History of Rock & Roll: Test 2

Which Rolling Stones original single became their first #1 hit in the US launching them to stardom and solidifying their new sound?

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Woodstock ushered in a profound change in rock concert venues. It brought rock concerts out of the ballroom circuit and in to...

Arenas and Stadiums

Who was the artist that standardized and solidified Southern Soul as a crossover phenomenon in the Spring of 1967? (this artist only made only one single at Muscle Shoals)

Aretha Franklin

Which Motown department was dedicated to the grooming of artists for big-time performance venues and to giving their appearances/mannerisms crossover appeal?

Artist Development

Which important independent label was founded in Chicago? It was originally called Aristocrat.

Chess

What type of electric blues was most influential to British Blues artists?

Chicago Blues

Which was not an element in the "Heavy Blues" style of The Cream?

Chicago blues-styled performance practice

The term BATA is a name denoting...

Yoruban Drums

Which Arthur Alexander single became FAME Studio's first success in 1962?

You Better Move On

What was not a literary influence for Syd Barrett?

The works of Oscar Wilde

What was not an element in traditional West African music?

Unison Melodies

What literary/spiritual source did Dr. Timothy Leary use as a model for his manual entitled, "The Psychedelic Experience"?

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Which was not a John Coltrane influence on The Byrds' creation of the first psychedelic hit?

Emulation of Coltrane's pop tunesmithism

What was not among the things that manager Andrew Loog Oldham changed for The Rolling Stones?

Encouraging them to continue recording cover songs

Which 1972 album was arguably The Rolling Stones' greatest artistic achievement?

Exile On Main Street

In what type of performance context did The Grateful Dead present their combination of styles?

Extended improvisation

What was the significance of the song, "House Of The Rising Sun"?

First British blues hit in America

What was the significance of "Eight Miles High"?

First psychedelic hit

Which African American blues guitarist did Eric Clapton's emulate when he [Clapton] was with The Yardbirds?

Freddie King

Who was known as the father of Country Rock?

Gram Parsons

As one of Black America's greatest success stories, what was not among Sam Cooke's great accomplishments that would inspire other black artists?

Great guitarist

What was not a part of the Motown "House Style"?

Gritty, raw poly rhythmic groove

The style of power chord-laden thematic material was the first harbinger of what would later become known as:

Heavy Metal

What became the legacy of the British blues revisionist movement?

Heavy Metal

Name the two singles (both A and B sides) that catapulted Aretha Franklin to top the charts in the Spring of 1967. It standardized and solidified Southern Soul as a crossover phenomenon.

I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) + Do Right Woman

What was Ray Charles' first important single (1954) that introduced a new, gospel-driven form of secularized black music?

I've Got A Woman

Urban blues structure calls for a ________ chord progression, an ________ stanza (word) structure, and ________ in between sung verses.

I, IV, V a,a,b breaks

Because they had a lead guitarist (unlike other early British blues bands), what was The Yardbirds' signature performance style?

Improvisation

During their early years, what was Pink Floyd's approach to covering songs of blues-derived artists - what did they do during instrumental breaks or solos?

Improvised with distortion, feedback and experimentation on electric guitar

Name Wilson Pickett's first hit recorded at STAX Records

In The Midnight Hour

What was the impact of The Gavin Report on the first psychedelic hit?

Institutionalized censorship

If one word could characterize the music in Pet Sounds, what would it be?

Introspective

Who was not among the singers inspired by Sam Cooke's velvety, mid-range voice?

James Brown

Who was the first great bass player in rock 'n' roll? He played for Motown's session band. He got his bassline ideas by either watching the way a particular person walks or by listening to the way a person speaks.

James Jamerson

Who was the most authentic blues revisionist of the San Francisco psychedelic scene? Her greatest blues influence was singer/legend Bessie Smith.

Janis Joplin

Which Atlantic Records producer was contracted with STAX Records? He discovered this studio when he heard the single, Cause I Love You recorded by Rufus and Carla Thomas.

Jerry Wexler

Who was not among the lead guitarists who played for The Yardbirds?

Jimi Hendrix

Who was the third great lead guitarist for The Yardbirds?

Jimmy Page

Who was Vee Jay Records' primary blues artist?

Jimmy Reed

Who was not among the three most important San Francisco psychedelic bands?

Kaleidoscope

What was the most significant drug used during the "peace/love" era of the late 1960's?

LSD

The blues "distortionist" process began with Jeff Beck's power chords. Who brought this process (of distorting blues influences) to the logical artistic limit?

Led Zeppelin

Which band was not among the most prominent early British blues bands?

Led Zeppelin

What was not among the reasons as to why British art college students were attracted to black American blues?

Liverpool pop-styled influence

In addition to the emphasis on Funk (music based primarily on rhythm) in the black community, what was the other turning point which gradually ended black/white collaborations?

Martin Luther King's assassination

Who became The Rolling Stones' first true lead guitarist following the demise of Brian Jones?

Mick Taylor

Who was not among the Country Blues artists most celebrated by British blues enthusiasts?

Muddy Waters

Who was not among Jimi Hendrix's important influences?

Muddy Waters' transformation of country blues to Chicago (electric) blues

Where was Rick Hall's FAME Studios located?

Muscle Shoals

What was the role of Yoruban polyrhythmic music?

Music meant to mediate social discourse between deity and celebrant

Who was STAX's most successful recording artist? He "crossed over" at the Monterrey Pop Festival in June of 1967.

