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Jefferson Airplane's debut show was on August 13, 1965 at the Matrix nightclub in San Francisco. The first performance featured Marty Balin on vocals, Paul Kantner on vocals/rhythm guitar, and Jorma Kaukonen on lead guitar. Signe Anderson, (who sang on Jefferson Airplane's first recording "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off') also performed. The bass player, Jack Casady and drummer Skip Spence, (who was later one of the original members of Moby Grape) joined the band two months later. Spencer Dryden became the drummer in June of 1966 and Grace Slick joined as vocalist in October of 1966. The band performed the first concert for Bill Graham at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco in February of 1966. Jefferson Airplane performed at the Berkeley Folk Festiv More... (Submit New Jefferson Airplane Lyrics) (Submit New Jefferson Airplane Lyrics) Review about Jefferson Airplane Lewis Carroll | Reviewer: Emma-Rose ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Alice In Wonderland may have been written before LSD was around, but not before opium was around. And while Lewis Carroll may not have been what we would see as a raging drug addict, everyone smoked opium back then, because they didn't know how addictive and lethal it was. So a lot of this was probably inpspired by things he'd seen while UTI. And as for the migranes and epilepsy, these were probably caused by drug use. Anyway, who cares? This isn't a review on Alice In Wonderland, it's on an incredible song by Jefferson Airplane. lyrics comment and snide remark on the times | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Somebody to Love performed by Jefferson Airplane "Treat you like a pest"??? Are you kidding RK? I've been listening to this song since day one. It's 'guest'. It's when your friends snub you for not being real. Grace is describing an attitude here, a state of mind. If you need more proof of the lyrics, listen to the same song on Bless It's Pointed Little Head - Jefferson Airplane Live. Second track after the intro. These young kids these days have no imaginations. They can't hear the lyrics of our artists and 'get' the state of mind we entertained back then (and still do?). So they jump to the only conclusions that their minds offer. Quite indicative of where they are coming from. No wonder they're so complaiscent. Too much iPod, TV, and smartphones. Too many earbuds in their empty heads. Too bad. James Joyce Ulysses | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Rejoyce performed by Jefferson Airplane the Joyce in Rejoyce is James Joyce and the references about Bloom and Molly are characters from his Ulysses. However we need someone more conversant than I with the book to tell us if there is definite correspondences with the song. Some of it is obvious, no? | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Somebody to Love performed by Jefferson Airplane The lyrics do not say full of BREAD ALL CAPS, it's RED, a reference to being red in the face (drinking) or having red eyes (smoking marijuana). www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=red The garden of flowers is Eden-like imagry of the Flower Children from the late 1960's. Many Flower Children died young from their lifestyle, others from being sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Who doesn't "see red" with anger when they find somebody to love then lose that person? "Your eyes may look like his" and "you don't know where it is" seems to me like what happens when a woman has been given a date-rape drug. She might sleep with a monster if her drink has been spiked with something strong enough to make him able to pass for....let's see, what's a good example of a sexy man from that time.......how about Jim Morrison? By the time she wakes up he's gone. He may have left something behind though. People tend to say of a child "your eyes look like his." Baby not knowing "where it is" alludes to a pregnancy where more than one man could be the child's father or the mother can't even remember the circumstances of the child's conception. Being treated like a guest by friends implies being suddenly snubbed which people might do to a woman in that circumstance even today when people have no excuses for their ignorance as they had then. But sooner or later, what goes around does come around. This song typifies everything the Jefferson Airplane were all about | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Alexander the Medium performed by Jefferson Airplane Super intellegent lyrics. Soaring vocal interplay between the 3 primary singers, and excellent noodling guitar; this is it, put this on the greatest hits of Jefferson Airplane with "Third Week in the Chelsea"! LSD was not invented by the hippies or highschooler | Reviewer: Mike ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD-25, LSD, formerly lysergide, commonly known as acid, is a semi synthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family. LSD is non-addictive and non-toxic. LSD is well known for its psychological effects which can include closed and open eye visuals, a sense of time distortion and profound cognitive shifts, as well as for its key role in 1960's counterculture. It is used mainly as an entheogen, a tool to supplement various practices for transcendence, including in meditation, psychonautics, art projects, and (formerly