12. Jefferson AirplaneSurrealistic Pillow
I don’t like all of the record, but I forgive the bits of it that are drenched in too much Marty Ballin, because other than that there’s ‘White Rabbit’, ‘Somebody to Love’… There’s that crazy reverbed out acoustic piece, ‘Embryonic Journey’, that I’ve been playing at parties at my house and no one knows what it is. It’s otherwordly. And I like that era of radical San Francisco glamour, there’s an element of that in Big Brother and the Holding Company too. There’s something about the way the guitars and drums were compressed together that I like. I like that era of Grace Slick, she’s at the peak of discovering her dynamics and her voice. Even lyrically, she comes out with some cool shit, she’s so confident and so free that we get those great, simple songs. When she gets to that very last "feed your head", it’s just a perfect moment. They build to that and it’s completely perfect. You couldn’t write it that way, you couldn’t think to do it, you just have to do it and hope you don’t fuck it up.
