Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane Cover)

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals perform a cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" at the Burlington Waterfront Show in 2009. A recorded version of the song is featured on Almost Alice, a collection of tracks inspired by Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland.
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[@bobwhitmire6888]

I’ve heard a lot of people sing this song, and Grace Potter comes the closest to anyone in capturing that old Airplane magic.

[@alanrothchild4616]

Grace Potter is so under rated. More talent than anyone can count.

[@rocco...]

🤩More than Billie Eilish🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lucillerainville5026]

All of them excel. They just lack the big $$ $. And to their credit they wouldn’t sell out! But the Nocturnals were special.

[@mbernays273]

I saw them do this at The Marquee Theater in Tempe and it came as close as anything I've ever seen to literally blowing the roof off the place. The crowd was going nuts, the band was on fire, Grace was somehow floating above us all -- I haven't done psychedlics for 40 years but I was flying on this song!

[@marksheiman1538]

Dig that.

[@larrypascoe6210]

Well said. Saw her last summer, touring/fronting with Jefferson Starship. The show closed with White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. Grace was outstanding.

[@ckuzu]

does any one got goosebumps listening to this song? psychedelic music at its best.

[@richardfurlott4243]

You are correct ckuzu ; excellent taste !!!

[@rickjohnson8707]

Hell yeah....sent me back to my trippin years

[@rickjohnson8707]

YOU NEED TO WATCH " PINK " DO THIS LIVE .......🎤 PHENOMENAL !

[@fotograham]

Yes. I do.

[@intuberably]

Yes. She has another rooftop version in which she glisondoes up 2 octaves at the end.

[@raymondjean1195]

What an interesting version of that psychedelic rock Classic !!! Love it. 🎸 🎼 🎤

[@bigcat880]

Grace doing Grace 😍

[@raystaples8798]

Nothing can beat the original but this is very very good.

[@user-gh8wt2zi2n]

Have you heard the original? Jefferson Airplane didn't actually play it first. It was performed and recorded by Great Society first, when Grace Slick was there singer, before she was in Airplane

[@azsunburns]

@ray Go look up Pink's version. It's awesome

[@georgiahughes6404]

@@azsunburns xs

[@duncanidaho9492]

@@user-gh8wt2zi2n yu'r right , the first version by the great society is amazing

[@MichaelTaylor-fj3et]

yes very good

[@factChecker01]

She does this song justice. Glad to hear it again. I won't compare it with Grace Slick at Woodstock. That was a long, long time ago. They say that Grace Slick wrote this in minutes and it just flowed out naturally.

[@cynthiacoleman4577]

She, above, doesn't have the "right" inflections as Slick, which made the song slick, not graceful. People just don't know how the pills were given out back then, how we were to behave. I've listen to the 1967 version and the song at Woodstock, and I prefer the 1967, Dick Cavett, version. I prefer the "Spanish" elements to the song. Slick said, "In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Slick mentioned that, in addition to Alice in Wonderland, her other inspiration for the song was Ravel's Boléro. Like Boléro, "White Rabbit" is essentially one long crescendo." That's what made this brief song so great. The mix of Alice and Boléro. If you don't know Boléro, listen to it. This song may be about hallucinogens, but it's sung by someone intellectual.

[@swrennie]

@@cynthiacoleman4577 There is zero dichotomy between the ingestion of hallucinogens and intellectualism. The drugs were ofyen taken to gain greater insight or connection. Some of the greatest writers, thinkers and artists used liquor to LSD and beyond to achieve a "higher state of mind"...

[@RafaSchepper]

@@swrennie , concordo contigo. Alucinógenos podem elevar o espírito. Feliz comentário o teu. Um abraço aqui do Brasil!

[@kenmclemore523]

I agree to the extent that "comparisons" damage artistic interpretation; but understanding the differences in those interpretations is also important. I agree that this version doesn't have the crescendo element of the Woodstock or original versions; but this was a truncated concert version, so that is understandable. As to the vocal phrasing, no artist wants to be a robot in their cover, but responsible artists adhere to the music; Grace did that here and it is to her credit that she maintained the essential integrity of the original but with her own vocal touches. It's a compelling performance. KDM

[@toobalkain]

@@cynthiacoleman4577 very interesting comment. I can feel something's off with this cover as compared to the original. Sounds like a difficult song to sing the way Grace Slick was doing it.

