bear with me while i’m figuring out mic placement! what’s your favorite summer of love album? comment below!
@jetnova3788 Жыл бұрын
The Doors
@troubadour723 Жыл бұрын
Sgt. Pepper -- No! Piper at the Gates of -- No! Are You Experienced -- um . . . what day of the week is it?
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
@@troubadour723 it’s SO hard to choose, 67 was a stacked year
@edvonblue Жыл бұрын
So weird, Mazzy just made a video that included this lp also: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2PHlmaKitZ5iMk
@dukromeo Жыл бұрын
@@jetnova3788 yep 🤠
@KealohaHarrison4 ай бұрын
Congratulations to Surrealistic Pillow for being preserved forever in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as of today!!!
@AlterMann578 ай бұрын
Abbie, I'm an old guy, but I have to say that Surrealistic Pillow was my first true love of San Francisco music for me. I attended Woodstock with my older cousins (I was 12 years, and they were in their late teens, one of them was headed for Vietnam after the festival). I was a huge fan of Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady are my favourite members of the band. When I heard they were going to be at the Festival I begged my cousins to take me, I even bought a ticket for all three days (it was destroyed in the mud). The Airplane were off the hook at the show, perfection even though they hit the stage in the morning, they rocked like it was midnight. That was also when I first saw the Grateful Dead, which converted me into a true tie-dyed Deadhead. Thank you for featuring this iconic album!
@vangrod8510 Жыл бұрын
Standing on the corner of a quiet side street on a breezy sunny day in the spring of 1967, a white Cadillac convertible with a red interior suddenly flew around the corner at totally illegal speed with "Somebody to Love" blasting out of the radio at the volume nature intended and I'd never heard anything like it before and had no idea what I'd heard but I'll never forget the feeling that nothing would ever be the same as I watched the sound disappear into the distance...
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
that's magical! are you sure it wasn't a member of the airplane driving? they were known to drag race through san fran
@vangrod8510 Жыл бұрын
@@abigaildevoe The quiet Chicago neighborhood was a long way from San Francisco but the Airplane came to us at that moment... I cannot visualize the driver, it's like I saw the sound flying by...
@MichaelLantz10 ай бұрын
When Paul McCartney visited The Haight in 1967 he hung out with Members of The Jefferson Airplane and Jack Cassidy asked him what the music scene was like in England and Paul told him there was this left hand guitar player (Jimi Hendrix) who was taking Britain by storm.The funny thing is that Jack and Jimi would become friends when Jimi was in the states.
@dabhidhm4093 Жыл бұрын
Surrealistic Pillow is one of those albums that I love so much that I've never really bothered to listen to much of any other of their albums. It's just so perfect; so fun, touching, ghost-haunted and atmospheric. Whenever I hear "Comin' Back To Me", I'm back in my bedroom in a long-ago Vermont, 16 years old again and relishing my solitary reverie.
@lynnpehrson8826 Жыл бұрын
I've listened to the others, they have some good songs but don't come close in my opinion. Their others albums are less unique for the time, they're more bluesy, and to me surrealistic pillow's best moments are folky, and has this difficult to describe nocturnal vibe.
@maxmeggeneder89352 ай бұрын
All of their albums from the sixties are as good or even better than Surrealistic Pillow. Jefferson Airplane are my favorite band ever, so don´t misunderstand me. Checking out Volonteers, Crown of Creation and Takes Off is definately worth doing.
@jasonnewby Жыл бұрын
Excellent breakdown as usual. Such an iconic and legendary album and as you say represents the summer of 1967 SanFran so much and so well. Though as much as I love Surrealistic Pillow I like After Bathing At Baxters and Crown Of Creation more. They are more psych rock and less folk rock. Somebody To Love is such a huge song and if I could name one song that represented the 60's it would probably be that. I can definitely relate to feeling of wanting to experience that time. Ever since I watched the Woodstock movie when I was a kid I longed for that sense of freedom and community but hey I live vicariously through my records and a haze of smoke ;)
@BlueSky... Жыл бұрын
The chemistry between Paul and Grace on D.C.B.A.-25 is a beautiful, palpable thing. Kind of like watching a movie performance between two actors you sense will pair up offscreen..
@martinbroten9467 Жыл бұрын
I always loved the song “Today”, especially the version in the “Monterey Pop” movie. Love the fact that, even though Marty is singing the lead, the camera is focused on Grace (mostly in silhouette) throughout the song. I think I fell a little in love with Grace watching that clip.
@XFLexiconMatt22 күн бұрын
I have to say that "Surrealistic Pillow" and "Volunteers" are the strongest albums, I just find many of Airplane's other records to be very hit and miss. Loved the review, Abigail.
