You guys are hilarious trying to figure the meaning of this song. Love you though

The author of Alice in Wonderland was tripping

​@@Me-zm7cr He deliberately played with ideas and perspectives. It was his thing.

This was the times ,when most ( ROCK MUSIC ) was about acid, mushrooms, LSD, paodiod ,cattipliers , and of course. GOOD OLE WEED !!! THE 60'S,70'S 80'S . WAS REALLY HELL BENT ON TRIPING VERY VERY HARD !! 🤡☠️💋💞😜!! AND 90% OF THE BAND MEMBERS ,WERE TRIPPING TOO ,TWINS,AND THAT ALOUD THEM TOO FEEL REALLY GOOD !! AND THE LYRICS AND INSTRUMENTS JUST POURED OUT OF THEM .... I AM 59 NOW ,AND I ROCK & ROLL EVERYDAY !! AND I AM SOOO PLEASED TOO OF TURNED ON UTUBE. MY GRACIOUS I'D FORGOTTEN ALOT OF THE GREAT MUSIC THAT I LITTERY GREW UP ON !! SO THANK YOU TWINS ,AND YOU GUYS ARE SO,CUTE SWEET ,KIND AND HUMBLE ,NEVER CHANGE YOUR HEARTS FELLAS ! I AM DARLENE SMITH ,FROM ANNISTON ,ALABAMA

@@darlenesmith761 from one Darlene in Wisconsin....BACK AT YA...them was GOOD MUSIC TIMES!!!👍

LOL!!

It's awesome 😆

Wrong. Jefferson Airplane split into Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship.

@@jimd7260 all praise HFT!!!!

@@jimd7260 yep. Beat me to it. And yeah, HFT!!

Did you fight in the war? My two brother-in-laws did and neither of them did drugs because they were actually trying to survive the war. They told me you couldn't be high because you always needed to be watching your back if you wanted to survive.

@@MsQueenbee1955 no, i was not a soldier, and I believe your brothers-in-law. Vietnam was very dangerous, & staying straight was likely safer

Or being a copout or rich kid.

Idiots tho heh, thank you sooo much for what your generation inspired, my mom passed down this music to me and i am so greatly thankful for it.

Many of them came back addicted to heroin. It's how they coped. I knew one vet who said you would be wounded & they gave you drugs to keep you going

I love these two! They are just awesome kids! N lol that cracked me up too!

Although there's no hard evidence that Lewis Carroll took drugs, laudanum, which is an opiate, was easy to acquire in Victorian London.

There's always a piece of Alice artwork in every dispensary. :D

She ate and drank things that made her grow large and small. A lot of modern literature students and professors have likened it to the effects of certain hallucinogenic drugs and how they can make you feel like you're taller or smaller than you really are. The lyric, "go ask Alice", would later become the title of a well-known book, done as a "diary" that was "written" by a teenage girl that became addicted to drugs, alcohol, and sex. Since its publication in the early 70s, at the height of the drug war, it has become required reading in American middle and high schools.

Yeah, the "a hookah smoking caterpillar" had a lot of people smoking caterpillars in the '60s, trying to get high. "I don't know what a hookah is, but they smoke caterpillars!" I think a lot of people know now that a hookah is like a pipe (or a bong) that is used to smoke herbs. The caterpillar is smoking the hookah, not the other way around.

excellent take on this hit. ty

You know they were, it was the ‘60s 🤣

Absolutely

So was I.

she's tried them. but she was a drunk. Her whole public image as the psychedelic queen was funny to her. Since she really didn't like drugs other than alcohol (and cocaine so she could drink more without passing out on stage) At least that's the story she told me and that she's told at literally 1000's of AA meetings in the last 35 years.

@@GradyBroyles, I hear her interview where she said that it was just too much work to shoot up her0in. She said drinking was so much easier and accessible.

@@AFAskygoddess That's her being snarky. She uses that same line in AA meetings too as the "lighthearted" explanation for why she was an drunk and not a junkie. Her ex-husband Paul Kantner (China's dad) was a junkie for decades. shooting up isn't the only way to use heroin. If she liked heroin, she could have used it every day by snorting or smoking it. Her husband had a very big habit and a supply that literally never ran out.

Um people take shrooms and LSD even now man. Where have you been? These guys must just not have experience with psychedelics, but they are most certainly still a VERY common thing.

Ehhh psychedelics were overrated. My sister loved them not me. The ludes were my thing.

Rolling.....what?! Lol

Was they high? Pretty much all the time...

Are you familiar with the story "Alice In Wonderland?" Clearly the author was talking about getting high.👍🏼🥺

You was maybe rolling before the video started! ;)

Mothers little helpers.

