After Bathing at Baxter's was released in 1967 and is the third album by the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane.

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 appeared on the earlier LP. As such, it was a watershed album; Jefferson Airplane was 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 longer and more experimental compositions such as the nine-minute instrumental "Spare Chaynge" and Grace Slick's mammoth and unusual "Rejoyce," an 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. The cover art is by artist Ron Cobb.

The album peaked at no. 17. The first single, "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil," barely missed the top 40 mark, charting at #42 while the second release, "Watch Her Ride," charted at #61 on Billboard. Both singles made it to the top 40 in the Cash Box Top 100.^[1] The band would continue its major commercial success the next year with Crown of Creation.

Track listing

Notes

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Personnel

• Grace Slick  piano, organ, recorder, vocals
• Paul Kantner  rhythm guitar, vocals
• Jorma Kaukonen  lead guitar, sitar, vocals
• Jack Casady  bass
• Spencer Dryden  drums, percussion, horn arrangement
• Marty Balin  rhythm guitar, vocals

Additional personnel

• Gary Blackman  vocals
• Bill Thompson  vocals

Production

• Jefferson Airplane  design, notes, song arrangement
• Al Schmitt  producer
• Richie Schmitt  engineer
• Ron Cobb  album cover
• The Walking Owls  album title
• Alan Pappe  photography
• Recorded at RCA, Hollywood

Charts

Album

Single

References

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