Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Recorded Live on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0&list=RDWANNqr-vcx0&index=1
One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at allGo ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know you're going to fallTell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillarHas given you the callHe called AliceWhen she was just small
When the men on the chessboardGet up and tell you where to goAnd you've just had some kind of mushroomAnd your mind is moving lowGo ask AliceI think she'll know
When logic and proportionHave fallen sloppy deadAnd the White Knight is talking backwardsAnd the Red Queen's off with her headRemember what the dormouse saidFeed your headFeed your head
"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
"White Rabbit" was written, between Dec. ’65 to Jan. ’66, and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with her previous band, the Great Society. Slick then left the Great Society to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson (who left the band to give birth to her child). The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by the Great Society. The Great Society's version of "White Rabbit" was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane. Both songs became top-10 hits for Jefferson Airplane and have ever since been associated with that band.
I’ve provided the link to The Great Society’s original version of “White Rabbit”. I just can’t get into in after growing up listening to the much more powerful, imo, Jefferson Airplane version.
"White Rabbit" was written, between Dec. ’65 to Jan. ’66, and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with her previous band, the Great Society. Slick then left the Great Society to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson (who left the band to give birth to her child). The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by the Great Society. The Great Society's version of "White Rabbit" was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane. Both songs became top-10 hits for Jefferson Airplane and have ever since been associated with that band.
I’ve provided the link to The Great Society’s original version of “White Rabbit”. I just can’t get into in after growing up listening to the much more powerful, imo, Jefferson Airplane version.
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