Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

“White Rabbit” – Single by Jefferson Airplane from the album Surrealistic Pillow
Released: June 1967
Recorded: November 3, 1966
Songwriter:Grace Slick

“White Rabbit” was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with 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.

Airplane manager Bill Thompson drafted Grace’s contract for a measly $750 and Slick was signed, replacing the clear belled folk tones of Anderson with a fiery, strident approach. And in the following month, the band set out to record Surrealistic Pillow.

With with fellow San Fran tripper, Jerry Garcia, credited as ‘musical and spiritual advisor’, the album was a massive success, peaking at #3 on the US Billboard chart and consolidating Airplane’s status as a leading act of the Bay Area.

Grace Slick is still synonymous with Alice’s Adventure In Wonderland, through her time with Jefferson Starship and beyond. Now retired in from the music business, she now runs a one-woman art show in Malibu. Her most popular work, funnily enough, is a series of paintings based on the Alice books.

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“White Rabbit” este o melodie compusă de Grace Slick, de pe albumul Surrealistic Pillow din 1967. Versurile au la baza cartea lui Lewis Carroll din 1865,  Alice In Wonderland. Că și mulți alți muzicieni în San Francisco, Grace Silk a folosit multe droguri, și a văzut multe referințe la deoguri în cartea lui Lewis Carroll, pilule, ciuperci, și alte imagine curioase. Ea a observat că multe cărți pentru copii, descriu substanțe care alterează realitatea, și a considerat că este timpul să compună o melodie despre aceste lucruri.

Ideea pentru melodie, i-a venit după ce a luat LSD, și a ascultat ore în șir albumul Sketches Of Spain, al lui Miles Davis, în special prima melodie, “Concierto de Aranjuez.”

White Rabbit a fost una din melodiile care au definit “Summer of :Love” din anul 1967. În timpul demonstrațiilor împotriva războiului din Vietnam, melodia se auzea în background.

Jefferson Airplane a fost activi între anii 1965 și 1984.

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