Psychedelic Psoul

This episode lists more singles from 1968 in England. By the end of that year, there were faint traces of psychedelia left, and the music progressed to a harder bluesier sound. It would be a preview of what was to come...

The Move were a great psychedelic pop band from the mid to late sixties. They had great melody and were a success in England and Europe. Though largely unknown in America, they created great pop tunes and later morphed...

In England in 1968, there was a lingering effect from the previous year's Summer of Love. Bands that finally got the opportunity to record their own songs, were still trying to catch up with Sgt. Pepper, The Beatles...

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist to see and hear during the psychedelic age. To see the Jimi Hendrix Experience live was the best way to enjoy and emersed yourself into his aural intensities of sound. These...

<p>The Byrds reached their commercial peak with their fourth album "Younger Than Yesterday". It was an album that blended pop, country rock and experimental psychedelia. They charted one hit single off the album and...

<p>Tomorrow was an English psychedelic band who were contemporaries of Pink Floyd and The Soft Machine. They played all the important underground hippie events and recorded only one album. The self-titled album is...

<p>The U.K. band The Pretty Things created what is arguably, the first concept album with a storyline, "S.F. Sorrow". In other words, the first rock opera. They began the recordings in 1967, but the album was released a...

<p>The Osmonds were a phenomenon of the early to mid-Seventies. They had tremendous success with their own pop records. But they had broader musical ambitions and conceived a song cycle expounding on their faith in the...

<p>The Fugs came from the Lower East side of New York and became the first proper underground rock band. They used satire, humor and innuendos to put their views and messages across to a broader audience beyond those...

<p>In this Classic Album series, we're going to listen to Country Joe and The Fish's "Electric Music For The Mind and Body'. It was released in May of 1967, a few weeks before they performed at The Monterey...

<p>Frank Zappa began to produce his own albums and learned to use the studio as a creative vehicle for his vast musical ideas. This was his third album with The Mothers of Invention, and perhaps their most consistent of...

<p>in 1968, The Grateful Dead recorded and assembled their second album. "Anthem of The Sun" was a mix of recorded studio tracks as well as live tapes blended together in order to create something sonically new. What...

<p>Pink Floyd recorded several seminal albums during the 1970's. They were on the cutting edge of recording technology and had an advance lighting system for their live performances, which they added other props to...

<p>Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke earned success twice. Their first band, Free, was an English blues rock band with great songs, along with the talented guitarist Paul Kossoff, Free became a promising band...

<p>Bob Weir was a founder and guitarist with The Grateful Dead. His passing marks the end of an era and definitive close to The Grateful Dead ever being an active band again. This is a special tribute to Bob and The...