Shocking Omission: Jefferson Airplane's Mind-Expanding 'Surrealistic Pillow'
The album ushered in a new era of rock with Grace Slick's fervor, swagger and knockout voice at the helm.
In the mid-1960s, amidst war and social unrest, American youth shed the conservative ideals of the previous decade in favor of kaleidoscopic idealism and jumped down the rabbit hole, landing in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Steeped in the anti-war movement, the Bay Area had become the epicenter of a cultural revolution synonymous with psychedelics, free love and music. On, and bestowed the San Francisco sound onto a wider audience.