legal) psychedelic therapy, and as a recreational drug. Formally, LSD is classified as a hallucinogen of the psychedelic type. LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938 from ergot, a grain fungus that typically grows on rye. The short form LSD comes from its early code name LSD-25, which is an abbreviation for the German "Lysergsaure-diethylamid" followed by a sequential number. LSD is sensitive to oxygen, ultraviolet light, and chlorine, especially in solution, though its potency may last for years if it is stored away from light and moisture at low temperature. In pure form it is a colorless, odorless, and mildly bitter solid. LSD is typically delivered orally, usually on a substrate such as absorbent blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. In its liquid form, it can be administered by intramuscular or intravenous injection. The threshold dosage level needed to cause a psychoactive effect on humans is between 20 and 30 µg (micrograms). BTW, Peyote is a cactus. LSD | Reviewer: Alison ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Just on LSD creation, I have a book (be here now) written by the co-creator, Richard Alpert, or Baba Ram Dass as hes now known. I'm obli saying this because I noticed a few comments stating it was created by someone else. I'm not a drug user but it's still an interesting read. Especially the freaky pictures which take up most of the book, obviously done whilst using LSD. Cool book. But great song. The song is great whatever the book that inspired it's author did with his life. Grace slick has such an amazing voice. None of the covers measure up, even closely. That's my 2 cents. White Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland | Reviewer: Carmen L. ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane LSD was invented in the 1960's by Timothy Leary and his bunch. However, peyote was not invented but used for centuries...the Native American and Mexican Indians used it for their quests. Lewis Carroll did indeed make up the sotry as he went along for the sake of Alice and her sisters, BUT when he did write things down, his imagination could more than likely have been impaired by his usage of halucinogenics. the stories are wonderful reading whether you are high or not!! ;-P and his past discretions are debatable at best since he is no longer around to defend himself! LOL I truly think that Jefferson Airplane did a wonderful job with this song, whether they incorporated drugs into it or not. Either way, I like both the books and the song. Peace! In my humble opinion... | Reviewer: Missy ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane I don't believe that the story of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland was written by some drugged out space cadet. I think that Lewis Carroll was a soul way before his time, with a fantastic and unique imagination, and that's about it. And, to "BC a"; These accusations of pedophilia, regarding Lewis Carroll, are largely exaggerated. Artistic nude photographs of children were widely popular in his time and many, many, many people alike owned and displayed these portraits. There was nothing sexual about it in the slightest. In fact, these images were made to capture the innocence of childhood and its beauty. Simply another trend, stuck in time... just like disco, bellbottoms, and so on. Lewis Carroll was a photographer, among other things, so it would make sense that he would have also taken photos of children himself, as he did, since that's what was considered popular art in his day. A few *actual* historical facts, all easily googleable. | Reviewer: DaveK ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane LSD was invented by a chemist called Albert Hofmann who was working for the Swiss pharmaceuticals company Sandoz Laboratories at the time, in the late '30s and early '40s. It was derived from a chemical naturally occurring in a fungus called "ergot" that grows on rye and was frequently responsible during the middle ages for outbreaks of mass poisoning when entire villages who all got their bread from the same local miller/baker would go collectively crazy after getting dosed up with it. As well as the hallucinations, other effects of the naturally-occurring form in the fungus cause restrictions of the blood supply which would lead to gangrene setting in to the extremities, it wasn't anyone's idea of a "pleasant trip". The experiment with the spiders did indeed happen, although much later, and not remotely as described by the earlier poster, but there is a famous set of photographs from it illustrating the kinds of different webs spun by spiders dosed up on caffeine, weed, mescaline and acid. Hallucinogens have been around since forever, not just "the 1800s". Opiates, magic mushrooms, cannabis and other similar plants, there's a huge range of them in nature and the historical record is full of evidence that humans have been using them since... well, since as long as we've been humans. If not longer. And Lewis Carroll aka Charles Dodgson? He is *known* (because he wrote about it in his diaries) to have suffered migraine and epilepsy - both conditions in which the attacks are often preceded by a mild hallucinatory state known as an "aura" (no relation to the new age concept of energy fields whatsoever, it's just a name for the strange state of mind sufferers sometimes enter into). During these "aura" states, there