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Instrumentation Electric guitar

Exotic instruments (tabla, sitar)

Keyboard/organ/harpsichord/Mellotron

Drums

Bass guitar

Vocals

Synthesizers

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Charcateristsics Multiple guitar effetcs, such as wah and fuzz.

Elaborate studio effects panning, phasing, delay loops andmore.

Extended solos or jams.

Very complex song structures, often incorporating key andtime signature changes.

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Origins During the 1950s, musicians began making music became

about taking drugs, and experimentation.

The tradition of jazz musicians using drugs crossed over in

the 60s to more and folk and rock artists. Two of mostsuccessful and influential acts of this era were Bob Dylanand The Beatles.

Acts such as The Byrds emerged from the californian folkscene, whilst the Yardbirds emerged from the British blues

scene, however both were seen as huge influences for thegenre.

Its influences came from drugs, blues, folk, jazz and rock.

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Artists (US) The most commercially successful psychedelic rock bands

were The Doors, Frank Zappa (and his band The Mothers ofInvention), who came out of San Francisco.

The Beach Boys concept album Pet Sounds spurred thepsychedelic movement forwards in the US, with theirmeaningful lyrics, use of unusual instruments and artyexperimentation.

New York also produced psychedelic rock bands such asThe Fugs and The Godz.

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Artists (UK) The largest outbreak of psychedelic bands came in 1966,

with bands such as Pink Floyd and Cream, who wereinfluenced by the British Blues scene, folk scene and jazz.

The Who also produced several psychedelic influences,which came through on songs such as I Can See For Miles.

The Small Faces were another British band to emerge duringthis period.

The psychedelic bands of this period became a part of theBritish Invasion into the American charts.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience Purple Haze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4d7dL12C8

The Doors Riders On The Storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de7hzCzGV2g

Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpzxf_flm8M Cream Sunshine Of Your Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDZqmF3zS04

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