MUCO 120: Chapter 7
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The making of the counter-culture – i.e. the social/political context
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marijuana and LSD played a central role in the new worldview many young people were seeking. Grew out of the folk revival. Hippie worldview committed to cultural change and music was at the center of this lifestyle; rejection of money/traditional job/politics/religion; ppl reacted to what…
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Haight Ashbury
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Birthplace of the hippies, psychedelic music grew out of here; beat poets
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San Francisco
Experimentation
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trying different drugs to reach deeper states of consciences; experimentation with different religions; sexual relationship experimentation
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Alan Ginsberg and the Beatniks
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poets; Human Be-In: gathering for “different people” that avoided dogma; at the first Human Be-In (Hindu, John Lennon)
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Role of psychedelic drugs in music scene
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People wanted to experiment with different states of consciences and represent it in their music style, LSD being the most popular at the time
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Timothy Leary
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Psychedelic Review; talked about spiritual connection between drug use and spirituality “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”; talked about levels of consciousness
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Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
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had parties that played music and drugged everyone up with LSD; summer of love / free love; supplied drugs to crowd; The “Trips Festival” - 6600 ppl came and tripped on LSD and listened to music
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The Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom:
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Home to events in Haight Ashbury, Home to the development of music
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Monterey International Pop Festival
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lots of famous artists played for over three days. Known as the summer of love with over 200,000 people.
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Woodstock
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½ million fans on 600 acres of rolling country side for three days of music, community, and sheer psychedelic ecstasy. There was traffic jams that caused performers having a hard time getting there which resulted to them being flown in which caused the 1st artist playing for three hours…
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LSD
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Popular drug in the 60’s that made you hallucinate in vivid colors
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Grateful Dead
Origins
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started off as the house band for the parties Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters would throw. The drug use at these parties would influence how the music sounded
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Dead Heads
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fans that followed Grateful Dead around from show to show. Most didn’t even make it into the actual concert, just tailgated. This created a sense of community and resulted in the band being about live shows more than making it big on the charts.
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Dead Shows
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the band would let people bootleg their shows. It was a very obvious rejection of old ways. They did not intend to make a lot of record sales. Their fans were interested in live tracks.
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Improvisation-
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played different every time they played the song, played for 20-30 minutes without stopping, jam band
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Jerry Garcia
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guitarist, crossed over from typical bluegrass to rock; the birth of “hippie-grass”
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Old and In The Way
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biggest bluegrass album sold; Jerry Garcia’s Bluegrass Band
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Jefferson Airplane
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late 1960’s, West Coast Rock. Lived/performed in the Haight-Ashbury district in San fran. Psychedelic, songs about drugs. Role in conflict about record companies vs. artistic freedom of the artists, said mother f’er in a song; really similar to Grateful Dead; hits on the pop charts; chang…
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Jefferson Airplane- Success
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Monterey Pop Festival helped their success greatly, they played with other great bands. One of the first bands from the psychedelic sound to get radio play
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Grace Slick
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One of the first women in rock to front a popular band, Strong Vocals, brought “White Rabbit” & “Somebody to Love” with her from her previous band
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Janis Joplin- image
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She struggled, grew up in Port Arthur, Texas where she was not attractive to her career leading her to pose for nude pics and everyone eventually had a piece of her; equated singing w/ sex w/ liberation
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Janis Joplin-Influence
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Started in bluegrass band, then went to blues; Biggest hero: Bessie Smith
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Janis Joplin- band-name
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Big Brother and the Holding Company
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Janis Joplin Death
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Struggled with drugs/alcohol and died from overdose at 27 years old
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Jimi Hendrix-guitar experiments
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Played with only one hand (wasn’t strumming – only hammering and pulling); Messed with tone of the guitar; Created tone color with overdrive; Created signal with pre-amp that overdrives the amp; Wawa pedal that makes guitar sound like it’s talking; he was the original inspiration for effe…
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Monterey Pop Festival
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Hendrix’s American debut
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Electric Lady Land Studios
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Soundpainting. started connecting songs on albums to one another without pauses; Hendrix founded it; everyone was thinking “what can you do with studio technology”
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Woodstock
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estimated 450,000 ppl in attendance; shut down NY interstate system so performers had to be flown in (NY passed a law after show to prohibit traffic problems); Shining moment for counter culture; “Three Days of Peace and Music” was mantra
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The Beach Boys-Pet sounds
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set a new standard for record production and musical sophistication within rock music. Brian was working long hours in the recording studio experimenting with new sounds, some of which he considered his pet sounds
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The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” and Smile
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spent a lot of money and a long time recording “Good Vibrations”; the band ended up releasing the song as a single due to the high studio cost and completed the rest of the tracks later on the Smile album; falls into psychedelic era
Psych attempt but with a classical music style
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Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
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a pseudo band for the Beatles; one of the greatest and most important rock albums due to the experimentation; they wanted people to listen to the album as a whole because it was not just a collection of singles; contained a wide collection of different sounds; created album that connected…
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Apple Records
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was a label the beatles owned. James Taylor was the first American artist they signed to Apple.
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Break-up of the Beatles
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The white album you can feel the tension within the band during the album. lots of conflict led the band to break up.
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The Velvet Underground
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while hippies and flower power were dominating rock in the late 1960s the velvet underground often looked at the darker side of life. Known as a major influence. Really no one bought their album but whoever did buy it went out and started their own band (mentioned also in start of punk sc…
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Lou Reed
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studied creative writing in college and then worked as a professional songwriter. left the velvet underground in 1970.
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Andy Warhol
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reconstructed famous peoples’ photographs with a psychedelic twist; known for his stage light shows; tried his hand at producing records; he partnered with The Velvet Underground and Nico
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The Exploding Plastic Inevitable
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parties involving uncomfortable scenes playing on large screens (S&M), flashing lights and drones (a continual sound, monotone delivery)
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Pre-punk
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huge precursor of punk rock
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The Doors
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the most commercially known band out of the psychedelic era
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Jim Morrison- dark side of humanity
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interested with theatre that would get in people’s faces; interactive, so he tried it with his audience eventually lead to a moment when the band came crashing to a halt
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Jim Morrison-death
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died at 27 in Paris from heroin overdose
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Rolling Stones-psychedelic rock
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Beatles put out psychedelic album, so Stones did; album was “Her Satanic Majesties’ Request”
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Altamont
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free concert; someone got killed at this show. 300,000 people. different mood than woodstock. A fire broke out. The Grateful Dead refused to play. Hells Angels motorcycle group were the police they hired paying them with beer. An eighteen year old black fan pulled a gun at the front of th…
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Rolling Stones - controversy
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Raised question of rock as art in a different way than Beatles (they pushed what was acceptable/boundaries); Billboard “I’m ‘Black and Blue’ from the Rolling Stones-and I love it!” with nearly naked woman w/ bruises; some people think they might have “pushed it” too far sometimes; Racist,…
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MUCO 120: Chapter 8