$3 to see Pink Floyd, H.P. Lovecraft, Steppenwolf, Chambers Brothers, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Spirit, or Deep Purple. 1968 was a golden year for psychedelic music.
Re.ember those times. I was 11years old by 3/30/68. Believe me ,psychedelia was around by 63 -64 just listen to wfil famous 56 philly. Station plsyed some early psych tunes; its and pieces, but it was comming along with Vietnam!
Now you get Electric Moon, The Myrrors, The Spacelords, Ozric Tentacles Some Great newer psychedelic rock that wouldn't have sounded out of place at Woodstock.
In 69 a few months before Woodstock, Sally and I were putting on a variety show for the neighborhood kids. We lived in New Jersey and were 5 years old. We had a small stage for story telling, puppet show and singing and dancing. A TV news did a story of our show. It was a low for news, so our story was the big story. The next weekend THOUSANDS of adults showed up. The quite suburb neighborhood was swamped. Then the police came in. Many of the people who showed up, most likely went to Woodstock. Sally and I were banned from putting on shows in front yards. We had to perform in theaters.
When they took that album photo for the Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" album, My Mom and Dad were actually in the area at time and met the Beach Boys in Person.
I love this era of music and pop culture in general.. You did a great job on this video.. Not to take anything away from the video but I would've loved you to go more into the artists and their influence to the movement
Psych rock has been experiencing a revival for decades now. Bands like The Brian Jonestown Massacre have perfected the sound and are still making great albums today. Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo also carry on the San Francisco sound with drawn out guitar leads that are both madness and beauty at the same time.
It was a perfect storm where pop, folk, technology, drugs, youth culture, post-WW2 affluence and blues and Indian culture all came together. The jamming tradition of the American blues merged with the raga style of Indian music to really open up instrumentals, and the vocals were very bluesy (many of the great British rock bands of the era saw themselves as R&B, including the Beatles, stones and Who). The Brits loved American blues while opening the door to Indian music. The philosophy, colors and textures of Eastern philosophy really took hold with a uniquely independent and self aware youth culture. It was cross racial, cross cultural and cross economic. And technology not only allowed more sophisticated abstract sounds to be created with electric instruments, but allowed it to be broadcast to the world through radio, TV and records. There never was, and probably never will be another such confluence.
Psychedelic music began before 1967 and Sgt. Peppers. The Beatles had psychedelic music on 1966s Revolver. Also, more important than Woodstock was The Montery Pop Festival in 1967 with groups such as Jefferson Airplane and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
2:24 Girl in your eye by spirit, and Babaji by blue cheer are also awesome sitar tracks 13th floor elevators and ultimate spinach are two of my favorite psychedelic bands
Some of the music up today is good but the music from the '60s for the most part was so much better. In general I like rock from the '50s through to 60s to say the early part of the seventies. and especially the psychedelic Rock and Bob Dylan and the grateful Dead and strawberry alarm clock and so on I just love. I'll tell Jefferson airplane and Janis Joplin and so many others. All and of course Donovan. God bless all of them. Peter the Christian hermit man of Laverne
Great video. I loveee the font. So sorry you had to edit some music out. This is the first video where I noticed they took the number away from the dislike button. Quite historic hehe
The Ides., Krels , The Tides In , The eyes , The Litter , The Haymarket Riot , We The People , The One Way Streets , The Human Expression , The Aztechs , The Missing Lynx , The Missing Links , Tod Rudgren and The Nazz , The Baytovens , The Hangmen , The Seeds , The 13th Floor Elevators , The Chocalate Watch Band , The Standels , The Aardvarks , The Kinks , The Electric Prunes , The Enemies , The Yard- Birds , The Pretty Things , The Music Machine , Blues Magoos , The Castaways , The Third Bardo , and alot more where that came from ; whereever that is ?
Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd were ahead of all these bands, chronologically and musically in the psychedelic arena. But all they were able put out before Syd's demise was Piper at the Gates of Dawn and a handful of singles; Arnold Layne, (with terrific B-side "Candy and a Currant Bun), See Emily Play, Flaming, Apples and Oranges (with killer B-side "Paint Box) and Bike. Surprisingly, the Barrett-led Floyd, known then as The Pink Floyd, started out as an R&B band, with those tunes found on the Cambridge Series. The mind-expanding live jam of "Interstellar Overdrive" from the UFO Club in 66 can be found on RU-vid and other documentaries. It was Syd in full bloom with many star rockers at the gig, like Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and even Yoko, who did not know Paul or John at the time. What a magical time to grow up.
THE FREE SPIRITS - Out of Sight and Sound - ABC/Impulse, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's NJ studio in late fall of 1965 re-released by Sunbeam Records, London, UK. and first time release of "Live at The Scene", by Sunbeam Records, London, UK.
@@RedVynil This video was lacking in the in depth of the genres of the psych tunes that go back to evan earlier years . 1963 to early 1967 saw a plethora of garage , punk , psych music back in the 60s! Very intetesting history , and very intrigueing to look into.
@@hugbug4408 I know. I only started consciously building my psych collection in the mid to late 80's and I've got hundreds of hours of really good psych and nearly all of it came from that VERY short window of time: 1965/6 to 1969/70. In fact, psych was already dying by mid `68. I'm AMAZED at how much great psych there was back then as compared to the VERY limited amount we were "allowed" to listen to back then! Sure, I was into psych back when it was actually happening but, to me, it was just the most modern form of music around. I'm not even sure if we relegated it to any sub-genres, it was just rock as it stands to this (that) day. However, I've never considered garage to be psych! I like garage but, if I want to buy a compilation of psych, it better damn well be PSYCH and NOT garage!! Problem is, so many comps ARE just garage! Sure, there's a few garage records that ARE psych or garage bands that bend into the psych spectrum but, in most cases, garage is garage and psych is psych and never the twain shall meet. As for punk, there WAS NO SUCH THING until the late `70's! If people that kept calling that stuff from the mid `60's, "punk", KNEW what punk was all about and the kind of music it was, they'd know better than to call anything from before the late `70's, "punk". Outside of the first Stooges album in `69/`70, punk did NOT exist. And, even THAT album still wasn't called punk! I played my copy once, hated it and never played it again!! About 17 years later, I traded it to my bass player, who WAS a punker, for a new Savoy Brown album he had! So far, I've never played that more than once, either but, it's better than The Stooges album. NOBODY in the `60's called it punk and there WAS no such genre until, as I've said, the late `70's. Punkers HATED hippies and psych and tried to distance themselves from that era as much as possible! Just because some kid in `65 had a bad attitude and snarled his vocals on his records back then doesn't mean it was punk. It fell into the garage category. I lived through the entire `60's and some of the `50's and started collecting records when I was 2 (I have about 54,000, now) so, I should know what was what from back then. There was another dissertation on psych here by a German guy, a 15 part series. It was mostly pretty good and interesting until it got up to the late `80's where, from then onwards, he tried to assimilate the psych of the `60's with the punk, disco, and trance (disco II) of the last 40-some years. I watched the entire series, several hours long but, I could've easily stopped by the time he got to the mid `70's!! It had very little to do with the actual psych era from that point onwards. You might like it because it actually goes way back to the pre-psych era of at least the `50 jazz era if not the big band jazz era of the late `40's and shows how that era lead up to/into the psych era, courtesy of the beat poets and the onset of LSD use OF those people. There are so many people on YT posting psych comps but, of the bulk of them I've heard, with each being at least an hour long, nearly all bore me because they mostly focus on the most plebean of psych out there (whatever radio afforded us back then) or they add stuff that I'd NEVER in my WILDEST DREAMS call psych!! The thing I tend to hate about American psych is that, apparently, all you needed to make a psych record over here was a fuzzy guitar and someone bizarre lyrics! If you take enough acid, even Lawrence Welk is psych!! I'd rather depend on the MUSIC to take me on those trips!!
@@RedVynil You've pretty much nailed it in your thesis of garage , punk , psych . You're very informative in your writing on the topic ! I'm sort of into the pre- psych or early psych , and stating about the start of psych sounds to the 40s , I would say earlier than that. I saw on U Tube the history of the pysychedelia by a narrator who seem to have a Russian accent. Maybe it's the same guy you thought had a German accent.
