Acid Rapped Jefferson Airplane "After Bathing @ Baxters" Sealed Sixties Sounds
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Here is a sealed, wrapped, virgin copy of the Airplane's second album.
Not sure when it was pressed, not this year, not this decade probably.
Cover a bit reminiscent what Donald's airplane would be like, if he'd
turned on, tuned in and dropped out of military prep school, and headed
to San Fran with a flower in his hair...
"On purely musical terms, "After Bathing At Baxter's" by Jefferson Airplane is a one-of-a-kind, acid-stoked masterpiece. Its political sensibility and humour is locked firmly in the late 1960s, and has dated badly in places for it, but as a musical conception there is really nothing like it to compare. Considering that it was the Airplane's follow-up recording to their smash-hit album "Surrealistic Pillow", you've got to admire the chutzpah it took to unleash this on a fickle youth market so soon in their career. It sounds nothing like "Surrealistic Pillow" and thus sold less well,--so much that they never tried anything like this again. Their next record, "Crown of Creation", found an artistic compromise between "Surrealistic Pillow" and "After Bathing At Baxter's". Only their LA rivals The Byrds would ever display such a blatant commercial disregard for its audience. "After Bathing At Baxter's" has moments of instrumental virtuosity (particularly bassist Jack Casady on "Watch Her Ride" and "rejoyce"), inspired harmony vocal arrangements (by Paul Kantner on "Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil", "Martha", "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon"), alternatingly lyrical and ferocious guitar phrasing (by Jorma Kaukonen on "Wild Thyme", "Last Wall of the Castle" and "Martha" where he sounds nothing like his much-copied contemporaries Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix or Mike Bloomfield), and stellar lead vocals (Grace Slick on "Two Heads" and "rejoyce" and Marty Balin on "Young Girl Sunday Blues"). This is an album for musicians, singers and those with musically adventurous tastes." - Compton Roberts
Star ships in a special vinyl record box, bubble rapped.
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