OT : Sharing the lifeblood - What are you listening to right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eOGZXWaTFo

Long Hauls and Close Calls

Hank Williams III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjNiX6GVrc&feature=related

Hellbilly

Hank Williams III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYjdv9pCsc

Thunderstorms and Neon Signs

Wayne Hancock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ4QLFl01g

Tear it Up

The Cramps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HSO1F7zHM&feature=related

Human Fly

The Cramps

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa4ai5_the-meteors-chainsaw-boogie_music

Chainsaw Boogie

The Meteors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTUx1zsQHfo&feature=related

Marijuana

Rev. Horton Heat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz1rUZcBMEY

Big Red Rocket of Love

Rev. Horton Heat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp01uY4LW6c&feature=related

Its Martini Time

Rev. Horton Heat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_lRB-ezC4

White Trash/Greenback Fly

Southern Culture on the Skids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYoLGS6uzao&feature=related

Voodoo Cadillac

Southern Culture on the Skids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKUrsaUACU

Rockin’ in the Cemetery

Hellbilly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgB__YratE

Just Like Honey

The Jesus and Mary Chain

http://www.spike.com/video/stray-cats-stray-cat/2727835

Stray Cat Strut

Stray Cats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoaazVGPtuQ

Rock the Town

Stray Cats

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkqus_stray-cats-sexy-and-17-live_music

Sexy + 17

Stray Cats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWcN5YxuYc

Jump Jive & Wail (Louis Prima cover)

Brian Setzer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFP4Hwrl244

You and Me & The Bottle Makes 3

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

http://www.vh1.com/video/squirrel-nut-zippers/10096/hell.jhtml#artist=569

Hell

Squirrel Nut Zippers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH5ekKEnkwM

Zip Gun Bop

Royal Crown Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RtxOOYTXk

Pink Elephants on Parade

Lee Presson and The Nails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrgnvON2hCU

Ghostriders (In the Sky)

Lee Presson and The Nails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXK8mSa1KM

Hot For Teacher (Van Halen cover)

Lee Presson and The Nails

 

I’m sending out this shout out to my old friend Electric Slim who may stop by, if only to contribute to this thread.
Slim sent me a message many moons ago regarding recommendations for psychedelic music and I think my answer was somewhat inadequate, so I will expand here.

Frankly, most psychedelic music is crap.

There is a good deal of good stuff but not a lot of truly hidden gems. To me, psychedelic music, in its purest form, is that frothy pink, waves of sound music best exemplified by bands like Love. Early (acoustic and electric) Donovan comes to mind. Early Byrds – maybe, like Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man, but definitely Eight Miles High. A lot of the one hit psychedelic music is captured on the Nuggets compilations, although not all of it is “psychedelic” (Green Tambourine by The Lemon Pipers, yes. Dirty Water by The Standells, no). An awful lot of the music they were mining was one hit wonders and justifiably so or great bands (The Seeds) who were great and underrated but not "psychedelic." You also have bands like The Charlatans who were connected to the San Francisco scene but weren't really psychedelic. Quicksilver Messenger Service? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

You have your stuff like Ted Nugent and the Amboy Duke’s Journey to the Center of Your Mind, The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows and George’s sitar experiments (like Within You/Without You which was much iimproved, IMO in the Cirque de Soliel Love version), The Rolling Stones She’s a Rainbow, etc.
To me, psychedelic music crossed into two different paths. First there was the Acid Rock movement, including The Doors and later early Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult, Hawkwind and to an extent a lot of Pink Floyd (although they crossed both paths, with Syd Barrett and some of their acoustic work more fitting into what I consider "psychedelic" and other downer,“heavy music.” Believe me, I have no doubt a lot of acid was being dropped at Nazz, Deep Purple and Humble Pie concerts.
Then you had the head trip music that sort of turned into jazz fusion and other forms that were loose and improvisational. Check out Grateful Dead Live/Dead for the Dark Star/St. Stephen/The Eleven/Turn On Your Lovelight, Wake of the Flood, Blues for Allah, 8/27/72, 5/26/73, 6/10/73. The 75 concert released as One From the Vault, 5/8/77, 5/9/77 and the 10/78 shows known as “From Egypt With Love.”
I’ve posted plenty of fusion, like Soft Machine, Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra as well as heavy doses of Santana and more current jam bands.

Bands like Flaming Lips, Happy Mondays, Legendary Pink Dots, Teardrop Explodes and hippie freaks like Devendra Banhart are more recent psychedelic bands, but you know that. If you like Banhart, check out old Fairport Convention and psychedelic or not, I can never recommend Van Morrison enough (try In the Garden for something close to on point).