@@hugbug4408 Thank you! i didn't intend for it to turn out to be that long but, music IS my life and, sometimes, I CAN go on about it. Glad you liked it. I would say that true start of psych was from surf records. Not the stuff The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funnicello were doing but, the mostly instrumental guitar surf. Although, I wouldn't call it psych or surf, more likely electronic, it's SLIGHTLY POSSIBLE that the first psych record would be "Telstar" by, The Tornadoes (the British or were they German (?)) band, not the American one. But, there WAS a non-psych record that actually, though accidentally, used the psych staple of phase shifting most of the way through the song and that came out in the late `50's. "The Big Hurt" by Toni Fisher. Her label, Signet Records, was owned by her husband and, while recording the vocals for that song, he wanted to make them fuller so, he doubled them by just running them side by side down to the master version and, because the two tape machines he was using to copy them over from ran at an incredibly slightly different speed, they got that phase shifting effect! They liked this happy accident and left it that way on the record. I wouldn't exactly say the music of the `40's was psych but, some of it was certainly experimental! Some songs made use of the Therimin, for instance and there was a song by Kaye Kyser (I think) where the singer (they called him, Sully) used these two electronic things on his hands pressed up to his throat when he sang so it sounded like he was actually using a voice bag which Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton made famous in the mid `70's on songs like, "Rocky Mountain Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do?". The same device also allowed Sully to "broadcast" his voice to instuments being played across the room; like, the trumpet, or the violin, etc.. I have no idea how it works and I only saw it once about 20 years ago. Whatever these devices are, they were originally devised to give people who no longer have a voice box the ability to "speak" If the video you're talking about was a 15-part series lasting at least 10 hours, that's the one. But, that didn't sound Russian, to me. If it wasn't German, I'd venture to guess it was Swedish, Norwegian or something else from that general region. Robert Easton could tell us which accent it was! Shit!! Looks like he died 10 years ago!
“Johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine” we were craving an experience. “Not necessarily stoned but beautiful” time for a renaissance of that era, a revival or dare I say a revolution. Long over due
Psychedelic rock owes its existence in a large part to a revolution in technology that allowed a guitarist to play with distortion. This revolution coincided with the rise of the hippie movement after 1965 or so but the two event were not related. Before that, guitarists simply were not able to play that way, like the way Hendrix played. But it was the Beatles, not Hendrix, that changed music forever. Psychedelic rock came a bit later on but IMHO the big change was in 1964, not 1967.
I described that the american rock & roll music during the mid 60's sounded incredible nice & harmonious & good rhythem with joy. However, the consumption of drugs like mariguana, cocaine & even heroin has really influenced the hopes & dreams turning into nightmares. Oh! why do I have to attend schools, do my homework, do what our parents suggested, recomended for a good career. And, this baby boom generation born in the early & mids 40's rejected their schools curriculum. Let's have a party, sex, drugs & rock& roll. a period of a fun Paradise .
Woodstock was late to the party. There were "happenings in San Francisco, NYC, LA, and "rave parties" in London (not to be confused w/ '90s techno ecstasy-fueled raves) which were spontaneous multimedia parties. Ken Kesey (pronounced "Key-zee) had "acid tests" which were happenings w/ LSD and The Grateful Dead. Then the early hippies in SF started the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City in Nevada summer of '65. Then first "psychedelic dance concerts" in fall of '65 in San Francisco. Then Trips Festival in Jan. '66 in SF. Then "Swinging London" Mod scene started to turn psychedelic in '66. Freak-out dances w/ Vito Paulekas & Frank Zappa in LA, Andy Warhol's Factory w/ Velvet Underground in NYC. Then rock concerts at the Fillmore, Avalon Ballroom and rock concerts in Golden Gate Park in SF. Human Be-In in Jan. '67 in SF. 14-hr Technicolour Dream in London April '67. First outdoor rock festival, Magic Fantasy Faire, north of SF June '67. Monterey Pop Music Festival a week later. Other music festivals and larger concerts in '68. Woodstock in summer of '69 in NY. Manson Murders. Altamont Concert in Dec. '69 near SF. Psych Soul, Prog Rock and Jazz Fusion in the '70s, The Paisley Underground at UC Davis and LA early '80s. Neo-psych bands in UK, Europe, US in '80s. Transcendental Fusion Events (proto-raves) & cyberpunks in SF (mid-'80s), Raves in London late '80s. Then bands influenced by psych music in '90s. And the genre continues as a constant current. Usually submerged underground but sometimes mainstream.
