The 13th Floor Elevators is the greatest and first psychedelic band ever. Go listen to Easter Everywhere and tell me if that ain't psychedelic as fuck
this has to be one of the worst documentaries about psychedelic rock i've seen.. Why is there no mention of the 13th Floor Elevators? They make it seem like Psychedelic rock only came from San Fransisco or England... What a bunch of bullshit..
@redubu2 It ALL started in SF, even The Elevators came there to get influenced. But they sound much more like a surf band than a real psychedelic band. A Texan named Travis Rivers took the light show concept to Texas and formed Jomo Light Disaster, but light shows had already been going quite a while in SF along with as the Acid Tests and the Greatful Dead as the Warlocks were way ahead of the Elevators claim of being a psychedelic band. Texas dudes want to be first, and BIG. Sorry not so
@deaddoc Right On! Elevators are more a of a regular garage band with psychedelic album cover.. SF scene is definetely musically psychedelic.. the influence is distinctive and more defined.
@thezestiest You must use poor grade or never had a good brownie. But regardless of your consideration, it is chemically classed as a drug and does affect the cns like a drug. It's main trouble is that it causes short circuited logic like this one of yours.
@deaddoc I couldn't really care less what the government classifies anything as. The war on drugs has everyone thinking that if you prefer to use pot to relax or for medication, you're a horrible person and a drug addict, which is downright ridiculous. Used correctly, it can be very beneficial, and less risky than a lot of legal drugs. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. No, seriously, you should probably lighten up instead of trolling on youtube :)
@thezestiest It's not the government, Sherlock, it's science. I have a lot more history with than you, without a doubt or you would have moved on by now. I used to staff rock shows with the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. In the early 70s, there was a song that describes you, "I got stoned and I missed it!"
@thezestiest And just because there are a lot of bad pharmaceuticals out there being pushed by drug companies doesn't justify being a self righteous user. More damage has been done through pot use than anything else because it lowers IQ so much in general. The ease of the legal drug market sales is because of the idea than ANY drug is good for you. You're dosing yourself, man. Trolling? Maybe I'm on a campaign against drugs 24/7.
@thezestiest If you need to relax, learn to relax naturally, with exercise, good food and rest. Or learn to meditate. If you have a real medical issue like cancer or glaucoma, then maybe you should see a doctor. Self medicating is what is downright ridiculous and the sign of a psychological addicted person.
@deaddoc wow, you must be bored. I'm sorry you have nothing better to do. Nothing is wrong with my IQ, in fact, I'm a recent college grad, thanks :) I don't need your propaganda. Maybe I'm on a campaign against hate and intolerance, and judging people's lifestyles that you know nothing about. Get a life, grandpa...go be bitter at someone else, and please stop tagging me in your responses because I keep getting emails about it on my phone, and some of us have lives and need sleep.
yes they were. they formed in 1965 and released their first album in february of 1966. At the end of 1966 into 1967, new bands started to form, like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service an it lasted until the end of the Summer of love which was basically the end of the psychedelic era.
The use of psychedelic drugs after 1967, minimized or decreased because LSD was illegal after 1967.
If there had to be an Psychedelic Era it would be from 1966-1972
@GamingwithFuzz..I think you ought to do a little research!! The use of LSD did not decline after it became illegal. In fact the opposite was true. LSD use increased exponentially for the next five years as it became a codified part of the hippie counterculture. Or as Robert Christgau the cultural critic wrote acid became a part of "mass bohemianism" and of course LSD's cachet increased once it became illegal. Another revisionist trope bits the dust!!
gawd, you critics have to understand something. This was on the Television. Of course it's going to be trimming all the good stuff to leave only the 'big hitters' of the music industry. No mention of elevators, seeds, love, DMT, rusty evans, kim fowley..because it's TOPICAL, not deep. Expect this from the industry. Why would they Promote the elevators, when for one, they were on an Independant Texas label then, and Charly now..no profits for anyone! That's the reasons folks.
