The US, the West Coast and The Scene for the British Invasion in the Sixties

The Musical Scene in the US Really so unexciting? – Video references in documentary – Only the Brits shining their act? At least a grain of thruth – Own childhood memories of Pat Boone’s Speedy Gonzales, 1962 – top 10 hit! Easy to explain why I remembered the cartoonish song How about a demographically minded explanation?

West Coast -- California sound Surf music – Beach Boys: good singers, but… v=HGjky5U64LM v=HGjky5U64LM Center of hippie movement – Who were they? – Well-to-do middle class boys and girls, most of them? v=RuSUpqdYV-I v=RuSUpqdYV-I Interesting posting, music by Tidal Wave, recent alternative music. Drug culture: psychedelia (not just this side of the „Pond”) „They were living in the moment, until later when they got into flipping houses and the stock market. Before they became politicians and CEOs.”

Jefferson Airplane and Grace Slick Folk, rock, and psychedelic roots Album Surrealistic Pillow, 1967 – White Rabbit m/watch?v=Q0bUkBqXt dY m/watch?v=Q0bUkBqXt dY – Somebody to Love m/watch?v=Q0bUkBqXt dY m/watch?v=Q0bUkBqXt dY

White rabbit and Somebody to love One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call And call Alice, when she was just small When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low Go ask Alice, I think she'll know When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead And the white knight is talking backwards And the red queen's off with her head Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head, feed your head When the truth is found to be lies And all the joy within you dies Don't you want somebody to love, don't you Need somebody to love, wouldn't you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love When the garden flowers baby are dead, yes and Your mind, your mind is so full of red Don't you want somebody to love, don't you Need somebody to love, wouldn't you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his Yeah, but in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is Don't you want somebody to love, don't you Need somebody to love, wouldn't you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love Tears are running down and down and down your breast And your friends, baby they treat you like a guest Don't you want somebody to love, don't you Need somebody to love, wouldn't you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love

The Doors Blues-based music – Classically trained Ray Manzarek keyboards Rock rendering of Orf’s Carmina Burana – Poet, „reptilian imagery” and singer Front-man, chief boozer loony Jim Morrison Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic of Jim Morrison and the Doors, starring Val Kilmer – h?v=UZqGfW78BN0 h?v=UZqGfW78BN0

Riders on the Storm Riders on the storm X2 Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone, An actor out alone, Riders on the storm There's a killer on the road, His brain is squirmin' like a toad Take a long holiday, Let your children play If ya give this man a ride, Sweet memory will die Killer on the road, yeah Girl ya gotta love your man X2 Take him by the hand, Make him understand The world on you depends, Our life will never end Gotta love your man, yeah, Wow! Riders on the storm X2 Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone, An actor out alone Riders on the storm, Riders on the storm X5

Homework Review Powerpoint (listen, read, etc.) Read encyclopaedia entries (The Doors and Jefferson Airplane Find out about (watch) the Oliver Stone film