Music Ch 7-9 Exam
What year did the Beatles break up?
1970
What were two psychedelic approaches to music?
#1 Using music to enhance a drug trip #2 understanding the music as the trip
Who was Timothy Leary?
A Harvard professor who co-wrote "The Psychedelic Experience"
What was the Beatles last studio album?
Abbey Road
Who accidentally developed the drug LSD?
Albert Hoffman
what was the name of the super group featering eric clapton, ginger baker, and jack bruce?
Cream
3 important glam rock artists
David bowie, alice cooper, KIIS
who were the two brothers in the Allman brothers band and what instruments did they play respectively?
Dwayne (guitar) Greg (keyboard/sing)
Blaxploitation films
Films that featured African American males in the role of the heroic tough guy who defeats an assortment of villains, usually drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters.
who was the female singer for Jefferson Airplane?
Grace
What did the group of friends called the "Family Dog" do around SF?
ORGANIZED PSYCHEDELIC DANCES AT LOCAL SF BALLROOMS
Where did the Beatles travel to study yoga?
India
who was the female singer for big brother and the holding company?
Janice Joplin
who was led zeppelin's guitarist
Jimmy paige
who was their base player and what style of bass playing did he invent? (family stone)
Larry Gram "slap base"
what are several british blues based bands?
Ledd Zeppelin, Cream, The Yardbirds
who was the lead singer of the commodores
Lionel Richie
what were the names of the two huge music festivals in the U.S
Monterrey international pop festival
who were the principle band members
Ron "pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann , and Phil Lesh
where was tower of power from and what were they known for
San Fran, horn section
What Beatles album is considered the first concept album and is one of the most important run the history of rock music?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
after a terrible motorcycle crash what canadian band did bob dylam team up with to write and record country rock albums?
The Band
Jimi Hendrix
The most original, inventive, and influential guitarist of the rock era, and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
what engineer produced and recorded most of the Allman Brothers' albums?
Tom Doud
Young adults of the 60s felt that the cultural values of the 50s were too focused on being "Normal".
True
define 1960s counterculture
a hippie worldview committed to cultural change with music at the center
what was glam rock all about
a style of rock music first popular in the early 1970s, characterized by male performers wearing exaggeratedly flamboyant clothes and makeup.
Who was Ken Kesey and what did he contribute to the psychedelic movement?
author who contributed LSD to unlock the "doors of perception"
who were some important philly funk groups
blue notes, ojs, the spinners, the sylistics
what musical styles did led zeppelin blend
blues, acousic, folk, psychedelic elements
brefiely describe the music of pink floyd
blues...
What did Bill Graham and Chet Helms have in common?
both were promoters of the 'ACID TESTS'
what were some of the important contributions of the Grateful Dead to psychedelia?
highly improvisational approuch in which single songs could last longer than most albums
why did rock enthusiats use the term disco sucks
homophobes
what instruments were an important and identifying characteristic of the bands chicago and blood sweat and tears?
horn section
what were some important aspects of the band sly and the family stone
influenced black pop bands, racially/sexually intergrated
describe van morrison
irish singer/songwritter most famous for "blue eyed girl"
what label signed reggae groups
island records
Why was the Virginia City, Nevada Bar, the Red Dog Saloon significant?
it drew young people out to Virginia City for psychedelic happenings.
important disco producers
jacques morali, giorgio moorder
important american singer/songwritters
james taylor, carole king, paul simon
how would you describe frank zappa's music?
jazz fusion style w catroonish vocals and satirical lyrics
important canadian singer/sonwritters
joni mitchell, neil young
who were the two important philadelphia producers
kenny gample and leon huff
what style did santana introduce
latin rock
what styles did war blend
latin, pop, soul, rock
important jamaican producer
lee "scratch" perry
who are three prominent american southern rock bands
lenord skinner, Allman brothers, charlie daniels
What were acid tests?
light and slide shows, bizarre sound effects, and rock music while on acid
where did jimi move to really enter the big time?
london
What was something that album featured that had never been featured before?
lyrics posted on the album cover
george clinton? what two bands did he lead
muscican/songwritter, parliamanet and funkadelic
who were 3 other important funk groups in the 70s
ohio players, cool and the gang, earth wind and fire
how was disco different from funk
physical movement rather than cerebrally
what was unique about stevie wonder
played every intrument on his albums
what event inaugurated the london psychedelic scene
poets of the world
how would you describe steely dan's music?
pop, rock, blues, jazz
What did Ram Dass help do?
popularize Eastern religion among the hippies
what style did the moody blues, procal harum, king crimson and emerson, lake and palmer, jethro tull, yes and genesis play?
progressive rock
describe Traffic
psychedeic pop, blues
what happened at the middle earth club?
psychedelic band preformances
how did their label brand their music (family stone)
psychedillic soul
what film shot disco onto the national stage, who stared in it
saturday night fever which starred john trovolta
why did disco djs create extended versions of dance records
seen as "novelty tunes"
who did the soundtrack for the two famous blaxpoitation films
shaft issac hayes, sweet sweetbacks earth, wind and fire
two most famous blaxploitation films
shaft, sweet sweetbacks
why did their music not lend well to studio recording?
songs were too long
who are several other important blues based american bands from the 70s
stepwolf, grant fonk railroad
what style was zztop known for
texas blues
Who were some important psychedelic bands from SF?LA?London?
the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane
important country rock bands
the bryds, the band, clearwater , the eagle
what cult film contributed hugely to the worldwide exposure of reggae
the harder they come
what was unique about marvin graye?
had creative control
What neighborhood in SF was the center for its psychedelic scene?
haight ashbury
soul train?
Hosted by Don Cornelius. Represented Black culture in a positive way. Dance, Fashion, and Music were key. Nationally broadcast. Dictated what was "cool."
What is another important and influential aspect of that album?
had a storyline throughout the album
What was the City Lights Bookstore known for?
celebrating the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and the prose of Jack Kerovac.
what was the world psychedelic center about
center for books/poetry gathering to read poetry
what was the london free school
counterculture night school
what band was a bridge between the radicals and the hippies?
country joe and the fish
what british blues based band influenced the development of heavy metal
deep purple
what was charlie daniels signuture song?
devil went down to georgia
important disco artists
donna summer, mj, bee gees, village purple
how did "sound guys" guys operate in jamaica
drove around playing records with sound system attached to back of truck
Why did Brian Wilson's album "SMILE" fail?
drugs mental problems was seen as his 'masterpiece'
what rock artist covered a marley song that led to marleys worldwide success
eric clapton cover of "i shot the sherrif"
what did style and what instrument did charlie daniels play?
fiddle
why was bob marly so revered
focused lyrics on political/social freedom
who were important jazz fusion bands and artists
genisis, yes, moodyblues, emerson, lake and palmer
describe donovan
gentle hippie, leading figure for hippie passivism
Young people at this time were sus of what institutions?
gov, military, education, law enforcement, religion, and big buisness
who were 5 important 70s Motown artists
the temptations, jackson 5, marvin gray, stevie wonder, the commodores
what 60s british blues band did led zeppelin grow out of
the yardbirds
What radio DJ initiated the new FM format of longer tracks, back to back plays and free form formatting?
tom donahue
where did disco start
u.s, gay communities, 1977
important british singer/sogwritters
van morison, cat stevens, elton john
what was the focus of cream's music
virtuosity playing
what did james brown contribute to the 70s funk scene
voice for black power
what happened at the UFO club?
weekly gathering of hippies, moved to diff locations
what was unique about the band average white band
white audience listened
