The psychedelic rock thread

Never used Spotify ...pretty cool - Thanks

Love 60's music .. Listening to this now.I'm not real deep into it the list yet,but most of these don't really fit my definition of psychedelia ..Good stuff though.

 

My favorite garage/psychedelic band of the later era is The Greenhornes
(aka the rhythm section for The Raconteurs). Dual Mono is my favorite CD from them but 4 Stars is newer.

The top 40 on you tube is pretty good survey ( they won't embed)
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There latest release is an EP they did with Eric Burdon, which is funny because they sound like old Eric Burdon music anyway (actually they do it a little better I think)

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Nice mentions of Tame Impala. They are one of my favorite bands right now. Here are a couple of more modern artists who are psychadelic.

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Of Montreal

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Super Furry Animals, the best band in the world.

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Can't forget the Flaming Lips. This is from their 1994(?) album, "Clouds Taste Metallic."

 

I am disgusted and appalled that no one else has mentioned Arthur Lee and his group Love and specifically their album, "Forever Changes". WTF is wrong with you people??!!

 

I've got levitation.

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And an LP from 1967 that anyone interested in the genre needs to hear...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdJpJsa-M

From McAllen, TX

 

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1973

 

To get a really good 60's psychadelic sound you need at least one of two things - a Vox or Farfisa organ, or that really raunchy buzzy 60's fuzz.

This one brings the fuzz via the Mosrite Fuzzrite.

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A really nice under the radar garage band from the 60's is The Moving Sidewalks, which was Billy Gibbons' band before ZZ Top.

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Good stuff in here.

Another +1 for Tame Impala, Flaming Lips (and fwends)

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Rashmon's list looks like mine would give or take a few. I might go with "We're only in it for the money" to add a little sardonic wit to the thread. Not seeing much Beatles love in here, but i know it's out there somewhere.

Kidcave, that Fraternity song is very cool. Thanks for posting.

 

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And a full show from J. Spaceman's former band Spacemen 3

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The Moving Sidewalks opened for the Doors when they played the Sam Houston Coliseum, and were terrific. Got a huge response from the crowd (certainly from me!). I had seen them several times at clubs in town (numerous times at Love Street) before that gig, but I'm sure it was a huge deal for the Sidewalks. They sure as hell didn't allow Jim and the Doors to dial it in. I've always felt that one reason the Doors were so good that night was because of that set by Billy and the Movin' Sidewalks.

 

go here http://www.austinpsychfest.com/

 

yeah man you put a lot of.....uh....

 

Good article came out recently on the Houston Press music blog:

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators & 10 Early Texas Psych Bands You Should Know

 

Was lucky enough to see all the groups mentioned in the article at the Love Street Light Circus and Feel Good Machine on Allen's Landing, and places other than Love Street, like the Vulcan Gas Company in Austin. While I don't recall The Starvation Army Band being the house band at Love Street, I did see them there. Members of Bubble Puppy were good friends of some good friends of mine, so we went to the same parties on many occasions, sharing various things with them, as people were apt to do back then. Also partied with them at Pale Face Park on Travis a time or two. Got to know the drummer of the Elevators, which I've mentioned here before. His girlfriend was the older sister of my girlfriend for a while, back when the Elevators lived in the two story house on Old Galveston Road.


I ran across this hour-plus video of the Texas International Pop Festival, aka the Dallas Pop Festival. While I apologize about the fact that Grand Funk opens on this thing (they opened the festival, making a big deal out of "playing for free," which was a promontional gimmick), there's some great stuff here, and it gives a sense of what it was like, at least some of what it was like. Could be that I'm here somewhere on the damn thing. Wouldn't surprise me. I'd be a cat with wavy hair way down my back, not real tall, but I was with some tall friends. One ended up in the trip tent after he had some of the gray acid they warned us about on the PA, where it was said it should get broken down into 1/8's... after he split a tab with some cat with very long wavy hair. Can't imagine who that was, but I do know that he ribbed the guy endlessly about it for a couple of years afterwards. There was some nudity, especially at the camp ground by the lake, and no doubt some of those running amok in the video below were friends of mine (and maybe a guy with long wavy hair down his back) but there was also a little in the crowd during the concert, particularly at night. Don't know if there's any in the video below. Like Steven Colbert says about color, I don't see nudity. People have to tell me what it is and I take their word for it.

