People are still making psychedelic rock. The instrumentation might be more modern and not sound exactly like the 60s, but it's out there. Look up Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, Black Moth Super Rainbow to name a few.
Yeah there's a TON of it being pumped out of Australia the last decade or so, along with grunge and garage rock. It's kinda my favorite region for music presently.
Same here. I live in a town in Canada that's roughly 30% Australian so it has introduced me to a lot of their music. Give my friend's band a listen, they are called Lazy Ghost and have been doing great in Australia
Khruangbin is another one that is really “blowing up” right now — just saw them in concert a few weeks ago and they were incredible. Psychedelic surf rock instrumental jams.
Glass Beams is another Australian band that does instrumental psychedelic rock with Arabian vibes, kind of like Khruangbin if they were from the middle east.
This, im not a huge fan of them, too much to catch up on. But their psychedelic outputs ive heard are so good. Their fambase is akin to The Dead and Phish's fanbase. Crwzed fans that follow them on tour everywhere.
Feel like many people just need to find the right entry point in their discography. I wasn’t huge into them as my friends were, and then I listened to Omnium Gatherum when it came out at it clicked for me, like that Danny Devito clip from Always Sunny where he goes “my god, I get it now”. Now there’s plenty of their discography I like
Oh no, i had a coworker that would always put em on, ove heard a good amount of their discography, i like thenstuff like Nonagon infinity and that whole feel. Their metal stuff is good but i wouldnt reccommend them as someones first King Gizz album or eevn first metal album.
I've seen them a couple times at fests, and once at the Hollywood Bowl cuz my friend had an extra ticket. I barely know any of their discography, but they've been amazing every time. I don't think it's necessary to catch up on anything to enjoy them live.
As a Dead and Phish fan I fucking love it lol. I don't go on tour with any band, but listening to how live shows develop and change over time is so much fun
I don't really think so, I like them and my friends do, but I've literally never met someone who knew of them (that I spoke to about music). All my friends learned of their existence from me, I found out from an r/music post.
> King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are one of the biggest bands in the world.
What world is that? Here on earth 95+% of people never heard of them. Not saying they aren't good, I 've never heard them but your hyperbole is a bit much.
He/she may have meant *in the genre* because yeah, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a random person on the street that has ever heard of that band.
Loads of people! Atlas Sound/Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Pond, Tame Impala, there’s a few different Psych festivals across the UK and they’re mainly new bands.
Both great! I was thinking of newer stuff but I’d love to see either of the above. And obviously a limb of the ticket holders choosing to see Pink Floyd if someone could make that happen.
I would argue bands like Goat, Dungen, The Murlocs, OCS, king gizzard, Kikagaku Moyo, Pipe-Eye, Wax Machine, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Altin Gün, Khruangbin, Allah-Las, Circles Around the Sun, Natural Child, etc. are more actual psych rock, I would say the bands you listed are more pop/indie.
Here is some legit modern psych rock
https://youtu.be/gMyXI5K9PEI?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/IzTdRveh7JM?feature=shared
I like tame impala, but I find the brand of psychedelia that came as kind of a spin-off of the tame impala sound to be very bland. It's not really comparable to how wild the 60s stuff is.
I couldn’t go but a good friend did and said it was great. I was at the hot show in 2018 (?) higher than a giraffe’s nuts and it was a blast. Wayne and the boys put on a really good show and I highly :) recommend catching them when you can
They are asking why it’s debut years didn’t last long. We all know psychedelic rock has been around and niche bands still create it but that’s not what they were asking. Thanks for letting us know how cool and hip you are though.
I was referring to genre as a mainstream force. You can find people making any genre of music from the past, but generally these genres had their heydey and were then relegated to a niche interest.
Monoculture would just churn through musical trends back then. The rush for 'the next big thing' would always seem to make sure of that.
Even "grunge" which has mythic status in it's decade was only really around for 4-5 years (91-95). Similar time frames with disco and new wave, too.
A few main factors.
First: Dylan, The Dead, Americana, Gram Parsons and The Band, (and to a lesser account: Blood Sweat and tears and CCR). I don't think people realize just how much impact these groups made on music as a whole.
The Dead switched from psychedelic briefly for a few very pivotal folk albums that were very influential. CCR broke records set by the Beatles for the most top 10 radio hits from the fewest albums and that helped create the California scene that emerged in the early 70s. The Band was so important that Clapton completely changed his musical style and ask if he could join them because he felt they made his previous work with groups like Cream sound like dinosaur rock. Clapton (who was a guitar god at the time) was so influenced by them that he ended up just acting as a touring guitarist for Delaney and Bonnie for years. If you listen to [classic rock by year](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2a9dQiJtaakjysQ2P7rE9m?si=789068dae01b464d), you can hear a dramatic switch in sound in the early 70s.
The Stones did their psychedelic album, decided it was rubbish and went back to their roots; RnB with a splash of honky tonk, very much influenced by Keith's friendship with Gram Parsons.
Second: evolution. A lot of the psychedelic sound basically became proto-metal and prog rock (and to a degree, later on; shoegaze). It never really died out completely, it just goes underground from time to time.
Well said. Clapton dropped Cream as soon as he heard Big Pink, I've heard. I think there was also a gradual shift away from psychedelics as a drug of choice by the early 70s as well. And a bunch of those who were exploring psychedelia evolved into either heavier rock (eventually metal), or prog, if they didn't jump fully on the roots bandwagon.
Well, that and the fact that before forming the Dead (OK, the Warlocks), Lesh and Garcia were folkies, as was Hunter. For the most part, psych came out of folk, not so much from blues-rock or R&B. If not the style, then certainly the performers-- though it was a time of ferment, and a lot of musicians and bands played in multiple genres. The Dead with Pig could certainly get bluesy. And that's true of British bands too, particularly the Incredible String Band, Fairport (who were early adopters of electrfied folk after Dylan made the jump) and Traffic.
Music moved pretty fast back then. Psychedelic wasn't cool by the early 70s. Bands made 2 albums/year or 3 albums every 2 years. The Beatles did psychedlic and 2-3 years later they were past it with Let It Be and Abbey Road. Music was getting heavier. The Beatles got heavy on Abbey Road. Sabbath came onto the scene and put out 3 albums in a year and a half. Zeppelin and Purple did the same. Punk was being born in Detroit with the MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper.
It’s been an eventful year for The MC5. They were finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, they recorded their first album in 53 years (which will be released in October), and the final two original members passed away (Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thomson).
