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.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Ballad of You & Me & PooneilPaul Kantner | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 10:26 | 23 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Young Girl Sunday BluesMarty Balin, Paul Kantner | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 03:27 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | MarthaPaul Kantner | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 03:29 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Wild TymePaul Kantner | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 03:24 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | The Last Wall of the CastleJorma Kaukonen | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 02:42 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Watch Her RidePaul Kantner | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 03:17 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Two HeadsGrace Slick | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 03:17 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Martha (single version) | Jefferson Airplane | Play | 03:27 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 33 mins | 76 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marty Balin | Composer |
| 2 | Gary Blackman | Composer |
| 3 | Jack Casady | Composer |
| 4 | Ron Cobb | Cover Art |
| 5 | Spencer Dryden | Composer |
| 6 | Jefferson Airplane | Arranger, Design, Liner Notes, Primary Artist |
| 7 | Paul Kantner | Composer |
| 8 | Jorma Kaukonen | Composer |
| 9 | Alan Pappé | Photography |
| 10 | Al Schmitt | Producer |
| 11 | Richie Schmitt | Engineer |
| 12 | Grace Slick | Composer |
| 13 | Bill Thompson | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |