Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit | REACTION

[@rs-ye7kw]

In Greek folklore, Helen of Troy was dubbed "the face that launched a thousand ships". In the '60's, Grace Slick was known as "the voice that launched a thousand trips".

[@theelf5591]

Best comment ever!!! 😉

[@jacobreisser8034]

When this was recorded for the album she sang it on her back while tripping. It's one of the best albums ever made.

[@craiggriffiths6018]

When I was younger I was known as the kid who dropped a thousand trips lol

[@ChuckHackney]

I love it. She definitely ushered many a human on a trippy, other worldly journey. Little LSD didn't hurt.

[@Johnnycdrums]

And Mariska Veres.

[@nickbyrne5871]

Grace OWNED that stage whenever she stepped on it. God Bless her. Now, going on 82!!!!

[@grahamethomas2892]

The guy in the middle I love your expressions listening to this track, you were really into it.

[@bobthebear1246]

Grace Slick, the original Rocker Chick, is STILL alive AND well at 84!! It's especially miraculous considering how many drugs she did back in the day AND being an alcoholic at the same time. She is amazing.

[@jeffwooten5205]

I have a sister that is 10 years older than me. I am now 61 years old. She was babysitting me one night, and took me to an awesome party. I think I might have been around 8 years old. I heard this song then. I've loved it ever since.

[@cameo_celeste]

I really like how you guys reviewed this song, and that you let it play uninterrupted. I remember being a young girl and thinking that when I’m older I’ll understand this song. That came true. When Grace Slick begins the line “when the men on the chest board get up and tell you where to go” it ALWAYS sends chills through my body. Her vocals get SO powerful from that line to the end of the song. What a classic that song is!

[@mojo0307]

This was great. Next from Jefferson Airplane: 'Somebody To Love'. This is their most well known song and Grace Slick's vocals will amaze you. Again.

[@haintedhouse2990]

agreed. to this day i break out in chills when I hear her open with "When the truth is found..."

[@diogenesagogo]

@@haintedhouse2990 It's the philosophical fulcrum of the Coen Brothers' film A Serious Man. One of my favourite underrated movies ever.

[@edwardrutledge2765]

I had a crush on Grace Slick 55 years ago; I read she just turned 80. God, I’m old.

[@alansmyth2204]

The bass sets this song up just perfect

[@williamosborne6866]

"Somebody to Love" would make a great follow-up. Grace's voice really gets a workout.

[@mrmjb1960]

That became the first single RCA issued. This was the Follow Up.

[@mrmjb1960]

Somebody was written by Darby Slick her Brother and Guitarist in her former group The Great Society.

[@zeallust8542]

The way the vocals in this song sound distant is basically exactly how a lot of sounds are on psychedelics, meanwhile other sounds (like the drums here) are clear as day, but not distracting.

[@marksims6425]

Grace plays her voice like a lead guitar !

[@feedigli]

It ain't a moral failing not to know the history of music from 55 years ago...Woodstock was famous for 500,000 people not killing each other while having a miserable rainy weekend with the biggest bands in the world providing the soundtrack. But it has not retained the title for the biggest audience.

[@TomGorham]

I am from this time period. I like you guys... all of you. But the one in the center reminds me of of me long ago. I was a singer, I got it, and it was intense.

[@thomasleerling]

Dude in the middle was getting dragged in that rabbit hole he spoke off. Loved to see how he start moving progressively more as the song progressed

[@jordanmiller5207]

great call running it back🚀

[@bostonvair]

Another "must" react song from Jefferson Airplane is "Somebody to Love."

[@davidstenton4365]

*Gentlemen* First, I've NEVER felt soooo old when 2 of you said "I've never heard this" .... lol.... I GET IT, truly.... but this song was SO massive, SO pervasive, SO emblematic of 1967 "The REAL summer of love" that it's mind boggling to me you haven't heard it..! *LOVE YOU GUYS* and I never comment but come on my millenial music lovers.! If I {at 60} am well AQUAINTED with Post Malone, Tom MacDonald, etc.... you guys got some root diggin to do.! I've watched countless reaction channels over the past 4 years.! Yours is one of the best.. The editing is a bit quirky... sorry I'm a former touring musician & DJ so my musical filter got thrown in the trash somewhere on The Sunset Strip in the 80's..... BUT.... you do a good job.!!!!! THIS ONE, the not knowing just reinforces my belief. That being, a) Information overload is a huge problem and b) The age of the algorithm has *DEPRIVED* the public of so much.... In any event, live your best musical life young Turks..! I'll be watching...... David .....

