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  • Grace Slick had an amazing voice. Its funny how she hardly moved at all during her performance. Love the nun's dress!

  • ONE OF THE TOP ROCK SONGS LIKE IT OR NOT..

  • Marty seems very bored!

  • never understood why they ditched marty in the back on a piano that he doesn't even really play. poor marty. and the whole thing needs MORE lava lamp

  • I taped this on to VHS about ten years ago or so, I still have the tape......somewhere. So thanks for posting this, Surrealistic Pillow is a perfect album!

  • Of course, looking at the date it was two weeks before they headlined Monterey.

  • 60's music videos... Turn the camera upside down and flash a lava lamp up every few seconds. epic... lol

  • What a groovy sound. I just love it!!! I was born in 1963, and I think the 60s was the coolest era. The clothes, music, hairdos, and the spirit. I have fond memories of being a little girl, and I like when music and styles take me back to such fond times. The eye shadow and eyelashes have arrived!!

  • Personally, I dont think Grace has ever really gotten her due. But when you talk about the most influentuial 'rock divas', as far as Im concerned, she's earned her place right next to Tina Turner, Janis Joplin and Etta James...and it could probably be said that she influenced THEM, more than they influenced her. I think she stands out, like the great ones do, becuz no one sounds like her.

  • Dick Clark is hilarious. He's trying to talk all hip in the beginning and at the end he mentions "The Establishment".

  • go ask alice remember that movie well.

  • omg i was 1 yea a baby lol!!!!!

  • Clark was amazingly respectful to the band, considering the era this was in. He was basically alluding that he supported the band and the hippy movement, but he did it ever so carefully, which was to be expected in those days.

  • The song was unique and original...the lyrics didn't make a lot of sense, but Grace and that powerful voice made it a hit.

  • @MelC54

    Most of the lyrics come from Alice in Wonderland but they are also about the effects of LSD etc. so they do make a kind of sense. This show was on my 19th birthday but since I was 3,000 miles away I couldn't see it until Youtube.

  • Grace Slick = extremely cute

  • What year is this?

  • @StarZombie6 The magic year 1967!

  • before paramore there was the jefferson airplane. grace>hayley

  • this is beyond awesome, im in love with grace slick.... I wish i was around during those times.  Unbelievable.

  • the people who went to the dick clark show were so out of the times.did you see the reaction to the beatles strawberry fields video.shows how far ahead the beatles were for their time than the public.

  • Beautiful voice to fit a beautiful woman. She is SO HOT!!! If she was a new celeb, I'd be crushing on her!

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  • Interesting, they put down dick clark, but He looks like a new waver from the 1980's!!! ahead of his time!!...eat your heart out kids!

  • I was born in the wrong country

  • @roni123il what country?

  • Where's Marty?

  • @nadezalli

    Marty is playing keyboards, piano. He doesn't seem to happy.

  • @mizzpink98z24cavi He never was happy once Gracie joined the band. She had better stage presence and the band's biggest hit came from her.

  • i'd like her to love the year this came out.

  • grace admitted she is a total shit when loaded

  • i wish sometimes i had a comment delete button so i can delete all the stupid talk and comments, about this or what ever shit people are talking about. seriously its just good music take your comments elsewhere.

  • @pbrick6301 your shitting me right? why the fuck you you come to this video and type that your the piece of shit that has nothing else productive to do so they try to run their mouth over the internet get a life dude and by the way reagan was a piece of shit as well

  • @imcrouse nice language. i dont really remmeber typing this. sorry ddnt mean to offend nobody. i think this happend last night. anyway, sorry again. to many cold ones. you know, i do remember vomiting last nite to so yes that was probably me. have a good one.

  • @imcrouse

    pbrick is just fuckin with us. No one is that fuckin stupid.

  • @RussianInquisition Yes I am.

  • @pbrick6301

    Really? That doesn't look like hard work

    arising from long discipline?  How many

    millions of people have you or Reagan made

    ecstatic with your work?

  • @pbrick6301 BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! reagan's dead bro.

  • That is one sexy nun! Only Grace Slick could make that look hot.

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  • Bandstand goes bananas.