David Crosby has a difficult time getting along with anyone and everyone, thanks to his prolific substance abuse tendencies. My brother had a run-in with him in the mid 1980's while playing roadie for some local outfit that had the misfortune to share a stage with whoever he was playing with at the time.
Banning songs like Eight Miles High by the Byrds or A Day In The Life by the Beatles is a major sin!! Those are pure treasures of such an awesome era! Love the 60's, wish I was born in 1942 instead of 92 ¬¬
They were a folk/pop band that surfaced concurrent with the psychedelic movement, but hardly psychedelic themselves. Their closest connection would have been playing at Monterey Pop with the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis, but that's about it...
Greetings, I have come from the future to warn you all that the last part of this documentary has been silenced by Warner. So prepare to be bummed out, you know, in my present time. (roughly 70 minutes from your Now)
This is the essence of the humility one attains. You will learn that this reality is merely a physical hologram manifestation by the imagination of all of us, which in reality, we are simply one giant organism of energy, light and consciousness that is pulsing and vibrating through the universe endlessly and infinite, creating entertaining dreams and horror, which the unaware human believes to be this life and this reality.
The history of human psychedelic experience is thousands of years old and no form of music or history will EVER be able to, in any form, correctly do justice to the true unimaginable and unexplainable power of the human mind, when it is allowed to open.
regurgitated crap.....Grace Slick once said that we played a colege town in Iowa and the kids all wore chinos and oxford shits and were very subdued. By the following year LSD was rampant and the kids hair was long. Just for the record nothing shows up in Iowa of all places without intent. LSD was brought into the country by Harriman and distributed by the CIA. Read Huxleys Doors of Perception.
wtf. I don't see why these people never put the doors or jim morrison in this documentry! they were one of the greatest physedelic rock groups ever...what a pity.
I think you are confused, my friend. First of all, the Elevators had a "smash hit" in '66 off of their first album "Psychedelic Sounds" called "You're Gonna Miss Me". Largely popular in the SF scene as well as Austin.
Secondly, The Warlocks, whom I am referring to, are nothing of what you said. They formed in 1999 and continue to play 'til this day.
You are confusing your Jam Bands with Psychedelic Rock. And so did this lame ass Doc.
The Grateful Dead as The Warlocks were playing Kesey Acid Tests in 1965 before we knew who The 13th Floor Elevator was. The major original SF Bands & Psychedlics were already rolling big time in SF before The Elavator showed up in in 1966-Not one person I knew back then called The Dead a Jam Band & The High Times in the Wild West was in SF not Austin Tx.. Elavator was one of the first but SF didn't need them to show up to turn us on to what was created before they showed up..
60s Warlocks/Dead did not play the same type of music as the Elevators. They had heavier shit to say and played their instruments the same. I mean, if you can name a band that was doing what they were doing I'm all ears. I'm talking jefferson airplane-type, doors, early pink floyd. of course they all came after. maybe I decipher bands differently than most but last I check there weren't many similarities between Phish and Dead Meadow.... maybe the drugs.
the point is, this "documentary" should not have been called the History of Psychedelic Rock. It's kind of like finding out whats going on in the world from tv... you dont get all of the info, slightly ignorant and definitely wrapped in plastic.
If I saw both bands in the 60's & have known since 1966 how different they are, why tell me? When you say They I don't know which one you mean. Who's they who I can or can't name a band that was doing what they were doing? I don't know much about Phish at all & don't know Dead Meadow at all. So, I'm kinda lost with what your trying to say, to me.
But I agree Dead & 13th didn't play the same kind of music.
"They" is obviously 13th, in reference to the heavy. Phish is to grateful dead as dead meadow is to elevators. the bands I named are merely examples of where each genre is today. each separate genre. which again takes me back to my point as listed below. don't get me wrong man, I love the grateful dead and the like but I just think this doc is too bias and ignorant to be considered a documentation of the History of Psychedelic ROCK. Why not "the history of noodling"? seems more suiting.
