Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit Rotterdam Pop Festival 1970

Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit at the Rotterdam Kralingen Pop Festival in June 1970

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• Jefferson
• Airplane
• Pop
• Rock
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• 1970
• Kralingen
• Rotterdam
• Netherlands
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• Grace
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[TheIcedRealm]

In her autobiography she talks about how absolutely crappy the speakers and monitors were back then. Some venues didn't even have any. As singers know, it's incredibly hard to sing on key when you can't hear yourself. That's why she developed that loud, powerful style. That's why, in this clip, you see her sticking her finger in her ear. It appears she's having a hard time hearing herself here, and that's why she's a little off.

[riderpoet]

Most of the best bands of the late 60's were playing live on equipment that basement and garage bands would be trying to get rid of today. Plus, their monitor systems were either ultra-primitive or non-existent. If you have never performed live in front of 20,000 people with $1500 worth of gear and without being able to hear yourself at all, you aren't qualified to comment on her singing here.

[Skyhighblu]

Mass Confusion

[alembiks]

whether the white rabbit runs to the black rabbit?

[jacquestournebroche]

I was there and I remember how bad the sound system was.

I remember Grace - and not just her - were pretty pissed off about that.

Pink Floyd was the closing act and they brought their own equipment which was excellent. Took them a couple of hours to set it up so they were playing Atom Heart Mother while the sun was coming up behind the stage. Good times. :)

[riderpoet]

@mrsolofeo Thanks. I've done enough live rock and roll as both a drummer and a singer to have an amazing amount of respect for what the core bands of the 60's were able to achieve under conditions that NO modern artist would accept for five seconds. For example, I have so much sympathy for Donna Jean Godchaux of the Grateful Dead - who I love on her good nights, by the way. She was singing into an aural black hole - all she could hear was band noise and the roar of the crowd.

[mrsolofeo]

@riderpoet You got that right! Back in the day it was amazing that bands could put on good live shows with the quality of the equipment and sound-systems at the time. You just had to accept the limitations and go with the energy and it all worked out fine.

This Airplane performance should be considered well above average for the time.

Glad someone knows their stuff!

[brordvw]

At woodstock she also puts her finger in her ears I think she needs that regardless monitors or so

[spikew10]

Shes not out of tune?

[mikejpuder]

she ust have been drunk for this.....lol

[Th0r211]

Lmao, the commentary on here is hilarious, have any of you ever done a single psychedelic?? This commentary on here sounds like a bunch of people who only read info and then take it upon themselves to talk about a subject they literally know nothing about, as if they're old seasoned pro's, hahaha.  Experience is eveything, this song does a great job at trying to portray this in one way if not others. None the less, gotta love people that try to explain anything they've never gone through ;)