@johnwelch5132 Жыл бұрын
Still think American Beauty by Grateful Dead is worth a vlog.
@Blowncapacitor84 Жыл бұрын
One of the greatest albums ever! I like you.
@nintendonut100 Жыл бұрын
Workingman's Dead too
@Dave__f Жыл бұрын
We heard enough about the grateful dead
@Blowncapacitor84 Жыл бұрын
@@Dave__f Never!!! THE GREATEST AMERICAN ROCK AND ROLL BAND EVER... DON'T LIKE IT, KEEP SCROLLING!
@Dave__f Жыл бұрын
I'm sure I know the grateful dead better than most on this channel. They eat the underground music scene and turn you into them. Didn't they quit again for the 10th time and Bobby booked another huge tour under a different name before the lat one even ended.
@paulmartinson875 Жыл бұрын
Spent countless hours as a 13 yr old listening and singing along to this album. Wound up years later going to Hot Tuna concerts in all manner of venues....great times...
@chrislaustin Жыл бұрын
OMG Abi, you outfits are always the best, and today is certainly no different. Thanks for the stroll back in time, it's always a welcome highlight of the week.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
thanks so much! it's not every day i get to break out the alice dress
@stereo999 Жыл бұрын
D C B A are the four chords that make up the song. ('25' added because LSD25) There's a bonus track called In The Morning (also on a collection called Early Flight) that has Garcia on guitar
@myopia2020 Жыл бұрын
@Abigail Devoe Hi😊 Fun stroll through Surrealistic Pillow. You basically skipped over arguably the Airplane's greatest song "Comin' Back To Me". What's truly amazing is that it was almost completely improvised. A buzzed Marty wrote it late one night and rushed down to the studio, where he found only Grace and Jerry Garcia (possibly Jack, as well). Jerry played guitar on the track. Fun fact: Spencer Dryden's uncle is Charlie Chaplin! (yes, The Little Tramp)
@amarijayamari Жыл бұрын
The Airplane was and will always be fan-fucking-tastic, and Surrealistic Pillow is fabulous. AND your earrings are surrealistically cool as well. As for faves: Axis is close to the top, then there's Monkees Headquarters, The Doors, and Smiley Smile. But then there are a slew of great songs like White Bicycle, White Shade of Pale, Incense and Peppermints, How Can I be Sure, For What its Worth... my KZbin Bestsongs list has a lot of these.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
yes i LOVE seeing love for the monkees and strawberry alarm clock! and thanks!
@rkerlinАй бұрын
Yea! Surrealistic Pillow was the first album I ever bought, saved up from my paper route. It holds up well after all these years 🥰
@syater Жыл бұрын
At age eleven, visiting my older sister at her first apartment in 1967, I saw her copy of Surrealistic Pillow sitting, pink and kind of charming, near her record player. I had to find a copy. For me, it still encapsulates the mood and spirit of the Bay Area at that time better than any other music of the period and you have done an amazing job of conveying a sense of that, somehow. I still live in San Francisco and there are times when walking in certain areas of the city when a Surrealistic Pillow track will come to mind, even when passing the wonderful house on Delmar (still listed on the back cover of the album) of the Jefferson Airplane Fan Club ! Anyway, I have far too much to say about the album to burden you with here. I'll just say that as much as I enjoy Grace and Paul's contributions, I still wish Marty had been able to retain a little more control of the band that he started than he ended up with. I think it would have been better for the band artistically. Love your enthusiasm, Abby! I enjoy what you do on your channel very much. Cheers !
@johnwelch5132 Жыл бұрын
This is refreshing, good on ya for the last month, but, tbh, good to have you back.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
thanks, it's good to be back
@user-bs4pv9jv7r Жыл бұрын
Great Psychedelic Masterpiece!!!!🍄🍄🌸🌸🌿🌿
@mcolville19 күн бұрын
This band's story is sort of unbelievable. Some version of the band that made White Rabbit also make Find Your Way Back and eventually We Built This City.
@beatlefan64 Жыл бұрын
Love White Rabbit, Somebody To Love and Embryonic Journey is so good.🙂 Another fine video Abby.
@Wreckords-Marcel Жыл бұрын
This is one of the few albums that I prefer the mono over stereo. The mono just has clearer vocals and instruments, worth picking up both for such an amazing album.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
agreed. my stereo mix of this album is muddy, like someone put a wet towel over all the songs
@ChromeDestiny Жыл бұрын
The drum sound is much better on the mono mix. I always liked She Has Funny Cars but the mono mix made me LOVE it.
@owlnswan40168 ай бұрын
It's far better in mono. A lot of rock, then current pop, R&B, etc. music in the 1960's was mixed better in mono.