[@ChosenOne-jk6go]

Grace has such a great voice and is soo beautiful!!!! I think this version was done perfectly!! They added their own vibe but kept it respectful!!

[@cbritton1876]

She and her band is my new drug. Absolutely love her voice and she's absolutely gorgeous.

[@richardfurlott4243]

Grace's band is excellent ! This is not easy to do Grace !!

[@EducatedSkeptic]

WOW! I've enjoyed numerous covers of this song, but WHY did it take so long to find THIS ONE??? Truly awesome - and it would have been electrifying live, I'm sure.

[@brendajohnson622]

Got the pleasure of seeing Grace live she is an amazing singer.

[@RobertGoerman]

Love this! Just added it to my "White Rabbit Obsession" playlist!

[@salxoxo]

The music in the first minute is soo beautiful.

[@JayJoJonny]

The Nocturnals, such a great backing band!

[@greenman7612]

Grace is just amazing! All that talent wrapped up in a sexy, sultry package. If you have not seen the Nocturnals live, you are missing out! So out and support this great group. The players are all extremely talented.

[@chicana320]

LOVE her voice! One of my favorite songs!

[@annrhoads6808]

LOVE GARCI AND HER BAND SAW HER IN 2018 IN Wilmington NC They were Good ✌✌✌✌🌟🌟🌟💜

[@rbutler1231]

Gives me goosebumps every time. Tis so very good.

[@1955mbb]

I'm sitting here with chills and giggling to myself at 8:45 on a Sunday morning. They did this as the closer to a concert in Tempe Arizona several years ago and blew the roof off the place. This is what live music is all about.

[@GratefulAndKindKidz]

grace potter does everything bettaaa. GPN woot woot

[@madridista1902]

I heard that song in movie The Game and since then i can't get it out of my head...

[@LOWROLLER72]

+Damn Son One of my favorite movies! Michael Douglas vs. CRS (Consumer Recreation Services) LR

[@guapoviejo9135]

I heard it first back in '67 or so and it has never really left my head. Rabbit, Volunteers, Somebody to Love, and Good Shepherd play back to back to back sometimes, depending on where my own head is being fed. Nobody will ever match the impact of the Beatles, but for my own personal enjoyment of music, Airplane, REM, Pink Floyd, Clapton, Janis, Springsteen, and a few other bands rank right up there in a relative tie for first place.

[@istemihanvarisli]

This is simply awesome. Kudos, people!

[@bobbybrady5989]

Grace Potter singing Grace Slick- Sweet! This girl can sing anything that's for sure.

[@TLicht-gy2bc]

1968 war ich 9 Jahre alt und seitdem mag ich diesen Song! Super gecovert!

[@user-pu6bd6bn1s]

Ця пісня довела свою геніальність крізь роки! Пройшло вже майже 60 років!!!

[@jordanfan1023]

Grace just does a spectacular job at covering this song! She keeps its originality as well as keeping its legacy. Great job!

[@faithfuldame]

I got goosebumps listening to this , so good ..

[@MWSilencer]

I saw Grace Slick and Airplane do this, this is soooo good.

[@mypalal13]

I have chills!! Such an amazing voice! So much talent!

[@RichardBerg-qi7if]

Oh man . Hello yeah!

[@Muradmb1986]

difinitely goes to my top 10 ,, love it ,, love it

[@Chris1345]

Wow..I just discovered Grace Potter this morning when I saw her performance on GMA and she's amazing. I'm now going through and listening to everything, and I'm just amazed..talent beyond belief, and the band as well! I have always loved this song and it does it justice!

[@Alwhite1929]

I got chills listening to this, amazing.

[@NadineZed]

I love that Benny's just smoking a cigarette while playing on stage. I find it hilarious!

[@These_go_to_eleven_1959]

Always loved the middle eastern groove this tune has! I wrote a metal version of it sounds really cool

[@MTLNCK52]

I had the oppurtunity to see Grace Potter and the Nocturnals here in my hometown of Sioux City at SATURDAY IN THE PARK on July 3rd,2011! They put on one helluva show! Very impressive!

