acid rock
Distorted sixties sound
Acid rock is a style of rock music from the late 1960s associated with psychedelic drug use, characterized by extended instrumental passages, distorted guitars, and experimental sound effects meant to evoke or enhance hallucinogenic experiences: The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane pioneered the San Francisco acid rock scene.
Resembling a hallucination
- mind-expandingBroadening one's awareness
- kaleidoscopicShowing constantly changing patterns
- altered statesModified modes of awareness
- hallucinogenicCausing sensory distortions
LSD · consciousness expansion · synesthesia · transcendental · ethereal · dreamlike · hypnotic · otherworldly
Twisting from original state
- fuzzFine downy fibers
- feedbackReturned response data
- overdriveEfficiency mode at speed
- sustainKeep something going continuously
wah-wah · heavy · amplified · loud · reverb · phaser · tremolo · drone
Decade after the fifties
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- San FranciscoNorthern California metropolis
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
Fillmore · hippie · counterculture · flower power · Vietnam War · underground · happenings · love-in
- Jefferson AirplanePsychedelic rock band
- Grateful DeadLegendary jam band
- Iron ButterflyNeutral options spread position
- SteppenwolfCentral Asian wild canine
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
- extended jamsLong improvisational passages
- guitar solosExtended melodic instrumental features
- live performanceUnrecorded staged entertainment
- light showChoreographed illumination performance
concert · festival · audience participation · happening · free-form · exploratory
trippy
Resembling a hallucination
- mind-expandingBroadening one's awareness
- kaleidoscopicShowing constantly changing patterns
- altered statesModified modes of awareness
hallucinogenic · LSD · consciousness expansion · synesthesia · transcendental · ethereal · dreamlike · hypnotic · otherworldly · surreal
distortion
Twisting from original state
sustain · wah-wah · heavy · amplified · loud · reverb · phaser · tremolo · drone · wall of sound
1960s
Decade after the fifties
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- San FranciscoNorthern California metropolis
Haight-Ashbury · Fillmore · hippie · counterculture · flower power · Vietnam War · underground · happenings · love-in · head shop
Jimi Hendrix
- Jefferson AirplanePsychedelic rock band
- Grateful DeadLegendary jam band
- Iron ButterflyNeutral options spread position
improvisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
- extended jamsLong improvisational passages
- guitar solosExtended melodic instrumental features
- live performanceUnrecorded staged entertainment
light show · concert · festival · audience participation · happening · free-form · exploratory
- rock genresheavy metal, metal, punk, grunge, Britpop
- Sixtieshippies, Beatles, Woodstock, Vietnam War, JFK
- PsychedeliaLSD, psychedelic posters, tie-dye, hallucination, trippy
- rock musicelectric guitar, guitar solo, guitar riff, guitar riffs, power chords
acid rockeasy listening
Undemanding melodic audio
soft rock · smooth jazz · elevator music · muzak · folk music
acid rockdisco
Seventies dance music
bubblegum pop · mainstream pop · easy listening · Pat Boone · The Carpenters
acid rockdisco
Seventies dance music
bubblegum pop · Motown · Tin Pan Alley · novelty songs · dance music
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