Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow｜Vinyl Monday
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
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Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! I’m Abby and is my weekly series where I chat about classic albums in my collection that I love. After a LONG time away from the 60s, we’re beginning our little Vinyl Monday summer of love with Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow (released 1967.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
Surrealistic Pillow - 1:13
track listing/release - 14:06
my thoughts - 18:34
thanks for watching! - 28:00
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bear with me while i’m figuring out mic placement! what’s your favorite summer of love album? comment below!
The Doors
Sgt. Pepper -- No! Piper at the Gates of -- No! Are You Experienced -- um . . . what day of the week is it?
@@troubadour723 it’s SO hard to choose, 67 was a stacked year
So weird, Mazzy just made a video that included this lp also:
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@@jetnova3788 yep 🤠
Congratulations to Surrealistic Pillow for being preserved forever in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as of today!!!
When Paul McCartney visited The Haight in 1967 he hung out with Members of The Jefferson Airplane and Jack Cassidy asked him what the music scene was like in England and Paul told him there was this left hand guitar player (Jimi Hendrix) who was taking Britain by storm.The funny thing is that Jack and Jimi would become friends when Jimi was in the states.
Standing on the corner of a quiet side street on a breezy sunny day in the spring of 1967, a white Cadillac convertible with a red interior suddenly flew around the corner at totally illegal speed with "Somebody to Love" blasting out of the radio at the volume nature intended and I'd never heard anything like it before and had no idea what I'd heard but I'll never forget the feeling that nothing would ever be the same as I watched the sound disappear into the distance...
that's magical! are you sure it wasn't a member of the airplane driving? they were known to drag race through san fran
@@abigaildevoe The quiet Chicago neighborhood was a long way from San Francisco but the Airplane came to us at that moment... I cannot visualize the driver, it's like I saw the sound flying by...
Surrealistic Pillow is one of those albums that I love so much that I've never really bothered to listen to much of any other of their albums. It's just so perfect; so fun, touching, ghost-haunted and atmospheric. Whenever I hear "Comin' Back To Me", I'm back in my bedroom in a long-ago Vermont, 16 years old again and relishing my solitary reverie.
I've listened to the others, they have some good songs but don't come close in my opinion. Their others albums are less unique for the time, they're more bluesy, and to me surrealistic pillow's best moments are folky, and has this difficult to describe nocturnal vibe.
All of their albums from the sixties are as good or even better than Surrealistic Pillow. Jefferson Airplane are my favorite band ever, so don´t misunderstand me. Checking out Volonteers, Crown of Creation and Takes Off is definately worth doing.
I always loved the song “Today”, especially the version in the “Monterey Pop” movie. Love the fact that, even though Marty is singing the lead, the camera is focused on Grace (mostly in silhouette) throughout the song. I think I fell a little in love with Grace watching that clip.
The chemistry between Paul and Grace on D.C.B.A.-25 is a beautiful, palpable thing. Kind of like watching a movie performance between two actors you sense will pair up offscreen..
Abbie, I'm an old guy, but I have to say that Surrealistic Pillow was my first true love of San Francisco music for me. I attended Woodstock with my older cousins (I was 12 years, and they were in their late teens, one of them was headed for Vietnam after the festival). I was a huge fan of Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady are my favourite members of the band. When I heard they were going to be at the Festival I begged my cousins to take me, I even bought a ticket for all three days (it was destroyed in the mud). The Airplane were off the hook at the show, perfection even though they hit the stage in the morning, they rocked like it was midnight. That was also when I first saw the Grateful Dead, which converted me into a true tie-dyed Deadhead. Thank you for featuring this iconic album!
D C B A are the four chords that make up the song. ('25' added because LSD25)
There's a bonus track called In The Morning (also on a collection called Early Flight) that has Garcia on guitar
The Airplane was and will always be fan-fucking-tastic, and Surrealistic Pillow is fabulous.
AND your earrings are surrealistically cool as well.
