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  • she's off her face!!!

  • I bet everyone in the crown was droppin acid when they started playing this song

  • Yes I have to agree this is one of the worst performances of that song I've seen. I'm a great Grace Slick fan but I think she was a tad burnt out on this performance.

  • "Remember what the dormouse said;

    'Feed your head!"

    Today's the first I ever heard of a mouse. I always thought it was remember what the doorKNOB said .... at that time, too, we weren't hippies, we were "heads". Great video.

  • I generally find Airplane as a whole to be a better studio band than live. By themselves, Jorma and Jack rock on stage. Seen them live quite a few times

  • I always found Airplane to be a better studio band than live - though Jorma and Jack are an exception. Seen those two in concert quite a few times and they still rock!

  • The feedback sucks! It must have been hard to get inspired when your ears are getting blasted.

  • they say she was pregnant here 

  • Grace Does look tired here!! i think the band were going thru a lot of changes at the time this was filmed,spencer dryden the drummer had just left,jack and jorma had just fled jamacia with there lifes a few DAYS before this!!! hot tuna and dope!!! Grace had just done her Stoned/Drunk? Shrimp Shit Rap at the fillmore a few weeks earlier and marty wanted to leave.there music was changing and getting heavier and more hard rock. this is not a terrible performance but not as fresh as in 1967

  • @thesyd1975 they are on too much acid, that's all.

    this version is "lsd art"

  • While this is by no means Jefferson Airplane's best performance, Grace's voice sent (again!) chills down my spine in the end.

  • This is an awful sounding Grace Slick.

  • @testerz123456 areu a twat or something-- whats it fuckin matter what she looks like, one of the best female vocalists..........

  • @testerz123456  Oh Fuck Off Ya Fucking Butt Plug

  • grace was probably pregnant when this was filmed but she still looks stoned outa her mind :)

  • Part 2:

    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;

    "Keep YOUR HEAD

    _______________

    Keep your head"

  • @titanchris1 "KEEP your head???!!!"

    It's "FEED your head!"

    Dear, keeping your head was precisely not the point. . . 

  • Part 1: 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 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 slow Go ask Alice I think she'll know
  • Damn, why am I 14.

    I live in Holland.

    If I was 54 now, 14 back then, I could've seen this!

  • @zephranna01 I would direct the idiot to Mao's great leap forward that claimed about 40 million deaths then Stalin and Lenin who both managed to rack up 20 million a piece.

    There is a great book available for download called 'The Irrational Atheist" that quantifies to massive scale of atheist slaughter in the chapter titled 'The red Hand of Atheism'.

    10000 is nothing compared to what Atheisms heavy hitters managed.

  • @zephranna01First of all don't insult anyone like that it's lame.

    Second : if you make the addition of all the big slaughters in the world and see how many were based on religious "reasons" then you would find a percentage of what ? 75 , 80 % ?

    Of course the slaughters you talk about happened in the 20th century so the ones I was talking about happened hundreds of years ago so let's say we "evolved" on religious differences and that the law now protects the atheist.

  • Grace Slick sings at the same pitch as that vuvuzela....cool song though

  • Love this song.

    Did the book "Go ask Alice" possibly chose the title because of this song?

  • @Toushirouluv Could be just so. the story is based on real facts. Alice took LSD with her schoolfriends and died because of it. Then Jef. Air. did this song about her, the book was later

  • @DirkjeA The book Alice in wonderland, or Alice's adventures in wonderland was written long before LSD was invented.

  • @Intotheorchard You are right, but the working of mushrooms is wellknown since ages, and that is what Alice in Wonderland took.. The Alice in the song, is not the same as Alice in the story. The Alice in the song existed in real life and was a real girl, that died of the use of LSD

  • @DirkjeA I know, I was just correcting you about the book coming later part. It was published in the 1800's, I think 1860ish, though I don't remember exactly.