I thought it was Keep your Head...

@@ColorJoyLynnH feed. They are feeding their heads to expand (I think the rabbit in the story MAY have said "keep" but the song is "feed")

The doormouse didn't say "Feed your head". She's telling you to remember what the doormouse said, then changing topics. The doormouse didn't say anything that I could find... Then she moves on to her next topic - feed your head, the last prescription of the song.

They were likely high for the entire decade! Funny that younger folks think they invented getting high (no we old people did that) and enjoying sex (that's been the case forever), appreciating great music and dancing our asses off!

@@ColorJoyLynnH I always thought it was "feed your hare" -- as in feed the white rabbit. Oops. ;)

Yes.

it's "keep your head" not "feed your head" you know, because the red queen and the whole "off with their heads" thing.

@@GradyBroyles it's definitely "feed your head."

It's "Feed your haed", and they're talking about LSD...

Feed your head is meant to mean, do drugs, they expand the mind.

MANNNNNNNN!!!!!! That was funny!!!!!

They were high every day for 25 years.

@@AFAskygoddess AH HA HAHA!!!!!!!

🤣🤣🤣

She once said she doesn't have a voice for lullabies :)

Grace is still alive, thank goodness she survived the rock star drug overdose era.

About Alice's drug trip

BANGING!

@@greendragonpublishing Methinks there was once a WILD party in Grace Slick's voice-box.

That was a wonderful era! So many talented artists & bands. Brings back great memories. ❤

That’s what I always thought.

Except they were joking.

Really ok then.

@@juliemcdaniel499 "They expected their fans to be stoned"............ and they were.

@Eileen A. depends if ppl know who they are, l don't

And we were trippin listening to this song.

@Eileen A. So, so true. This was the time of the flower children, hippies, psychedelic drugs/music, Woodstock Aug. 1969. Many young people back then were experimenting with drugs.

That's very sweet, Lynda. 🤗 I really adore these boys, as do my nieces and nephews.

@ Linda & husband... Not innocent, just thankfully unexposed. - I never found anything to like about this song, but you both seemed to. Either you are being nice or . ... well. Ya' musta been bein' nice. Lol

It’s a good thing IMO.

It's an absolute awesome thing! Stay just the was you are, guys!!

Hash

@@rbw1886 No, no, no..not hashish.... .. peyote.....

Heh... and a LOT of drugs. :-)

They were referring to Alice in Wonderland, but more to the novel, "Go Ask Alice" :D

@@nitrosgal2299 Doubtful considering this song came out in 1967 and "Go Ask Alice" was published in 1971.

@@meghanmonroe I love this response! Thank you for setting it straight. So, the book was written about the song...🤟🏼?

@@nitrosgal2299 Most likely the reason people connect the two is because of the mention of the title in the lyrics and the fact that the song was featured on the 1973 film adaptation of the novel. I don't know that the book or film were influenced by the song in any way however.

Psilocybin mushrooms.

@@1972mrgray Yes, that is the correct botanical name for them, but we always called them "magic".

@@1972mrgray and fly agaric! 🍄

Magic mushrooms are way better than LSD. Nature always does it better than we do.

@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Agreed (hypothetically of course, lol)

Go ask Alice was a fraud

I remember reading Go Ask Alice when I was in primary school in the 80’s. One of those “cautionary tales” that children were supposed to understand. I much preferred Alice in Wonderland.

I remember having to read "Go Ask Alice" in Junior High School.

Go Ask Alice. The first book I remember reading. Heavy.

@@amanwithnohands Yes, it was. Based on an allegedly "found" diary that was written by the people who claimed they found it. Peace.

...a hooka smokin's caterpillars

@@roxannekean6025 i was quoting what tim said...

Blows against the empire/1970, Jefferson Starship. 80’s is when they got full blown commercially oriented, imo. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Really knew the name Jefferson sounded familiar but didn't know the rest of their musical history. What's the name of JS big hit ?

@@juliemcdaniel499 "Somebody to Love', as Jefferson Airplane. "We Built This City On Rock and Roll" or maybe "Sara" for Jefferson Starship (Starship).

@@juliemcdaniel499 Also Starship - "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"

Jefferson Starship, I recall. ... Not that crazy tune, though. I've heard it before. Trust. It does not get better the more you listen to it. Abandon Ship! 💥😳😂🤣🤭

Then, they somehow built a city only out of Rock & Roll!

@@andrewnewman1707 Right!

@Remington597man They are both hallucinogens. Shrooms (also known as multiple other names) are a schedule I substance. I know the difference and the complete history and pharmacology of them both. Maybe you should know who you're talking to before you start yapping.