Bill Graham who saw everybody "The Grateful Dead aren't the best at what they do; they are the only ones that do what they do" Although people tried to put them in multiple ones they never fit in any genre. Like 13th did in the narrow genre of Psychedelic Music being The Dead's music touched on many genres & musical forms with no boundaries that blew past all genre's & took them places uniquely their own from the start, different than anybody. So no, they don't fit in your narrow box.
I can get on board with that. you are right. and this doc is still misleading. Tunnel-vision. not completely true. yada yada. no Elevators, no Doors. rubbish I say.
Good & I agree 13th from the start & Doors should be there for sure but there's
a reason why they talk to who they do, so don't think it's all rubbish. Kesey's Tests was the start of a whole new thing & SF was the pulse beat of the whole new scene & music that was Psychedelic & Rocked & Dead wasn't noodling around back then but yes 13th & Doors major shakers & movers who should be talked about if your talk'en Psy-co-dellic Music.
13th floor elevators were pretty underground, even then
and the warlocks, were the grateful dead, they played the same songs because they were the same band, they were only the warlocks for like a year or so before they found out the name was taken
@emlathrop You really don't get it do you?But then your young.The revisionist cultural historians of the Punk generation have tried to co-opt history because little of their music has had lasting value.Hippie created the social & cultural context for Psychedelic Rock & was by definition Hippie music.I know my mother was a hippie photographer she worked in the London Underground & San francisco between 1966/70.The Elevators were good but they were hardly known at the time & had very little impact
Yardbirds came out with a tune called LSD and you can hear it on a CD release. The song is short, and it is not "psychedelic" in sound, but I love the title.
thanks for posting this!
andrewpetermilner 1 week ago
Marijuana, shrooms !!!!!!
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Did it really start in America???
BreezesofConey 6 months ago
Does anyone have any music of the grateful dead when they preformed at the acid tests Im pretty sure at that time they were still the warlocks
GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep 6 months ago
I would like to live in 60's
vandergraaf78 7 months ago
@vandergraaf78 me too
doom696mented 2 months ago
@vandergraaf78 co-sign! :)
threeby8887 2 weeks ago
where is the sound ?
djdigitalwarrior 9 months ago
5:34 It's Fyfe Robertson.
tigranvartanovitch 9 months ago
@tigranvartanovitch Yaass - I'd like to think that Fyfe snuck that LDS home to trip with his Mrs! :)
kettlezone 7 months ago
@kettlezone not lds but lsd
dark12sage 7 months ago
Can i buy this movie somewhere?
Beatleluver1234567 9 months ago
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@Beatleluver1234567 "Can i buy this movie somewhere?"
Been trying foryears....Broadcast on PBS - TV, but it isn't available ...except perhaps to educational organizations.
Maybe someday.
Entire series is a fantastic series...covers the whole gamut of R&R.
AOXOMOXO 2 weeks ago
I don't believe in the drug culture.
Khultan 10 months ago
@MUGEN2800 You listen to more music than anyone you know? Ah ha ha ha!
Khultan 10 months ago
The 13th Floor Elevators is the greatest and first psychedelic band ever. Go listen to Easter Everywhere and tell me if that ain't psychedelic as fuck
SIatanica 11 months ago
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thezestiest 1 year ago
@MUGEN2800 I'm thirteen and I feel the same.