is a dream/trance-like feeling of an altered state of consciousness, and visual disturbances and minor hallucinations - and very typically, these hallucinations take the form of vision that seems to zoom in and out (micropsia and macropsia), leading to sudden rapid changes in the seeming size and scale of objects. Things suddenly blowing up big or shrinking down small - does that remind you of anything? Eat me, drink me, Alice in Wonderland? Yep, there's every reason to suppose he got all the source material just from his own life experiences and imagination. No reason to suppose he was a drug user, and no known evidence for it; there are plenty of other causes for hallucinatory and surreal experiences apart from drugs, and the disorders that we know he suffered from are all the explanation that's required. Why does it always have to be about drugs? | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane To Mr. Aladdin-Says-Take-Off-My-Clothes and Casbahhh, It. Is. Not. About. Drugs. Or. Money. Lewis Carroll (AKA Charles Dodgson) told this story to a little girl named Alice Liddell and her sisters. He was making it up as he went along and then he wrote it down for her. And THAT is how Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland came about, NOT because he went on some drug-induced book-writing frenzy. The real Alice Liddell could testify to that (and, in fact, he gave her one of the first copies when it was first published), so it isn't something they just made up so the author wouldn't get a bad rep. And, please, don't make things out to be about drugs where there weren't meant to be any. The hookah is understandable. The sugar is not. MILLIONS of people around the world put sugar in their tea. I put sugar in my tea. It's not some stupid little hint to indicate that drug use occurred in the making of the book. And even worse than that: The mushrooms and the Cheshire Cat? Really? Were you being serious? Becase that's just stupid. The Cheshire Cat wasn't even around mushrooms went it "morphed and tripped out." And what do you even mean, "tripped out"? All it did was disappear and know everything that went on. The Cheshire Cat is, to say the least, the Cheshire Cat. I reiterate: It has nothing to do with drugs. But, yeah, of course it had adult themes in it. Mainly subtle jokes about death. But, really, what childrens' stories/movies DON'T have SOME adult themes in them? But there's not enough of these "adult themes" to make such a big deal about it. Finishing off my (surprisingly) long response: To David: I'm ecstatic that someone out there ACTUALLY reads the original books which are, by far, much more spectacular than the movies and songs. -Megan lol | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Wow heated debates... But seriously opiates and other drugs were in common use by artists during his time. Its not farfetched to believe he indulged in hitting th pipe. Its a great story and like many childrens stories has adult content so the parents can enjoy th read as well... The little girl who inspired the book had a great imagination and curiosity. He prob used drugs, they prob influenced his style, who cares. Great book. Great song. Take what u need from it and move on :) A statement about living your life 'forever young' | Reviewer: barry ------ About the song Lather performed by Jefferson Airplane i agree, this song is so wonderfully vague and about many things as opposed to just a few. But there's a couple of references that can't be ignored that tie it to an interpretation involving a young at heart sole who delved to the depths and came out on the other side both changed and forever the same. "He produces the finest of sound, Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose, Snorting the best licks in town," an obvious drug reference, snorting some halucynogen of one sort or another. "And the children call him famous, what the old men call insane," Probably building on his drug exploits, framing Lather as an agressive experimenter in drugs, to the extent that he has earned accolades from the the younger generation which values the experience and the condemnation of the older generation which condemns it. BUt perhaps the most haunting line of all: "But that's all over now...." Why? Why is it all over now? First, the institutionalization imagery like his belongings being taken away and his mother sending him newpaper clippings, as if Lather were put away in somehting like an insane asylum (consistent with all the other references to his arrested development). This reading paints Lather as a casualty of his own excesses. And another interpretation is that simply Lather has crossed the thirty year old threshold into that older, unhip generation, thus ending his life of being forever young. Perhaps both interpretations are meant to be read into it. And in a gesture of beautiful poetic justice, Lather, the forever bright-eyed endlessly inquisitive experimenter is trapped in youth forever. As haunting a thought as the mysterious ballad from which the tale is spun. You Should Know... | Reviewer: Through The Looking Glass ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Actually they were naked pictures of little girls and their parents gave him permission to do it. He also allowed the pictures to be burned or gotten rid of later on in life if they wished after he died. And he never actually did anything to the little girls. He