White Rabbit (2:19)
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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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RadioEME wrote:
it keeps the feeling til the end...!
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ryanbrandes wrote:
Oh man....
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wild_carter wrote:
one pill makes you larger one pill makes you small
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infam0usj0sh wrote:
mad trippy
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tomsk-seismo wrote:
my 66666th track and top1 overall
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sshhiiffttyy wrote:
"I need rising sound … And 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!"
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martyr99 wrote:
Go ask aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
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IndolentSpecies wrote:
I just wanna carve a little Z in your forehead.
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sorloc wrote:
LSD YEHH!!!
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drainagerelated wrote:
an explosion of muted sentimentality
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Athena920 wrote:
Love this song, but it's waaay too short D:
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christerix62 wrote:
>3
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nicoinfurs wrote:
How can anybody not fall in love with Grace Slick. Holy shit!!
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brunoresende29 wrote:
LSD, music was never the same after it...
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CrackityJoness wrote:
love it!!!
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tilllama wrote:
LSD^^^^
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cannibalroses wrote:
This almost lacks everything that was good about The Great Society version. Except Grace's voice.
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imanfree wrote:
Fear and loathing Las Vegas!!
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marcy50 wrote:
great song..
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AlbinoCavewoman wrote:
"...You want me to throw this thing into the tub when White Rabbit peaks?"
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