White Rabbit (2:21)
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This was written by Grace Slick, who based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll’s book Alice In Wonderland. Like many young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs. She saw lots of drug references in Carroll’s book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, and lots of other images that are generally trippy. She noticed that lots of children’s’ stories involve a substance of some kind that alters reality, and felt it was time to write a song about it.
Slick got the idea for this after taking LSD and spending hours listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain. The Spanish beat she came up with was also influenced by Ravel’s “Bolero.”
Slick wrote and performed this when she was in a band called The Great Society. She brought it with her, along with “Somebody To Love,” when she joined Jefferson Airplane in 1966.
This was used as the theme song for a 1973 movie called Go Ask Alice.
The UK version of the album didn’t have this on it.
This was one of the defining songs of the 1967 “Summer Of Love.” As young Americans protested the Vietnam war and took a lot of drugs, this played in the background.
On an original recording by The Great Society, the song is barely recognizable due to Grace’s higher voice before several throat operations that lowered her range after each one.
“Go Ask Alice” which is a lyric from this song, inspired an anonymous author to put out a book with that same title. The book was a “diary” of a young girl in the 1960s who had a drug addiction and died.
Slick got the idea for this after taking LSD and spending hours listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain. The Spanish beat she came up with was also influenced by Ravel’s “Bolero.”
Slick wrote and performed this when she was in a band called The Great Society. She brought it with her, along with “Somebody To Love,” when she joined Jefferson Airplane in 1966.
This was used as the theme song for a 1973 movie called Go Ask Alice.
The UK version of the album didn’t have this on it.
This was one of the defining songs of the 1967 “Summer Of Love.” As young Americans protested the Vietnam war and took a lot of drugs, this played in the background.
On an original recording by The Great Society, the song is barely recognizable due to Grace’s higher voice before several throat operations that lowered her range after each one.
“Go Ask Alice” which is a lyric from this song, inspired an anonymous author to put out a book with that same title. The book was a “diary” of a young girl in the 1960s who had a drug addiction and died.
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Rissacakes wrote:
I really want to drop some acid now. :)
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WOW SUCH BEAUTIFUL COLORS !!!!!! :-)
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morning maniac music - yeah
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Remember what the Dormouse said. FEED YOUR HEAD.
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oh god... did you take all this acid?
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marowak117 wrote:
love it.
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bascuuu wrote:
love it every time!!!!
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Las Vegas Parano :]
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traubster wrote:
The ones that Mother gives you don't do anything at all.
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mmm... I'll take it!
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delininbirii wrote:
love it
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OSIRUS187 wrote:
the best , def.
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kamahl90 wrote:
this is unlike any other of their songs... There is an ineffable mystery in this song (: Not only in the lyrics I.
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sebastiano_riva wrote:
Really Good!
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YummyD0wnOnThis wrote:
Gotta say, the original album version is much better
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daverichards99 wrote:
Oh! To be young, and stoned, and with your people. (only joking)
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iswydt wrote:
Loved it before Fear And Loathing, loved it more after.
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neilo_ wrote:
Ask alice
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IKOTAGx wrote:
HaHa i knew there would be some Fear n Loathing comments
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nopuppet wrote:
over the top
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