Musicology Chp. 7
The Beach Boys
"Good Vibrations" is sang by...
Smile
"Good Vibrations" was on which Beach Boys album?
Jimi Hendrix
He discovered how to get different colors/sounds for electric guitar
Brian Wilson
Member of the Beach Boys?
The Doors
One of the first bands to have professional music videos
Anticulture
Takin' a walk on the wild side in the 60s
Jim Morrison
This lead singer would write his own poetry and read it on stage
Monterey Pop Festival
What festival greatly helped the success of Jefferson Airplane?
UCLA
Where did Morrison and Manzarek meet?
The Doors
"Light my fire"
The Velvet Underground
"indie rock band"; didn't like cymbals on the drums, so drummer didn't use them. Their music was often used in Andy Warhol's light shows
psychedelic
'Smile' by the Beach Boys falls into the _________ era.
John Lennon
1st Beatle to die; killed in Dec. 1980 by a psychotic fan
The "Trips Festival"
6600 people came and tripped on LSD and listened to music
Feedback
A phenomenon that happens when the input feeds back too much sound (like a screech)
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
A pseudo band for the Beatles; one of the greatest and most important rock albums due to the experimentation; they wanted people to listen to the album as a whole because it was not just a collection of singles; contained a wide collection of different sounds
Altamont
A which festival did an 18 year old black fan pull out a gun pointing at the front stage and was then beaten to death?
Janis Joplin
Artist who posed for nude pics and everyone eventually had a piece of her; equated her singing w/ sex w/ liberation.
Alan Ginsberg and Beatniks
Beat poets; at the first Human Be-In (Hindu, John Lennon)
Paul McCartney
Beatles member that is still performing today; played with wife in the Tunes
Anti-Authoritarianism
Belief in full equality before the law and strong civil liberties
Old and In The Way
Biggest bluegrass album sold; Jerry Garcia's Bluegrass Band
Haight Ashbury
Birthplace of the hippies, psychedelic music grew out here; beat poets
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Created album that connected songs - created new way of thinking about rock album because they thought "we want you to listen to the entire thing"
The white album
During which album can you feel the tension within the Beatles?
Dead Heads
Fans that followed Grateful Dead around from show to show. Most didn't even make it into the actual concert, just tailgated. This created a sense of community and resulted in the band being about live shows more than making it big on the charts.
Monterey International Pop Festival
Festival in 1976, the artists played for free and the proceeds went to charity. lots of famous artists played for over three days
Altamont
Free concert that someone was killed at. 300,000 people. Different mood than Woodstock
Human Be-In
Gathering for "different people" that avoided dogma
Woodstock
Governor of New York declared it a disaster area and help arrived from the national guard and other agencies
Jerry Garcia
Guitarist, crossed over from typical bluegrass to rock; the birth of "hippie-grass"
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
Had parties that played music and drugged everyone up with LSD; summer of love / free love; supplied drugs to crowd
Electric Lady Land Studios
Hendrix founded.....
The Filmore Auditorium and Avalon Ballroom
Home to events in Haight Ashbury, Home to the development of music
Pre-punk
Huge precursor of punk rock
450,000
It is estimated that how many people were in attendance at Woodstock?
Jefferson Starship, Starship
Jefferson Airplane changed their name to ___________ then just _________.
Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane was really similar to?
Electric guitar
Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the......
"Music, Love and Flowers" 1976
Known as the summer of love with over 200,000 people
Jefferson Airplane
Late 1960s, West Coast Rock. Lived/performed in the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco. Psychedelic, songs about drugs
Jim Morrison
Lead singer of The Doors
George Harrison
Member of the Beatles that formed The Traveling Wilbury's with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne.
