This was the third Jefferson Airplane record, the second one after Grace Slick joined. Surrealistic Pillow had White Rabbit and Somebody to Love on it, both boffo hits. Baxter’s (I’ll call it) was an album that sounded like Dada to most Top 40 fans. (Some people said it is what tripping on LSD sounded like. Other people repeated that to sound cool.) Mainstream rock critics didn’t like it. As I recall, Life magazine said it wasn’t as good as Strange Days by the Doors. In a previous post in defense of Paul Kantner I said it is an all-time great. I am unwavering. I do remember that college friend, after hearing me rave about the record, said he’d played it and it was awful. Was I talking about the same record, he asked.
The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil has the spoken word ‘armadillo’ in it. I will remember that after I forget who I am.
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