JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-WHITE RABBIT (HONEST REACTION)
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This song a product of the late 60s psychedelic era. It's wonderfully trippy, as they say. Love how it grows in momentum until the finish. This was a young Grace Slick. Her voice aged well, still sounded great into the mid 80s.
Funny you mentioned the Matrix at the beginning because not only did Jefferson Airplane play at a club in San Francisco named The Matrix back in '68, the movie The Matrix has a reference to White Rabbit.
Great song man. Great generation for music too. Music today sucks ass.
TheBeardedRomanian OutlawofStatenIsland
Back then music was all about creating art. Now, however, music is all about making money. And the sad, another sad point that is, is that millennials who don’t know of past music don’t know the difference (art or money) between the two types of music.
The live at Woodstock version is worth watching!!
Great version
Grace Slick is one of the first women of rock n roll, what a voice! Yes, this is based on Alice in Wonderland but this was the 60's, it is about doing drugs & their effect. Sometime when you have a minute take a look at the video of this live from Woodstock, they were all high as hell but she never missed a note. Most reactors who try to post this live version get copyrighted, so it would be for your own viewing pleasure. Thanks RRT for doing this one man!
Who’d believe she built this city on rock and roll after this....
She said she never did acid on stage because she wouldn't know where she's at, she did it once and stopped singing to hear Jack's bass
Yep, the lyrics are based on Alice and the music is inspired by Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" (1928), in that it's basically one long crescendo. "Bolero" would be an interesting reaction. I don't see that anyone's done it yet.
Maybe Frank Zappa´s cover of Bolero.
Based off of Alice in Wonderland and the characters in the book. definitely about drugs. Oddly Carnival Cruise is using part of it in a commercial right now. One of my fave songs. Great reaction
Boomer cruise.
Boomer Bong cruise
Alice in Wonderland was written on hallucinations.
@@donnylynch2842 , Opium and cocaine to be specific.
@@kensolar69 gag, zero evidence AT ALL, that’s just made up. Moreover, opium and cocaine do NOT cause hallucinations like shrooms, LSD, or N,N DMT.
Feed your head - read!
yeah the drug references are there, but several years after writing this she said the main message is to “feed your head” -
Read!
Drugs are drugs. Entheogens like LSD and other hallucinogenics take you beyond the limits of reality. They are not like drugs. You know this.
Gracie Slick--the chick that launched 10,000 trips. The U Tube here has her live version, with lyrics. She was one of the icons at Woodstock in 69. The warm-up for Country Joe and the Fish?? Jimi Hendrix...he got paid ten dollars for his gig at Woodstock. The metaphor is all about missing your 8 am class in college.
It's about drug use specifically psychedelic drugs such as LSD and shrooms.
Specifically psychedelic substances such as LSD and schrooms. Yes. Not hard drugs.
u shudve watched the video of her live performance.....that wouldve given you a gauge of how damn good she really was......phenomenal singer and just beautiful...................through all the sex drugs and rock and roll - she was one of the few who survived and lived to talk about it
I can never hear this one enough. But you should have done the live Woodstock performance. Grace Slick was beautiful.
The "white rabbit" in White Rabbit was in Grace Slick's (the songwriter's) opinion was about about following your curiousity. Thats the metaphor
Look up the live version from the Smothers Brothers TV show from Fall of 1967-1968 era. The way Grace Slick she says "LooogicK" has always stuck in my head.
It's about psychedelic drugs, and she's basically telling her parents' generation to chill. Drugs weren't illegal in the 19th century, and lots of writers and poets touted them as a gateway to creativity. Look, she's saying: even a classic children's book is basically an acid trip, with references to pills, mushrooms and hookahs.
it's well known that Lewis Carroll wrote "Alice in Wonderland" while stoned on cocaine
What does chasing the White Rabbit mean?
Alice chases after him, and that is where her adventures begin. In English, chasing a white rabbit means to chase the impossible, a fantasy, a dream. ... The White Rabbit is so curious, so strange, that Alice cannot help but to follow him. As she chases after him, she falls down the rabbit hole into Wonderland.
Hopefully I won't get in trouble for saying any of this:
The song is most definitely about hallucinatory drugs.
Three key things always come to mind when I hear this song:
1) "The pills that mother gives you don't do anything at all." I know I'll butcher what this is supposed to mean, but basically, in my mind's eye during that era, it represents the grand LSD boom of the 60's and how it would expand one's mind compared to something like a simple Asprin.
2) The start to the song as it slowly builds up. It almost represents exactly that of a hallucinatory drug trip. It just starts building up and up to some what of a grand finale.
3) "Remember what the 'Door Knob' said: Feed your head." I really don't think this one needs much more explanation beyond this, giving my previous declarations, but it's kinda obvious what Grace Slick was trying to say when she wrote the song.
Again, I could be totally wrong, however I have spoken to the doorknob. So maybe I'm not wrong.
Grace was a absolute hottie and just plain sexy! She was also a party animal but she was serious about her music and the sound that she and the band had were so unique! There was a reason that this song was at the top of the Billboard charts for a long time! Nobody back then had ever heard this type of music and at first people were a little freaked out but fell in love with the band's style! Take it from a old Rock head this band Janice Joplin and The mama's and the Papa's opened up a whole different type of music that people embraced like they had been listening to it their entire lives! Led Zeppelin came out dam near the same time and it was the biggest change in rock music that anyone had ever seen! This type of music made the same impact as Elvis Presley did when he first started singing his songs!!! Big impact music!!!!
In Alice in Wonderland she grows big and small. One pill makes you larger = upper. One pill make you small = downer. And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all = Aspirin or whatever - No buzz. Metaphorically that’s what I always took that to mean.
In response to your question. You wouldn't understand unless you've been there. "Feed your head" 😃
You got it, DOPE! Altered states of reality.
This song is currently being used in a cruise ship line commercial. That's almost as trippy to me as this song was when I was 12 yrs old.
Even that young I knew it was about acid & based on Alice In Wonderland. But I also had a pet white rabbit so I liked it for that reason too (RIP Sniffles).💙
Grace Slick, one of the great female rockers. Really glad you liked this one, Felix.
It was Grace Slick's sarcastic message to parents about the young hippy drug culture of the 1960's. You read them "Aiice in Wonderland" when they were kids. Now they have found pills and stuff like that in "Alice" and the older people are outraged. The young people were getting to experience that fantasy world they had heard of as kids!
Songs about LSD
Major trip.
It's using metaphors from Alice in Wonderland referencing LSD and Mushrooms. This song was hugely popular with the counter-culture of the 60's where mushrooms and LSD use was common. Listening to this song and tripping balls on Acid or Shrooms is the SHIT!
Many believe that this song, like many others of its day, was written in a type of metaphorical code-speak...think about songs like "Tambourine Man"...and that it likens the familiar story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to the political climate and social aspects of the time. They were just starting to prescribe medications for children afflicted with things like ADHD and depression, e.g., "The ones Mother gives you don't do anything at all" during the power struggle between the ruling conservative "Norms" vs the "Flower Child", free spirited drug revolution that was expanding minds everywhere, e.g., "When the men on the Chess Board get up and tell you where to go, and you've just ate some kind of mushroom and your mind is running low". It's all one big warning about the lies and hypocrisies we're all told about all kinds of things and some good advice on how to overcome... "Feed Your Head!"
The one that mother gives you don't do anything at all. Vitamins. It was the time of psychedelic drugs., so the words apply. Grace Slick had a powerful voice.
To really "feel"/experience the era, watch the WoodStock presentation.
A building wave.
She was talking about drugs & trippin'. I feel the metaphor is as Alice in Wonderland. We are on this plane of existence, at this time/place. How important to "feed your head" or gain greater awareness of the seeming world/games that we are confronted & immersed within. This was a major theme in the mid-60's when she wrote this. If one looks at philosophers from all of our history, this has been the main theme. "Know Thy SELF" has been the admonition from guru's & savants since before recorded history. It is the theme of the worlds of duality.
For me, this song is a power song to remind one, to look beyond the curtain or "go down the rabbit hole".
Take the time to look out the window, even go into nature & listen to the Sounds. The practice of the Sound Current (call IT what you will) is the highest form of worship or experience.
May The Blessings Be,
What makes this song so fascinating to all that made response videos of White Rabbit? and yours too. I would appreciate it.
To answer your question. It's part of the protest music at that time to all the chaos going on. Vietnam, environment, government, the establishment and if our future was going to be safe or chaotic. The use of drugs, alcohol, free sex and of course flower power and being a hippy was a way many escaped from it.
