The whole song references Alice In Wonderland pretty much mentioning every character from the book

When your friends treat you like a guest

the song "today" from the same album is one of my favorites, no other song takes me to the magical 60's like this

You have a magnified soul.

Grace Slick has such a haunting voice you don't easily forget it. Her voice and these songs are iconic for that time period.

They call Grace the voice that launched a thousand trips, the psychedelic era.

Both songs are from the 1967 “Surrealistic Pillow” album. The whole album is really good and is well worth a listen or reaction. Thank you for reacting to the Jefferson Airplane. Great job. 🌷

That Grace Slick , same female voice in Starship

Three other fine songs off this album: "3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds," "My Best Friend," "Today"

The great Gracie Slick

"White Rabbit" is such a timeless classic...that opening bass line, the Bolero-like drumming, Jorma's Spanish-laced guitar lines. I like too how the song ends sort of in an unexpected place, kind of suspended. I always think of that very creepy scene in David Fincher's "The Game" when Michael Douglas returns home to find the black light graffiti and "White Rabbit" blaring away...I think I would have had a heart attack if that happened to me. :)

Jefferson Airplane split up in 1972 basically into two bands. Jefferson Starship which included Grace Slick who sang these songs and Paul Kantner the person who put together the original band. Another vocalist from Airplane Marty Balin joined them later. The other band to come out of the split was Hot Tuna or as they are affectionately known Hot F,,,,,,,,,,ing Tuna. This band included the lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonnen and bass guitarist Jack Casady . These two are both among the best at their instrument in rock and roll. Airplane was mostly a pop band Hot Tuna played mainly blues/rock and they just smoked

So dam cool, acid heads knows it all, from a true hippie, angel hugs to all my hippie friends, angel hugs 💜💜💜

Masterpiece performances by Jefferson Airplane ! Grace Slick also in Starship, fantastic !

Feed your head! Absolutely! This album and Crown of Creation are my two favorites while they were still the Airplane. Grace Slick was a wild one. She was invited to the White House for a Tea Party with Nixons daughter Tricia. She took Abbie Hoffman as her guest and was planning on putting LSD in the presidents drink. Fantastic thought 🤣🤣!

Two of the most iconic songs to come out of the 60s in my opinion. I'm also going with Jimi Jimi for Today. You'll love it.

Saw then at Woodstock and again a few years back about a year before Paul died which put an end to the Airplane.

white rabbit is imagery from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and later a movie about the dangers of drug addiction was made called Go Ask Alice

Grace's voice can melt your head White Rabbit is based on Alice in Wonderland ... the closest you 'll get now to JA is Hot Tuna also on YT

In 1973, they used this song (White Rabbit) to make a TV movie called GO ASK ALICE... about a troubled high school girl who gets in with the wrong crowd (of druggies), and she runs away from home. White Rabbit is the theme song. Very interesting movie which captures the spirit of the early 70s. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eaioh5hk15ilnIk.html

They started as Jefferson Airplane, then they were Jefferson Starship,and then just " Starship".

Started out as Jefferson Airaplane. Then in the 70s changed the name to Jefferson Starship Then in the 80s changed the name to Starship

Grace talks about the song and it's meaning in her autobiography, "Somebody to Love". The song was written by Darby and is about a more grown up version of love... She says they were tired of all of the "Why don't you love me?" songs that were typical of love songs of the era. The song means, if you're feeling down and out, and life is handing you a bunch of shit for whatever reason, find somebody to love... To Love in the human sense, not the sexual or romantic sense. To give love, rather than bemoaning not receiving love. In her words: "Rather than the loving you're whining about getting or not getting, a more satisfying state of heart might be the loving you're 'giving'. Suggesting that adhering to the old Puritan cliche, 'It's better to give than to receive', might actually make you a happier person. The idea of service and selflessness may sound like a tedious task reserved for bald monks, but the way Darby wrote the lyrics, altruism didn't seem like such a lofty and unattainable state. He gave the impression that giving could even be an enjoyable adventure."

Great choices, and Surrealistic Pillow a classic album.