As for faves: Axis is close to the top, then there's Monkees Headquarters, The Doors, and Smiley Smile. But then there are a slew of great songs like White Bicycle, White Shade of Pale, Incense and Peppermints, How Can I be Sure, For What its Worth... my UA-cam Bestsongs list has a lot of these.
yes i LOVE seeing love for the monkees and strawberry alarm clock! and thanks!
Excellent breakdown as usual. Such an iconic and legendary album and as you say represents the summer of 1967 SanFran so much and so well. Though as much as I love Surrealistic Pillow I like After Bathing At Baxters and Crown Of Creation more. They are more psych rock and less folk rock. Somebody To Love is such a huge song and if I could name one song that represented the 60's it would probably be that. I can definitely relate to feeling of wanting to experience that time. Ever since I watched the Woodstock movie when I was a kid I longed for that sense of freedom and community but hey I live vicariously through my records and a haze of smoke ;)
@Abigail Devoe Hi😊 Fun stroll through Surrealistic Pillow. You basically skipped over arguably the Airplane's greatest song "Comin' Back To Me". What's truly amazing is that it was almost completely improvised. A buzzed Marty wrote it late one night and rushed down to the studio, where he found only Grace and Jerry Garcia (possibly Jack, as well). Jerry played guitar on the track. Fun fact: Spencer Dryden's uncle is Charlie Chaplin! (yes, The Little Tramp)
Spent countless hours as a 13 yr old listening and singing along to this album. Wound up years later going to Hot Tuna concerts in all manner of venues....great times...
At age eleven, visiting my older sister at her first apartment in 1967, I saw her copy of Surrealistic Pillow sitting, pink and kind of charming, near her record player. I had to find a copy. For me, it still encapsulates the mood and spirit of the Bay Area at that time better than any other music of the period and you have done an amazing job of conveying a sense of that, somehow. I still live in San Francisco and there are times when walking in certain areas of the city when a Surrealistic Pillow track will come to mind, even when passing the wonderful house on Delmar (still listed on the back cover of the album) of the Jefferson Airplane Fan Club ! Anyway, I have far too much to say about the album to burden you with here. I'll just say that as much as I enjoy Grace and Paul's contributions, I still wish Marty had been able to retain a little more control of the band that he started than he ended up with. I think it would have been better for the band artistically. Love your enthusiasm, Abby! I enjoy what you do on your channel very much. Cheers !
This is refreshing, good on ya for the last month, but, tbh, good to have you back.
thanks, it's good to be back
Still think American Beauty by Grateful Dead is worth a vlog.
One of the greatest albums ever!
I like you.
Workingman's Dead too
We heard enough about the grateful dead
@@Dave__f Never!!! THE GREATEST AMERICAN ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER... DON'T LIKE IT, KEEP SCROLLING!
I'm sure I know the grateful dead better than most on this channel. They eat the underground music scene and turn you into them.
Didn't they quit again for the 10th time and Bobby booked another huge tour under a different name before the lat one even ended.
OMG Abi, you outfits are always the best, and today is certainly no different. Thanks for the stroll back in time, it's always a welcome highlight of the week.
thanks so much! it's not every day i get to break out the alice dress
Surprised “Comin Back” didn’t get more love in this review. I mean,yeah,it’s got a prominent recorder part,but just a devastatingly moving tune. It’s used to particularly good effect in the 1990 Dennis Hopper/Keifer Sutherland flick “Flashback”. Don’t know if you’ve ever seen that,but it’s worth checking out. Peace Abby✌️☮️
i really wish i could talk about every song here in-depth, but if i did, the video would be longer than the album itself!
Agreed. Comin' Back is the real MVP song on this album, and my favorite along with Today.
Love White Rabbit, Somebody To Love and Embryonic Journey is so good.🙂 Another fine video Abby.
