Friendly Warning :
Test # 3
TOMORROW
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Covers “1960s”
Chapters 4 & 5
Review sheets and PowerPoints posted on
course web site
Friendly Warning :
Test # 4
next week
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Covers ’60s Black Styles and Psychedelia
Chapters 6 & 7
Review sheets and PowerPoints partially
posted on course web site
(Remainder to be added as covered)
No Materials for Test # 3 after
this point.
Anything after this slide is
on Test # 4
(scheduled 31 July 2012)
Chapter 7 Starts Here
“Psychedelia”
Defined as: “the realm or artifacts of
psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like”
psychedelic = “intensified sensory perception”
Psychedelia
Youth Culture in 1960s
• Baby Boom (1946-64)
- 4 million births per year (1954-1965)
- 4 out 10 Americans under 20 (1965)
• Suspicious / Questioning Adult values
- “Corruption” of Adults
- Vietnam, Civil Rights, etc.
• “Never trust anyone over 30”
- Berkeley Free Speech Movement (1964)
“Higher Consciousness”
• Knowing Reality as is it (truly) is….
• Based in Eastern Religions (Yoga, Buddhism,
Sufisim, Hinduism, Tao)
• Application of spiritual awareness
- Think about it… (literally)
- patience, kindness, truthfulness, humility
and forgiveness towards one's fellow man
• Higher Truths sought through meditation/study
LSD
“turn on, tune in, drop out”
Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
LSD
• Lysergic acid diethylamide
or just “acid”
• Psychotropic (mood altering)
• Wide range of physical
and psychological reactions
• Ken Kesey & Merry Pranksters
- Beat generation / Hippie
- author One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- “Acid Tests”
• Entheogenic Drug
- literally “becoming divine within”
- contact w/ “greater spiritual order”
Music & Drugs
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Two possible ways to connect these… (either)
Music enhances the drug experience… (or)
Music creates [replaces] the drug experience
Drug Culture coincides w/ more ambitious
creative and recording projects (STUDIO)
- Brian Wilson & Beach Boys
- Beatles w/ George Martin
• FM radio in late 1960s
- better signal (stereo!), but shorter range
- “A.O.R.” : album-oriented Rock
- different listening habits
Two Favorite Bands for
Listening while on Drugs
“Good
Vibrations”
(textbook, p. 259)
• Released 10 Oct 1966, # 1 in US & UK
(# 6 on Rolling Stone top 500 greatest Rock songs)
• “Pocket Symphony” – non-traditional instruments
• Electro-Theremin (see next slide)
• YouTube - Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Theremin & Eletro-Theremin
Leo Theremin (c. 1930)
How to play:
Theremin Lesson One – YouTube
Theremin Lesson Two - YouTube
The Beatles (as a Studio Band)
• 1966 - end of touring & into the studio
- controversy over Lennon’s remarks
- inability to play works in concert
• Albums as more unified “artistic” works
- Rubber Soul (1965) – “Norwegian Wood”
- Revolver (1966) – “Tomorrow Never Knows”
• Major album project (begins Dec 1966)
- 700 hours of studio time
- “everything had to be different”
- personal story of growing up in Liverpool
“Penny Lane”
• 1967 – EMI “AA” Single
• Paul McCarney song
• Mossley Hill district of
Liverpool
- Center City bus stops here
• The Beatles - Penny Lane YouTube
• YouTube - Penny Lane
Piccolo Trumpeter
• YouTube - Beatles Cartoon
- Penny Lane
“Strawberry
Fields”
• Opposite side of “Penny Lane” (AA single)
• John Lennon song
• Salvation Army Children’s Home (Woolton, suburb
of Liverpool, near Lennon’s home)
• The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever (2009 Stereo
Remaster) – YouTube (Beatles promotional film)
Sgt.
Peppers
Lonely
Hearts
Club Band
(1967)
List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sgt. Peppers (side 1)
• YouTube - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Beatles
• YouTube - The Beatles - With A Little Help From
My Friends
• YouTube - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
• YouTube - its getting better all the time beatles
• YouTube - The Beatles - Fixing a hole
• She's Leaving Home- The Beatles - YouTube
• YouTube - The Beatles - Being for the benefit of
Mr.Kite
“A Day in the Life”
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Final Track of Sgt. Peppers…. Album
1st verse – Death of Tara Browne or Drug Reference?
Middle section – Separate McCartney Piano Piece
Final verse – Article in Daily Mail about potholes
The Beatles- A Day in the Life - YouTube
Magical Mystery
Tour
• 1st project after death of Brian
Epstein (1967)
• Idea for unscripted film
- panned in UK, no US release
• More psychedelic than Sgt P.
• Lewis Carroll (1872) “Walrus
and the Carpenter”
• I am the Walrus - The Beatles YouTube
• Lennon combines 3 songs
(includes nonsense syllables)
(The Beatles) - 1968
• The “White” Album
(“The Beatles” embossed
on cover)
• Many songs conceived
while in India w/ guru
• Serious discord and
group breakup
• Back in the U.S.S.R.-The
Beatles(lyrics) –
YouTube
(spoof on Beach Boys)
Yellow
Submarine
• Soundtrack to 1969 film
- The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
film is restored and re-released YouTube
• Only four new songs
• Yellow Submarine The
Beatles – YouTube
• The Beatles - All You
Need Is Love YouTube
Abbey Road
• 1969-70 : last album before
disbanding
• EMI Studio on AR
• Difficult rehearsals
(Jan 1969)
• George Martin oversees
“a miserable experience”
• Billy Preston – “Get Back”
• The Beatles - Come
Together with Lyrics YouTube
Psychedelia
Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
• S.F. Neighborhood
- Afro-Am & Japanese
- in decline in 1950s
• Cheap housing for
Beatniks & similar types
• Hippies & Drugs
• Home to R ‘n R bands
- Grateful Dead
- Jefferson Airplane
- Janis Joplin
- etc.
Hippies
• “Counterculture”
- anti-Middle Class
- anti-“Establishment”
• Mostly White, aged 15-25
• Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear
• Eastern Philosophies
• Psychedelic drugs
• “Free Love”
• Organic food, vegans, etc.
• Eco-friendly (save the planet)
• “peace, love and freedom”
More Hippies