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The station switched its call letters to WHPY-FM to stand for the word "hippie." It changed its format to classic hits, branded as "Hippie Radio 94.5". WHPY-FM broadcasts music from the "hippie era." Most of its playlist received airplay on Top 40 stations from the 1960s through the 1980s.
In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary said the slogan was "given to him" by Marshall McLuhan during a lunch in New York City. Leary added McLuhan "was very much-interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that's a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial of the time.
Freak scene music was an eclectic mixture based around progressive rock and experimentalism. There were crossover bands bridging rock and jazz , rock and folk , rock and sci-fi ( space rock ). BBC radio presenter John Peel presented a nightly show that featured the music.
Many of the bands performing at hippie festivals, and their derivatives, are called jam bands, since they play songs that contain long instrumentals similar to the original hippie bands of the 1960s. Psychedelic trance or " psytrance ", a type of techno music influenced by 1960s psychedelic rock and hippie culture is also popular among neo ...
[7] [8] [9] The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies adopted the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and many used drugs such as marijuana and LSD to explore altered states of consciousness. [10] [11]
"The band's baroque House of Usher apartment on London's Shaftesbury Avenue had witnessed pre-Raphaelite hippy scenes, like Sandy the bass player (of The Deviants and Pink Fairies), Tony the now and again keyboard player, and a young David Bowie, fresh from Beckenham Arts Lab, sunbathing on the roof, taking photos of each other and posing coyly ...
During its early and mid-60s heyday, much free jazz was released by established labels such as Prestige, Blue Note and Impulse, as well as independents such as ESP Disk and BYG Actuel. Free improv or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved. The term can refer to both a ...
Like the psychedelic developments of the late 1960s, punk rock and new wave in the 1970s challenged the rock music establishment. [10] At the time, "new wave" was a term used interchangeably with the nascent punk rock explosion. [11] In 1978, journalist Greg Shaw categorized a subset of new wave music as "neo-psychedelia", citing Devo, "to an ...