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jauakkais 1 year ago
this has to be one of the worst documentaries about psychedelic rock i've seen.. Why is there no mention of the 13th Floor Elevators? They make it seem like Psychedelic rock only came from San Fransisco or England... What a bunch of bullshit..
redubu2 1 year ago
@redubu2 It ALL started in SF, even The Elevators came there to get influenced. But they sound much more like a surf band than a real psychedelic band. A Texan named Travis Rivers took the light show concept to Texas and formed Jomo Light Disaster, but light shows had already been going quite a while in SF along with as the Acid Tests and the Greatful Dead as the Warlocks were way ahead of the Elevators claim of being a psychedelic band. Texas dudes want to be first, and BIG. Sorry not so
deaddoc 1 year ago
@deaddoc Right On! Elevators are more a of a regular garage band with psychedelic album cover.. SF scene is definetely musically psychedelic.. the influence is distinctive and more defined.
Nice documentry
Meckipsychman 1 year ago
@Meckipsychman Really San Francisco? San Francisco is more drugged out if anything.
Khultan 10 months ago
@MUGEN2800 like totaly man
9Iamthewalrus 1 year ago
THAT GUY IN THE BEGINNING SUCKS DICK, TRYING REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN
niggaT42000 1 year ago
gee, what are the fascist "brain police" up to now, honey?
stkmce 1 year ago
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ahniditab 1 year ago
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ahniditab 1 year ago
8:48 the legendary Neal C.
robertschelly 1 year ago
"Once upon a Long Time Ago
folks were born to know Crossroads Siren Song held Serious Sway
People took time comin'
to answer its summon in that long gone time, Crossroads Great HeydaY"
The Conductor/ Last Train to Crossroads/
and uh-were men the only artists worth talking to ? Guess so....RIP Jer
ratherfam 1 year ago
The only thing weed can't do is cure heartburn. d(:
pervertedmind 1 year ago
do the chinese interest in that ?
dreck93 1 year ago
@MUGEN2800 im 17 and i feel the same way
harleybrewer99 1 year ago
Is the head of the news reader in the first minute rainbow coloured or is it just me? :-)
Hannekehanneke 1 year ago
saying you dont have to enjoy psychedelic music on psychedelics is just like saying you can enjoy penaut butter without any penauts in it. denial.
Nobodie92 1 year ago
@Nobodie92 peanuts?
Dadollargeneral 1 year ago
@Nobodie92 Actually I enjoy psychedelic rock and I've never taken psychedelics.
thezestiest 1 year ago
@thezestiest
not even cannabis..?
c'mon...you need to get out more!
even try a few shooms someday(not many)
novaflo339 1 year ago
@novaflo339 I don't really consider cannabis psychedelic...in fact I don't really consider it a drug at all.
thezestiest 1 year ago
@thezestiest You must use poor grade or never had a good brownie. But regardless of your consideration, it is chemically classed as a drug and does affect the cns like a drug. It's main trouble is that it causes short circuited logic like this one of yours.
deaddoc 1 year ago
@deaddoc I couldn't really care less what the government classifies anything as. The war on drugs has everyone thinking that if you prefer to use pot to relax or for medication, you're a horrible person and a drug addict, which is downright ridiculous. Used correctly, it can be very beneficial, and less risky than a lot of legal drugs. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. No, seriously, you should probably lighten up instead of trolling on youtube :)
thezestiest 1 year ago
@thezestiest It's not the government, Sherlock, it's science. I have a lot more history with than you, without a doubt or you would have moved on by now. I used to staff rock shows with the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. In the early 70s, there was a song that describes you, "I got stoned and I missed it!"
deaddoc 1 year ago
@thezestiest And just because there are a lot of bad pharmaceuticals out there being pushed by drug companies doesn't justify being a self righteous user. More damage has been done through pot use than anything else because it lowers IQ so much in general. The ease of the legal drug market sales is because of the idea than ANY drug is good for you. You're dosing yourself, man. Trolling? Maybe I'm on a campaign against drugs 24/7.
deaddoc 1 year ago
@thezestiest If you need to relax, learn to relax naturally, with exercise, good food and rest. Or learn to meditate. If you have a real medical issue like cancer or glaucoma, then maybe you should see a doctor. Self medicating is what is downright ridiculous and the sign of a psychological addicted person.
deaddoc 1 year ago
@deaddoc wow, you must be bored. I'm sorry you have nothing better to do. Nothing is wrong with my IQ, in fact, I'm a recent college grad, thanks :) I don't need your propaganda. Maybe I'm on a campaign against hate and intolerance, and judging people's lifestyles that you know nothing about. Get a life, grandpa...go be bitter at someone else, and please stop tagging me in your responses because I keep getting emails about it on my phone, and some of us have lives and need sleep.
