Psychedelic Music

psychedelic is what makes you fly wherever you want.
we all have different destinations.
we all have a different criterion to judge what psychedelic is.
an it is subjective.

Psychedelic music is totally primed to make a big comeback, but one thing is holding it back; the lack of a marketable psychedelic pop/rock artist or band.

Fifteen minute aural paintings arenâ??t exactly going to attract a new audience to psychedelic music. However catchy, carefully produced, well-written and performed songs will.

Just as Pink Floyd needed The Beatles to come out with Revolver, and the Byrds to come out with Fifth Dimension in 1966 in order for Piper to be a hit. Contemporary psychedelic music needs a well-accepted and popular modern band to delve into the genre.

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Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue

What are some good Gong songs?

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Pretty much everything off their third album CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE (1971) is amazing. But if I had to go with go with one song off it would probably be You Can't Kill Me. It kinda sounds like early Pink Floyd mixed with Hendrix guitar work and extremely jazzy overtones.

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Originally Posted by UnViaje

Nice post, for a while i've been copping old schoold psyche rock from the late 60's and noticed how themes havent really changed too much, even the plentiful Emo plasticy teeny bop tracks that parallel the same today, though it sounds better from back then. 13th Floor Elevators are the shyt, esp. Easter Everywhere, Rocky Ericson has good vocals. I tripped the fukk out smoking 40x salvia and listening to Can - Horror Trip in the Paper House a while back, chaotic bliss.

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Erickson got fucked over by Texas, he got thrown in a mental institution for almost 4 years (and was electrocuted) for possession of like one joint.

precommercial YES should be included too! their 'tales of topographic oceans' was made for trips along with 'drama' and their other albums made throughout the 70's...

and yeah...elton john's 'madman across the water' is one for anyone's collection!

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Originally Posted by JerryGarcia

Don't forget the San Fransisco scene, with Jefferson Airplane and the Dead.

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i go by the jefferson airplane house like once a week going to pick stuff up in SF. also, if you go in some parts, people still put up old GreatFul Dead posters in their windows from waay back in the day.

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Originally Posted by m.g.

precommercial YES should be included too! their 'tales of topographic oceans' was made for trips along with 'drama' and their other albums made throughout the 70's...

and yeah...elton john's 'madman across the water' is one for anyone's collection!

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YES are more prog then psychadelic imo.

I think the Beatles were definitely the forerunners of the psychedelic sound. But, although somewhat psychedelic, it was still focused on the mainstream audience. Pink Floyd took it one step futher, at least in their early days, creating long, drawn out trip music. So, while the Beatles music was heavily influenced by their psychedelic experiences, Pink Floyd songs like Astronomy Domine, Intersellar Overdrive, etc. were meant to be psychedelic experiences in themselves.

Paralleling the English psychedelic sound was the San Francisco psychedelic sound. Similar but both unique. Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead are the best known but there are a lot of others. Big Brother and The Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service are great too.

Another great psychedelic tune is Paul Butterfield Blues Band's East West. Check it out.

Hare's a link to a live recording of the Grateful Dead playing a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park back in 1967. http://www.archive.org/details/gd67-...108.sbeok.shnf
This was called the "Human Be-In" and was basically a giant acid party. Signifigant enough to warrant a wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Be-In