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Psychedelia
Psychedelia
(or psychedelic rock) is a musical style that began in the
1960s with the folk music duo Holy Molar Rounders
introducing the term in New York City in 1964. Psychedelic
music brought along longer songs, more obscure lyrics,
longer songs, longer instrumental solos, and electronic
effects done by keyboard to give a more “trippy” effect.
Bands started to pop up along the West Coast, the epicenter
being San Francisco and one of the progenitors being
American author Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters’ in-house band,
The Warlocks, better known later as The Grateful Dead. The
Red Hot Chili Peppers melodical sense draws heavily from
psychedelia, especially the psychedelia influences of Jimi
Hendrix (next to funk, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’s biggest
influence).
With The Beatles revolutionary album Sgt. Peppers Lonely
Hearts Club Band in 1967, psychedelia was brought to the
pop mainstream. LSD, the drug that is commonly associated
with psychedelic music and the psychedelic movement in
general, exploded in usage as many fans and musicians began
use of the drug. Numerous bands began incorporating
psychedelia into their sound including The Beatles, Pink
Floyd, Cream, and The Rolling Stones.
However, as the 1960s came to the close, increasing
political hostility, increased drug usage turning bands
towards a harsher sound, and some outright rejections of
psychedelia by artists spelled the end of the evolution of
psychedelic rock, even though numerous rock acts from the
1970s on including Led Zeppelin, The Red Hot Chili Peppers,
and Jane’s Addiction would include psychedelic influences
into their music.
By the 1990s to the present, psychedelia is making a
comeback, with a scene flourishing in the Silver Lake area
of Los Angeles which is a well noted eclectic center of
artistic creativity. The Red Hot Chili Peppers incorporated
numerous psychedelic influences in their last three albums –
Californication (1999), By The Way (2002), and
Stadium Arcadium (2006).
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