  • @Intotheorchard Again you are right, I had to go back to see what comment you ment, and I was wrong ofcourse. The book was way before the song about Alice, the paralel between the real Alice and Alice from the book is a coincidence, well used by Jefferson Airplane. But yes, the book, by

    Lewis Carrol, is a great deal older, my mother used to read to me when I was very little, so I should have known.

  • @DirkjeA nope, the song is based on alice and wonderland, and you cant die from acid. its un-overdose-able

  • @porkfrieddylan I surrender, you are right! It has clearly to do with the book. I red the lyrics of this song and I can only say I got it completely wrong. I do remember however when I was 14, this girl, Alice died of a drugsoverdose in England, and in those days this was all over the news in Holland (where I live) cause those things were a big issue back than. I must have combined the two somehow and always thought that the song was for her, but I know better now, thanks to all of u guys.

  • @DirkjeA yeah, I think you were thinking of the book "Go Ask Alice" which was written five years after this song, that girl btw died of a heroin overdose. This book is based on Alice in Wonderland. Go Ask Alice's name was actually based on this song. the girl in the book wasnt named alice. it also probably wasnt in the news since the book was an anonymous diary and its speculated whether its real or fiction.

  • @porkfrieddylan It was a documentary called "Allice is dead" about an english girl that died of a heroin dose. I remember, because I was in highschool than and we got a drugsinformationclass that week wich was a great deal about her. But had nothing to do with the song as I know now. Thanks for your kind reply's btw.

  • I love this song. Were you ever on drugs in the 1970's?

  • Grace was pregnant here plus the time change to Germany would make her look and sound exhausted. We all know that Grace has a powerful voice and beauty. I guess that there are a few assoles here that do not understand that. It's one thing if you didn't know this and it's another if you did and insist on a person looking perfect all the time. Let me ask you,"Does your shit stink"? Most probably. And it stinks no matter who you are.

  • @MsSemiautomatic Yeah, but people are paying to hear her perform.

    I like Grace, don't get me wrong, she's an incredible talent, but it's like going

    to the bakery and buying stale bread. "Hey man I was tired...Sorry" says the baker.

    Grace should have been more professional. No excuses.

  • @canebluff

    No, it was more like the baker saying "I was high as fuck.. sorry."

    Not tired.

  • this girl is grace slick?????

  • min. 1.15 reminds me the Jim Morrisons acid eyes

  • Is this Grace Slick? I thought that Spanky from Spanky and the Gang took

    her place when Grace left the group?

  • danisilva59

    those days are still here!! ask miss Whitehouse et al

  • Sad but true!

  • Look at her eyes!! It's not hard to see,

  • Diggin Jorma!

  • Wow, it IS 1/2 step down! Could've tuned down but looks like they played in F to help her with the higher notes at end... maybe not best but I still think it was good performance. Hvy touring (& partying) = hard on voice. Like it - keepin it real :)

  • Obviously on the "down hill slide" at this time...saw them in Dallas about this time and they just ran-thru the "old stuff" - White Rabbit, STL, etc.. just to get it out of the way. You could tell they were loathing having to do their stuff that was already 4 years old. Great seeing them, but the best part of the show was the great Glen McKay's Light Show that was in back of them. True artistry and what helped us get Dallas' longest running Light Show (Studio Club) up and running.

  • @duncanengler Hahaha Tat's a great tale, dude. Actually, it's not a bad version of the song. They've just dropped the acidy feel of the tune and turned it up a notch with a more rolling groove. It's just a bad recording and their PA system at the gig probably didn't help much either.

  • Hm ... bad performance from Ms. Slick ... the guitarist is looking at her like she's mad at the start of the song!

  • She was real high, it was night time , everybody was high at night! Not saying it was a good thing! Thank GOD those days are gone!

  • WoW.. This is awful!!.. Not JA's best performance..

  • She looks like shes high..^^

  • Grace Slick -great singer!

  • elle est un peu fatiguée la pauvre

  • I love this song, but this is not a good performance of it at all.

  • she sounds a bit deep

  • sounds like she wasn't feeling good and they dropped down a step for her..

