Jefferson Airplane Somebody To Love

Grace Slick. The voice that launched a thousand trips.

Grace Slick (now in her early 80s if you can believe it) had one of the most awesome rock voices. The other big hit that you must react to from the Grace Slick/Jefferson Airplane Era is "Somebody to Love."

Hallelujah, the ONLY reactor who actually comprehended the song her first time up! Well done Angela, bravo 👏

My only complaint is this song wasn't long enough. "Mesmerizing" is a perfect way to describe it.

A lot of songs were short in the 1960s and 70s to satisfy the song play time window on AM radio stations.

Grace has a voice that enchants you.

The music has its own gravity that starts off slow and draws you, inexorably, towards the crescendo. Incredible and great reaction!

Grace Slick has an awesome vibrato to her voice

I'm so glad you got the kind of obvious Alice in Wonderland references. I'm amazed by how many of the reactioners just don't get it and that's really sad. Good work

Yeah Im still mesmerized! Grace Slick makes me feel 18 again.

Grace Slick...the queen of acid rock!,definitely a song to get a buzz on with!

Yes this was their way to get a song about drugs past the censors. In the 60's radio airplay was very strict but they got this one by

"Somebody to love" is another great one of theirs...

They went on to become Jefferson Starship ,,,check out a song called Miracles by J.S.. ☮️🌷🎵

Glad you got the Alice in Wonderland references!

Grace Slick. An underrated genius.

I don't think you could describe this song any better TBH. The psychedelic 60's. Great selection of songs this evening.

One of the best "psychedelic" songs of the Haight-Ashbury / Filmore Room era of San Francisco and the '60s. Absolutely iconic. People used to lie on the floor between speakers to listen to it. One of my all-time favourite female rock performances -- up there with Janis Joplin. I have a rule that it's illegal to turn the car off during that song. Haha. It's one of the best escalations in a rock song ever, up there with In The Air Tonight. Check out Starship "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us" for the '80s rock incarnation of this band. Sort of their last blast of infamy. Grace Slick (the lead singer) is now an acclaimed painter/artist. She refused to be one of those "silly rockers" in their 70s who never stopped clambering for glory, she said. Haha. She is a fucking bad-ass, a true feminist icon.

Mesmerizing in the 60s and 70s was called…..psychedelic. Feed your head.

Grace Slick once said that parents were telling them not to do drugs yet all their children's stories were full of such examples, like in Peter Pan with a little fairy dust you can fly, the caterpillar smoking a hookah while sitting on a mushroom which also changes Alice's size. But seriously all anyone plays these days is this song and 'Somebody to Love' but they had scores of great songs. They released 9 studio albums (including "Early Flight") but made a lot of solo albums as Hot Tuna (Jorma and Cassady) and Kantner & Slick, Marty Balin quit and made solo records, 3 or 4 of them later reformed as Jefferson Starship and made 11 more albums with a changing lineup. This was one of the best bands of the '60s that no one talks about now, it's criminal.

"I couldn't stop staring---- at HER!!!!"......Grace OWNED every song & stage she got on.........she, to this day, is hypnotic & intense........

That song was an anthem for my generation.

One short, beautiful crescendo.

Jefferson Airplane deep in the psychadelic era! I saw them as Starship in early 80's....just fantastic polished performers!

"Remember what the dormouse said / Feed your head." At the Mad Tea Party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Dormouse doesn’t say “feed your head.” That phrase comes from a lecture given by the author of “Alice” (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, perhaps metaphorically “the Dormouse”) in which he argued that we should care for and feed our minds as well as our bodies. Of course, remembering what the Dormouse does say in the story is a way of feeding your head, by adding to your knowledge, and making you a bit more aware of logical distortion, but the idea of feeding your head via psychedelics is also clearly indicated.

The performance on Dick Cavett Show was the day after they performed at Woodstock appearing on the Dick Cavett Show at the same time is David Crosby and Stephen Stills Crosby Stills Nash & Young and Judy Collins

Love this song, it's an uber-cool psychedelic mystical masterpiece and the vocals are so haunting but it's too damn short! Great reaction, please also check out 'Somebody to love' by them.

This and "Somebody to Love" were two songs Grace Slick brought with her from her former band The Great Society. The musical tempo is taken from the Spanish Bolero. I love any song Grace sings lead on. Some of my favorites are: 1) Rejoice, 2) Sunrise, 3) Two Heads, 4) Hey Frederick, 5) Eskimo Blue Day, and 6) Silver Spoon.