@owlnswan40168 ай бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6m1iXtofs-jjM0
@emeraldphoenix9229 Жыл бұрын
Jorma Kaukonen is a fantastic guitarist/ musician. One of my favourite guitarists of all time. Randy California too, even moreso. This is a great appraisal of a groundbreaking & brilliant record , which really does capture the flowery zaney open & liberating essence of San Francisco in 1967. I was barely born at the time & like you Abbey, albeit it a few decades earlier, I found my way to & immersed myself in late 60s psychadelia masterpieces. It formed me somehow & I felt like I was really there. I actually used to have these reoccuring dreams of hitch hiking in that area at that time, & a VW microbus stopped to give me a lift, & inside were all the members of Jefferson Airplane. Had that very vivid dream so often in my late teens that I figured I must have actually really been there at the time in another life, or was it merely (merely?) the effect of the powerful pungent spells that many of these songs are ?
@michaelmalone306 Жыл бұрын
Surprised “Comin Back” didn’t get more love in this review. I mean,yeah,it’s got a prominent recorder part,but just a devastatingly moving tune. It’s used to particularly good effect in the 1990 Dennis Hopper/Keifer Sutherland flick “Flashback”. Don’t know if you’ve ever seen that,but it’s worth checking out. Peace Abby✌️☮️
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
i really wish i could talk about every song here in-depth, but if i did, the video would be longer than the album itself!
@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 Жыл бұрын
Agreed. Comin' Back is the real MVP song on this album, and my favorite along with Today.
@dariooakley4376 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Sherry Snow, of the underrated folk duo, Blackburn & Snow, was briefly considered as a replacement for Signe before Jack brought Grace along. Snow, who performed with her musical (and romantic) partner, Jeff Blackburn, at folk/rock venues around the Bay Area (including the Matrix) gratefully declined the offer to remain with Blackburn.
@simonemurray1345 Жыл бұрын
If anyone loves this album do yourself a favor and get the mono pressing. Its SO much better since the stereo has too much reverb. The mofi is the best but really expensive, and a 1st pressing is awesome itself. Listening to the mono is like hearing it for the first time its incredible.
@Dave__f Жыл бұрын
💯
@dennislillie8047 Жыл бұрын
Crown Of Creation was my first JA album and is probably a favorite followed by Volunteers. Always enjoy your reviews. Look forward to Mondays now !
@aleleeinnaleleeinn9110Ай бұрын
Another album that I knew from the beginning. Probably my favorite Summer of love effort. Side one was the last album I played on many a night. It was a come down from the highs into gentle relaxation. But melancholy calm. A friend played the song at night in some of his darkest hours in Vietnam. The album was one of the first albums I heard on a REALLY GOOD stereo. When the album was released you had to go to the fledgling rock press for details, and usually chose not to because I needed no one to tell what was good and what I should like. My friends sister did a great job singing Grace's two showpieces. Very few people could do those songs. But the other Airplane albums were inconsistent. At least for me. There were some good songs, but not whole sides of whole albums. The press labeled artists and albums. Psyche was not all bombast. Coming Back to me is the mood of the 60s. It wasn't just the summer of love. It was race hatred and Vietnam and the roots of the various liberation movements. The mood of Coming Back to Me captures the reality of the whole 60s. The world we actually had to live in. I do thing the nagative side put us toward the light.
@danielwilliams1921 Жыл бұрын
Saw them live back in another orbit doing acid. Great show, and White Rabbit was exquisite.❤️🎶
@zacox Жыл бұрын
Such a great album, it's hard to pick favorite songs. I was listening to it the other day at work and while Embryonic Journey was playing my coworker, who had never heard the album before, got very interested. I love albums that have an instrumental interlude (The Wall is like half interludes). And, Abby is not alone in having some FOMO for the summer of love. I don' think any era of human history would be more fun to be in; and, its legacy certainly drove me to move to San Francisco over a decade ago. I am always delighted when I see a show at the Fillmore and they have a trough of apples at the top of the stairs.