This is one of the few albums that I prefer the mono over stereo. The mono just has clearer vocals and instruments, worth picking up both for such an amazing album.
agreed. my stereo mix of this album is muddy, like someone put a wet towel over all the songs
The drum sound is much better on the mono mix. I always liked She Has Funny Cars but the mono mix made me LOVE it.
It's far better in mono. A lot of rock, then current pop, R&B, etc. music in the 1960's was mixed better in mono.
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A fantastic album , but i love the version of Today they did at the Monterey Pop Festival even more than the studio version.
They had two wonderful vocalists in Grace and Marty.❤
I offend large groups of Marty fans since I just plain don't really like it, or a least as 60s Air Plane. Maybe it's the order in which you heard em, since of their stuff I mostly heard Jefferson Starship first, where it seems to fit better with his voice. I come for Grace of course, plus kinda won't ever forgive em for the first album only having one Signe track. He's not as horrible as Dino Valenti but I don't warm to The Club Matrix Guy until total-70s fare like Light The Sky on Fire, Count On Me and Miracles
Yes , Surrealistic Pillow !! I got mine in 1967
Great Psychedelic Masterpiece!!!!🍄🍄🌸🌸🌿🌿
There it is!! Thank you for the Upload!!
One of my Top 3 All-Time-Favourites
Like, there are always one or two songs on every album that i don't like, but this is in my opinion a perfect Record. Every Single Song is just awesome.
Embryonic Journey and Comin' Back to Me are i think my Secret Favourites on this :).
It's No Secret now.
Crown Of Creation was my first JA album and is probably a favorite followed by Volunteers. Always enjoy your reviews. Look forward to Mondays now !
This is my favourite album of this kind of music
Surrealistic Pillow is my favorite all time number 1 album. My buddies and I were 15 years old when it came out and with Jimi Hendrix started our psych , Or Underground music as we called, journey. Enjoyed the show.
this album and jimi hendrix started out my psych journey too!
60s again, yay, I can bust out my bong again
That's hard to say. Sgt. Pepper because I first heard it in 1987 for the 20th year anniversary when they released it to CD. Radio stations were doing specials on it. They'd also do summer of love stuff too like the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and other cool stuff.
Embryonic Journey was the song I chose for my wife to walk out to at our wedding.
aw that’s so sweet!
One of my fave albums, I was listening to White Rabbit today and it’s interesting how songs can apply to current times, especially like right now
Jorma Kaukonen is a fantastic guitarist/ musician. One of my favourite guitarists of all time. Randy California too, even moreso.
This is a great appraisal of a groundbreaking & brilliant record , which really does capture the flowery zaney open & liberating essence of San Francisco in 1967. I was barely born at the time & like you Abbey, albeit it a few decades earlier, I found my way to & immersed myself in late 60s psychadelia masterpieces. It formed me somehow & I felt like I was really there.
I actually used to have these reoccuring dreams of hitch hiking in that area at that time, & a VW microbus stopped to give me a lift, & inside were all the members of Jefferson Airplane.
Had that very vivid dream so often in my late teens that I figured I must have actually really been there at the time in another life, or was it merely (merely?) the effect of the powerful pungent spells that many of these songs are ?
Saw them live back in another orbit doing acid. Great show, and White Rabbit was exquisite.❤️🎶
The album that blew my mind open, and helped me realize there was more to music!
Although I enjoyed your mini series of more modern releases, it’s these reviews of the classics from the 60’s/70’s I really like. To see your enthusiasm for these recordings is pure joy.
it's good to be back to this stuff!
Be still my heart! White Rabbit was one of the first songs I ever got to know, as a kid. Love the Airplane and all the splinter groups that came out of it. Hot Tuna is still touring! Thanks Abby. (Also, great outfit, Alice!) ETA - I can't source it, but I've heard that Jerry was essentially the real hands-on producer of the album. He also helped them arrange some of the songs.
