Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
(RCA, 1967)
Haight-Ashbury’s hippie hedonists follow Alice down the rabbit hole…
If San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district was the spiritual (and chemical) hub of US hippie life, then the six denizens of Jefferson Airplane were the celebrated leaders of the native tribe. And what better way to welcome the rest of the world to the neighbourhood than to offer them Surrealistic Pillow. From the pink-tinted cover shot to its tremulous flashes of rock, blues and folk, the band’s second LP remains one of the most potent distillations of the San Fran sound. It is an album soaked in the sort of psychedelic sonics that would colour many of the year’s later key releases. The ambient vibrato guitar licks; the overdriven blues jams; the pastoral folk melodies – they’re all included here. Then, of course, there’s Grace Slick who, through the lysergic perfection of Somebody To Love and White Rabbit, delivers two of the most fearless vocals to echo across to us from the acid-age. Unlike the self-indulgent noodling that was to come, SP is the product of a band revelling in the three-minute format, each nugget infused with that all-important local taste. Still enchanting 40-odd years on.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 02/03/2008
Further Listening
Moby Grape – Moby Grape (Columbia, 1967)
Grace Slick & The Great Society – Collector’s Item (Sony, 1968)
Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music For The Mind And Body (Vanguard, 1967)
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