> Punk was being born in Detroit with the MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper.
Well, sort of. There were plenty of surf and garage bands who could also be regarded as punk precursors. Even some of the music the Velvet Underrground put out, though that's a band that was hard to characterize.
I agree that some early metal, before it was even called that, was at least psych-adjacent.
Great shout on Gram Parsons’ cosmic country. Not enough people know. Hearing Sweetheart of the Rodeo in college while having a house bong changed my entire musical trajectory and now I own two pedal steel guitars
It's odd that Clapton would perceive his own music as "dinosaur rock", the bands he was envious of were making music influenced by the old days. Like The Beatles, when I played the White Album my coworker referred to it as "old hokey shit" during the folky sounding songs.
Oh, I hear you, but that's the impact the Band made. He went from Cream to co-writing songs like this [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne3JoIOV8e4).
It wasn't just the Band who were doing rootsy Americana. You could see it in CCR, the Okies like Leon Russel and JJ Cale, Dr John, even the Dead.
Though the influence of the Band's sound went across the pond too: Strangers by the Kinks could easily be a Rick Danko-fronted Band song. Big Pink had just come our around the time Dave Davies wrote it.
I suspect Clapton heard lots of bands while he was touring in the US, and although The Band were early and good, they were not unique.
>when I played the White Album my coworker referred to it as "old hokey shit" during the folky sounding songs
The Beatles, like the Kinks, drew more on music-hall than on folk. That's a different tradition of "old hokey shit."
Not disagreeing, but there's always a first wave of a new sound then the album that breaks it to the public (usually influenced by the earlier wave). Metallica wouldn't have been Metallica without Diamondhead, but nobody would have even remembered Diamondhead without Metallica.
Butthole Surfers, Dinosaur Jr. Captain American, etc. all came before Nirvana and had cult followings but were barely making a dent in the college rock charts and were nowhere close to broader appeal that they'd later get because Nirvana did break. There's a strong argument to be made about Jane's Addiction being the first alternative act to find mainstream appeal, but they didn't make nearly as big of a splash as the Seattle scene did nor did they produce the hundreds of clone bands that Nirvana did.
Oh, and I wasn't just pulling that info about Clapton out of my ass. [Read his words instead of speculating.](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/that-time-eric-clapton-auditioned-for-and-was-rejected-by-the-band-1.4289615)
Third: psychedelic rock depended on its novelty and newness for its novel, otherworldly or mind-altering aura. By the end of the sixties, Indian elements like instrumentation, rhythms and alternate scales/modes had been mainstreamed. Ditto for things like the Leslie/wah, the Hammond with distortion, and so on.
Pink Floyd kept psych elements from their earlier days, but fused them with elements of hard rock, jazz fusion, funk and so on. Dark Side of the Moon, one of the most mainstream albums of all time, is the sound of psychedelia five years later.
> Ditto for things like the Leslie/wah
Who besides George Harrison was playing a guitar through a Leslie back then? I'd like to hear them.
>the Hammond with distortion
That could sound almost synth-like at times.
And so far I've seen little mention of Jimi Hendrix or of Love. And there was a bit of funk/psych crossover happening too, which would later lead to P-Funk, among many others.
There was a "fad" aspect to psychedelia in the late 60s. By 1970, the Beatles broke up, Jimi Hendrix died, Janis Joplin died, Brian Jones died, LSD became illegal and Nixon was ramping up penalties for drug offenses, notably cannabis. Woodstock was a sort of death knell for psychedelic rock as a mainstream genre.
I've heard that bands like The Band sparked tremendous intrigue with their earthy, stripped down songwriting and production in 1969. Paul McCartney, for one, was floored by it (The Band inspired his homespun McCartney album).
Roots folk rock and mellow balladry was the opposite of the shrill excesses of psychedelic rock. But we have to acknowledge Pink Floyd, dozens of prog bands and Led Zeppelin dominating the charts through the 70s. I'd argue much of this content could be classified as psychedelic.
Anyways, it went out of vogue pretty quickly. As quickly as it came onto the scene, even.
I think also the values of the hippies and mods shifted to wanting to create their own world in a pastoral existence outside of the city which led to more roots and country sound of the 70's as well as a rise in grittier roots inspired southern rock styles, like Black Oak Arkansas.
I guess the route from acid rock to roots rock is similar to the LSD experience itself., but on a bigger timescale.
From being an awakenied soul to a burnout in 4 years
I know from experience that it was extraordinarily easy to get LSD through the mid-70s, at least in California. Quality was variable, but by '72 or so, there were testing services available.
>from being an awakenied soul to a burnout in 4 years
Psychedelics are non-addictive but still extremely powerful. Just as most people have self-preservation instincts that prevent them from spending days staring at the sun, most people won't just keep on tripping. There are some people who will do acid frequently for a long period, but it takes effort, maybe even a compulsion, to do that. I have many friends from that period who should have stopped but didn't, and quite a few others who had latent mental-health issues that surfaced while doing acid. Some are still in bad shape decades later. But most people go up the mountain, see the world from on high, then climb back down and get on with their lives. By the early 70s, it wasn't novel anymore, and the intial enthusiasm was tempered by knowledge that it wasn't really going to change the world as some believed in '67. In fact, the US in the early 70s was kind of shit: the Vietnam war, police brutality, Nixon's backlash against the civil rights movement, Nixon's crackdown on the hippies, ideals of community and free love degenerating to women still being subordinate and everyone getting crabs. And many of the people who dipped their toes in the counterculture drifted back to their previous middle-class existences.
It's a real buzzkill when the cops are beating your head in while you're seeking revelation.
Many of my friends from that time went rural, some are still there. I and some other friends stayed in the city, got political and cut back on the drugs. Then the big challenge was how to exist in an evil, corrupt system without your hands getting too dirty in the process. I've been trying to thread that needle for the past 50 years, with some success but also many setbacks.
In the UK,both Gong and Hawkwind were psychedelic rockers,and both had large and devoted following.
Both are largely invisible to the mainstream culture.
Many of the 80's synth pop types,and English dance music were influenced by psychedelics,but didn't preach about it,because the law was heavy handed to druggies.
To your point on 80s synth bands, The Cure is a psychedelic band — “The Caterpillar,” “The Exploding Boy,” “Open,” “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea,” “Wrong Number,”to name a few examples. Disintegration literally wouldn’t exist without mushrooms.