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MiguelKertsman 1 year ago
lol you can tell Kesey had some peacocks on his farm cause you can hear them at the end of this video
Cam6769 1 year ago
no way the 13th floor elevators were the first to do psychedelic rock
Dylan3630 1 year ago
@Dylan3630
yes they were. they formed in 1965 and released their first album in february of 1966. At the end of 1966 into 1967, new bands started to form, like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service an it lasted until the end of the Summer of love which was basically the end of the psychedelic era.
The use of psychedelic drugs after 1967, minimized or decreased because LSD was illegal after 1967.
If there had to be an Psychedelic Era it would be from 1966-1972
GamingwithFuzz 1 year ago
@GamingwithFuzz..I think you ought to do a little research!! The use of LSD did not decline after it became illegal. In fact the opposite was true. LSD use increased exponentially for the next five years as it became a codified part of the hippie counterculture. Or as Robert Christgau the cultural critic wrote acid became a part of "mass bohemianism" and of course LSD's cachet increased once it became illegal. Another revisionist trope bits the dust!!
daubreyjaneweirdsley 1 year ago
tomorrow never knows first psychedelic song in my opinion
djtforeal 1 year ago 2
This is quite an interesting documentary. It really makes you think about the history of psychedelic rock.
LostGoldMusic 1 year ago
gawd, you critics have to understand something. This was on the Television. Of course it's going to be trimming all the good stuff to leave only the 'big hitters' of the music industry. No mention of elevators, seeds, love, DMT, rusty evans, kim fowley..because it's TOPICAL, not deep. Expect this from the industry. Why would they Promote the elevators, when for one, they were on an Independant Texas label then, and Charly now..no profits for anyone! That's the reasons folks.
freqazoidiac 2 years ago 4
Well said Brother.
eddiemperor 2 years ago
Keep on smokin' it!
stonerbudkap 2 years ago
pink floyd? the doors?
gibsongold1970 2 years ago 3
Do Roger McGuinn and David Crosby get along today?I know they had a nasty feud for a while.
BobReidy 2 years ago
David Crosby has a difficult time getting along with anyone and everyone, thanks to his prolific substance abuse tendencies. My brother had a run-in with him in the mid 1980's while playing roadie for some local outfit that had the misfortune to share a stage with whoever he was playing with at the time.
hinodecho69 2 years ago
Really.Wow.
BobReidy 2 years ago
The first 2 albums of the ultimate spinach....great psychedelia, really.
Uggybow 2 years ago
Banning songs like Eight Miles High by the Byrds or A Day In The Life by the Beatles is a major sin!! Those are pure treasures of such an awesome era! Love the 60's, wish I was born in 1942 instead of 92 ¬¬
GeorgeHarrisonLuver 2 years ago
sometimes i feel like i am a hippie tripping HARD at woodstock, tripping so hard a tripped right into 2010 maaaan
MidnightDC696969 2 years ago
What's the song that starts playing at 0:39? I feel like I know it. Bob Dylan perhaps?
bluewhiskey1 2 years ago
Where are the Mamas and the Papas?
reinpost 2 years ago
They were a folk/pop band that surfaced concurrent with the psychedelic movement, but hardly psychedelic themselves. Their closest connection would have been playing at Monterey Pop with the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis, but that's about it...
hinodecho69 2 years ago
Thank you so much for this!
spayspay 2 years ago
I never saw this; thanks for posting!
TheFabStringbean 2 years ago
entertainment!
