Psychedelic Rock Revisted -- Proto-Prog

East-West (13:18) 1966 The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “East-West”

And I like it (10:36) recorded 1966 / released ? Jefferson Airplane

Smokestack Lightning (10:52) 4 Sep live (Wolfgang’s Vault) 1966 Quicksilver Messenger Blues

The Same Thing (11:13) 19 Nov 1966 Grateful Dead live at Fillmore Auditorium

In the Midnight Hour (18:57) 19 Nov 1966 Grateful Dead live at Fillmore Auditorium

Eight Miles High                Jan/March '66                     Byrds           

Rain                                    April/June '66                     Beatles                                

Doctor Robert                    April/Aug '66                      Beatles                               

 Break on Through (To…)   Aug '66/Jan '67                   Doors                                 

 Light My Fire                     Aug '66/Jan '67                   Doors                                 

 Cobwebs and Strange        Oct/Dec '66                        Who                                   

 Third Stone from the Sun   Oct '66/May '67                  The Jimi Hendrix Exp       

 White Rabbit                                              Nov '66/Feb '67                Jefferson Airplane             

 C.T.A. – 102                       Dec '66/Feb '67                   Byrds                                 

 2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)                                                     Byrds (May/July '66)

Seven & Seven Is                                                                                Love (?/June '66)

Psychotic Reaction                                                                              The Count Five (?/June '66)

Bad Little Woman                                                         Shadows Of Knight (?/July '66)

I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)                       The Electric Prunes (?/Nov '66)

Blues' Theme                                                                  Davie Allen & The Arrows (?/Dec '66)

Strawberry Fields Forever                                                                   Beatles (Nov-Dec '66/Feb '67)

out in September 1966.  Both of them sound amazingly different than regular rock albums, much

more "intelligent" musically, with many world music influences, and even classical, such as

Eleanor Rigby.  

That's what came to my mind as well. Such a great and adventerous album.

Definitely, Brian Wilson was a good call. 

The Beach Boys-Smile was about experimentation. Phase shifting vocal harmonies , chanting, sound effects and combine this with the influence of J.S.Bach and you have a very odd sound. The Beach Boys vocally, keep their distinctive sound , but unlike any vocal style they harmonized in prior to Smile. It's so "off beat" for 67' and so ahead of it's time and 3 of the instrumental pieces are in the vain of the early Residents albums. Sections of Mark of the Mole and Not Available perhaps. It's a very strange connection..but it's obvious to hear. Especially in the "Fire tapes".

Jefferson Airplane's Crown of Creation is the Airplane album I must single out as being the most influential to Space Rock. Piper At the Gates of Dawn featured the instrumental "Interstellar Overdrive" which may have been the first attempt at completeness in Space Rock. Crown of Creation tends to create atmospheric sounds that later turned up in the music of Gong, Hawkwind, Guru, Guru and Amon Duul II. It was a different influence entirely to Space Rock than Piper...although "Lather" is quite like a Syd Barrett composition and take notice sometime. Imagine Syd Barrett singing "Lather" and it all falls into place. However...Syd Barrett listened to Jefferson Airplane and the developing stages of this type of experimentation can't be pin pointed and historically documented exacting without having the answers to certain important questions. It's never discussed that deeply on any of the Pink Floyd documentaries and hardly mentioned in the films on the late 60's. Ron Geesin would probably know the answers and point me in the right direction. Some people assume that because everything was bursting out in the 60's scene at rapid speed...that the confused event itself holds the explanation as to why credit to an artist can not be given and that the observation of changing music cannot be credited to that artist until several people from that period are interviewed to confirm it. That's a lie.

Beaver & Krause's In A Wild Sanctuary was very groundbreaking and influential.