Ringo Starr
Member of the Beatles that has released nearly two dozen albums and films
Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon
Members of The Beatles
Jim Morrison
Obsessed with insanity and the dark side of humanity- interested with theatre that would get in people's faces; interactive, so he tried it with his audience eventually lead to a moment when the band came crashing to a halt
Grace Slick
One of the first women in rock to front a popular band, Strong Vocals, brought "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" with her from her previous band
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable(Andy Warhol)
Parties involving uncomfortable scenes playing on large screens (S&M), flashing lights and drones (a continual sound, monotone delivery)
LSD
People wanted to experiment with different states of consciences and represent it in their music style, ________ being the most popular at the time
Jimi Hendrix
Played with only one hand (wasn't strumming--only hammering and pulling); messed with tone of the guitar; created tone color with overdrive; created signal with pre-amp that overdrives the amp
LSD
Popular drug in the 60's that made you hallucinate in vivid colors
Timothy Leary
Psychedelic Review; talked about spiritual connection between drug use and spirituality
The Beatles
Put songs together very differently that don't follow the normal patterns
Andy Warhol
Reconstructed famous peoples' photographs with a psychedelic twist; known for his stage light shows; tried his hand at producing records; he partnered with The Velvet Underground and Nico who was the femme fatale of the group
Jefferson Airplane
Role in conflict about record companies vs. artistic freedom of the artists( said mother f***** in song)
Pet Sounds
Set a new standard for record production and music sophistication within rock music
The Rolling Stones
Some people say this band copied the Beatles
The Solo Beatles
Sounded like a bunch of singles from each artist on one album instead of a group
Electric Lady Land Studios
Soundpainting. started connecting songs on albums to one another without pauses; Hendrix founded it; everyone was thinking "what can you do with studio technology"
Janis Joplin
Struggled with drug and alcohol abuse and died due to overdoes in a hotel room at age 27
Lou Reed
Studied creative writing in college and then worked as a professional songwriter. left the velvet underground in 1970.
1
The Doors self-title debut album hit number ____
Jim Morrison
The Lizard King lead singer for the Doors graduated from UCLA film school, poetic lyrics, blues, rock, psychedelic music
Dead Shows
The band would let people bootleg their shows. It was a very obvious rejection of other famous people; super expensive to buy all of those rights, suggested the band write more complex lyrics.
The Doors
The most commercially known band out of the psychedelic era
George Harrison
The second of the Beatles to die (cancer)
John Lennon
This Beatle became an influential figure (powerful in counterculture), CIA tried to shut him up.
Jim Morrison
This singer died at age 27 in Paris from a heroin overdose
Experimentation
Trying different drugs to reach deeper states of consciences; experimentation with different religions; sexual relationship experimentation
Jimi Hendrix
Wawa pedal that makes guitar sound like it's talking; he was the original inspiration for effects pedals that we have
Janis Joplin
What artists started in a bluegrass band, then went to blues?
Grateful dead
What band started off as the house band for the parties Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters would throw? The drug use at these parties would influence how the music sounded
Altamont
What is known as the event that marked the end of the hippie era?
Monterey Pop Festival
What was Hendrix's American debut?
Big Brother and the Holding Company
What was Janis Joplin's band named?
Apple Records
What was a label the Beatles owned?
Port Arthur, Texas
Where is Janis Joplin from?
Woodstock
Which festival created traffic jams that caused performers having a hard time getting there which resulted to them being flown in which caused the 1st artist playing for three hours waiting for other performers to arrive
Velvet Underground
While hippies and flower power were dominating rock in the late 1960s the __________________ often looked at the darker side of life. Known as a major influence. Really no one bought their album but whoever did buy it went out and started their own band
Jimi Hendrix
Who closed Woodstock?
Bessie Smith
Who is Janis Joplin's biggest hero?
The Rolling Stones
Who played at Altamont?
The Rolling Stones
Who put out the psychedelic rock album, "Her Satanic Majesties' Request"?
Grateful Dead
Who refused to play at Altamont?
Timothy Leary
Who sang "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out"
Hells Angels motorcycle group
Who was hired as security and paid with beer at Altamont?
Jefferson Airplane
Who was one of the first bands from the psychedelic sound to get radio play?
James Taylor
Who was the first American artist the Beatles signed to Apple?
Ray Manzarek
Who was the keyboardist for The Doors?
Grateful Dead, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, Sly and the Family Stone, and Jimi Hendrix
Who were some of the performers at Woodstock?
Improvisation
played different every time they played, played for 20-30 minutes without stopping, jam band
Woodstock
½ million fans on 600 acres of rolling country side for three days of music, community, and sheer psychedelic ecstasy