1.+Psychedelic+Acid+Rock+(Defined)

On Psychadelic Rock :

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in United States and Britain. Psychedelic rock bridged the transition from earlyblues- and folk music-based rock to progressive rock, glam rock, hard rock and as a result influenced the development of sub-genres such as heavy metal. It often used new recording techniques and effects and drew on non-Western sources such the ragas and drones of Indian music.


 * Electric guitars (used with feedback, wah wah, fuzzboxes)
 * Studio effects (backwords spooling, panning, phasing, long delay loops and extreme reverb
 * Exotic instrumentation, with a particular fondness for the sitar and tabla
 * Strong keyboard presence, especially organs, harpsichords, and the Mellotron (an early tape-driven ‘sampler’)
 * Strong emphasis on extended instrumental solos or jams
 * More complex song structures, key and time signature changes, modal melodies and drones
 * Surreal, whimsical, esoterically or literary-inspired, lyrics

On Acid Rock :

Acid rock is //a form of psychedelic rock//, which is characterized with long instrumental solos, few (if any) lyrics and musical improvisation…also refers to the subset of psychedelic rock bands that were part of, or were influenced by, the San Francisco Sound, and which played loud, “heavy” music featuring long improvised solos.

On What Psychedelic Even MEANS:
 * “Mind expanding/manifesting”
 * Originated from psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond in 1857 (used it to describe psychic and visual effects of LSD)
 * Caught on in 60s youth culture for hallucinogenic characteristics of drugs (like marijuana, psilocybin [aka magic] mushrooms, peyote, and mescalin)

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