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History of rock&roll Chapter 7,8,9

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What were some of the social issues that led to the formation of a youth culture in the 1960?
1. New social aggravators - including civil rights movement.

2. increased usage of hallucinogenic drugs

3. The Vietnam war- Massive impact on youth

4. Many teens question their parents middle class values.

5. four students were killed by national guard troops. (Resulting in outbreak protest)

6. No content with the social status quo
Heavy metals
-G,B,D+vocal

-england: industrial cities
What were some of the musical and non musical influences on acid Rock?
1. Freeform improvisations and heavy influences from blues and folk music.

2. a wide variety of stylistic approaches

3. Typical instrumentation

4. lyrics could be about nearly anything

5. San Francisco who had its own rock radio

6. Dj- Tom Donahue

7. Big association with LSD

8. noncommercial
How and why did san francisco give birth to the hippie movement ?
1.San Francisco was the focal point of the new underground culture

2. A well-established haven for creative intellectuals and radical political activist.

3. Cheap rent and relatively safe neighborhood.

4. a magnet for thousands of free-spirited youth

5. liberal usage of psychoactive drugs

6. an explosion of long hair, headbands, VW Buses, incense, beads, peace signs
-tie-dyed shirts, and bell-bottom pants.
The first Hippie community established in San Francisco is
Haight-Ashbury" district full Victorian mansion
Describe some of the different music styles that Frank Zappa experimented with and the albums that they are found on?
- influenced by R&B, doo-wop, and Jazz, Contemp classical music.

-"Hot Rats" one of the first albums that used Jazz&rock.

-"lumpy grave" which influenced doo-wop and 50 PC's orchestra

-"FREAK OUT" one of the first double albums. the music ranges from electronic sci-fi to doo-wop parody.

-" who are the brain police" from Sci-fi psychedelia
Frank Zappa music influnce
-was a musical anarchist

-Creating some of the rocks in the most sophisticated and intellectual music.

-Lyrical themes were often dark, but he effectively used humor biting satire and vulgarity.

- influenced by R&B, doo-wop, and Jazz, Contemp classical music.

-He used innovative editing and studio techniques in the creation his recording.
santana influence
- Afro-Latin instruments and rhythms,

- The group led by Mexican guitar virtuosos name Carlos.

-won a spot at the "Woodstock"
England Hard rock Characterstics
Instrumentation : electric guitar, bass, drum

-Songs often based on a blues riff, often using the power chord.

- More intense, louder,

- Guitar player emerges as the focal point of the group

-lyrics where more heavy metal
Eric clapton/Cream
He formed the seminal hard rock power "Cream" with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker.

-Cream became popular in the U.K and America selling 15 million records.
what were some of the reasons that rock began to fragment in the 1970s?
- The break up of the Beatles

-The radio and record industries

-The larger audience that cut across two generation were more diverse and fragmented

-Rock was no longer the music of counterculture but the music of the mainstream culture.
Byrds (folk rock group)
-Byrds- 5pc

-Defined F&R style

-McGuinn's prominently featured Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar and not the group vocals that was the distinctive feature.

Both albums "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "turn, turn, turn" hit # 1

-First rock groups to play at the grand ole opry
Mama& papa (folk rock group)
- Were known as regular in the early 1960s in the Greenwich
Village

-Sign with Dunhill, after moving to southern California

-Their first release was "California dreaming"

- having ten top 20 singles including "Monday, Monday"

-4 piece harmony (artist)
Buffalo springfelid
-One of the most promising but shortest lived folk-rock groups

-having future stars in their group Stephen Stills and Neil Young

-travel with the Byrd bands

- their debut gig was and at the Troubadour in April, and by mid-year they were gigging at the Whiskey a Go Go and touring with the "Byrds"

- Naming themselves after a steamroller parked outside their producer house
Crosby, Stills, Nash&young
-supergroup perhaps the most influential groups in folk rock.

-formed by four of the genre's most talented and decorated singers and songwriters.

-Their first Lp, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, recording in early 1969 went to # 6

-Candian singer/songwriter and ex-Springfielder Neli young joined the band as a sort of part-time member in time for the Woodstock performance.

