Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's (clear vinyl)
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Grace Slick – piano, organ, recorder, vocals, lead vocals on "rejoyce", and "Two Heads"
Marty Balin – rhythm guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Young Girl Sunday Blues"
Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil", "Martha", "Wild Tyme", "Watch Her Ride", and Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon"
Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, sitar, vocals, lead vocals on "The Last Wall of the Castle"
Jack Casady – bass
Spencer Dryden – drums, percussion, horn arrangement
Gary Blackman – vocals
Bill Thompson – vocals
1 LP, Gatefold Cover
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Clear
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : RCA Victor
Recorded June–October 1967 at RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood
Engineered & mixed by Rich Schmitt
Produced by Al Schmitt
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1967
Reissued in 2015
Tracks:
Side A:
- The Ballad of You and Me and 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 B:
How Suite It Is:
- Watch Her Ride
- Spare Chaynge
Shizoforest Love Suite:
- Two Heads
- Won't You Try
- Saturday Afternoon
Reviews :
"The Jefferson Airplane opened 1967 with Surrealistic Pillow and closed it with 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; 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." AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,14 / 5