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Music Appreciation

Different Drummer

(7,621 posts) Fri Jan 12, 2024, 08:50 PM Jan 2024

Jefferson Airplane -- White Rabbit

Stuck in my head at the moment.

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Jefferson Airplane -- White Rabbit (Original Post) Different Drummer Jan 2024 OP

Feed your head! Haggard Celine Jan 2024 #1

"White Rabbit" has one of the best "extended metaphors" I've ever heard. viva la Jan 2024 #2

I have heard that Grace, at one time, denied this was a drug song. n/t spike jones Jan 2024 #3

Haggard Celine

(16,847 posts)

1. Feed your head!

Reply to Different Drummer (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2024, 08:56 PM

Jan 2024

viva la

(3,308 posts)

2. "White Rabbit" has one of the best "extended metaphors" I've ever heard.

Reply to Different Drummer (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2024, 09:22 PM

Jan 2024

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

Grace Slick used the Alice story to describe psychedelic experience.

spike jones

(1,680 posts)

3. I have heard that Grace, at one time, denied this was a drug song. n/t

Reply to Different Drummer (Original post)

Fri Jan 12, 2024, 10:00 PM

Jan 2024

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