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In the 1960's there was the American psychedelic music scene, and there was the English psychedelic music scene. Were they the same? Let's compare, shall we?
American: Timothy Leary has all the answers
English: Lewis Carroll has all the answers
American: "Further!"
English: Backwards
American: We want to be treated like adults.
English: We want to be children again.
American: Let's write a song about the man who sells us drugs
English: Let's write a song about the man who sells us groceries
American: Long, shaggy hair
English: Long, neatly trimmed hair
American: Dress like everyone else in the movement, visit the thrift shop
English: Dress like everyone else in the movement, visit the boutique
American: Challenge pop music standards
English: Make sure it's got a nice melody.
American: Hammond organ
English: Harpsichord
American: Electric Kool Aid
English: Tea
American: Hash brownies
English: Biscuits (normal ones)
American: Long, often boring, aimless and chaotic jamming, mostly weird guitar
sounds (the guitarist is the icon of our country's psych movement), loosely cen
tered around a main tune to start and end on...
This is our musical
depiction of
space travel, and it is enhanced by the awesome light show going on above us a
s we play.
We're The Grateful Dead.
English: Long, often boring, aimless and chaotic jamming, mostly weird guitar s
ounds (the guitarist is the icon of our country's psych movement), loosely cent
ered around a main tune to start and end on...
This is our musical
depiction of
space travel, and it is enhanced by the awesome light show going on above
us as we play.
We're Pink Floyd.
American: Let's take a trip to that inner world of our mind...and write a song
about it.
English: Let's take a trip to the park...and write a song about it.
American: LBJ is a drag.
English: Maybe Harold Wilson would like to join us?
American: Psychedelic music is a live performance experience
English: Psychedelic music is a studio thing.
American: On the bus
English: On the morning train
American: Songs about Little Men (the oppressed, the minority, the victims of e
stablishment and anyone else who can't get their voice heard)
English: Songs about Little Men (trolls, gnomes, fairies, etc.)