age for youth for nothing. Keep em coming you usually looked surprised 😳
Welcome to psychedelic rock - Grace Slick had one of the strongest, purest voices of that - or any other - era. She is definitely worth listening to again.
Fascinating to see someone hear this for the first time... While Grace Slick's voice is a signature, you need to listen to the whole sound. All the musicians were great.
You are the best reaction channel..I watch your videos..over and over with joy and never get tired of it..and please..don't ever stop doing this..thanx
I saw an interview with Grace and she said the song was a metaphor that your parents can directly affect how their kids may get bad influences from them including drug use. Alice is a great story to relate to drug use.
Lzzy Hale from Halestorm is another powerhouse female rocker and you gotta check her out on a Female Friday! Miss the Misery is a great song to check out.
I just recommended 'Shatter Me'. Seemed fitting for a Female Friday, epic female singer, and epic female song writer/violinist. Plus the video is amazing.
Lzzy and Halestorm is a must. I Miss the Misery , I Am the Fire, or Freak Like Me are good places to start. Got my Halestorm tickets last week, going to see them in September.
I recommended Lzzy Hale and Amy Lee doing break-in but I Miss The misery is so awesome. I got called out for suggesting that Lzzy had surpassed Chrissy Hines as the queen of Rock... Lzzy is just under heard ...
fyi: Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that evolved out of the group Jefferson Airplane following the departure of bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.
This song was from 1969, I know because I was in the Army at that time, and it was intentionally psychedelic. She was in 3 groups: 1) Jefferson Airplane 2) Jefferson Starship 3) Starship. Jefferson Airplane also had a song, "Somebody to Love), but it's nothing like Queen's song. This song shows off a less monotone sound. Also, with Starship, she sang "We Built This City".
Grace Slick is an icon...from the mid 60's (here) through the 90's (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship and a few solo albums) worth your time.
Try The Pretenders / Chrissie Hynde for a female Friday. Janis may be the queen of female rock vocalists, but Chrissie is a bona fide rock goddess. First album is a masterpiece, try Precious or Up the Neck. And check out Revolution on Isle of View for a touch of social statement. You won't be disappointed!
The lead guitarist was Jorma Kaukannen. After he left the Airplane he hooked up with Papa John Creach as Hot Tuna. Jefferson Airplane has its own notorious spot in rock history as they got into it with the Hells Angels at Altamont -- and lost.
I travelled from Bermuda to San Francisco to see Grace Slick & Janis Joplin at the Avalon in the Haight Ashbury district. Mind blowing couple of weeks.
So glad to hear you make that connection to the book. So many miss it entirely. It shows a true cleverness in composing these lyrics. I love you guys! You trip me every time!
I am very fortunate to say that I saw them perform this live a few times, and her voice is just one of the great recognizable voices of rock.. the song is epic and iconic and if you are my age and live through those times, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing white rabbit or someone to love. They always had something to say to Jefferson Airplane… grace slick is a historic iconic singer, and this song will always be in Music history
The best part of this song is the “Feed your head” part at the end. Folks still think it’s a license to take drugs but Slick herself said it’s basically just “Read a f***ing book once in a while.”
I thought it was keep your head? Like the story? I'm having a TIL moment.
I don’t think the dormouse actually says it (in the book), but the Airplane lyric is def feed.
I never heard that before but that is awesome that Grace actually said that. Love it.
When I saw her in concert she sang give me head. LOL.
Grace Slick said Feed Your Head means educate yourself....don't just take drugs without knowing what it is or what it does...educate yourself.
The only bad thing about this song is that it’s way too short…it’s such an amazing song.
I am it's perfect like that.
Darell , you're right it's one of my favorites of all time it should have another repeated verse or even new one for an extra 1 1/2 at least 👍🥃
nah, it's a perfect bit sized morsel of a song. you don't sit with it, you take it with you.
Short but sweet!
@@kathylecluyse7820 agree. it's had more of an impact delivering the message in a little over 2 minutes. a short masterpiece.
In the book, Alice was not taking drugs. She was a kid bored with the routine of life and she fell asleep and dreamed. The trippyness of the story comes from dreaming as your imagination takes over.
Totally live performance. No lip-synching going on at all. Much respect.
