On Halloween of 1966, San Francisco’s Jefferson Airplane headed into the studio to craft a follow-up to their debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. The LP that they crafted — their first with legendary vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden — would go on to be regarded as a landmark LP for both the psychedelic rock scene and the counterculture movement.
Crawdaddy!’s Denise Sullivan takes an in-depth look at “Surrealistic Pillow.” What was the story behind the album? Who were the key behind-the-scenes personalities who helped shape the disc? What did the album mean to the author? And above all, what the hell is a Surrealistic Pillow? And who came up with that name? The answer might surprise you.
“Surrealistic Pillow was the first to demonstrate to me that songs, even songs without words, cannot only travel the distance of the journey, they can actually chart the course for the trip.”
Read the rest of Denise Sullivan’s look at Jefferson Airplane’s “Surrealistic Pillow.”
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Although I went to SF several times and stayed for different periods of time, and saw lots of Fillmore and Winterland Shows, I never got to see the Airplane, but to this day, when my downloaded version of “I Saw You” comes on, I go flyin’ back to those days..still love the song and the album so much…it has aged well.