Well, last night I played ‘Puff The Magic Dragon’ and most of you liked it, but Clive was not among the cheerleaders for the song! So, tonight’s song is of a different bent and I have it on good word that Clive likes this one, so …
I frequently make reference to being “down in the rabbit hole”, meaning my mood, mind and psyche are in a dark place, usually from the topics I write about, sometimes for more personal reasons. But this song, written by Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, is about another sort of rabbit hole altogether.
Slick got the idea for this song after taking LSD and spending hours listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain, especially the opening track, “Concierto de Aranjuez.”
Slick based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll’s book Alice In Wonderland. Like many young musicians in San Francisco…
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