Speaking of going down rabbit holes, Jefferson Airplane becomes Jefferson Starship and then Starship. They have hit songs in all three incarnations.
SECONDED! Recommend you guys listen to “Nothings gonna stop us now” by starship to hear more melody from Grace Slick. You’ve heard it before without knowing it!
rabbit hole - heh
We can eliminate Starship completely, thank you very much.
Love miracles🎧
@@sukie584 No. Starship has a lot of great songs.
"Don't You Want Somebody To Love" is their other big hit, and it's much more mainstream and accessible. Good showcase for her voice, too.
Another great jam.. WE BUILT THIS CITY
It was the flip side of the 45
Yes but much better the audio studio version, not live
@@peperino25 I like a lot of the studio version better than live on most of the groups I listen to
Yes! Somebody to Love is the perfect suggestion.
Grace's voice was a powerhouse but so was Grace. She had (and still has) exactly zero F's to give. She's one of the first women to lead a major rock band and not just be a babe in the band. EVERY female major performer since owes a debt to Grace.
well said. even Flo from Florence and the Machine gives credit to Grace. "she has exactly zero F's to give" love it.
@@haintedhouse2990 Flo is a zero compared to Grace.
@@richardpare3538 Flo can't be all bad, she chose Grace as a major influence.
@@haintedhouse2990 Influence and actual talent are 2 massively different things.
But then, compared to what else we hear nowadays, she is indeed a lot better than most.
This is a rare song because it has no chorus. It starts and then just progresses until it ends
Her voice is haunting, it draws you in like a trance. So talented!
Very little vibrato,power singer.Her and Marty- beautiful together.
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Grace's vocals, isolated. THAT is haunting.
This is not her best version of White Rabbit.
"Somebody to love" is a banger from them and really shows off Grace's voice.
Please react to somebody to love AUDIO version.
Because live versión are diferent vibes, much better oficial audio studio version that are we all know and love.
Yes, yes, YES!!!!🥇🥇🥇☮☮☮🔥🔥🔥
Play it LOUD!!
JANE!!! is a definite hit as well!!! W0000p0p!!
One of the anthems of the sixties...
The exact moment you two heard Grace Slick's voice for the first time-WOW! The priceless expression on both of your faces! You're groovin', heads bobbing up and down in rhythm, and then-
I'm a classically trained composer, and I've always noticed something interesting about this song. In composition we can write a marking of "crescendo" which means "start making the music louder and more intense." Usually this is followed by the opposite marking: decrescendo. Ebb and flow, right? One thing I've always loved about this song is that it is basically a 2.5 minute crescendo from beginning to end. It starts small and quiet. Very low range on Grace Slick's voice. But it just amps up from beginning to end, the voice reaching higher and higher, unrelenting. It's one of the reasons this song feels so trippy. It gives you that rush.
Grace Slick has a strong, scary voice. And a strong, scary personality. She's great!
No she is better than that lol
'60's ..LSD...LOL. Alice in Wonderland
Especially when hammered in front of a live German audience 😂🍸
Grace Slick was a model before this. And sang out loud! The Airplane was an amazing group of musicians. Look up Marty Balin for deeper info.
Watch some of her interviews with David Letterman in the 80s, she’s just hilarious and awesome.
Jefferson Airplane was one of the bands that defined Psychedelic Rock, aka Acid Rock.
It’s all rock and roll to me.
@@lisamatthews890 That's the way it is.
Yes exactly 👏👏👏👏Love it 😎😎
... and they were very influential.
1967 Feed Your Head. I was 17. Everything was trippy. Feed your head also meant to obtain knowledge. My generation explored different cultures, ideas, philosophies...it was a great time to grow up. But still..everything WAS trippy lol!
She is known for her absolute perfect pronounciation of words... flawless
Her voice was specifically that way for the story. The tone was part of the trip. Grace Slick has a great voice.
Your right
I agree! I think most ‘reactors’ miss how her voice intensifies as the song goes on and how strong a vocalists Grace really is to pull it off like she does.
So hilarious how you both froze solid when you heard her voice. You and everyone else in, on, and around all planets.
That's what I came to say, imagine never experiencing Grace Slick and BOOM, there she is. Look up her isolated audio for this song and you will see how powerful and not a little creepy her voice is.
