Episode 45 of The Big Event podcast is a tribute to Jefferson Airplane and the band's breakthrough 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow," the second album inducted into the podcast's SF Music Greatest of All Time. Host Peter Hartlaub is joined by former Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin, now an author of rock books including the recent "Altamont" and Grateful Dead post-Jerry Garcia breakdown "Fare Thee Well." Chronicle pop music critic Aidin Vaziri also joins the episode to talk about recently passed Marty Balin, and share a few behind-the-scene music stories with Peter and Joel.

Recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle basement archive.

There music is "The Tide Will Rise" by the Sunset Shipwrecks. Opening signature by Leah Garchik.

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