No - not quite that...!
In this year of Our Lord two-thousand and nineteen (2019 - which means we are really celebrating the Sexy Year; nineteen sixty-nine! Or, if you will, 1969) there are so many 50th anniversaries of note - yes, so many - but none more so than the Woodstock performance of this landmark song - by Grace Slick!
G.S. was one of the most emancipated, liberated, uninhibited
(meaning: promiscuous and debauched) women of ROCK
ever to, er, grace the stage and/or music scene!
All that - and MORE: like an accomplished songwriter
(who wrote them like me: with a melody in her head, but
not written of note sheets whatsoever - not knowing how
to write music per say!)
and what a voice - a true songstress siren-like voice!
All that - and MORE: like an accomplished songwriter
(who wrote them like me: with a melody in her head, but
not written of note sheets whatsoever - not knowing how
to write music per say!)
and what a voice - a true songstress siren-like voice!
She's inspired MILLIONS - upon millions!
She's done it all - and she's still ALIVE, in 2019!!!
Amazing... er... Grace?
She was high, when she sang this on stage
- oh yeah... she was HIGH!
The (almost?) full set, including the other huge hit
- or timeless tune, as I prefer to phrase it -
that Jefferson Airplane/Starship is remembered for
- never mind their '80s comeback stuff;
even Slick is not too fond of it! -
also from Woodstock '69:
And the original, official video:
In an interview on some new cable channel
desperate for content and viewers
that had just hired him to do this sort of thing
- an interview show, duh -
airhead Howard Stern asked Grace Slick
this deeply inane question
regarding WHITE RABBIT:
"did you know, when you wrote this song,
that it was going to be a hit?"
And Grace enlightened the poor schmuck
(who really should know better)
"it wasn't like that back then!
Hits were candy-coated tunes like
Frankie Avalon used to sing;
we were not out to write a "hit"
we just aimed at writing the best possible
song that we could write!"
DUH!
AND NOW - IN 2019 - it is so amusing to see
this marquee song being used on
CELEBRITY X CRUISES
commercials...
... as well as being covered
- and quite well at that -
over and over again :
__________
OKAY - not quite that last one there...!!!
NOT BAD AT ALL;
FOR A SONG ABOUT DOING DRUGS,
QUITE BASICALLY... HUH?