This song is about the rabbit holes of mind altering drugs and mind manipulation narratives. The cure is feed your head with personal experience of reality. This song is still relevant in our days and age of alternate virtual reality echo chambers.

Check out their other really big hit from that time period, "Somebody to Love." It's a sensational blast of classic '60s pop/rock.

I keep coming back to this mesmerizing song. It is relentless and savage. Love it.

An interviewer asked her about the song once. She did respond with: Read the Fuckin book once in a while!

Great job! Almost nobody doing reactions gets the Alice in Wonderland.

Thx! I knew that you’d probably not pause! Sure enough! This is truly art! -Terry

Wonderful review. You have an ear for great music. And thanks for not interrupting the song to express your opinion.

"That was weeeeiiiiirrrdd"... yeaaaaahhhhhh - finally a suitable first reaction to this song. Just a frozen face because first time listening MUST be kind of disturbing and (mostly) liking at the same time... your mind usually can get it the first time :) Thank you very, very much :)

Yes, The Airplane were awesome in their day. Try Somebody to Love and Volunteers. Enjoy! 🎸

The greatest rock goddess of all-time.

In the 70's they transitioned from The Jefferson Airplane🛩 to the Jefferson Starship 🚀 with more hits like "Count on Me" and "Runaway", "Miracles" and "With your Love"

Not only was she beautiful but is/was one of the most iconic female rock vocalists.

It was mesmerizing, it was even better in the 1960s

They were a great band and onto the Starship years

Jefferson Airplane was a band from the 60s who kept staying relevant into the 90s though they were reincarnated three times from Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship and then just Starship their lead singer here was Grace Slick who wrote the song but they came out of the physcadelic era and were at Woodstock

Love this song!!

This song was featured in the Matrix ....Neo follow the White Rabbit 🐇

Thanks for another great reaction, Angela! This is an early example of psychedelic rock! In the same vein look for "Incense and Peppermint" by The Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Lydia Purple" by The Collectors and "I'd Love To Change The World" by Ten Years After! But whatever you decide to react to we will be here alongside you to enjoy the ride!!

The days of LSD trips that was my mother and dad era LOL I remember as a kid back in the seventies all those black light posters my mother would have on the wall such sweet memories Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane

Your reaction was perfect. You felt everything that was communicated in this masterpiece by Jefferson Airplane. You felt the paradoxical discomfort yet the beauty of being in an entirely unfamiliar place and wanting to know what was in here for you! I don't know if you saw/heard the transcendedness of lead guitarist Paul Kantner as he played the haunting sounds that set the mood, but I know you felt the transmission of Grace Slick as she took you to a different realm of reality. You entered, for just a moment, the magical realm of we blessed children of the 60s. Today, not many are blessed to receive this gift. You are a special soul. Love and peace to you.

Grace always made people think about life in a different way . Rejoyce , White Rabbit , Lather are good examples of her extraordinary writing skills.

Psychedelic Rock that was all in the rock scene from around 1966 to the late 60s ! Awesome time in rock and hippie culture !

I felt the same way about this song as Jimmy Fallon singing the theme from Reading Rainbow (using something for kids) and reimagining it as something out of the left field. In Fallon's case, he sang the song if it was written by The Doors.

That weirdness you're feeling is exactly what Jefferson Airplane was after. This song is drenched in acid, as in the '60s drug. It's psychedelic. And retelling of Alice in Wonderland, which seems like Lewis Carroll was on acid when he wrote it as well. 😂

Sixties psychedelic rock at its best 😎

One of the Greatest singers of her time, Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane and then they became Jefferson Starship

Psychedelic is the word.

They were out there especially Grace Slick but what a cool band they were. Just representing the times back then that many were living in.The 60 s were creatively different. This is an iconic song and timestamp of that era.

Awesome reaction to an awesome song

Randy Vanwarmer. Just When I Needed You Most. It's a beautiful song

The song had the desired effect on you :-) Grace would be happy to know.

The music (not the lyrics) are Ravel's Bolero mostly

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welcome to the best of 'acid rock'

Mesmerizing is perfect description! 💖

It’s bolero feel. This is one of probably a hand full of songs I discovered as a young teen and felt like it was sort of forbidden and that there was something underneath the skin of it, the same way as Gainsbourg Je t’aime , moi non plus. I just love this song.

This song scared me when I was little

The "tango-like feel" shows its deliberate indebtedness to a classical music masterpiece, Ravel's "Bolero."

I saw them in San Francisco back in the LSD heydays!

