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People have always regarded San Francisco as the birthplace and development center of psychedelic music, and Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and The Doors are regarded as the most representative psychedelic rock bands. This view is actually biased, completely confusing psychedelic music with hippie movement.

1967 In the summer, a hippie movement advocating flowers and love rose in San Francisco. At that time, many young people flocked to the city, grew beards and long hair, smoked marijuana and things like * * *, joined the hippie community and lived a collective life. Since "Monterey Pop" (Montreal Pop Music Festival), open-air music festivals have been held one after another. As the concert lasted longer and longer, and for the sake of expressionism, the band extended the playing time one after another when playing blues, and inserted many improvisations of guitars, synthesizers, drums and sitars to match the excitement of the audience. Jefferson airplane and national Joe &HHE fish are masters of this kind of music. In fact, the music they play is just blues or hard rock with a synthesizer, not real psychedelic music.

Real psychedelic music was invented by the British as early as 1964. At that time, many English bands tried to add novel effects to English beats. The Beatles and Yardbirds were the pioneers of this kind of music.

1at the end of 964, The Beatles released the first single with oriental psychedelic taste, I feel good. In the accompaniment, the guitar imitated the timbre and feeling of the Indian sitar, and this Indian style was brought into the British music scene by Ji Harrison. A year later, the Beatles played oriental psychedelic in the album "Rubber Soul", and the Indian Speecher was the accompaniment of "Norwegian Forest". George harrison's "Love You" in the revolver album of 1966 is an out-and-out Indian pop song. At the end of 1966, Beatnik devoted himself to psychedelic, appeared in the clothes of Edward VII era and the new image of Beatnik's moustache, and achieved a great leap forward in music. They modified the structure of songs and added many new recording techniques. The album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heat Club Band has been able to reflect the main features of British psychedelic music. Many British bands followed suit at that time.

Yardbirds was originally the product of 1963 and' 64 "blues craze". Guitarists Top Bk Frem and eric clapton are both fans of blues rock, and a song "For Your Love" put them on the road to success. 1965 after jeff baker joined, Yardbirds achieved a series of breakthroughs in music. First of all, Heart with Heart included the accompaniment version of Tin Pagoda, and later, Heartless You, Still I'm Sad, Things have changed, and It's over sideways all had heavy repercussions. At the end of 1996, Happy Ten Years ago (what happened ten years ago) is the only song by Jimmy Page and jeff baker in the band Yedbirds. After jeff baker left the team, Yardbirds was no longer in the forefront of the trend, and the single "Little Game" seemed a bit outdated, but they still used the Indian sitar in the eighth grade of this song.

Donovan was originally an English folk singer who imitated Bob Dylan. After Bob Dylan switched to electro-acoustic instruments, Donovan began to deviate from the traditional folk style. In the next few years, Donovan collaborated with john pohl Jones, jeff baker and others to play various styles of music. 1996 65438+ 10 In October, when many people were still playing folk rock, Donovan recorded the album Sunshine Superman with strong psychedelic flavor, becoming the first psychedelic singer in Britain. Unfortunately, because Donovan sued the manager and the record company, the album and the single of the same name were not released in Britain until the end of 1966. As early as September, the single "Sunshine Superman" had topped the American charts, and another humorous jazz style single "Mellow Yellow" also ranked second. Donovan became the most popular British singer in the United States at that time. At the same time, Donovan was also the most active British singer in the Lore Power Movement at that time. He held many psychedelic concerts and later went to the desert of Nevada to practice Zen.

Another psychedelic force in the British music scene in the late 1960s came from the so-called second wave, that is, a new generation of British bands, represented by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, after the first British invasion. Including Traffic, Procol Nirvana, Nice, Move, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, they make the British psychedelic music present a diversified development trend. Traffic's psychedelic route was played by band member Dave Mei Sen. From June 1967 to February 12, their single records "Papersun", "The Hole in My Shoes" and "Here We Come, Bypassing the Mulberry Bush" were all psychedelic works that entered the top ten singles charts in Britain, among which "The Hole in My Shoes" with questionable contents was not banned, but also entered the third place in the charts. Two controversial singles by Pink Floyd.

