Surrealistic Pillow<\/b><\/i> is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor (LSP-3766 [stereo] and LPM-3766 [mono]). It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. The album peaked at number three on the Billboard<\/i> album chart and has been certified a gold album by the RIAA.<\/p>\n
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 female vocalist Slick, formerly with another San Francisco rock band the Great Society, joined the Airplane in the fall of 1966. Slick, Dryden, male lead vocalist 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.<\/p>\n
The album is considered to be one of the quintessential works of the early psychedelic rock and 1960s counterculture eras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Surrealistic Pillow is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor (LSP-3766 [stereo] and LPM-3766 [mono]). It is the first album by the band with vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden. The album peaked at number three on the Billboard album chart and has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":8369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[1,18],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jefferson-airplane","tag-international-rock","tag-progressive-rock"],"yoast_head":"\n