[speedy]

Remember "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil?"

[LRS]

Oh, yes. "After Bathing at Baxter's". That really wasn't that bad of an LP. A little too far out for most people at the time...

[megatherium]

I'm the guilty one who has just downloaded After Bathing at Baxter's and Crown of Creation on iTunes. Most of that music I never heard when it was new (I was an 8 or 10 year old kid at the time), but we heard it in college circa 1980 when we went through our west coast neo-psychedelic phase.

Some of the music is wonderfully loopy and strange. Crown of Creation has an absolutely unique love song: Triad, where Grace Slick is asking two guys, why can't we just be three? But the title track is a bit anemic compared to the live version that appears on the band's final album 30 Seconds Over Winterland.

Volunteers has one absolutely amazing track on it (although I do like the title track): their version of the Crosby-Stills song Wooden Ships.

Irrelevant personal detail: If you look at the back cover of 30 Seconds Over Winterland, you will see the lightshow graphics projected above the band. This was the Heavy Water Lightshow, which in later years did lightshows at a planetarium out west. I was a student intern in the planetarium and worked for the lightshow as an usher one summer. They used Wooden Ships on the soundtrack. I never got tired of the song.