  • lol yeah, she reeaallyy is fried on this one.

    doesn't look like LSD tho, just lots of coke

  • The greatest, purest, not fucked up at all...nay to the contrary...this is the official dvd version...never sounded better " in my humble O." kids

  • OOPS! Grace cuts off Jormas instrumental intro and the look on his face shows he is not too happy?

  • haha yeah, he looks sooooo pissed off

  • Better yet, check out the YouTube video, Jefferson Airplane Live 1970. It's the song, "Eskimo Blue Day". This is a stellar video - everyone's on fire!! (thanks for posting!!) Another good one is Live 1970 "Wooden Ships".

  • LOL she on some good shit.

  • Jefferson Airplane is my favorite band of all time. This is truly a horrible performance. Check out their live studio version of Wooden Ships on YouTube. Then you will see their greatness!!

  • My favorite is "Monterey" festival!!

  • LOL.....yep, Grace is obviously wasted. But she usually was in shows from 70 on. (I collect Airplane bootlegs). 70 was about the time a lot of musicians crashed and burned and some died. The Airplane was getting seriously into coke and was doing more LSD than usual before and during shows. I'm sure touring with the Dead didn't help :P

  • oh, YOU!!...drop some "el" you'll get it!!...your just in the square headspace as you said this...DROP!!

  • Heeheehee. Oh, I did my fair share of that on Dead Tour! Breakfast lunch and dinner for years! Probably would still be doin it but the god-forsaken assmunches in the gov't pretty much wiped out all the makers in the late 90s. Bastards!! Now if I do find it it's mad wicked expensive. Le sigh!

  • I couldn't disagree with you more. This is awesome.. good vibes to Grace, Jorma and the rest whereever they are !!

  • Damn this shit sux live!

  • You have to be tripping to get it... lol they were when they did this.

  • I dont care if you dont agree with me they were fucked up during this and the song was too

  • just this concery they have one ithat sounds perfect

  • I know I heard it i stumbled onto this one and was shocked LOL trust me i know theyre awesome

  • Haha - great save by the ultimate junkie

  • this is the greatest band....on too many drugs

  • this dont evan sound right

  • I love Jefferson Airplane ...but this is really horrible. Terrible recording, horrendous acoustics, and worst of all, Grace was wasted....which is sad, because that would become the rule and not the exception as time went on...until the Airplane became the Starship.

  • Yup. Horrible performance of an amazing song.

  • Bad acoustics.

  • shes truly amazing, most hot girls dont get on stage after spending no time at all trying to look awesome. grace doesnt seem to care as much about that. she just dcided to whip out her extreme hotness whenever she wants and not give a shit when she isnt feeling it that day

  • bad acoustics, but i like it - sounding kind of like an early punk band.

  • great song! one of my favs from the hippie culture

  • my dad was there... i wished i was there!!

  • It sounded a whole lot better from where I stood.

  • Famos.

  • Anyone who knows how hard it is to sing live knows when you can't hear yourself or there is feedback drowning out your voice, you will sound bad. It was hardly her fault, and as the sound became steady, she started singing much better.

  • Not her best performance.

  • Off coarse she is.... imagine how high she was, when she wrote this song....

  • or reading Through The Looking Glass

    idiot

  • @Incephaly This was about a real story, a teenage girl named Alice that went into LSD with her friends from school and died because of it. So no need to be high to write such a song....

  • she's pretty high

  • ....This song makes me want to get high again

  • so you cant hear how god-awful it sounds

  • As far as drugs go, I am not against them (well, I'm against stimulants) but I don't use them. It's more fulfilling to get high on music, or love, or Grace Slick's beauty.

  • Bad Airplane, like bad sex, is still pretty good!

  • The only thing that destroyed millions of people for centuries is.......you guessed it... RELIGION because The biggest slaughters in history were based on differences of religion.

    So let everybody get high and become social rather than make them swear not to have sex before mariage, stop making new laws to gain more money on the back of people who just want to escape this world of NO FREEDOM.

    RASTAFARI !

