Has one o the most extraordinary dramatic buildups and conclusions of any song I know. 50 year later, evan with all the tousands of times I've heard it, still gives me chill. A song for the ages...
This, Santana’s Black Magic Woman, Simon & Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence, Jimi Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower, and so many others, define the late 60’s/early 70’s for me.
We will never again have music like we had in the late 50's 60's 70's and 80's. I'm 70, and I would like to go back and hit repeat in the 60's and 70's. Best years ever!!!!
This song is almost impossible to really describe, it shows the great talent Grace Slick had as the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick was the "Queen" of what was called "Acid Rock" in the 60's. She was a beautiful young lady with such remarkable talent. I read her book and what a remarkable life she lead during the height of her career. She was told that her fame would not last forever and she should invest and save the money she was making, she was smart and took that advice now at the age of 74 she live's in Malibu and is still a wealthy woman. The fame of her early years due to her great talent will live on for many years to come.
God, this song is so powerful and so rooted in the era it came out. I feel like this song could never be produced today, it could only have been made in the late 60's. It nearly brings me to tears, listening to feels like travelling back in time.
I was born in ’96 and from all the music I have heard, I have always preferred music from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The past music is better than today's music.
Compared with some of the modern psych this doesn't take you anywhere. Listen to Blown Out and The Cosmic Dead , thats proper taking you to another realm stuff, this is just weird pop (and I love it for that)
1967: I was 6 years old, the Vietnam war had begun to rage, and my much older sister was heavily into drugs and kept running away from home to escape our violent household. When this song played on the radio, its darkly dramatic overture was mesmerizing to me, even though it seemed to underscore the horrible chaos of our family during that time. Ironically, this song is one of my all time favorites. Hauntingly beautiful in its simplicity and brilliant lyrics, I'm still mesmerized.
@@michelethomas1561 Thank you so much, Michele, that's very kind of you. Yes, she got clean in the mid-70s, and many years later got her degree in nursing. Had a tragic life in other ways, though.
Born in '76 and this song is one of my all time favorites as well. Probably one of the most perfect songs ever written. A true masterpiece. Enjoyed reading your comment.
I was 10 in 1967 in Hollywood, California. Hippies were everywhere. "Peace, love, and no more war" was the mantra of the time. White Rabbit filled the airwaves. A true classic that is always relevant. A music piece that helped define the late 1960's, that was full of creativity, turmoil, rebellion, and hope.
I was born in the summer of 1969. I’m glad I’m not 69 years old for 20 more years but I’ve always wished on some level that I had been born 15-20 years earlier so I could have really experienced these times. All of it. I read Go Ask Alice when I was about 11-12 years old and recently found a copy so I read it again on New Years Day. LOL. Now I’m researching everything about it including Grace Slick. I’ve learned a lot because I was a teen in the 80’s so it was different. I’m an MTV Gen Xer. I’m still grateful for being born the same summer as Woodstock and I was in the hospital nursery the day man walked on the moon. 1969! I was there! ❤️✌🏽🦀🌗
I was 13 in 1967, by 1969 I was 15 an on my way to Woodstock. I went with my brother an some of his friends. I tried pot and didn't like it, I sat and stared at the ground for hours. I made it home and safe from any harm. I left the drugs alone, just wasn't for me. But I enjoyed all the music very much, a great time to be alive. We all are old or dead now. I still can't wear old lady clothes, or listen to music the youngsters think we ought to listen to. People don't change, just the times.
Back in my day when this came on you rose to your feet (if you could) and raised your right fist in the air. When Grace got to "feed your head" you pumped that fist and belted out the words with her. Straight or not, the 60s were a day and place unto themselves. I saw Jeff Air twice (straight) and will never forget those shows.
+Alise Kacare Agree. Just heard it on an ep of the Sopranos and from a bit of lyric found it. It just feels like it is "getting going" when it ends. Pity there isn't a 12"! LG.
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small, And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all. Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall. And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall, Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar Has given you the call. Call Alice When she was just small. When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low. Go ask Alice I think she'll know. When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead, And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's "off with her head!" Remember what the dormouse said: "Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"
The song actually refers to "falling down a deep rabbit hole"... For those who don't know what that is, a rabbit hole is something that intrigues you to do more independent research... When you do your own independent research, you might find some shocking truths that wasn't mentioned before or you might find that what you was told/ taught was actually false doctrines... Thus being said, I highly suggest that you all question what you have blindly accepted as a child... You will unlock a deep rabbit hole, if you're intrigued enough and willing to go that far...
