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Grace slick songs white rabbit Continue One pill makes you bigger and the pill makes you small... Sometime in the summer of 2016, this isolated track of Grace Seleka's vocals for The White Rabbit - perhaps the most famous song for Jefferson Airplane and certainly one of the top ten psychedelic songs of the late '60s - featured YouTube. As these things go, no one took credit, but everyone on the internet was thankful. Drenched in echo, spot sings with military precision, perfectly in driving her vibrator and dipping and rising all through the Phrygian scale (also known as the Spanish scale or Gypsy.) No wonder, the song was written in 1965 after an LSD trip at her Marin County home where Slick listened to Miles Davis' drawings from Spain repeatedly for 24 hours. Compare the original version to the Solia Davis track to hear what I mean. Bob Irwin, who was responsible for remastering Jefferson's plane in a catalog in 2003, was the first to hear slick vocals isolated many years later: when I was putting up multiple tracks for shows to something like White Rabbit and Grace's vocal isolation... You can't believe the intensity in that sound. It is a hair education, and absolutely unreasonable. I was telling Bill Thompson about it it's not that I'm too seasoned that nothing surprises me, but boy boy, when I put that multiplayer up and Heard Grace's vocal solo Ed, it's absolutely a quiet whisper, and there's no ounce of leakage in there at all, you can hear all the same drawn intensity and focus... Interestingly, when Slick wrote the song, the plane did not begin. Instead she was in a band called Great Society, and the original jam version does not repel authorship. Rhythm guitarist David Junior recalls that the song came from a request to write songs for other members of the band. When we started working, no one had anything because I couldn't write anymore, he recalls. I was too busy keeping up with my various jobs. So Grace's husband, Jerry, challenged them: What are you going to do? Let David write all the songs? You know, 'Do something!'. So Darby came back with two songs and Grace came back with the White Rabbit. When the great society collapsed, Jefferson's plane chose the spot as a singer in 1966 and brought with it the White Rabbit. The rest is the history of the rocks, and a large part of the land income of the spot is now retired. With the isolated track there in the internet wilderness it wasn't long before remixers came to give it a new home. Here's one of my favorites: Cross-Minds Dangerous Related Content: Watch Jazz Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, featuring Grace Spot, teaches children to count Dick Clark enters Jefferson Plane and Psychedelic Sounds san Francisco to America: Yes parents, you should be afraid Jefferson Airplane plays on New York on the roof; Jean-Luc Godard captures it (1968) Ted Mills is a freelance writer on the arts who currently hosts the artist-based FunkZone Podcast and is a producer of KCRW Strange Coast. You can also follow him on Twitter at @tedmills, read his other arts book in tedmills.com and/or watch his films here. One by Jefferson Airplane this article is about the Jefferson Airplane Song. For the song Central Egypt, see The White Rabbit (Egypt's Central Album). The White Rabbit One by Jefferson Airplane from the surreal album PillowB Side Plastic Lover Gorgeous Union released 24, 1967 (1967-06-24) recordedNovember 3, 1966 (1966-11-03) StudioRCA, Hollywood, California, U.S. GenrePsychedelic Rocks[1] Length2:31LabelRCA VictorSongwriter (s) Grace SlickProducer (s)Rick JarrardJefferson Plane Singles Chronological Sequence Someone To Love (1967) White Rabbit (1967) Song For You and Lee and Bonnell (1967) Sound samplefileMusichelp White Rabbit Videos on YouTube, by The Plane with Grace Sing on The Slick on The Sing. RCA Records 74-160269, Stereo, One (1967). (2:31 pm, HQ) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Spot on vocals. From the surrealistic album, Stereo (1967). (2:32 min, HQ with lyrics) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Plane with Grace Spot on vocals. From the album Surrealistic Pillow (1967). (2:38 min, 8D The multi-directional sound, with the lyrics) white rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Spot on vocals. Live Brothers Smothers Hour Comedy (1967). (2:29 min) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Starship with Kathy Richardson on Lead Vocals, Paul Kantner, David Freiberg, Donnie Baldwin, Slick Aguilar, Chris Smith, Marty Palin. Live from 2012 TV special, my