History of Rock Test 4

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Which band was not an art rock band:

The Band

The band collaborated with bob dylan on:

The basement tapes

This Simon and Garfunkel song became a hit after a rock rhythm section was added:

"sounds of silence"

The Last Waltz was:

A film of the Band's last concert

Who or what was the Troubadour:

A folk club in Los Angeles

This band had their song "Walk this Way" reworked by Run D.M.C. in the 1980s:

Aerosmith

This band was influential in the development of gruesome rock theatre:

Alice Cooper

This performer was once credited with biting off the head of a chicken and drinking its blood in performance:

Alice Cooper

Bands in this category often prominently feature keyboard instruments and synthesizers:

Art rock

Creedence clearwater revival's song "fortunate son" is about:

Avoiding the draft through privilege

Elton John's lyricist

Bernie Taupin

The first English band to develop a menacing appearance and a preoccupation with the occult:

Black Sabbath

The artist most influential to the music covered in chapter 8:

Bob Dylan

This short-lived group included Stephen Stills and Neil Young and had a hit with "For What It's Worth":

Buffalo Springfield

This singer/songwriter's first career was as a Brill Building pop writer:

Carole King

Which best describes Gram Parsons:

Country rock pioneer

He created Ziggy Stardust:

David Bowie

Carly Simon's song "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" is about:

Disillusionment with marriage

He is known for an innovative "fret board tapping" style of playing the guitar:

Eddie Van Halen

This artist released the biggest selling single in history:

Elton John

Where did heavy metal most likely incubate:

English industrial cities

In their earliest years, Pink Floyd's style is best characterized as:

Experimental, psychedelic

Which best describes record and tape sales in the 1970s:

Explosive growth

During the recording of one album, this band endured tumultuous inter-band relationship problems:

Fleetwood Mac

Which is a key characteristic of art rock:

Incorporates elements of European classical music

This singer/songwriter had a blockbuster hit in 1970 with "Fire and Rain"

James Taylor

"stairway to heaven" was written and recorded by:

Led Zeppelin

This group evolved out of the Yardbirds:

Led Zeppelin

Shortly after recording Street Survivors, this group was involved in a fatal plane crash:

Lynyrd Skynyrd

This keyboard instrument used tape loops to reproduce the sound of symphonic instruments:

Mellotron

Before forming Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was a:

Member of the Yardbirds

This Band album was named in reference to their Woodstock home:

Music from Big Pink

In 1968, bassist Roger Waters took over leadership of this group:

Pink Floyd

Which heavy metal characteristic is NOT present in hard rock:

Preoccupation with Satan, evil, etc

Which is not a characteristic of glam rock:

Primary focus was the virtuoso musicianship of the performers

This music style was important because many of its important songwriters were women:

Singer/ songwriter

Bands in this style often use two or three guitarists, sometimes two drummers:

Southern rock

For a while after its release, this Carole King album was the best selling album in history:

Tapestry

Two members of this group died in a motorcycle accidents:

The Allman Brothers Band

This LP includes innovative stereo effects, taped sounds and the use of synthesizers:

The Dark Side of the Moon

This band released an album that became the first platinum LP and is the largest selling album in US history:

The Eagles

Which group included Mama Cass:

The Mamas and the Papas

The Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar provided the signature sound of this group:

The byrds

Simon and Garfunkel provided music for this 1968 classic film:

The graduate

What best describes the new sensibility in some rock musicians and their audience in the 1970s that is reflected in chapter 8:

There was a mood of retreating from the turmoil of the 1960s

In the 1970s, some performers created larger than life stage personas:

To make themselves visible to all the fans in the arena

The singer/ songwriter first became known as a member of the group Them:

Van Morrison

Which is most true: Led Zeppelin:

Was heavily influenced by American blues

Led Zeppelin IV is also known as:

Zoso

In which style are the musicians most likely to have training in classical music:

art rock

This supergroup included members who were all excellent singers and composers:

crosby, stills, nash, and young

The order of the Byrds stylistic changes:

folk rock/psychedelic/country rock

This group recorded "Bohemian Rhapsody"

queen


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