Psych Groover - Hot Chocolate - Go Go Girl

Before Errol and co went all Disco on us in the mid 70's they produced this stunning slice of groovy British psych, freakbeat, mod dancer on RAK (1972)

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• hot chocolate
• Mod
• Freakbeat
• Psych
• Garage Punk

[adapterman2]

TheMgeek, The Beatles had really a lot to do with all that. They invented, they created. The recordet on toilet to get the psychedelic sound. They are responsible for a great poprock history until today. Dear buzzboy, really very cool vinyl on your turntable - thanks very much for sharing. I like this freaky style very much - love the thin fuzzy guitar sounds of the 60/70 ies. Blues & Gruß

[buzzboy67]

@adapterman2 Cheers man, you are spot on with your breakdown of this style. This track has been much ignored until recently.

[buzzboy67]

! really?

Blimey, I think you should broaden your horizons a little more. Since when has hard rock had groovy hammond organ breaks and fuzz guitars?

[deeflee007]

Hard rock had groovy hammond organ breaks with Deep Purple. This song is mentioned in Classic Rock magazine's recent 'alternative history of heavy metal' issue.

Never heard of freakbeat. Fuzz guitars have been part of hard rock since The Beatles recorded "Revolution".

[buzzboy67]

Freakbeat is a British term for stuff with plenty of Fuzz and with groovy hammond stuff and a little way out. I guess this has a rock edge to it hardly hard rock.

[adapterman2]

Hey buzzboy, you are introducing such cool beat music on youtube.Thank you for that !

Please stop discussing or classifying music like a stamp collector. Music don t need this - only collectors do!

Of course hard rock never had the fuzz guitar but it s because of distortion pedals that came in the early seventies to the musicians. The Fuzz was the first distortion pedal created by Jim Dunlop for Jimi Hendrix. And what did he play- Hard Rock ? Blues ? Punk ? Psychedelic ? Oh man.....

[TheMgeek]

What have The Beatles got to do with this? Fuzz guitar has been around a lot longer than that track...

[deeflee007]

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As for the definition of Freakbeat...it seems a little vague to be able to pinpoint a certain sound...it actually describes a lot of hard rock, or early hard rock, like The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Personally I'd call Experience a pshcyedelic rock group...maybe that is like the term "Freakbeat"...the term makes sense to me, but I could be in a minority in describing his music in that way.

[deeflee007]

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I disagree. Freakbeat is an obscure term that was invented in the 1980s. Seems that only record collectors use it. If you asked the average music listener, I think that that they would describe this Hot Chocolate song as rock or hard rock.