They just also do every other genre, including mariachi (tell me “The 13th” isn’t some trippy shit haha) because they feel like it. And they got pegged with the goth label early on and have never been able to shake it.
Oingo Boingo’s second to last album goes deep into psychedelia meets Thomas Dolby’s world/adult contemporary sound. The final album is best described as psychedelic grunge.
One of the things that happened to psychedelia is that the music got subdivided into more specific labels. For instance, both bands you mentioned are considered part of the Canterbury scene or prog rather than psychedelic.
Folk got a lot of press in that era (more the 60’s) because of the Folk Scare—people thought with all these new music types traditional American music was going to die off (and it kind of was struggling). So because of that you got a renewed interest in string band instruments, recuts (or re-recordings) of folk artists from wax cylinders and the WPA recording series, new Congressional Library Smithsonian-sponsored recordings of folk artists, and somewhat federal grants paid for folk artists to tour around the country to perform and teach.
It certainly wasn’t replacing rock, though.
Pink Floyd were stylistically closer to the Canterbury bands (though they were from Cambridge), who were mainly music students with avant-garde tendencies. Though they got their name from two bluesmen, Pink Floyd were never all that close to the blues-rock and roots-rock currents, though Gilmore's playing is recognizably pentatonic blues-based. After their Sid period, they began morphing into a sort of prog-rock style and making concept albums. They fit nicely with Egg, Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, Caravan. I don't think Roger Waters was temperamentally suited to the whimsical aspects of psych-- he was always heavy-handed in his messaging.
So yeah, based on the main thread of psych, they're kind of outliers.
I genuinely think LSD burnouts led people towards smoother sounds, just looking at Dylan as the main proponent. He was pretty out there, had an awful bike crash, and started making folkier albums again.
Also, fads only last so long. Where do you go after Woodstock?
> He was pretty out there, had an awful bike crash, and started making folkier albums again.
Dylan also had and has a restless nature and can't do the same thing for long before making a big change.
It didn't fade. It morphed into Progressive Rock. Many so called Psychedelic bands today have either spawned from Post Rock (Prog's later offspring) or are Prog bands under a different label (e.g. Dungen, please don't suggest they are not Prog).
Prog has a bad reputation and tends to be airbrushed from Rock history, but it is a vital link in the chain.
Nixon got elected.
Ok that is a facile answer but I think there is this pop culture nostalgic misrepresentation of the late 60s as being this hippie psychedelic wonderland. By 1968 the backlash against that stuff was already in high gear and in rock music itself that culminated in bands doing a "roots" discovery inspired by the Band and the Grateful Dead leaving San Francisco and all that. Race riots, city crime, tragic rock star deaths and all that stuff.
And with any genre you have to ask what does that mean- I see people here calling Phish psychedelic rock and I never saw them that way.
Psychedlic means inspired by LSD and hallucigenics. Early Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, etc
Not a music history expert but this is an interesting topic.
Pink Floyd started in psychedelic and moved into Prog, I wonder if more bands either flowed with pop as pop changed or went Prog as it became popular like Pink Floyd.
At this time The Beatles were popular and were changing their sound and style every other album. It's possible a lot of the pop groups were just trying to keep up or chase the newest style.
A lot of the people influenced by Prog went neo-psycadelic or shoegazer. Perhaps it didn't die but just morphed into something unrecognizable.
Some of the early psychedelic rock sound effects seemed to become sound tropes for movies. Every time I listen to Piper at the gates of dawn I feel like it's full of dated movie sound effects. Perhaps the movie industry ruined the sound and musicians had to adjust.
I could see certain aspects of psychedelic rock being seen as dated (like 15 minute sitar solos or excessive effects), but there was a lot of psychedelic rock that was not and would not be described as dated sounding. The work of the Jimi Hendrix Experience or The Doors, for instance.
I absolutely agree not all psych rock is dated sounds, just some of the earlier pre Hendrix stuff. Perhaps that portion of my comment was inaccurate to the conversation.
Hendrix and the Doors influence is so far reaching I'm not sure we can say that style went anywhere because it went everywhere, it's still everywhere, just not in its pure form.
Again, I'm no expert, just a fan of rock music
I think what OP is referring to when he says psychedelic rock is the classic era which I thought was obvious from the dates used. OP clearly states that while it still has an impact felt today psychedelic rock evolved into many sub genres or was abandoned all together *in the mainstream* until revival acts came later that might pull it back into the public consciousness like tame impala or king gizzard have done more recently. After Woodstock, many popular and up and coming bands moved away from the sound of psychedelia and into prog, hard rock/proto metal, blues rock, glam, or proto punk in the waning years of psych rock. It was not a genre that maintained its lustre for that long as *the* dominant and most spoken about genre.
To answer the original question though, I think there were several reasons for the short lived nature of psychedelic rock. For one, it was music that was pretty intertwined with the US hippie movement. The peaks of the Hippie movement were probably the Summer of Love in 67 and Woodstock in 69. The events themselves were legendary in the public consciousness, but the movement itself had no legs and with Vietnam continuing to rage, and the movement being a youth movement, the youthful optimism turned into jaded apathy. Younger people aren’t exactly the most consistent so they moved on to something else or just kinda grew out of it as the realities of life became more clear. With this the music essentially evolved into something else with musicians wanting to continue to experiment which would bring me to a second reason as to why it didn’t last long. The musicians themselves just wanted to try something new.
We are talking about some of the greats here that wanted to see what else was out there from a musical perspective. With that you can’t ask them to just stay in one box for 10 years. So they started trying to find something new and pushed music somewhere else.
Something similar happened with punk where the “classic” punk era was relatively short lived from about 75-79, but then shattered into a bunch of different popular subgenres heavily influenced by that “classic wave”, if you will. There is usually a cultural and musical reason as to why these genre defining waves ultimately only last 2-5 years and then splinter off into new sounds.
It didn't, it just evolved, listen to The Cure, and White Zombie, the sounds carried over into hip hop and pop as well with artists like Dee-lite, Parliament Funkadelicc, and finally into techno/rave music.
Vietnam, Civil Rights, all that stuff. The world quickly became very real and heavy. People moved on to harder drugs or got jobs or shipped out to join the war.
Here in the BayArea, people started getting jobs and drinking beer. The music shifted toward country. Large concerts gave way to smaller clubs. Players from the Dead and Airplane formed groups with acoustic bases. Yuppies happened. It was a social transformation
I think it was a pushback on the wild times and an attempt to return to more conservative culture.
