History of Psychedelic Rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired,influenced,or representative of

psychedelic culture,which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.k
What is rock ?

The history of rock music has been

volatile and unpredictable as the genre
has constantly redefined and reinvented
itself since its emergence in the late
1940s.Rock music can generally be
described as hard -edged music
performed with electric guitars,bass and
drums and usually accompanied by lyrics
sung by vocalist.
 Origin of psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock started emerging in 1966.It became the

soundtrack of the wider cultural exploration of the hippie
movement.Initially centred on the West coast of the United
States,psychedelia soon spread from the San Francisco Bay
area to the rest of the country and then to Europe to become
the major rock phenomenon of the late 1960s.
 Key ingredients of psychedelic rock

● Sound effects to mirror an LSD trip

● Improvisation and extended jamming
● Indian instruments/sounds (sitar)
● Stream of consciousness lyrics
Instruments commonly used in psychedelic rock

● Electric guitar (often with feedback wahwah and

fuzzboxes)
● Drums
● Bass
● Keyboard
● Tambourine
● Sitar and Tabla
● Studio Effects
DEVELOPMENT
1970s-1990s

The obsession with psychedelia was far spreading and by the 1970s
other genres of music also got infused with the wave of psychedelic
culture. As a result, multiple sub-genres of Psychedelic music kept
emerging including; psychedelic pop, psychedelic funk, psychedelic
soul, chillwave, hypnagogic pop and many other standard genres
imbued with the traces of psychedelia.

● Impact on Electronic Music

-Psychedelic trance

-Acid Techno

-Acid House
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the
1960s to achieve national recognition.

The founder members were Marty Balin (vocals), Paul Kantner (guitar, vocals), Grace
Slick (vocals), Jorma Kaukonen (lead guitar, vocals), Jack Casady (bass), and Spencer
Dryden (drums).

They were most productive between 1965 and 1972 and made their debut at the Matrix
on August 13, 1965, and began performing at the club regularly. They attracted
favorable press attention,
 Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit
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”.

They epitomized the drug-taking hippie ethos as well as the left-wing, antiwar political
movement of their time,They toured regularly, being the only band to play at all the
major '60s rock festivals -- Monterey, Woodstock, even Altamont -- and they released
seven studio albums, five of which went gold, plus two live LPs and a million-selling hits
collection that chronicled their eight chart singles.
 The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the
counterculture of the 1960s. The founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar,
vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (keyboards, harmonica,
vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums)

American rock band that was the incarnation of the improvisational psychedelic music
that flowered in and around San Francisco in the mid-1960s.
Grateful Dead was one of the most successful touring bands in rock history

By the late 1960s the fans were legion and followed the band on the road. The Deadheads, as they were
known, were a good example of the counterculture.
 21st Century psychedelic music

War on Drugs(2005) Tame Impala(2007)

-Neo-hippies’-the descendants of 1960s hippies, introduced new forms of arts and music
still following the phenomenon of counterculture.

-A 2005 rock band, “The War on Drugs”, for instance, is a combination of

neo-psychedelia, indie rock, heartland rock and Americana.

-Another emerging band “Revolushn” found in 2014, is a fusion of psychedelic rock and
hard rock.
Culture

Rap has come a far way from its beginnings from bronx

We have seen the way people think and share their personal freedoms.It has helped in
the growth of the African-American Community in TV,Films,Fashion and of course the
music world.

Psychedelic Rock -it is evident in the history that the 1960s was the era of “The Hippie
Movement”. Although, this movement had its roots in the social movements of the 19th
century Europe, it was a new wave of social recognition and rebel against system and
norms of society. The fundamental idea of this movement was to create and follow the
“Counterculture”, hence gaining the title of “Counterculture of the 1960s”
How is psychedelic different from Rap ?

Political unrest

Culture

Instrumentation

Lyrics
 POLITICAL UNREST
"Keep in mind when brothas start flexing the
verbal skillz,
it always reflects what's going on politically,
socially,
Multiple Events were called off due to the due to the and economically."

Counterculture

Though not new themes, many of the aspects of rap that have been pointed out by
politicians as "objectionable"--violence, misogyny, and homophobia in the lyrics and
lifestyles of some rappers--may be seen as a function of rap's commodification.
Lyrics

The lyrics in psychedelic rock are usually dark and sometimes tend not to make
sense,considering most were influenced by drugs.They were stream of consciousness
lyrics that usually draw attention to drug use and social issues.Lyrics are usually open to
interpretation.

Rap lyrics are extremely complex and dense.It includes almost everything.
Instrumentation

Rap ,

Drum machines ,Samples ,Vocals

Psychedelic

Guitar ,drums,bass ,vocals

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