The song references to the story Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. A story which has, apparently some psychedelic drug use references in it. Some theorize that Lewis might have even written the story while under the influence of, or was at least referring to his own experiences with some substances. He was most likely an opium user, -- for pain relief. The song was very popular with the youth of the '60s who were rebelling against the doctrines of conservative society and experimenting with the use or "mind-expanding' substances such as LSD.
"Monster" by Steppenwolf is an amazing song. I think you may like it.
She is saying the stories parents often read their kids are drug influenced like Alice in Wonderland. Feed you head means to learn…or eat magic mushrooms.
Grace Slick the lead singer said the song is a slap at parents who read stories like Alice in Wonderland to their kids and then wondered why they did drugs!!
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871[1]) (also known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass or simply Through the Looking-Glass) is a novel by Lewis Carroll and the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc.).
Check plot and characters in Wikipedia
Hi so funny how you said' the music was dope, her voice was dope' and growing up in the 60s to us old folks the song was about dope...just like the trippy
" Alice in wonderland" book was. great review. Thank you ✌
@RRT LOL my wife just asked if i was watching Ice Cube again....she thinks your Ice Cube!!!.... Great song... Great Reaction!!!!
Chris Schilling tell your wife I said WEST SIDE!!!!! 😂 ✌️
@@themightyfp you may look west side but your from the East side!!!...
But all kidding aside...we are about the same age, the west side has been killing it for years!!! But then again when you have Dr Dre on your side your killing everything
Damn I need to proof read before I post....it was suppose to say you may like the west side but your from the East side
Chris Schilling Dre didn’t produce a lot of those songs but he’s a great engineer.
“Dope”...literally!
It's based on the different trips u get from different drugs this was like Woodstock so it's basically being referenced by the movie Alice in wonderland..
The question to ask if you listen to Jefferson Airplane is not whats the metaphor, the question is what's the Meta there for?
It's about exactly what you think.
There's a book called Go Ask Alice of a girl's addiction to drugs, great read
Yes the song "White Rabbit" is based on the story of "Alice In Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll, published around 1865. Rumor started out around the early 60's that Lewis Carroll was influenced by using drugs when he wrote the book, smoking opium or using laudanum which comes from opium. The truth is he never did. Just one great imagination he had. Please do a first reaction to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' song and music video "Don't You Come Around Here No More", also loosely based on "Alice In Wonderland".
I have found myself in public wanting to replay something I just saw. Crazy.
From what I've read online and interviews, Yes it is about drugs and Alice in Wonderland, but it is more about how our parent may have read us stories that had drugs and whatnot in them without them realizing. Then the parents tell them to stay away from drugs, but they are still reading these "kids" stories to them. It was somewhat an attack on the parents and them being hypocrites.
Always happy to hear music from my youth....thanks...
Grace Slick is one of my favorites female singers, but the male vocalist of the band, Marty Balin, wrote and sang one of the most beautiful songs that i ever listend, "Today" is short but the honest and sincerity is transcendental to everyone.
She be Trippin
The song is to remind you of what the door mouse said........ feed your head.
But not with "Mother's Pills".
Its easier not to think about it.
Message was simple, don't mess with drugs @ parties!
What up double RT , This song is epic from early Trippin years , hope all is well .
I saw a fella do this at a karaoke bar... my heart fell when it started...how wrong was I??.. couldn't believe how well he did
Sample of a band that successfully combines rap with rock try, Rage Against The Machine, Bulls on Parade or Know Your Enemy. This will become your favorite band.
Tha la done them not my favorite 😞 thanks though ✌️
Thx! Here’s my theory: the message is “feed your head.” Just like all these screens in front of us feeds our heads, back then all we had was tv, theater, library and dope! -Terry, -Canoga park
Saw a video with just Grace Slick's vocals. Wow! Her voice is amazing!
"The music was dope." ~ RRT
"Strike that. Reverse it." ~ Willy Wonka
I think the hyper-reality of high-resolution screens is already affecting our brains, eyes and sense of reality. I don't know if we're to the point of tapping and swiping on windows like cats swatting at mirrors, but it seems like real is becoming not real enough for us to believe anymore.
Track down the isolated Grace Slick vocals for this song. Impressive.
Hope all is well brother nice to see you back doing music
Grace slick rock legend right on the bottom of that it says somebody to love do that song
Any song off of the LP Surrealistic Pillow is worth a listen. May I suggest "Crown of Creation" from the LP of the same name.
yes dopy it is the story of Alice in wonderland an LSD experience of which Jeffersen compares airplane with the experiences of Alice that are also trippy
Can you do the CULT once? "Love Removal Machine" or "She sells Sanctuary" they both kick ass and rare that anyone reviews them.