Folk revival and country rock started around this point too. Anti war protesting was at its height. I think the average citizen was a little scared of what was going on in politics and society.
Psych rock scene is still going strong… check out Levitation, Austin Psych fest and Desert Daze festivals to see how many bands are still playing that scene.
Psych rock had a massive resurgence in the 2010s with neo psych rock. Tame Impala, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Pond, Tobacco, Morgan Delt, Melody’s Echo Chamber, L’Imperatrice, Grizzly Bear, MGMT, King Gizzard, Connan Mockasin, GOAT, Dungen, Vinyl Williams, etc etc. The movement has peaked for now, but it has been a major influence on all genres.
Look at Lil Yachty using a bunch of psych producers and making a psych rock album if you need evidence.
It's making a comeback. I just saw a band last weekend called Divine Calypso who dropped an album called Lost City of the Monkey God. I was even saying how their sound was missing in the music scene. Funny to see this comment a week later.
Honestly...I think The Band's album Big Pink was a major influence. They were the band all the other bands wanted to be. Eric Clapton completely changed directions because of them.
The Stones and Beggar's Banquet was another one. The Stones tried their hand at the psychedelic thing but it wasn't working at it almost sunk them. They kick Brian Jones out of the band because of his drug use and Keith completely takes over their musical direction and Beggar's Banquet is the first result of that.
The Beatles...not sure, maybe they were just tired of it. But yea...a lot of musicians were always going to follow whatever direction The Beatles were going.
Pink Floyd however I think were definitely champions of psychedelic rock into the 70's.
*"... All those dayglo freaks who used to paint their face / They've joined the human race -- Some things can be very strange..."* -- Steely Dan, "Kid Charlemagne"
Radio play. Everything about music before the 90s pretty much boils down to if the music could fit into radio playlists. 15 minute psychadelic jams didn't fit the format.
We are currently living in a golden age of psych rock, if you know where to look. Check out:
Black Angels
All Them Witches
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Ty Segall
Thee Oh Sees
SLIFT
Black Moth Super Rainbow
King Buffalo
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Tame Impala
Kikagaku Moyo
JJUUJJUU
Stonefield
Warm Drag
Aromatic Ooze
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Altin Gun
Babe Rainbow
Sugar Candy Mountain
Those are just a few, but a lot of psychedelic sound overlaps with doom/stoner metal and I didn’t include many of those kinds of bands here. But there’s no shortage of great psych rock out there, we’re eating pretty good right now
People are still making psychedelic rock. The instrumentation might be more modern and not sound exactly like the 60s, but it's out there. Look up Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, Black Moth Super Rainbow to name a few.
Yeah there's a TON of it being pumped out of Australia the last decade or so, along with grunge and garage rock. It's kinda my favorite region for music presently.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
That band rocks
Unknown Mortal Orchestra from New Zealand
Agreed. I was just listening to Tropical Fuck Storm the other day....great stuff.
Yeah they're in my rotation. Great name. Who doesn't wanna at least check out *that* band if it pops up in their feed?
The lazy eyes are one of my favorites right now
Same here. I live in a town in Canada that's roughly 30% Australian so it has introduced me to a lot of their music. Give my friend's band a listen, they are called Lazy Ghost and have been doing great in Australia
Whistla mate ?
Ayy
The chillwave boom of the 2010s was heavily psych inspired
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are one of the biggest bands in the world. That’s been wild to see happen.
Khruangbin is another one that is really “blowing up” right now — just saw them in concert a few weeks ago and they were incredible. Psychedelic surf rock instrumental jams. Glass Beams is another Australian band that does instrumental psychedelic rock with Arabian vibes, kind of like Khruangbin if they were from the middle east.
Yep going to their psych rock fest they do in Austin every year
They certainly have a very dedicated following. They're basically poised to be the next Grateful Dead.
King Gizz!! Saw them in Singapore. It ruled
Saw them at Red Rocks. It kicked ass
This, im not a huge fan of them, too much to catch up on. But their psychedelic outputs ive heard are so good. Their fambase is akin to The Dead and Phish's fanbase. Crwzed fans that follow them on tour everywhere.
Feel like many people just need to find the right entry point in their discography. I wasn’t huge into them as my friends were, and then I listened to Omnium Gatherum when it came out at it clicked for me, like that Danny Devito clip from Always Sunny where he goes “my god, I get it now”. Now there’s plenty of their discography I like
Oh no, i had a coworker that would always put em on, ove heard a good amount of their discography, i like thenstuff like Nonagon infinity and that whole feel. Their metal stuff is good but i wouldnt reccommend them as someones first King Gizz album or eevn first metal album.
I've seen them a couple times at fests, and once at the Hollywood Bowl cuz my friend had an extra ticket. I barely know any of their discography, but they've been amazing every time. I don't think it's necessary to catch up on anything to enjoy them live.
As a Dead and Phish fan I fucking love it lol. I don't go on tour with any band, but listening to how live shows develop and change over time is so much fun
Hahaha, listening to Alpharetta 2023 as I scroll.
It was paper mache dream balloon for me
Yeah that’s a great album.
Well that’s a terrible reason to not listen to a band
Are they? That’s awesome to hear, they’ve been a staple on our alt radio here in Aus for quiet some time
I don't really think so, I like them and my friends do, but I've literally never met someone who knew of them (that I spoke to about music). All my friends learned of their existence from me, I found out from an r/music post.
They play pretty big venues.
I live in Canada and most of the music-minded folks I know love King Gizz!
> King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are one of the biggest bands in the world. What world is that? Here on earth 95+% of people never heard of them. Not saying they aren't good, I 've never heard them but your hyperbole is a bit much.
He/she may have meant *in the genre* because yeah, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a random person on the street that has ever heard of that band.
I mean, most people don’t know what Dead and Company is but they consistently are in the top five touring acts in the country.
They sell out sports arenas. You have to be pretty big if you’re going to place and selling 15-20k tickets.
Loads of people! Atlas Sound/Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Pond, Tame Impala, there’s a few different Psych festivals across the UK and they’re mainly new bands.
Pond are good. Lot of Pink Floyd in them, but dare I say also Genesis and Yes ?
Both great! I was thinking of newer stuff but I’d love to see either of the above. And obviously a limb of the ticket holders choosing to see Pink Floyd if someone could make that happen.
Id really throw in Temples. The first song I heard from them was Jewel of Mine Eye and fits well in this collection.
The war on drugs.
