After Bathing at Baxter's
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| Studio album by Jefferson Airplane | ||
| Released | November 30, 1967 | |
| Recorded | 1967 | |
| Genre | Psychedelic Rock | |
| Length | 44:00 | |
| Label | RCA Victor | |
| Producer(s) | Al Schmitt | |
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| Jefferson Airplane chronology | ||
| Surrealistic Pillow (1967) |
After Bathing at Baxter's (1967) |
Crown of Creation (1968) |
After Bathing at Baxter's is the third album by the San Franciscan rock band Jefferson Airplane, which was released in 1967. Unlike Surrealistic Pillow, released earlier the same year, After Bathing at Baxter's is classified as psychedelic rock because it eschews the more commercial type pop songs, such as "Somebody to Love", that were performed on the former LP. As such, it was a watershed album; they were now a much heavier rock group. Jorma Kaukonen's electric guitar was especially more to the forefront in both volume and tone.
Divided into "suites", this musical shift is typified by lengthier and more experimental compositions such as the nine-minute instrumental "Spare Chaynge" and Grace Slick's mammoth and unusual "reJoyce", a homage to James Joyce's novel "Ulysses", with its quirky arrangement and Jack Casady's stentorian bass-line. Many of the album tracks reflect the band's heavy use of the drug LSD.
[edit] Track listing
- "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" (Kantner) – 4:29
- "A Small Package of Value Will Come to You Shortly" (Blackman/Dryden/Thompson) – 1:39
- "Young Girl Sunday Blues" (Balin/Kantner) – 3:33
- "Martha" (Kantner) – 3:26
- "Wild Tyme (H)" (Kantner) – 3:08
- "The Last Wall of the Castle" (Kaukonen) – 2:40
- "Rejoyce" (Slick) – 4:01
- "Watch Her Ride" (Kantner) – 3:11
- "Spare Chaynge" (Casady/Dryden/Kaukonen) – 9:12
- "Two Heads" (Slick) – 3:10
- "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" (Kantner) – 5:09
