Bob Dylan, too, though musically far removed from the psychedelic sounds of The Beatles and co, exerted his influence as a conundrum-generating lyricist, and, crucially, as the genial host who allegedly turned John, Paul, George, and Ringo on to marijuana in a room of New York’s Hotel Delmonico in August 1964. George Harrison, for example, had already been playing Indian music, introducing the sitar into The Beatles’ vocabulary on “Norwegian Wood.” And the mind-remapping initiatives eagerly showcased on Revolver represented a flowering that couldn’t help but burst forth in a beneficially reciprocal loop, contributors to The Beatles’ expanded worldview included musical peers such as the coolly enigmatic Byrds and the previously surfing-fixated Beach Boys. Of course, nothing simply materializes out of nowhere. It beguiled, ensnared, and, in some cases, disturbed the listener with its fresh, unorthodox textures: reality-shifting tape reversal techniques, tape loops, undulant sitars, and opaque lyrics. The Beatles’ Revolver and the birth of psychedelic rockįor entire swathes of the record-buying public, their first encounter with psychedelic music was provided by Revolver – the game-changing Beatles album, released in August 1966, that contained so much of the exotic instrumentation and elements that came to define the form. Listen to the So What Is Psychedeleic Rock? playlist on Spotify. If one is to broadly interpret the term as a catch-all synonym for expansion of the consciousness, psychedelia has been a significant (often drug-assisted) cultural pursuit since ancient times, whether conducted with the utmost ritualistic discipline and seriousness as a means of attaining spiritual enlightenment, or simply as a hedonistic derangement of the senses. Considering it was widely dismissed at the time as merely another momentary fad, and erroneously presumed to be pretty much dead in the water by the middle of 1968, the influence of psychedelic rock runs long and deep.
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