  • I don't agree with many of the things that religion has caused. Some of the church's ideologies are utterly ridiculous. However, I believe in God and consider myself a Catholic. Religion should not be about other people. It should be a purely individual relationship with whomever you choose.

  • @stonefreeJMH I agree you have the right to believe in whatever you want but some people just won't agree and will want everyone to believe the same thing. I chose to believe in life and in what I know so that no one can tell me that I don't believe in HIS god. Good luck with faith man :) I hope you find god.

  • @unreals500 Would you care to elaborate? Exactly what wars and slaughters?

  • @unreals500

    Great point.

    Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot...

    They were Catholic, right?

  • @unreals500 And buddy who's stoping you from doing absurd things?Go ahead no one is dying now adays becasue your not christain or catholic.As for me I've changed alot and I have come to opening up to christ,And that's all me.Personally I think what you believe and what do is somthing negative.Do as you want but exect some to not follow or agree.You don't need drugs to be social,I choose to have sex before marriage because it is safer and i won't come across problems.

  • Mankind since it learned how to talk has been taking ALL kinds of DRUGS and it's just for 4 reasons : 1st It's bloody funny ^^, 2nd You see reality with the perception of nature, 3rd Religion (1st time this thing is useful), 4th and last reason...Creativity, I mean don't even hope for good rock songs if there's not at least one or two acids behind it. Talented people sometimes only need weed.

    Drug isn't illegal because it's dangerous, It's dangerous because it's illegal.

  • so...just because our goverments say we can't use drugs... that makes them dangerous...? I'm sorry, but I don't get your point...

  • I mean that kids mostly like to get high because it's illegal and then sometimes they fall into "abuse" of drugs. But if drugs were not illegal then kids would do it less and with more respect and precaution, and drug dealers wouldn't be able to cut drugs with other stuff because government would be in charge of the sales.

  • unreals - that is so very debateable. ( first of all, do we NEED another government program? )

  • Yes it's true that there is much to say and everybody (for me) needs to get a little more freedom, the fact that people have to work just to survive and not to live is unacceptable (you don't even have the right to live in alone in the forest without bothering anyone). It's very hard to have decent conversation by writing but it does the job for now (until this becomes a real debate).

  • Grace is high as a kite in this video

  • is that grace? xD

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  • Oh joy. You spelled who correctly this time. Last time it was hoo. And maybe NEXT time youll learn how to capitalize the first letter of a sentence . . .

  • Question: how many Jefferson Airplane band members did Gracie Slick screw? Answer: All -- except Marty Balin.

  • who cares

  • You jealous?

  • Big time . . .

  • Artaxerxes333 is a nerd. I'm jealous too.

  • HAHAHA wrong answer, freak. Yes it's true, all of the 1966-70 line-up except Marty, but then what about the ones in 70-72 - I don't think she slept with John Creach or Joey Covington, at least got no source for it. And Signe Toly Anderson? Now how likely is that? ROFL. read your homework before making accusations. And btw, if she screwed a lot, well good for her, it's bloody more fun than not doing it... since she apparently didn't get any diseases, whats the fuckin problem?

  • wish I was a JA band member back then!

  • Grace's top is hot.

  • просто ахрененно!!!

  • lolololollol have you ever tripped acid? mind control lmao you cant even think of shit while your tripping, btw dumb fuck a member of the greatful dead "gurued" acid not the government. also fucktard while im at it why is lsd illegal if its a government mind control weapon?

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  • The government tested unsuspecting soldiers and psych patients in the sixties with lsd,they were testing it to see if they could use it as any kind of weapon in war,mind control,torture... true story.There have been several suicides and law suits because of it.

  • acid its a great fucking drug

  • no its not, its an evil mind controller that the CIA and FBI capitalised on introducing it to America via MK ULTRA and other nazi like mind control projects...

  • lol dude i hope your being really sarcastic.

  • JUST do a google on Sandoz labratories in switzerland and MK Ultra... don't be so damn stupid... the FACTS are out there about government orginated and controlled drug induced culture... just get off your lazy ass and do some research, the truth will follow.

