After Bathing at Baxter's is the third studio album by the San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, released in 1967 as RCA Victor LSO-1511 (stereo) and LOP-1511 (mono).

By the summer, the group had become the highest-paid American live act, playing a hectic schedule of shows around North America, including a lauded appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June.

Three more new songs were introduced to the live set in May: Kantner's "Won't You Try" (a tribute to the Human Be-In event), "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" (an ode to LSD with several lines from the A.

[9] The band held an unannounced live show in mid-June to record songs meant for the album, where an expansive 11-minute version of "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" was taped and further overdubbed in the studio, although ultimately rejected for release, later appearing on the Jefferson Airplane Loves You box set.

[10] "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" was attempted for a third time on June 26 and 27, when a succinct four-and-a-half-minute version was finally captured along with a new Slick composition, the stream-of-consciousness psychedelia of "Two Heads", recorded over the following two days.

Slick later recalled: "We wanted to discover new dimensions of sounds and ways to work with complex instrumentation but we had no idea what we were doing ... we tried an awful lot of things to find out what we could do with different electronics.

"[8] The group rented a mansion with a pool and underwater shooting range in Beverly Hills while recording at RCA, where wild, drug-fueled partying ensued.

New versions of "Martha" and "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" were recorded along with his "Wild Tyme" and "Watch Her Ride", both intense acid-rock numbers celebrating the freewheeling hippie lifestyle.

Dryden contributed the Frank Zappa-inspired sound collage "A Small Package of Value Will Come to You, Shortly" (featuring nonsensical vocal improvisations by Thompson and the band's friend Gary Blackman), while Kaukonen wrote "The Last Wall of the Castle", a showcase for his fuzz-guitar work that was recorded on August 30.

On September 22, Slick contributed a second composition, the jazz-inflected "Rejoyce", with freeform lyrics that referenced James Joyce's Ulysses and the Vietnam War over a complex arrangement that included piano, harpsichord, horns and recorder.

[14] The plane, painted in full color, dispenses confetti[16] while flying over a black-and-white landscape, embodying the white of the flag, with billboards reading messages such as "CONSUME!"

[34] Cash Box hailed it as a "magnificent, wailing, driving package",[35] remarking in another issue that the single "Watch Her Ride" had a "hard rock beat with a backup centering on electrified workouts from lead guitar, grand imagery and fine vocals.

Chris Welch of Melody Maker praised the instrumental and vocal work and deemed it the "most consistent album yet" from one of the "most mature of America's West Coast groups".

[41] Writing for Beat Instrumental, John Ford felt that it was a "slight disappointment" compared to the band's earlier material, although he praised the production and "feel" of the album and concluded, "Airplane have good ideas which will flourish, eventually.