WELCOME MADNAD

HAWKWIND IS A GOOD START

thank you dude!
yes that's what i've already found out - others who are considered as acid rock bands are grateful dead, jefferson airplane, the doors and mothertongue - that's all i know so far...

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=1083080243/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/026-3132802-2111605 - 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...

They don't come any more "Acid" rock than Gong or Pink Floyd.

Amazingly, the Beatles work as well - Revolver onwards.

The Woodstock album is a trip all by itself

...and if you don't mind a bad trip, try Blue Cheer (named after a brand of acid). They were from the same school/area as Airplane, Dead, etc, but were more interested in "turning the air around them into cotton wool", as one review described it. They were so loud you could hear them 10 miles away, and they destroyed a studio while recording one album, and had to finish it in the field nearby. Hence the album (their best) is called "Outside Inside". The rest are a bit trashy, although "Vincebus Eruptum" is a garage classic. Takes some getting used to...

Great (if not particularly musically talented) band  - you can hear where the Doors, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin got some of their early influences. Black Sabbath are good too (up to Vol 4).

Also also recommended; Ozric Tentacles, Here and Now, "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" by the Small Faces and anything by Frank Zappa ONLY if you're not easily freaked out... "Ship Arriving..." is a particularly spectacular psychedelic album.

Lastly, if you also like a bit of speed, try Motorhead, Pink Fairies and <b>early</b> Metallica.

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!).

BloodRock: DOA!!!!

I recently bought The Cycle is Complete by Bruce Palmer, formerly bassist of Buffalo Springfield....

Fantastic trip.... 

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.