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WantDisclosure
11th March 2018, 13:13
I'm working on music that I'm singing as part of a choral group that gives free concerts, and one of the songs is "Somebody to Love," lyrics by Darby Slick and music by Jefferson Airplane.

I always like to look up the lyrics to any song to find out what they literally are, as well as something about the theme.

There is a great website, Songfacts.com, for doing this because it gives information that is right on point, and embeds YouTube videos of whoever made the song a hit.

I was so enthralled with Grace Slick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick)'s voice I had to pause and look for an interview of her.

This video is the result of my search:


Creative Worx MPC
Published on Feb 6, 2015

© 2002, 2015 all rights reserved Creative Worx MPC
Producers: Jack Edward Sawyers - Dave Weiderman
Interviewer: Frankie DiVita
Cam Op: Lenny Dodge


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieE2naW7Xo

Dumpster Diver
11th March 2018, 15:59
Wow, she’s older than I and still has great skin, hardly any lines. If she darkened her hair, she’d look in her 40s.

Incredible voice, distinctive, powerful. “White Rabbit” is a classic, with buried anti-war references.

WantDisclosure
11th March 2018, 16:54
Incredible voice, distinctive, powerful.

Here's the embedded video that grabbed me, for her voice but not all the other stuff:


mdnsmo
Published on Apr 28, 2007

Jefferson Airplane - Sombody to love with a clip made with extracts of fear and loathing in Las Vegas.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=SRjefferson+airplane+somebody+to+love&v=5Jj3wZVc7nw

Here's the blurb summarizing the theme of the song:


San Francisco in the mid-'60s was the epicenter of free love, but Darby Slick saw a downside to this ethos, as it could lead to jealousy and disconnect. This song champions loyalty and monogamy, as the singer implores us to find that one true love that will nurture us and get us through the tough times.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1251

Aragorn
11th March 2018, 17:30
Both Grace and some of the original band members were still rocking on in the mid-to-late 1980s. The band had already been renamed from The Jefferson Airplane to The Jefferson Starship first, and then it was renamed again to just Starship. ;)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ

WantDisclosure
11th March 2018, 18:22
The Wikipedia article points out:


. . . Slick publicly has acknowledged her alcoholism, discussed her rehabilitation experiences, and commented on her use of LSD, marijuana, and other substances in her autobiography, various interviews, and several celebrity addiction and recovery books, including The Courage to Change by Dennis Wholey and The Harder They Fall by Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill. . .

. . . After retiring, and after a house fire, divorce, and breakup, Slick began drawing and painting animals, mainly to amuse herself and because doing so made her happy during a difficult period in her life.[38] Soon thereafter, she was approached about writing her memoir, which ultimately became Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir. Her agent saw her artwork and asked her to do some portraits of some of her various contemporaries from the rock-and-roll genre to be included in the autobiography. Hesitant at first (because she thought “it was way too cute. Rock-n-Roll draws Rock-n-Roll”), she eventually agreed because she found she enjoyed it, and color renditions of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jerry Garcia appeared in the completed autobiography. . .

2004
Grace Slick in 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick

WantDisclosure
11th March 2018, 22:57
“White Rabbit” is a classic, with buried anti-war references.
Here are the 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

Writer/s: GRACE WING SLICK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=1250

Regarding the meaning:


This was written by Grace Slick, who based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll's book Alice In Wonderland. Like many young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs, and she saw a surfeit of drug references in Carroll's book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, and lots of other images that are pretty trippy. She noticed that many children's stories involve a substance of some kind that alters reality, and felt it was time to write a song about it.

. . . Grace Slick was raised in a tony suburban household in Palo Alto, California, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. This being the 1950s, women were expected to conform to the norms and aspire to be housewives. Slick identified with Alice; moving to San Francisco and forming a rock band was her rabbit hole moment. When she joined Jefferson Airplane, that was another journey down the rabbit hole.

. . . Slick claimed to Q that the song was aimed not at the young but their parents. She said: "They'd read us all these stories where you'd take some kind of chemical and have a great adventure. Alice in Wonderland is blatant; she gets literally high, too big for the room, while the caterpillar sits on a psychedelic mushroom smoking opium. In the Wizard of Oz, they land in a field of opium poppies, wake up and see this Emerald City. Peter Pan? Sprinkle some white dust-cocaine-on your head and you can fly."

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1250

WantDisclosure
11th March 2018, 23:50
Grace Slick the artist:


“As far as I can determine at this point, creation is taking place constantly and my life is a result of and pursuit of that process. Sometimes the form is music; sometimes it is giving birth to another human being, or maybe just sitting and appreciating a sunset. Simply watching beauty helps it “exist”.

At this time in my evolution, painting is the way “it” wants to take shape. I create with the help of that massive system of energy that permeates everything and allows it to be distributed for free. As a conduit, I am occasionally quite clear – but as a beginner, the results can be technically raw.

When I am in the process of painting “ I “ am gone – to a place that relieves me of trivia and encourages the expression of a more vibrant existence. It (painting) is a still form. Unlike film, the movement has to be implied on the canvas and translated to you by way of a mutual and basic recognition.

When I see a work of art that raises my own level of appreciation, it becomes propulsion that, in turn, moves me into the creative continuum. By receiving my work you complete the celebration”

2005

http://www.areaarts.com/grace-slick/

Emil El Zapato
12th March 2018, 00:18
I'm working on music that I'm singing as part of a choral group that gives free concerts, and one of the songs is "Somebody to Love," words and music by Darby Slick.

I always like to look up the lyrics to any song to find out what they literally are, as well as something about the theme.

There is a great website, Songfacts.com, for doing this because it gives information that is right on point, and embeds YouTube videos of whoever made the song a hit.

I was so enthralled with Grace Slick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick)'s voice I had to pause and look for an interview of her.

This video is the result of my search:

you see... LSD is great for the skin...

WantDisclosure
12th March 2018, 01:25
you see... LSD is great for the skin...

I've been thinking about her use of drugs, which then makes me remember information I've learned about the CIA's role pushing drugs, and it is disturbing.

But there is something about the persona of Grace Slick as she comes across in that interview, and something about that voice, that is very appealing, in my opinion. She seems very genuine.

Wind
12th March 2018, 10:46
This story made me laugh when Grace told about it in one of her interviews.

https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2016/07/13/time-grace-slick-tried-slip-lsd-president-nixon

Dreamtimer
12th March 2018, 12:00
Ah if only...

I would not push drugs on anyone. And people have been consuming mind altering substances for as long as we know. It's often part of religious ritual. It seems to be part of humanity.

Addiction is a very different thing from having done drugs at some point or other.

Grace Slick's voice is amazing. They made some great music.

WantDisclosure
12th March 2018, 13:34
This story made me laugh when Grace told about it in one of her interviews.

https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2016/07/13/time-grace-slick-tried-slip-lsd-president-nixon

When I first read it—not on that website—I cringed because I thought it was such an obnoxious thing to do.

But it is funny to me now, I guess because I appreciate her overall worth as a person after working on this thread.

I like this quote:


Slick remembered the story fondly when asked about it by the Wall Street Journal in 2011, but she expressed mixed feelings about embracing the drug culture of the time.

“LSD was new then,” she said. “It opened up our heads and gave us new insight into the fact that reality isn’t just one thing. That excited us. But it’s also terrifying if your head isn’t in the right place. So in hindsight, our advocating for LSD was kind of dangerous.”[6]

https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2016/07/13/time-grace-slick-tried-slip-lsd-president-nixon

Dumpster Diver
12th March 2018, 15:57
In university, I played a lot of ping pong. One of our pong buddies got high on acid one night, had a bad trip, and went out to the interstate, jumped off a bridge into an oncoming truck.

...so yeah, LSD is “kinda” dangerous.

Wind
12th March 2018, 16:19
A person I know got cured from their depression with the help of LSD, with one trip.

That's just another story. There's always good and bad sides to everything.