Hi Abigail! Love your channel. The first show I saw was Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the original Fillmore Auditorium on Fillmore Street (that's in San Francisco, lol) in 1967. I was 12, taken by my 18 year Old Sister, Sue. (yes, of course she was known as Suzie Creamcheese!) Even though I followed them forever I agree with you that Surrealistic Pillow is the "High Water Mark"
Such a great album, it's hard to pick favorite songs. I was listening to it the other day at work and while Embryonic Journey was playing my coworker, who had never heard the album before, got very interested. I love albums that have an instrumental interlude (The Wall is like half interludes). And, Abby is not alone in having some FOMO for the summer of love. I don' think any era of human history would be more fun to be in; and, its legacy certainly drove me to move to San Francisco over a decade ago. I am always delighted when I see a show at the Fillmore and they have a trough of apples at the top of the stairs.
I bought this album when it came out, I was 13, and the Summer Of Love vibe was intoxicating to my teen self. Living in the suburbs of NYC, the ‘Frisco scene, as portrayed in the media, seemed so exotic, the exploratory drug culture so daring! I’d begun my music life with The Beatles, but the call of wild guitars and “acid rock” took over my attention…which is a little ironic, because this album has so much songwriting chops and vocal beauty…the Airplane morphed into an even more psychedelic band by their next album. Jorma and Jack Casady became heroes of mine, and I’ve followed them all the way to their Hot Tuna 50th Anniversary Tour in ‘19, and beyond. Surrealistic Pillow is a beautiful album, at the same time the band is just starting to show their teeth. I think Crown Of Creation is an equally good representation of where JA was at the time of it’s release, as well. Great job Abby, thank you! 👍
Bought it for White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, remember it for Today and D.C.B.A. - 25 👍
Always enjoy Vinyl Monday, even when the album was not among my favorites.
The late Victorian era history of San Francisco and its carnivalesque anything-is-possible atmosphere had a powerful influence on this record and the SF psychedelic scene overall. The gorgeous 1800s-1900s houses of the Haight Ashbury, thrift stores filled with what were then just decades-old Victorian and Edwardian fashions, the seedy echoes of the decadent Playland At The Beach, and infamous Chutes, just a few blocks from the 1904 mansion at the corner of Fulton and Willard that the band bought with the sudden income from Surrealistic Pillow. You can still feel all the vibrations of the kaleidoscopic past walking through the streets and the park today.
Fun fact: Sherry Snow, of the underrated folk duo, Blackburn & Snow, was briefly considered as a replacement for Signe before Jack brought Grace along. Snow, who performed with her musical (and romantic) partner, Jeff Blackburn, at folk/rock venues around the Bay Area (including the Matrix) gratefully declined the offer to remain with Blackburn.
Around 1968 came my neighbour visit me with the LP Surrealistic Pillow. And smoke we did! ... Thank you Abigail!! (greetings from Amsterdam)
there was a brief mention of legacy , with the undeniable statement that the grateful dead came out ahead on that calculation. The Dead never stumbled into anything as odorous as the Jefferson Starship singing" we built this city "
3/5 is phenomenal! Glad to hear another person to say what I have always loved hearing
so glad to see you review this album. a crux of my own listening history. a special note on the day Paul Kantner died it was a strong story across the wire and rock stations everywhere. sad note, signe died the same day. that broke me more than the news of paul. she had moved back to her home state to raise her child and stayed in the music industry locally. her voice is, like you said, a precursor to grace's ability to fill those incredible shoes. keep up the good work kiddo.
I’m so glad you are a fan of “Oar”, it’s Lawrence of Euphoria!
an OG Mono is the best way to hear this album!! Worth paying the extra $$ for a clean Mono
Abigail, well done ----------------as a teen from the 60's not much more can I add other that that album was a must have! thanks
Excellent video! My faves are DCBA-25, Today, Comin’ Back To Me, Embryonic Journey, but all of it, really!