- The album also contained two hit singles "Woodstock" and "teach your children"


" find the cost of freedom"
Simon and Garfunkel( folk rock group)
- Both met each other in the sixth grade

-The folk duo of Tom and jerry through the school days

- huge audience
Singer -songer writer charaterstic
one of the most important developments that brought to rock was a voice for the female performers.

1.solo artists who recorded and performed with backup bands

2 . personal , confessiona; reflective , lyrics

3. soft, soothing music, with acoustic pianos and guitars

4. willingness to experiment with influence from a variety of styles including jazz, R&B, folk

5. an important outlet for women performers and their viewpoints
Southern rock
Roots are country & blues

- Heavier instrumentation, often including two drummers, two or three lead guitar players

- Harder edge than country rock, similar to hard rock

- Deep roots in the blues
-
lyrics themes identifying with southern " good old Boy" image: male swaggers, drinking, cheating, fighting, etc.
Carly Simon
-was a role model for many women in the 1970s and 1980s

- "Letters Never Sent"

"you're so vain " and " lost in your love" #1 hit singles
Country rock
a style that combines elements normally associated with country music, such as pedal steel guitars, two-beat rhythm and twangy vocals with a rock.
Deep Purple
5 pc. group + vocal

"Smoke on the water"
other heavy metals
Judas priest

Queen
Aero smith (HM)
1. 5 piece-group

2. most popular from the 1970s- 94

3. The cheap imitation of rolling stones

4. "toys in Atlantic"
Kiss (HM)
1.Heavy influenced by Alice Cooper

2. Make up
Van Halen (Californifa Bands)
1. 4 pcs group

2. Eddie Van Halen -guitarist

3. Alex drums

4. Bass

5. Vocal
Eddie van halen
Unbelievable self-taught technique fretboard tapping
Ian Gillan
Vocalist from the Deep purple band
Art rock
known as progressive rock

- European classical music

- american jazz

- keyboards + synths

- orch inst

- virtuoso
David Bowie
"most glam"

Alter ego

Bands "spiders from Mars"
Reginaid kennth dwaight
AKA "Elton John"

Debut-1970

1971- proxy music records
Charatertsics of country rock
1. use of pedal steel guitar and other instruments normally associated with country/western

2. two-beat country rhythm

3. occasional use of twangy vocal delivery and vocal harmonies reminiscent of country/western

4. Rock rhythm section
James Tayolor
" you've got a friend " with Carole King a number one hit single

- move to London and signed with the Beatles Apple records.

- he got addicted to drugs and got clean

- than signed with the Warner Bros

- performed at the Newport folk festival.

- a duet with his wife Carly Simon
Fragment of R&R
-Vietnam
-R&R expands -print boundaries
- murder
-assassination
- altamont speedway
- Record= money
-laurel canyon
Describe the significane of laurel canyon and other landmarks of the L.A scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The mountainous wooded area north of West Hollywood where many rock artists lived in the mid to late 1960s.

- The troubadour- the preeminent Los Angeles nightclub for folk music in the 1960s.
Folk rock elements-
-Commerical-pop
-Crossover Folk&rock
-Inst.-acoustic guitar with rock rhythm section
-Softer dynamics/ volume, 3&4 piece harmonies (doo-wop)
- emphasis on lyric storylines
Carole King
-was already a legend in the music business
-brill building songwriters

- when her marriage went bad she moved to "laurel canyon" in Los Angeles.

-in 1971 king went back into the studio to record Tapestry, one of the decades defining the album.
Joni Mitchell
She bought a cottage in laurel canyon in which she lived with her new boyfriend

-wrote her classic anthem on "Woodstock"

-In the 1970s, her album "Blues", written in the heartache that followed the breakup of her relationship with James Taylor, is often considered the best album.
what are some of the differences between country rock and southern rock?
Country rock :

- pedal steel guitar and other instruments normally associated with country/ western.