It builds and brings you in. It expands your mind. Total San Francisco in the 1960s. A lot of people expanded their minds but unfortunately some didn’t come back. If you expand, eventually you gotta contract and come back. Woah. This song, huh? ✌🏽🍄

I'm glad you enjoyed that my pretty one that song is from 1967 that song is about psychedelic drugs and the hippie movement

She’s basically telling parents you’re down on your kids for doing drugs yet you read them stories like Alice in Wonderland. Feed your head means to educate yourself or maybe try psychedelics…or both.

If this kind of haunting sound and trance like experience grabs you then take as listen to Elton John’s “Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding” it’s unlike anything you’ve likely experienced before.

Great song!

Mixed and matched some of those items, did an all nighter and still aced my algebra test at 8 a.m.

nice reaction. This song was just used in the new Matrix trailer.

Red pill or Blue?? Love Grace Slick's voice! LOL think that video was during some of the psychedelic times??

Great reaction... you might be the first reactor to "get it". How about trying the band's 70s version Jefferson Starship and their song Miracles. I think it's a ballad you'll really enjoy.

A trippy song, there was a movie made based on this song around 1970 or so.

This group started out as Jefferson Airplane, at some point became Jefferson Starship, then later simply Starship. The lead singer is Grace Slick, a one-time fashion model who became the face/voice of the "tuned-in, turned-on" generation in the 1960s. In 1987, Grace Slick became the oldest woman (at age 47) to have a #1 single in the US with the Starship song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." (Cher would later break this record in 1999 with the song "Believe.") Now that I think about it, you could do a reaction to "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship, which is a pretty good rock power-ballad.

Years ago, back in Pittsburgh, I was auditioning for a band...and we were in-between songs...and just for the hell of it, I started playing the bass-line for this song, just to keep my fingers loose, and because I dug the riff. The guitarist and drummer both dropped what they were doing, turned to me and almost with the same breath said "OMG! do you know that song??" I said (basically) "Yes" and we went into it, knocked it out of the park, we decided to 'gel' and that song went into the original set-list right from the start. "Whippin' Post' (from the Allman Brothers) got into the set-list the exact same way. I played with them for the next few years, and was proud to say that I was responsible for the eclectic mix of our sets. It really helped us make a name in the local 'Electric-Banana punk-alt-rock scene'. . We had a few other songs in the set-list that had rather 'odd' beginnings as well.....from Gershwin to Zappa.....it kept things interesting... Cool Trivia? The drummer's father was the one-eyed trombone player on the original Tonight Show Orchestra. My drummer was the only one I'd ever seen who could write and re-play accurate drum tab on the spot! PS DayOne, I know you probably don't care but if you REALLY want to understand/experience the impact of the song 'White Rabbit", you need to listen to the 'original' studio version, released on their album 'Surrealistic Pillow'. Grace's vocals sounded so much thicker and it really helped make the statement of the song's lyrics.

That song is a trip. 😉

Grace made that outfit herself out of towels. Not kidding.

Hooray for you. The best reaction to this song that I have heard..

I remember when that song came out. Welcome to the 60's

Wonderfully insightful commentary. Bravo.

Another incredible voice from the 70's..Linda Ronstadt. Between her and Karen(Her Voice!) Love both of them!.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icl_o92ekqi9iGg.html The 60's, 70's had so many incredible female artists, from so many different genres. Karen, Linda, Diana Ross, Aretha, Stevie Nicks...on and on..

She has the most haunting voice of all the singers, she's in her 80's now. Listen to Jefferson Starship she in those songs too.

Grace really rocks out with the JA's hit "Somebody to Love." This was performed on the Smother Brothers Comedy (variety) TV show. They were known for taking a lot of chances with what they aired. Having said that ... the JA must have made a lot of Sunday night viewing parents really worried ... The Who made their American TV debut there and Keith Moon exploded his bass drum. Nearly blew out Pete Townshend's ears.

I am so in LOVE with you Angela! But getting back to the song! Yes! Grace Slick own that stage when she sang this song!! SHE IS MESMERIZING! Nuff said!🎸🎶🎼🎵

It’s like,groovy!

giggles...Psychedelic Rock genre era.

Sincere reaction.

Short and maybe strange, but a huge, huge hit in 1967.

Fantastic reaction.

Awesome reaction!

When I grow up I want to be as cool as the guitarist.

That was a great reaction!

Grace Slick, my goodness.

Hey thanks for this ride. You bringing it today.

Your perception of that song is so spot on for a first listen! Impressive. And yes...what a haunting song that draws you in like a magnet.