TREYOLDHIPPIE 2 years ago
Wanna Dance?
6749er 2 years ago
Greetings, I have come from the future to warn you all that the last part of this documentary has been silenced by Warner. So prepare to be bummed out, you know, in my present time. (roughly 70 minutes from your Now)
lusidghost 2 years ago 53
Fuck man :*(
Iamfukenripped 2 years ago
at 6.27 haha.
He do like LSD.
Look at his shirt!
ludvik199t 2 years ago
lol pearl
emibigpacem 2 years ago
This is the essence of the humility one attains. You will learn that this reality is merely a physical hologram manifestation by the imagination of all of us, which in reality, we are simply one giant organism of energy, light and consciousness that is pulsing and vibrating through the universe endlessly and infinite, creating entertaining dreams and horror, which the unaware human believes to be this life and this reality.
hickillly 2 years ago
Golly! That's profound!
BrokenChair88 2 years ago
I CAN DIG IT BABY
natebgraham 2 years ago
The history of human psychedelic experience is thousands of years old and no form of music or history will EVER be able to, in any form, correctly do justice to the true unimaginable and unexplainable power of the human mind, when it is allowed to open.
hickillly 2 years ago 3
regurgitated crap.....Grace Slick once said that we played a colege town in Iowa and the kids all wore chinos and oxford shits and were very subdued. By the following year LSD was rampant and the kids hair was long. Just for the record nothing shows up in Iowa of all places without intent. LSD was brought into the country by Harriman and distributed by the CIA. Read Huxleys Doors of Perception.
zuesthelessor 2 years ago
what was the intent?
BigBishop1 2 years ago
too bad they interviewed that fat gun toting crack smoking slob david crosby!
chocolatesoup66 2 years ago
that king guy probably died like a year later..
rotolo 2 years ago
A fantastic era in music
spacetimeocean 2 years ago 3
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emlathrop 3 years ago
agreed.
Kinarh17 2 years ago
wtf. I don't see why these people never put the doors or jim morrison in this documentry! they were one of the greatest physedelic rock groups ever...what a pity.
Kinarh17 3 years ago 2
you're right, the Doors were Psychedelic rangers and also where's Love?
sheltalmy 2 years ago 3
love it.
liliecv 3 years ago
Phil Lesh summed it up. And you dont have to take drugs to feel it. 4 real. Amazing.
stacyblue1980 3 years ago
8:47 NEAL CASSADY
THE DRIVER.
bottomdogman 3 years ago
I think you are confused, my friend. First of all, the Elevators had a "smash hit" in '66 off of their first album "Psychedelic Sounds" called "You're Gonna Miss Me". Largely popular in the SF scene as well as Austin.
Secondly, The Warlocks, whom I am referring to, are nothing of what you said. They formed in 1999 and continue to play 'til this day.
You are confusing your Jam Bands with Psychedelic Rock. And so did this lame ass Doc.
emlathrop 3 years ago
the deads first band was the warlocks. your talking about the new warlocks. who are also amazing.
IHateLongIsland 3 years ago
The Grateful Dead as The Warlocks were playing Kesey Acid Tests in 1965 before we knew who The 13th Floor Elevator was. The major original SF Bands & Psychedlics were already rolling big time in SF before The Elavator showed up in in 1966-Not one person I knew back then called The Dead a Jam Band & The High Times in the Wild West was in SF not Austin Tx.. Elavator was one of the first but SF didn't need them to show up to turn us on to what was created before they showed up..
nickgui 2 years ago
60s Warlocks/Dead did not play the same type of music as the Elevators. They had heavier shit to say and played their instruments the same. I mean, if you can name a band that was doing what they were doing I'm all ears. I'm talking jefferson airplane-type, doors, early pink floyd. of course they all came after. maybe I decipher bands differently than most but last I check there weren't many similarities between Phish and Dead Meadow.... maybe the drugs.
emlathrop 2 years ago
the point is, this "documentary" should not have been called the History of Psychedelic Rock. It's kind of like finding out whats going on in the world from tv... you dont get all of the info, slightly ignorant and definitely wrapped in plastic.
emlathrop 2 years ago
If I saw both bands in the 60's & have known since 1966 how different they are, why tell me? When you say They I don't know which one you mean. Who's they who I can or can't name a band that was doing what they were doing? I don't know much about Phish at all & don't know Dead Meadow at all. So, I'm kinda lost with what your trying to say, to me.