It's so comical, at 2:43 Grace left them both slack jawed. Watch it again for a laugh.
Haha! Great reaction!
Yes!!! Nailed it Amber!!! Alice In Wonderland!!!
Song was indeed based on the novel!! 👍🏻👊🏼
"I feel like I just took some 'shrooms or somethin'..."
My dude, that is entirely the point.
Trippy, yes this is the psychedelic era and Jefferson Airplane was at ground zero being a San Francisco band. I saw them in 1967 and must say they gave a memorable concert along with Strawberry Alarm Clock, Moby Grape, and Quicksilver. Great choice and your reference to shrooms are totally on point.
Strawberry Alarm Clock? Much respect!
Moby Grape was a great band.
Ditto 😘.
Heady times!
This is songwriting. Who would have ever ATTEMPTED to write a psychedelic rock song about the Alice in Wonderland story. It’s AWESOME.
ummmm... Tom Petty?? :-)
this song is one of my absolute all time favorites. it captures, everything, and never too much.
In 1989 the Airplane did a reunion tour. Grace was asked what “feed your head “ means now. She said “read a book “.
in '89 she said that. You think that's what she meant then? Jesus.... people are so determined to undermine counterculture if it's not their jam. She meant do drugs, don't be a fucking square. Do you even understand what they were up to?
"Don't you want somebody to love". Fire, and her voice is on full display.
The last line in the song 'Feed your head' may be her reference to drugs but it also means acquire knowledge, educate yourself, pay attention to developing your mind. Physically people age, but a well stocked mind will always remains an asset and a store of pleasure.
No, Its remember what the good book said, feed your head, with the word of God , but you liberals wouldn't understand because you dont know God. " Not really your fault ".
@@jamesshepard6480 It has nothing to do with your cult book.
Your making the mistake of presuming Head means cortex memory machine, its not, its about lower , the part of the brain that mummy controls baby with , but her imagination is not told , funny aint it nature
@@gratefulkm I don't understand your comment.
@@heliotropezzz333 I Know, amazing that this wonderful fact has been obliterated by the Slavers , You take LSD for what it does to the Lower brain , your first Brain the 2nd brain the cortex and its functionality are not why you take LSD, Your comment is cortex Focused
I truly enjoy sometimes watching you guys. I came up through the ‘60’s & ‘70’s. So it’s refreshing to watch young people realize that mom and dad were pretty cool after all.
Edit: Responding to the comments about shrooms and trippy: Many of us are guilty of over-indulgence back then… ‘Nuff said.
I had a very dear friend who used to live a few houses down from the garage where they all used to practice! She told me how she would open the windows and sit by the window and listen to them practice! She had so many wonderful memories of Haight Ashbury! She was called home, she was 93 years young! I miss her so much. Thank you for a trip down memory lane!😊
Grace Slick is def a US Icon for sure. This song performed at Woodstock and Somebody to Love, when you can see clearly everybody is off their melons, she just pulled out one of the most amazing female vocals on both songs live, in a time when it meant everything. So digging your reactions guys. Thanks for keeping a single dad on the other side of the pond sane and happy to be here. Thank you!
"off their melons" 😂 love that
You two are killing it on this Female Friday!! This song sounds so menacing; it scared me as a kid, lol!! Grace Slick is a powerhouse; you are right, Amber, she is talking about "Alice In Wonderland", and, as this was in the 60's, they were fans of psychedelic drugs, especially Grace, lol.
The amazing thing about this song is that every verse goes up another key until it eventually reaches the climactic note Grace sings at the end
Its nice to see such young people giving an INTELLIGENT reaction and synopsis of this classic tune!
this was a late 60s psychedelic song. jefferson airplane was one of the biggest bands of the late 60s. they were very popular. another song to react to by them is “somebody to love”
Still waiting for the original Pretenders with Chrissie Hynde - an icon.
Brass in Pocket
Their entire first album is awesome!
@@DavidSmith-pg1ob You must have good taste. The first album is considered one of the greatest debut albums of all time. A MASTERPIECE indeed.
LOVE her! The Pretenders are one of my favourite bands
I'll Stand by You. I especially like the live version she did for a PETA concert.