Just got out of MY Navy the FIRST TIME in February 1967. Two Wars, "Nam Era Vet," then 'Desert Shield/Desert Storm." Just Lucky I guess, but GOD Bless all my Brothers & Sisters who weren't so Damn Lucky. You're All Missed & Loved.EOC James J. Bilenki Jr. USN. Ret.
James j bilenki jr usn ret James, hope you get out with veterans 4 peace. Illegal wars, in fact, all of yours you participated in were unconstitutional, undeclared. Q. what made you go? Was it money or the chance to do something you could not get away with any other way? Simply curious since my cousin went to d.s. and then continued and was rewarded with 3 stars after doing and executing the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Stephen Verchinski I am sitting here dumbfounded that you would attack a decorated vet like that. You know we had a draft back in the Vietnam era. He fought for our freedom you jerk and for you to suggest anything else otherwise is unwarranted. I hated war and protested against the war in Vietnam, I didn’t like it when we went into Iraq but for you to suggest he did it for those appalling reasons is just a disgrace. People died for your freedoms. I am all for the Peace rally’s , but who are YOU to try to shame one of our fine vets. The shame is on you ✌️
@@stephenverchinski9967 "Was it money or or the chance to do something you could not get away with any other way?" - If I were him, I'd find your liberal trash talking ass and beat the hell out of you for being such an insulting and ignorant fuck. You need it.
67 The summer of Love & when I was born 9 months in...great year musically. Woodstock was '69 & is often mistook for The Summer of Love. Grace Slick has a voice that never ends
I loved that movie Go Ask Alice, I watched it on tv like at 2 in the morning I think I was like 10 or 11 in the late 70’s (I was a sickly kid at that age, always waking up in pain) those teenage drama movies always comforted me somehow. Couldn’t get enough of the song after I saw the movie.
@@sheripeters365 Janis never had the power in her voice that Grace did. There is a reason there have only been a couple of attempts to cover White Rabbit. The singers of today just don't have the power.
I remember when I first heard this song. I was 11 years old, so I didn't really understand what it was all about, but I remember the intensity of the music really woke me up to how expressive music could be. .
Over 821 thousand views and somewhere in the world there were 57 persons who didn't like this...I feel sorry that they are incapable of feeling the way I do when I hear this amazing song
(Lyrics excerpt) - "Go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall." - Well, darlings - Yes. I see 200+ "thumbs down" votes here in opposition to this classic, 1960's drug-anthem song - Yet - Isn't it odd that I don't see any of these 200+ people posting any comments here to back up their disapproval of "White Rabbit" with any valid arguments?.... It figures.
Well, Barbie D., on this COVID evening after April Fool's Day the disapproval is up to 428. As for me, I'm not going to mix my now with my then. Nor recommend the stuff to my granddaughter. Only three statements: 1) JAs music at the time was on one level one long acid commercial, and a persuasive one! 2) Their lives, unfortunately, were NOT. I remember the astrological chart from their promo packet: "the native must live very purely to remain on this plane." Or something very similar. 3) The video (as silent image-progression only) is laughable by modern standards.
i think its a most potent song sung by a most powerful talent. in singing it to my granddaughter who is one and loves alice in wonderland i thought the message was clear. go ask alice i think she'll know. its a message about doing drugs maybe. and if so, its as much a message not to do them as well. all shpuld listen again. grace slicks talent cannot be denied. the music cannot b denied. and neither can the song. its timeless and its message is as well! it still gives me goosebumps and takes me back to a time that brings memories of hope. rock it on!
No comparison except they were contemporaries. Grace could sing and had just as much power in her voice as Janis who basically just screamed. Grace also had a much better voice and I was able to understand her better than screamin' Janis.
I had an old white Ford Falcon in '67 and called it the White Rabbit. Spilled so much beer in it that the floorboard finally rusted out. Those were the days of drive-in movies, sex, drugs & rock 'n roll. If you didn't live through the '60s, you don't know what you missed.
