1. Psychedelic Rock
Mr. Cowan
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2. Acid Rock Speak out, love, creativity, uninhibited, happening now
1000’s of middle-class, college educated youths clustered around San Francisco
Love could replace war

3. Acid Rock A new hybrid of rock and roll was created
Named after LSD (hallucinogen)
100’s of artists appeared on the scene

5. Began gathering together for mini festivals
Staged “human be-ins” (first was at Golden Gate Park in San Fran)
Huge success (20,000)
Big name artists performed (The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane)

6. News spread quickly across the country
College-age baby boomers were main audience

7. The Hippie Culture Most were middle class college grads
Rebelled against capitalism and attacked the materialistic American culture
Rejected their parent’s way of life

8. Long hair (“I want the cops to sneer and the old ladies to swear and the businessmen to worry”
nudity (everyone is equal without clothes on)
Challenged rules and hoped to embrace the freedom of individual expression

9. Drugs
Turned to mind-expanding drugs to enhance their individual potential
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) defined the hippie experience
Legal in the US until 1966
Emphasized melting shapes and vibrant colours

10. Attempted to create a “counter-culture”
Drugs were viewed as a way to reach a new level of thinking
Haight-Ashbury was the central gathering spot

12. The Music Rock bands began creating “Acid Rock”
The Grateful Dead were a major part of the psychedelic/acid rock movement

13. The Doors
Led by lead singer Jim Morrison
Rebelled against the norms

14. Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit
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 Call Alice When she was just small When 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 slow 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 doormouse said; "Feed YOUR HEAD... Feed your head"

15. Light shows simulated an LSD experience
Posters featured a unique style of distorted, melted letters against a vibrant background of wild colours

18. Promoted the LP (experience)
Appeared on FM radio (AM was pop)
Spread across the nation and the world very quickly
Beatles jumped on board (Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour)
Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon)

19. The Decline of Hippiedom
Counter culture was short lived
Many became wasted addicts, isolated and detached from reality
Even music suffered (artists that were “against the man” signed deals with major labels
Beginning of the end