Her voice is absolutely amazing, considering how stoned they were back then it is amazing that any of them could stand up let alone perform. There is film of her performing at Woodstock just 4 years later & she looks 15 years older.
Grace Slicks voice gives me chills. Great song. Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen are great.
Hot Tuna!
When you talk about "Psychedelic", this band was heavily involved in the whole San Francisco music scene that spawned the Psychedelic culture.
This song is from 1967.
That year is pretty much when the whole Psychedelic thing exploded.
They called it "The Summer of Love"...
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Great song from a time that can not be repeated.
Yes on the Alice in Wonderland. If you are an Alice in Wonderland fan, Tom Petty did a song with that theme. Don’t come around here no more? Someone will correct me.
Not gotta correct you. You got the title right 👍😎
Wm. Patrick Milford I get Petty had talent, I understand why people dug his stuff, I just never got there with his music
Well,the video for sure pays homage to Alice In Wonderland. I don't get that the song itself does though.
@@garysteinert8040 southern rock vibes mixed in with some Mary Jane 😉
@@wreckingKREW1 weed and shrooms type of jam with Petty's southern twist 😉
The song is based off of a book in the 60s called "Go ask Alice" , its about a troubled teen and drugs.
The book is based on the song actually.
Or maybe an answer, the book isn't pro drug at all
No it isn't, for godssake
The song is based on Alice in Wonderland.
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Great book. There’s also a book titled “Go Ask Alice” which is a real teen girl’s diary published anonymously. All books, like music, were new once. ❤
You were both immediately mesmerized by Grace Slick's voice. That was a great moment.
White rabbit is a classic of theirs from the old day's, along with "Don't you want somebody to love".
Grace Slick is the only woman who could ever pull off that warble in her voice and it sends shivers down my spine to this day... And considering this was LIVE... Dude...
Grace Slick has an amazing voice! You should listen to "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," which they released in the 80s after the group had evolved from Jefferson Airplane into Starship.
My favorite song is actually from the Jefferson Starship Red Octopus album, Miracles. I'm not much into love songs really, but THAT one, is a beautiful journey. I was so lucky, in 1989, I went with a high school boyfriend to Golden Gate Park, for a memorial tribute to Bill Graham, We got to see the original Jefferson Airplane perform a day concert for a homeless food drive in Graham's honor, anyone growing up in California between 1960 and 1990 had the words Bill Graham Presents printed on their concert tickets, Wavy Gravy even attended, and it was fun to see my teen vocal idol in person, and the reactions of older people who were surprised we knew all the lyrics, we were 19 and 22, had an absolute blast.
Somebody To Love is the biggest hit from them featuring Grace on lead
Please react to somebody to love AUDIO version.
Because live versión are diferent vibes, much better oficial audio studio version that are we all know.
Yes Alice in Wondeland. My first concert was Jefferson Airplane 1967. I’ve been hooked on rock and roll ever since
This song is one of the badges of our generation.
When someone asks about the 60's and wants an example of a psychedelic song, I suggest this one to start.
There are many more, but this one suffices.
Good Reaction!!! A lot of songs you are reacting to, are songs I still listen to a lot.
Another good psychedelic song is Incense and Peppermints
Grace Slick said she wrote this while on an acid trip. She said it was her take on parents reading such weird stuff as Alice in Wonderland, then wondering why their kids end up on drugs. It was one of the first songs to successfully get drug references past the censors. It is a great song
There is a recording of Grace Slick’s voice isolated from the Woodstock performance of White Rabbit, it’s amazing.
Her voice is Pure Power !
LOL As soon a Gracie Slick started singing, you guys froze haha She definately has a powerful voice!
I have White Rabbit from the original Woodstock man wow deeeuuuuudddeee
Exactly what I remarked to my wife…
When this song was released every kid was very familiar with Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I know I was.
Another classic. This song summed up the 70's. Don't waist your time (or brain cells) trying to figure the song out. Just enjoy the trip.
This was such a unique song. Grace had an amazing voice when she was young. Jefferson Airplane’s set at Woodstock was amazing. If you want another recommendation you could do worse than checkout Fairport Connvention with the Late Sandy Denny singing Who Knows Where The Time Goes. The best female vocals you will hear for a very long time.
Check out Sandy on Renardine.
Maddy Groves. That is the song. Just my opinion.