That song was my national anthem in those times. It always meant freedom to me; I'm stunned how powerful it still is. And Grace Slick is to singing like Mt.
When you listen to this song it occurs like a change in reality and you enter other places that you don't know how to define. You just know that it makes you feel great. Masterpiece.
careful this song is addictive may cause goosebumps and increased heartrate saw her sing it live 8 or 9 times and the more u hear it the more ya wanna hear it truley an american treasure peace
Panzas tenia 2 años cuando esta gran rola del jefferson airplane circulaba en todo el mundo un exito sin igual y lo unico que puedo decir es gracias papa 😢
It's clear the song served as inspiration even for the first Matrix..right from the title white rabbit, chasing rabbits, Alice, pills, the call, doormouse (Mouse)
No. This song and the White Rabbit from The Matrix were both inspired by Alice in Wonderland. This song especially because it's all about the characters in Alice.
This song & Scott McKenzie's San Francisco are probably the two MOST notable tunes that defined what was going on during the late 60s. The Summer of Love gathering in Frisco and just the whole youth movement of that decade.
This is one of the few songs that when I hear someone else performing it, no matter how good they are, I must hear the original version to reset my mind. Jimmy Hendricks version of Bob Dylans All Along The Watchtower is another one.
Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday. Mr. Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, was 74 and had suffered a heart attack this week. His death was confirmed by longtime publicist and friend, Cynthia Bowman, who said he died of multiple organ failure and septic shock.
"When it comes to that fantastic note where the... rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to - throw - that - fuckin - radio - into the tub - with me."
Still enchanted by her voice, March 2024.
Has one o the most extraordinary dramatic buildups and conclusions of any song I know. 50 year later, evan with all the tousands of times I've heard it, still gives me chill. A song for the ages...
It's a bolero
WELL SAID👍!
Her voice rises up like a storm- if it went on a second longer, the sky would explode!
This, Santana’s Black Magic Woman, Simon & Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence, Jimi Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower, and so many others, define the late 60’s/early 70’s for me.
I had a roommate in Saigon who had Surrealistic Pillow on a reel to reel. It became my Vietnam soundtrack🙂
We will never again have music like we had in the late 50's 60's 70's and 80's. I'm 70, and I would like to go back and hit repeat in the 60's and 70's. Best years ever!!!!
I’m 84 and totally agree. I would go back in a flash.
@@briannickson6631 i'm only 65 but yeah me too.
When I was a teenager I couldn't get enough of that voice. Over 40 years later I'm still in love with that voice!
ME AS WELL 🐈🦋
When she sings "feed your head, feed your head" you become a sort of entranced.
This song is almost impossible to really describe, it shows the great talent Grace Slick had as the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick was the "Queen" of what was called "Acid Rock" in the 60's. She was a beautiful young lady with such remarkable talent. I read her book and what a remarkable life she lead during the height of her career. She was told that her fame would not last forever and she should invest and save the money she was making, she was smart and took that advice now at the age of 74 she live's in Malibu and is still a wealthy woman. The fame of her early years due to her great talent will live on for many years to come.
Is the book called somebody to love? Another masterpiece of a song
Such a talent deserves more than what she's been given credit for
i LOVE the seductive intro, the build-up and the driving rush at the climax - thank you Grace Slick. one of the top songs from the Summer of Love.
Most powerful song from quiet guitar to casting music and amazing Voice into the galaxy. It continues at the speed of light.
Goddess
It’s the vibrato of her voice that mesmerizes.
Absolutely.
One of the most perfect rock songs ever written! A true classic!
We only borrow time enjoy every day b kind along the way n u will die smillin not cryin
I just wish it could of been longer.
This song is only 2.33 minutes but it stays on my mind forever. I love it!
One of the best vocal performances on a song ever!! Thank you Grace
The voice that launched a thousand trips.
molnya2 well said
Amen
Waaaay more than a thousand
One thousand and one......
So you want me to throw the toaster into the bath when White Rabbit peaks?
I'm 63 and miss the good old days.
I'm 61 and know just how you feel!
I'm 43 and wasn't even there, but I miss them anyway.
I'm 66, I remember the 1960s because I was 11, turned 12 late December in 1969!
