Editing Surrealistic Pillow (section)

=== Background ===

Original drummer Alexander "Skip" Spence had left the band in mid-1966 and was soon replaced by Spencer Dryden, an experienced Los Angeles jazz drummer and the half-nephew of Charlie Chaplin.  When [[Grace Slick]] joined Jefferson Airplane in 1966 as a replacement for original vocalist [[Signe Toly Anderson]], she brought with her two songs she had performed in her previous band, the Great Society: "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." 

The album's distinctive title has an unlikely origin: a comment to Marty Balin by [[Jerry Garcia]] about the music being "as surrealistic as a pillow" inspired the album title.  Garcia, whose own band the [[Grateful Dead]] were close associates of the Airplane on the San Francisco scene, also contributed to the sessions as a musician.