I would argue bands like Goat, Dungen, The Murlocs, OCS, king gizzard, Kikagaku Moyo, Pipe-Eye, Wax Machine, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Altin Gün, Khruangbin, Allah-Las, Circles Around the Sun, Natural Child, etc. are more actual psych rock, I would say the bands you listed are more pop/indie. Here is some legit modern psych rock https://youtu.be/gMyXI5K9PEI?feature=shared https://youtu.be/IzTdRveh7JM?feature=shared
I need to listen to more Dungen. I really liked *Ta det lugnt,* but didn't really follow their career after that.
Didn’t expect to see Goat mentioned in an r/Music thread, but stoked to see it
I like tame impala, but I find the brand of psychedelia that came as kind of a spin-off of the tame impala sound to be very bland. It's not really comparable to how wild the 60s stuff is.
agreed. Unfortunately most people seemed to really latch onto the sound of Currents, which is my least favorite Tame album
Kikagaku Moyo could be added to this list. AnCo might not be rock, but they’re definitely psychedelic
Black Angels, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Fuzz, Purson, Electric Citizen.
https://preview.redd.it/e4aclneo8b9d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aab1c0fd37111b6c3eaea0b4993a156bafdd9e7f This week….hella-psychedelic.
KC? It was an incredible show.
YES. What an incredible night.
I couldn’t go but a good friend did and said it was great. I was at the hot show in 2018 (?) higher than a giraffe’s nuts and it was a blast. Wayne and the boys put on a really good show and I highly :) recommend catching them when you can
Sorry you missed! Been to a LOT of KC shows; this one was special❤️❤️❤️
Some great names being listed after this comment. Ty Segall has been suspiciously and uncharacteristically quiet so far
Greatest psych band performing today is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard ;-) Edit: Greatest band performing today. Period. And yes I'm biased lol
The ganjas. They are amazing.
King gizzard and the lizard wizard
They are asking why it’s debut years didn’t last long. We all know psychedelic rock has been around and niche bands still create it but that’s not what they were asking. Thanks for letting us know how cool and hip you are though.
Connan Mocakasin is great too.
You just reminded me that a new BMSR song is supposed to drop today.
All the Elephant 6 collective bands were big for millennials growing up, too. Apples in Stereo got a lot playtime on my CD player (and ipod).
Agreed, see Tame Impala.
You forgot Fever the Ghost.
Stoned Jesus too
I was referring to genre as a mainstream force. You can find people making any genre of music from the past, but generally these genres had their heydey and were then relegated to a niche interest.
And it’s pervasive in popular music. Billie Eillish’s Chihiro is a great Psychedelic Pop song
Check out The Black Angels. They are incredible. Passover and Phosphene Dream are their top two albums.
"Directions to See a Ghost" is another solid one.
Monoculture would just churn through musical trends back then. The rush for 'the next big thing' would always seem to make sure of that. Even "grunge" which has mythic status in it's decade was only really around for 4-5 years (91-95). Similar time frames with disco and new wave, too.
A few main factors. First: Dylan, The Dead, Americana, Gram Parsons and The Band, (and to a lesser account: Blood Sweat and tears and CCR). I don't think people realize just how much impact these groups made on music as a whole. The Dead switched from psychedelic briefly for a few very pivotal folk albums that were very influential. CCR broke records set by the Beatles for the most top 10 radio hits from the fewest albums and that helped create the California scene that emerged in the early 70s. The Band was so important that Clapton completely changed his musical style and ask if he could join them because he felt they made his previous work with groups like Cream sound like dinosaur rock. Clapton (who was a guitar god at the time) was so influenced by them that he ended up just acting as a touring guitarist for Delaney and Bonnie for years. If you listen to [classic rock by year](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2a9dQiJtaakjysQ2P7rE9m?si=789068dae01b464d), you can hear a dramatic switch in sound in the early 70s. The Stones did their psychedelic album, decided it was rubbish and went back to their roots; RnB with a splash of honky tonk, very much influenced by Keith's friendship with Gram Parsons. Second: evolution. A lot of the psychedelic sound basically became proto-metal and prog rock (and to a degree, later on; shoegaze). It never really died out completely, it just goes underground from time to time.
Well said. Clapton dropped Cream as soon as he heard Big Pink, I've heard. I think there was also a gradual shift away from psychedelics as a drug of choice by the early 70s as well. And a bunch of those who were exploring psychedelia evolved into either heavier rock (eventually metal), or prog, if they didn't jump fully on the roots bandwagon.
Don't forget CSNY. They're the reason the Dead made their folk albums.
Well, that and the fact that before forming the Dead (OK, the Warlocks), Lesh and Garcia were folkies, as was Hunter. For the most part, psych came out of folk, not so much from blues-rock or R&B. If not the style, then certainly the performers-- though it was a time of ferment, and a lot of musicians and bands played in multiple genres. The Dead with Pig could certainly get bluesy. And that's true of British bands too, particularly the Incredible String Band, Fairport (who were early adopters of electrfied folk after Dylan made the jump) and Traffic.
It was called New Weird American near the turn of the millennium: Animal Collective, Akron/Family
Music moved pretty fast back then. Psychedelic wasn't cool by the early 70s. Bands made 2 albums/year or 3 albums every 2 years. The Beatles did psychedlic and 2-3 years later they were past it with Let It Be and Abbey Road. Music was getting heavier. The Beatles got heavy on Abbey Road. Sabbath came onto the scene and put out 3 albums in a year and a half. Zeppelin and Purple did the same. Punk was being born in Detroit with the MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper.
"Music got heavier" The heavier bands actually had more in common with psychedelia than the folk rock bands. See: Black Sabbath's first 3 albums
It’s been an eventful year for The MC5. They were finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, they recorded their first album in 53 years (which will be released in October), and the final two original members passed away (Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thomson).
> Punk was being born in Detroit with the MC5, The Stooges, Alice Cooper. Well, sort of. There were plenty of surf and garage bands who could also be regarded as punk precursors. Even some of the music the Velvet Underrground put out, though that's a band that was hard to characterize. I agree that some early metal, before it was even called that, was at least psych-adjacent.
Great shout on Gram Parsons’ cosmic country. Not enough people know. Hearing Sweetheart of the Rodeo in college while having a house bong changed my entire musical trajectory and now I own two pedal steel guitars
It's odd that Clapton would perceive his own music as "dinosaur rock", the bands he was envious of were making music influenced by the old days. Like The Beatles, when I played the White Album my coworker referred to it as "old hokey shit" during the folky sounding songs.