I played drums for Leslie West the Vagrants.Though we NEVER really made it big in the 60s we recorded many songs for Vanguard records and Atco revords. Leslie went on to form Mountain.i played with The Third World and did an album for RCA.I became. A MISSIONARY TO 🇭🇹 HAITI and am there to this day 2022 EVANGELIST ROGER MANSOUR MISSIONARY TO 🇭🇹 HAITI
What's with the audio gaps of dead air? At the end of White Rabbit, all of a sudden Grace Slicks vocals are gone as is any other sound. It happens again at the end when Jimi Hendrix is doing the Start Spangled Banner. This really ruins the buzz.
Even though it was released a few months later (or more... the first version of "Eight Miles High" is perhaps from a year earlier), I believe that "Tomorrow never knows" has many reasons - in terms of content and innovation - to be considered the essential piece in the start of psychedelia. ("Eight Miles High" it's a great great song). ^^
Listen to my playlist on YT, "Rock Unleashed: How We Got to 2021. Cream, Spirit, King Crimson, Beatles." 700+ songs. I was there so I know a lot of songs many people haven't heard. I agree 1968 was the most chaotic year but that's when a ton of new music came out. We couldn't listen to it fast enough because every week somebody was putting out an album. I still like albums better than CD's. Something about the feel of it. Since we were experimenting with mind altering cannabis and LSD and mescaline the music was 100x stronger than normal. We tended to take mind excursions so we wanted music that lasted longer, like 30 or 40 minutes so we could meditate on it, like with the Grateful Dead. The music definitely had a hypnotic effect and words to songs were so important. A lot of times the musicians were talking directly to us, the listeners.
As far as I can tell, Hurdy Gurdy and San Francisco had tamboura, not sitar. I don't know of any Theremin that looks or is played like that. Why does the sound suddenly die at 5:08 and 5:59?
The instrument is actually an Electro-Theremin. It does look somewhat like a lap steel. You don't actually touch a real theremin; it has two antennas that control volume and pitch. The Electro-Theremin you had to physically touch to control volume and pitch.
just speed up or slow down or even reverse music to avoid copyrights or better yet if you totally dont care for monetization you can post the video to a pirate site like tpb where they only take down illegal images, malware and fakes
You say it started as early as the 1950's. I wad interested to see where you were going to go with that but you jumped to Dylan in the 60's and don't really say how he influenced psychedelic music. I'm assuming music of the 50s you are referencing might be free jazz and the Beats?
Bring back the 60th. The s***** weren't definitely perfect an hour where things that were wrong, but I think it was a lot better than today. Oh I'm speaking is and I meant to say the '60s and my phone seem to think I said something else. I didn't God bless all the hippies and also God bless all the Jesus freaks from the sixth season 70s. Peter the fisher of men
In another comment here I mentioned how much I love things like Bob Dylan and so I could do like rock and so on. But someone else from that time that I really like also was Larry Norman who some called the Christian Bob Dylan. Of course Bob Dylan became a Christian and so on. But back in the sixties and seventies there besides usadelic rock and so on there was a very good Christian rock. It was all good music. Praise jesus.
Kesey is pronounced KEESEY . He was a key figure , even played a bit of music informally . There was no psyche music in the 1950's . Okay - maybe Slim Gailiard .
@@rogbrown1458 it was a time when items was flowing in on a people that in a way didn't see it coming, and before you knew it, people was pulled in to a new type of life style. Maybe I'm not able to explain it well.. It was just different. Thanks.
@@michaelclendenen4005 hi. Many will not have remembered the 60s either through lack of age or being intoxicated or on various substances throughout that whole period. Being in my 70s and not participating to any great degree I remember that era affectionately most of all for the music of which the obscurities were in many cases superior to the chart hits. Good times all round. Pity the snowflake generation of today weren't able to witness it first hand. I rest my case. Stay safe. Rog. Pacific sunset records .
