With the virus I'm currently unemployed and have much more time on my hands. I'm one of the old proggers here. In 1965 I was 11 years old and already a music nut thanks to the Beatles. But the renaissance (no pun) in music that unfolded in the next 5 years was amazing. Pop and blues to psychedelic to what was then called hard rock and eventually prog. What occurred in the psychedelic scene basically changed music forever. Was it just Bob Dylan's mantra of the times changing, the drugs, or both? This list does contain many songs about drugs or have references to them whether pot, LSD, or both. All know is that it was a leap forward in music. And a very exciting time to be alive. So I've been assembling some new playlists of songs and bands that profoundly changed my life. I'm interested in groups and songs that I either forgot about or never really investigated or even heard. Here's a list of many of the songs and artists that still affect me to this day. These are in no particular order. And I could not mention just one song by many of the artists listed. What other songs would you other old timers here consider as essential to that era?
DONOVAN-Sunny Goodge Street
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE-White Rabbit
THE DOORS: You're Lost Little Girl
THE BEATLES: Strawberry Fields Forever
THE BYRDS: Eight Miles High
THE AMBOY DUKES: Journey To The Center Of the Mind
THE ROLLING STONES: 2000 Light Years From Home
THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS: Time Has Come Today
SPIRIT: 1984
LEMON PIPERS: Green Tambourine
THE SMALL FACES: Itchycoo Park
PINK FLOYD: Astronomy Domine
ELECTRIC PRUNES: I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
THE LEFT BANKE: Pretty Ballerina
THE WHO: I Can See For Miles
CREAM: Strange Brew
LOVE: 7 & 7 Is
THE YARDBIRDS: Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS: Sky Pilot
DONOVAN: Hurdy Gurdy Man
STEPPENWOLF: The Pusher
ZOMBIES: Time Of The Season
THE SEEDS: Travel With Your Mind
THE MOODY BLUES: Legend Of A Mind
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE: Love Or Confusion
THE BEATLES: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
SPIRIT: Mechanical World
THE BYRDS: Renaissance Fair
THE ROLLING STONES: In Another Land
THE MONKEES: Porpoise Song
THE DOORS: People Are Strange
LOVE: She Comes In Colors
THE MOODY BLUES: Tuesday Afternoon
PINK FLOYD: Julia Dream
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE: Exp/Up From The Skies
THE DOORS: Strange Days
LOVE: The Red Telephone
THE YARDBIRDS: You're A Better Man Than I
TIM BUCKLEY: Hallucinations
13th FLOOR ELEVATORS: I've Got Levitation
THE ROLLING STONES: Lady Jane
KIM FOLEY: The Trip
LOVE: Alone Again Or
THE BEATLES: Tomorrow Never Knows
THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE: Third Stone From The Sun
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS: San Franciscan Nights
THE BEATLES: Rain
PINK FLOYD: See Emily Play
THE YARDBIRDS: Think About It
IRON BUTTERFLY: Unconscious Power
KING CRIMSON: Get Thy Bearings (Let's All Get Stoned)
I really could go on and on. There are so many more. But in particular, the above songs changed me forever, and I am grateful, and not yet dead that my youth was spent listening to these songs with new ears.
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