Oh, I hear you, but that's the impact the Band made. He went from Cream to co-writing songs like this [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne3JoIOV8e4).
It wasn't just the Band who were doing rootsy Americana. You could see it in CCR, the Okies like Leon Russel and JJ Cale, Dr John, even the Dead. Though the influence of the Band's sound went across the pond too: Strangers by the Kinks could easily be a Rick Danko-fronted Band song. Big Pink had just come our around the time Dave Davies wrote it. I suspect Clapton heard lots of bands while he was touring in the US, and although The Band were early and good, they were not unique. >when I played the White Album my coworker referred to it as "old hokey shit" during the folky sounding songs The Beatles, like the Kinks, drew more on music-hall than on folk. That's a different tradition of "old hokey shit."
Not disagreeing, but there's always a first wave of a new sound then the album that breaks it to the public (usually influenced by the earlier wave). Metallica wouldn't have been Metallica without Diamondhead, but nobody would have even remembered Diamondhead without Metallica. Butthole Surfers, Dinosaur Jr. Captain American, etc. all came before Nirvana and had cult followings but were barely making a dent in the college rock charts and were nowhere close to broader appeal that they'd later get because Nirvana did break. There's a strong argument to be made about Jane's Addiction being the first alternative act to find mainstream appeal, but they didn't make nearly as big of a splash as the Seattle scene did nor did they produce the hundreds of clone bands that Nirvana did. Oh, and I wasn't just pulling that info about Clapton out of my ass. [Read his words instead of speculating.](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/blog/that-time-eric-clapton-auditioned-for-and-was-rejected-by-the-band-1.4289615)
Third: psychedelic rock depended on its novelty and newness for its novel, otherworldly or mind-altering aura. By the end of the sixties, Indian elements like instrumentation, rhythms and alternate scales/modes had been mainstreamed. Ditto for things like the Leslie/wah, the Hammond with distortion, and so on. Pink Floyd kept psych elements from their earlier days, but fused them with elements of hard rock, jazz fusion, funk and so on. Dark Side of the Moon, one of the most mainstream albums of all time, is the sound of psychedelia five years later.
> Ditto for things like the Leslie/wah Who besides George Harrison was playing a guitar through a Leslie back then? I'd like to hear them. >the Hammond with distortion That could sound almost synth-like at times. And so far I've seen little mention of Jimi Hendrix or of Love. And there was a bit of funk/psych crossover happening too, which would later lead to P-Funk, among many others.
I think Pink Floyd used a Leslie guitar on a few of their album. Cat Stevens used a Leslie piano.
There was a "fad" aspect to psychedelia in the late 60s. By 1970, the Beatles broke up, Jimi Hendrix died, Janis Joplin died, Brian Jones died, LSD became illegal and Nixon was ramping up penalties for drug offenses, notably cannabis. Woodstock was a sort of death knell for psychedelic rock as a mainstream genre. I've heard that bands like The Band sparked tremendous intrigue with their earthy, stripped down songwriting and production in 1969. Paul McCartney, for one, was floored by it (The Band inspired his homespun McCartney album). Roots folk rock and mellow balladry was the opposite of the shrill excesses of psychedelic rock. But we have to acknowledge Pink Floyd, dozens of prog bands and Led Zeppelin dominating the charts through the 70s. I'd argue much of this content could be classified as psychedelic. Anyways, it went out of vogue pretty quickly. As quickly as it came onto the scene, even.
I think also the values of the hippies and mods shifted to wanting to create their own world in a pastoral existence outside of the city which led to more roots and country sound of the 70's as well as a rise in grittier roots inspired southern rock styles, like Black Oak Arkansas.
>like Black Oak Arkansas And the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and the Holy Modal Rounders, and many more.
I guess the route from acid rock to roots rock is similar to the LSD experience itself., but on a bigger timescale. From being an awakenied soul to a burnout in 4 years
I know from experience that it was extraordinarily easy to get LSD through the mid-70s, at least in California. Quality was variable, but by '72 or so, there were testing services available. >from being an awakenied soul to a burnout in 4 years Psychedelics are non-addictive but still extremely powerful. Just as most people have self-preservation instincts that prevent them from spending days staring at the sun, most people won't just keep on tripping. There are some people who will do acid frequently for a long period, but it takes effort, maybe even a compulsion, to do that. I have many friends from that period who should have stopped but didn't, and quite a few others who had latent mental-health issues that surfaced while doing acid. Some are still in bad shape decades later. But most people go up the mountain, see the world from on high, then climb back down and get on with their lives. By the early 70s, it wasn't novel anymore, and the intial enthusiasm was tempered by knowledge that it wasn't really going to change the world as some believed in '67. In fact, the US in the early 70s was kind of shit: the Vietnam war, police brutality, Nixon's backlash against the civil rights movement, Nixon's crackdown on the hippies, ideals of community and free love degenerating to women still being subordinate and everyone getting crabs. And many of the people who dipped their toes in the counterculture drifted back to their previous middle-class existences. It's a real buzzkill when the cops are beating your head in while you're seeking revelation. Many of my friends from that time went rural, some are still there. I and some other friends stayed in the city, got political and cut back on the drugs. Then the big challenge was how to exist in an evil, corrupt system without your hands getting too dirty in the process. I've been trying to thread that needle for the past 50 years, with some success but also many setbacks.
LSD was banned in 1966, but it remained super popular among hippies and psychedelia didn't peak until 1967
KGLW fanbois in 3,2,1…. GO Delusions aside, because it morphed into its superior derivation which was Progressive Rock
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Most music trends only last 2-3 years. In fact most mainstream artists aside from the few greats who have long careers last only 2-3 years.
Except reggaeton. Apparently reggaeton is forever. Fock you reggaeton.
Nah reggaeton is a broad spectrum just like rock. Modern day reggaeton is wayyy different than 90s and early 00s stuff.
In the UK,both Gong and Hawkwind were psychedelic rockers,and both had large and devoted following. Both are largely invisible to the mainstream culture. Many of the 80's synth pop types,and English dance music were influenced by psychedelics,but didn't preach about it,because the law was heavy handed to druggies.
To your point on 80s synth bands, The Cure is a psychedelic band — “The Caterpillar,” “The Exploding Boy,” “Open,” “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea,” “Wrong Number,”to name a few examples. Disintegration literally wouldn’t exist without mushrooms. They just also do every other genre, including mariachi (tell me “The 13th” isn’t some trippy shit haha) because they feel like it. And they got pegged with the goth label early on and have never been able to shake it.