I still think the idea of Nixon tripping on acid is absolutely hilarious.

enjoy being
12th March 2018, 21:16
A fellow was just commenting on the modern day 'hippies' that are on the food conscious band wagon, gluten free, vegan, you name it, but quite a few will still hook into the acid and ecstasy in the weekend.
It seems that many of the old acid and heroin bands are revered in nostalgia and apparent lyrical insight.
Where as I often will hear the same sorts rubbish soul reggae and throw it all into the same basket and make fun of it or dismiss it with some comment about wacky backy. To me, the lyrics of many reggae artists a packed with insightful wisdom.
Oh and I do find the Jefferson Airplane song, White Rabbit to be an entertaining sequence of rifts. Not so hot on their other stuff.
https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/12/636168506523121250052857_12_MARINA_120816_PB_001-1024x819.jpg
Oh, and here is another 70 year old. Marina Abramovic. But some people say she looks so young probably from drinking blood of human babies.

Dreamtimer
13th March 2018, 04:34
Maybe she just went to Panama and had some stem cell treatments. And a few chemical peels.

enjoy being
13th March 2018, 07:14
Maybe she just went to Panama and had some stem cell treatments. And a few chemical peels.

I agree for both women. If you are talking about Marina, it's the hands (http://www.artnews.com/2016/12/14/friends-and-enemies-gather-amid-silence-and-gold-for-marina-abramovics-70th-birthday/)which are astoundingly young looking.

Dreamtimer
13th March 2018, 11:45
I hear you. I'm starting to get age spots which make my hands look old. They don't have thin skin yet. But most people think I'm younger than I am so I'l just enjoy that while I can.

Dumpster Diver
13th March 2018, 12:15
I hear you. I'm starting to get age spots which make my hands look old. They don't have thin skin yet. But most people think I'm younger than I am so I'l just enjoy that while I can.

Get the olive oil C60, I’m starting to look like Robin.

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 12:20
I hear you. I'm starting to get age spots which make my hands look old. They don't have thin skin yet. But most people think I'm younger than I am so I'l just enjoy that while I can.

I know someone who told me she's older than me (I'm 73), but she dies her hair and wears ragged jeans because she wants to look young.

My sister-in-law, also older than me, also dies her hair, and intends to to so til the day she dies.

There's something about that that makes me cringe.

I'm sick to death of seeing blond hair with very dark roots everywhere I look.

Dumpster Diver
13th March 2018, 12:26
I know someone who told me she's older than me (I'm 73), but she dies her hair and wears ragged jeans because she wants to look young.

My sister-in-law, also older than me, also dies her hair, and intends to to so til the day she dies.

There's something about that that makes me cringe.

I'm sick to death of seeing blond hair with very dark roots everywhere I look.

If you are job hunting, hair coloration is a must. I can take off 15 years with a good dye job as I move like a 40 year old as well.

Dreamtimer
13th March 2018, 12:41
Holy age reduction, Bat Man!

My greys are coming in but I don't look grey yet. I've never died my hair. I'm getting a grey streak right on the top of my head which is interesting. The temples are still brown.

I have some friends who are having to color their hair increasingly blond because the greys don't hold color well. What a pain. I'm glad I never started.

C60 and B vitamins for me. And good water.:thup:

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 13:08
If you are job hunting, hair coloration is a must.
My sister-in-law is retired.

So is my friend.

I'm commenting on the paradigm that one must look young to pretend that you are young.

How about we all take care of our health and look vital and be a joy to be around at any age?

Dumpster Diver
13th March 2018, 13:19
My sister-in-law is retired.

So is my friend.

I'm commenting on the paradigm that one must look young to pretend that you are young.

How about we all take care of our health and look vital and be a joy to be around at any age?

If you don’t need the money and are not trying to fool the youngsters in a job interview, go grey. Besides the chemicals in hair salons are very harmful to everyone. I’m almost totally white, but I had white hair when I was a kid as well. GF loves the long hair “Fabio” look.

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 13:24
How about we all take care of our health and look vital and be a joy to be around at any age?
By the way, grey hair, in my opinion, is gorgeous if clean and bouncy with a good haircut.

Surely looks better with unavoidable aged skin than something that looks fake.

I remember reading a memoir years ago about a socialite who had a rib removed surgically so she'd look better in her clothes.

:omg:


If you need the money and are not try to fool the youngsters in a job interview, go grey.

I hear what you're saying about the necessities of life and the pressures people are under.

Dumpster Diver
13th March 2018, 13:30
By the way, grey hair, in my opinion, is gorgeous if clean and bouncy with a good haircut.

Surely looks better with unavoidable aged skin than something that looks fake.

