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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 musicıs 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.
October
o Rock Music
o 500 pages
o 6 x 9 inches
o 200 b/w photos and album covers
o Paperback Original
o 0-634-05548-8
o Item HL00331039
o US $22.95
o CAN $34.95
o World rights
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