This is definitely a tripping song.. trust me. I'm old enough to have experienced it in the 70s as a teenager :)

This was the Great Acid Anthem. They're using Alice as a metaphor for being stoned out of your mind.

Thanks for your reaction! Actually a "Jefferson airplane" was a handmade roach clip that was somewhat shaped like an airplane not realized by the establishment at first. Once the band's title was figured out they had a lot of pressure to change the band's name if they wanted radio play. (they eventually changed the name to "Jefferson Starship" and later "Starship" when there were transitions and member changes.) This is the genre known as Psychedelic Rock (or acid rock) from the 60's and 70's with lots of drug references that were unnoticed at first and played on the radio. Some other Psychedelic rock songs you may want to check out are Status Quo's "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" and Brewer and Shipley's "One Toke Over The Line". Once some of the lingo and drug references were figured out, the US radio stations were banned from playing certain songs including "One Toke Over The Line" but Lawrence Welk created a bit of a scandal when he had singers do that song on his show because he was not familiar with the word "toke" and thought the song was religious! (the video of that Lawrence Welk episode is on You Tube.) I am an older woman living in a retirement community and at our last Woodstock anniversary event "White Rabbit" was one of the most requested song for the band to play by our oldest residents as it really was sort of a cultural anthem for that time period.

I'm 71 years old. Anyone my age knows this intro instantly. Jefferson Airplane played homecoming at my college when I was a freshman.

If you were a teen in the 1960s or 1970s this song would have seemed perfectly normal and made perfect sense.

Grace Slick is the lead singer and queen of acid rock

Plenty of Vietnam movies have this in the soundtrack

What I love about this song is that it is a no-bridge song that only escalates and escalates in intensity until it inevitably ends in a single crescendo.

This is a performance on the Smothers Brothers show. Anyone watching them, would love this. If you do not know the Smothers Brothers ... you should. They got kicked of TV for speaking the truth. This is an awesome song when elevated.

Psychedelic rock baby. My generation owned it and we're just sharing it with you

FEED YOUR HEAD!!!! FEEEEDDDD YOUR HEAD!!!!!!

THE HOOKA SMOKIN CATEPILLAR!!!!

To understand and appreciate this song you have to realize that it's from the late 60's. Drugs, free sex, counterculture, protests, Vietnam, civil rights, assassinations, riots, psychedelia, youth culture, hippies, dropping out, upheaval, the works. It perfectly fit those times the way that any given Taylor Swift song fits our times (read into that what you will) or disco and easy listening rock fit the 70's. There may be meaning in the lyrics but for most young people back then it was just a part of a lifestyle they adopted for a while and nothing more.

This was the beginning of the hippie era. San Francisco, the Greatfull Dead, Height and Ashbury and the summer of love! I know, I lived in SF then.

Don is on the right track with the name change. Started as Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship, and then Starship. All the name changes were because of legal reasons when members changed. Song was played at the original Woodstock festival in '69. "Somebody to Love" is another of their bigger songs.

A psychedelic take on Ravel's "Bolero"

all Alice in wonderland references AND THE RED QUEEN OFFS HER HEAD

Back in the 60s a Jefferson Airplane was an improvised roach clip.

Their Woodstock performance of this is iconic. Grace nails it.

Grace Slick was the singer. "Somebody to Love" is another iconic 60's song by them, and yes, they did become Jefferson Starship. They had numerous hits as both Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Their biggest hit as Jefferson Starship was probably "Miracles", although Grace Slick did not sing that one.