  • she was wicked hot

  • @GPryan this is wicked also? National Sunday Law. reg6(dot)com. Bye!

  • @bornbythesea what ?

  • @GPryan Read reg6(dot)com :)

  • what a voice

  • I love how Grace not only sings the song, she embodies the character Alice (in Wonderland, Behind the Looking Glass) as she is singing her part! Fabulous! And is that the house in the background that was also an airplane on their After Bathing at Baxter's, or is it a prop made from the house they shot The Munsters in? Yikes.

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  • I'm surprised they mimed this...

  • @BTManzie everything was mimed on AB

  • Everyone loves Dick Clark, a real American ICON.

  • I love how at 0:51 he can't pronounce so he pretends he's smoking a joint, these days, it would be people pretending to drink alcohol, this stupid world!!!

  • @bigfootisreal100 He might also have been making a reference to the song, which is about as explicit a drug song as you could do in 1967.  It's awesome that they're on American freakin' Bandstand playing (miming?) a song telling the kids to 'feed your head'.

  • @emerpus01 Yeah so true, those days would've been so damn amazing!!!

  • @emerpus01

    2011 Still MARVELLOUS

    FEED YOUR HEAD!

  • @1bichon1, spot on feller. @rosieprospects, i didn't mean this actual post is off S.B show, i mean't the CLASSIC COLOUR (you spell it wrong lol) double clip of White Rabbit/Somebody To Love. I'm sure you've seen it.

  • @rosieprospects, good comment, AND true. America had HUGE audiences for CLASSIC shows like this. And those Smothers Brothers had EVERYONE on their show. The back2back CLASSICS of this post bein just one

  • where is that book?!?!?!?!

    also i thought when she started singing, it was a close up of her face

  • Jeff Air Rocks! Grace is such an amazing artist just like Jack, Marty, Paul, Spencer and Jorma, if we could have groups like this one today or even better, be a teenager at that time!

  • The Host is an Asshole... Jefferson Airplane have my soul.

  • @TheToastMane yeah Dick Clark is an asshole huh? One of the most mellow old timers in the world and hes an asshole,,,,,,yea. ...k

    GO ASK ALICE........

  • @TheToastMane the show had no time, and they cant be 1 sec late. of course another ignorant human being

  • @TheToastMane becuase they thought it was weird music at that time. they listen to all the 40's.

  • @TheToastMane Thant's DICK CLARK you dumb ***!!!! Ever heard of "American Bandstand"?! Which was OUR MTV.....Dick Clark was so f'in COOL that our parents let us watch it they wanted to watch it too! (1960-?) (with all the top acts _Janis, Doors, Supremes, Temps, 4 Tops, Jackson Five etc EVerybody who was Anybody appeared on American Bandstand. Do NOT call Dick Clark an Asshole ~ how Could You? Research and watch He Got the JA that's why they were on his show!! Back then the Beatles were cuttinge

  • Listen To That Voice@5:44 Lady GaGa is talented? my ass she is. Thanks foghatrules.

  • If something this original was heard today there would be folks fainting dead away. But the left is now the establishment and there is no stimulus to fight against. When everything means nothing, anything goes - and originality has been an unfortunate victim now bordering on extinction. Sorry to sound so philosophical or pedantic, just the way I see it.

  • If something this original was heard today there would be folks fainting dead away.

  • @eurobaby460 that, and Disney would sh*t their pants.

  • no mics, no wires; man, thats talent

  • @blizzardballz isn't it playback???

  • Great video! Love the jackets

  • 4:05 hypnotic

  • marty looked really, really bored

  • lol there lip syncing it

  • @cnacios lol yea i never understood why they did that back then, they sounded way better live.

  • look at those eyes

  • if you are going to san francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

  • This is music. I'm only 21 but this era was just AMAZING

  • her singing is better in this one she gives it a bit more grunt lol

  • Chills / goosebumps running up my arm...

  • @TheARosemary

    same thing just happened to me

  • PLAYBACK! Shame on them, this " live " is the same as the studio version.

  • @Juuukebox Next you'll be claiming that Grace doesn't have a microphone! Look at Casady's bass - there is a cord of some sort draped over the strings. It's showbiz... they weren't trying to fool anyone.

