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What of the following is not true about the
Indica Bookstore and Gallery?
- The Incredible String Band served as the house
- band
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Which member of The Beatles studied sitar with
Ravi Shankar?
George Harrison
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One of the first major events in the formation
of the London Underground was a poetry reading given by Allen Ginsberg
True
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What was the inspiration for the title of the
song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”?
A drawing by John Lennon’s son
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Donovan was influenced by the finger-picking
guitar style of
Bert Jansch
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Who was the sound engineer for the albums
Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Geoff Emerick
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Which of the following best describes the
musical form of “The Mad Hatter’s Song”?
Multiple sections with little structural repetition
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What is the name of the rotating speaker system
designed to create a Doppler effect?
Leslie Speaker
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What avant-grade composer influenced Paul
McCartney and appears on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Clubs
Band?
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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What is the name of the British researcher who
introduced Timothy Leary to LSD?
Michael Hollingshead
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What is the peculiar electronic instrument featured
in the song “Good Vibrations”?
The electro-theremin
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Which album by the Beach Boys reflects Brain Wilson’s increased interest in studio
production?
Pet Sounds
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Who were the co-founders of the UFO club?
John “Hoppy” Hopkins and Joe Boyd
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The generic mantra for Transcendental Meditation,
as taught by Ken Mille, the guest lecturer, is:
Aim (pronounced like a drawn out “I’m”)
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Pink Floyd served as the first house band of the
UFO Club
True
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Which Beatle compared the band favorably to
Jesus in a controversial statement?
John Lennon
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Which of the following is not true about The
Rolling Stones album ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’?
- The title satirizes the text on a standard
- British passport
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In the article “Goodbye Surfing Hello God!- The
Religious Conversion of Brian Wilson” (1967), Jules Siegel describes Wilson’s
- Ambitious studio recording project that remained
- incomplete until 2004
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What is the peculiar electronic instrument in
the song “Good Vibrations”?
The electro-theremin
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Pink Floyd as the first house band of the UFO
Club?
True
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What was the 14-Hour Technicolour Dream?
- A multi-media event designed to raise money for
- the International Times
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The term “glissando” refers to a
Continuous slide from one pitch to another
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The band Soft Machine was named after a novel by
William Burroughs
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The band The Rolling Stones was named after a
Song by blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters
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Which album by The Beach Boys reflects Brian
Wilson’s increased interest in studio production?
Pet Sounds
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Which of the following musicians was not a
member of Cream?
Steve Winwood
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A “supergroup” is a rock band…
- Consisting of musicians who previously achieved
- fame in other groups
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Where did Jimi Hendrix light his guitar on fire
after a performance of “Wild Thing”
Monterey Pop Festival
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Which of the following guitarists was not a
member of The Yardbirds?
Syd Barrett
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In the song “1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to
Be),” to what does “1983” refer?
A section number of the Civil Rights Act
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In his 1968 interview with Jann Wenner, Eric
Clapton expresses his appreciation of Jimi Hendrix not only as a musician, but
also as an entertainer
False
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At the early stages of his career, Jimi Hendriz
did not tour with which of the following R&B musicians?
Bo Diddley
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After The Yardbirds disbanded in 1968, formed
the group
Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin
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In his 1968 interview with Rolling Stone
Magazine, Jimi Hendriz explains that audiences from different countries respond
to his music in a similar manner, and as long as the countinue to pay he will
continue to play
False
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Who is the acustic engineer who worked with Jimi Hendrix to develop guitar effects?
Roger Mayer
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How many people attended the Woodstock Festival?
500,000
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Who co-organized the Monterey Pop Festival?
Lou Adler
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The lyrics to the song “Legend of a Mind” refer
to and
Timothy Leary, psychedelic drugs
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The Woodstock Festival of 1969 was intended as a
free concert?
False
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What was the name of the radio program that disc
jockey John Peel broadcasted in Radio London?
The Perfumed Garden
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In the song “Monterey” by Eric Burdon and the
Animals, when the lyrics describe different musicians who performed at the
festival, the accompaniment changes to reflect the style of each performer
True
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Who filmed “Monterey Pop” (1968), the
documentary of the Monterey Pop Festival?
D.A. Pennebaker
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What is “pirate radio”?
An illegal radio transmission
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Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues introduced what
instrument to what other musicians?
Mellotron, John Lennon and Paul McCartney
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In his book “Aquarius Rising,” Robert Santelli
distinguishes rock festivals of the late 1969’s from earlier folk or jazz
festivals in terms of age, drugs, and the number of people in attendance
true
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Abbey Road Studios
- recording
- studio located on Abbey rd which had techniques used by The Beatles and Pink
- Floyd
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Altamont
speedway Free Festival
- rock
- concert feat the rolling stones and jefferson airplane where they hired the
- Hells Angels for security cuz the venue was so violent (dec. 6, 1969)
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Automatic
Double Tracking (ADT)-
- invented
- at Abby Road studios it’s a technique of recording and delaying the music and
- vocals doubling the vocals and instruments
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14-Hour
Technicolour Dream
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- fundraiser concert for the International Times (1967)
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Backmasking
- recording
- technique where a sound or message is recorded backwards on to a track that is
- meant to be played forward
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Bed-In
- 2
- week long bed-in for peace held by John Lennon and Yoko to protest the Vietnam
- war
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Bowed
guitar
- method
- of playing guitar using a bow like a cello or violin (used by Jimmy Page in The
- Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin)
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Bridge
- contrasting
- section which prepares for the return of the original material section in music
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British
Invasion
- describes the large number of UK bands that
- became popular between 64 and 66
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Café
Wha
- club
- where many musicians got their start such as Hendrix, bob dylan, bruce
- springsteen, ect.