[@d.r.eisenbarth1032]

Great comments.. I hope they take the time to 1) read the book Alice in Wonderland and 2) get a grasp of the revolution that music was the core of in the 60's ... same struggle going on today.

[@lynnborkowski417]

Haunting even today….

[@teresakoslosky3053]

I did this song in a lip sinc contest back in the 70’s.. it was really popular to lip Sinc and they had contests to see who did it best! I dressed like her and wore some hippy clothes and danced and sang , I won 2nd place, this was in Seattle Washington in the 70’s. Great memory!

[@AuthorLaurieAnnSmith]

This is one of my all time favorites ❤ I was born in 65, my older brothers hitch hiked to Woodstock. If you haven't, check out the Woodstock performance of this song. Brilliant 👍💯🔥😎

[@susanpolice8465]

AAAAHHHH....another "Anthem" from my misspent youth....and I loved ALL OF IT!!!!

[@triciakotuku554]

This is the song to listen to late after a night out, when you are feeling chilled and can allow yourself to drift on the lyrics and music. Atmospheric, seductive and hypnotic. Grace was a wonder. Music as art. Still chuckling about the retort " Jesus was before your time too" Watch Platoon. Let's hear it for the girls!

[@babylonsister118]

OMG that WAS so funny!

[@KevinQ1989]

This is the song to listen to while smoking a doobie.

[@JJSMJ]

@@KevinQ1989 this is the song to listen to while the shrooms kicks in

[@triciakotuku554]

@@KevinQ1989 Back in the day maybe. But now it is strickly green tea, dressing gown and slippers and 2300hours is a late night. But listening to Grace makes me feel anything is possible that is for sure haha

[@davidmaholchic6146]

So surprise you guys are hearing this for the first time. I am too love you

[@cletushouse906]

All you guys need is 3 tabs of LSD and you would be playing this on repeat.

[@triciakotuku554]

And have no idea that it had played over and over.

[@caroleann_2142]

1967, released, Grace wrote this, based on Alice & the Music is based on Ravel's Bolero. She is a POWERHOUSE ❤❤❤

[@robertlear2735]

In college I saw Jefferson Airplane in concert twice, 1969 and 1970 - They were one of my favorite live bands. I used to sing White Rabbit in our band in college.

[@katiedid1851]

Aw Grace. You killed it. Such great memories.

[@mrmjb1960]

Also included in the Soundtrack of Platoon. Grace Slick was in the Great Society when she debuted this song and Somebody To Love written by her Brother Darby. She took this song written by her to Jefferson Airplane.

[@panamericachicago]

Grace Slick is Amazing! Looking forward to the rest of this week and future reactions... Great job!

[@enotra]

WOW! You guys should consider reacting to Platoon. It is legendary and required viewing for Americans. Lol...

[@dogstar7]

This is Grace's best vocal performance. The band steps back and gives her the all the spotlight on this. Listen to 'Somebody to Love' or 'Plastic Fantastic Lover' to get a BLAST of what the band sounded like when it kicked out the rams.

[@maryanngarrimone1153]

Love Grace Slick's voice. You need to listen to you need somebody to love. Another awesome group!

[@thereses100]

I’m 69 and I sang this song in front of my hometown in 10th grade😂😂

[@davescat2118]

A buddy got me hooked on reaction vids a couple months ago, and I gotta say that you guys are the first I’ve seen do any research before listening to the song. Most are more worried about their facial expressions than they are about what they’re listening to, so they wind up misinterpreting the lyrics and asking all kinds of silly questions about their interpretation of what they weren’t paying attention to. White Rabbit was the first rock song I ever heard. We lived way out in the country, and could only pick up two radio stations. One was country, the other news. One Saturday night after midnight I found we could pick up WLS out of Chicago, which was a couple hundred miles away. Turned out they boosted their signal on weekends. I was about 9 and it was a life changing moment. Can’t wait to find more of your vids. Really liked it when the dude with the lightning bolt tshirt started bobbing his sideways when the beat changed midway thru at, “when the men on the chessboard” lyric hit. I always do that, too.

[@womanonthinice1276]

It's like tripping on drugs then come down. This is definitely a group that doesn't do drugs.

[@ralphvillanueva8724]

Great song, Grace Slick wrote it while living about the Fillmore in SF. Guys need to watch Platoon. Great movie.

[@gailmarie4039]

We had IT ALL BABY! The best of the best. BLESSED 🌹

[@sylvianixon9526]

you guys are adorable as I watch you react to this. You are like 3 bobble heads.

[@maryreilly5092]

I was in kindergarten or 1st grade when this song came out on the radio. It scared the shit out of me because of the ominous sound of it. Of course, fast forward 10 yrs later and I got it and loved it!