Grace Slick was just awesome!! She had a big, powerful voice! Listen to "Don't You Want Somebody to Love", great and classic song!! Jefferson Airplane were in the midst of the whole psychedelic movement in the mid and late 60's. They made it big as Jefferson Airplane, the became Jefferson Starship, then Starship. Grace Slick is also a good artist. Enjoyed the reaction!
From Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship and beyond, I love this band! PEACE!!!!!
I love that she got this song right away. Grace Slick would love it!
The song is of the era, when people were trying to find themselves. Some said yes, and some said no to drugs. Grace Slick, could captivate you and get you hooked on this song.
Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was taking Mescaline at the time he wrote the book, so yes, the drug references are real.
I love the Johnny Dep Alice in Wonderland❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
There has never been any evidence of him ingesting anything stronger than an occasional cup of wine, there certainly was no mention whatsoever of him using psychedelics.
@@bosgaurus1 believe what you want, yet it's clear you are threatened by this, and I am sorry you choose to live in a world of denial.
@@WonjiDharma Or, you know, he might just not have seen any evidence for that (and you haven't provided any). So you could give him a break.
I would say that although peyote has been used by South and Central American natives for thousands of years the drug mescaline was not chemically isolated as a separate substance until 1897 (some thirty years after Alice in Wonderland was written) and it wasn't widely used by people other than native Americans until the 1950s, when it was popularised by Aldous Huxley and others. So I, too, am calling bullshit on this. Unless, you have any legit evidence otherwise.
Fun fact, the book isn't about drugs at all. It was written when he was in college and they introduced a new form of math including imaginary numbers, etc. He was annoyed and thought the concept of that math was ridiculous and made no sense, so and wrote Alice In Wonderland about it.
Female friday: Etta James, I'd rather go blind
Female friday: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Angel from Montgomery/Sugaree
Female friday: Bonnie Raitt, I can't make you love me
Female friday: Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddam
Female friday: Roberta Flack, The first time ever I saw your face
Female friday: Eva de Roovere, Fantastig toch
Check out the live version. The story was they were at Woodstock and their manager told them they were supposed to play Saturday at 7. So they stayed up all night taking acid, only to find out they were playing at 7 AM. They stumbled out onto stage, peaking on acid, and absolutely crushed it. One of the best performances in the entire festival.
This song was in the movie "Go Ask Alice", about a girl that OD'd.
I remember reading the book Go Ask Alice when I was in middle school.....
@@abmqa I remember the book. It was very popular in my school at the time. This was before they made a made for tv movie from the book.
It's about the book "ALICE IN WONDERLAND"
The author later admitted that the story was made up. The girl who OD'd never even existed.
That was a cover version, not JA
As a teenager I fell in love with the mesmerizing Grace Slick while watching her sing this on the "Smothers Brothers".
In the mid 70's I moved into a house that the band lived in. The first time I used the toilet in my bedroom I found the gold record to this song glued to the botton of the toilet seat cover.
You youngsters never realized we oldies knew how to rock ‼️‼️
Much like a mushroom her voice grows on you. "Acid Rock" in general is definitely hit or miss with most most people.
anybody who likes rap can't say anything about her voice
Born in the 50”s raised in the 60’s boy am I glad! I heard and seen most every old band you’ve played.
Would not trade my age for youth for nothing. Keep em coming you usually looked surprised 😳
Same here. It is both amusing and gratifying to see the reactions of youngsters to what I grew up with!
Welcome to psychedelic rock - Grace Slick had one of the strongest, purest voices of that - or any other - era. She is definitely worth listening to again.
Somebody to love is another Jefferson airplane song that is really good
Iconic song by a female artist - You Don't Own Me, by Leslie Gore
Love Lesley Gore!
Great suggestion!
Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell. Climate conservation anthem that stood the test of time and has had some awesome covers done.
Excellent reaction. Gotta do Bobbi Gentry, Ode to Billy Joe. It’s so good.
Fascinating to see someone hear this for the first time... While Grace Slick's voice is a signature, you need to listen to the whole sound. All the musicians were great.
You are the best reaction channel..I watch your videos..over and over with joy and never get tired of it..and please..don't ever stop doing this..thanx
Her version of this at Woodstock is even more iconic.