@@NuXtayeah, me too
God, this song is so powerful and so rooted in the era it came out. I feel like this song could never be produced today, it could only have been made in the late 60's. It nearly brings me to tears, listening to feels like travelling back in time.
I was born in ’96 and from all the music I have heard, I have always preferred music from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The past music is better than today's music.
✌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✌🏻
The 1980s weren't so good. I think that decade marked the start of the decline.
ahhhh the days when music took you to another realm with or without the drugs.
Yes, wonderful music.
music will forever do that
Compared with some of the modern psych this doesn't take you anywhere. Listen to Blown Out and The Cosmic Dead , thats proper taking you to another realm stuff, this is just weird pop (and I love it for that)
Open your mind all psych takes you anywhere you need to go.
Bill Ziegler it still happens
1967: I was 6 years old, the Vietnam war had begun to rage, and my much older sister was heavily into drugs and kept running away from home to escape our violent household. When this song played on the radio, its darkly dramatic overture was mesmerizing to me, even though it seemed to underscore the horrible chaos of our family during that time. Ironically, this song is one of my all time favorites. Hauntingly beautiful in its simplicity and brilliant lyrics, I'm still mesmerized.
Hey were the same age 🙂
I pray somehow with God's grace recovered from a cycle that a lot of us indured.
@@michelethomas1561
Thank you so much, Michele, that's very kind of you. Yes, she got clean in the mid-70s, and many years later got her degree in nursing. Had a tragic life in other ways, though.
Born in '76 and this song is one of my all time favorites as well. Probably one of the most perfect songs ever written. A true masterpiece.
Enjoyed reading your comment.
I wasn't born until February 3, 1967 but still love this song.❤
To me this is THE definitive song of the 60's.
I was 10 in 1967 in Hollywood, California. Hippies were everywhere. "Peace, love, and no more war" was the mantra of the time. White Rabbit filled the airwaves. A true classic that is always relevant. A music piece that helped define the late 1960's, that was full of creativity, turmoil, rebellion, and hope.
It feels like we’ve come back full circle! Peace, Love and no more War!😊🕊️😊
The great 60's what era for great music❤
My all time favorite, I can still remember where I was when I first heard this 50 years ago in the summer of ♥️ June 1967
KW KELLY Where were you?
I was born in the summer of 1969. I’m glad I’m not 69 years old for 20 more years but I’ve always wished on some level that I had been born 15-20 years earlier so I could have really experienced these times. All of it. I read Go Ask Alice when I was about 11-12 years old and recently found a copy so I read it again on New Years Day. LOL. Now I’m researching everything about it including Grace Slick. I’ve learned a lot because I was a teen in the 80’s so it was different. I’m an MTV Gen Xer. I’m still grateful for being born the same summer as Woodstock and I was in the hospital nursery the day man walked on the moon. 1969! I was there! ❤️✌🏽🦀🌗
Should of been in Vietnam! This song is so psychedelic it sums up that era!
You were young in the BEST DECADE ever. How lucky You are...
I was 13 in 1967, by 1969 I was 15 an on my way to Woodstock. I went with my brother an some of his friends. I tried pot and didn't like it, I sat and stared at the ground for hours. I made it home and safe from any harm. I left the drugs alone, just wasn't for me. But I enjoyed all the music very much, a great time to be alive. We all are old or dead now. I still can't wear old lady clothes, or listen to music the youngsters think we ought to listen to. People don't change, just the times.
Back in my day when this came on you rose to your feet (if you could) and raised your right fist in the air. When Grace got to "feed your head" you pumped that fist and belted out the words with her. Straight or not, the 60s were a day and place unto themselves. I saw Jeff Air twice (straight) and will never forget those shows.
I still get goosebumps when she sings "Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall"!
This song would be even better if it was like ten minutes long.
+Alise Kacare impossibile.
The best thing of this song is "crescendo" and a "crescendo" can't be to infinity
+Massy Biagio
but can it be like 10 minutes?
+Alise Kacare Agree. Just heard it on an ep of the Sopranos and from a bit of lyric found it. It just feels like it is "getting going" when it ends. Pity there isn't a 12"!
LG.
+Alise Kacare depending on what your smoking it can seem comfortable long.... ;-)
Yes
Grace Slick 4 ever
got that right. much better than the spice girls or jess simpson any fucking day
Your reference for how terrible music is today is a corporate girl band from 20 years ago lol.