Now this song want somebody to love also a great song are you are posting some amazing songs from the hippie era thank you so much I myself being a spiritual hippie and the energy worker and a person that does loads of spiritual practices daily music like this it's me really get into my meditations along with yoga Kundalini spiritual prayers channeling doing chants and spiritual dancing channeling into Gaia the goddesses keep shining sister and keep the amazing music coming music is the doorway to the soul... ✌☯️🕉☮🦄🧘‍♀️🙏🌞🌻🌻🌻💚🦶🦶🎵🎵🎵

Great Reaction 🙂

Today it is hard to believe, but in early- and mid-Victorian Britain it was possible to walk into a chemist's shop and buy without prescription laudanum, cocaine, and even arsenic. Opium preparations were also sold freely in towns on market halls and in the countryside by travelling hawkers.

De Quncy Confessions of an Opium Eater (1856)...Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (1830), which references opium and depicts opium based hallucinations.

Great reaction, the references are about Alice in Wonderland with drug induced imagery on White Rabbit.

What better way to slip in some tripping reference than under the fog of Alice in Wonderland? LSD was getting big by the late 60s and is estimated to have been second only to marijuana in popularity with illegal drugs then. That certainly was what I saw. The effect upon the musicians like Airplane, Hendrix, Morrison, and many others is heard in the psychedelic sounds.

Yes, definitely Alice in Wonderland references

"After Bathing At Baxter's" is an album you'll really get into by the Airplane. 'Two Heads' is one of the great songs from it.

Grace Slick has one of the great female voices, as you know by now. Please consider the song "Rejoyce" from another Jefferson Airplane album. Also, been checking out some of your other reactions and since you seem to be liking the prog side of rock I would urge you to seek out and listen to the band Renaissance from the period 1973 - 1978. If I had to pick a track of theirs to start with it would be "Ashes Are Burning". I think you would be pleasantly surprised.

The Game.

Grace retired and paints great❤ a few band members died

The second song is about a person who is very uptight and rigid. The second song is about reading books and taking acid. IMHO.

if you like this I think you'd like Heart... "Barracuda" "Magic Man" ....maybe you've already heard them tho

Yes it's her interpretation of Alice in Wonderland and of course also her interpretation of and the freedom of being a free spirit and not being afraid to express oneself the 1960s were a time of experimenting this song is my favorite song from Jefferson Airplane when I listen to this song it moves me into another solar system making the ground under my feet move I like to listen to this I'm meditating it makes me feel like my body is weightless sort of like making the Mind Body and Soul float Where You Are into the Garden of Eden and Gaia is there holding your hand protecting you I like it when I hear these performers from the 1960s singer songs we're truly a tribe of Their own the 1960s was a time of peace love and freedom and free spirits and self-expression this song pretty much sums up many different energies of the hippie movement and a way of life that was mainly for evolved souls if I would have lived in that time definitely would have been a free spirit spiritual hippie walking around barefooted with flowers in my hair I'm trying to spread peace and love kindness and inner light there also is a longer version song I would suggest checking it out once again about this song the song actually from me is like a natural high by the way I love your page. 🧘‍♀️🦄☮🕉☯️🙏🌞🌻🌻🌻💚🦋🎵🎵🎵🎵✌

Check out their best of album, Worst of the Jefferson Airplane. Also Hot Tuna, a band formed by former members of Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen (great guitarist) and Jack Casady. They are still playing together. Albums include Burgers and Hot Tuna. And yes, Grace Slick was one of the best.

Yes, White Rabbit is definitely a "Trip" song. Besides all the one pill makes you larger, etc, and the caterpillar on a giant mushroom smoking a hookah, I must note that in Charles Dodgson's (Lewis Carrol's) book, the Dormouse says "Keep your head," whereas in the song, it is changed to "Feed your head." Now, about "Somebody To Love," my take is that it is very much a "coming of age" story about all the fake relationships and petty, unimportant high-school type overblown fads and asking the listener if it wouldn't be better to have real relationships, real friends, and real love rather than the fake, plastic, and superficial kinds of experiences kids were more or less expected to embrace. Both songs really make a statement about what was beginning to happen with that generation in the mid 60's. I love Surrealistic Pillow, but I have to give a shout out to Crown of Creation and Volunteers. Also the first Jefferson Starship album (great Sci-Fi music/story in that). Such a magnificent band and group of people. I could go on and on... they're one of my favorite bands.

Following up. To clarify, I'm a huge fan of her work, from 1967 thru about 1972. But after that it seems like cocaine haze, whereas JA had been experimental and revolutionary. By being free Speech, peace and love radicals, not political radicals. Individually there may have been commies or not. But there was room for others. Just my opinion

Gracie Slick was THE BEST of the 60s, 70s. Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship, sometime, I think in the 70s.