Otis Redding

Which album was Brian Wilson's most notable contribution to psychedelic music?

Pet Sounds

What was the name of the treatise written in the liner notes of "The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators"?

Quest for Pure Sanity

In comparing Southern Soul to Motown, the Southern Soul sound had more ________.

Raw Intensity

Who was credited in the mid 1950's with rewriting gospel songs into secularized, R&B tunes with a gospel-driven feel? The result was a new movement in black music called Soul.

Ray Charles

Name The Yardbirds most important album released in 1966. It was their first album to feature guitarist Jeff Beck.

Roger, The Engineer

Which property was not among The Grateful Dead's extended improvisational style?

Ron McKernan's virtuoso keyboard solos

Name the songwriter that Berry Gordy collaborated with on singles released on the Brunswick label

Roquel "Billy" Davis

Which selection does not describe the Hi Records sound?

Rough edged (raw)

Who was the first black artist to own both his own record label and his own music publishing company?

Sam Cooke

Who was Jerry Garcia's primary bluegrass influence? He was enamored by the way this fiddler could stretch a small phrase into a long, extended improvisation.

Scotty Stoneman

What was Motown's first major hit (their 1st million seller) that reached to #2 on the pop charts in 1961? (It was recorded by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles)

Shop Around

Which Chess recording was among the first to benefit from the new P.Y.E. distribution arrangement? It became a hit on the white charts.

Smokestack Lightnin'

What was not a part of a Motown department called "Artist Development"?

Songwriting/Producing

Which Memphis-based company was the record label of Southern Soul?

Stax

Which Rolling Stones album in 1971 featured Mick Taylor's solos and leads throughout an entire studio-recorded album for the first time?

Sticky Fingers

The Byrds (featuring Gram Parsons) released the first important country rock album in 1968. Name that album.

Sweetheart of The Rodeo

Who was the original visionary, songwriter, and frontman for Pink Floyd?

Syd Barrett

Name the first psychedelic band.

The 13th Floor Elevators

Which event in January of 1967 - covered by the major news media - gave the psychedelic counter-culture some of its first national exposure?

The Be-In

Which legendary club was founded by Alexis Korner? It became the first "nexus" of the British Blues Revisionist movement. It was also the home base of his band called "Blues Incorporated".

The Ealing Club

Name the legendary session group of Motown.

The Funk Brothers

Which one of the following bands was Janis Joplin not associated with?

The Jefferson Airplane

Who was the first San Francisco psychedelic band to achieve national notoriety?

The Jefferson Airplane

Which Rollin Stones 1965 original single (that began a string of hits) marked a new direction where the Jagger/Richards original riff-craft style became honed in? It was complete with a repetitive, catchy guitar riff that gave the song instant accessibility.

The Last Time

What was the only Pink Floyd album to include frontman/guitarist Syd Barrett? It was also their debut album

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

What was the first important body of African American music?

The Ring Shout

Which was not among the San Francisco psychedelic scene's three most important venues?

The Ruby Gulch

What was the first body of African American music to cross racial lines and become popular with a white mainstream audience?

The Spiritual

In addition to being presented as the bad-boy alternative to The Beatles, Mick Jagger gave an alternative band model prolonged exposure. What was that alternative model?

The lead singer as frontman

What was the first Rolling Stones album completely comprised of original singles?

Aftermath

Who was known as the last great artist of the Soul Era?

Al Green

Which black American blues guitarist was Eric Clapton's primary influence when he [Clapton] performed and recorded with The Cream?

Albert King

In Led Zeppelin's album Houses Of The Holy (for example), which technique is used where every band member plays the same rhythm -- and variants of the same melody -- in a thickly textured, chordal format?

All-Riff

Which concert marked the end of the Psychedelic era in December of 1969?

Altamont

What was the most important difference between the extended improvisations of European psychedelic bands and those of America?

Americans focused on conventional music and Europeans focused on noise

The concept of accentuating beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3:

Backbeat

Janis Joplin first achieved national notoriety due to a legendary performance of a blues song she covered at the Monterrey Pop Festival. Which sing was it?

Ball and Chain

In STAX'S beat policy, which accentuated beat(s) was (were) slightly delayed?

Beat 2

Who was credited as the founder of Motown?

Berry Gordy

Who was the first band to simplify the British blues revisionist sound into a more simplistic, non-virtuosic, streamlined approach - with fuzztone and feedback - spearheading the heavy metal juggernaut? They emulated the "all-riff" approach.

Black Sabbath

Name the Memphis-based studio session band for STAX Records

Booker T. & The MG's

The Rolling Stones' one main limitation was that they lacked a virtuoso lead guitarist. How did they turn this disadvantage into advantage?

By having a tight, first-rate rhythm machine backing up Mick Jagger's vocals

What was the primary vocal practice of West African music that had a major impact on Black American music?

Call & Response

Which was not a part of the Psychedelic "melting pot" musical sound?

Classical Influences

What marked Jerry Garcia's songwriting turnabout in 1967? It marked a new, elevated level to The Grateful Dead's writing approach.

Collaboration with lyricist Robert Hunter

What was not a part of Led Zeppelin's stylistic elements?

Conventional pop tunesmithism

What was the legacy of the Psychedelic Era?

Country/Folk Rock

What was not a part of AMM's style?

Distorted blues revisionism synthesized with jazz influences

What type of artist (instrumentalist) did British blues revisionism transform from a sideman to a front and center virtuoso icon?

Electric guitarist