Were the Grateful Dead considered American psychedelia? If so then a 30 minute My Generation jam session might loosely qualify. Mark
It's a can of day-glo worms when it comes to defining the parameters of psychedelia, that's for sure.
Actually “Circles” is pretty psychedelic too. Amazing Journey is.... I’m sure I can think of more. It was the Kinks who were not psychedelic
Fair enough, but what about those crazy swirling piano-driven instrumental sections? Does raga-rock count as psychedelia? If you think so, let's throw in See My Friends and Fancy. It's like I'm suggesting upthread, psychedelia is whatever you want to think it is. There is no right or wrong, in my opinion.
They flirted with it far less than any of their contemporaries did though, so it's not like you were wrong, or anything. And you're quite right about The Who, thinking about it they had more psychedelic numbers than I gave them credit for having earlier. Pete's demo for Disguises is still way trippier than the finished article, though...
To add to the Kinks discussion going on, despite not being a psych guy, somehow Ray Davies created more imagery than most of his contemporaries at the time who did dabble in psych.
And, of course, "Wicked Annabella," sitting right there in the midst of Ray's nostalgic musings. Dave could do psychedelia even if Ray wasn't interested.
Phenomenal Cat ... There are a few when you think about it, especially if you want to stretch the definition to the whimsical side.
Just heard that they've redone(overdubbed)the vocals redone the electric guitar(it was distorting apparently)and added percussion throughout by Jody Linscott,
The only thing I knew about Steve Bolton in 1989, was, that he was once in a band called Atomic Rooster.
Just been trawling through all of the audience recordings from 1967 and 1968 and the feeling I get is that this transition period between The Who's high pop of their early singles up to and including "Happy Jack" and starting to develop "Tommy" also coincided with the rise - and their competition with - The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream. Listening to the tapes, whilst they keep the crowd pleasing singles in the set, they are clearly stretching out towards the more experimental jams that the other two bands were leaning towards and that Pete was leaning towards. Pete wasn't going to let the opportunity slip to show what he was capable of on guitar, let alone the virtuosity of Keith and John. Add to that the direction that bands like The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape and - to an extent - Jefferson Airplane were going and it all, to me, adds up to a thoroughly exciting prospect of having a 33 minute My Generation (give or take 10 minutes of introduction and equipment smashing).
Funny .... That reminds me of the Pearl Jam show I attended in Honolulu Dec. 2006 ... A birthday cake was brought out for Matt Cameron ... then the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" ..... Ed, buzzed off his wine bottle, proceeded to take the cake and hurl it into the audience, soiling a group of folks around the 5th row ! Of course everyone went completely nuts with surprise and laughter ..... then Ed goes "You need some forks ??" .... hilarious, you had to be there.
