Psychedelicatessen

THE DOORS - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1968)

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Snicolette wrote: Yes, he died in Memphis, not far from where I was living in Nashville at the time.  Thinking of the Prog in Unexpected Places (I think that's the name of the thread), I was working at the Nashville Whole Foods Market and a fairly young person came through my line with a tattoo of the Love logo on his arm.  I asked him why he chose that tattoo.  He said his older brother had died and that was his favourite band, he commemorated his brother with the tattoo.     I rediscovered Psychedelic Rock after I went online in 2010. I was too young to know much about it in the Summer of Love year of 1967, as I was only 7 or 8 years old at the time. Before 2010, the only two Psychedelic Rock bands I was aware of were The Doors & Jefferson Airplane. Now though, I have album covers by well over 400 Psychedelic Rock bands in my database, with all sorts of weird and wonderful names, like The Five Day Week Straw People, for instance, or the equally bizarre-sounding Orange Alabaster Mushroom, to name just two.

  People will get tired of my story.  I was born in 1958, but my sisters were 7 and 8 years older and my mother loved music as well, so there was a wide variety played in my home, from the time I could remember (and way before).  My sisters worked at The Bank in Torrance, CA, they passed out posters up on Sunset and Hollywood Blvd for free admission to shows, The Bank booked many of the same bands as The Fillmore up north of us.  I was exposed at a young age to all of the popular (and underground) music of the time and my sisters had very eclectic taste.  I was poring over album covers, reading liner notes and reading hippie newspapers as much as I was poring over books, of all of the psych bands as they were emerging, and also the earlier ones like The Seeds, Love, etc.  We spent every summer on the way to my great aunt's ranch in Mendocino, and on the way always stopped in San Francisco, and explored the Haight from 1966 onwards each year.  So I remember it all very clearly, being so young.  Many people think it was all about drugs and, yes, there was that element.  But it was about a lot more and was truly an intellectual endeavour as well, until greedy people got involved.

Edited by Snicolette - November 18 2019 at 19:53

The Dark Elf wrote: Let's not forget acoustic psych....

  My favourite Tim Buckley LP!!!!!

Let's not forget acoustic psych....

Edited by The Dark Elf - November 18 2019 at 19:24

Snicolette wrote: That was a wonderful show (I was not in attendance, but have seen the whole thing), so glad they caught it for us to enjoy forever.  And more again.

ARTHUR LEE & LOVE - Live at Glastonbury (2003)

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE - Full Concert at Winterland in San Francisco (1975) 

On the one hand, there is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by The United States Of America:

^^ WOW! Over two hours long! That's a LONG psychedelic freak out.

One of my favourite Jefferson Airplane videos is this performance of "White Rabbit"  from the Smothers Brothers TV show.....