acid rock

WELCOME MADNAD

HAWKWIND IS A GOOD START

If it is any help see if you can find two 3 CD sets issued by Sequel Records in the UK, "Psychedelic Years" and "Psychedelic Years Revisited". But checking Amazon .UK suggests these albums might be deleted:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000248K9/qid=1083 080243/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/026-3132802-2111605

As you will see there, there a handful of  obvious tracks  but far more less obvious and really obscure tracks. Would others agree that  the "Pebbles Vol 1" and "Vol 2" (each 4 CDs sets, I think released by Rhino) give some guidance to the roots of acid rock/psychedelia?

progchain wrote: Well, in Germany there were a lot of great groups, as Amon Duul, Ash Ra Tempel, Popol Vuh, Wallenstein, Virus, Guru Guru, Gila................

Interesting list ...despite that I don't consider at all Wallenstein as acid rock...I only want to add a few acid folk bands to your list: Cravinkel, Sand, Siloah...

Ooops! Forgot The Electric Prunes, Chocolate Watchband, Strawberry Alarm Clock, 13th Floor Elevators, the United States of America and...

...MOST importantly (allegedly the inventors of psychedelic music)...

THE BYRDS

I did a similar project as part of my degree.

Check out the music first - that speaks volumes by itself. Then check out the band's biographies and see how they intermingle.

Psychedelia started with the Byrds and ended with Woodstock (to generalise horribly!).

Oh definitely the 13th Floor Elevators, with the lysergically damaged  Roky Erickson (not quite as bad as Moby Grape's Skip Spence - and for acid weirdness find Spence's "Oar") - best compo I've found is the Nectar Masters release "The Best of the 13th Floor Elevators". While there are several live recordings of the band, high quality sound is as elusive as finding a noise-free recording of Blind Lemon Jefferson. In passing that other well known lysergic victim, Peter Green actually was very coherent talking 60's British blues in Mike Figgis's documentary "Red White & Blues" the other night on the Beeb.

philippe wrote: progchain wrote: Well, in Germany there were a lot of great groups, as Amon Duul, Ash Ra Tempel, Popol Vuh, Wallenstein, Virus, Guru Guru, Gila................ Interesting list ...despite that I don't consider at all Wallenstein as acid rock...I only want to add a few acid folk bands to your list: Cravinkel, Sand, Siloah...

WE can continue with Arktis, Orange Peel, Sergius Golowin, Limbus, Dies Irae...

Madnad:

First, welcome.

Second, Certif1ed makes a good point re The Beatles.  Although other musicians of the time were also doing LSD (Cream, Hendrix, et al), given that The Beatles had always been (to one degree or another) "pacesetters" in rock, it could be argued that, once they did LSD and started writing songs like "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Tomorrow Never Knows," leading to Sgt. Pepper - and given Sgt. Pepper's influence on two of the three "original" acid-prog albums (Floyd's "Piper" and the Moody's "Days") - The Beatles' (and specifically their use of LSD) were one of the seminal influences in "acid" rock and, by extension, prog-rock.

Peace.