I remember reading a memoir years ago about a socialite who had a rib removed surgically so she'd look better in her clothes.

:omg:



I hear what you're saying about the necessities of life and the pressures people are under.

I use a well muscled Bat suit.

https://brian.carnell.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/articulated-lego-batman.jpg

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 13:47
Besides the chemicals in hair salons is very harmful to everyone.

My sister-in-law uses "Nice and Easy" at home, but perhaps the chemicals are the same?

She suffers from migraine headaches, and I've wondered whether or not twenty years of hair dye might be a factor.

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 14:53
I'm working on music that I'm singing as part of a choral group that gives free concerts, and one of the songs is "Somebody to Love," words and music by Darby Slick.

A much better way to listen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=SRjefferson+airplane+somebody+to+love&v=JUbMWtUyIIE

And the lyrics:


When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love

When the garden flowers baby are dead, yes and
Your mind, your mind is so full of red
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
Yeah, but in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better
Find somebody to love

Tears are running down and down and down your breast
And your friends, baby they treat you like a guest
Don't you want somebody to love, don't you
Need somebody to love, wouldn't you
Love somebody to love, you better

Find somebody to loveWriter/s: DARBY R. SLICK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=1251

Dreamtimer
13th March 2018, 17:24
The chemicals are the main reason I don't dye. That and it's a pain-in-the-ass to me along with being quite expensive. I watched my mother spend gobs of money on her hair and she was never happy with it. Ever.

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 17:47
The chemicals are the main reason I don't dye. That and it's a pain-in-the-ass to me along with being quite expensive. I watched my mother spend gobs of money on her hair and she was never happy with it. Ever.
When I was a teenager, my older sister said to me, "If you're going to be a blonde be a blonde," meaning that "dirty blonde" hair was unacceptable.

I dutifully obeyed and spent my college days using the "Nice and Easy" my sister-in-law uses.

I eventually realized that it was the worst advice I've ever gotten, and dyed it one more time so that as the roots grew out, they would blend in.

Dumpster Diver
13th March 2018, 19:32
The chemicals are the main reason I don't dye. That and it's a pain-in-the-ass to me along with being quite expensive. I watched my mother spend gobs of money on her hair and she was never happy with it. Ever.

The GF finds expensive gay hairdressers and comes out looking pretty ok and she’s happy with it. But I think she looks great in gray hair, but she doesn’t listen to me. Thinks I’m a wing-nut on the alt-world stuff too.

...that’s why I’m always here inflicting myself on you guys.

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 22:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieE2naW7Xo
My mother, now deceased a long time ago, kinda looks like her.

That may be a factor in why I'm so drawn.

She started playing the piano when she was four years old, and was the piano player for my dance school when I was a child, and later a pianist in a restaurant-bar.

My older brother, the drummer, who decided not to pursue a career in music and became an electrical engineer, instead, because he figured he wasn't good enough, said she was a great entertainer (he played drums with her professionally).

WantDisclosure
13th March 2018, 23:39
...that’s why I’m always here inflicting myself on you guys.
I feel the same way about my two grown sons, who are very mainstream.

Recently, however, they did consent to watch a DVD with me, Engineering Physical Reality, a video about the work of Tom Bearden, and part of an “Energy from the Vacuum Science Series.”

Today, I was astounded to receive an email from my older son about the story that is the subject of the thread “Yahoo: Navy Pilot Encounters UFO on Video."

He has previously observed what was surely a UFO type craft, personally, so that helps in the area of alternative science and technology, as far as getting over the programming we've all been subjected to..

Dumpster Diver
14th March 2018, 19:20
I feel the same way about my two grown sons, who are very mainstream.

Recently, however, they did consent to watch a DVD with me, Engineering Physical Reality, a video about the work of Tom Bearden, and part of an “Energy from the Vacuum Science Series.”

Today, I was astounded to receive an email from my older son about the story that is the subject of the thread “Yahoo: Navy Pilot Encounters UFO on Video."

He has previously observed what was surely a UFO type craft, personally, so that helps in the area of alternative science and technology, as far as getting over the programming we've all been subjected to..

...well, it won’t help when they flip the card and reveal it is a Black Project Aircraft not ETs in woo-woo flying saucers. I’m about 90% certain it will happen.

