Acid rock

Acid rock is a form of rock music, focusing mainly on hallucinations and drugs. It is related to psychedelic rock. It is mostly an off-beat style. It uses vivid imagery, and sometimes strange sound/musical effects (like backward recorded music).

History

"Acid rock" was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But it is not very popular today.

Name

Acid Rock got its name from the mixture of music and the drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), which most people call "acid". "Acid rock" is usually recorded when the musician was high on LSD. Often the lyrics are about hallucinations.

1966

• Psychotic Reaction (Count Five)
• Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles)
• Rain (The Beatles)

1967

• White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
• Spare Chaynge (Jefferson Airplane)
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
• Third Stone From The Sun (Jimi Hendrix)
• Light My Fire (The Doors)
• Baby You're a Rich Man (The Beatles)
• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (The Beatles)
• I Am the Walrus (The Beatles)
• Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd)
• Flaming (Pink Floyd)

1968

• That's It for the Other One (Grateful Dead)
• Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Jimi Hendrix)
• In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly)
• EXP (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
• If 6 Was 9 (Jimi Hendrix)
• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)
• Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
• Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo)

1969

• Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin)
• Acid Queen (The Who)
• White Room (Cream)
• Hot Smoke and Sasafrass (Bubble Puppy)

1970

• Mommy, What's a Funkadelic? (Funkadelic)

Acid Rock Media

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  A group of Flower Power demonstrators, 1967

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  Jefferson Airplane, early 1966

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  Jimi Hendrix performing in 1967

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  Trade ad for Black Sabbath's album Black Sabbath (1970). From left to right: Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne.

Other websites

• Hear Acid rock (music and interviews) on the Pop Chronicles (1969).