Jefferson Airplane
After Bathing At Baxter's

THE REVIEW

Frenetic experimentation, free rein to impossible dreams are the ingredients of "After Bathing at Baxter's," the Anarcho-Psychedelic masterpiece by Jefferson Airplane. A work that showcases the talent of the individual members of the group, from Kantner's extraordinary compositional abilities to Grace Slick's powerful and charismatic voice, not forgetting the rest.

The opening track is "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil", dreamy, outrageous in its sounds, it feels like running away from someone, but without fear. The two voices form a colorful picture, the rhythm section is in top form and expression, and what drives me crazy is Kaukkonen's guitar, a perfect instrumentalist with acidic hues and unbreakable wings thanks to his elusive and hard-to-classify patterns, a great musician.

Just to blur the contours of the listener's journey, the second great piece is "A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly", an assembly of voices and instruments definitely made to confuse the listener's images and lead him into a chaotic and strange delirium, which catapults to the lisergic erotic energy of Slick in "Young Girl Sunday Blues" and brings to the fore Jorma's good guitar, outlining the band's Psychomusical status. The other tracks are of very high psychedelic value, the result of almost perfect internal harmony, following their Folk-Rock spirit with an extension or dilation in the manner of their colleagues, the Grateful Dead.

A special mention goes to Slick with "Rejoyce", a Joyce poem sung with hypnotic and sensual passion, one of the pinnacles of Psychedelia, a journey to the edges of a dream, with Middle Eastern instruments that give it a Persian air, like from a thousand and one nights, Magical.

This is a work I discovered a few days ago, it deserves to be reviewed and represents the impossibility of a better world, with the possibility of imagining it in a sound fire to pass on to generations, so it won't be forgotten.