The trailer for The Matrix 4 Resurrections is accompanied by Jefferson Airplane's great recording of White Rabbit. What I did not know was that the song was written by the singer Grace Slick. She only joined the band in 1966 after the previous vocalist left. Grace had previously been part of a band called The Great Society and it was while she was there that she wrote White Rabbit. She told Rolling Stone magazine how much the royalties have meant to her over the years. I guess more to come from that trailer. The picture above is from Jefferson Airplane's performance of the song at Woodstock in 1969 and the video is on YouTube. Great having the artist sing live her own song,
The song is about Alice in Wonderland and the first lyrics "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small" is played in the trailer over Keanu Reeves taking .... a pill. Clever. And then The Matrix Club in San Francisco was famous for a band who played there. Jefferson Airplane.
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
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