Psychedelic Music through the Decades

Neapolitan · 01-31-2016, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ It's your call of course, Neapolitan, but I don't imagine that Trollheart would mind - after all, he has so many threads going on MB that I don't suppose he's particularly territorial about one that's all but dried up. Would u like me to PM him about it ?

Thanks for such a detailed answer.

I'm exploring early Gong at the moment. If, like me, you find Daevid Allen's whimsy tedious, you have to choose pretty carefully. This track, at least, has some decent music to excuse his lapses into twee humour:-

It's so 1969 I thought you wouldn't believe me otherwise.

Gong sounds more Prog, there's some Experimental side of Psychedelia e.g. United States of America. Seeing that it came out '73 makes sense. It seems to go in the direction of Jazz fusion which more bands were doing in the mid 70s. Think of Relayer which Yes released in '74. The last bit of the song is a bit interesting ~ 11:21 you hear Post-Punk-like/Devo-like chords.