Scorpion leader x
60s music has so much excitement in it than most of today's music. There's a energy in it that new music rarely has.
Agreed, they didn't (couldn't) rely on special effects or auto tune, it was all honest, visceral, and great... right through to the '80's IMHO
@@Dora-hi2nw LOL
All “new” music of every decade has never met the approval of the old people. And that's a fact.
@@Dora-hi2nw
😂
@@TheDancingWuliMasters
Nah...
a masterpiece, not just musically, but also lyrically.
Goodbye Paul Kantner and thank you for decades of great music. I wish he had written a book about his life.
Davin Gladwell
David
Gladwell hallow
No matter how old it is this is one of the few perfect songs 🥰 Sit back, relax and enjoy not only the sound, but the journey 🥰
Call Alice
Call Alice
Excellent composition, lyrics, musicians, vocals, AND a progressively increasing dynamic from start to finish. That's about it.
Yeah that’s ppppp
Like a good trip....Grace is unblinking....the images SHOCK....the music FLOWS....the voice CUTS
This was the first album I ever bought.
1967.
I was 15.
Still one of my favorites.
Hard to find a better record in the universe! This vocal is astounding!
Another classic song of the 60's. Takes you on a journey through time...
I get a mellow high just listening to this song. No drugs or alcohol needed.
Tis gay without drugs
So gay, pass the speed
This song just fills your senses, it takes you on a journey to where you want to be, simply stunning 🙌🙌
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"
"stoney dead'
Hi
Alice in wonderland
@@marcuscampos6279 Well done, give yourself a sweetie.
The song actually refers to "falling down a deep rabbit hole"... For those who don't know what that is, a rabbit hole is something that intrigues you to do more independent research... When you do your own independent research, you might find some shocking truths that wasn't mentioned before or you might find that what you was told/ taught was actually false doctrines...
Thus being said, I highly suggest that you all question what you have blindly accepted as a child... You will unlock a deep rabbit hole, if you're intrigued enough and willing to go that far...
Just got out of MY Navy the FIRST TIME in February 1967. Two Wars, "Nam Era Vet," then 'Desert Shield/Desert Storm." Just Lucky I guess, but GOD Bless all my Brothers & Sisters who weren't so Damn Lucky. You're All Missed & Loved.EOC James J. Bilenki Jr. USN. Ret.
James j bilenki jr usn ret God Bless You Sir and Thank you For Your service!
James j bilenki jr usn ret James, hope you get out with veterans 4 peace.
Illegal wars, in fact, all of yours you participated in were unconstitutional, undeclared. Q. what made you go? Was it money or the chance to do something you could not get away with any other way? Simply curious since my cousin went to d.s. and then continued and was rewarded with 3 stars after doing and executing the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Stephen Verchinski I am sitting here dumbfounded that you would attack a decorated vet like that. You know we had a draft back in the Vietnam era. He fought for our freedom you jerk and for you to suggest anything else otherwise is unwarranted. I hated war and protested against the war in Vietnam, I didn’t like it when we went into Iraq but for you to suggest he did it for those appalling reasons is just a disgrace. People died for your freedoms. I am all for the Peace rally’s , but who are YOU to try to shame one of our fine vets. The shame is on you ✌️
@@stephenverchinski9967 "Was it money or or the chance to do something you could not get away with any other way?" - If I were him, I'd find your liberal trash talking ass and beat the hell out of you for being such an insulting and ignorant fuck. You need it.
@@AlbredaWelde
PTSD ?
An absolute classic - never tire of listening to this it's still as explosive as back in the crazy days of the 60's.
One of favorite songs of all time...absolute perfection!!!
67 The summer of Love & when I was born 9 months in...great year musically. Woodstock was '69 & is often mistook for The Summer of Love. Grace Slick has a voice that never ends
I think you meant: Often mistaken for.....and not..... "often mistook for".....
This is definitely a Grace Slick Icon number. That steady bass of Jack Casady is great.
I loved that movie Go Ask Alice, I watched it on tv like at 2 in the morning I think I was like 10 or 11 in the late 70’s (I was a sickly kid at that age, always waking up in pain) those teenage drama movies always comforted me somehow. Couldn’t get enough of the song after I saw the movie.