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Dynamics
- how
- loud or quite the music is
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Finger
picking style
- used
- in folk, blues, and country-jazz where thumb maintains a steady rhythm on lower
- strings and index picks out melody on high strings
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Gilassando
- a
- glide from one pitch to another
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Indica
Bookstore
- store
- co-owned by John Dunbar, peter Asher, and Barry Miles which hosted alternative
- happenings and was helped by Paul McCartney
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International
Times (IT)-
- underground
- newspaper made by John Hopkins, David Mairowitz, Pete Stansill, Barry Miles,
- Jim Haynes and Tom McGrath
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Jew’s
Harp (Jaw Harp)-
- small
- instrument placed in mouth
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Leslie
Speaker
- amplifier/loudspeaker
- that is used to creat effects using the Doppler effect
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Magical
Mystery Tour
- CD
- and Film by The Beatles where the film was a failure but the CD was a success
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Mellotron
- electric
- keybored which was the first sample-playback keyboard;
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Monterey
International Pop Festival
- 3-day
- concert (june 16-18 1967)where Hendrix, The Who, and Janis Joplin played
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Octavia
- effects
- pedal designed for Hendrix by his sound tech that reproduces the input signal
- from a guitar one octave higher and/or lower in pitch to add distortion fuzz
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Our
World
- first live international satellite television
- production which hosted The Beatles and Pablo Picaso
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Panning
- the
- spread of a sound signal into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field
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Pirate
Radio
- ·
- illegal or unregulated radio transmission
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Progressive
Rock
- subgenre
- of rock music which came from psychedelic rock with bands such as pink Floyd and
- soft machine
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The
Psychedelic Experience
- book
- written by Timothy Leary which details the experience as opening one’s mind to
- things usually unavailable to ordinary waking consciousness
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Redlands
Bust
- bust
- at Keith Richard’s house where many musicians were arrested such as Donovan
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Supergroup
- group
- comprised of artsist who have already achieved fame in another group
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Tack
piano
- permanently
- altered version of a piano in which tacks or nails are placed on the hammers of
- the unstrument at the point where the hammers hit the strings, giving the instruments
- a tinny, more percussive sound
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Theremin
(Electro-Theremin)-
- instrument
- there you play by waving your hand in the air around the antenna
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UFO
Club
- underground
- club who had pink Floyd as house band and hosted many other shows
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Woodstock
Music and Arts Festival
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Lou
Adler
- ·
- help produce the Monterey International Pop
- Festival
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Pink
Anderson
- blues
- singer from where pink Floyd got their “pink” from
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Johann
Sebastian Bach
- german
- composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist
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Joe
Boyd
- - American
- record producer who helped launch the career of The Incredible String Band
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William
Burroughs
- American
- novelist, poet, essayist, and spoken word poet who influenced the beat
- generation and wrote Naked Lunch
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Chas
Chandler
- English
- musician, record producer; who helped The Animals and became manager of Hendrix
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Tony
Clarke
- producer
- of the Moody Blues
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Floyd
Council
- American
- blues guitarist from whom pink Floyd got their “Floyd”
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Bob
Dylan
- American
- singer/songwriter who has been a major musical figure
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Geoff
Emerick
- ·
- English recordning studio audio engineer who
- worked with the beatles
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Allen
Ginsberg
- American
- poet and sexual revolution writer
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Kenneth
Grahame
- Scottish
- writer who wrote the wind in the willows which portrays psychedelic influence
- before the movement even began
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Michael
Hollingshead
- british-born
- reasearcher in psychedelic drugs and contributer to the psychedelic review
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Bert
Jansch
- Scottish
- folk musicians and founding member of Pentangle
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Robert
Johnson
- American
- blues singer (known for legened of making a deal with the devil to play blues)
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Al
Kooper
- provided
- studio support for bob Dylan
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Michael
Lang
- producer
- who co-created woodstock
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Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi
- spiritual
- advisor to the beatles, and founder of transcendental meditation technique
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George
Martin
- “fifth
- beatle” and produced all but one of their original albums
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Roger
Mayer
- song
- engineer how developed several electric guitar effects used by hendrix
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Barry
Miles
- English author, and co-owner of the Indica
- gallery and helped start the international times
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Andrew
Oldham
- manager
- of the rolling stones
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John
Peel
- BBC
- one radio DJ who played psychedelic rock
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Ken
Townsend
- sound
- engineer who played an important role at abbey rd studios and worked on several
- beatles albums
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