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Militant Blues on Campus. History of Rock & Roll Chpt . 12. The Vietnam War . Vietnam Protest. The Psychedelic Blues . The music of the oppressed race Made popular by College kids . Jimi Hendrix. Part Cherokee From a broken home in Seattle Hendrix and the Experience - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Militant Blues on Campus
History of Rock & Roll Chpt. 12
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The Psychedelic Blues
• The music of the oppressed race • Made popular by College kids
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Jimi Hendrix• Part Cherokee • From a broken home in Seattle • Hendrix and the Experience – Flower Children
• Freely experimented with drugs• “Stone Free”
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Jimi and the Blues
• Rock’s greatest virtuoso • Grew up listening – Muddy Waters – Howlin’ Wolf
• Honorable discharge as paratrooper • Played with: – Little Richard, James Brown & B.B. King
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Psychedelic Jimi
• Delivered loud, angry electric blues that captured the violence of the era.
• Electronic devices – Wah-wah pedal – Fuzz box – Feedback
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Machine Gun
• Trying to express that at every moment there are terrible things going on all over the world – war, destruction, and terror…he wanted to open people’s eyes
• “to all the soldiers who are fighting in Chicago and Milwaukee and new York, oh yes, and to all the soldiers who are fighting in Vietnam.”
• “That’s all I’m singing about. It’s today’s blues”
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Janice Joplin
• Hitchhiked from Port Arthur Texas to San Francisco
• Influenced greatly by Blues artist Bessie Smith • Razor sharp cries of anguish • Sang with several different groups: – Big Brother and the Holding company – Kosmic Blues Band – Full Tilt Boogie Band
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Heavy Metal Thunder
• Militant mood of the times
• Delivering loud, explosive blues
• Unfettered by psychedelia
• Initially defined by Steppenwolf
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Led Zeppelin
• Reworked version of Howlin’ Wolf’s “How Many More Years” called “How Many More Times”
• Lead guitarist Jimmy Page became one of heavy metal’s main stars
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Black Sabbath
• Perfected the loud, aggressive blues that characterized heavy metal
• Originally called themselves Earth• When they were “Earth” they did more blues
from Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters & John Lee Hooker.
• They began doing heavier stuff and in 1969 changed their name.
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Ozzy Osbourne
• Lead vocalist of Black Sabbath • John “Ozzy” Osbourne • “Now you consider everyone’s all jolly and tip-
toein’ around, stoned on acid, havin’ Woodstock and all love, peace, sex, drugs and rock-’n’-roll, and all that’s great…but for us guys that were livin’ in this hole in the world, it wasn’t that way.”
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