[@felinebline7154]

Bravo. Singer!

[@michealjovanie7143]

Amazing cover that gave me chills down my spine. X3

[@crystarrrr]

WOw, My new favorite band, Bringing music back where it should be, Refreshing is what they are.

[@terrapinbrad]

...KILLER voice, stage persona, energy, and MAD passion for what she's/they re doing...amazing, IMO. I was lucky enough to come back from the restroom to the opening of this song at my GPN show on 7-7-11 in Indy. She/they played a four song encore and the whole time she's running around and dancing as if it were the opener!

[@rob232012]

The tempo shift is everything that's great with this cover! 😍

[@Epitaph995]

This lady is simply amazing!

[@tophatandscarf]

Righteous she's an old soul...

[@howiemcrae3406]

It does my heart good to hear a new version of an older song done up right! Wait a second..... I'm not really from the 60's. (LOL)

[@mersenneprime7]

I lived through the sixties and know the original well, but this Grace sends shivers down my spine. What a voice !

[@janagerskovsrensen5898]

Love the song. There is danger and mystery in IT. . This is very good too

[@yesthisisshi]

I love this band!!

[@pouchfreeman]

Grace and the band kick ass on this. love it, love the Nocturnals. love the Airplane.

[@HiHo44]

I saw Jefferson Airplane do this tune live in the SUNY Stony Brook gym in 1967 with about 200 people attending and this video just took me back there. Very few people could sing this and do it justice but Grace does it with ease. The new inproved Nocturnals sound great, can't wait to see you guys live soon.

[@Ourladyrules]

i have generally never liked covers of this song, but i really like this. very good.

[@Dave-kg8kd]

Definitely got the feel, love me some Grace (Slick and Potter)

[@neglej]

Saw them perform this live at Nokia this last friday....INSANELY AMAZING and let me tell you all for the record: SHE AND THE BAND DID THIS SONG MORE THAN JUSTICE....the crowd was dancing on their heads!!! Grace's voice swallowed us whole. :)

[@taylorw]

She is powerful. Just not in the same place as Grace S. reached, which is best female rock voice ever. Should I say I heard her and the Airplane in a coffee house on Boylston St in 67 . I still love this Grace too!

[@vinnycalLA75]

of all the covers to this song this one is far and away the best

[@Newfoundmike]

GRACE DOES GRACE WITH GRACE !

[@TisiphonesShadow]

I'm in love...

[@jeffhanshaw]

love this song!

[@fald33]

That killer guitar solo at 0:24 gives me psychedelic trips.

[@RobertWogrin]

excellent version. It speaks so clearly to the fact that in the arts there is more than one way to interpret the delivery. I love Grace Slick, I love Grace Potter. Its like asking me which of my kids I love better - Love em both just differently.

[@jfaulkner5881]

Grace, you are divine! Thank you for keeping this great genre of music going strong! ✌

[@techie3484]

This is actually a great cover, I am a 26yr old who loves classics and this gets so close to the original that it was a great listen and will be for years

[@horse4you]

Wonderful cover of a classic song. I'm an instant fan of this band.

[@Newfoundmike]

Listen to her do I shall be released at the concert for levon she made the house band almost cry

[@jamieleeromance]

love this song

[@user-gh8wt2zi2n]

FYI, this was originally a Great Society song not Jefferson Airplane. Great Society performed and recorded it when Grace Slick was their singer. Being Graces song she used it when she joined Airplane. The original is actually different. It's here on KZbin for you to check out 😉

[@donaldgehre5964]

My, aren't you an amazing archive of regurgative info.

[@Adastra14]

love this!

[@buddylarsen]

That's it --that's the song, faithful b& true --and REAL good!

[@ohs0fast]

This is an incredible song, and sung by an incredible voice filled with body and passion =]

[@Laurieis1]

Definitely one of my favorite tunes . You have to have the right vocals to sing this for sure and you most definitely have those pipes for this tune.

[@stuartsiglain3972]

Love your voice.❤️ And the instrumentation is superb. All in all a tremendous performance.

[@todortr.3356]

Goosebumps all over my body 😍😍😍

[@benburma6112]

Very nice cover/homage, but it doesn't give me those chills and goose bumps like the original did the first time I heard it and fell in love, forever, with Gracie, way back in '66. :)

[@havocgr1976]

Covers can never surpass an amazing song, they can only do it if the original sucked.

