Psychedelic Music

[Tomorrow Never Knows]

a few of Subterranean Masquerade's reviews, one band of hundreds on that site

"I will warn you all right from scratch: Subterranean Masquerade is different. You need an open mind to listen to this and fully appreciate every song on the album. I've been listening to the album for a few months and only now do I appreciate everything on it fully.

SubMasq have managed to blend jazz, progressive rock, psychedelic rock and elements of metal together to a diverse mixture that both soothes the mind but puts it to work as well.

It's unique, soothing, philosophical, everything fits.

While there appears to be a running theme of psychosis that the band utilizes, they manage to invoke feelings of euphoric and tranquil states, of the lighter side of insanity if you will. Indeed, at times it feels as though you are in a floating dream, a realm in which the shapes, colors and feelings float by, and suspend for a minute, before new ones sweep in to take their long forgotten place."

I'll check it out.

[dooman]

I agree, two really good examples of the jazz-pych link are free-jazz musician Sun Ra, and The Byrds lead guitarist, and co-founder, Roger McGuinn, who was heavily inspired by Coltraine. Check out The Byrds breakthrough acid rock song Eight Miles Eight from 1966. McGuinnâ??s soloing sounds like a saxophone, while he actually played it on a slightly distorted 12 string.

the Jazz psych-link goes way futher back to the early 1900s
the begginning of Jazz is psychedelic
I cant think of any particular band names but chck out for example A&E's documentary "History of Marijuana" with Woddy Harelson as the commentator, and they show a few jazz bands from 1920s getting groovy, smoking marijuana, and making some psychedelic music

but u nailed it where the Psychedelic-ROCK link beggins - as i said earlier sorta when they started integrating jazz into rock

[Hempstone]

Ummmm....I don't think you guys have ever seen a psychedelic. The Floyd Show is the absolute pinnacle of psychedelic experience. No other show on earth can even come close. It was a show of immaculate genious. I saw them twice on the Pulse Tour in 1994.

Check this out and then get back to me... http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=David+Gilmour

[Euphoric]

Psytrance!! Psychedelic thats not 30 + years old OO

Astral Projection
Hallucinogen
Infected Mushroom
Dark Soho
Cosmic Gate
Virtual Moon :thumbsup:

[nightlight]

13th Floor Elevators
Can
Family
United States of America
Gong

can is so great. there is alot of great psych stuff going on now, most of it is underground though.

[nightlight]

Psytrance!! Psychedelic thats not 30 + years old OO

Astral Projection
Hallucinogen
Infected Mushroom
Dark Soho
Cosmic Gate
Virtual Moon :thumbsup:

there are such huge gaps between psy trance and psych rock.

[yabatab]

Don't forget the San Fransisco scene, with Jefferson Airplane and the Dead. Country Joe and the Fish were great too.

Yes Jefferson Airplane the fist band that got wide
play with a song about a psychedelic experience
"White Rabbit." I love that song it never gets old.

And the dead known as the warlocks back in those
days were greatly influenced by bluegrass.

This is the music I was raised on. My dad was
a Vietnam vet and became an antiwar protesting
hippie when he got back. I love to get high and
listen to his stories even though i have herd them
all 100s of times. Like the time he went to see The
Doors with my mom and Jim Morisson was to drunk to
sing.

[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.

[Reefer Rogue]

More and Obscured by clouds are HARDLY bland buddy

Pipers at the gates of dawn and A saucerful of secrets were extremely psychadelic. Pink Floyd aren't a one trick pony band. They didn't limit themselves to one genre. Nearly every album had a different theme. The Wall was a rock opera. They were psychadelic, they were progressive at times, they WERE classic rock. Who's to say only one band can claim to have the most influence on psychadelic rock? What, because of a year or two before?
All those bands you mentioned had an influence.

What are some good Gong songs?

[willystylle]

Hendrix was the king of the mind-fuck, but there is no music on earth which suits a high better than the music of Bob Marely.