Psychedelic Rock and Roll MusiciansIn 1967, The Beatles were at Abbey Road Studios putting the finishing touches on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. At one point, Paul McCartney was wandering down the hall and heard what was then a young band called Pink Floyd working on their hypnotic debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He listened for a moment, then returned in haste. “Hey guys,” he reportedly said, “There’s a new band over there and they’re going to steal the show.” With their blend of blues, music hall influences, references to Lewis Carroll and dissonant experimentation, Pink Floyd were one of the leading groups of the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, a pop culture movement that emerged with American and British rock, before sweeping over cinema and literature. , and the visual arts. The music was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called "stimulant" drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide; "acid"), and attempted to recreate drug-induced states through use of a saturated guitar, amplified feedback. and droning guitar patterns influenced by Eastern music. This psychedelic consciousness was sown, in the United States, by countercultural gurus such as Dr. Timothy Leary, a Harvard University professor who began researching LSD as a tool for self-discovery from of 1960, and the writer Ken Kesey who, with his Merry Pranksters, staged Acid Tests - multimedia "events" set to the music of the Warlocks (later the Grateful Dead) and documented by the novelist Tom Wolfe in the literary classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) – and traveled across the country in the mid-1960s in a kaleidoscope-colored school bus. "Everyone thought the 60s were a breakthrough. There was an exploration of sexual freedom and [...... middle of article ......Control, and Tone Soul Evolution (1997) by the Apples In Stereo. The British band Spiritualized, with Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997), explored the fusion of Pink Floyd-style interstellar overdrives with free jazz and gospel music, you ask. last dimension of psychedelia, of. Greek etymology is "a manifestation of the soul", which implies a spiritual dimension rarely expressed (although it is worth remembering that Brian Wilson spoke of writing "symphonies of teenagers for God) by transcending ordinary psychedelic musicians and their listeners. Try to connect to something deeper, more profound and more beautiful. As Jerry Garcia, the guru of the Grateful Dead, once said: “Rock 'n' roll provides what the Church provided to other generations and no form of rock music. » attempts to feed more souls than psychedelia.