I’ve also posted a lot of Electronica and ambient music, which is the tech age equivalent of psychedelic music – Brian Eno, The Orb, Deep Forest, Harold Budd, et al.
Look forward to your more metal and punk contributions.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqMr71iiwv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3iI9ElWM8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMDrVqnqDLk&feature=related

Teenage Jesus and The Jerks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wJ2t0kyRTA

Some Velvet Morning

Lydia Lunch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZde0gYzsao&feature=related

Dance of the Dead Children

Lydia Lunch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2a3xo39m8

Columbian Necktie

Big Black

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OdSoKfTP1k

Kool Thing

Sonic Youth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4BsnXmJaI&feature=related

Bull in the Heather

Sonic Youth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9AUR-iTo0&feature=related

Seether

Veruca Salt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0R5BmYtg&feature=related

Suck My Left One

Bikini Kill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i3bRmG3kLM

I'll Break You

Live Skull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqhntKPh2EY&feature=related

TKO

Le Tigre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxRu7fwR24&feature=relmfu

Entertain

Sleater Kinsey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2h0KOQLsW4&feature=related

The Ocean (acoustic)

Sunny Day Real Estate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwonAtxitZE

Jesus Loves His Babies

Smashing Pumpkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJZXTuwBjA

My Sister

Juliana Hatfield Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnxN27NX-Qw

Never Said

Liz Phair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAecNijbI4

Cadillac Woman

Cathy Richardson

 

Most of the pop music of the 1960s was of the psychedelic variety, IMO. Some of the later drug induced Beatles stuff was of the acid rock variety. Perhaps some of the early progressive rock music as well - yes, zeppelin, etc.

I found the Stones to be plain ol' rock and roll for the most part.

 

I don't know. I think until the mid 60's it was 3 Beatles tunes and someone like Englebert Humberdink or Sammy Davis at the top of the charts. The Beatles definitely had some psychedelic songs, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, etc. The Stones were flat out rock and roll, except for their attempts at psychedelic music, like 2,000 Light Years from Home. The Kinks too, with songs like See My Friends. There were lesser known bands like Fever Tree and folksy guys like Scott McKinsey, Arlo Guthrie, Barry McGuire. Besides San Fran (Dead, Airplane, Santana, Big Brother) and LA (Byrds, Mama's and Papas, The Doors, The Mothers), Austin (13th Floor Elevators) had a bit of a psychedelic scene. Atlanta/Macon had the Allman Brothers Band. New York had the Velvet Underground. Detroit had more of a proto-punk scene with the MC5 and The Stooges. Chicago seemed more into developing progressive horn bands like The Ides of March and Chicago Transit Authority.

Most of the other regional scenes had some one hit wonders covered by the Nuggets compilations, psychedelic or not. A Lot of that stuff is more garage band than trippy.

And of course every band went through the "hanging out with Ravi Shankar" stage. Party on. Excellent.

 

Post #480 was for you.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAVqK9trlo

Dark Side of the Mushroom

Chocolate Watch Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93onAThIS30

Are You Gonna Be There (at the Love In)

Chocolate Watch Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsLMuH82us0&feature=related

Psychotic Reaction

Count V

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcFXPqIYfqA&feature=related

It’s a Happening Thing

Peanut Butter Conspiracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqfSayCU4H0&feature=related

Ego Trip

Ultimate Spinach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wjUsZnkS0

I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night

The Electric Prunes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxTTOXcAg9o

Through With You

The Lemon Pipers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RzwvPk8Aqo&feature=related

Cherry Cherry

The Music Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKEv1CJWJyg&feature=related

You Can Have Him

The Cake

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnEQCCGxehA&feature=related

See Me Through/Burning Ground

Van Morrison

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeY8G0LRq7g

Medley: I will be there; Here comes the Night; Haunts of ancient peace; Celtic swing; Got to go back; A new kind of man; Listen to the lion; Vanlose stairway; I'd love to write another song; Orangefield; Whenever God shines his light.

Van Morrison

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=917466678979252068#

Medley: Hardcore > Pump it up > Trouble coming every day > Let's dance > Hardcore

Radiators

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRDzivGusbQ

Luicinda/Magnificent 7/Cissy Strut

Radiators (I know I’ve posted this before but I love the track)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlOIAchUsA

The Thrill is Gone medley

BB King and Bobby Blue Bland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsL6rXnxMio

Led Zeppelin Medley

Buckethead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZz-2aKaYzA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i6kGO9ZnqQ&feature=related

Abby Road
medley

The Beatles

 

James Brown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsxEfmhmDXg
I’ll Go Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2XY6oRD2xc
Try Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlCwp_PwrHc
Think


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6AZNywvF-s

Walking the Dog

Rufus Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p9h1ISE18I

Knock on Wood

Eddie Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtm4_tQ_wto

Chain Gang

King Curtis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnWU1VvCG3o&feature=related

There’s a Place for Us

Arthur Conley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKAlBC-XWQ

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

Solomon Burke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaKVs5mJ4Bg

Shake a Tailfeather

The 5 Du tones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcTWxJAGQVQ

Funky Broadway

Wilson Pickett

 

It seems that I keep getting emails every time anyone responds to this post. This doesn't happen with any of the other threads I respond to. No offense, by I really don't care who's listening to what (though I'm glad others seem to care). How do I get the emails to stop?

 

settings link at top of the page.

From there is a subscriptions link in the left column.

You'll figure it out from there

 

Captain Beefheart RIP Dec 17, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQs8dka52H4

Letterman apperarance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU

Ice Cream for Crow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbzmKPXgtZI&feature=related

Safe as Milk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz3WJ1l1dNM&feature=related

Yellow Brick Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjazg_lTfJA&feature=related

Blue Jeans and Moonbeams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLLsHQToJY&feature=related

Further than we’ve Gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQLLsHQToJY&feature=related

Steal Softly Thru Snow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0PoP0ASj3E&feature=related

The Dust Blow Forward ‘N The Dust Blow Back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17cr_WVdWmo

Bat Chain Puller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D7KW1sWK5M

The Floppy Boot Stomp & Tropical Hot Dog Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSPf5Viwd0

Sure 'Nuff & Yes I Do