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Characters Slick referenced include Alice, the White Rabbit, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse. Slick reportedly wrote the song after an acid trip. For Slick, "White Rabbit" "is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity."
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Aug 24, 2023 · White Rabbit was inspired by Grace Slick’s fascination with Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” She connected deeply with the book’s themes of curiosity, non-conformity, and societal rebellion, which resonated with the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Mar 27, 2023 · The Origins. “White Rabbit” was penned by Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick when she was still a member of the band The Great Society. She borrowed the song’s trippy imagery from Lewis...
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Jan 29, 2024 · Slick wrote White Rabbit at home in Marin County a year earlier, on an upright piano with missing keys, at the end of an acid trip during which she listened to Miles Davis’s Sketches Of Spain for 24 hours straight. Then she presented it to her then bandmates, San Francisco raga-folk avatars the Great Society.
Apr 22, 2024 · 1. What inspired Grace Slick to write White Rabbit? Grace Slick drew inspiration from her interest in the works of Lewis Carroll, particularly Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Additionally, her own experiences with hallucinogenic drugs influenced the song’s creation. 2. Was White Rabbit meant to be political?
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Jun 21, 2020 · Jefferson Airplane in 1967, with Grace Slick second from right. Neil Armstrong June 21 2020. One day in 1963, Grace Slick, a model who worked in a San Francisco department store, took the...
How Grace Slick Wrote “White Rabbit”: The 1960s Classic Inspired by LSD, Lewis Carroll, Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain, and Hypocritical Parents. in Music | October 11th, 2019 3 Comments.