I LOVE THE MUSIC WE HAD BACK THEN. SURE DIFFERENT FROM TODAY. I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE THINK TODAY ALL HIPPIES DID LSD AND DRUGS. ALOT DID BUT YET ALOT DIDN'T. HIPPIES WERE DOCTORS LAWYERS TEACHERS. BUT YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT THEM.
I was 10 in 1969. I remember everyone talking about Woodstock. The festival became a disaster area. What was left was a huge mess. I won't argue that the music from the event was pretty awesome, but Pete Townshend of The Who said it was the "worst f**king gig they ever played." He regarded the Isle Of Wight festival in 1970, which had 500,000 people attend, a much better experience.
Ancient history and mythology,is no longer taught,these subjects cause growth,such as reincarnation,it's the difference between knowing and not knowing,I am not being critical i'm just saying bye
Yah...no cigar. Missed a dozen San Francisco psychedelic bands - Quicksilver, Big Brother, Country Joe, Charlatans, Moby Grape, Sons of Champlain, Hot Tuna, Electric Flag, Sopwith Camel... Do your homework.
@@kybertal One of the cooler things about digital media is that it is easy to update and upgrade. Call this version 1.0 and maybe build upon it and do a more comprehensive version 2.0 for a summer project that includes the neo-psychedelic movement in music. In any event, the video is nicely polished, looks and feels like a pro operation. Expand it and you could have a future in media production. Best to you.
The narration is annoying and historically a little incorrect in places. Nice to see all these clips and be reminded of those times though. Woodstock was the death knell of the counterculture. It was the moment the money people moved in, took over and screwed it all up.
The counterculture never suffered a death knell. We just found ourselves forced to adapt to an adverse and hostile establishment that demanded conformity from their wage slaves as we developed more ways of integration and agenda advancement. I can cite very many numerous examples of my theory's validity, should we care to discuss the matter further.
A shame the audio was lost several times in the vid. Other than that- I loved the stroll back through time to my days of youth. I would never want to go back there (way to dangerous, scary drugs back then) but am grateful I survived the TRIP. God bless from the newest tropical commie paradise of Kanada
There is no such thing as Psychedelic Rock. I lived through the period. And no one ever called the music Psychedelic Rock, never! The term used for the music was “Acid Rock.” For LSD, Lysergic Acid… Psychedelic was was just slang word like Cool or Dope. You wouldn’t call the music Dope Rap. And you didn’t call it Psychedelic Rock either. Acid Rock changed music culture because psychedelic drugs changed people’s perspective. Purple Haze was a certain type of LSD. Why it was called Acid Rock. Because the music talked about the experience!
@@kentyner1749 Again there is no such thing as Psychedelic Rock! Your telling me a guy born In The 1990’s, if not later, Is going to name a genre of music that was created in the 1960’s, spare me… I’m sorry you weren’t around then, doesn’t mean you or anybody today can lay claim to a style of music that was created 30 years before they were born.
@@bradhansen2065 I'm sorry you're not familiar with the "Elevators". Tommy Hall was born in 1943, and was a founding member of the band in 1965. He was also a pharmacology major at the University of Texas, and somewhat of an authority. Their first album was titled "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" (International Artists,1966). Do your homework. Google the first psychedelic band.
There were alot of the obscure groups who were into the psychedelic sounds that this girl didn't , and at no fault of hers , couldn't , name . A plethora of obscure garage/ punk / psych bands that had some of the best psych songs . They're better than Bob Dylans , The Byrds , The Beattles ( @ lest O think so)7
@@spellbound111 I've must of been indulging in some spiked punch when I didn't finish what I was trying to write in on the obscure 60s garage / punk / psych bands earler ! Did you find some of those obscure 60s psych/ punk /garage bands , and if you did , and wound up listening to them , what did you think? I'm guessing you liked them. But that's just my guessing ! There's a plethora of compilations from Pebbles , 60s Punk , Back from The Grave Punk , and some others that arn't coming to mind right now , but you'll come across ! Let know how you made out , and what you think of these obscure tunes from those obscure bands ?
