Music Ch 7-9 Exam

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What year did the Beatles break up?

1970

What were two psychedelic approaches to music?

#1 Using music to enhance a drug trip #2 understanding the music as the trip

Who was Timothy Leary?

A Harvard professor who co-wrote "The Psychedelic Experience"

What was the Beatles last studio album?

Abbey Road

Who accidentally developed the drug LSD?

Albert Hoffman

what was the name of the super group featering eric clapton, ginger baker, and jack bruce?

Cream

3 important glam rock artists

David bowie, alice cooper, KIIS

who were the two brothers in the Allman brothers band and what instruments did they play respectively?

Dwayne (guitar) Greg (keyboard/sing)

Blaxploitation films

Films that featured African American males in the role of the heroic tough guy who defeats an assortment of villains, usually drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters.

who was the female singer for Jefferson Airplane?

Grace

What did the group of friends called the "Family Dog" do around SF?

ORGANIZED PSYCHEDELIC DANCES AT LOCAL SF BALLROOMS

Where did the Beatles travel to study yoga?

India

who was the female singer for big brother and the holding company?

Janice Joplin

who was led zeppelin's guitarist

Jimmy paige

who was their base player and what style of bass playing did he invent? (family stone)

Larry Gram "slap base"

what are several british blues based bands?

Ledd Zeppelin, Cream, The Yardbirds

who was the lead singer of the commodores

Lionel Richie

what were the names of the two huge music festivals in the U.S

Monterrey international pop festival

who were the principle band members

Ron "pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann , and Phil Lesh

where was tower of power from and what were they known for

San Fran, horn section

What Beatles album is considered the first concept album and is one of the most important run the history of rock music?

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

after a terrible motorcycle crash what canadian band did bob dylam team up with to write and record country rock albums?

The Band

Jimi Hendrix

The most original, inventive, and influential guitarist of the rock era, and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.

what engineer produced and recorded most of the Allman Brothers' albums?

Tom Doud

Young adults of the 60s felt that the cultural values of the 50s were too focused on being "Normal".

True

define 1960s counterculture

a hippie worldview committed to cultural change with music at the center

what was glam rock all about

a style of rock music first popular in the early 1970s, characterized by male performers wearing exaggeratedly flamboyant clothes and makeup.

Who was Ken Kesey and what did he contribute to the psychedelic movement?

author who contributed LSD to unlock the "doors of perception"

who were some important philly funk groups

blue notes, ojs, the spinners, the sylistics

what musical styles did led zeppelin blend

blues, acousic, folk, psychedelic elements

brefiely describe the music of pink floyd

blues...

What did Bill Graham and Chet Helms have in common?

both were promoters of the 'ACID TESTS'

what were some of the important contributions of the Grateful Dead to psychedelia?

highly improvisational approuch in which single songs could last longer than most albums

why did rock enthusiats use the term disco sucks

homophobes

what instruments were an important and identifying characteristic of the bands chicago and blood sweat and tears?

horn section

what were some important aspects of the band sly and the family stone

influenced black pop bands, racially/sexually intergrated

describe van morrison

irish singer/songwritter most famous for "blue eyed girl"

what label signed reggae groups

island records

Why was the Virginia City, Nevada Bar, the Red Dog Saloon significant?

it drew young people out to Virginia City for psychedelic happenings.

important disco producers

jacques morali, giorgio moorder

important american singer/songwritters

james taylor, carole king, paul simon

how would you describe frank zappa's music?

jazz fusion style w catroonish vocals and satirical lyrics

important canadian singer/sonwritters

joni mitchell, neil young

who were the two important philadelphia producers

kenny gample and leon huff

what style did santana introduce

latin rock

what styles did war blend

latin, pop, soul, rock

important jamaican producer

lee "scratch" perry

who are three prominent american southern rock bands

lenord skinner, Allman brothers, charlie daniels

What were acid tests?

light and slide shows, bizarre sound effects, and rock music while on acid

where did jimi move to really enter the big time?

london

What was something that album featured that had never been featured before?

lyrics posted on the album cover

george clinton? what two bands did he lead

muscican/songwritter, parliamanet and funkadelic

who were 3 other important funk groups in the 70s

ohio players, cool and the gang, earth wind and fire

how was disco different from funk

physical movement rather than cerebrally

what was unique about stevie wonder

played every intrument on his albums

what event inaugurated the london psychedelic scene

poets of the world

how would you describe steely dan's music?

pop, rock, blues, jazz

What did Ram Dass help do?

popularize Eastern religion among the hippies

what style did the moody blues, procal harum, king crimson and emerson, lake and palmer, jethro tull, yes and genesis play?

progressive rock

describe Traffic

psychedeic pop, blues

what happened at the middle earth club?

psychedelic band preformances

how did their label brand their music (family stone)

psychedillic soul

what film shot disco onto the national stage, who stared in it

saturday night fever which starred john trovolta

why did disco djs create extended versions of dance records

seen as "novelty tunes"

who did the soundtrack for the two famous blaxpoitation films

shaft issac hayes, sweet sweetbacks earth, wind and fire

two most famous blaxploitation films

shaft, sweet sweetbacks

why did their music not lend well to studio recording?

songs were too long

who are several other important blues based american bands from the 70s

stepwolf, grant fonk railroad

what style was zztop known for

texas blues

Who were some important psychedelic bands from SF?LA?London?

the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane

important country rock bands

the bryds, the band, clearwater , the eagle

what cult film contributed hugely to the worldwide exposure of reggae

the harder they come

what was unique about marvin graye?

had creative control

What neighborhood in SF was the center for its psychedelic scene?

haight ashbury

soul train?

Hosted by Don Cornelius. Represented Black culture in a positive way. Dance, Fashion, and Music were key. Nationally broadcast. Dictated what was "cool."

What is another important and influential aspect of that album?

had a storyline throughout the album

What was the City Lights Bookstore known for?

celebrating the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and the prose of Jack Kerovac.

what was the world psychedelic center about

center for books/poetry gathering to read poetry

what was the london free school

counterculture night school

what band was a bridge between the radicals and the hippies?

country joe and the fish

what british blues based band influenced the development of heavy metal

deep purple

what was charlie daniels signuture song?

devil went down to georgia

important disco artists

donna summer, mj, bee gees, village purple

how did "sound guys" guys operate in jamaica

drove around playing records with sound system attached to back of truck

Why did Brian Wilson's album "SMILE" fail?

drugs mental problems was seen as his 'masterpiece'

what rock artist covered a marley song that led to marleys worldwide success

eric clapton cover of "i shot the sherrif"

what did style and what instrument did charlie daniels play?

fiddle

why was bob marly so revered

focused lyrics on political/social freedom

who were important jazz fusion bands and artists

genisis, yes, moodyblues, emerson, lake and palmer

describe donovan

gentle hippie, leading figure for hippie passivism

Young people at this time were sus of what institutions?

gov, military, education, law enforcement, religion, and big buisness

who were 5 important 70s Motown artists

the temptations, jackson 5, marvin gray, stevie wonder, the commodores

what 60s british blues band did led zeppelin grow out of

the yardbirds

What radio DJ initiated the new FM format of longer tracks, back to back plays and free form formatting?

tom donahue

where did disco start

u.s, gay communities, 1977

important british singer/sogwritters

van morison, cat stevens, elton john

what was the focus of cream's music

virtuosity playing

what did james brown contribute to the 70s funk scene

voice for black power

what happened at the UFO club?

weekly gathering of hippies, moved to diff locations

what was unique about the band average white band

white audience listened


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