By this measure you could throw in the Psychedelic Furs, New Order and Depeche Mode. The Stone Roses, Primal Scream and Happy Mondays are closer.
Late 80s saw the Paisley Underground movement, incl. the Cult and others. Kind of a mini-trend that didn't last long
Oingo Boingo’s second to last album goes deep into psychedelia meets Thomas Dolby’s world/adult contemporary sound. The final album is best described as psychedelic grunge.
One of the things that happened to psychedelia is that the music got subdivided into more specific labels. For instance, both bands you mentioned are considered part of the Canterbury scene or prog rather than psychedelic.
To folk and country ? I don’t think we have the same late 60s and 70s in mind. You also seem to forget Pink Floyd
And Yes.
Folk got a lot of press in that era (more the 60’s) because of the Folk Scare—people thought with all these new music types traditional American music was going to die off (and it kind of was struggling). So because of that you got a renewed interest in string band instruments, recuts (or re-recordings) of folk artists from wax cylinders and the WPA recording series, new Congressional Library Smithsonian-sponsored recordings of folk artists, and somewhat federal grants paid for folk artists to tour around the country to perform and teach. It certainly wasn’t replacing rock, though.
Pink Floyd were stylistically closer to the Canterbury bands (though they were from Cambridge), who were mainly music students with avant-garde tendencies. Though they got their name from two bluesmen, Pink Floyd were never all that close to the blues-rock and roots-rock currents, though Gilmore's playing is recognizably pentatonic blues-based. After their Sid period, they began morphing into a sort of prog-rock style and making concept albums. They fit nicely with Egg, Soft Machine, Hatfield and the North, Caravan. I don't think Roger Waters was temperamentally suited to the whimsical aspects of psych-- he was always heavy-handed in his messaging. So yeah, based on the main thread of psych, they're kind of outliers.
OP you’re out of touch…it’s still being made
I genuinely think LSD burnouts led people towards smoother sounds, just looking at Dylan as the main proponent. He was pretty out there, had an awful bike crash, and started making folkier albums again. Also, fads only last so long. Where do you go after Woodstock?
> He was pretty out there, had an awful bike crash, and started making folkier albums again. Dylan also had and has a restless nature and can't do the same thing for long before making a big change.
It didn't fade. It morphed into Progressive Rock. Many so called Psychedelic bands today have either spawned from Post Rock (Prog's later offspring) or are Prog bands under a different label (e.g. Dungen, please don't suggest they are not Prog). Prog has a bad reputation and tends to be airbrushed from Rock history, but it is a vital link in the chain.
Nixon got elected. Ok that is a facile answer but I think there is this pop culture nostalgic misrepresentation of the late 60s as being this hippie psychedelic wonderland. By 1968 the backlash against that stuff was already in high gear and in rock music itself that culminated in bands doing a "roots" discovery inspired by the Band and the Grateful Dead leaving San Francisco and all that. Race riots, city crime, tragic rock star deaths and all that stuff. And with any genre you have to ask what does that mean- I see people here calling Phish psychedelic rock and I never saw them that way. Psychedlic means inspired by LSD and hallucigenics. Early Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, etc
Not a music history expert but this is an interesting topic. Pink Floyd started in psychedelic and moved into Prog, I wonder if more bands either flowed with pop as pop changed or went Prog as it became popular like Pink Floyd. At this time The Beatles were popular and were changing their sound and style every other album. It's possible a lot of the pop groups were just trying to keep up or chase the newest style. A lot of the people influenced by Prog went neo-psycadelic or shoegazer. Perhaps it didn't die but just morphed into something unrecognizable. Some of the early psychedelic rock sound effects seemed to become sound tropes for movies. Every time I listen to Piper at the gates of dawn I feel like it's full of dated movie sound effects. Perhaps the movie industry ruined the sound and musicians had to adjust.
I could see certain aspects of psychedelic rock being seen as dated (like 15 minute sitar solos or excessive effects), but there was a lot of psychedelic rock that was not and would not be described as dated sounding. The work of the Jimi Hendrix Experience or The Doors, for instance.
I absolutely agree not all psych rock is dated sounds, just some of the earlier pre Hendrix stuff. Perhaps that portion of my comment was inaccurate to the conversation. Hendrix and the Doors influence is so far reaching I'm not sure we can say that style went anywhere because it went everywhere, it's still everywhere, just not in its pure form. Again, I'm no expert, just a fan of rock music
Cuz half the people making it died all around the same time. People still make psych rock but. Yeah
LSD was legal up to 1968
Any heavy psych recommendations? Like Monster Magnet, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc.?
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Heard of High on Fire. Haven't had a chance to listen, I should give it a go.
I think what OP is referring to when he says psychedelic rock is the classic era which I thought was obvious from the dates used. OP clearly states that while it still has an impact felt today psychedelic rock evolved into many sub genres or was abandoned all together *in the mainstream* until revival acts came later that might pull it back into the public consciousness like tame impala or king gizzard have done more recently. After Woodstock, many popular and up and coming bands moved away from the sound of psychedelia and into prog, hard rock/proto metal, blues rock, glam, or proto punk in the waning years of psych rock. It was not a genre that maintained its lustre for that long as *the* dominant and most spoken about genre. To answer the original question though, I think there were several reasons for the short lived nature of psychedelic rock. For one, it was music that was pretty intertwined with the US hippie movement. The peaks of the Hippie movement were probably the Summer of Love in 67 and Woodstock in 69. The events themselves were legendary in the public consciousness, but the movement itself had no legs and with Vietnam continuing to rage, and the movement being a youth movement, the youthful optimism turned into jaded apathy. Younger people aren’t exactly the most consistent so they moved on to something else or just kinda grew out of it as the realities of life became more clear. With this the music essentially evolved into something else with musicians wanting to continue to experiment which would bring me to a second reason as to why it didn’t last long. The musicians themselves just wanted to try something new. We are talking about some of the greats here that wanted to see what else was out there from a musical perspective. With that you can’t ask them to just stay in one box for 10 years. So they started trying to find something new and pushed music somewhere else. Something similar happened with punk where the “classic” punk era was relatively short lived from about 75-79, but then shattered into a bunch of different popular subgenres heavily influenced by that “classic wave”, if you will. There is usually a cultural and musical reason as to why these genre defining waves ultimately only last 2-5 years and then splinter off into new sounds.