Great job again. Your analysis of SP by JA and your understanding of 60’s music is phenomenal.
thank you. you're wonderful
My Sister recently did the estate sale for the late Donald Leslie, inventor of the revolving Lesley speakers used on Tomorrow Never Knows and Blue Jay Way. I purloined copies of the Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxters and Moby Grape's Wow. What was a fifty seven year old man doing with hippie albums? I have no idea.
Your research is impeccable
🐰Don't fear the white rabbit🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 it encourages us to reach for more
from our imagination. The band had good musicians, Grace was perfect for the part.
From 1967...jump 18 years to 1985 Grace sang "We Built This City", her voice is powerful and enthusiastic...She's still with us at age 83...
Always Enjoy these Videos Thank You
24:34 You went full Alice. 😀
Excellent episode! Definitely a Top 5 '60s album for me.
Nice Alice outfit, BTW.
Wow Abby wow, that’s great, one of your best! Here’s a memory for you.. I saw an Airplane show in Toronto. It was the pre-digital era, yeah.. so the accompanying light show was an old school overhead projector: a few drops of water, and different coloured drops of food colouring were placed on the surface. Then a transparent sheet of plastic was set on to it, and wiggled around while the band played. The wiggly blotches of coloured water projected on the wall behind the band was the light show. We thought it was almost as good as the music!!
Jefferson Airplane is so great, so much remarkable history before, during and after it. I couldn't help to notice your Alice outfit which couldn't be more appropriate for reviewing an album with White Rabbit.
it's not every day i get to break out the alice outfit, this episode was the perfect excuse
@@abigaildevoe Indeed it was. Another perfect excuse would be on a Southern Accents by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers review, but I don't know if 80's music is also your thing.
When I lived in SF, there was a Haight Street Fair - and Jorma played solo on the back of a flatbed truck there at Haight and Ashbury.
He looked very nervous but of course his talent was clear.
I absolutely love this record, my favorite hippie album
I just watched the airplane on the dick cavett show , grace is a powerful singer , her voice sends chills down my spine , my late friend was at Woodstock as a 15 yr old , he snuck in as did thousands of others, I used to listen to his stories about the 60,s for hours, he traveled the US listening to concerts, he sold refreshments to pay his way, 1967 was another great year for music, watch ghosts on CBS one of the ghosts is a hippie named flower who was killed by a bear when she tried to hug it when high , her flashbacks are about the 60 s complete with the music and clothes, Sheila is a fantastic actress one of my favorites on the show , love your reviews Abby, new york
I lucked out with my copy of SP some years back. A real clean Black label Mono copy. Most of those were mangled and throttled by teens of the day.
Forver Changes, by Love, is my favourite of the year.
It's an underrated beauty.
Though Strange Days by the Doors is next in line
One of those bands that had a wowie zowie live show. Ah to be young again.
Congrats on the excellent OG 'Takes Off'! That's really awesome.
I was thinking about this album this past weekend and decided to listen to it and then you have it for Monday.. That is wee bit too surrealistic coincedentic ../**/
Since they've been brought up on the series before, I think it would be cool if you did a vinyl Monday episode on a tally hall album
Also: 3/5 of a mile is definitely underrated. It's probably my favorite from this album
i've considered doing a tally hall video on the series. i now own both marvin's and good & evil, and now that i think of it i should have a preorder of hawaii part 2 coming soon...
if joe hawley joe hawley ever gets a vinyl run, god help us all (and my wallet)
Excellent video as always, and I love the thumbnail. I've had this LP since high school, but unlike most of my "vintage" albums, I didn't buy it new, so it's not in pristine condition. In fact, maybe the reason I never really got into this band is that I've never done drugs, and part of the reason for that is that I picked up so many garage sale LPs from the '60s and early 70's that were slightly before my time and saw how they looked like they'd been used as ashtrays at a pot party. I never wanted to be so high that I would handle a record like a stoned monkey.