Perception is everything! Chill, and enjoy the world through you so the universe can enjoy along!
No one can bring back the 60 70 80 rock but You kids can injoy it like we did long live rock
Dude I love this song I am thirty years old and was raised on the classic rock thank you tremendously I never seen this video till now.
Then I'd have to say YOU my friend were raised RIGHT!!!! lol
Why the fuck does this make me feel nostalgic even though this was 30 years before my time? Is that normal?
happened to me once.
i think this song has a lot of good energies
+xm377Moyocoyatzin Remember what the dormouse said....
+xm377Moyocoyatzin
NO your f!#$'ed.... :)
go ask Alice.
Yes
+xm377Moyocoyatzin I felt it when I watched the 3 Days of Peace & Music (Woodstock 69). While I was born in '96 in Russia :D, It's really weird.
The greatest female voice in all of rock music.
alnot01 JANIS JOPLIN
@@sheripeters365 Janis never had the power in her voice that Grace did. There is a reason there have only been a couple of attempts to cover White Rabbit. The singers of today just don't have the power.
ever heard of Heart?
A good candidate for runner-up female voice.
Floor Jansen.
I remember when I first heard this song. I was 11 years old, so I didn't really understand what it was all about, but I remember the intensity of the music really woke me up to how expressive music could be. .
Over 821 thousand views and somewhere in the world there were 57 persons who didn't like this...I feel sorry that they are incapable of feeling the way I do when I hear this amazing song
(Lyrics excerpt) - "Go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall." - Well, darlings - Yes. I see 200+ "thumbs down" votes here in opposition to this classic, 1960's drug-anthem song - Yet - Isn't it odd that I don't see any of these 200+ people posting any comments here to back up their disapproval of "White Rabbit" with any valid arguments?.... It figures.
Well, Barbie D., on this COVID evening after April Fool's Day the disapproval is up to 428. As for me, I'm not going to mix my now with my then. Nor recommend the stuff to my granddaughter. Only three statements:
1) JAs music at the time was on one level one long acid commercial, and a persuasive one!
2) Their lives, unfortunately, were NOT. I remember the astrological chart from their promo packet: "the native must live very purely to remain on this plane." Or something very similar.
3) The video (as silent image-progression only) is laughable by modern standards.
200 + people who are smart enough to not support drugs, probably
They're probably from conservitive middle aged or old white women.
i think its a most potent song sung by a most powerful talent. in singing it to my granddaughter who is one and loves alice in wonderland i thought the message was clear. go ask alice i think she'll know. its a message about doing drugs maybe. and if so, its as much a message not to do them as well. all shpuld listen again. grace slicks talent cannot be denied. the music cannot b denied. and neither can the song. its timeless and its message is as well! it still gives me goosebumps and takes me back to a time that brings memories of hope. rock it on!
Maybe the white rabbits are objecting? ;)
This video was directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, creator of "The incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies."
Awesome, was this filmed at El Matador?
The dancer was Carolyn Brandt, Steckler's muse and wife at the time.
Brings me back to a great time in my life! Thanks Airplane.
....I'm 65 and it just gave me goosebumps........again.....thank you
RIP Paul Kantner ( March 17, 1941-January 28, 2016). The music lives forever.
What a golden time. I’m old and was THERE! Peace ✌️
Oldies always the goldies
What a gorgeous voice. Thanks for sharing.
Grace Slick and Janis Joplin. The Two Divas of Rock in the 60s.
+Terry S a man can only dream
No comparison except they were contemporaries. Grace could sing and had just as much power in her voice as Janis who basically just screamed. Grace also had a much better voice and I was able to understand her better than screamin' Janis.
@@garyfranson1353 they are different, but are also equally talented! Grace & janis were good friends too
Great song, powerful lyrics and beautiful lady singing. What more can one ask?
Probably one of the best songs ever written
I so wish we could go back to this time...I miss it.
Happy to see that this masterpiece is known not only for the new Matrix trailer!
always thought that this song was too short it leaves you wanting more
She was a Magic woman and so beautiful.....and still chasing rabbits
BRINGS BACK SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES...
This song is creeping. One of the best in hippie era. In that time great music were done. Still I love Janis Joplin, Cream, Rory Gallagher, etc. etc.