[@TheHighValley]

havocgr1976 not necessarily true.... Jimi Hendrix took "all along the watchtower " and made it his bitch.... and many other dylan tunes....

[@benburma6112]

You're both right, of course. I was speaking more to how this affected me at that time and no cover, no matter how good, can ever do that, still, this comes very close and certainly evokes that time wonderfully! (Agree about and "Watch Tower.)

[@bunkie2100]

@@havocgr1976 I'd say that, most of the this is true. However as others have mentioned, a cover that finds something new and powerful can be as good or better than the original. To add to the examples already mentioned, I would add Joe Cocker's rendition of "With a Little Help From my Friends". With respect to White Rabbit, at a Jefferson Starship concert about ten years back, Cathy Richardson was ill and local NY singer Sophia Ramos filled in. Her version was utterly faithful to the original and the way she prowled the stage like a caged animal and engaged the audience only enhanced her first-rate vocals.

[@richardfurlott4243]

Yes excellent !!!!

[@whoamiification]

Man, Grace and the Nocturnals have settled into what I am gonna call, "An Interstate Groove...." Grace, the band together and individually are Epic Win. The kind of place and space that can last a while like driving across the continent. Bring that baudahss roadshow over our way people. Just lovin it. MaddMikes

[@bryan829]

sooo awesome

[@santamara]

Pretty amazing!! I love it!

[@kenmclemore523]

Loved it; maintains the flavor of the original with Grace's artistic touches in interpretation that make it Grace Potter's contribution to the music. KDM

[@morokasvaklempt]

I love this song, Jefferson Airplane etc. I liked this because it reminds me so much how I love Alice in Wonderland.The live against recorded both excellent!!!! Nice!!

[@rcatoday]

Grace Potter is Awesome.. Looking forward to seeing her in Austin!

[@markspeer7453]

excellent cover. period.

[@mzx2000]

Saw them in Houston about a month ago... they were amazing!

[@LeeZimmerman187]

Grace is very good, Gracie would be happy. It been awhile since I have talked to Alice...

[@hardtime63]

Soooo, 161 people thought so little of this performance that they actually hit the thumbs down? I'm sorry for you, this woman is simply awesome. I'm just amazed she isn't everywhere, given her talent, writing ability, playing ability, & looks, damn. It's kinda irritating.

[@steffyjoxox]

I love that the quality is so good you can see her spit and then a nice glob bridges her mouth and the microphone! :D Just ball busting, I saw this live and it was GREAT.

[@leonardocarretero1054]

Nice refreshing updated version , love it, What a voice !!!

[@marottadave]

What a beautiful voice ❤

[@rainpoetry3695]

What a brilliant cover and performance. They brought out this song’s Andalusian-Moorish heritage.

[@bonnieshaw858]

I cant imagine anyone else covering that song she sounds great

[@psbii]

Grace Potter is so awesome

[@die1980]

Ottima performance🎉🎉❤ L'accelerazione in mezzo la fa più rock

[@billloraff9132]

Wow what a great adventure !

[@xatafa]

Like would be an understatement. Go Grace!

[@EarthGirl1914]

Grace covers Grace most awesomely!

[@elegantwino1]

Saw Grace in Austin at the festival. She played at about 2:00 in the afternoon and stll managed to have the whole place rocking!

[@princerocks84]

I LOVE IT!!!!! GREAT JOB!!

[@Joey.R]

How wonderful this was!

[@viridianadb6246]

makes me wanna eat mushrooms. 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🌼🌼🍄

[@rocdarjargm]

+Lord & Lady of Winterfell I puke every time

[@viridianadb6246]

😂

[@dirtysprite5655]

I like you

[@pseudoname3159]

I got you covered hit me

[@corrinenolan7843]

+DReggaeDougla Bwoi boii

[@jadenocturna]

Im gonna see grace potter at the house of blues in dallas november 10th. I begged my dad to let me go. Also im gonna sing low road at my boys and girls club talent show wish me luck

[@Mymundanelife7]

I think I love you Grace Potter!

[@PayYourselfFirst]

This is very good. I would love to come to a show.