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 week Thursday, 2 August 2012 Comprehensive : May test anything from entire course, including old chapters and new materials yet to be covered

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

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Hippies & Music 1 st of the “San Francisco” bands ( ) 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 - 1 st “acid rock” Mix of country, folk, jugband, rock The Charlatans "High Coin" - YouTubeThe Charlatans "High Coin" - 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]YouTube - Grateful Dead - Dark Star - 08/27/72 (1/4) (Sunshine Daydream)

Jefferson Airplane 1965 – Folk Music into Psychedelic Rock RCA contract ($ 25K!) 1966 – add Grace Slick YouTube - Somebody To Love/White Rabbit Jefferson AirplaneYouTube - Somebody To Love/White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane - Maurice Ravel BOLERO - Wiener Philharmonic - YouTube- Maurice Ravel BOLERO - Wiener Philharmonic - YouTube

Big Brother and the Holding Company w/ Janis Joplin Port Arthur, TX – high school misfit playing w/ Garcia, others in S.F – joins BB&HC 1967 – Breakthrough at Monterey Pop Festival 1969 – Joplin leaves (dead in 1970) YouTube - Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (live in toronto 1970)YouTube - Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (live in toronto 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 YouTube - Country Joe McDonald - "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die"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)QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - Fresh Air (1971) – YouTube 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-1968YouTube - Omaha- Moby Grape 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)The Joker - Steve Miller Band – YouTube