This went on for three days. The music was tremendous, far better than the quality in this thing would have you believe. There's some high quality bits from Led Zep around the half hour mark, with Dazed and Confused starting at 47 minutes (that looks like my friends and I sitting by a fire at the campground about the 51 minute mark! Can't be, but sure looks like it. It's dark and whoever made this keeps fading back and forth from that scene to several others. Too strange!). Yeah, and they sounded better than the bit here, although it does sound pretty damn good. One of the best 3 days I had during the '60's, and I survived my friend's VW Bug hitting a cow on the way up that had wandered onto the freeway, and the same friend driving us back at night after the 3rd day. I sat behind him, dumping ice cold water on his head from time to time to keep him awake. I couldn't drive because my buddy had two or three heads at the time. Maybe it was two or three moons in the sky. Hell, at least he missed the semi that damned near hit us head on. We both remembered that incident the next day.

I really enjoyed watching this. Brought back some good memories:

Spoiler

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Published on Aug 5, 2011

The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate Highway 35E, across from the Round Grove Road intersection.

The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G. Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park. Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley, forming the company Interpop Superfest.

Artists performing at the festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.

North of the festival site was the campground on Lewisville Lake, where hippie attendees skinny-dipped and bathed. Also on the campground was the free stage, where some bands played after their main stage gig and several bands not playing on the main stage performed. It was on this stage that Wavy Gravy, head of the Hog Farm commune, acquired his name. (At Woodstock, he was Hugh Romney.)

The Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey's group, was in charge of the free stage and camping area. While Kesey was neither at the Texas event nor at Woodstock, his right hand man, Ken Babbs, and his psychedelic bus, Further (Furthur) were. The Hog Farm provided security, a trip tent, and free food.

Attendance at the festival remains unknown, but is estimated between 120,000 and 150,000. As with Woodstock, there were no violent crimes reported. There was one death, due to heatstroke, and one birth.

High-quality soundboard bootleg recordings of almost the entire festival are circulated on the internet. Led Zeppelin's set is one of the most popular Led Zeppelin bootlegs due to the high technical and musical quality of the performance.

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I'll be damned if The Moving Sidewalks aren't getting back together!!!!

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Bio

Before achieving multi platinum success with that "little ol' band from Texas" ZZ Top, a young Billy Gibbons lead a hard charging psychedelic blues rock outfit called The Moving Sidewalks featuring Dan Mitchell on drums, Don Summers on bass, and Tom Moore on keyboards. Starting in 1966 these four helped pioneer a style of music that sounds as spontaneous and combustible today as it did then. Rooted in Texas soul and rhythm & blues and influenced by Austin's 13th Floor Elevators, Jimi Hendrix, and early California psychedelia, they pushed the sonic envelope, hot rodding 12 bar blues. And in 1967 that sound took them to #1 on local radio with the garage rock classic, "99th Floor" and out on the road w/ Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Jeff Beck Group w/ Rod Stewart and more. But The Moving Sidewalks came to a stop in the summer of '69 when Tom Moore and Don Summers were drafted just before the release of their debut lp Flash, a heady brew of muscular hallucinatory rock. For more than 45 years The Moving Sidewalks music and their friendship have endured. From hippie jam bands to garage bands you can hear their influence. Now Dan, Tom, Don, and Billy are taking the stage again to celebrate their legacy and the release of Moving Sidewalks - The Complete Collection.
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They are playing Austin Psych Fest the end of April

 

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