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:..:... Supplier: SER 2003 Release Date: 09/12/2003 ...:..:
: : Ripper: SER 2003 Street Date: 00/00/2003 :..:...
...:..: Genre: Psychedelic Rock Label: BMG : :
: : Tracks: 15 Tracks Quality: 192kbps/HQ/44,1kHz ...:..:
: : Year: 2003 Channels: Joint Stereo : :
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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 or the needs of AM radio, which made it not remotely as
successful as its more accessible predecessor, but 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"). Essentially, After Bathing at Baxter's was the group's
attempt to create an album that captured what the psychedelic
experience sounded and felt like to them from the inside; on a psychic
level, it was an introvert exercise in music-making and a complete
reversal of the extrovert experience in putting together Surrealistic
Pillow. Toward that end, they were working "without a net," for
although Al Schmitt was the nominal producer, he pretty much gave the
group the freedom to indulge in any experimentation they chose to
attempt, effectively letting them produce themselves. The results were
startlingly different from most of what was on their two prior LPs;
there were still folk and blues elements present in the music, albeit
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 lyrically 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 also in other places 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. The nine-minute instrumental "Spare Chaynge" remains
an acquired taste, a lot more aimless than, say, the extended jams left
behind by the Quicksilver Messenger Service, though it did point the
way toward what Kaukonen and Casady would aim for more successfully
when they formed Hot Tuna, but most of the rest is indisputably among
the more alluring musical experimentation of the period. Slick's
"Rejoyce" is a bizarre yet eminently listenable adaptation of James
Joyce's writings, and Kantner's "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil" and
"Watch Her Ride," as well as Balin's "Young Girl Sunday Blues," proved
that the group could still rock out with a beat, even if not so
prettily or cleanly as before; "Martha" was one of their last folk
-based excursions. After Bathing at Baxter's was represented poorly on
CD until 1996, when it was finally remastered properly, though that
remastered edition was later deleted and is only available in Ignition,
a very expensive four-CD box. [Additionally, After Bathing at Baxter's
was the last Jefferson Airplane album to appear in a mono version,
which sounds very different from the more common stereo mix.]
http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/
Tracks:
01. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil (4:35)
02. A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You, Shortly (1:34)
03. Young Girl Sunday Blues (3:35)
04. Martha (3:26)
05. Wild Tyme (H) (3:10)
06. The Last Wall Of The Castle (2:40)
07. Rejoyce (4:04)
08. Watch Her Ride (3:11)
09. Spare Chaynge (9:12)
10. Two Heads (3:13)
11. Won't You Try? / Saturday Afternoon (5:07)
Bonus Tracks:
12. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil (Live) (11:07)
13. Martha (Mono Single Version) (3:29)
14. Two Heads (Alternate Version) (3:18)
15. Things Are Better In The East (Demo Version) (6:40)
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