New Music
What Swiss chemist synthesized the first batch of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)?
Albert Hofmann
Who was the editor of The San Francisco Oracle?
Allen Cohen
What is an "acid test"?
An all night party that features music, light shows, and LSD
After breaking with Bill Graham, Chet Helms produced dance concerts at the?
Avalon Ballroom.
Who managed Big Brother & the Holding Company and arranged for singer Janis Joplin to join them?
Chet Helms
Tommy Hall of the 13th Floor Elevators performed on what peculiar instrument?
Electric jug
Allen Ginsberg was a poet of the Beat Generation who rejected the "free love" attitude of hippies. [True/False]
False
Fuzz tone refers to a device that electronically enhances the reverberation of a sound, creating a tremolo effect. [True/False]
False
In his article "Can This Drug Enlarge Man's Mind?" (1963), Gerald Heard proposes that anyone is capable of producing exceptional art, music, or poetry with the chemical assistance of LSD. [True/False]
False
Where did the Human Be In take place?
Golden Gate Park
In addition to his work as a guitarist and guitar designer, what did Les Paul contribute to the music industry?
He developed multi track recording techniques
How did Owsley Stanley contribute to the psychedelic culture?
He manufactured several million doses of LSD.
What does Alan Watts describe in "The Joyous Cosmology"?
How psychedelic drugs affected his own psychological and physical sensations.
What term describes a musical ensemble that engages in group improvisation?
Jam band
Roger McGuinn of The Byrds claims that the guitar lines he played in "Eight Miles High" were influenced by which of the following musicians? [2 people]
John Coltrane and Ravi Shankar
The name of the band Country Joe and the Fish was derived from?
Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung
Who designed and manufactured amplifiers, solid body guitars, and solid body basses that were extremely popular in the 1960s?
Leo Fender
The Matrix was founded by _______, who enlisted _______ as the house band.
Marty Balin & The Jefferson Airplane
What did Ken Kesey call his associates who accompanied him on his "magic bus" rides?
Merry Pranksters
Which of the following guitarists famously backed Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965? [Artist & his Band]
Mike Bloomfield of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Grace Slick indicates that she wrote the song "White Rabbit" while listening to the music of?
Miles Davis
Did the Matrix hold a dance permit? [Yes/No]
No
Having become a national media sensation in 1967, the Haight Ashbury attracted a massive number of youths from around the country, resulting in the so called?
Summer of Love
The music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle who increased the attention given to jazz and popular music was?
Ralph Gleason
What is a musical drone?
A single note or chord that is sustained throughout a section of a musical work.
A district in San Francisco where many hippies established communal residence was called?
Haight Ashbury
A musical dialogue of alternating voices or instruments is called?
"Call and response"
In his article "AM Radio is Dead and Its Stinking Corpse is Rotting the Airwaves" (1967), Tom Donahue criticizes the?
"Top 40" format of radio stations
The term "psychedelic," as coined by British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, literally means:
"mind manifesting"
What is the name of the club in Virginia City, Nevada, where The Charlatans performed as the house band?
The Red Dog Saloon
Why was "Eight Miles High" by The Byrds banned from the radio?
The lyrics appeared to refer to the use of recreational drugs.
Who wrote The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test?
Tom Wolfe
In the article "The Hashbury is the Capital of the Hippies" (1967), Hunter Thompson discusses how the strong presence of drugs was separating the original hippies from the increasing commercialization of the Haight Ashbury. [True/False]
True
The poster artist Wes Wilson worked primarily for Bill Graham and the Fillmore Auditorium. [True/False]
True
Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were colleagues in the psychology department at Harvard before they were dismissed from the university in 1963. [True/False]
True
While Beatniks of the 1950s tended toward jazz, literature, heroin, and existential philosophy, Hippies of the 1960s were more associated with folk and rock music, politics, acid, and sexual liberation. [True/False]
True
Within the first year of its release, Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" outsold every record in the history of the music industry. [True/False]
True
What Los Angeles nightclub featured Love and The Doors as house bands?
Whisky a Go Go
In whose work did the expression "the doors of perception" originate?
William Blake
The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing (Psychedelic B.B.) by the Steve Miller Band features?
an assortment of prerecorded non musical sounds.
What commercial genre of music characterized by upbeat songs with catchy phrases and bright timbres emerged in the late 1960s as a way for record producers to target young audiences?
bubblegum pop
Free-Form Freak-Out was Red Krayola's term to describe?
group improvisation using unconventional sounds.
The first "wah wah" guitar pedal was named after Clyde McCoy, who was a _ _ who played with a _ _ ?
jazz trumpeter & plunger mute
The compositional manipulation and arrangement of pre recorded sounds from everyday life is referred to as?
musique concrète
A musical phrase or pattern that repeats is called an?
ostinato
What term describes the electronic enhancement of an echo effect?
reverberation
What is the name of the plucked string instrument featured in Indian classical music?
sitar
Improvisation in music refers to the _ of musical _ ?
spontaneous & material
What genre of instrumental dance music emerged out of Southern California in the early 1960s?
surf rock
Timbre in music refers to:
the sound quality of a voice or instrument.
