JEFFERSON AIRPLANE After Bathing At Baxters 1968 UK RCA 1st *STEREO* PRESS
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JEFFERSON AIRPLANE After Bathing At Baxters 1968 UK RCA 1st *STEREO* PRESS
JEFFERSON AIRPLANEAfter Bathing At Baxter's
UK RCA (SF 7926) FIRST *STEREO* PRESSING (June 1968)
EXCELLENT COPY - SEEN A FEW SPINS BUT VERY WELL CARED FOR
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE GROOVED, BLACK 'RED SPOT' RCA LABELS
MATRIX: URPS - 5524 - 1K / URPS - 5525 - 1K
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/B and 1/B (in the batch of the first 300 or so copies pressed)
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE “Printed in England by Robert Stace”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DECCA COMPANY INNER - DATE CODED '058' (May 1968)
There was ten months between Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's, and what a difference ten months made.
Bookending the year that psychedelia emerged in full bloom as a freestanding musical form, After Bathing at Baxter's was among the purest of rock's psychedelic albums, offering few concessions to popular taste and none to the needs of AM radio, which made it nowhere remotely as successful as its predecessor, but it was also a lot more daring.
The album also showed a band in a state of ferment, as singer/guitarist Marty Balin largely surrendered much of his creative input in the band he'd founded, and let Paul Kantner and Grace Slick dominate the songwriting and singing on all but one cut ("Young Girl Sunday Blues").
The group had found the preceding album a little too perfect, and not fully representative of the musicians or what they were about, and they were determined to do the music their way on Baxter's
Essentially, After Bathing at Baxter's was the group's attempt to create music that captured what the psychedelic experience sounded and felt like to them from the inside; on a psychic level, it was an introverted exercise in music-making and a complete reversal of the extroverted experience in putting together Surrealistic Pillow.
Toward that end, they were working "without a net," for although Al Schmitt was the nominal producer, he gave the group the freedom to indulge in any experimentation they chose to attempt, effectively letting them produce themselves.
Side 1:
STREETMASSE The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil - A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You, Shortly - Young Girl Sunday Blues
THE WAR IS OVER Martha - Wild Tyme(H)
HYMN TO AN OLDER GENERATION The Last Wall Of The Castle - Rejoyce
Side 2:
HOW SUITE IS IT Watch Her Ride - Spare Chaynge
SHIZOFOREST LOVE SUITE Two Heads - Won't You Try - Saturday Afternoon
LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean, unmarked labels - moderate spindle traces/hole wear
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: VERY GOOD
My play-check at loud volume found little to fault the crystal clear, sharp sound - nothing but a couple of ticks at the beginning of Side One and some surface on the quietest sections/between tracks - nothing major - sounds great
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Superb condition - unworn edges and spine where all text is clear and bold - deep gloss to the front laminate - clean, white untreated back - just some soft shop creases to the spine
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: for items purchased within any 10 day period at £3 for each additional LP
Guarantee: all records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks 811 (GS 7.0.9 (811))
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