-rock rhythm section


Southern rock:

-Heavier instruments than country, often including two drummers

-Harder edge than country rock, similar to hard rock

-Deep roots in the blues
what are some of the common characteristics of the music singer/songwriters that emerged in the 1970s?
1. solo artists who recorded and performed with backup bands

2 . personal , confessional; reflective , lyrics

3. soft, soothing music, with acoustic pianos and guitars

4. willingness to experiment with influence from a variety of styles including jazz, R&B, folk

5. an important outlet for women performers and their viewpoints
Grateful Dead "wall of sound"
21 roadies
4- semi truck
604 speakers
26k watts
Describe some of the soical and musical inflences on the birth of heavy metals
1.They were resilient people who had survieved the bombing during WW 11

2. it was a dark and troubling word

3. The rock was more intense , powerful, aggressive and louder than ever before

4. Blues
Black sabbath
Defined as first heavy metal

4-pcs group

Achieve without media

5 albums - all gold

Ozzy Osbourne - Walking and screams
Why is black sabbath considered to be the first heavy metal band?
1. Low sonorities

2. distortion and bone-crushing volume

3. first to lower the tune of the guitar, to get powered chord more depth and intensity.

4. black clothes, and looking like menacing
1. was the most important and influential rock bands of all time

2. tour: large cities

3. own 90% of the gate money

4 handling all aspect of promotion

5. hotel trashing

6. developed us against the world attitude
Led zepplin
Name some common practices used by glam rockers to make themselves outrageous.
1. makeup

2. glitter dust

3. ostentatious

4. Futuristic costumes
what was Alice Cooper's most important contribution to the rock canon?
1. Shock rock

2. Godfather of Gruesome rock theatre

3. develop rock as theatre

4. influential to many glams band
what are some of the reasons that Deep Purple is Unique?
1.The first band to fuse influences from classical music together with the other staples of both genres: blues, distortion, and high volume.

2. John lord from the group wrote( Concerto for group and orchestra ) a multi-movement orchestral work
Jerry Garica
Banjo player, influenced by Bob Dylan and rolling stone
Lyrnary skynrd
was the prototypical southern rock band, combing the rebellious attitude of rock and rock with blues and a country twang


"Sweet Home Alabama" was a reply to Neil Young "Southern Man"

"Sweet Home Alabama " was #8
The Allman Brothers were not the prototypical southern rock band. what made them different?
the greatest band by forging a unique combination of
Blues, Boogie, R&B, Country, and Jazz.
Describe the culture of the record industry in the 1970s.
- Rock had become the dominant music format of mainstream culture.

- an explosive sales of records and tapes

-By the end of the 1970s, 80 percent of all record and tape sales were controlled by six of these conglomerates:
-CBS
-RCA Victor
-United artist-MGM
-Capitol -EMI
-MCA
-Warner Communications

- The 1970s marked the beginning of an era of greed, corporate hubris and personal lust for power in the industry that would last for nearly 30 years
The Eagles
-16 albums achieving platinum or multi-platinum status

-Are on the most commercially successful rock bands in history.

-they share criticism on corporate rock from the 1970s and the self-indulgent of California lifestyle.

-Their first album sold 29 million copies in the U.S and sales of 42 million worldwide.


- L.A -based media
-print
-radio
-Tv
Fleetwood Mac
-help defined the sound of 1970s rock with its mega-hit LP "rumors", which is the today ninth best selling album in the U.S

- Two women in the band, Fleetwood Mac had a unique sound and stage presence.

-the band was formed in 1967 in London's blues scene

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Woodstock
The landmark event of the era was the wood stock music and arts fair held in august
Describe how Jimi Hendrix got such a unique sound, both in terms of his equipment and his playing technique
-He taught himself to play guitar from listening to his father's jazz and blues records.

- He began to write songs, using influences from delta blues, R&B and his idol Bob Dylan.

- Marshal stack

-distorted and feedback

-playing music on the neck and reverse
Electric Ballrooms
staged youth dances in the early years of the City's psychedelic movement with no alcohol.
What were some of the differences between the psychedelic scenes in San Francisco and Los Angelos
The sunset strip in L.A was more

- theatrically oriented than San Francisco

-instrumentation included electric guitar, keyboards,drums,bass

-Darker lyrics, eschewing the peace and love ethos of San Fransico

-a wide variety of styles and influences, including folk, the blues, and hard rock.

- More commercial oriented
Jefferson Airplane
1. Grace Slick is the singer in the band (replacement of Anderson's)
2. is a band
3. "Surrealistic Pillow" 1967 Album #2
4.owned by Balin's
5. the first acid rock band to secure a major label
Grace slick
She brought a more powerful voice than Anderson and two songs from the great society's.

"white rabbit " and "somebody to love" to the surrealistic pillow album
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