Chapter 8: The British Invasion Continues and America Reacts

Which of the following is true of the British musical groups that came to America in 1964?

They started their own careers by playing music that had originated in the United States.

True or false: Before the British blues hit the American charts, music by blues groups was not given the distribution or airplay it would have needed to gain national popularity.

True

On comparing Robert Johnson and Cream, how did Cream display their talents?

Through six all-instrumental choruses of the twelve-bar form

True or false: The British were covering the blues in order to make commercial hits.

False

Which of the following is true of Rod Stewart?

He could capture the vocal quality of the African American bluesmen with his rough-edged vocal sound.

What was a consequence of the New York-based pop sound being blown off the American charts by British invasion groups?

It paved the way for American blues groups, garage bands, and folk-rock performers to move from regional to national success.

What was significant about the British blues revival?

It rejuvenated American interest in the blues.

Women were generally the most important of the early classic blues singers, and the rock singer whose interest in the blues was most clearly stimulated by women's blues recordings was _____.

Janis Joplin

Many other blues-based rock guitarists of the sixties experimented with the use of feedback between the guitar and amplifier, but none used it with as much control and psychedelic flash as _____.

Jimmy Hendrix

Needing a new drummer, the Who chose _____, a friend of theirs from another London-based Mod band, the Small Faces (later called the Faces).

Kenney Jones

The youth subculture known as the___had short hair, wore trendy suits, and rode motor scooters (rather than "real" motorcycles).

Mods

In the context of the British invasion, American record producers attracted a young audience by forming the ____, who were featured in a television program containing skits imitative of the Beatles' playful antics in the movie A Hard Day's Night.

Monkees

Which of the following is true of the British blues covers of the fifties and sixties?

Most covers were not sanitized and countrified versions of the blues originals.

Which of the following is a feature of garage bands?

Most of the bands were made up of young people with underdeveloped musical skills.

The _____ sound was very popular with Mods, so Pete Meaden had the Who increase that part of their repertoire and eliminate the old Dixieland styles.

Motown

Why did the High Numbers return to calling themselves the Who?

Out of fear that the name the High Numbers would soon become dated

John Entwistle developed his bass technique to enable him to play lines that often functioned as both lead and bass because _____.

Pete Townshend was more a rhythm guitarist than a lead player

As manager of the Who, which of the following changes were introduced by Pete Meaden? (Check all that apply).

Renaming the group the High Numbers Making the group's members dress themselves in trendy suits Getting the group's members to cut their hair

What was the consequence of Ray Davies' expansion of the Kinks' lyrical range?

The Kinks lost their pop following.

Which of the following groups from London had Mod followings during the midsixties? (Check all that apply.)

The Who The Small Faces The Kinks

What made the British musical groups that came to America in 1964 sound different from American rock groups of the early sixties?

The fact that the British groups played their own instruments

The Mersey sound depended heavily on _____.

guitars

What was the theme in the Who's first concept album, The Who Sell Out (1967).

Advertising

The Yardbirds started out playing covers of _____ recordings.

American blues

The Yardbirds were developing a commercial, psychedelic stage act, and Jeff Beck eagerly joined in by playing his guitar behind his head and experimenting with _____.

amplifier feedback

After a bit of experience singing folk music on street corners, Rod Stewart sang and played _____ with several groups in the London clubs.

blues harp

By late 1965, Ray Davies began to expand his lyrical range to _____.

comment cynically on other people's values and lifestyles

The Who's attention-drawing antics after their 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival had grown into the _____.

complete destruction of guitars, amplifiers, microphones, and drums on stage

Ray Davies, of the Kinks, realized that to establish and maintain a career the band should _____.

concentrate on writing their own material and develop their own distinctive sound

When Cream's 1968 recording of Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues" (1936) is analyzed, it is evident that the members of Cream _____.

did not copy the rough quality of Johnson's style

The popularity of the Kinks' hit "You Really Got Me" eventually led to _____.

fuzz boxes being sold

By 1968 Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company to form the Kozmic Blues Band, which included organ, bass, and drums, plus the jazz-band sound of a ___ ___(brass instruments and saxophones).

horn section

The Who came to rock music from a background in early _____.

jazz styles

Along with a change of drummer, the Who added _____ John "Rabbit" Bundrick to their new sound.

keyboard player

Pete Townshend began to consider the possibility of expanding beyond the standard pop format of two- to three-minute songs and writing a rock___,beginning with the ten-minute "mini-opera" he had written for the album Happy Jack (1967).

opera

The origin of the instrumental combination used in Mersey groups lay in American _____ of the fifties.

rockabilly

It was common for garage bands to have one lucky hit but be unable to follow it with anything that equaled its success because _____.

so many garage band musicians were untrained in music and inexperienced as writers

Pete Townshend intended to follow the album Tommy with a science fiction concept album for which he had experimented with sounds produced by a _____.

synthesizer and sequencer

Teenage banjo player Pete Townshend and trumpeter John Entwistle formed a___ ___band called the Scorpions in 1959.

trad jazz

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed as a _____, with Hendrix playing a fiery lead guitar, and two English musicians, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, ably backing him.

trio