JEFFERSON AIRPLANE After Bathing at Baxters Rare Orig 1967 US RCA LP Psych Rock
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Jefferson Airplane
After Bathing At Baxter's
Very Rare Original US LP released on RCA Records in 1967. 1st US pressing on the Grooved Black RCA label in a gatefold sleeve with custom inner sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - UPRS-5524--1S
Side Two - UPRS-5525--1S
The Jefferson Airplane opened 1967 with Surrealistic Pillow and closed it with After Bathing at Baxter's, and what a difference ten months made. Book ending 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 song writing 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; additionally, they'd begun to see how far they could take music (and music could take them) in concert, in terms of capturing variant states of consciousness.
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. They'd earned the privilege, after two huge hit singles and the Top Five success of the prior album, all of which had constituted RCA's first serious new rock success (and the label's first venture to the music's cutting edge) since Elvis Presley left the Army. The resulting record was startlingly different from their two prior LPs; there were still folk and blues elements present in the music, but these were mostly transmuted into something very far from what any folksinger or bluesman might recognize. Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, and Jack Casady cranked up their instruments; Spencer Dryden hauled out an array of percussive devices that was at least twice as broad as anything used on the previous album; and everybody ignored the length of what they were writing and recording, or how well they sang, or how cleanly their voices meshed. The group emerged four months later with one of the rawest, most in-your-face records to come out of the psychedelic era, and also a maddeningly uneven record, exciting and challenging in long stretches, yet elsewhere very close to stultifyingly boring, delightful in its most fulfilling moments (which were many), but almost deliberately frustrating in its digressions, and amid all of that, very often beautiful.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
Streetmasse
1 The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil 4:30
2 A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You Shortly 1:42
3 Young Girl Sunday Blues 3:29
The War Is Over
4 Martha 3:21
5 Wild Tyme (H) 3:05
Hymn To An Older Generation
6 The Last Wall Of The Castle 2:46
7 Rejoyce 4:00
Side Two
How Suite It Is
1 Watch Her Ride 3:11
2 Spare Chaynge 9:05
Shizoforest Love Suite
3 Two Heads 3:10
4 Won't You Try 5:01
5 Saturday Afternoon
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Released on RCA Victor Records in 1967
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Catalogue Number LSO-1511
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Record is in Ex ++ condition (couple of light surface marks)
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition (small split on top edge)
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