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Psychedelic rock

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Jimi Hendrix on stage at Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Sweden in May 1967

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording techniques, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously.

Quotes about psychedelic rock

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  • There is no one song that “started” the psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s. It was a natural evolution and a response to what rock music had delivered thus far.
  • The hippie movement was about a lot of things — drugs, love, peace, anti-establishment, anti-war — and at the forefront of the movement was the music, psychedelic rock.
  • Psychedelic rock is [...] rock's most inventive [sub]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.
    • Jim DeRogatis in his book Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock
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