@JiminyCricket8899 Жыл бұрын
A fantastic album , but i love the version of Today they did at the Monterey Pop Festival even more than the studio version. They had two wonderful vocalists in Grace and Marty.❤
@flannigan7956 Жыл бұрын
I offend large groups of Marty fans since I just plain don't really like it, or a least as 60s Air Plane. Maybe it's the order in which you heard em, since of their stuff I mostly heard Jefferson Starship first, where it seems to fit better with his voice. I come for Grace of course, plus kinda won't ever forgive em for the first album only having one Signe track. He's not as horrible as Dino Valenti but I don't warm to The Club Matrix Guy until total-70s fare like Light The Sky on Fire, Count On Me and Miracles
@rickdrais973721 күн бұрын
There's an odd sorta tenderness about this album. Odd because of how radical they became VERY quickly. I suppose it's because of the then-current transition between them going from a folk almost-purist band into a folk rock-cum-psychedelic band. No matter, it's stunning, and if White Rabbit doesn't give you chills, TURN IT UP Because Grace entered the picture like a tsunami, Signe never gets enough credit for her work on Takes Off, but because of her Portland connection, Northwesterners will always have a soft spot for her
@BIH9_LedZep Жыл бұрын
There it is!! Thank you for the Upload!! One of my Top 3 All-Time-Favourites Like, there are always one or two songs on every album that i don't like, but this is in my opinion a perfect Record. Every Single Song is just awesome. Embryonic Journey and Comin' Back to Me are i think my Secret Favourites on this :).
@owlnswan40168 ай бұрын
It's No Secret now.
@malcolmsmith5271 Жыл бұрын
Although I enjoyed your mini series of more modern releases, it’s these reviews of the classics from the 60’s/70’s I really like. To see your enthusiasm for these recordings is pure joy.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
it's good to be back to this stuff!
@rocknrollmandolin Жыл бұрын
The album that blew my mind open, and helped me realize there was more to music!
@vasyras7660 Жыл бұрын
This is my favourite album of this kind of music
@marydarko3380 Жыл бұрын
One of my fave albums, I was listening to White Rabbit today and it’s interesting how songs can apply to current times, especially like right now
@zorromaskedman8220 Жыл бұрын
🐰Don't fear the white rabbit🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 it encourages us to reach for more from our imagination. The band had good musicians, Grace was perfect for the part. From 1967...jump 18 years to 1985 Grace sang "We Built This City", her voice is powerful and enthusiastic...She's still with us at age 83...
@LouisHansell Жыл бұрын
Always enjoy Vinyl Monday, even when the album was not among my favorites.
@davidfulginiti5985 Жыл бұрын
Abigail, well done ----------------as a teen from the 60's not much more can I add other that that album was a must have! thanks
@crapmalls Жыл бұрын
I love Oar.
@collectrify Жыл бұрын
The late Victorian era history of San Francisco and its carnivalesque anything-is-possible atmosphere had a powerful influence on this record and the SF psychedelic scene overall. The gorgeous 1800s-1900s houses of the Haight Ashbury, thrift stores filled with what were then just decades-old Victorian and Edwardian fashions, the seedy echoes of the decadent Playland At The Beach, and infamous Chutes, just a few blocks from the 1904 mansion at the corner of Fulton and Willard that the band bought with the sudden income from Surrealistic Pillow. You can still feel all the vibrations of the kaleidoscopic past walking through the streets and the park today.
@twofromthetrunk9932 Жыл бұрын
Surrealistic Pillow is my favorite all time number 1 album. My buddies and I were 15 years old when it came out and with Jimi Hendrix started our psych , Or Underground music as we called, journey. Enjoyed the show.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
this album and jimi hendrix started out my psych journey too!
@sledzeppelin Жыл бұрын
Embryonic Journey was the song I chose for my wife to walk out to at our wedding.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
aw that’s so sweet!
@heathenwarrior2522 Жыл бұрын
That's hard to say. Sgt. Pepper because I first heard it in 1987 for the 20th year anniversary when they released it to CD. Radio stations were doing specials on it. They'd also do summer of love stuff too like the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and other cool stuff.
@stulevy4638 Жыл бұрын
Great job again. Your analysis of SP by JA and your understanding of 60’s music is phenomenal.
@wowster-so8sx Жыл бұрын
60s again, yay, I can bust out my bong again
@richardelliott8352 Жыл бұрын
there was a brief mention of legacy , with the undeniable statement that the grateful dead came out ahead on that calculation. The Dead never stumbled into anything as odorous as the Jefferson Starship singing" we built this city "
@Jewi7Orchestra Жыл бұрын
Just got to watch last week's epsiode now, and it is a superb epsiode. Thank you very much Abby.
@objetty11 Жыл бұрын
Dig the earrings, Owsley would have as well....Nice take on JA....Aloha
@bobelliott6335 Жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: for whatever reason, the producers of that infamous nineties sitcom Friends chose Embryonic Journey to close out their finale.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
a perfect example of “i don’t understand this choice but i do respect it”
@sean92591 Жыл бұрын
Wow, you really took me back on this one to a time I don’t think about much these days. Thank you.
@HankWeidman21 күн бұрын
❤Thanks😢You got it
@glennandadriansrocktalk Жыл бұрын
Be still my heart! White Rabbit was one of the first songs I ever got to know, as a kid. Love the Airplane and all the splinter groups that came out of it. Hot Tuna is still touring! Thanks Abby. (Also, great outfit, Alice!) ETA - I can't source it, but I've heard that Jerry was essentially the real hands-on producer of the album. He also helped them arrange some of the songs.