  • @FestustheLeftist I'm french, so i don't understand some words... and my english isn't very excellent!

    if i understang what u said, i agree with u, but i find that playback isn't interesting... cause when a singer or band appears on a tv show, i think that's better a live than a playback version... you can see the performances of this singer/band...

    ( sorry for my english! )

  • @Juuukebox I agree. It would be better to have an actual live performance but I doubt that happens very often in these tv appearances. My "favorite" is one of The Smiths where Morrissey is singing with a bouquet of flowers rather than using a microphone (top of the pops I believe.) Anyway, I do like this video; mostly due to the nun-type outfit Grace is wearing, admittedly. btw Your English is fine enough... far better than my French. peace.

  • @Juuukebox omg really??

  • @Marion133 of course!

  • I would sell my soul to sing like that!

  • I love how she just looks at the crowd she has such a commanding presence I love this band. I bet the teenagers use to be high as hell listening to them I know if I was a teenager back then I would be lol. oh an look how the camera man is filming upside down trust me they are doing this for a reason lol they know most people are high watching this lol. My dad use to tell me he use to be high as hell listening to this song he was in the army/Vwar back then so I see y lol

  • @27andkickinit wow you said it all! i would have been with those chines eyes :)

  • @27andkickinit haha im a teen and dood i watch this vid every night when i smoke a j to myself. its amazinggg

  • is it playback?

    i'm not sure

    but grace slick's really sexy ^^

  • I think the Manson girls followed Gracie's fashion style.

  • @GarageRockRadio, you will know Conspicuous Only In Its Absence, a great album of "live" pre-plane tracks at San Francisco, 1966. So cool, the whole thing.

  • Acid music is the best, babe!

  • What a powerful voice. And she doesn't scream. Very talented. Another example of the great music of the '60s - the best decade for music of all time.

  • i can see jim carrey spinning around and around and around LOL!!!!

  • I love that she has such an air of honesty and humility about her; she is such a rare gem! A powerful and gorgeous sounding voice and person!

  • I love Jim Carey`s version of somebody to love in "Cable guy"! Hilarious!

  • cant find the book

    marty balan was supposed to have a book...

    "GOT A REVOLUTION" RULES!!!

  • like, WOW, Man....like, Im trippin', Man...LOL

  • GROOVEEE

  • Groovy.....

    PEACE

  • poor marty - stuck back there pretending to play a keyboard which isn't even part of the song

  • lol, the girl at the beginning is so nervous. cracks me up how her eyes dart all over the place

  • Microphone or dildo?

  • if they were lip synching they did amazing at it

  • They don't do it like this anymore. I remember getting Surrealistic Pillow when I was in 7th or 8th grade. Baby, that was all she wrote for me.  I was off and running. Peace, love & rock n roll. It was great growing up in the 60's.

  • Her voice has "authority". Love her.

  • @agentcamo

    She does have a powerful voice, unfortunately on this occasion she's miming!

  • she doesn't have a mic, imagine how powerful she is

  • Man Grace Slick had a voice, And what a Fox.

  • Both excellent 60s tunes that I still love to listen to!

    The original versions of these songs by Grace and "The Great Society" are also very cool and worth listen to, to hear how they sounded when they were first written and performed.

  • A very interesting song! Souxsie & the Banshees must have been very influenced by Jefferson Airplane.

  • Grace Slick rocks

  • I love she........

  • she was so f@cking beautiful! wonderful combination of beauty, voice and brains

  • paul's answer was pure genius.

  • Almost all the TV performances in the 1960s were lip syncing.. There was no other way to do it, except for  Ed Sulivan show it seems

    This was definately lip syncing

  • feeeeeeed your heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeead feeeeeeeeeeeeed your heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaad

  • Oh and i forgot to add that shes utterly beautiful :)

  • Grace Slick looks like such a fucking awesome person! I would have loved to meet her back then and hang out with her along with the other awesome hippies from the 60s..

    i was born in the wrong decade =(

  • @moodswings

    It was a fun time. We thought we were going to change the world....................it's your turn now.

  • Saw them a few times in early to mid 70s...Winterland. I can still recall the chills she sent up & down my spine when she hit the high notes. Her voice would just sooooooar! Magnificent.