[@dawg897]

"you can catch a cat without a smile. but can you catch a smile without a cat?"

[@ValerieBoyco]

I loved your analysis of this amazing song! It's interesting to me that three of you listened to the same song and came away with three different meanings. Great job

[@mattshaw6180]

Remember the movie "The Matrix"? Neo was told to "follow the White Rabbit." There are several nods to this song in that movie.

[@mrmjb1960]

Flip of this as a single was Plastic Fantastic Lover written by Marty Balin. Drummer Spencer Dryden replaced Skip Spence who went on to Moby Grape

[@mitchlrp]

1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world

[@barbarahamlin3284]

Couldn't read all comments and this reaction is a year ago. But, the little pills mother gives you.....back in the day doctors would prescribe "happy" pills to stay at home moms. As Mrs Robinson in "the graduate " the original song"sounds of silence " is on the sound track.

[@gaylecole9777]

Look at you guys in your pastels. Love it!

[@karinwolf3645]

I love that you are teaching your friends about this music! I'll be 71 this year and as a California kid I was instantly in love!! ❤❤💋💋

[@traceycater]

Best reaction I've seen anyone do to Go Ask Alice. One of my absolute favorites!!!

[@artbagley1406]

What a wrap-up, a powerful suggestion: "Feed your head!"

[@mikemax9076]

There's a version with just Grace singing just the vocals its haunting .

[@thomasleerling]

It's so different without the instruments. Much more eery

[@duhusker4383]

The song is about an acid trip and makes references to Lewis Carrol's famous Victorian novel from the end of the 19th century Alice in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass.

[@HemlockRidge]

This song structure is known as a "Bolero".

[@laoaganlester1728]

This is actually the first psychedelic song that was played in the radio waves at those times and yes Alice in Wonderland's dipper meaning was about the adventures of the mind when high in drugs💊💉🥴🤪

[@robertspencer2647]

You guys are amazing ! I’m glad you enjoyed this classic recording as much as I do .

[@zanna90]

Miracles!!!

[@Bekka_Noyb]

Absolutely love this song! ♥ Grace Slick is one of the greatest female vocalist

[@honestabe1940]

Listened to this song triping in High School, and then in Vietnam!

[@craigplatel813]

Grace slick actually did say the line feed your head was a call for people to read and educate themselves

[@mulrich]

The first time I heard this song, it was an instrumental version of the first... verse?, overdubbed with part of one of Lyndon B. Johnson's speeches and then part of one of Hanoi Hannah's radio broadcasts, playing in the main menu of "Battlefield: Vietnam".

[@babylonsister118]

In Starship she sings mostly background to Marty Balint and her voice is just so sultry. I love watching you guys. Thanks! Guaranteed to either smile, laugh or cry.

[@russtex]

Classic!

[@reneefuller5609]

It was one take. You can listen to the isolated vocal. She sounds like she is singing in an empty warehouse or something.😁

[@gustavopanesso7297]

LOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS PHSYCADELIC SONG! .. SO FREAKING 60S. LOOOOOVE IT!!!🌻🌻🌻🌻❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍

[@nancymartineau-bauman6018]

This song was also the theme song for a movie "Go Ask Alice" that was made in the 70's. Alice was a teenager who got mixed up with drugs. So this song was perfect for this movie. You should check out a live version of this song. I believe there might be on in Oakland and Woodstock. Looking forward to more of your female artist week!

[@IllumeEltanin]

An interesting cultural aspect of this song is the 1971 young adult novel Go Ask Alice, attributed to Anonymous. The title is definitely based on the line from White Rabbit, and the novel is viewed as a classic to this day.

[@caroleann_2142]

Very Similar to Bolero, they had that in mind at the time.❤😊 Grace Slick an absolute Powerhouse!

[@jenniferperrier7563]

She was painting the roses red. The queen

[@elmoomle4565]

This song is pure LSD...product of the times.

[@MoMoMyPup10]

It was brilliant to run it back to the beginning because of 'the structure'. It's a quick hitter, and it really builds from the start, and they'd have missed just how strong the buildup is if you didn't rewind.

[@ericsahagun5344]

There was a movie called 10 with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek a real beautiful voluptuous woman and a song in the movie was called BOLERO Is the backbone of this song and it starts out subtle and it keeps building just like the song bolero and Grace slicks voice reminds me of the vocalist in a flamenco dance or dancer who sings that's Spanish style of flamenco vocals That's what it reminds me of with the castanets and her clicking those heels on the hardwood floor That's what this song reminds me of It stirs my Spanish blood lol

[@sourisvoleur4854]

To be pedantic, this is based on BOTH Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Chess pieces are only in the second book; the hookah-smoking caterpillar and white rabbit are in the first. And so on.