@urbangrouse6 ай бұрын
Absolutely love this album! And one of my fave tracks is "Coming Back To Me"... sublime! But as much as I love this album, I enjoy Bathing At Baxter's and Crown Of Creation more... hope you take a look at those two at some point soon! Cheers!
@BaconTomatoCheese Жыл бұрын
Great review, Abby! First time viewer, loved it so much I’ve subscribed. As a hard- core Airplane and Hot Tuna fan, there was little information here I hadn’t already heard- but I love your take and presentation of this iconic album. Plus, your “Alice” outfit is pretty cool…
@marknovak64989 ай бұрын
I remeber I had to special order this album at a record store in the 1970s. It was a pivotal album that got lost in the release by others. I bought it after the release of The Worth of the Jefferson Airplane as I recall because the best tracks on that album were in it.
@michaeladams8401 Жыл бұрын
Excellent review Abigail. Surrealistic Pillow was a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit like a shot heard round the world; where the later efforts from bands like the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and especially, the Charlatans, were initially not too much more than cult successes, Surrealistic Pillow rode the pop charts for most of 1967, soaring into that rarefied Top Five region occupied by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and so on, to which few American rock acts apart from the Byrds had been able to lay claim since 1964. And decades later the album still comes off as strong as any of those artists' best work. From the Top Ten singles "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" to the sublime "Embryonic Journey," the sensibilities are fierce, the material manages to be both melodic and complex (and it rocks, too), and the performances, sparked by new member Grace Slick on most of the lead vocals, are inspired, helped along by Jerry Garcia (serving as spiritual and musical advisor and sometimes guitarist). Every song is a perfectly cut diamond, too perfect in the eyes of the bandmembers, who felt that following the direction of producer Rick Jarrard and working within three- and four-minute running times, and delivering carefully sung accompaniments and succinct solos, resulted in a record that didn't represent their real sound. Regardless, they did wonderful things with the music within that framework, and the only pity is that RCA didn't record for official release any of the group's shows from the same era, when this material made up the bulk of their repertory. That way the live versions, with the band's creativity unrestricted, could be compared and contrasted with the record. The songwriting was spread around between Marty Balin, Slick, Paul Kantner, and Jorma Kaukonen, and Slick and Balin (who never had a prettier song than "Today," which he'd actually written for Tony Bennett) shared the vocals; the whole album was resplendent in a happy balance of all of these creative elements.
@rohanmandal149 ай бұрын
Really loved this
@DannerPlace Жыл бұрын
Great review, thanks!
@pvlounge Жыл бұрын
Great episode Abby! Love it when you ride dragonflies across a garden! Ha Ha!
@mikevalenza Жыл бұрын
What an excellent commentary and analysis of a fantastic album. I really enjoyed watching this video.
@PlayThatPodcast Жыл бұрын
Excellent episode! Definitely a Top 5 '60s album for me.
@dougrobison11566 ай бұрын
Hi Abigail! Love your channel. The first show I saw was Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service at the original Fillmore Auditorium on Fillmore Street (that's in San Francisco, lol) in 1967. I was 12, taken by my 18 year Old Sister, Sue. (yes, of course she was known as Suzie Creamcheese!) Even though I followed them forever I agree with you that Surrealistic Pillow is the "High Water Mark"
@nikk11387 ай бұрын
I'm fairly new to your channel and really enjoying your videos. I like these deep dives into these albums, they're very well done. I keep learning new things about albums I've been listening to for years. And I especially love that you use Circle Sky for your transitions!
@woupie447 ай бұрын
Around 1968 came my neighbour visit me with the LP Surrealistic Pillow. And smoke we did! ... Thank you Abigail!! (greetings from Amsterdam)
@NoOne-sn2si Жыл бұрын
Great channel for long ago music... The 1990s was probably the best time to collect all these old albums as everyone was getting rid of their LPs in order to buy CDs! LPs were cheap back then also. Good luck and have fun collecting!
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
oh man that must've been a great time to be a collector! it's harder now that people know what they have and what it's worth but hey, it makes the grails all the more of wins
@michaellaroche33546 ай бұрын
3/5 is phenomenal! Glad to hear another person to say what I have always loved hearing
@wallacesmallwood1465 Жыл бұрын
Yes , Surrealistic Pillow !! I got mine in 1967
@levitation25 Жыл бұрын
Bought it for White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, remember it for Today and D.C.B.A. - 25 👍
@timhays3325 ай бұрын
Bless it's Pointy Little Head, w a drunk Jack Cassidy on the cover was their live album - needed mentioning. Has my vote as their second best record. Airplane, like so many bands (and authors) had one really good first project, but could never match it again.
