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(More customer reviews)From the author - I have loved this music since it was new: the mid-1960s. I bought my first guitar in 1966, inspired by the British invasion, the Northwest Sound (I grew up in Victoria BC), and California folk rock and psychedelic rock. I wanted to understand this great creative and cultural force, and so spent several years researching it and interviewing participants.
This book is for anyone who wants to see into the details of psychedelic music, focusing on what happened in San Francisco while acknowledging sounds from London, Los Angeles, and elsewhere. The book outlines the musical and cultural context and identifies key characteristics (musical ones from records, and some visual elements from album cover art). The origins, development, decline, and revival of San Francisco psychedelic rock are traced through an original model of musical style evolution.
I did dozens of face to face interviews with members of bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, and It's A Beautiful Day. This is a book edition of a Ph.D. thesis for an interdisciplinary program in humanities. The writing is clear and the approach blends the disciplines of music, history, and communication studies.
I am a Montreal musician (guitar, keyboards, vocals) who has recorded several CDs, such as Live at the Oscar. I teach music history courses at Concordia University: Rock and Roll and Its Roots, Pop/ Soul and Its Roots, and The Music of the Beatles. My other books are Go Cat Go!: ROCKABILLY MUSIC AND ITS MAKERS (Music in American Life) and Rock And Roll (American Popular Music).
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