This is based on Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland." The white rabbit is one of the many character's in the book. There is a hookah smoking caterpillar as well. But I think the point of the song is what the dormouse said. "Feed your head." I think back then it may have meant doing drugs, but also knowledge and wisdom feeding your head. Great song! Always my favorite Jefferson Airplane song. The lead-in music is based on Ravel's "Bolero", a classical music piece.

References to the story of Alice in Wonderland. A book written by Lewis Carol. It's a children's story and Walt Disney movie. Alice takes one pill that makes her small so she can go down the rabbit hole (where the expression came from) after the White Rabbit . Then takes another pill that makes her tall. There is a whole different world in that rabbit hole. Unless you know the story, the song doesn't make much sense. There's an awful lot of adult stuff going on in this children's story that goes over the heads of children. You should look up the lyrics to the songs you react to do you can read them while listening. That way you won't miss out on what the songs are saying. Sometimes it's quite difficult to get all the lyrics in just one listening. You are not alone, most channels I listen to don't follow along with the printed lyrics. You are listening one time to songs that we, your audience, have listened to hundreds of times. Keep up the great job You are doing. I enjoy your channel and your knowledge of music very much.

White Rabbit is the epitome of the 60s psychedelic era. Grace Slick's voice takes you on the trip that Alice experiences through her trip through wonderland. I believe she wrote this when she was a teenager.

The rhythm is like a Bolero- Ravel’s Bolero. Very Middle Eastern. The lyrics are mostly from Alice in Wonderland- with a psychedelic twist. ❤ Grace indeed, has a powerful vibrato!

She's singing without auto tune when people could really sing.

Her voice wobble thing is called 'vibrato'. She just happened to do a faster version than most singers but it also made her unique.

The best music in the world came out of the 60's, 70's, and 80's. You need to listen to the whole song rather than interrupting constantly.

Watch the 69 Woodstock live version of this song. Her voice is epic!

A fantastic song. This is such an awesome performance. All I'll say is Alice in Wonderland. 🖖❤

This is about 'Alice In Wonderland' or 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' and yes a trippy song from the time zone. :)

Grace Slick is the Queen of psychedelics! She is also a very accredited painter and Her paintings often have a psychedelic feel to them as well. "Somebody to Love" is another Big Hit from Airplane.....

I just love watching reactions to music I grew up on, the 60's and 70's were a trip, it's a wonder any of us survived

As a little kid I loved the sound of this song, (born in 67 so once I was into the radio it was still regularly played) but I also found it Creepy. 56 and still think the same, but understand it’s depth ❤

While the song refers to characters in the Alice in Wonderland book, Grace Slick said herself that she wrote it about phycadilic drugs blending the story with mind blowing trips that acid and mushrooms could give you. As a flower child back in the 60s and 70, we all knew it was about taking a trip on drugs. Just saying.

She's describing a lot from Alice in wonderland the rabbit and the red queen and hookah smoking caterpillar are from Alice in Wonder land I'm glad you listen to this I haven't heard that in a long time to interesting song to say the least

Legend has it you can get a contact high just listening to this song

Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, New Riders if the Purple Sage all picnicked and played softball and raised their kids together and grew from the Bay Area music scene in the mid sixties. Also Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.

In order to better understand this song you need to be familiar with the characters in the book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" a children's classic. Really enjoy your fun reactions.🎉

Listen to the live version from Woodstock, White Rabbit and Somebody to love, her voice is so powerful.

Grace Slick has a great powerful voice. Another song that really showcases what she can do is "Somebody to Love" from this same era. If you stick with rock music reactions, you may revisit Jefferson Airplane in their later incarnations.

ALICE in WONDERLAND !!!!!!! I really have to feel for these people who grew up without even the most basic of fairytales..... My life isn’t great , but at least I have that 🤩🌟🤩

This is psychedelic rock....❤😂

This song is definitely a trip

My ex-wife used to do this song at Karaoke and with the way it starts off low and slow and builds to a creshendo had everyone listening by the end.

Grace Slick once smiled at me in 1971 during a concert.

I was 17 at that time... magic was in the air...it was a great time to be alive...the next year I was in the Army

This is the prequel to Third Eye. Grace is a prophet of the flower children and sings with the force of the divine. When I saw this pop up on your channel, I hit it immediately. I knew you'd appreciate Grace's performance, you seem to have a good feel for the primal core. See also, Lewis Carroll. TOOL is Pink Floyd for the new millennium.

I remember my Contemporary American History teacher playing this song for us and analyzing it!

That was a good description of her singing.

