History of Rock Test 4
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