White Rabbit
| White Rabbit | |
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| Written by | Jefferson Airplane |
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| Appears on | Joe Hawley Joe Hawley |
| Sung by | Grace Slick, Joe Hawley |
| Duration | 3:02 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Language | English |
White Rabbit is a song by written by Grace Slick, and performed by Jefferson Airplane. Joe Hawley covered it for his album Joe Hawley Joe Hawley in 2016, using samples from the original.
An audio only version of the song, described as a "redux", was uploaded to Joe Hawley's YouTube page on the 31st of October 2017.[1] Vocoded vocals from the song were later uploaded to the channel on December 9th, 2017.[2]
Trivia
- Similarly to We Are in Space, the track was not available in the Bandcamp version, this was most likely due to copyright reasons.
- Grace Slick cited Maurice Ravel's Bolero as an inspiration for the song in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Coincidentally, Tally Hall covered Bolero to start some of their 2007 shows.
- When Joe Hawley Joe Hawley was finally released in streaming platforms in Nov 2020, White Rabbit was cut from the tracklist, due to constant threats of legal action.
- Kanye West (whose music is sampled in this song) and Tally Hall both performed at Lollapalooza in 2008.
Lyrics
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall 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 When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low Go ask Alice I think she'll know When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's off with her head Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head Feed your head
Personnel
Lyrics & Music: Grace Slick
Recorded at ASSEMBLE in Detroit, U.S.A.
Vocals: Grace Slick (sampled)
Sequence & Additional Vocals: Joe Hawley
Additional Sequencing & Snare Drum: Ross Federman
White Knight: Seth Anderson
Samples of Note:
"You Know I'm No Good" by Amy Winehouse
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
"Orinoco Flow" by Enya
"Heard 'em Say" by Kanye West (ft. Adam Levine)