Alice in Wonderland chases a White Rabbit sees a Caterpillar smoking Hashish and goes and fights with the Queen of Hearts who wants to chop off her head....so this is a drugged-out version of the "children's" story Alice in Wonderland

"I knew it was that mushrooms music!" Lmao its brilliant

Grace Slick at this time was equal parts: disturbing, mesmerizing, innocent-looking, devilish, and aloof. Has there ever been another artist like her?

"Alice in Wonderland" written by Lewis Carrol. A children's book, but it's thought Carrol was tripping balls when he wrote it. Drugs in his time were... intense. ;)

Grace Slick tried to give President Nixon acid when she visited the White House lol...

Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call

The epitome of psychedelic music. It's about Alice in Wonderland on the surface, but the subtext is definitely describing a trip.

Grace Slick's voice is definitely hypnotizing!! You hear her sing and are IMMEDIATELY taken in for the ride!

Grace Slick's voice was labeled as "the voice that launched a thousand trips." Her nickname was the Acid Queen. She's still as badass now at 81 as she was back then😌 So glad you finally did JA, can't wait to see what else you listen to by them😄 I'm sure you'll do Somebody to Love, I also recommend Eskimo Blue Day, my favorite😍 I also recommend watching Alice in Wonderland, the original Disney one from the 50s, it's been my favorite Disney movie since I was a kid (says a lot about me as an adult😂) and it's honestly trippy af

You got to know the Alice in Wonderland connection here where she eats things to make her bigger and to make her smaller

I remember in the 1970s there was a made for TV movie based on a book called “Go Ask Alice.“ All about a teenage girl who starts taking drugs… Everybody watched that movie.

"She, She, She's hypnotizing" Welcome to the sixties man..

I don’t know if you realize this or not or if anyone else has commented but this is the group that became starship in the 80s and you reacted to one of their videos a day or two ago called "nothings gonna stop us now." Same woman singing believe it or not. Two very different decades. Grace slick is amazing

Released in the loved-up summer of 67, its heavy allusions to the altered states in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, along with its exhortations to ‘feed your head’, seemed to invite a whole new generation to trip out on the pleasures of psychedelics. For those for whom love, peace and LSD were inseparable, it became an anthem. “It was timely for the era,” Airplane founder Marty Balin admitted years later. “The myth, the idea, the acid.”

Grace Slick was the 2nd Jefferson Airplane female singer and she just took over the band. Still going strong, now days she paints and from what I've seen she's damn good. Hasn't performed in years, says she's not interested being an old broad on stage singing old songs!

Chemicals were widely used in the making of this tune.

Now you're talking!! This is psychedelic rock at it's best. Their song takes a new look at Alice In Wonderland. Grace Slicks vocals are hypnotic!! You are right on!!✌Groovy man.💚

"FEED YOUR HEAD!"

Probably closer to an acid trip than mushrooms. Like that time my friend turned into Mayor McCheese. Ps - the book Go Ask Alice was written years after this song, this Alice is Alice in Wonderland

“One white rabbit for Alice, bring him back” haha 😂 lol too funny!

Trippy music & the song is about drugs Based kinda on the book “Alice in Wonderland”...trippy itself!

The reference to drugs is so strong in this song it’s amazing they were able to escape the censorship in those days ! I guess they didn’t make the connection 🤣✌🏻

Thanks for the laugh, you were hilarious in this reaction! I forget people your age aren’t familiar with Grace Slick and her unique voice , Jefferson Airplane which became Jefferson Starship. This is a drugged up version of Alice in wonderland. This was 1967. I was 7 years old and remember hearing it on the radio and my older brother playing it. This was the “hippie” days. When I was older I listened to it all the time, very famous song.

This is what you come up with when you take acid and watch Alice In Wonderland.

This song is one of the 1st to sneak drug references into their music and get it played on the radio in the'60s. It's about experimenting with drugs and expanding your mind. This is the kind of music I grew up listening to. 💗

Grace Slick: The voice that launched a thousand trips!

Grace Slick brought this song and "Somebody to Love" when she left Grace Slick and The Great Society. They did a longer version of this song. I love Grace Slick, especially her songs "Two Heads", "Rejoyce", and "Hyperdrive". She also did 4 solo albums. This song got by the censors because they thought it was about Alice in Wonderland. It was but it was also a cover for the drug culture.

“Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall...” ❤️

Shrooms!!!! Stay trippie, little hippie!!!!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

This group was one of the biggest acts on Woodstock 1969. They were high as f on acid when performing, which they did together with Jimi Hendrix just before going on stage. You should look up their woodstock act on youtube.

If you watch or remember Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland” then hear the song again, you’ll notice: “One pill makes you smaller” “One pill makes you larger” “A hookah smoking caterpillar” “If you go chasing rabbits” “The men on the chess board” “The red queen’s off with her head” You might think the song is innocently referring to “Alice in Wonderland” Then think of how brilliant Jefferson Airplane was in hiding drug references: “One pill” + “One pill”= pills that either get you high or down; that’s why “the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all” “Tell ‘em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call”= shoutout that someone called you and referred you to the drug scene “And if you go chasing rabbits”= sounds like 60’s reference to go ‘chasing the dragon’, which was opium “The men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go”= the cops telling you what to do after they’ve arrested you for doing drugs “And the red queen’s off with her head”=when you do drugs, you’re 'outta your mind’ I’ve never done drugs, but I grew up in a neighborhood in Los Angeles surrounded by gangsters, drug dealers, hookers, and hippies. That’s how I know most of these references.

Grace slick is one of the women with the best vocals in rock !!! 💯

Alice in wonderland is where "Down the rabbit hole" came from. Eat Me/ Drink Me

Grace Slick had "the voice that launched a thousand trips". Fantastic. I love it.

Anyone notice that nowadays researching something odd on the internet is called "going down the rabbit hole" ? Love it 🤣😆

Love that you already did this one! I'm with everybody else, "Don't you want somebody to love" is another banger!

Mr. V said I knew it was Mushroom Music... 😂😂😅

This song was in the movie "Go ask Alice" back in the 70's! They actually showed us the movie in junior high school!

I am turning 65 next year and my life experience has taught me that there are all kinds of "rabbit holes" a person can fall into in life. Bad marriages, crappy jobs, crazy friends and neighbors. Life is itself very much a trip and dealing with people, bosses, like the red queen, who have no care about the lives they ruin (off with their heads), the white rabbit that is so wrapped up in his own world he hasn't got the compassion to help someone that is very lost and alone, the hookah smoking caterpillar that just sits and gets by, by staying high all the time, the Cheshire Cat that gives wise advice but can not be depended on to be anywhere long enough to be of any assistance. And then there is the door mouse with the advice that a person has to feed their mind with knowledge in order to grow mature enough to learn to deal effectively with what ever life throws in front of them. Telling stories to children has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years and teaching children life lessons through those stories is the way to wake up their minds and help them to think for themselves before they get so busy with lifes distractions that they stop listening to those trying to teach them. So the stories of Alice Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Glass (old world phrase for a mirror) come to be. Songs and music are the present day versions of telling stories on lazy sunny summer days. So, what else have you learned lately? What have you done to "feed your head"?

Gracie Slick, The Voice that Launched a Thousand Trips!

The way her voice sounds always makes me feel like I'm on some type of hallucinogenic drug! Yeee, MVP!💙💙🙌🙌👀👀

I moved into a house in Bolinas, CA in 1978 that Jefferson Airplane had lived in. It is still called the Airplane House at 99 Brighton in Bollinas. The day I moved in a went to use the bathroom and the gold record to this single was glued to the bottom of the toilet cover.

I love that you were so hypnotized. That's the right reaction. Think about the Matrix red pill and blue pill, follow the rabbit. This is where they were refrencing, Alice in Wonderland going down the rabbit hole. Glad you enjoyed it. ❤

Knew you was gonna do this one. This is psychedelic jam at it's best. Takes you straight to the decade in came from instantly. You in The Age of Aquarius now my dude. Requires more than one sitting for this one.

Don't be scared!! She's only talking about drugs.😊🥰🤣

..."and the ones that mother gives you ... don't do anything at all.." Considering this was the late 1960s, over 50 years ago, that line, broadcast all over radio America, was one of the most blunt things ever...especially in it's trippy reference to Disney's Alice in wonderland, which we all knew as kids. Trippy as F.