  • im not gonna research because its a waste of time in this situation. and even if u are right... who the fuck cares, LSD = good fuckin time.

  • They're all really fucked up.

    Then again, so am I. ;)

  • Grace looks out of it here! Wish I was a young adult in these times

  • im a big fan of jefferson airplane somebody was my first song i sung at 14 in a 4-H contest in elementary school it won and went to the state it was the begining of me wanted to start a singing career i owe to this band i wouldnt be singing everynight for people if it wasnt for this band thankyou for sharin this!!!

  • la verdad es hermosisima grace slick,no paro de ver sus videos con todo el poder que despide su voz, los veo una y otra vez sin cansarme. Su rostro es hermosisimo y es mas que bonita.Me gustaria que se enterara jeeee.saludos claudio

  • If they had used that famous "hall" effect of her voice it would have sounded better.

  • I agree.

  • Yeah..If they would use nowadays effects they would sound just amazing...

  • I hate youtube! They removed the live recording of white rabbit at woodstock because of copyright infringement!

  • yah

    that sucks

    it was GREAT!

    i should have saved it to my pc when i could

  • ... thats not youtubes fault.. its the people hwo copyright it's

  • i don't think that record labels give a fuck about videos on youtube. one time some parody of a song was removed because of copyrights, but even the original band (Opeth) and label approved it.

  • not fond of this performance. Slick is better when she's sober. when they sang this on the ed sullivan show it was mind blowing.

  • this is amazing...great song to flow to man .Far out..love the feel to it!

  • Lsd make me a hit

  • who says drugs dont take a toll on you..........wow

  • I feel trippy just watching this.

  • grace is trippin! lol.

  • Cutie dancing in the beginning.

  • te amo grace slick, lastima nacii en 1986 tengo 22 años soy argentinoo.besos.claudio

  • ajajaja a mi me pasa lo mismo

  • i wanna see those nips!!!

  • me too, hehe

  • are her nipples censored?really?! I know it's policy but really.

  • i know thats shit man. Not that i'm a perv or anything lol

  • wait... whos nipples?

  • Grace's

  • I'm disappointed in an artistic way

  • what does one expect?...........they were probably way bored with it at this point........i know i am.......plus grace is kind of known for singing flat live.

  • Grace was soooooooooooo hot!!! i would have done that in a heart beat!!

  • She was stunning. I think she is potentially the hottest woman that ever existed in music. But the charisma and talent is also a massive attraction i think.

  • I agree, her presence was very captivating.She was a baby doll!

  • dope!!!!

  • what the hell is this hair ?

  • worst than woodstock

  • dear ramito8, Can you please E-mail me in English. I understand some Spanish but I will have to get my boyfriend who is Spanish and a police officer to interpret it. Thanks.

  • que desastre la piba como canta, las drogas la dejaron asi, sin voz. Y eso que siempre fue increible.

  • Why does Grace look like she is sick here? Maybe she is very tired from jet lag? And I don't think it's from drugs either.

  • She's at the beginning of her pregnancy. This is June of 70 and she gave birth in January of '71.

  • do you wanna suck this cock ?

  • Hey ramito8 I think you made a mistake E-mailing "this comment" to ME! You meant it for someone else? If you meant it for met hen you need to explain WHY you sent this? Okay?

  • uhhhhhhhhhhhh, no tengo ganas de explicar porque, tas contento con el triunfo de barack? ehh vamo vamooooooooooo el grone! un capo, a ver si encuentran un nuevo rumbo para su alicaido pais...

  • You know that they knocked ppl down at Woodstock when theywanted to promote politics? So just leave it (and the spelling game as well) and be grateful cos this is really great and rare stuff!

  • come on pete got mad because abbie just went onto HIS stage while HE was performing.

  • Dear Nexustraveler, Thank you for the compliment. I don't profess to be fluent in the English language. the argument was with T a dumb fuckin asshole on youtube that is here to get votes for McCain and hasn't a brain nor a dictionary to even convince us to vote for him. If this imbicile is a sample of who's voting for McCain, then we don't even need an election.