Jefferson Airplane ?– Surrealistic Pillow: 1st Edition Pressing / LSP-3766 VG

From Wikipedia:
 

"Surrealistic Pillow" is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor (LSP-3766 [stereo] and LPM-3766 [mono]). It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. The album peaked at number three on the Billboard album chart and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA.

Original drummer Alexander "Skip" Spence had left the band in mid-1966. He was soon replaced by Dryden, an experienced Los Angeles jazz drummer and the half-nephew of Charlie Chaplin. New female vocalist Slick, formerly with another San Francisco rock band the Great Society, joined the Airplane in the fall of 1966. Slick, Dryden, male lead vocalist Marty Balin, guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Paul Kantner, lead guitarist (and occasional vocalist) Jorma Kaukonen, and bassist Jack Casady formed the core of the best-known line-up of the group, which remained stable until Dryden's departure in early 1970.

The album is considered to be one of the quintessential works of the early psychedelic rock and 1960s counterculture eras.
 

Jefferson Airplane's fusion of folk rock and psychedelia was original at the time, in line with musical developments pioneered by The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas, Bob Dylan, The Yardbirds, and The Beatles, among other mid-1960s rock bands. Surrealistic Pillow was the first blockbuster psychedelic album by a band from San Francisco, announcing to the world the active bohemian scene that had developed there starting with The Beats during the 1950s, extending and changing through the 1960s into the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. Subsequent exposure generated by the Airplane and others wrought great changes to that counterculture, and by 1968 the ensuing national media attention had precipitated a very different San Francisco scene than had existed in 1966. San Francisco photographer Herb Greene photographed the band for the album's cover art.

Some controversy exists as to the role of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in the making of the album. His reputed presence on several tracks is denied by producer Rick Jarrard, but he is credited on the RCA label copy, as well as received credits on the Flight Log compilation and the Jefferson Airplane Loves You box set. In his sleeve notes for Early Flight  - the 1974 compilation album of previously unreleased material - the band's sometime manager Bill Thompson writes only that Garcia was, "listed as 'spiritual advisor' on the album cover [and] played one of the guitars", on "In The Morning", a track recorded at the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, but first included on the album on the 2003 reissue. Garcia himself recalled in a mid-1967 interview that he had played the high lead on "Today", played on "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and "Comin' Back to Me", and that he had arranged and essentially rewritten "Somebody to Love". He also played on two songs not released until the reissue ("JPP McStep B Blues"and "In the Morning") and may have played on "How Do You Feel". Kaukonen said that Garcia was essentially the producer who arranged the songs. A comment by Garcia about the music being "as surrealistic as a pillow" also reportedly inspired the album title."
 

Jefferson Airplane ?– Surrealistic Pillow

THE VINYL :  VG :  Moderate playtime is evident, with numerous light marks. There is also some wear to the labels (sticker, name written- please see photos). Light background noise, including ticking, occurs periodically, but the record produces a quality sound with no skipping or sticking.

1S Stampers on both sides.


THE COVER :  VG+ :  The front cover shows moderate scuffing / there is also some minor paper fraying on the seams and on the spine / both seams and the spine are intact / name written in  ink on the top center of the front cover (please see photo) / no tape, dirt or stains.


 

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