Man I was so stoked to see your reaction to this song and you did NOT disappoint! Loved this reaction and I agree with you about Grace's voice!

Now that you've entered psychedelia, you need to listen to "Inagaddadavida" by Iron Butterfly. It's practically the druggies' national anthem. Also, best drum solo ever.

Welcome to the '60s. They were higher than a kite most days. Yes ... She's talking about using drugs.

U should react to other song by her - Somebody to love

We were 17 (my class) and music like this in the summer of '67 was the rage. Psychedelic music was the "norm". From Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin to Grateful Dead to the Beatles...everybody was doing it. Fluorescent black lites &posters, lava lamps and "grass" took us to that next level. U, lighting up, with this song on, were half-way there. Gotta getcha the black lite & posters. U feel high just looking at them...add the music and ur there. Btw, good job. Just subscribed!!

I used to go out & party with my Mom. She's not the average Mom. She has friends in bands & it seemed like every bar we went to with a band she knew, they would play White Rabbit & have her sing it. I HATED this song with a passion! Eventually though, I came to think of my Mom whenever I heard this song so now I love it! It makes me smile thinking back on all the good times we had together.

Oh yes, my hippie days. This lady. Grace slick man her voice can tear a house down, beautiful😍😍. A great high song 🚭. 🤣🤣🤣

Ah.. Mushrooms. ✌ Psychedlic rock at its finest!!

no other song is like this. the way she holds and drags notes and vibrates others. along with the great music

As a teen all I wanted to do was turn 18 and leave for California. This song represents the ultimate head trip. Luckily I fell in love and stayed put.

Haha it does have that ‘I’m gonna hold you down and make you do mushrooms with me’ kinda vibe. 🐛🐛🐛

Thanks for reacting to this trip. That's what this one is. A total trip. About Alice in Wonderlands, dropping acid and taking shrooms and hanging with a hookah smoking catepillar. The song all culminates into the last line, which was Timothy Leary's big thing "Feed Your Head". This one is just a polar opposite to what she did with Starship which you reacted to yesterday. Anyway, last thought. You mentioned iconic voices like Stevie Nicks. Stevie cites Grace Slick as one of her main inspirations in music. I think your read for some Janis Joplin. You're ready to fall in love with that Southern Comfort drinking blues singing wild child.

The last minute or so of this song is just about my favourite part of any song, ever.

😂😂😂😂 I can’t even imagine what it’s like being your agency in this for the first time, hippies and psychedelic drugs, hilarious reaction🤣🥰

IT IS A TRIP ON THE “STORY OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND” BABY! L💜VE YOUR REACTION PRICELESS! IMAGINE BEING 5yrs AND SEEING AND HEARING THIS! ITS A TRIP🔮💗🦋👁🕊🙀😬🙄🎩🐰🐇🐇

MR. VIDEO Pulled RABBIT OUT HIS HAT... TAAAADAAAAHHH🐰🐰🐰🐰🐇🐇🐇

I’m so glad you mentioned her voice. So many reactions only focus on the lyrics & I don’t think they appreciate her voice…which to me is the most important : )

Grace Slick was also the female lead singer in Jefferson Starship.

And yet, somehow one of the major cruise lines is using this in a recent commercial... now that’s a cruise I’d like to take!

Grace wrote and performed this song and "Somebody To Love" in San Francisco in the 60's when drugs were All legal. This is a takeoff from the children's storybook "Alice In Wonderland". She has one of the best voices in rock. At this time there were two guys in the band that could also sing lead. These two songs really were the stepping stone to making this band soar to stardom. I love your channel. One of the verry, very best of all the reactors online today.

Gotta do “Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” from The Fifth Dimension next Mr. Video! It starts out trippy (not as much as WR though) then gets an almost gospel feel for the second part. You’ll be up dancing and singing along!! It’s Brilliant!

This song took you on a trip without leaving the station. Love that " I didn't have time to react"

Woohoo, a great blast from my past 🤗🎶🔥

I'm going to implement a White Rabbit code when friends and I are going to party. It's brilliant! 😂

Your face when you first heard Grace Slick's voice, it's priceless!

One of the most profound songs ever written.... I'm glad you have discovered it.. I think you would enjoy the depth of el condor pasa -by Simon and Garfunkel. "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail" meaning I would rather have impact on others rather than being pushed upon .

This song is inspiration for the "Caterpillar on the mushroom smoking a toke" drawing my hubby did that I sent you 😯

Alice in Wonderland ! (but it’s also about drugs). But what made me laugh, is there’s a song by Smokie called “Who the F... is Alice ?”.

Years later they changed their name to Jefferson Starship. Between 1974 and 1984, they released eight gold or platinum selling studio albums.

Grace Slick wrote this, along with Somebody to Love, another big JA song. She's one of a kind and a rock legend.

Check out the live Woodstock version of this song. Incredible!

All about Alice in wonder land, it’s an acid trip song. Lol

One of my first concerts was Jefferson Airplane and the person I was with, my best friend at the time, our goal was to make Grace Slick react to us... So we jumped from the second floor and hung from the railing... Grace looked at us like you are crazy.... Mission accomplished😝😂😂

“I knew this was mushroom music!” Awesomeness!

Velvet Underground is great too

I didn't think you were going to get scared by White Rabbit lmao when the mushroom word came up.

The name of the band came from the name of a friend's cat: Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane. That name is a take-off on the name of an old black blues singer, Blind Lemon Jefferson. He really was blind.

Your reaction to 60's and 70's hippie music cracks me up every time. Lol

Don't forget styx! "Crystal ball" or "Mr. Roboto"

Sonic The Hedgehog is a hard game to play when you are tripping on mushrooms.

Yes Alice In Wonderland. Grace Slick had the most haunting voice. This was a great group. I met her once and talked to her for over an hour, not having any idea who she was, she looked like a soccer mom. Later one of my friends told me that he saw me talking to Slick, I said what? He then told me who she was. We were back stage at a Rod Stewart concert and her husband was in charge of lighting or something. She was so normal that I had a difficult time connecting that face to this voice. Fun reaction.

This song was based on “Alice In Wonderland”, by Lewis Carroll. She speaks of pills and mushrooms, the white rabbit and the door mouse. We begin teaching our children about drugs in classic children’s stories. Grace Slick spoke of this in subsequent interviews. Mr. Video, you are so funny! Terribly cute as well. It was definitely part of the psychedelic era. Good music!

Please check "Somebody to love woodstock '69" Everyone soo fkn' high in that video 😀

Dont listen to ANY other directions... Find a song its called Alice's Restaurant. Arlo Guthrie did it. And his dad was a famous folk rock singer. I got the songbook for this song and if i see ya anywhere near Alice...i'll hafta send you this book. Theres some 5by7 glossy photographs involved,with writing on the back... And you can get ANYTHING you want...at Alice's Restaurant...!😂😂😂😂😁

I grew up in Phoenix in the 70s...we use to eat the peyote from the cactus!! We would have huge boondockers out in the middle of the desert with live bands and kegs of beer!! Damn I had a great teenager life!!

“Throw the radio in the bath tub! When white rabbit peaks!” Lol 😝 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!

You like smoking the wacky weed...lol ... you need to listen to the Steve Miller band... The Joker

If you haven't yet react to Bruce Springsteen "I'm on fire" can you please check it out. Thanks, love your channel.

So, my guitar teacher was Jorma Kaukenon, the lead guitarist on this song. I saw the Jefferson Airplane on their very first concert. In fact, that 'concert' was at Pierce St Annex bar in SF. The other act was a guy called Carlos Santana. So how many people were there? Maybe 15. The other story you might enjoy is that Grace Slick was a bit of a, let's say, loose chicky. One time she ran into a bathroom where a 'cute' guy just entered and a few seconds later, you could hear the guy screaming 'but I'm GAY", lol.

"Feeling good,is good Enough" can't hear this song without thinking of "Platoon". You have to watch one of the best movies ever

You need to chew some gum when you are about to land or take off and then your ears won't be popping

Queen live Somebody to love

From 'Surrealist Pillow' - although, some of us Surrealists out here don't need mushrooms. We just do what comes into the brain whenever there's a storm or a full moon or when a canary sings!

This is the apex of the whole drug scene in "Fear and Loathing In Los Vegas". Perfect tension for an incredible scene.