Me too!

Surprised me that the Twins hadn't heard of magic mushrooms. Love these guys and their innocence ❤

The side discussion about if it was mushroom mushrooms or...? Lol God love it.

And the comment... 'well, I don't like mushrooms anyway' love you two!

@@eileen9584 Best comment ever!

One cannot buy her mushrooms anymore, anywhere, at all! They are all laced with things made in toilet bowls, etc.

Originally people got shrooms from fields where cows grazed. Some of the pickers were good people but too many of them would cut fences because they were too lazy to go through a gate. Which is why a lot of farmers just set dogs on pickers if they don't ask to go into a field. They would often leave trash that could harm animals behind as well.

Grace Slick said it was also about the irony of drug references in a kid's book as well as the irony of parents of the 60s telling them not to use drugs when everyone was taking prescription drugs.

The books written by Lewis Carroll (who wrote both Through The Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland) who was an opium addict. There’s a ton of stuff in these popular kids books (you guys might have seen Alice in Wonderland or bits of it as a Disney Cartoon made in 1951 or one of Tim Burton’s live movies based on the books that starred Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter from 2010 and 2016). There are parts in the book (and the movies) where Alice, finding herself in a magical land after she steps through her looking-glass (old British word for mirror) has to find her way home from her trip. Some of the things she does in order to do this include taking pills and potions that say “eat me” or “drink me” on the plates or bottles they come in. Alice sometimes becomes giant, or very tiny, or sees things that are possibly hallucinations. Basically, Lewis Carroll wrote an experience about doing hallucinogenic drugs (think MDMA, Ecstasy, Molly but it was different stuff way back in the day; Opium is the active ingredient in heroine, or “junk” - hence the word “junkies” originally referred to heroine users; in Carroll’s time, people in Great Britain and all over the world smoked opium in long pipes. This was something that they had learned about when they invaded and colonized China and to some extent India; Opium was a really heavy drug and people couldn’t function after they took it, same as with heroine. They were really out of it. It wasn’t very socially acceptable to do it, so users, usually men, would go to opium dens, which were often run by Asian immigrants with access to opium traders, and they would pay for a bed or a spot on some pillows to crash. Then women who were hired to give the drug would bring around the pipes, and the customers would smoke it. Opium caused serious hallucinations and gave users very vivid, creative dreams. For this reason, a lot of writers and artists at the time were opium users; it was super addictive though, and much like heroin, would eventually do serious damage to your body and kill you; people who could afford it and could go to opium dens often spent all their money on that and forgot to eat, go home, or do their jobs; drugs, as you see, are not a new thing). So then along came another period of heavy drug use in popular culture, was in the 1960s, in lots of countries like England and America where culture had become super-conservative by the 1950s. This was a reaction to two World Wars and The Great Depression in between them. It was a hard time for people. The powers that be got really wound up and everybody (well, everybody white and in power) decided that there should be strict laws against drugs, strict rules about how you live life and have sex and what you are or are not allowed to wear or say or do, or communist Russia and China were gonna take over everything. They weren’t. But the white folks in charge were in a snit and social rules became very restrictive. So did laws. There was loads of other stuff at play, including racism, and misogyny (discrimination against women), and homophobia (anti-gay hate). So for the first time since the “roaring twenties”, a lot of people were like, f**k this ish, I’m going to do what I want. It was a young people’s movement and included all sorts of reactions to the bad stuff happening at the time. The Civil Rights Movement, the feminist movement, sentiments against the wars started by the United States in Asia, like the Vietnam War, the secret war in Cambodia (now Kampuchea) and the Cold War between the U.S.S.R. (Russia and all the other countries it had colonized and their allies) and the U.S. and Britain (and all the countries THEY had colonized, and their allies), where everybody was threatening to nuke everyone else. So there was this big cultural Revolution, where young people, specific racial groups like Black, Asian, Native Americans (and Indigenous people all over the world), women, gay people, were all doing their own thing and coming together sometimes in various ways to throw off all of these rules and laws and ways of life they believed were wrong. They were for peace, harmony, love, no discrimination, unity, no nuclear weapons, no wars, no repression or oppression, for living your life how you wanted to, having lots of sex, partying and doing lots of drugs! Jefferson Airplane was one of the bands making music at and really influenced by this time. So yeah, the band was high as balls when they wrote me recorded this song and many others and so were a huge number of musicians and artists at the time. This song is so interesting because it’s by a bunch of high musicians singing a song written about a little girl having experiences similar to someone on drugs written by an author who got high and wrote that book about that little girl. It’s like when you look in a mirror and you see reflections going on and on, seemingly forever. So it’s the ultra Through-The-Looking-Glass experience! It’s pretty Meta, if you get me. The band were stoned AF but they were also really smart. So hopefully that (over-simplified) history helps you understand that this is a deep song, besides just sounding amazing. I love it, and I don’t even do drugs! 😂

