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