• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • ABOUT US
  • MEDIA
  • PRIVACY
  • TERMS
  • DMCA
  • CONTACT US
  • AUTHORS
do you remember

DoYouRemember?

The Home of Nostalgia

  • Celebrity News
    • Family
    • Obituaries
    • Life Behind the Fame
    • ICONS
    • Celebrity Feuds
  • Entertainment
    • Cast
    • Showbiz Rewind
    • Music
    • Beauty & fashion
  • STORIES
  • Celebrity Buzz!?
  • Sitcoms
    • Bewitched
    • Little Rascals
    • The Partridge Family
    • I Dream of Jeannie
    • All in the Family
    • MASH
    • Happy Days
    • Cheers
  • Celebrity Collections
  • SHOP DYR
    • DYR Book

Stories

Grace Slick’s Isolated Vocals On “White Rabbit” Will Give Anyone Chills

by Jane Kenney

Published October 28, 2019

Grace Slick’s Isolated Vocals On _White Rabbit_ Will Give Anyone Chills

“White Rabbit” is arguably one of Jefferson Airplane’s best songs and one of the top ten psychedelic songs of the late ‘60s. Back in 2016, a track appeared on YouTube which isolated Grace Slick’s vocals on the track, causing a hair-raising reaction from anyone who listens. No one has taken credit for isolating her beautiful vocals, but everyone sure is thankful we have this to grace our ears!

In the track, we hear nothing but Slick’s vocals, reverb and echo galore. She hits every note with perfect precision, clarity, and vibrato on point where it needs to be. The song was originally written in 1965 after an LSD trip at her Marin county home. Slick had been listening to Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain continuously for 24 hours straight.

Related:

  1. What Word is Illustrated by “Give Give Give Give”?
  2. Listen To Stevie Nicks’ Gorgeous Isolated Vocals For “Landslide”

Grace Slick and the power of her voice on “White Rabbit”

grace slick isolated vocals on "white rabbit"
Grace Slick, 1970 / Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Bob Irwin was the man in charge of remastering Jefferson Airplane’s catalog in 2003. He was the first to hear Slick’s isolated vocals in such a way. “When you put up the multi-tracks of the performances to something like “White Rabbit” and isolate Grace’s vocal…you can’t believe the intensity in that vocal. It’s hair-raising and absolutely unbelievable. I was telling Bill Thompson about that,” Irwin says.

“It’s not that I’m so well-seasoned that nothing surprises me, but boy oh boy, when I put that multi-up and I heard Grace’s vocal solo-ed—and it’s absolutely whisper-quiet, there’s not an ounce of leakage in there at all—-you can hear every breath drawn and the intensity and the concentration…”

The origin of the song

grace slick isolated vocals on "white rabbit"
Jefferson Airplane / Wikipedia

When Slick originally wrote this song, Jefferson Airplane was not even a thing yet! She was actually in a group called The Great Society. However, it’s safe to say that the original does not even come close to this isolated vocals version. Rhythm guitarist David Minor says that the song is a product of a songwriting request to the rest of the band.

“When we started working, nobody had anything because I couldn’t write anymore,” he says. “I was too busy keeping up with my various jobs. So Grace’s husband Jerry challenged them: ‘What are you gonna do? Let David write all the songs?’ Y’know, ‘Do something!’. So Darby came back with a couple of songs and Grace came back with White Rabbit.”

grace slick isolated vocals on white rabbit
Grace Slick with The Great Society / Wikipedia

Soon enough, Jefferson Airplane would make Grace Slick their frontwoman in 1966. She brings “White Rabbit” along with her! Listen to the chilling isolated vocals version below.

Learn How Much Each Artist Would Earn Playing Woodstock.

Click To Play Daily WordSearch In The New DYR Arcade!

Next up: John Legend And Kelly Clarkson Reimagine “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” With Different Lyrics

Previous article: John Legend And Kelly Clarkson Reimagine “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” With Different Lyrics
Next Post: Alex Trebek Arranges Special Phone Call With Autistic Man And His Mother, A Lung Disease Survivor

Primary Sidebar

© 2025 DoYouRemember? Inc.

  • about us
  • media
  • privacy
  • terms
  • DMCA
  • CONTACT US
  • AUTHORS