@@paperclips4113 - - Can you be any more wrong. You are yammering about Coprophilous fungi [toad stools] Not a single drop of that nonsense you spew is true. The Psilocybin mushrooms [hallucinogenic} are found in every single country of the world. It grows out in meadows, forests, and open area. They are everywhere. NO ONE LACES THEM with anything. They grow that way. Nothing to do with feces at all... you fool. Next time research before you type schitte. Psilocybin mushrooms are sold by dealers across the globe like all hall, in some states sold in CBD stores.

That's amazing!

Wow.

Beautiful. Some times, like then -& now too btw- you can feel how huge the waves of energy are climbing.

Grace is a Palo Alto girl

Even better than White Rabbit, IMO.

Yes Indeed..Don't you want somebody to Love is my favorite song. Grace Slicks voice is hypnotizing. Check it out Twins.

@@katwalker687 I am fortunate to be old enough to have seen Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship many times over the years, I have done concert posters for the band, as well as CD album packages for both Marty Balin and Darby Slick (Grace Slick's brother-in-law). Darby is the writer of the song "Somebody To Love." Darby, his brother Jerry (Grace's former husband) and Grace had a band called The Great Society with David Minor and Peter Van Gelder, before Grace joined Jefferson Airplane, after original singer Signe Anderson left the band after the first album (Jefferson Airplane "Takes Off."

Check out Miracles by Jefferson Starship. Sexy, romantic. Awesome saxophone. Oh yeah, the longer version for sure.

Funny how I often say that someone has fallen down the rabbit hole when someone’s addiction to booze or drugs has imploded their life.

Wow! I didn't know that

Lewis Carroll likely did not have access to psylocibin.

@@GradyBroyles there were plenty of things going round in those days. Magic mushrooms for sure.... where do you think fairies came from? There are records from victorian times ...you can find them if you look.

@@realperson6201 Amanitas (Fly Agaric) are a bit different.

Tim did. ✊ He reacted to it last year. Fred should hear it.

@@spongebobandplanktonshould2920 Okay, I thought I had seen that one, but couldn't remember.

No. Mamas and Papas were considered "light weights" compared to Jefferson Airplane. Jefferson Airplane/Grace Slick were in the same league as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Doors, Joe Cocker.

@@kr4164 If you're basing that solely on the fact that not many people even come close to Grace Slick, then yes, you're correct. But in terms of total top ten hits, then no, Jefferson Airplane is not a "heavyweight" compared to the Mamas and the Papas.

@@rv3853 Not many people even come close to Grace Slick. The Monkeys had top ten hits RV and THEY were light weights. That is what I mean by "light weights".

Good times.

The 1951 version, not any of the newer ones.

Please read the original books! They're galaxies more rewarding than any film version. They're forever. And yeah, this song is a trip in more ways than one. Grace sure could sing

@@S.Pociecha oh my yes🙌🏽 This book sent me on an out of this world trip‼️ Awho Are U ⁉️😉

Or read the book .

@@lynnkahn7145 or not but still understand the other things I mentioned and you’ll still get it🙄

Their innocence is so refreshing

I know‼️😉😂🤣😂

Definitely😄

I think she wrote this on her own not 100% but im sure ill be corrected if im wrong.

Ya think?

@@kr4164 i think i remember reading that fact but im not sure.if i google it i will just forget it the next time.if i get called out for being wrong it will stick with me.call it a memory aid lol.

@@cyrus2728 Cyrus - I was being sarcastic with the "ya think" comment -- in response to jenbrez' "they were definitely high" observation. When I Googled the song's credits it just said Jefferson Airplane but who knows. Grace has a lot of vids on KZfaq - she probably discusses it.

The Woodstock clip is the best.

Do you remember which t.v. show it was where she's singing this song wearing widow's weeds? All I remember is that it was so cool, and I must see it again!

True.

Hmmm.Interesting. Never considered that before but you're right.

Yeah. But we survived and thrived.

Not everybody

Same here. By the grace of God!!

Yep, both songs are great.

Excellent point. They are not the only way. Not by any means. Know that your knowledge, awareness, and love are gifts we all share, yet you have something very special. Nurture that, your unique selves here on Earth right now. I appreciate you.

Lots of boozing too!

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