The mono version was deleted in the late 1960s and remained unavailable until 2001. The stereo mixes include heavier use of reverberation effects than the mono. The album was originally released on LP record by RCA Victor in different stereo (LSP-3766) and mono (LPM-3766) editions. Release and reception Ī promotional poster for the single, " White Rabbit". San Francisco photographer Herb Greene photographed the band for the album's cover art. 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. 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. Jefferson Airplane's fusion of folk rock and psychedelia was original at the time, in line with musical developments pioneered by the Byrds, the Beach Boys, the Mamas & the Papas, Bob Dylan, the Yardbirds, and the Beatles, among other mid-1960s rock bands. Jerry was a combination arranger, musician, and sage counsel." A comment by Garcia about the music being "as surrealistic as a pillow is soft" also reportedly inspired the album title. More recently, in his biography, he says, "I used to think about him as co-producer, but now that I really know what a producer is, the producer of that record was Rick Jarrard. Blues" (included on Early Flight and the 2003 reissue) and may have played on "How Do You Feel." Kaukonen has opined that Garcia was essentially the producer who arranged the songs for the group. Garcia himself recalled in a mid-1967 interview that he played the high lead on "Today" in addition to playing guitar on two other songs ("Plastic Fantastic Lover" and "Comin' Back to Me") and rearranging "Somebody to Love." He also played on "J.P.P. In his sleeve notes for Early Flight, a 1974 compilation album of previously unreleased material, 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 Kaukonen composition that was released on Early Flight and subsequently included on the 2003 reissue of Surrealistic Pillow. His reputed presence on several tracks is denied by producer Rick Jarrard, but he is credited on the RCA label copy and received credits on the Flight Log compilation and the Jefferson Airplane Loves You box set. Some controversy exists as to the role of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia in the making of the album. Slick, Dryden, male lead vocalist-guitarist-songwriter and founder of band Marty Balin, guitarist-vocalist-songwriter Paul Kantner, lead guitarist (and occasional vocalist) Jorma Kaukonen, and bassist Jack Casady formed the core of the best-known line-up of the group, which remained stable until Dryden's departure in early 1970.
New female vocalist Slick, formerly with another San Francisco rock band the Great Society, joined the Airplane in the fall of 1966. He was soon replaced by Dryden, an experienced Los Angeles jazz drummer and the half-nephew of Charlie Chaplin. Original drummer Alexander "Skip" Spence left the band in mid-1966. The initial line-up fell apart, after Signe Toly Anderson was replaced by Grace Slick It was also recorded by jazz saxophonist Tom Scott for his 1967 album The Honeysuckle Breeze this version was sampled in the song " They Reminisce Over You" by Pete Rock & C.L. " Today" was not released as a single but was played often on college radio and rock stations and remains one of their most popular songs. Two singles were released later in the year " Somebody to Love" and " White Rabbit" peaked respectively at number five and number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and are the band's only Top 40 hits on that chart. " My Best Friend" was released as the first single in January 1967, but reached only #103 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart. The album is considered to be one of the quintessential works of the early psychedelic rock and 1960s counterculture eras. The album peaked at number three on the Billboard album chart and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released by RCA Victor on February 1, 1967.
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