Psychedelic Rock

I'm a huge fan of Lennon, but isn't it chronologically true that his interest in pysch was inspired by people playing it live at the clubs? He may have printed an early record... but his inspiration came from the arts community that was off doing their thing while he was off perfecting a bar band sound.

You seen me mention this before... and my knowledge of this is more recent... so it's not like I remember it this way...

The 13th Floor elevators are the beginning of psychedelia.

When Roky Erikson, his philosophy professor Tommy Hall, and the boys showed up in San Fransisco with a bag of buttons and heads full of shamanistic mysticism the Bay area LSD crowd finally found the sense of spiritual cleaning they had been searching for. Prior to that tripping was an academic experiment of sorts with institutionalized experiential laboratories.

There was certainly an avid interest in altered states but it took the mystical interests of the philosophy department in Austin and their research on Native American mysticism to really catalyze, focus, and define the psychedelic experience.

It's a great tragedy that seemingly many people climbed on the bus and missed the whole spiritual thing... Or at least to me the tragedy is that they think they connected with the spiritual thing and now feel justified to act as if they are experienced.

FWIW, I was never a tripper... my natural state of mind seems like what most trippers seem to describe when they are out there... so that's more how I relate to the experience.


best regards,
mike

That's 12 years too late... that was the bathtub basin era.

That's 12 years too late... that was the bathtub basin era.

Obviously true, but it's actually the only real combi of 'psychedelic' and 'rock' that still works for me. The earlier stuff is just pretty silly doped-out hippyfourletterword. This is the shizz. And in the genre, actually very early, maybe 12 years.

True spacey - go back and look at movies like The Magic Christian (odd), Zachariah (odder) or Candy (oddest?)

But there are some classics in there. Lies and Friday on my Mind were great songs regardless of the era. Lucifer Sam and Astronomy Domine are definite preambles to what later Pink Floyd would become. Traffic and Spirit were great bands that outlived a brief period in rock music.

Dagnabbit I forgot
Pitcures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman (but better done by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers).

ORIGINAL: spacey

space- Traffic - Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory- I hadn't heard but was trippin in a store and bought because of the cover lol. That happened alot.

Santana -Abraxas
Alice Cooper- "The telephone is ringing" album- I can't remember
Deep Purple- Book of Talisyn (I still have the original album)

3 of my "don't leave home without them" choices.

Dark Side of The Moon while watching the Wizard of Oz - that was fun. From what I remember ya start the album when it goes to color er colour.

Very good memories attached to albums and visual media is what the real trip was about. Twas a good place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there.

Alice Cooper - wasn't that song "Under My Wheels?"

Abraxas - Great One too.

I only tripped once - from 1972 to 1978. Then again, I came at the tail end of the hippy gen.

Oh yeah, the heyday of great music.

Not that there isn't great music today, but I think the push towards making sure something is commercially viable has killed creativity.

Now, as an owner of Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed, I understand that creativity for its own sake is not good. But two things seem to have happened to popular music -
1 - the amount of stuff that is "out there where the buses don't run" is way lower
2 - the good stuff is all in the first few tracks of an album.

My favorite LPs from back when I used to be cool - I would listen to the whole side - not skip around a song here a song there...I think taht the quality had to be more consistent from song to song as a result. Now, with a properly armed remote, or an iTunes account, you dont have to listen to all the stuff the band thought was interesting - you can just listen to that one hit. Knowing this, bands may (or may not) record accordingly.

In the Court of the Crimson King - Psychedelic or Prog? Or both?

Great Album, though that generation of KC - my fave was Larks Tongues in Aspic.

Pictures of Matchstick Men The Status Quo

Ahhhh!! - before someone showed them the 12 bar blues riff

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in the court of the crimson king?

"A Space in time" by 10 years after. And the song "As the sun still burns away" from same on Cricklewood Green.

Cricklewood Green - the album with the LONG version of Love Like A Man!!

Stonedhenge was a good album, as was Scchhh.

Zappa
Saw him several times. First time was in Armadillo World Headquarters (maybe the concert where The Muffin Man was recorded). I had always thought of him as a stoner for coming up with such bizarre lyrics. But before the show, the MC came out and said "For those of you in the first 10 rows, we ask that you please refrain from smoking p_t as Frank does not do drugs and the smoke interferes with his playing." Or something like that.

And how would you characterize an instrumental like Peaches and Regalia? Prog? Rock-symphony (which I guess would be Prog)?

I have to disagree on Astronomy Domine as I hear pre-echoes of DSOTM in it. Space Rock is still prog rock.

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But it was still psychedelic.

This is exactly why I believe as the ProgArchives.com website does that the singular definition of what constitutes Prog is too narrow.

Not an afficianado of Psych, but here's a few good 'uns..

Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
Kites - Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
Cerdes - Procul Harum
Hung Up on a Dream - The Zombies
Pools of Blue - Barclay James Harvest

"Defecting Grey" by the Pretty Things

and anything by the Seeds, or Chocolate Watchband, Frumious Bandersnatch...

The only time I saw Zappa was on his last visit to the UK in about 1989. This was the band who imploded, hence the album title "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life", but the show itslef was awesome.

Talking of Space Rock - anybody ever get to see Hawkwind performing The Space Ritual?

I think I saw it about 3 times in the mid 70's, once in Bristol, once in Birmingham and again in London.

I can't believe I didn't list this one earlier as I thought it was the greatest thing that could ever be.

Steve Miller- Number 5

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Anthology?

Mike your post has reply to me...I guess you were asking?

I'm at work so I can't put a link-security- but google and It'll bring it up. Great album.

I wore out 8-trks, cassettes and know I bought at least 3 of the albums. The last one I played once and stored.
"Pack My Bags!" still rings in my head. "You're much to slow, I'm gone to Mexico".