Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967) Vinyl LP • Somebody To Love

Catalog Number: LSP-3766

Record Grading: Very Good (VG), Sleeve Grading: Very Good (VG)

Condition Details:

Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; scuffing (front/back); slight discoloration on back. Inner-sleeve is original (RCA Ads); one seam partially split. Spine is entirely split and unreadable. Harsh shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and a few divots. Stereo pressing with black label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• She Has Funny Cars
• Somebody To Love
• My Best Friend
• Today
• Comin' Back To Me
• 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
• D.C.B.A. - 25
• How Do You Feel
• Embryonic Journey
• White Rabbit
• Plastic Fantastic Lover

About The Record:

Surrealistic Pillow, by Jefferson Airplane, was the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart and has been certified Platinum 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. My Best Friend was released as the first single in January 1967, but only reached No. 103 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart. Two singles were released later in the year, Somebody to Love and White Rabbit, peaked respectively at No. 5 and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and are the band's only Top 40 hits on that chart.