60s-70s Psychedelia

a reply to: alldaylong

Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck were in that bands same time...after Eric Clapton left!!

And....King Crimson- Court of the Crimson- King"- trippy left/rt w headphones

And hometown boys... Parliment Funkafelic

Todd Rundgren's Utopia blew my mind when I first heard it. Still does today.

a reply to: AlroyFarms

Bravo for starting the excellent thread.

On the turntable here:

In the CD player, and much heavier:

And a blast from the more recent past, on the radio earlier:

Ah, who could forget these guys. RIP Phil May.

How could we forget these guys!! Probably the epitome of Psychedelia.......

Golden Earring - Vanilla Queen. I saw them in concert during the Moontan tour. It was amazing maaaaaaan, I mean it was like a two hour song, each movement morphing into the next without pause or interruption or applause. It was Just. Fantastic. Sort of like Pink Floyd, when they din the Dark Side of the Moon Tour, or Kansas with the Songs For America tour. These were really crisp, fresh, and amazingly vibrant times.

What a great thread!

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originally posted by: BingoMcGoof

Bro I'm still trying to absorb this stuff.

It reminds me of listening to Ravi Shankar.

originally posted by: network dude

The singer seemed to be quite alert. This one always amused me with the creative nature and the very obvious buzz the dude has. To the gills.

I wouldn't have been surprised one bit if that dude would have just shot up to the ceiling at the end of the song and started ricocheting around the room walls, floor and ceiling then shot out through the roof! LOL!

a reply to: AlroyFarms

Yeah, I get that. Minimalist or ambient music is not for everyone's taste we have been trained so well to rely upon melodies and phrasing. I also like Shankar and have moved on to other raga musicians as well. I love the drummer with him Zakar Hussain is still playing and is phenomenal.

Back in 67 Shankar was basically introduced to American musical audiences at the Monterey Pop Festival. It is an amazing video of his performance. Basically an audience of bay area hippies, lolling around because all the people they came for were finished and the day was waning. You might see in this video how the raga begins so slowly and to most, boringly until it picks up steam when by the end of the raga the whole house erupts like a volcano. Marvelous moment in musical history I think.

Ravi taught George Harrison to play sitar.






Keep the gems from the period, coming.

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Is this psychedelic? Maybe not the music, but the concept of talking to animals in their own language...

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