So being drug-free, I liked Grace Slick's voice, but not most of Airplane's music. I did like some of the later Jefferson Starship songs I played when I was an AC radio DJ. Except for one (We Built This City on Rock and Roll) that, by coincidence, just popped up a couple of days ago. It's now on a commercial for a new service that uses video chat to walk people through making their home repairs. After the woman fixes her toilet, she bursts into a big production number of "I fixed this toilet!...I fixed this toilet on vid-eeee-oh!" I said, "Finally, the perfect use for that song!"
If anyone loves this album do yourself a favor and get the mono pressing. Its SO much better since the stereo has too much reverb. The mofi is the best but really expensive, and a 1st pressing is awesome itself. Listening to the mono is like hearing it for the first time its incredible.
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Great review, Abby! First time viewer, loved it so much I’ve subscribed. As a hard- core Airplane and Hot Tuna fan, there was little information here I hadn’t already heard- but I love your take and presentation of this iconic album. Plus, your “Alice” outfit is pretty cool…
Wow, you really took me back on this one to a time I don’t think about much these days. Thank you.
Fun Fact: for whatever reason, the producers of that infamous nineties sitcom Friends chose Embryonic Journey to close out their finale.
a perfect example of “i don’t understand this choice but i do respect it”
I remember guessing this album for in the aeroplane over the sea! That was 5 months ago but it’s finally here!
For an interesting and obscure connection to The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, check out Ned Lagin's Seastones from 1975. Jerry Garcia, Mickey Lesh and Phil Hart contributed to the album, as did Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, and David Frieberg. As a bonus, David Crosby is also on the album. It's early electronica so it's not for everybody, but I like it.
It's interesting you mention the sound quality of the stereo remastering. I've noticed and even mentioned it previously. I've owned Surrealistic Pillow on CD and Cassette and have always noticed the quality wasn't great (which is sad because i want to hear white rabbit in stereophile quality😂)
Great Channel!!! I had to subscribe!!
A Great Album...."Today" is superb!!
Yay! Geezer music is back!
Just got to watch last week's epsiode now, and it is a superb epsiode. Thank you very much Abby.
Hi , J .A . were my mate's fav band , thanks !
Hi. I watched the whole thing.- Groovy-
I did my MA in Popular Culture dissertation all about the LSD Psychedelic culture and its relationship to Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass mainly concentrating on the songs White Rabbit, I Am The Walrus and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.
Excellent review Abigail. Surrealistic Pillow was a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit like a shot heard round the world; where the later efforts from bands like the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and especially, the Charlatans, were initially not too much more than cult successes, Surrealistic Pillow rode the pop charts for most of 1967, soaring into that rarefied Top Five region occupied by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and so on, to which few American rock acts apart from the Byrds had been able to lay claim since 1964. And decades later the album still comes off as strong as any of those artists' best work. From the Top Ten singles "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" to the sublime "Embryonic Journey," the sensibilities are fierce, the material manages to be both melodic and complex (and it rocks, too), and the performances, sparked by new member Grace Slick on most of the lead vocals, are inspired, helped along by Jerry Garcia (serving as spiritual and musical advisor and sometimes guitarist). Every song is a perfectly cut diamond, too perfect in the eyes of the bandmembers, who felt that following the direction of producer Rick Jarrard and working within three- and four-minute running times, and delivering carefully sung accompaniments and succinct solos, resulted in a record that didn't represent their real sound. Regardless, they did wonderful things with the music within that framework, and the only pity is that RCA didn't record for official release any of the group's shows from the same era, when this material made up the bulk of their repertory. That way the live versions, with the band's creativity unrestricted, could be compared and contrasted with the record. The songwriting was spread around between Marty Balin, Slick, Paul Kantner, and Jorma Kaukonen, and Slick and Balin (who never had a prettier song than "Today," which he'd actually written for Tony Bennett) shared the vocals; the whole album was resplendent in a happy balance of all of these creative elements.
Compliments to the " Spiritual Advisor " Jerry Garcia & love the 2 Marty tracks that close Side 1 " Today " & " Comin Back To Me ". Paul Simon complained that there was to much echo on the record yet listen to " The Boxer " .. One of my favorite records of the 60's. Spectacular.
