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| Length = 34:48 59:03 (2003 reissue) | Label = RCA Victor | Producer = Rick Jarrard | Last album = ''Jefferson Airplane Takes Off'' (1966) | This album = ''Surrealistic Pillow'' (1967) | Next album = ''After Bathing at Baxter's'' (1967) | Misc = }} 〕 |rev2 = ''The Village Voice'' |rev2Score = B+ }} ''Surrealistic Pillow'' is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in February 1967 as RCA Victor LSP-3766 (stereo) & LPM-3766 (mono).〔 It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard album chart, and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA.〔(RIAA Gold and Platinum database retrieved 24 February 2012. )〕 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 lead vocalist Slick, formerly with another San Francisco rock band the Great Society, joined the Airplane in the fall of 1966. Slick, Dryden, co-lead vocalist Marty Balin and guitarist-songwriter Paul Kantner formed the core of the best-known line-up of the group, which would remain 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. ==Album overview== 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, Bob Dylan, The Yardbirds, and The Beatles, among other mid-1960s rock bands. ''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. Subsequent 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 denied by producer Rick Jarrard, but he is credited on the RCA label copy,〔 as well as receiving credits on the ''Flight Log'' compilation and the ''Jefferson Airplane Loves You'' box set. In his sleeve notes for ''Early Flight'' - the 1974 compilation album of previously unreleased material - the band's sometime manager Bill Thompson writes only that Garcia was, "listed as 'spiritual advisor' on the album cover () played one of the guitars", on "In The Morning", a track recorded at the "Surrealistic Pillow" sessions, but first included on the album on the 2003 reissue. Garcia himself recalled in a mid-1967 interview that he'd played the high lead on "Today," played on "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and "Comin' Back to Me," and that he had arranged and essentially rewritten "Somebody to Love." He also played on two songs not released until the reissue ("JPP McStep B Blues" as well as "In the Morning") and may have played on "How Do You Feel." Kaukonen said that Garcia was essentially the producer who arranged the songs. A comment by Garcia about the music being "as surrealistic as a pillow" also reportedly inspired the album title.〔http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/12/jerry-garcia-surrealistic-pillow.html〕〔http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2010/12/garcia-on-jefferson-airplane.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Surrealistic Pillow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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