[@tallykev6608]

Great tune.... one of the anthems for hippy culture. Not something I care to hear all the time, but it's a worthy song - and an important one in the annals of rock. The Woodstock version with video is def worth checking out...get to see Slick in all her glory. Nice review.

[@JeanineSinger-s1e]

Can't help it- Bobbleheads :) So glad you introduced yourself to the extraordinary Grace Slick.

[@salsonny]

back when Alice in wonderland and Wizard of OZ were written, People ate a lot of bread, it was one of the main foods, and they kept bread a long time, And People ate bread with mold on it, which makes you hallucinate , and supposedly these books were written while these writers were hallucinating.

[@StatisticsJason]

Put me on the Jefferson Starship "Miracles" bandwagon. I have no doubt you guys will love it!

[@jimcarlson6157]

I like your channel because I never learn anything or retain even a kernel of knowledge about anything you say. Thank you, gentlemen.

[@waynemoon5359]

Two other great songs from this band are "She Has Funny Cars" which is a song about lead singer Marty Balin's materialistic girfriend. Very psychadelic. Also "Volunteers" which is a vietnam war protest song calling for a revolution against it. A must listen for your Pysch. music repertoire

[@bryanrains1]

Somebody to love was huge for them.

[@Josh86_559]

Living in the Bay Area 20 minutes east of San Francisco, Jefferson Airplane is still big today in the Bay. If u go to SF youll see murals of Jefferson Airplane, especially on Haight & Ashbury.. Basically, 5 to 6 city blocks that still trapped in the 60s & 70s

[@mendyrckz76]

🦋 I Absolutely Love This Classic. And yea guys Your missin' out If you haven't watched ''Platoon'' Love The WAR movies ''Full Metal Jacket'', ''Behind Enemy Lines'', ''V For Vendetta'', ''Red Dawn'', ''Stripes'', etc... This is Such An Iconic Song & The Alice In Wonderland Film As well as the Remake. Are All Definitely Worth The Watch Also. Awesome Reaction Guys!

[@alpenhuhn1]

I recommend the Band Renaisance - Ashes are burning. Amazing female voice!

[@reneefuller5609]

I don't know if they're still there, but she used to have wolves carrying away women painted on her bedroom ceiling, I was told. I believe it. The 60s and early70s were Wild! I don't know how I survived, sometimes!😃😄😄🙃

[@penelopelopez8296]

You should hear Slick sing this song without the instrumentals ….just her voice. It’s amazing.

[@hummerklein4902]

My favorite Don’t need drugs to get high

[@donnaduhamel6004]

Paint the white roses red! Acid Rock An era of exploration....within

[@Mr.Thriver]

Alice in Wonderland (2010) starring Johnny Depp is quite entertaining indeed!!!

[@Silfverr]

Grace was legendary.

[@randyhochstein8455]

Beth Hart will absolutely blow your minds. Pick anything from her - Live At The Royal Albert Hall performance. You will not be disappointed. ✌🏼😎

[@Artisjjj]

And now it's in the new MATRIX 4 movie!!!

[@DoctorZebedee]

Biggest complaint about this song was that it was too short. There is a live version that is much longer because of the instrumental elaboration.

[@timwhitnell7145]

Miracles from Jefferson Starship's 1975 album Red Octopus is, in my opinion, the most sensuous love song ever. Marty Balin's singing and Grace Slick's background/answer vocals are hypnotizing. It''s got great sax play as well.

[@lipby]

That song is quietly filthy

[@kathy2122]

Jefferson airplane was slang for a roach clip (joint holder) made from a split paper match.

[@Roddy1965]

I got into punk rock before I knew this was a Jefferson Airplane song, so I first knew this tune as the cover by The Damned. It's a really neat cover.

[@mrmjb1960]

She was known for her volume and her equally piercing eyes

[@krisaaron8180]

Slick mentioned Ravel's Bolero as an influence, in addition to Alice In Wonderland.

[@sbalak]

Thank you!! This is about taking a psychedelic trip down Lewi's Caroll's Rabbit hole (Alice in Wonderland).

[@Cheshirecat-nx9zn]

Platoon is a must see movie. Brings you to the war we lived through.

[@oldguynewmusic6632]

Love you guys. Great reactions. Jefferson Airplane is a great choice.

[@barbsmith5465]

There was Jefferson Airplane which morphed into Jefferson Starship which morphed into Starship.

[@mrmjb1960]

When RCA issued this On CD in 1999 it also contained six bonus tracks none before issued!