Jefferson Airplane was straight Haight-Ashbury psychedelic.
it's about ALice, but used as a metaphor for drugs
She's using Alice in Wonderland as a met a fore to highlight the hipocracy that exists in our society
One likely need to have been there in the times. Back in the day I saw " ABCDEFG LSD is good for me. Trust me, it does open doors to better perceptions of understanding. Not that I am endorsing it although where Pot is legal I would endorse that for emotionally and mentally stable folks.
It's literally about tripping on acid or shrooms.
Alice in wonderland was written by a guy who was into hallucinogens. Hence the reference.
Great reaction. Classic psychedelic rock. Jefferson Airplane Yeah. There is live version of You Me and Pooneil performed on a roof in Manhattan in 68. That would make a great reaction song. Thanks
Here’s a better copy. ruclips.net/video/PfLG1ZlJ6Wk/видео.html well actually this is the best, most complete version but it has 2 minutes of commentary in the beginning. Footage like this from this era is extremely rare. The whole scene is wild ruclips.net/video/WLZomN7VwBM/видео.html
Probably the icon of trippy drug songs
She has a theory that Alice in Wonderland promotes drug use.
Your eyeglasses are also like a screen. You've been screened!
It’s about taking drugs and thinking about screens... ✌️
Kerry Knight 😆
Psychedelics
I may be white, but never call me a rabbit fan
Dr Gonzo likes it
Ah...the good 'ol days of LSD. Before 'big pharma' came in and ran it out of town!
FEED your head. Talks about the highs and lows of drugs. And it’s effects.
not so simple brother
TheBeardedRomanian OutlawofStatenIsland Spoken in the context of Alice and Wonderland.
No. It's about taking the entheogens to make you realize the reality of the universe and your place in it. Not about drugs.
Slice in wonderland was actually a drug movie. She was constantly on mushrooms
Grace Slick said the basic theme of the song is contrasting all the anti-drug messages aimed at the kids of the day with the prevalence of mind-altering substances in a classic children's book.
There at the end of the song feed your head was a a reference to take an acid
Grace Slick one of the best this was done at the original Woodstock
DRUGS... Its by Drugs about Drugs for people on Drugs... Its why I am here...
You need to be introduced to one of the greatest guitarists to pick up a 6 string. SRV was covering his songs. He invented using "Amp feedback" in his guitar playing and style. One of the inventors of Psychedelic Rock, Jimi Hendrix. He died of a Barbiturate overdose. I searched your channel nothing comes up. You should check him out. The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
ALL ALONG THE WATCH TOWER: ruclips.net/video/TLV4_xaYynY/видео.html
PURPLE HAZE: ruclips.net/video/fjwWjx7Cw8I/видео.html
VOODOO CHILD (slight return): ruclips.net/video/IZBlqcbpmxY/видео.html
CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC: ruclips.net/video/9so3U_27tVo/видео.html
THE WIND CRIES MARY: ruclips.net/video/ATDEtzAcTg0/видео.html
Rock on and Peace out. Class of '80. Get Stoned
Back in the day this was all about getting high.
Don’t do drugs and learn yourself something I think is the gist of it.
psychedelics, the food of the gods
If you get a chance please react to Colin James - Blues.
You got it. It is about Alice in wonderland.
Check out Embryonic Journey! You might recognise it if you watch Friends.
Trust me you really need to take LSD to fully appreciate this song i can full attest to this
Alice in Wonderland is about drug use too.
I think you were onto something about looking into screens. Here were are in the Coronavirus era stuck in homes looking into screens looking back at us.
jo minguex 😂 weird world man. Be safe take care. ✌️
Have you read Alice Through the Looking Glass?
What the metaphor is? Well, tripping on pyschedelic drugs, of course.
D R U G S ! This was the 60's.
Watch Jefferson Airplane sing this song at Woodstock.....Amazing!
When she mentioned mushrooms it wasn’t a hint for you?
LSD...it was the 60s
FEED YOUR HEAD!
Here is the isolated vocal track of White Rabbit. It's haunting and beautiful. Give it a go, if you're interested. ruclips.net/video/dyMtIwobqbI/видео.html