Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit | REACTION 

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".

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.

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

Haunting even today….

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

Grace plays her voice like a lead guitar !

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.

The bass sets this song up just perfect

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💊💉🥴🤪

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.

This song structure is known as a "Bolero".

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

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

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

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.

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

great call running it back🚀

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

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.

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

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!

The anthem of the 60's

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

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

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

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

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.

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 👍💯🔥😎

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

Love Grace’s vibrato.

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

Miracles!!!

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

Most takes from that period are full set just with different camera angles. No computer generated music during that period. It was all unique! I lived through it and it was FANTASTIC!!

*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 .....

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

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

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

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

She was painting the roses red. The queen

Classic!

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

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

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

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

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.

Somebody to love was huge for them.

Grace was legendary.

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!

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

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!

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

She was known for her volume and her equally piercing eyes

Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers of America

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

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

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

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

On the other side of the 45 record is the song "Somebody to Love".

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

In many ways a brilliant reaction!!

This song is based on Alice in wonder land that was about drugs and fantasy. Don't let anyone tell you different.

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.

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!😃😄😄🙃

Look at you guys in your pastels. Love it!

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.

Marty Bains voice was beautiful Starship's Miracles

Platoon will rock you, fantastic movie

Grace Slick an amazing singer! ❤

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

My local planetarium used to have a laser show with this song (among others).

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

I just got this album as a reissued 180g Vinyl at Walmart.

By the next Album After Bathing At Baxter's They discovered LSD and it showed on that album!

The live performance at Woodstock is worth it

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.

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

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

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

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".

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

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

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.

A slowed down version of this song is on the new Matrix movie. I love this song 🎵

Very trippy, a big hit at the time

Great song,sooo catchy,her voice:))

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

when she's 10feet tall❤️❤️❤️🕊️👍😁

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

More recently White Rabbit was used in an ad for Celebrity Cruise Lines which was weird.

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

Melody & structure based on a Spanish Bolero.

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.

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

Painting the roses red, Painting the roses red if the queen sees them white its off with our head thats why we are Painting the roses red.

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

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

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.

Some people say this song is purposely under 3 minutes for radio play but I doubt it. Your right it's a crescendo perfect crescendo. Record companies back in the day would edit songs like Light My Fire (The Doors) down to 3 minutes to quality for pop radio''s time length limit. It took FM radio to change that situation. Thank God

🦋 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!