music: 60s pop, rock and soul. (2:45 min) The White Rabbit is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surreal Pillow. He was released as a coach and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight[2] on the Billboard Lane 100. The song ranked #478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time,[3] number 116 on your highest singles music average of all time,[4] and appears on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 songs that formed rock 'n' roll. White Rabbit history and performance were written by Grace Spot while she was still with the great community. Spot quit them and Jefferson joined the plane to replace the departing female singer, Sini Thai Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her baby. The first album recorded with Jefferson's plane was a surreal masters, and made a spot of two songs from her previous collection: her white rabbit and someone to love, written by her brother-in-law Darby Spot and recorded under someone's title to by the great society. [5] The great association of a white rabbit was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane. Both songs became Hi-10 hit[6] for Jefferson Airplane and received at any time since associated with to band. [7] Lyrics and installation 1967 trade one ad for The White Rabbit is one of the early songs Grace Spot, written during December 1965 or January 1966. [8] The images in Lewis Carroll's fictional works - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and the 1871 sequel Through the Glass - are used looking like a resizing after taking pills or drinking an unknown liquid. Slick wrote the lyrics first, then composed music on the piano, moving between the secondary and leading chords of the verses and the chorus. She said that music was heavily influenced by Miles Davis's drawings of Spain, particularly Davis's treatment of Concerto de Aranjos. She later said: Writing strange things about Alice backed by a dark Spanish march was in stride with what was happening in San Francisco then. We were all trying to get as far away from what was expected. [8] Slicka said it was supposed to be a slap in the face to parents who read their children such novels and then wondered why their children later used drugs. [9] The spot characters referred to include Alice, The White Rabbit, The Caterpillar Smoking Shisha, The White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse. [10] Sc said he wrote the song after his acid tour. [11] For sysys, the White Rabbit is about following your curiosity. White Rabbit is your curiosity. [12] For her and others in the 1960s, drugs were part of mind-expanding and social experimentation. With her enigmatic lyrics, The White Rabbit has become one of the first songs to infiltrate drug censorship references past the radio. Even Marty Palin, Slick's ultimate rival in Jefferson Airplane, considered the song a masterpiece. In interviews, a spot has been attached that Alice in Wonderland was often reading to her when she was a child and remained a well-alive memory in her adulthood. [3] In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Slick stated that in addition to Alice in Wonderland, her other inspiration for the song was Ralph Bolero. Like Bolero, the White Rabbit is basically a long mounting one. Music along with the lyrics of the song strongly suggests the sensory distortions experienced with hallucinogens, and the song was later used in pop culture to mean or accompany just such a state. [13] The song was first played by the Great Association in a pub in San Francisco in early 1966, and then when they opened the bill for the large bands like The Thankful Dead. They made a series of experimental records for the fall records, where Sly Stone helped them. Grace Slick said: We were so bad that Sly played eventually all the instruments so the demo would seem OK. When Jefferson Slick joined the plane later in It is marked the song to the band, who recorded it for their serial istic sitter. [8] Chart Chart Chart (1967) Peakposition Canada's highest rpm individual cycle[14] 1 Us. Billboard Hot 100 [15] 8 Us Top Cash Fund 100[16] 6 Chart (1970) Overlay Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [17] 3 Chart (1987) Peakposition UK Singles Chart (OCC) 94 Chart (1967) Canada Ranking[18] 48 US. Hot Plate 100[19] 81 U.S. Cash Box[20] 60 Cashbox[21] (11 weeks): 59, 45, 23, 14, 12, 11, 8, 6, 7, 22, 41 Employees Grace Spot – Performing By Jorma Kaukonen – Performing Guitar Paul Kantner – Rhythm Guitar Jack Cassidy – Bass Spencer Dryden – covers the drums of many artists have covered the song.