Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock
is a history and critical examination of rock's most inventive genre.
Whether or not psychedelic drugs played a role (and as many musicians
say they've used them as not), psychedelic rock has consistently charted
brave new worlds that exist only in the space between the headphones.
The history books tell us the music's high point was the Haight-Ashbury
scene of 1967, but the genre didn't start in San Francisco, and its
evolution didn't end with the Summer of Love. A line can be drawn from
the hypnotic drones of the Velvet Underground to the disorienting swirl
of My Bloody Valentine; from the artful experiments of the Beatles' Revolver
to the flowing, otherworldly samples of rappers P.M. Dawn; from the
dementia of the 13th Floor Elevators to the grungy lunacy of the Flaming
Lips; and from the sounds and sights at Ken Kesey's '60s Acid Tests to
those at present-day raves. Turn On Your Mind
is an attempt to connect the dots from the very first groups who turned
on, tuned in, and dropped out, to such new-millennial practitioners as
Wilco, the Elephant 6 bands, Moby, the Super Furry Animals, and the
so-called “stoner-rock” and “ork-pop” scenes.
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