@skipthornhooter Жыл бұрын
Hi , J .A . were my mate's fav band , thanks !
@anderstietz809 Жыл бұрын
Yay! Geezer music is back!
@Mandrake591 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video! My faves are DCBA-25, Today, Comin’ Back To Me, Embryonic Journey, but all of it, really!
@creeder44 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always, and I love the thumbnail. I've had this LP since high school, but unlike most of my "vintage" albums, I didn't buy it new, so it's not in pristine condition. In fact, maybe the reason I never really got into this band is that I've never done drugs, and part of the reason for that is that I picked up so many garage sale LPs from the '60s and early 70's that were slightly before my time and saw how they looked like they'd been used as ashtrays at a pot party. I never wanted to be so high that I would handle a record like a stoned monkey. So being drug-free, I liked Grace Slick's voice, but not most of Airplane's music. I did like some of the later Jefferson Starship songs I played when I was an AC radio DJ. Except for one (We Built This City on Rock and Roll) that, by coincidence, just popped up a couple of days ago. It's now on a commercial for a new service that uses video chat to walk people through making their home repairs. After the woman fixes her toilet, she bursts into a big production number of "I fixed this toilet!...I fixed this toilet on vid-eeee-oh!" I said, "Finally, the perfect use for that song!"
@bamacopeland4372 Жыл бұрын
Do not know how I rant into this channel, But it has been awesome. Is sixties and seventies are by far my favorite music. This album along with a few others got me into trouble. This kind of music Definitely it's looked down upon in some pockets down here. Is keep up the amazing work Abigail
@WeevBeev9 ай бұрын
Wow Abby wow, that’s great, one of your best! Here’s a memory for you.. I saw an Airplane show in Toronto. It was the pre-digital era, yeah.. so the accompanying light show was an old school overhead projector: a few drops of water, and different coloured drops of food colouring were placed on the surface. Then a transparent sheet of plastic was set on to it, and wiggled around while the band played. The wiggly blotches of coloured water projected on the wall behind the band was the light show. We thought it was almost as good as the music!!
@wallacesmallwood1465 Жыл бұрын
This has been my Favorite Album !! ❤️❤️🥰
@troubadour723 Жыл бұрын
24:34 You went full Alice. 😀
@matthewchicchi72624 ай бұрын
Congrats on the excellent OG 'Takes Off'! That's really awesome.
@jazzzman80506 ай бұрын
I bought this album when it came out, I was 13, and the Summer Of Love vibe was intoxicating to my teen self. Living in the suburbs of NYC, the ‘Frisco scene, as portrayed in the media, seemed so exotic, the exploratory drug culture so daring! I’d begun my music life with The Beatles, but the call of wild guitars and “acid rock” took over my attention…which is a little ironic, because this album has so much songwriting chops and vocal beauty…the Airplane morphed into an even more psychedelic band by their next album. Jorma and Jack Casady became heroes of mine, and I’ve followed them all the way to their Hot Tuna 50th Anniversary Tour in ‘19, and beyond. Surrealistic Pillow is a beautiful album, at the same time the band is just starting to show their teeth. I think Crown Of Creation is an equally good representation of where JA was at the time of it’s release, as well. Great job Abby, thank you! 👍
@kazooplayer3 Жыл бұрын
Since they've been brought up on the series before, I think it would be cool if you did a vinyl Monday episode on a tally hall album Also: 3/5 of a mile is definitely underrated. It's probably my favorite from this album
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
i've considered doing a tally hall video on the series. i now own both marvin's and good & evil, and now that i think of it i should have a preorder of hawaii part 2 coming soon... if joe hawley joe hawley ever gets a vinyl run, god help us all (and my wallet)
@TheBFN8 ай бұрын
I would lov to be a fly on the wall as abi tries to relate to other 20 sumthin people today and discuss her passion for 60s 70s music...the blank looks on there faces as she speaks... Priceless...😂😂😂
@abigaildevoe8 ай бұрын
you'd be surprised - my college friends got me into david bowie and i got them into joni mitchell
@TheBFN8 ай бұрын
@@abigaildevoe your friends deff did u fav..bowie is awesome...so many different kinds of songs and characters from 1 man.. Now sharing Mitchell...well 🤔..hey at least u got introduced to bowie 😊
@danielfuentes3226 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Abby to consider the album"Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, It bring's me nostalgia.I was twelve year's old when it was release in 1967.There are three essentials album's on the summer of love in 1967.The album "Surrealistic Pillow" by Jefferson Airplane;the debut album by the Door's ,and the classic album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band by the Beatles.Three Classic album's From 1967.
