History of Rock Study Guide #4

"Penny Love" "Strawberry Fields Forever"

" Penny Love" - Lyrics on everyday life in McCartney's hometown - Picolo trumpet solo " Strawberry Fields Forever" - lyrics recall a neighborhood park where Lennon played as a child - A wide variety of sounds including cellos, reversed tape, Used the Mellotron in the beginning of the song The final version is two versions spliced together, different versions and speeds Speed the recordings so the listener can't hear the splice Includes a novel feature when the music fades new music fades back in The idea of creating a album based on childhood and Liverpool from the songs "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" until McCartney thought of the idea of playing fictional characters in Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

"Aleatronic"

"A day in the Life" - Start from a low note and gradually gets higher. Avant Garde Music Karlheinz Stockhausen avant-garde compose, Beatles put him on the cover

Billy Shears

"Billy Shears" (played by Ringo) to sing "With a Little Help from My Friends."

London Free School

A London underground night school where students could study topics such as housing problems, race relations, mental health, and law.

"Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out"

A slogan of the counterculture, as many young adults earnestly explored drug use, radical philosophy, and Eastern religion.

"Tomorrow Never Knows"

A track by The Beatles that many consider the introduction of psychedelia into the mainstream.

Mellotron

An early sampling keyboard that uses taped sounds to create orchestral strings, choral voices, and an ensemble of recorders (wooden flutes)

"Good Vibrations"

Beach Boys, 4/4, Swung Takes the listener on a trip of unfamiliar musical territory Each section of the song was recorded early and then spliced together later

"A Day in The Life"

Beatles

Bolero

Bolero continually and gradually builds toward its violent musical climax. This is precisely what "White Rabbit" does, although on a more compressed time scale (the Ravel piece lasts almost fifteen minutes). As with the Grateful Dead's Anthem of the Sun and the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows," we again find a song dealing with the acid experience and employing ambitious tech-niques borrowed from classical music. In the case of "White Rabbit" uses early twentieth century orchestral music

SMiLE & Smiley Smile

Brian Wilson Most famous album never released Laughter and good vibes made the world go round Released Smiley Smile later on but was different from what Smile would have been Abandoned the album when it was 70% complete Believed it would be his masterpiece Others believed he was unable to finish it due to addiction

"Gathering of the tribes"

Brought together thousands of hippie from Northern California for a day of poetry, spirituality, and music by Jefferson Airplane and QuickSilver Messenger services

The Warlocks

Changed their name to "The Grateful Dead" Became the house band for Ken Kesey's acid tests in which single songs could last longer than most albums One of the most successful live bands of the 1970 - 1980's

Spontaneous Underground

Combined poetry, music, and avant-garde performance art held in the Marquee clubs

"Sunshine of your Love"

Cream

Super Groups

Cream was the first super group Crosby, Stills, and Nash became one of the first supergroups of the 1970's

Ken Kesey Timothy Leary

Credited for popularizing the use of LSD with American Celebrities.

Big Brother and Holding Company

Experienced with classical and avant-garde music Played a song, "Bacon" lasted as long as it took to make bacon Greatest success backing up Janis Joplin, later became apart of the Big Brother and Holding Company Based out of San Francisco Blues in Technicolor

Cream

First super group (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker formed Cream) formed in July 1966 Eric Clapton - Rave ups Clapton - Rock god and Guitar Hero The blues were a central element of their music "Sunshine of your love" written by Clapton guitar riff

White Rabbit"

Jefferson Airplane

Apple Records Brother Records

Once their manager died : The Beatles created Apple Records The Beach Boys created Brother Records

"Feed your Head"

Jefferson Airplane line referred to the ue of psychedelic drugs Jefferson Airplane Takes Off first name of the band Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead main acts in San Francisco at the Fillmore Auditorium White Rabbit uses the bolero in the beginning 20th century orchestral music

"Purple Haze"

Jimmy Hendrix

'Acid Tests"

Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters traveled the US in a school bus, people spend a dollar to experience LSD People were treated to light and slide shows, bizarre sound effects, and rock music, all in hopes of intensifying the effects of the acid. Kesey first offered his acid tests to the public in November 1965 in Santa Cruz, and they quickly caught on. In January 1966, 2,400 people attended one of Kesey's acid shows

LSD

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was developed accidentally by Swiss scientist Albert Hoffmann in 1943 while he was working on a cure for migraine headaches. The young adults who discovered it in the mid- to late 1960s thought LSD allowed the user to suppress the false and misleading modes of understanding imposed by school and society and to perceive the world and life itself as they really were. "Dropping acid" supposedly allowed one to see new possibilities, opening the mind to new knowledge and modes of understanding. In short, LSD was viewed as a kind of magic drug that led to a "higher consciousness" that had previously been available only to mystics and visionaries.