Would love to hear you cover “White Rabbit “.

If you like Grace Slick’s voice. Check out her work on Jefferson Starship’s early albums from the mid 70’s such as ‘Dragon Fly’, ‘Red Octopus’, and ‘Spitfire’. Great albums.

Props to lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.

Re: drug use. There was more in the 1800s than you might think. Opium was openly sold in the concoction called laudenum. It was frequently prescribed for female “hysteria” as a result of the extreme ignorance and bigotry of the day regarding the female reproductive system. It was also prescribed for pain in general and it was every bit as addictive as any opioid formulation today. At the time there was no pharmaceutical regulation so pretty much anything went on the entire spectrum from fatally powerful to useless. There were also opium dens in major western cities like London and Paris which catered to either the adventurous rich or the poor seeking relief from a wretched existence.

When I hear the lyrics of "Somebody to Love", I feel that it's psychedelic, upbeat tempo is a bit of a smokescreen,and distraction to it's lyrical message. Which,to me, is a warning. "When the truth is found to be lies,and all the joy within you,dies, (If/When you find out,one day,, everything you were told was the truth,, were lies the whole time, all the joy you once had,dies along with the knowledge that society (parents, teachers, police, politicians, etc. told you your whole life,we're all lies, and the sense of depression they must have felt, coming to this realization. Because, we are talking about the 1960's. I believe the song was written between 65' 66',having been only 2-3years after the shocking assassination of President Kennedy, in Nov. 1963, and from there on, we started seeing the veneer of the government cracking,and the youth,at the time,were seeing the lies,corruption,corruption, hypocrisy, rise up and up, to the civil rights act of 1964,and the disappearance and murder of the 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi, by the Klang, rioting in the streets.. from Watts to Detroit. So, you can see where the writer Darby Slick was coming from. Pretty much where the rest of the youth was coming from. And not wanting to be alone, having "Somebody to love", as the shit fell down around everyone. Don't you "NEED" Somebody to love...? Wouldn't you "LOVE" Somebody to love? Well, you better find Somebody to love..." ("you BETTER find" , being the warning. Because you are definitely going to want Somebody to love. And love you, as it all goes up in smoke. Which was why everyone was looking to expand their consciousness, with psychedelics, because Love it or hate it, LSD Psilosybin/Mushrooms, DO, in fact, that very thing. They were looking for a way to do things differently than their parents. And it hasn't been until recently that we are learning the truth about Psychedelic substances,and seeing past the b.s. propaganda, Nixon's war on drugs (which killed and imprisoned so many,unecessarily,like the prohibition of alcohol, in the 1920's. 5 psychedelics have been finally decriminalized, in the U.S. since Nov. of this year 2022.) "When the garden flowers,they are dead. Yes,and your mind is so full of red. Don't you want---etc. "A clear reference to potentially life ruining events. And, if you've ever heard of people saying, "They saw/see red" again,clearly, to me, meaning "anger" and "fury" don't you want someone you love to hold you back. Calm your anxieties? When "tears are running, they're all running down your breast. And your friends treat you like a guest" (like a guest, because they're all coupled up,and you're the "5th wheel" not a "part of the group", but the (perhaps unwanted "guest"?) This is perhaps the part that screams, "Don't wait around, thinking you're going to avoid these pitfalls in life. And, more importantly, "Don't you want somebody to love, who will stand beside you,during them? Forgive my long winded tangent. It's just a song that hits home. Time waits for no one. And, as another great song and singer,who knew all too well,loneliness, said. "Get it while you can", unfortunately, Janis Joplin is no longer with us. Great video! Keep it up! 👍

Alice in Wonderland is all about drugs

The book "Alice in Wonderland"

‘Somebody to Love’ would have been a great Wigan Casino stomper!…

Check out Carly Simon - Slave

The best experience I haver had with music, better than sex

Same band as Starship With songs like We built this city Nothing gonna stop us now Sara This is the 60s version of the band

They do not make voices like that anymore. There were not any moreof

No...But Grace is still alive....This is more than 50 years ago.

No, she retired from singing long ago. After years of awkward pop music including big hits I can't stand. The guitarist and bassist are still kicking. Quite active actually, but the others have passed on

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