introduction to psychadelic rock of the 60's?

Question

what are some good bands?

Answer 1

Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd

Answer 2

Blues Magoos
Electric Prunes
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Amboy Dukes
Jefferson Airplane
The Byrds
The Seeds
Jimi Hendrix
Chambers Bros.
Cream
Vanilla Fudge
Go to amazon.com, to music and type in psychedelic 60's rock or similar and they have some cd's available of 60's rock and pop and most cases you can hear 30 second clips of the songs. Good huntin!

Answer 3

Grateful Dead
Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream
Pink Floyd
The Beatles

Answer 4

In my opinion, these bands are a few that ushered in the 1960s psychedelic rock scene:

Pink Floyd
The Beatles
The Velvet Underground
Jefferson Airplane
Iron Butterfly
The Doors
MC5
The Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix

For all things considered psychedelic and sixties, rock, try this website:

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/

Good Luck!

Answer 5

There are plenty of '60s psychedelic-friendly acts, most of them well-worn: Start with the San Francisco stuff: The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Charlatans, Moby Grape. Throw in The Beatles (from "Rubber Soul" on), Hendrix, The Doors, Cream and the early Pink Floyd (with Syd Barrett). (Some have mentioned The Velvet Underground -- true, they had a light show behind them and a lot of slow music with occasionally spacy, trippy guitar, but Lou Reed was writing from a heroin point of view, not an acid one, so I don't know whether "psychedelic" truly applies to them.)

If you want to go deeper, try Rhino's fantastic "Nuggets" box set. "Nuggets" (both in its 2-LP 1972 original and 4-CD 1998 forms) was the Rosetta stone/fountainhead of the garage-punk genre, but it also had a lot of psychedelic sounds: "I Had Too Much to Dream" by The Electric Prunes, "It's-A-Happening" by The Magic Mushrooms, "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock, "Pushing Too Hard" and "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" by The Seeds, "You're Gonna Miss Me" by The 13th Floor Elevators, "Psychotic Reaction" by the Count Five, "A Question of Temperature" by The Balloon Farm, "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time" by The Third Bardo, "Optical Sound" by Human Expression, "Codine" by The Charlatans and "Voices Green and Purple" by The Bees.

And if you want to go deeper, dig up the "Pebbles Vol. 3" CD from Amazon. Lots of obscure, trippy, weird and sometimes amateurish '60s stuff. And there are other obscure psych collections that are linked to that one, if you so wish. Happy trip ...

Answer 6

Try "Children of the Future" by the Steve Miller Band (67) and "Sailor" by same band (68)..They are light years away from "The Joker" et al.Trust me.

Answer 7

Blues Magoos.


Also, they are a newer band, but check out Brain Jonestown Massacre.