  • those houses look so cool. even the drawlings were good back then.

  • the clothes they are wearing are making a comeback

  • That guy is the most epic square. You can tell he's not impressed with their unconventional psychedelic sound.

  • I wish I was there, y'know in the 60s to see em live.. :( Grace Slick is like my idol, no matter how bad people think she is .... my idol used to be Kate Bush, and because of grace slick and kate bush, I dont eat meat (on top of eating meat and killing animals is wrong) :)

  • Jefferson Airplane joined a cult!

  • lava lite!

  • lipsynch at it's worst... but LOVE 'em anyway.....

  • I'm 95% sure she's not lip-sunching, plus all videos of her sound different. People with that voice can control pitch without moving their lips.

  • @karlkarlkarl1234 Well I'm 10,000% sure she IS. Why does Dick Clark have a microphone whereas Grace Slick doesn't? Also none of the guitars have cords (there was no such thing as 'wireless' in '68). Definitely a studio track with pseudo instrument playing and lip-synching. Very, very common on all the TV shows of that era.

  • miley+lady gaga+ke$ha+disney cRaP<grace slick

  • @dragonnelite

    well the song was based on alice in wonderland

  • @dragonnelite I see you do your math correctly!

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  • Man, she was the queen of cool. She had a unique voice and a style all her own. And those eyes. Wow. Only one other female artist of that era that could compare to her, Julie Christie.

  • she's great!

  • Poor Marty.... He didn't get to sing, or get interviewed... THat's really sad...

    Well, the rest of them made up for it!

  • He looked bummed

  • Hard to describe the effect they had in an America that wouldn't have been ready for this song if you gave 'em 20 years prep!

    It was a hurricane, I tells ya...

  • What year was this Dick Clark show? Or aprox. date?

  • 1967

  • are they playing?

  • Grace's pupils not dilated. amazing.

  • she aint lip synching dude...not hardly

  • It's the "voice" of a highly intelligent strong woman. Not the "soft, little ,stupid pussy "voice that you hear so much of in whore Hollywood. That's why it sounds different or mavbe angry to some people.

  • @1bichon1: I agree. Grace knew what she stood for and voiced it. None of this, "Uh, like I don't know" Gwen Steffani, Lady Ga Ga crap.

  • @1bichon1 well put

  • @1bichon1 Agree 100% it's what Joplin would have sounded like if she had any talent.

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  • I'm 18 and I fuckin hate this mechanistic view of society no one can escape. Someone help me please

  • You can escape, but you have to be willing to sacrifice a lot.

  • how do I work my way around the idea that all mental and emotional activity can be boiled down to mechanisms? honestly I need advice

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  • yeah you have to sacrifice comfort. but it's easy to sacrifice when the payoff is keeping your soul....

  • buy like 100 lbs of flower and a hatchet then hike off into the woods and live their a wile

  • pick up a guitar

    open a notebook

    read a book

    (i'm 23 i get it)

  • boy The Who have a Lava Lamp stage scene so excellent..maybe Grace is saying yeah..but Nun through Us!..yea Dick Clark!

  • Love the hoodies! Best band of all time. Grace is too cool for a Republican!

  • Ha! She forgot the name of her baby's daddy.

  • I love Grace! :D

  • lip sing much? i dont even see a mic?

  • She looks like a vampire!! This is cool!

  • i have seen the Airplane play upside down on occasion also....

  • Paul and Jack look hot in hoodies

  • wow ! she looks creepy as hell !!

    Cool shit !

  • Where is this kind of ingenuity and definition in music today? This is magnificent.

  • Couldent agree more...

  • Grace should have made a guest appearance on original Star Trek. Anyone feel like writing and episode about that one?

  • White Rabbit: The song is the record track untill 2:13.

    There it switches to the live record from Nafish. Then it switches back to the record track again.

  • That can't be the live track, can it? Did they even do lip syncing back then? If that is the live track, that's phenomenal.

  • Considering the guitars are not plugged in, no microphones are present, and there was not yet such a thing as wireless technology...

  • I wish this was in color, that way I could better admire how hot Grace is.