The mono version has less echo. Or verb... You never know... Stereo is still kind of fresh back at this time, and sometimes stereo receivers and turn tables had a habit of phase cancelling... Which would cause things that were in mono to disappear. And things that were and stereo to be enhanced... For instance, in a song that has vocals in the center and then music instruments off to the left or right, and also a stereo reverb, this would cause the vocals to get quieter, And the reverb to get louder...
He's right, at least as far as the stereo mix goes. The mono is fine.
All the echo on "The Boxer" works there. It's not a matter of a standard amount of echo for anything...it's, like everything which goes into a recording, whatever serves the music best that you do.
This has been my Favorite Album !! ❤️❤️🥰
Bless it's Pointy Little Head, w a drunk Jack Cassidy on the cover was their live album - needed mentioning. Has my vote as their second best record. Airplane, like so many bands (and authors) had one really good first project, but could never match it again.
Thanks for doing something from the Bay, man. Makes more sense that it was the tentative series premier.
Yezzir my copy is of course beat to a nubbin and jacket almost completely split apart.
I remember reading that Jerry encouraged em to record the faster poppier STL but didn't know he also inspired the title. Wondered if you had those Great Society "Its a collector's item" records (I'm not watchin' your collection expo zay), those totally kick ass. A cooy of the Takes Off with the word "trips" is animal-fights as hell
I love It’s a beautiful day. The album of the same name is a wonderful look into the San Francisco sound.
Along with Surrealistic Pillow I’d say the first Quicksilver Messenger Service album.
Yes if we're allowed to pick stuff that came out a little after the actual summer of love I'd put stuff like Quicksilver and Buffalo Spfd Again
I LUV "Today", I have covered this one
Great video Abigail!
Here is what I found regarding Marty and the cover.
The bubblegum-pink front cover (originally conceived to be blue) and back-cover collage designed by Marty and featuring photos by Herb Greene.
- Jeff Tamarkin -
Jeff Tamarkin is the author of Got A Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
Great job as always!
I'm one of those guys that prefers After Bathing At Baxter's. Surrealistic Pillow is great, to be sure, but Baxter's is much more expansive, more psych, they really let themselves spread out. One of my fave psych albums, actually.
Your stunningly beautiful review brings me to tears -- simply because it IS so spot on, in every detail. It is everything you say it is -- especially a monument, an anchor, a road map of a very special era. You miss it for not being there. I miss it because I was, and the feeling this resurrects is palpable. GREAT job reviewing! Ditto for Are You Experienced. KEEP ON DOING! Be well,
P.S. -- there are some who have described Grace's voice as actually being another "instrument" for the band. And the vocal chemistry between Marty and Grace, not just sound but also feeling, is just so hand-and-glove.
I once visited my son in SF. Towards the end of the trip he asked me if there was anything special I wanted to do. I thought about it a bit, but got this sudden strong feeling and half-joking said, I'd like to see the Pooneil House that JA once lived in. Since it was within walking distance of where he lived, and through GG Park, we set off and found it (2400 Fulton St.). I kinda stared at it a while, walked around out front, and got a bit nostalgic. I later learned that Paul Kantner died that day, and so did Signe. Ouch.... Maybe that's why The Ballad of You and me and Pooneil is one of my favorite JA songs.
Early casualties of the Year the Music Died 2016. Hard to believe, but it looks like the musical death tally of 2023 is even greater.
Do not know how I rant into this channel, But it has been awesome. Is sixties and seventies are by far my favorite music.
This album along with a few others got me into trouble. This kind of music Definitely it's looked down upon in some pockets down here. Is keep up the amazing work Abigail
What an excellent commentary and analysis of a fantastic album. I really enjoyed watching this video.
Surrealistic Pillow should also be the name for that shade of pink/purple.
agreed!
Great job, as always!