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Article: Turn on - turn up - trip out: the rise and fall of San Francisco psychedelia.(popular music of the 1960s-70s)(Cover Story)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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Pioneered by Big Brother & The Holding Company, Country Joe & The Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape and the Grateful Dead, San Francisco's psychedelic music was a raw and roaring reaction to the formatted folk and pop that came before. It was ecstatic and stoned-out, hallucinatory and cathartic. Its arrival kicked open the door to long solos, wild effects, ringing eardrums and an unprecedented merging of world influences. * At its core, most psychedelic music was blues-based. On good nights some bands could jam for a half-hour on a single song, scaping with sound rather than chord changes. The raucous wranglings of James Gurley and other ...