Arnold Layne and watching Emily play also topped the charts. Syd Barett, the soul of the band at that time, was very psychedelic. He was good at writing psychedelic short songs.

Matthew Fisher, the organist of Prokhoharn, and David Orlister of Nice are also West German Barrett figures. Proko Harlan's first single "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" and some works in the next two years have a certain degree of psychedelic color, which was created by Fisher's superb piano sound. After Fisher 1969 left the team, Proko Harlan lost his psychedelic style. During his stay in Nice, Nice's works, like Yue Xian, had a psychedelic state. The Thought of Meurice Duff Jack is very different from Nice's work Straight Forward, which took the art rock route after oris left the band.

In fact, as early as the second half of 1966, when Donovan was playing psychedelic music, the psychedelic wind had quietly blown up in the British music scene. Many bands began to play a kind of music called freak beat, that is, adding loud electric organ and fluffy guitar to the rhythm, and adding a lot of special sound effects and echoes to the background, which produced quite psychedelic effects. Many examples of this kind can be found in the works of Hollis Band 1966 to 68. The single "Stop Stop Stop" in 1966 even invited musicians from the Middle East to accompany it. 1Evolution in May, 1967 and Butterfly in October, 1967, 165438 are full of psychedelic meanings from the album cover design to the music in them, even absorbing some elements from the Voice of San Francisco.

The Rolling Stones have always been known for their bold, unconventional and unconventional style in the British music scene. Although they played Sitar French Indian music later than the Beatles, the Beatles were no longer the "exclusive agent" of Indian music in the United States after the Rolling Stones released Brian Jones's single "Paint It Black" playing Sitar piano in May 1966. Of course, Indian music is not the same as psychedelic music, but it is an indisputable fact that psychedelic music gets ideas and inspiration from eastern countries such as India, Hinduism, Buddhism and oriental philosophy, and gets inspiration and reference from oriental music full of meditation and long mysterious sound effects. 1966 The single "Have you seen your mother's baby" (have you seen your mother) released in August marked that the Rolling Stones officially entered the psychedelic world. Beeen The Buttons(Buttons between), the album of 65438+ 1967 10, is a transitional work full of abnormal rhythm, and the album The Request of Their Satan was released in the same year 165438+ 10. Due to the drug lawsuit and album cover design, this album was delayed for half a year, and it was officially released after Batles' Sergeant Pepper (Pepper's Land of the Army). People who didn't know the situation at the time criticized them for plagiarism (Sergeant Pepper). As a matter of fact, these two records were prepared to be recorded at the same time. In fact, their "The Demands of His Majesty Satan" is better than "Sergeant Pepper" in many aspects. Its music is completely an "evil" psychedelic adventure, full of oriental mysticism in the Arabian Nights style. Excuse me, which song in Sergeant Pepper is better than 2000 light years away from home and She is a rainbow?

British psychedelic music was formed in 1965 and' 66, 1967 was all the rage, and 1968 declined rapidly. Since 1968, the root style of returning to simplicity has become the mainstream of music. The Beatles's "Lady Modonna" and the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin 'Jack Flash" have become roots, Indian robes and floral coats have been shelved, and musicians' hair is getting longer and longer. After Woodstock Music Festival, the whole British music scene was assimilated by the unkempt American spirit.

Of course, 1968 still has several psychedelic works worth mentioning. The little face of Ogden's Nut Peeling successfully combines the psychedelic effect with the heavy rhythm; Looking for the Lost Chord (looking for the lost * * *) has added a large number of oriental musical instruments, which is full of meditation and dreamy artistic conception; Family's Music In A Doll's House also tries to combine psychedelic effects with various musical styles. Later, a lot of oriental elements and psychedelic charm can also be found in led zeppelin's music. But these efforts did not form a climate.

Psychedelic music has been reborn in Manchester Music and Aicd House after it disappeared in British music for 20 years, but it is still far from the real psychedelic music.