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03-17-2012, 05:18 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
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I think on deciding which was superior in the 1960s British or American psychedelia its really case of apples or oranges, or tea or coffee. Personally I feel the American bands that did psychedelia Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish and Moby Grape etc really embraced that 1960s west coast hippy culture that went hand in hand with psychedelia and the Byrds Fifth Dimension probably kicked off the whole psychedelic genre anyway. I think Byrd's David Crosby summed it up nicely and said it was music for "cool cats"
Now whilst the British bands matched the American ones in terms of quality, they really jumped onto a music fad in psychedelia and I think they saw it as an exciting genre to explore.
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03-17-2012, 05:32 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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03-17-2012, 05:46 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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Its sounds like you've been listening to the Grateful Dead.
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03-19-2012, 06:41 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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The two I probably think of would be 'You're Gonna Miss Me' and 'I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night'. There were songs before them with psychedelic elements, but those two are the first ones that are unquestionably psychedelic for me.
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03-21-2012, 01:10 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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Maybe it's impossible to find out what the first "real" psychedelic song was because there were so many different bands all making trippy stuff all around the same time.
I'm just trying to figure out whether or not psychedelic music was around before the 1960s. And as for British psychedelic vs. American psychedelic, i've never really thought about it before but I guess there are some differences between the two. Not sure if I can say I prefer one over the other, although my favorite psychedelic band would have to be The Jimi Hendrix Experience, which is interesting since Jimi was American but the other band members were British I do believe. Last edited by Metanoia; 03-22-2012 at 01:44 PM. |
05-04-2012, 02:45 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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Here is Syncopation by Tom Dissevelt:
Psychedelic ? Hesitation Blues by Holy Modal Rounders (1964) Psychedelic Folk Still I'm Sad by The Yardbirds (1965) Psychedelic Rock Last edited by Big Ears; 05-04-2012 at 03:01 PM. |
09-16-2012, 09:10 AM | #20 (permalink) | |
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As for psychedelic rock the early ones like "Eight Miles High" and "Shapes of Things" had strong raga influences but they weren't trying to put into record what the the psychedelic experience was. The first song I know of intentionally that does it is the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" based on Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They basically put on record musically what the psychedelic experience was. If "Tomorrow Never Knows" isn't the first intentional psychedelic rock song it certainly put that kind of music in the publie eye. |
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