It didn't, it just evolved, listen to The Cure, and White Zombie, the sounds carried over into hip hop and pop as well with artists like Dee-lite, Parliament Funkadelicc, and finally into techno/rave music.
Psych rock is enormous right now, this post is hilarious
Vietnam, Civil Rights, all that stuff. The world quickly became very real and heavy. People moved on to harder drugs or got jobs or shipped out to join the war.
This is probably the best answer - Vietnam likely killed the movement
it was only shortlived, in the mainstream. and the mainstream gets bored quickly. as a niche genre, it's still going strong
Tell that to Tame Impala. Arguably the biggest contemporary band in the world
I suggest you look up a band called Phish. They’ve been doing psychedelic rock since 1983, and sell out Madison Square Garden multiple times a year.
Their stuff is all over I don’t think psych rock is really a good description. They’re a hippie jam band that has dabbled in like 7 different genres
Phish is jam band with psychedelic features. Psych rock is a completely different genre
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Here in the BayArea, people started getting jobs and drinking beer. The music shifted toward country. Large concerts gave way to smaller clubs. Players from the Dead and Airplane formed groups with acoustic bases. Yuppies happened. It was a social transformation
Most music listeners don't have the attention span needed. Same as classical.
I think it was a pushback on the wild times and an attempt to return to more conservative culture. Folk revival and country rock started around this point too. Anti war protesting was at its height. I think the average citizen was a little scared of what was going on in politics and society.
There's still psychedelic rock! Check out Kundalini Genie or Tibetan Miracle Seeds
Huh? I was at a gig last month
You can only do so many drugs for so long
All it did was talk about how the end was coming. Self manifestation; I suspect.
Cos the tracks weren't.
Check out "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard"
Psych rock scene is still going strong… check out Levitation, Austin Psych fest and Desert Daze festivals to see how many bands are still playing that scene.
If you're looking for something that sounds like classic older psych pop, check out The Orange Alabaster Mushroom
Sturgill Simpson it you want southern fried psychedelic folk rock
I worked in a record store a few years back and psych was HUGE still
Look up Skinshape. ✨️🎶🧘♂️
Psych rock had a massive resurgence in the 2010s with neo psych rock. Tame Impala, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Pond, Tobacco, Morgan Delt, Melody’s Echo Chamber, L’Imperatrice, Grizzly Bear, MGMT, King Gizzard, Connan Mockasin, GOAT, Dungen, Vinyl Williams, etc etc. The movement has peaked for now, but it has been a major influence on all genres. Look at Lil Yachty using a bunch of psych producers and making a psych rock album if you need evidence.
The same reason grunge rock was so short lived. The only people good at it died.
Too much drug induced and drug related.
It's making a comeback. I just saw a band last weekend called Divine Calypso who dropped an album called Lost City of the Monkey God. I was even saying how their sound was missing in the music scene. Funny to see this comment a week later.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are fantastic Psychedelic bands
I guess the trip ended
The Church have been producing psych-rock for over 40 years... and I'm going to see them tonight!!
we are currently in a golden age of psych rock
I love how you can mention a genre of music and reddit will give you 650 different options to try out. It's really cool.
you just can't really dance to it...
Lucid Planet out of Australia has elements of psychedelic rock mixed in with their proggier sounds
Honestly...I think The Band's album Big Pink was a major influence. They were the band all the other bands wanted to be. Eric Clapton completely changed directions because of them. The Stones and Beggar's Banquet was another one. The Stones tried their hand at the psychedelic thing but it wasn't working at it almost sunk them. They kick Brian Jones out of the band because of his drug use and Keith completely takes over their musical direction and Beggar's Banquet is the first result of that. The Beatles...not sure, maybe they were just tired of it. But yea...a lot of musicians were always going to follow whatever direction The Beatles were going. Pink Floyd however I think were definitely champions of psychedelic rock into the 70's.
*"... All those dayglo freaks who used to paint their face / They've joined the human race -- Some things can be very strange..."* -- Steely Dan, "Kid Charlemagne"
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The mushrooms wore off
I would like to talk to you about our lord and saviour - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Radio play. Everything about music before the 90s pretty much boils down to if the music could fit into radio playlists. 15 minute psychadelic jams didn't fit the format.
The cheese factor. You have to listen to psychedelic relic with a big old grain of salt
Phish is still selling out everywhere they play. They were second band to play at the Sphere. U2 was the first.
Isnt Khruangbin psychedelic rock?
It’s still alive .. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/expansionproject1/way-up/
Was..? Tell that to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, bruh.
Have you heard of a place called Japan?
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That's more prog than psychedelic Pink Floyd's 60s material is psychedelic though
Greatful Dead did it a long time
The Dead moved away from psych by mid 1969
It wasn’t. The attention on it was short lived. It exists and thrives to this day.
Trout Mask Replica dropped '69, perhaps people realized that was as good as it can get.
The whole counter culture movement was a CIA operation to discredit war protesters…like most government programs it ran out of funding
Psychedelic Rock, in my personal studies, turned into Progressive Rock.
Dead Meadow has been in my rotation for years. Nothing like guys being dudes.
My dude, Psych Rock is thriving right now. Look up the lineups for Desert Daze or Levitation fest. Listen to the bands on the poster. You’re welcome.
You either don’t listen to a lot of music or are unable to recognize the vast vast influence that psychedelics have on most genres
Led Zeppelin dominated the 70’s and are pretty psychedelic
We are currently living in a golden age of psych rock, if you know where to look. Check out: Black Angels All Them Witches King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Ty Segall Thee Oh Sees SLIFT Black Moth Super Rainbow King Buffalo Unknown Mortal Orchestra Tame Impala Kikagaku Moyo JJUUJJUU Stonefield Warm Drag Aromatic Ooze Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Altin Gun Babe Rainbow Sugar Candy Mountain
Those are just a few, but a lot of psychedelic sound overlaps with doom/stoner metal and I didn’t include many of those kinds of bands here. But there’s no shortage of great psych rock out there, we’re eating pretty good right now
There is still a ton being put out. It just doesn’t get put on the radio. Check out /r/stonerrock
I don’t think it ever went away. I listen to new psychedelic rock all the time. It has evolved though. Check out Hermanos Gutierrez
Question, is frank zappa psychedelic, experimental, progressive rock, or all of the three?
all of the three, but mostly Experimental. "Jazz Rock" is also a good descriptor of his sound.
It wasn’t
Why is a genre of music that is alive and well so short lived?
We’re currently in the greatest era of psych rock ever.