WantDisclosure
14th March 2018, 21:17
...well, it won’t help when they flip the card and reveal it is a Black Project Aircraft not ETs in woo-woo flying saucers. I’m about 90% certain it will happen.

I think you're right, but the fact that the aircraft will be admitted to at all means that the technology they prove—technology that comes from the same force of nature as free energy—will then be out in the open.

Dumpster Diver
14th March 2018, 23:28
I think you're right, but the fact that the aircraft will be admitted to at all means that the technology they prove—technology that comes from the same force of nature as free energy—will then be out in the open.

Well, what I’m getting at is it will be like those two English wankers with boards and ropes tamping down crop circles. Then everyone will say “UFOs are Black Project Aircraft”, not ETs from Planet X.

WantDisclosure
14th March 2018, 23:49
Well, what I’m getting at is it will be like those two English wankers with boards and ropes tamping down crop circles. Then everyone will say “UFOs are Black Project Aircraft”, not ETs from Planet X.

I know, but honestly I feel for the poor souls who have the inside knowledge they desperately want to share, but are under excruciating pressure not to.

You know what I'm talking about, correct?

Dumpster Diver
15th March 2018, 05:44
I know, but honestly I feel for the poor souls who have the inside knowledge they desperately want to share, but are under excruciating pressure not to.

You know what I'm talking about, correct?

Nope, I have no inside knowledge. I am not a whistleblower. And even if I were, I would not be telling it here as I signed my life away in the 80s and a trip to Club Leavenworth is not a desirable vacation spot.

WantDisclosure
15th March 2018, 06:37
Nope, I have no inside knowledge. I am not a whistleblower.
That's not what I meant.

I meant that you've learned about the experiences of others and can empathize.

Dumpster Diver
15th March 2018, 14:13
That's not what I meant.

I meant that you've learned about the experiences of others and can empathize.

I’m still learning how to empathize, got to get rid of the anger first.

WantDisclosure
15th March 2018, 16:15
A much better way to listen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=SRjefferson+airplane+somebody+to+love&v=JUbMWtUyIIE

In comparison, there is this, which kinda makes me sick:


ernest747
Published on Sep 17, 2011

Jefferson Airplane performing "Somebody To Love" at the most famous music festival "Woodstock" in 1969.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdLasOrG6c&index=7&list=PL4BDft0x7SBal3wXVVxehY37CK7bLBAXS

WantDisclosure
1st April 2018, 00:16
I was so enthralled with Grace Slick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick)'s voice I had to pause and look for an interview of her.



My mother, now deceased a long time ago, kinda looks like her.

This evening I’ve been drawn to “that voice.”

Tomorrow is Easter and April Fool’s.

I’m wondering whether there’s any correlation.

modwiz
1st April 2018, 00:22
Easter = Ishtar. Fertility symbols abound with easter imagery. Rabbits and eggs shout 'fertility'. April Fool's Day is perfect coinciding with Easter in these times where the illusions we have embodied as 'truth' fall away right before our eyes. Well, those with eyes to see.

Dreamtimer
1st April 2018, 00:25
This evening I’ve been drawn to “that voice.”

Tomorrow is Easter and April Fool’s.

I’m wondering whether there’s any correlation.

I always encourage following/trusting feelings. Whatever the reason is, allow yourself to be drawn.

That Easter and April Fools correlation is pretty funny and weird. Strange to have the two days the same.

I'll think of something to do that's simultaneously sacred and foolish.:eyebrows:

enjoy being
1st April 2018, 01:59
....and Full Moon for New Zealand.
(We scraped in by a couple of hours, the rest of you had your full moon fall in March, giving you all a blue moon.)

There's also a Friday the 13th this month. lol. All these Gregorian numbers and names. Arbitrary numbers and dates? I'm an 888 but that's just an anomaly within meaningless numbers too?

Dreamtimer
2nd April 2018, 08:39
I discovered I'm a 151 on the 13 month Dreamspell Calendar.

Rum burns at that proof.

It's the 36th prime.

It's palindromic.

It's a sonnet.

Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?

Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:

For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my gross body’s treason;

My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,

But rising at thy name doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,

He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.

No want of conscience hold it that I call
Her “love” for whose dear love I rise and fall.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwnMYZS1hSc