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Article: Sunshine supermen: Britain's psychedelic guitar wizards.(popular music, mid-1960s and '70s)(Cover Story)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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It was the era of dolly girls and miniskirts, freak-outs and flowered blouses, spontaneous "happenings" and all-night raves, and "Swinging London" was at the heart of it. While kids in San Francisco were grooving to Moby Grape and the Grateful Dead's lysergic deconstruction of jugband blues and Okie folk, clogging up Haight-Ashbury and adjusting their sights to the new cosmic consciousness through LSD, British kids were busy reassembling R&B, rock, pop and folk culture into something that would totally eclipse their previous slavish imitation of American forms. Though U.S. groups like Love, the Beach Boys, the Velvet Underground and the Byrds sent the first whiffs of die ...
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