Your lady knows a lot ..she has been cultured
I think Amber's mother is white and she's more familiar with a lot of the songs from listening as a kid
Hey, he read the book as a kid
One of the trippiest songs ever. Pardon me now. I have to go feed my head!!!
I just love this song. Grace"s voice is awesome along with the beat .❤
I saw an interview with Grace and she said the song was a metaphor that your parents can directly affect how their kids may get bad influences from them including drug use. Alice is a great story to relate to drug use.
I like watching you two listening to songs I loved for decades. This is really fresh, and I appreciate your comments on these great old songs.
The lady is definitely the brains in this duo. 🏴🇬🇧
I love your openness and respect for eachother. you are a joy.
Lzzy Hale from Halestorm is another powerhouse female rocker and you gotta check her out on a Female Friday! Miss the Misery is a great song to check out.
every time I hear the title "Miss the Misery" I think of Elliot Smith... not sure if it's an influence but Smith's "Miss Misery" is just stunning
I just recommended 'Shatter Me'. Seemed fitting for a Female Friday, epic female singer, and epic female song writer/violinist. Plus the video is amazing.
Yes I love halestrom
Lzzy and Halestorm is a must.
I Miss the Misery , I Am the Fire, or Freak Like Me are good places to start.
Got my Halestorm tickets last week, going to see them in September.
I recommended Lzzy Hale and Amy Lee doing break-in but I Miss The misery is so awesome. I got called out for suggesting that Lzzy had surpassed Chrissy Hines as the queen of Rock... Lzzy is just under heard ...
fyi: Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that evolved out of the group Jefferson Airplane following the departure of bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.
And later they morphed into Starship. Both name changes were for legal reasons when people left.
This song was from 1969, I know because I was in the Army at that time, and it was intentionally psychedelic. She was in 3 groups: 1) Jefferson Airplane 2) Jefferson Starship 3) Starship. Jefferson Airplane also had a song, "Somebody to Love), but it's nothing like Queen's song. This song shows off a less monotone sound. Also, with Starship, she sang "We Built This City".
Grace Slick is an icon...from the mid 60's (here) through the 90's (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship and a few solo albums) worth your time.
Try The Pretenders / Chrissie Hynde for a female Friday. Janis may be the queen of female rock vocalists, but Chrissie is a bona fide rock goddess.
First album is a masterpiece, try Precious or Up the Neck. And check out Revolution on Isle of View for a touch of social statement. You won't be disappointed!
Precious definitely
I do 💕LOVE💕 me some White Rabbit, but the original recording was better‼️😊💜🌺💚🌼😁
CHRISSIE HYNDE RULES‼️🌟‼️🌟‼️
I dispute, the great Maggie Bell who is still singing her lungs out is queen of the night ❤
Inga Rumpf with Frumpy!
Grace Slick...the voice that launched a million trips!
You are on Fire with your picks!
Checkin all the boxes! Keep up the great work!
The lead guitarist was Jorma Kaukannen. After he left the Airplane he hooked up with Papa John Creach as Hot Tuna. Jefferson Airplane has its own notorious spot in rock history as they got into it with the Hells Angels at Altamont -- and lost.
I was born 1957 and had the pleasure of the best music in my teen years. love the female fryday!! this song is def about trippin
Grace Slick was incredible 💙💙💙
A good Female Friday artist:
Carole King. ⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐
The look on your faces when Grace started singing. Priceless.
I travelled from Bermuda to San Francisco to see Grace Slick & Janis Joplin at the Avalon in the Haight Ashbury district. Mind blowing couple of weeks.
So glad to hear you make that connection to the book. So many miss it entirely. It shows a true cleverness in composing these lyrics. I love you guys! You trip me every time!
Feed your head! This was an anthem.
Yes, “Trippy” Then add some ,Psychedelics ! You caught that fast. 💯👩🏼🦳
I am very fortunate to say that I saw them perform this live a few times, and her voice is just one of the great recognizable voices of rock.. the song is epic and iconic and if you are my age and live through those times, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing white rabbit or someone to love. They always had something to say to Jefferson Airplane… grace slick is a historic iconic singer, and this song will always be in Music history
This is one of the songs that makes it onto _every_ "Flower Children" or "Sixties" themed playlist...