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Classic Garage Rock - includes profiles and lyrics of 60s garage rock bands and songs—have inventory of records rented to film studios; Cosmic Mind at Play - discusses garage and psychedelic records of the 60s along with band histories; Down The Line – news, information, and reviews of 1960s bands
The 13th Floor Elevators debut single "You're Gonna Miss Me", a national Billboard No. 55 hit in 1966, was featured on the 1972 compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968. Seminal punk rock band Television played the Elevator's song "Fire Engine" live in the mid-1970s.
The Psychedelic era was the time of social, musical and artistic change influenced by psychedelic drugs, occurring from the mid-1960s [1] to the mid-1970s. [2] The era was defined by the proliferation of LSD and its following influence in the development of psychedelic music and psychedelic film in the Western world .
As pop music began incorporating psychedelic sounds, the genre emerged as a mainstream and commercial force. [33] Psychedelic rock reached its peak in the last years of the decade. [7] From 1967 to 1968, it was the prevailing sound of rock music, either in the whimsical British variant, or the harder American West Coast acid rock. [34]
The Hollies psychedelic B-side "All the World Is Love" (February 1967) was released as the flipside to the hit single "On a Carousel". [ 140 ] Pink Floyd's " Arnold Layne " (March 1967) and " See Emily Play " (June 1967), both written by Syd Barrett , helped set the pattern for pop-psychedelia in the UK. [ 141 ]
The song's instrumentation contains the titular tambourine as well as an electric sitar, [10] a frequent signature of the so-called "psychedelic sound". Another hook is the heavy, psychedelic tape echo applied to the word "play" in each chorus and at the end, fading into a drumroll ("Listen while I play play play play play play play my green ...
The Seeds were formed in 1965 following the dissolution of the short lived band the Amoeba which featured frontman Sky Saxon and guitarist Jan Savage.. Saxon, who had relocated to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City and had already released material under several names including Little Richie Marsh and Sky Saxon & the Soul Rockers put an ad in the LA Times for a keyboard player. [8]
Psychedelic soul (originally called black rock [1] or conflated with psychedelic funk [2]) is a form of soul music which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s. The style saw African-American soul musicians embrace elements of psychedelic rock, including its production techniques, instrumentation, effects units such as wah-wah and phasing, and drug influences. [3]