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After Bathing at Baxter's

Jefferson Airplane
Release Date: 08/19/2003
Original Release:  1967
# of Discs:   1
J&R Item # 490705_CD
UPC # 828765322522
Label: BMG Heritage
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Disc: 1
1. Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil, The sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly, A sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. Young Girl Sunday Blues sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. Martha sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. Wild Tyme (H) sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. Last Wall of the Castle, The sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. Rejoyce sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. Watch Her Ride sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Spare Change sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. Two Heads sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. Won't You Try Saturday Afternoon sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil, The - (live, long version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. Martha - (mono, single version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. Two Heads - (previously unreleased, alternate version) sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. Things Are Better in the East - (previously unreleased, demo version) sound samples  real  |  windows media

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Performer: Jefferson Airplane
Engineer: Richie Schmitt
Producer: Al Schmitt
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Jefferson Airplane: Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen (vocals, guitar); Grace Slick (vocals, recorder, piano); Marty Balin (vocals); Jack Casady (bass); Spencer Dryden (drums). Recorded at RCA, Hollywood, California. Originally released on RCA (4545). Includes liner notes by Jeff Tamarkin. This newly remastered 2003 deluxe edition contains bonus tracks. Jefferson Airplane: Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen (vocals, guitar); Grace Slick (vocals, recorder, piano); Marty Balin (vocals); Jack Casady (bass); Spencer Dryden (drums). Recorded at RCA, Hollywood, California. Originally released on RCA (4545). Includes liner notes by Bill Thompson and Jeff Tamarkin. Bitten by the '60s San Francisco bug of extended musical explorations, the Jefferson Airplane flew into song-suites on AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S. But rather than being an organic jam-fest, BAXTER'S took the Airplane's singular white R&B jams and bled them into one another. The "Streetmasse" suite, for instance, combines two typically electrifying Airplane performances--"The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil" and "Young Girl Sunday Blues," both of which give off the adrenaline of an Americanized early Who with female harmony vocals--through a warped pastiche of vocal and percussive noodling ("A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You, Shortly"). San Francisco's cultural evolution didn't just affect the structure of the songs on AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S. No longer hiding behind the metaphors of the first two albums, the Airplane were now openly voicing the thoughts of their constituency--"There is a new way of thinking," sings Paul Kantner on his "Wild Tyme," and the very title of the "Hymn To An Older Generation" suite speaks for itself. "Spare Chaynge" is a nearly ten-minute instrumental led by Jorma Kaukonen's spaced-out guitar, the closest the Airplane had yet come to the musical free-for-all of their San Francisco brethren.
Rolling Stone (9/18/03, p.77) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...An acid symphony full of extended pieces conjoined into suites, with highflying hymns to liberated times delivered forcefully by the Airplane's vocal troika..."
One of the quintessential San Francisco psychedelic bands, the Jefferson Airplane brought together interests in acoustic blues, folk, and rock music. Add political topicality and modal improvisations, and you have an inspired, mind-bending sound that could have only sprung forth from the late '60s. In their initial, most beloved phase, they were powered by the powerful dual lead vocals of Grace Slick and Marty Balin and the serpentine guitar of Jorma Kaukonen. They went through a traumatic series of personnel and name changes over the decades (they ventured into commercial AOR in the late '70s and early '80s) but their early work retains its seminal power.
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