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Richie Havens dies; folk hero of Woodstock

April 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
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The fiery and soulful folk singer Richie Havens, best known for his heroic work in opening the Woodstock rock festival, has died at age 72. Havens died after a heart attack at his New Jersey home, his manager said. Havens remained true to his Greenwich Village folk roots, but was a favorite among the rock festival crowds of the late 1960s. His albums between 1968 and 1971 were heavy with psychedelic imagery, notably "Richard P. Havens, 1983," the 1969 album on which he covered four Beatles songs and another by Donovan. But it was 1967's straight folk album "Mixed Bag" that first found Havens a wide audience, boosted by play on the emerging free-form FM radio format. Like Jefferson Airplane, he found the power and transcendence in its opening song, "High Flyin' Bird," by Billy Edd … [Read more...]

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Q2 on record: Lips, Traffic, Quicksilver, Dead

April 8, 2013 by 1 Comment
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Flaming Lips, Traffic, the Grateful Dead, the Mothers of Invention and Quicksilver Messenger Service key the psychedelic music recordings in the year's second quarter. A lot of the action comes Tuesday, April 16, just a few days away from Record Store Day 2013: Flaming Lips release their downbeat "The Terror" in various configurations, including a limited edition silver vinyl LP. Side 4 is devoted to "We Don't Control the Controls (Mashed-the-F-Up-Remix)," a bonus track. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tells fans to brace themselves for "a bleak, disturbing record." This appears to be the psychedelic band's 13th album -- the first since "Embryonic" way back in 2009 -- although the band engages in various side projects, such as last year's mostly faithful re-creation of King … [Read more...]

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Country Joe & the Fish: set lists

February 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Country Joe & the Fish songs played in concert, 1967-1978. View more San Francisco band set lists. Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, 1967 Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine The Bomb Song Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag Section 43 Woodstock Aug. 16, 1969 Janis Donovan's Reef Heartaches by the Number Ring of Fire Tennessee Stud Rockin' Round the World Flying All the Way Seen a Rocket Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag Greek Theatre Berkeley Oct. 1, 1978 Rock and Soul Music Thing Called Love Flying High Colorado Town Here I Go Again Mojo Navigator Section 43 Save the Whales I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag Rock and Soul Music Sources: Woodstock Wikia, RockinDVD, Setlist.com, Monterey Pop movie About set lists: While these … [Read more...]

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Music videos

Behold, friends. These videos were featured on the home page of the music site Psychedelic Sight at some point, archived here for eternity -- or until the labels complain. Consider these the site's greatest videos hits. (This is page 3 of our psychedelic music video collection.) Blues Magoos -- not among the greats, but not bad, either. Randy California and Spirit, on a German TV show. Way underappreciated these days. Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese? ... A short strange film created by Frank Zappa and Ed Seeman. The United States of America. Weird for the sake of being weird, or surrealism oozing into audio? Let's hear it for this fan video. The Dead in 1972. I saw them that year in Boulder, a transcendent day full of sun and weed. Donovan, now in the Rock … [Read more...]

No. 10: ‘Anthem of the Sun’

November 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
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In the fall of 1967, the Grateful Dead had a problem. One of the original big-buzz bands of the San Francisco scene, the Dead fell flat earlier in the year with their highly anticipated debut album. It was a thin and tinny collection dominated by blues and folk covers. The album's cover art was psychedelic all right, but nothing else on the album qualified. "The next one certainly won't be like that in any way," Garcia assured local radio listeners. The heat was on. The Bay Area already had produced a pair of heady psychedelic masterpieces: the Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" and Country Joe and the Fish's "Electric Music for the Mind and Body." The Dead, however, seemed on course for mere local-legend status. Determined to capture the essence of their psychedelic … [Read more...]

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Procol Harum on Rock Hall’s shortlist

October 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Psychedelic-era heavyweights Procol Harum and Deep Purple are among the nominees for the 2013 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They join fellow sonic pioneers Kraftwerk, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Public Enemy and the Meters. Inductees "will be announced in the coming weeks," the Rock Hall said. (Update of Dec. 12: Procol Harum and Deep Purple will have to wait. No psychedelic bands made the cut for 2013. The inductees are Public Enemy, Albert King, Rush, Randy Newman, Heart and Donna Summer.) Other nominees include Rush, Donna Summer, Albert King and Chic (view list of Rock Hall nominees). Psychedelic folk music pioneer Donovan and the Small Faces were among those inducted into the Hall in 2012. Procol Harum recently saw its record catalog get an ambitious … [Read more...]

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Tours

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Psychedelic concert guide Time marches on. Many of the musicians from the original psychedelic music era are out there touring and playing as well as ever. But most are in the autumn of their careers. Catch these remarkable geezers live and in concert while you still can. Here are links to tour dates for a field of artists selected by PsychedelicSight.com. Most links go to the concert-tracking site Pollstar. Always confirm dates and venues. * ☮ = highly recommended Psychedelic music heavies Performers with strong connections to 1960s-'70s psychedelic rock. Ian Anderson (pictured, above left) ☮ Jeff Beck Arthur Brown ☮ Jon Anderson (of Yes fame) Eric Burdon and the Animals ☮ Cactus Eric Clapton George Clinton ☮, Original … [Read more...]

Donovan, Small Faces entering Rock Hall

December 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Donovan and the Small Faces made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, putting a bit of psychedelic seasoning on the class of 2012. Producer/engineer Glyn Johns, who worked with the heaviest of the British psychedelic rock bands, also is to be honored April 14 in Cleveland. Beastie Boys, Guns N' Roses, Laura Nyro and Red Hot Chili Peppers filled out the list of Rock Hall inductees. Faces (with Rod Stewart) share the honor with the band's earlier incarnation, the Small Faces. The early influencer nod went to bluesman Freddy King, the only black artist to be honored this year. Songwriter/TV rock producer Don Kirshner ("The Monkees") is to be memorialized in the non-performer slot. Rock producers Johns and Tom Dowd, and New Orleans studio owner Cosimo Matassa are to receive … [Read more...]

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No. 29: ‘Spirit’ (debut album)

October 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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The great and criminally underappreciated L.A. band Spirit rarely makes the list of the '60s psychedelic groups. These days Spirit mostly is remembered for "Nature's Way," an FM radio classic. It's a wistful midtempo plea for ecological sanity that appeared on the original band's fourth and final album. Two years before "Nature's Way," in 1968, a much heavier Spirit blasted its way onto the scene with another ecological warning, this one awash in psychedelic touches and heavy guitar. The band sang: Look beneath your lid some morning See those things you didn't quite consume The world's a can for your fresh garbage That serving of tight, light-heavy rock soon was followed by the dark psychedelic masterpiece "Mechanical World." As a one-two punch, these side 1 tracks … [Read more...]

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Rock Hall: 3 psychedelic acts high on list

September 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Donovan, the Small Faces and War fly the freak flag high as nominees for the 2012 class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Other sonically adventurous nominees include Beastie Boys and the Cure. Rounding out the list (in order of PsySight's preference): Freddie King, Laura Nyro, Heart, Guns 'N Roses, the Spinners, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donna Summers, Rufus with Chaka Khan, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Eric B. & Rakim. Inductees will be announced "in the coming weeks," the Rock Hall says. Donovan, a nominee last year, was among the first recording artists to chart with psychedelic songs. He also was among the first long-haired British pop stars busted for drugs. The artist was closely associated with the hippie movement and flower pop. Donovan�s psychedelic singles … [Read more...]

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