wasn't sexually attracted to them (unlike Edgar Allen Poe and Humbert Humbert who liked "nymphets"); it's been speculated that he was attracted to them BECAUSE he felt sexually secure with them. Oh, and (I quote Martin Gardner) "there was a tendency in Victorian England, reflected in much of its literature and art. to idealize the beauty and virginal purity of little girls." In other words, he wasn't alone. And I highly doubt he was smoking weed when he wrote the book. Is it so hard to imagine that some people actually have a great imagination? But anyway, I love this song and I'm extremely excited to see the movie when it comes out. Ha | Reviewer: BC a ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Lewis Carroll wrote the books based on the real life young girl Alice Liddel(sp). However, he was a weed smoking pedophile who had pictures of young girls in their underwear. Does this change the fact that this song is great and the stories/old movie/ new Tim Burton movie; great. I think not. To david, and all others. | Reviewer: Dennis ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Ok, first off david you are correct Lewis Carrol wrote the book before LSD was even accidently invented, and no it was not invented by a kid doing some subject with spiders.. but at this time opiates were very popular, Lewis Carrol most likley have tried it and opiates were more potent back then which could have caused him to think differently, all that aside you don't have to be high on some drug just to have a very vivid imagination, sometimes some people are just naturally like that. actually... | Reviewer: wrong-o boy-o ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane LSD was not invented by the CIA. it was a mix of chemicals made by a high school student for a science project. he had three separate spiders; one of which was given alcohol, the other his LSD invention and the third was given nothing at all. then he compared webs made by the spiders to show the effects of chemicals on the brain. he didn't even realized he'd created a hallucinogen. Heres what I think | Reviewer: The Mad Hatter ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane Some of you are taking it way too seriously and looking far too deep into it. The book is very imaginatively written, and was probably not intended to be about drug use. Just a fun story. Disney made a film about it. Jefferson Airplane saw the book/film were kinda acid trippy and wrote a song cross-referencing the 2. wow | Reviewer: Casbahhh ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane People who are trying to pin this to lsd use are idiots, opiotes and tons of other mind altering substances have been around since the 1800s and for anyone to say they knew the personal life style of the author is ridiculous, who the hell are you to say she wasnt smoking opium or huffin ether or doing mescaline for christ sakes, forms of lsd were also around long before C.I.A testing, that test was to determine it as a truth serum for interrogation purposes, it was also declared illegal after these experiments it was not the first time this mind altering state was achieved and anyone who thinks that is an idiot, not all books have the answers and not all the answers you find in books are undisputed fact, While i cant pretend this movie is for sure based on drugs it has quite a few dogging references ( hookah use, the sugar in her teacup, the mushrooms that make the chester cat morph and trip out ) while yes this could all be just a clever childrens tale for anyone to assume its either way and call it fact is ridiculous, NONE of you know Lewis Carol NONE of you were there when this was created and none of you asked what the inspiration was, you can sit here and deduct and discuss semantics on a topic that people can only really speculate about or you can realize its a childrens story and probablly had some adult themes in mind while being written but Im sure its safe to say it wasnt a stand for pro drug users and wasnt a message to capitalist america, it was a book written by someone who wanted money... read into it all you want but none of you will ever truly know the motivation behind it and sitting here acting like a pseudo intellectual as you argue about alice and fucking wonderland certainly dosent help, GREAT song tho jefferson airplane rocks Regarding my novel "Alice in Wonderland" | Reviewer: Lewis Carrol ------ About the song White Rabbit performed by Jefferson Airplane In reviewing the comments that so many of you have made about my work; Since I lived in the 19th century before movies, television or rock and roll music it should be obvious which came first- THE BOOK! You all discussed my book when you were in grammar school and also in high school. Maybe YOU were on drugs if you can't remember, and anyone who would think that Walt Disney came back from the dead and copied the Jefferson Airplane song and then I came back from the dead to write a novel about the movie is incorrect. To answer the question "was Lewis Carrol on LSD when he wrote Alice in Wonderland the answer is no. I was licking toads. You could review the artist/band Jefferson Airplane in Biography page You could review Jefferson Airplane album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Jefferson Airplane song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Jefferson Airplane" Music | |
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