What influenced 60's rock?

Question

as well as the 70's 80's and 90's

Answer 1

Marijuana.

Answer 2

Drugs, politics, and war. Well, the music was inspired by the music b4 the 60s like Elvis, and old blues. The lyrics were inspired moatly from the fads of the time. It was all about antigovernment, antisociety, drugs and sex.It was about rebelling and being louder than ever before. This was specially true in the UK. Soon all kinds of wild and crazy bands were getting popular, like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, and later the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones.
In America, it was all antiwar and drugs. Hippies start poppin up everywhere, and the marijuana and vietnam inspired artists to get loud and psychedelic with crazy stage antics, most apparent in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. thats about it for the 60s. The later decades were inspired mostly by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Answer 3

50s Rock, Country, The War, Drugs, Sex, Racial Inequality, Surfing, Cars, Girls, The Sun, The Moon, The Rain, The Park,
Freedom, Oppression, Happiness, Sadness, Love, Hate, Movies, Movie Stars, Birds, Bees, Saturday Mornings, Monday-Mondays, Tuesday Afternoons, White Rooms, Little Black Eggs, Green Tambourines, Chewy Chewy, Yummy Yummy Yummy, Sugar Sugar, Goody Goody Gumdrops, Finding You, Falling In Love, Losing You, Finding You Again, Getting Married, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Suzie Q, Sloopy, Barbara Ann, Carrie-Anne, Marianne, Yesterday, Living For Today, Spending The Night Together, Tomorrow, Never My Love, Crying, Laughing, Working, Running, Crimson And Clover, Hanky Panky, Mony Mony, Ooby Dooby, Turn Turn Turn, Grapevines, My Generation, Catching The Wind, Summer Rain, Hazy Shade Of Winter, Autumn Of My Life, Jude, Judy In Disguise, Lucy In The Sky, Watchtower, 6 & 9, Different Drums, Batman, Green Hornet, Sunshine Superman, In The Ghetto, Down In The Boondocks, Arizona, San Francisco, New York - need I say more?

Answer 4

Technically "60s music was inspired from technology (t.v,radio)that gave kids the chance to hear and see their '50s Heros (elvis,jerry lee,holly,etc.etc) and then the blend of black rhythm and blues with rockabilly and (in britain)skiffle inspired the likes of Lennon and Mccartney to rock out .Then the arrival of lyrical awareness via Bob Dylan made the music more meaningful and personal.Before him it was all sappy love songs.Inluenced artists took it from there. The freedom of the time and a taste for revolution from the restraints of the '50s made a huge difference and was why people "turned on ,tuned in and dropped out".

Answer 5

Technology - think about it, Link Wray had a "Rumble" guitar sound, Then Dave Davies (the Kinks) took a razorblade to his guitar amp speakers and got a "fuzzy" sound (a precursor to distortion), Jim Marsall's biggest challenge was building an amp Jimi Hendrix wanted to use, Eddie Van Halen didn't like the "stock" options of gear so he had his own ideas, Bob Bradshaw revolutionized the pedalboard industry...when it wasn't even an "industry" yet, etc.

Answer 6

Mostly 50's rock, C&W, folk and R&B. Also, I think the Kennedy assination brought us out of our stupor of mindless love songs with the Beatles and Rolling Stones leading the break away from 'corporate pop'. Acid Rock sorta became the basis for hard metal. Those sets would go on for hours...

But I miss surf music and endless reverb...

Answer 7

The German Catholic Folk music of the brillantly prolific Franz Josef Hayden. Gutten Tag!

Answer 8

The start of the cold war, the hot war (Vietnam), challenging authority, experimenting with & increased use of drugs, and the rise of feminism to name a few.

I grew up in this era, we (the young adults) questioned the wisdom of nuclear weapons, why were we in Vietnam, our place in the quickly changing world, etc. and our music reflected those feelings.

Answer 9

All of the above, and Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Maharishi and India(n) music (sitar), experimentation with drugs and studio producers, etc.

Answer 10

American black music, rockabilly, big band, all music is influenced by what came before as well as current events at the time.

Answer 11

Blues, jazz, country & western (?)...classical....everyone rips off classical composers, to this day.

'60s rock was also inspired by cultural/political happenings: communism, equality, the Pill, free love, you name it