As everyone has already made you aquatinted with Caroll's "Through the Looking Glass", I'd just like to mention that my fav part (and the most memorable lines of the song) are at the very end when she sings "Feed Your Head", which oddly enough is rhe only direct quote from the book, as well as it comes from the doorknob, a relatively minor character, but an essential one as it poses as the first figure from Wonderland that Alice encounters (aside from glimpses of the white rabbit) and serves as a gatekeeper of sorts for the story's introduction and also sets the tone of Alice's further adventures.

Trippy bro, I love it. Listened to this during high school. Thanks for the reaction.

The "White Rabbit" was LSD. Grace Slick said "White Rabbit" "is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity." For her and others in the 1960s, drugs were a part of mind expansion and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. They used part of the story of Alice in Wonderland to pull this off

I think that's called a tremelo! Great reaction to this tripping song! There is a movie called "Go Ask Alice" that is based on this song, you should check it out especially if you have children!

There is a movie and a book called "Go ask alice" this song is in it. It's about a girl and her acid trips

🙂😀😃😄😆😅😂🤣 Straight up acid trip!❤ Her voice is ridiculous. And that was live.

The lyrics draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. The pill that makes you larger and the pill that makes you small, the white rabbit allice chases and fall down the hole, The red queen that shouts off with your head the white night that talks backwards, the dormouse, the hooker smoking caterpillar things that are not logical and out of proportion are all from the books.

Read "alice in wonderland" by Lewis Carol. Or see the movie; Disney.

They were pioneers of the drug counter culture. Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. A major trippy song.

Grace Slick has an amazing natural vibrato in her voice.

Just to verify what others have already said, if you watch the old Disney animated film version of "Alice in Wonderland" it'll all make immediate sense.

“Feed your head,” was a mantra from many of the songs of the’60s. They were right, and every person at the age of reason deserves a well-guided mushroom trip in order to understand and appreciate his place in the universe. JMHO 😝

Catholic School nuns got me into poetry. This was the fifties and they had us read the complete story of 'Through the Looking Glass'. It's the story of Alice, which includes a great poem that my grandson came to love... 'Jabberwocky'. So silly, so serious, so ingenious. It makes me wonder about the pharmaceutical effects Carrol was under when writing. (It also makes me wonder about Sister Misericordia and where she was coming from).

This and Somebody to Love. Awesome tracks

Alice in Wonderland is where the phrase, falling down a rabbit hole, comes from. The meaning has changed a little bit from falling into crazytown to falling into an obsession but that story is the roots of the phrase. It’s worth checking out if only so you’ll be familiar with the pop culture references. 👍👍😄

feed your head, mug. feed your head. :) glad you recognized her vocal talents.

"60's baby!!

Alice in Wonderland classic book most kids read in school back then.yes it’s trippy but all the references are characters in that story. Johnny Dep was a wonderful Mad Hatter is the movie version Helen Bonham Carter as Red Queen perfect. Alan Rickman as the Hookah smoking caterpillar 🌺🌺🌺

The white rabbit symbolizes the rabbit in Alice in wonderland..... However when i was younger, chasing rabbits was a term for on the hunt for weed.

I never did drugs but love this song 🎧 🐰 💓 🐛 🎶

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bro, Grace Slick is aka "Acid Queen." So....yeah. I loved your first reaction. 🙏💗💗

This song was perhaps the very first overtly breakthrough psychedelic hit as almost a nod to the public to just go ahead & accept the psychedelic revolution. 67’ was basically the tipping point year of the 60s revolution

Psychedelic rock

I always liked the psychedelics!

She is so high she never blinks.

There is an isolated version that is just her voice. It's amazing!

Did you read “Alice in Wonderland” when you were small? Did you ever see one of the movies on TV? It’s a retelling of that story in song.

Lewis Carrol, who wrote Alice in Wonderland ( where all the characters in the song come from, the white rabbit, the hookah smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the door mouse) in the 1800s, was an early LSD user. The novel is considered his account of an acid trip. It's where the phrase " going down the rabbit hole" comes from.

She's always serious and yes it's a trip to listen to with special ingredients in your head

Alice, the White Rabbit, makes much more sense now. The caterpillar was always my favorite. They left out the cat though. Lol.

I love this song

White Rabbit / Lyrics One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar Has given you the call Call Alice When she was just small When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low Go ask Alice I think she'll know When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's off with her head Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head Feed your head Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Grace Wing Slick White Rabbit lyrics © Copperpenny Music, Mole Music Co

love how she turns her L's into R's. instead of tall.... its talrrrrrrrr .... love her vibrato too

She does smirk when she sings and if you go chasing rabbits

Yes, you're correct. You're sharper than most.

Flamenco is what you re thinking about for the guitar

British culture authors wrote such story books with hidden meanings, like the Wizard of Oz was about monetary struggles, ie. gold backing for paper money. This Alice in Wonderland story was about the psychedelic drugs of India, once owned by British Empire. Their drugs were exported to the west and picked up here where colleges experimented with them. the last sentence, "Feed your head", was Jefferson's Airplane's admonition to college students.