@mikecoffee100 Жыл бұрын
Always Enjoy these Videos Thank You
@MacgyverMike1 Жыл бұрын
Great album I own a mono reissue of this album the first time I heard while rabbit 🐇 I heard when I was watching the sopranos keep it up abby
@aMulliganStew10 күн бұрын
The message of "White Rabbit" seems just as relevant today.
@brandonfields7827 Жыл бұрын
Great job, as always!
@cradio52 Жыл бұрын
You absolutely must get the MoFi 45 RPM release of this album… it sounds absolutely phenomenal. I feel like I can actually HEAR the music and all of its intricacies for the very first time, as if I’m listening to the master tapes directly.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
i've been eyeing either the OG mono rockaway press or the pink vinyl reissue from 2015. maybe both!
@tuckertastictk Жыл бұрын
I have the sundazed mono reissue and it’s very good.
@cradio52 Жыл бұрын
@@abigaildevoeBoth of those are good; I think you’d be happy with either, but if you were to hear the MoFi, you’d instantly be blown away when compared to those other two options. The MoFi is obviously pretty expensive but it’s absolutely worth it! Ultimately though, obviously these things are pretty personal decisions based on numerous factors so whatever works best for you! But if you one day find a friend who owns the MoFi, definitely have them spin it up for you so you can at least hear the stereo mix properly presented in all its glory. 😊
@simonemurray1345 Жыл бұрын
I'm a huge JA fan, even have their ultra rare uncensored takes off stereo. I have a whopping 7 pressings of Surrealistic Pillow and this is how I'd rate them....(BTW you said mofi was stereo but it's the mono mix, which is why it sounds so good. It's just got a great Soundstage where it's easy not to notice it's mono. The dcc is the only audiophile stereo pressing).... 1. Mofi mono 2. 1st US mono 3. 1st UK mono(different track list) 4. Sundazed mono 5. Dcc stereo 6. Japan stereo 7. 1st US stereo The mofi for me is the best pressing, however the original is extremely close. They're just different. The original has a more lively high end, more air between the instruments, while too bright at points. While the mofi has higher resolution, wider Soundstage, more detail, way more bass, and having white rabbit on one side without groove distortion at 45rpm is fricken amazing. The sundazed is extremely good too, but due to price hikes it's not worth it over an original for the same price, or a bit more for the mofi. If I could only pick one id pick the mofi, however if I didn't own a mono original I'd be more likely to get a 1st pressing, because the mofi does sound different and it's nice to have the historical artifact. Even though I prefer the mofi, I feel it's a tad bit overrated due to most never having heard the mono before owning it. Like it's still an improvement, but not as vast as some may state. However it'd completely blow away anyone who only owns the stereo. For example, on a site that compares dynamics, the original had a slightly better dynamic high. But the mofi makes it more balanced with alot more bass so it feels more dynamic and is alot clearer. The best this album sounds is by far in mono due to not having all that reverb. Any version is good to have. Considering the mofi is so expensive, if you're not a huge fan, I'd probably get an original because it's still an amazing experience. However, if you love the album I'd definitely get the mofi, or atleast backorder at music direct for $60.There are rumors that it may go out of print soon, so the next time it gets repressed may be the last. On musicdirect it's worth placing a backorder since it doesn't charge until shipped. Also don't get the colored one(MOV) over an OG. It's stereo and not nearly as good as the mono. Its decent for a stereo pressing though, but not much better than the 1st stereo and may even be worse. It's expensive purely due to the color vinyl gimmick. The 2017 "we are vinyl" pressing uses the same plates, so has the same sound, and is only like $20 shipped. So don't waste on the pink one, go with the 1st if not the mofi. Also the volunteers mofi is awesome as well. It's quite an improvement on the original as well. It's an extremely underrated album amongst today due to having no singles due to its political content. It has some of their best songs. We can be together is amazing and aged extremely well where it'd message is still very impactful. Wooden ships is also beautiful, along with the amazing good Shephard. Its a shame its lost alot of recognition over time along with their other non pillow albums. Anyway, JA and surrealistic pillow are awesome, and even with MOFI's hit or miss nature and the DSD scandal, their JA albums are the best they've ever sounded and we'll worth backordering for $60.
@kristofftaylovoski60 Жыл бұрын
Grace's story surrounding her intent to clandestinely dose Richard Nixon at a Bay Area Republican political fundraiser....effing gold.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
LOL i love that one! would definitely tell that tale in the context of a volunteers/woodstock vid
@ChromeDestiny Жыл бұрын
Abbie Hoffman in disguise was going to be her plus one that day too.