But I agree Dead & 13th didn't play the same kind of music.
nickgui 2 years ago
"They" is obviously 13th, in reference to the heavy. Phish is to grateful dead as dead meadow is to elevators. the bands I named are merely examples of where each genre is today. each separate genre. which again takes me back to my point as listed below. don't get me wrong man, I love the grateful dead and the like but I just think this doc is too bias and ignorant to be considered a documentation of the History of Psychedelic ROCK. Why not "the history of noodling"? seems more suiting.
emlathrop 2 years ago
Bill Graham who saw everybody "The Grateful Dead aren't the best at what they do; they are the only ones that do what they do" Although people tried to put them in multiple ones they never fit in any genre. Like 13th did in the narrow genre of Psychedelic Music being The Dead's music touched on many genres & musical forms with no boundaries that blew past all genre's & took them places uniquely their own from the start, different than anybody. So no, they don't fit in your narrow box.
nickgui 2 years ago
I can get on board with that. you are right. and this doc is still misleading. Tunnel-vision. not completely true. yada yada. no Elevators, no Doors. rubbish I say.
emlathrop 2 years ago
Good & I agree 13th from the start & Doors should be there for sure but there's
a reason why they talk to who they do, so don't think it's all rubbish. Kesey's Tests was the start of a whole new thing & SF was the pulse beat of the whole new scene & music that was Psychedelic & Rocked & Dead wasn't noodling around back then but yes 13th & Doors major shakers & movers who should be talked about if your talk'en Psy-co-dellic Music.
nickgui 2 years ago
13th Floor Elevators. Are they mentioned at all? this film has no merit if the pioneers of Psych are not talked about.
Listen to The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, The Warlocks and bands surrounding them.
Theres nothing hippie about Psychedelic Rock no matter how much many of you would like there to be.
emlathrop 3 years ago
13th floor elevators were pretty underground, even then
and the warlocks, were the grateful dead, they played the same songs because they were the same band, they were only the warlocks for like a year or so before they found out the name was taken
lazulitooth 3 years ago
Ok, thanks for letting us know! Warlocks = Dead
3Phoam 3 years ago
lol if you didn't know that you don't know the dead
CrucifyThyEgo 3 years ago
@emlathrop You really don't get it do you?But then your young.The revisionist cultural historians of the Punk generation have tried to co-opt history because little of their music has had lasting value.Hippie created the social & cultural context for Psychedelic Rock & was by definition Hippie music.I know my mother was a hippie photographer she worked in the London Underground & San francisco between 1966/70.The Elevators were good but they were hardly known at the time & had very little impact
daubreyjaneweirdsley 1 year ago
who is the band appears in minute 8 ??
mobyboy 3 years ago
I think The grateful dead, but i'm not sure
piggy182 3 years ago
Yeah, that's The Grateful Dead...you can see Jerry's (very young) face.
bocuster 3 years ago
Yardbirds came out with a tune called LSD and you can hear it on a CD release. The song is short, and it is not "psychedelic" in sound, but I love the title.
Nikolaii257 3 years ago 3
I LOVE IT!
Good commentaries.
I belive , the Psychedelia still alive in alternative Hip Hop tunes (MF Doom, Madlib, Time Machine), Psytrance, MGMT, etc..
funkberto 3 years ago
listen to brian jonestown masacre
coldironhands1 3 years ago 4