I love Mama Cass!

Alice in Wonderland. That's me rn. Not quite so far down the 'rabbit hole' tho. That shit is scary. 😂

There is a vocals only track on KZfaq that is wonderful to hear.

hello, dear!! i'm glad you picked up the acid connection-we were all doing acid. this was really trippy at the time. great reaction!! kathleen

Oh man this is during the time of blatantly referencing drugs in rock music. But take time to listen to this woman’s voice. Sooo unique and wonderful. She was one of a kind.

Grace was gorgeous.

Grace Slick just celebrated her 82nd birthday (I think) a few days ago😂

Good reaction.

Jefferson Airplane played at Woodstock. Plenty of White Rabbit pills there 😂

The song that started a thousand trips.

Welcome to the 60's My Friend

Grace Slick recently celebrated her 84th birthday.

“ Alice in Wonderland” a fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll an English author/poet/photographer was published in 1865 and remains a popular children’s book with beautiful illustrations by John Tenniel, including white rabbits that talk.

Hookah-smoking caterpillar; A hookah or waterpipe was used for smoking tobacco, cannabis, hashish and opium.

And she can sing. Big time.

Grace Slick is another one of those voices, in this case female, that set the standard for Rock n roll!!

Great reaction to a 60s rock hit! Been listening to you for a while, now a new subscriber.

she's talking about Alice in wonderland and the references thereof.....

Alice in wonderland is the reference

They use allusions from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (White Rabbit, Hookah Smoking Caterpillar, Dormouse saying "Feed your head," white knight talking backward, the Red Queen lost her head, etc) to describe a drug trip, as you correctly figured out. It has frequently been suggested that Louis Carroll was on a psychedelic trip when he wrote the children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 . Many psychedelics, as well as cocaine, were not illegal until well into the 20th Century, and wealthy people, including well-known writers at the time, wrote "under the influence."

I have read the book Alice in Wonderland and got the very distinct impression that the writer was writing down an acid trip they were on.

At least you get it! 😂😂😂

Some great rock tracks from the 60's, youngesters dont know what they're missing 😂. Check out The Youngbloods, Darkness, Darkness, and 10 Years After I'd love to change the world.

Grace Slick ,the lead vocalist.This song is following the story of Alice In Wonderland.

You're really listening, it was a pleasure to hear this song through your ears. The white rabbit is an Alice In Wonderland reference.

Your expressions are priceless!😂 Starship was such an Acid Trip band. That dude, I mentioned, Donovan, is pretty trippy too. Dig it brother! 🤘

Reference is to Alice in Wonderland, the Red Queen always was saying " off with her head". Alice chased her cat the down the rabbit hole and met the white rabbit, "One pill makes you large and one pill makes you small" Acid, pot, peyote and mushroom trips, and, yes pills. . In Alice's case, they were slices of cake as a metaphor. Go ask Alice when she is 10 feet tall. Hookah smoking caterpillar smoking pot and talking in riddles to a small Alice. Remember what the Dormouse said, " Feed your head". Watch the movie, you will love it considering when Alice in Wonderland was written.

Away by Cam Cole is my fav song ever, 2nd only to Pink Floyd s Welcome to the Machine

Background is from Smothers Brothers TV show.

Alice in Wonderland references Grace Slick, singer wrote this song. Psychedelic Rock from the 60's.

Check out their version of same. It was live at Woodstock. P.S. the song pertains to “ Alice in Wonderland” Respectfully

The 'martial' drumbeat was a very present undertone in the Viet Nam era..

Wow - reacting to an iconic song without knowing it was written on the book by C S Lewis - Alice in Wonderland. This psychedelic book was actually written in 1865 - Jefferson Airplane obviously tied this iconic book story into an equally iconic 1960’s culture. Please, please read more books as many, many iconic songs both rock and blues from the 1960s to the present day have their roots in old classics that you should read. You really don’t know what you’re missing - I’m 67 and a huge record (CD) collection and obviously a huge library full of books. Today it’s even more easy to get the unabridged audiobooks and listen to them and that way if you’re not a slow reader. It’s a win win for your own knowledge base. I promise you’ll not regret it. Also so many songs are written by groups like the Beatles that were actually written by them to communicate with the civil rights youth of the time. Example is the Beatles song blackbird. Paul McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and by racial tension in the Southern United States. Understand the context and you’ll be the wiser man. ❤❤❤ keep up with your reactions.

I literally was just listening to this song the other day and now I see you're reacting to it so that's like some psychic shit lol 🤣 But I love it. ❤️