@kristofftaylovoski60 Жыл бұрын
@@ChromeDestiny correct, my recollection is off, this was to occur in D.C, at the White House, not in San Fran...with AH in tow...
@NoOne-sn2si Жыл бұрын
Happened at WH... It was Trish Nixon's birthday and her favorite band was JA so she asked daddy to get them to play.
@davidellis5141 Жыл бұрын
Compliments to the " Spiritual Advisor " Jerry Garcia & love the 2 Marty tracks that close Side 1 " Today " & " Comin Back To Me ". Paul Simon complained that there was to much echo on the record yet listen to " The Boxer " .. One of my favorite records of the 60's. Spectacular.
@seansweeney3532 Жыл бұрын
The mono version has less echo. Or verb... You never know... Stereo is still kind of fresh back at this time, and sometimes stereo receivers and turn tables had a habit of phase cancelling... Which would cause things that were in mono to disappear. And things that were and stereo to be enhanced... For instance, in a song that has vocals in the center and then music instruments off to the left or right, and also a stereo reverb, this would cause the vocals to get quieter, And the reverb to get louder...
@owlnswan40168 ай бұрын
He's right, at least as far as the stereo mix goes. The mono is fine. All the echo on "The Boxer" works there. It's not a matter of a standard amount of echo for anything...it's, like everything which goes into a recording, whatever serves the music best that you do.
@kevinkuschel2457 Жыл бұрын
Your research is impeccable
@almishti4 ай бұрын
While I love this album to bits, my favorite of theirs' (and it seems of most hardcore JA aficionados I've met) is After Bathing at Baxters. Their sound changes so much from Pillow to this one: Jorma's guitar leads really hone that stinging wasp-like tone and slithery movement that he does so well to a razor's edge, and the production is much clearer, not so awash in the echo of Pillow. It's not a perfect album but it's really wild and inventive and their ensemble playing is so tight! My recommendation. :) I just discovered your channel and really enjoying it. I live in Morocco now, been living outside US for 11 years but I used to live in Oakland/Berkeley and you really remind me of someone from there, like 15-20 years ago.
@donsteppedoutside467 Жыл бұрын
I'm one of those guys that prefers After Bathing At Baxter's. Surrealistic Pillow is great, to be sure, but Baxter's is much more expansive, more psych, they really let themselves spread out. One of my fave psych albums, actually.
@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731 Жыл бұрын
thank you. you're wonderful
@jltrem Жыл бұрын
Another good one, Abby. Just saw Jorma and Jack last month, Hot Tuna. Your outfit is interesting this week. Please don't take offense, but I'm reminded of a waitress uniform from a 60's family restaurant. At least, what I can see of it.
@abigaildevoe Жыл бұрын
you're not far off! this dress is vintage from the 60s, my best guess is it was either a costume or uniform!
@jltrem Жыл бұрын
@@abigaildevoe No wonder! I was afraid you'd take offense.
@defaultuser1447 Жыл бұрын
Check out the 60-second version.
@DaveKraft111 ай бұрын
Your stunningly beautiful review brings me to tears -- simply because it IS so spot on, in every detail. It is everything you say it is -- especially a monument, an anchor, a road map of a very special era. You miss it for not being there. I miss it because I was, and the feeling this resurrects is palpable. GREAT job reviewing! Ditto for Are You Experienced. KEEP ON DOING! Be well, P.S. -- there are some who have described Grace's voice as actually being another "instrument" for the band. And the vocal chemistry between Marty and Grace, not just sound but also feeling, is just so hand-and-glove. I once visited my son in SF. Towards the end of the trip he asked me if there was anything special I wanted to do. I thought about it a bit, but got this sudden strong feeling and half-joking said, I'd like to see the Pooneil House that JA once lived in. Since it was within walking distance of where he lived, and through GG Park, we set off and found it (2400 Fulton St.). I kinda stared at it a while, walked around out front, and got a bit nostalgic. I later learned that Paul Kantner died that day, and so did Signe. Ouch.... Maybe that's why The Ballad of You and me and Pooneil is one of my favorite JA songs.
@Kieop4 ай бұрын
Early casualties of the Year the Music Died 2016. Hard to believe, but it looks like the musical death tally of 2023 is even greater.
@Mo-MuttMusic Жыл бұрын
Nicely done, as usual, Abby. I remember checking out "Surrealistic Pillow" on vinyl decades ago from a local library when I was in college, but I can't remember if I listened to the whole thing. Love the three tracks I remember hearing from that album: "Embryonic Journey," "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music/Sacred & Secular
@lynnpehrson8826 Жыл бұрын
My 6 would be led zeppelin ii, surrealistic pillow, the wall (all floyd really), paranoid, and probably let it bleed maybe. I could go on for a while though.