Donovan Philips Leitch

Leading figure for hippie pacifism Had band members of Led Zeppelin jimmy paige and john paul jones john Bonham

The Jimmy Hendrix Experience

One of the most influential guitarist of all time Jimmy James and The Blue Flames first band name Legendary Woodstock performance September 18, 1970 died of a drug overdose Purple Haze and Foxy Lady mixes plus and rock Setting guitar on fire becoming a Rock Legend

The UFO Club

Organization; was the most prominent gathering of the psychedelia underground in London. Pink Floyd performed here, as well as The Soft Machine, and Tomorrow

"Games for May"

Pink Floyd Held in Queen Elizabeth Hall

London Underground Bands

Pink Floyd one of the famous London Underground Bands. The Soft Machine Tomorrow

World Psychedelic Center

London, became the English Center for psychedelic music and culture

Los Angeles & New York Bands

Los Angeles - The Byrds - The Doors - Buffalo Springfield - Love New York - Dylan and The Band - Vanilla Fudge

Beats Hippies

Major difference between the two were the music The Beats - The jazz of be-bop musicians of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. The Hippies - Favored the music of the Rolling Stones,Bob Dylan, and The Beatles

"The Doors of Perception

Many young people came to see hallucinogenic drugs as essential to unlocking "the doors of perception".

Monterrey, Woodstock, Altamont

Monterey international Pop Festival First outdoor area, June 16-18 jimmy Hendrix was introduced into the rock n Roll culture - brought together bands from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London to perform Woodstock - Bethel, New York - 400,000 hippies - "Three days of piece and music" Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California - Ended December 6 1969 - The Grateful Dead would have a surprise show of the Rolling Stones - Hunter's murder marked the end of the hippie era - Festival by the Rolling stones hired Hells Angeles as security

Tom Donahue

Promoted Psychedelic music on the radio FM Radio station for KMPX Played longer tracks back to back First one to run a successful free form station on the radio

1967

Psychedelia Era Began in San francisco and the London Underground

AM versus FM Radio

Psychedelia music aimed at college aged listeners Younger listeners tuned into the AM Dial, while their older siblings listened to FM AM station might hear the Monkees, Fifth dimension, the Association FM station played longer tracks by groups who did not have hit singles

"Concept Album"

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is often cited as rock's first "concept album"—an album that is organized around some central idea or story.

Van Morrsion

Started off with the band Then, soon after went solo career releasing "Brown Eyed Girl" Important singer songwriter of the 1970's

Buffalo Springfield

Stephen Stills joined Buffalo Springfield gained success with "For What It's Worth", left to join Nash created a supergroup

April 1970

The Beatles officially broke up

Sweetheart of the Rodeo

The Bryds Sweetheart of the Rodeo was a pivitol album in the development of country rock.

Anthem of the Sun

The Grateful Dead Made up of segments drawn from live and studio recordings, the album consists of two sides that were each assembled via multiple tapes in real time. According to Garcia, the album was mixed with the goal of intensifying the acid experience. Makes The Grateful Dead a extension of The Beatles

The red dog saloon, the family dog

The first stirrings of psychedelia actually took place in Virginia City, Nevada, at a restored western-style bar called the Red Dog Saloon. The Charlatans became the house band at the Red Dog. Evenings of free-form music-making and acid tripping increasingly drew young people out to Virginia City for psychedelic The Family Dog - A group of friends who began organizing psychedelic dances at local San Francisco ballrooms

Psychedelic Approaches to music

Use music to enhance a drug trip - The drug experience itself, and the music is a soundtrack that provokes a response with novel and unfamiliar sounds, but does not provide a trip itself. Understand the music as the trip - Taking the listener on an aural journey that may or may not be enhanced by the use of drugs For music to enhance it had to move belong 2-3 min radio format.

Traffic

Winwood created Traffic in April 1967 Blended psychedelic blues and pop with Latin rhythms and classical instrumentation, jazz soloing