Currently 52 years old and yet the song remains timeless....
I love the beat and flavor of the music. The words are what you want them to say.
I had an old white Ford Falcon in '67 and called it the White Rabbit. Spilled so much beer in it that the floorboard finally rusted out. Those were the days of drive-in movies, sex, drugs & rock 'n roll. If you didn't live through the '60s, you don't know what you missed.
This song still stirs me like it did the first time that I heard it in 1969
I remember when this hit the AM Radio airwaves. Oh and I was dosed while at the beach with Orange Sunshine. That is LSD kids
kath c - i was on galveston beach with 25. when the truth is found to be lies------------
Everyone knows what LSD is, you aren't special just because you were born years before someone else lol.
Puurfeect Kath !
Aesthetics and timing is everything ...
@@starfox4919 Yeah but wouldn't it have been cool to be an 18 yr old back then!
@@robertscott4807 for sure
That song was my national anthem in those times. It always meant freedom to me; I'm stunned how powerful it still is. And Grace Slick is to singing like Mt.
I've loved and admired her voice and style of singing. She's a true artist.
What a voice and what a tune!
When you listen to this song it occurs like a change in reality and you enter other places that you don't know how to define. You just know that it makes you feel great. Masterpiece.
Got that. I came here from Puff the magic Dragon. It was my Dogs name in the 1970's. His full name was HR Puff and Stuff.
I have the album in my music library. Love that song. :)
This song still makes my heart smile every time! Thank you
We played this for our school Play Alice in Wonderland. This song really made our play so much better!!
Lol u guys put a song about tripping on acid in ur play
One of my all time favorite songs loved Jefferson Airplane
RIP Paul Kantner.
careful this song is addictive may cause goosebumps and increased heartrate saw her sing it live 8 or 9 times and the more u hear it the more ya wanna hear it truley an american treasure peace
I never realized Grace Slick had such great legs!
Good one Anthony Gates!
That is not Grace on the beach, you know. :)
Anthony Gates She was a babe back in the day.
+jas22 If you'd do some research, you would know that it is!
She didn't
Damn I love this but (at 73) it makes me feel so old. 😮💨
This song still sounds so subversive, nearly 45 years later!
Panzas tenia 2 años cuando esta gran rola del jefferson airplane circulaba en todo el mundo un exito sin igual y lo unico que puedo decir es gracias papa 😢
It's clear the song served as inspiration even for the first Matrix..right from the title white rabbit, chasing rabbits, Alice, pills, the call, doormouse (Mouse)
No. This song and the White Rabbit from The Matrix were both inspired by Alice in Wonderland. This song especially because it's all about the characters in Alice.
This song & Scott McKenzie's San Francisco are probably the two MOST notable tunes that defined what was going on during the late 60s. The Summer of Love gathering in Frisco and just the whole youth movement of that decade.
what about california dreamin' by the mamas and the papas?
This is one of the few songs that when I hear someone else performing it, no matter how good they are, I must hear the original version to reset my mind. Jimmy Hendricks version of Bob Dylans All Along The Watchtower is another one.
Agree my friend though his name was Hendrix. X
My son 4 years old is on it. Over and over again.....
best ;) thx
Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday. Mr. Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, was 74 and had suffered a heart attack this week.
His death was confirmed by longtime publicist and friend, Cynthia Bowman, who said he died of multiple organ failure and septic shock.
If there was ever a song that needed to be extended to about 8 minutes or so, this is it! Up there with Light My Fire.
RIP Paul !! Damn :(
One of the great rock and roll songs, and performances, this reflects the energy of the times, very different from today.
"When it comes to that fantastic note where the... rabbit bites its own head off, I want you to - throw - that - fuckin - radio - into the tub - with me."
I always start my meetings with the golden teacher to this song just gets me in the mood
the soundtrack our lives... rock n roll yeah
Brings back memories.
rest in peace original Jefferson Airplane/Starship guitarist Paul Kantner.
Fantastic video. Being from the 60’s, yes I have tripped on acid more than once and listened to this..........
Grace was a true goddess of the 60's!!!!!!!
Jefferson Airplane. and Grace Slick ... the leaders of the San Francisco sound. I saw them at the Fillmore East .... Unbelievable great show