Friendly Warning :Test # 4

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Covers Black styles & Psychedelia(later 1960s)

Chapters 6 & 7

Review sheets and PowerPoints posted on course web site

Friendly Warning :FINAL EXAM

next weekThursday, 2 August 2012

Comprehensive : May test anything from entire course, including old

chapters and new materials yet to be covered

Anything after this slide ison Test # 4

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Chapter 7 Starts Here

“Psychedelia”Defined as: “the realm or artifacts of

psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like”

psychedelic = “intensified sensory perception”

Psychedelia

Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

• S.F. Neighborhood- Afro-Am & Japanese- in decline in 1950s

• Cheap housing for Beatniks & similar types

• Hippies & Drugs• Home to R ‘n R bands

- Grateful Dead- Jefferson Airplane- Janis Joplin- etc.

Hippies• “Counterculture”

- anti-Middle Class- anti-“Establishment”

• Mostly White, aged 15-25• Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear• Eastern Philosophies• Psychedelic drugs• “Free Love”• Organic food, vegans, etc.• Eco-friendly (save the planet)• “peace, love and freedom”

More Hippies

Hippies& Music

• 1st of the “San Francisco” bands (1964-65)• Dressed as Victorian Dandies or Western Gunslingers• Influential on Hippie dress and styles• Few recordings (Album: The Charlatans, 1969)• “Codine” – suppressed single (1966)

The Charlatans

Red Dog Saloon & Charlatans• Virginia City, Nevada• June 1965 (6-week gig)• live performance on LSD

- 1st “acid rock”• Mix of country, folk,

jugband, rock• The Charlatans "High Co

in" - YouTube• Forerunner of

“Family Dog” and other S.F. based groups

Grateful Dead

• 1965 – Warlocks into GD, Jerry Garcia, “Acid Tests”• Mix of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country,

jazz, psychedelia, and gospel• Long, extended improvisations, not easily recorded• YouTube - Grateful Dead - Dark Star - 08/27/72 (1/4)

(Sunshine Daydream) [follow parts 2-4, also]

Jefferson Airplane• 1965 – Folk Music into

Psychedelic Rock• RCA contract ($ 25K!)• 1966 – add Grace Slick• YouTube - Somebody

To Love/White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane

• - Maurice Ravel BOLERO - Wiener Philharmonic - YouTube

Big Brother and the Holding Companyw/ Janis Joplin

• Port Arthur, TX – high school misfit• 1965 - playing w/ Garcia, others in S.F.• 1966 – joins BB&HC• 1967 – Breakthrough at

Monterey Pop Festival• 1969 – Joplin leaves

(dead in 1970)• YouTube - Janis Joplin

- Cry Baby(live in toronto 1970)

1943-1970

Country Joe& the Fish

• Founded 1965• Leftists politics & protests• UC-Berkeley Teach-ins• “Country Joe” = Stalin• Barry “the Fish” Melton

refers to Mao’s saying• Psychedelic Rock• Monterey Festival 1967• Woodstock - 1969• YouTube - Country Joe

McDonald - "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die"

Quicksilver Messenger Service

• Founded 1965 as “jam band” (long improvisations)• Last of the “hippie” bands to sign a record deal• Less commercially successful than others • QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - Fresh

Air (1971) –YouTube (from)

• Just for Love(1970 Album)# 49 on pop chart

Moby Grape• Folk, blues, country &

jazz into rock• 3-guitar sound

(“crosstalk”)• Critic’s favorite San

Francisco band• YouTube - Omaha-

Moby Grape-1968• 1969 - lost Skip Spence

due to severe LSD overdose

Steve Miller Band

• Steve Miller – born in Milwaukee, raised in TX

• 1965 – SM playing blues• 1967 to San Francisco• Founds “Steve Miller Blues

band” (soon drops “Blues”)• Modest recording success• The Joker - Steve Miller

Band – YouTube(# 1, 1973)