Bless Its Pointed Little Head

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Bless Its Pointed Little Head is a live album by Jefferson Airplane recorded at both the Fillmore East and West in the fall of 1968 and released in 1969 as RCA Victor LSP-4133. The album reached #17 on the Billboard Top LP's chart in March 1969. The tracks were recorded during the tour supporting Crown of Creation, although no songs from that album or its predecessor After Bathing at Baxter's were included (however, the CD rerelease contains bonus tracks of several selections from After Bathing at Baxter's). Selections were taken from the band's first two albums and a number of covers that had been in their setlist since 1965-66 but not recorded in the studio. One of these, "Fat Angel", had been written by Donovan in the spring of 1966 and namechecked the band, who were unknown outside the Bay Area at the time; for Jefferson Airplane's version, Marty Balin played bass, allowing Jack Casady to switch to guitar. Fred Neil's "The Other Side of This Life" is believed to have been in the setlist...

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