Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds

Surrealistic Pillow

Studio album by Jefferson Airplane
Released February 1967
Recorded October 31, 1966 -- November 22, 1966
Genre Psychedelic rock, folk rock
Length 33:40
Label RCA Victor
Producer Rick Jarrard

Jefferson Airplane's fusion of folk rock and psychedelia was original at the time, in line with musical developments pioneered by The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas, and Bob Dylan. Surrealistic Pillow was the first blockbuster psychedelic album by a band from San Francisco, announcing to the world the active bohemian scene that had developed there starting with The Beats during the 1950s, extending and changing through the 1960s into the Haight-Ashbury counterculture. Subsequently, the exposure generated by the Airplane and others wrought great changes to that counterculture, and by 1968 the ensuing national media attention had precipitated a very different San Francisco scene than had existed in 1966. San Francisco photographer, Herb Greene photographed the band for the album's cover art.

Some controversy exists as to the role of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in the making of the album. His reputed presence on several tracks is not corroborated by RCA paperwork and is denied by producer Rick Jarrard. But when performing Comin' Back to Me live with Jefferson Starship, Marty Balin almost always introduced the song with a reference to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, mentioning Garcia as playing the guitar parts on the original studio version.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 146 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Lyrics: do away with people blowing my mind
do away with people wasting my precious time
take me to a simple place
where I can easily see my face
maybe, baby I'll see that you were kind
know I love you baby, yes I do
know I love you baby, yes I do

do away with people laughing at my hair
do away with people frowning on my precious prayers
take me to a circus tent
where I can easily pay my rent
and all the other freaks will share my cares
know I love you baby, yes I do
know I love you baby, yes I do

do away with things that come on obscene
like hot rods, beauty queens, real fine nicotine
sometimes it buys for 65 dollars
prices like that make a grown man holler
'specially when it's sold by a kid who's only 15
know I love you baby, yes I do
know I love you baby, yes I do

3/5's of a mile in 10 seconds...

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[B4001950]

No doubt one of the greatest albums of all time! Focused and Powerful.....

[XxParrianxX]

Anyone have a Machine-Time? T.T

Long live 60's and 70's!!

[Sortsdam]

I was born in the wrong time... sigh

[mickeymousebiker1]

Sundrenched in CA sunshine and acid-washed. Thank you, High Altitude Fred, for your friendship at Monterey Pop. I hope life is great for you and your lady in Santa Cruz. Thank you, Jim and Stan (from Monterey Pop) for riding with me.

[mickeymousebiker1]

@XxParrianxX I lost Mr. Peabody's e-mail address. The Way-Back Machine is out there somewhere, man.

[slothropgr]

Sorry, forgot to thank YOU for posting these indelible artifacts so clearly. They sound better than they did on the album. But the Airplane never got especially good sound from RCA, till they remastered 'em on 2400 Fulton Street.

[thebp9999]

@B4001950 I agree. Well said.

[TheLarper123]

@Humorgous SREW U. U PEOPLE AND UR STUPID RAP!

[TheLarper123]

@XxParrianxX omg IKR!!!!!1

[edcabanas]

"...KNOW I LOVE YOU BABY, YES I DO.."

[modsheff1]

fuckin top tune!

[thisvideowillbeflagd]

The intro is soooooo trippy!