MUS 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Jeff Beck, Janis Joplin, Scotty Moore
3 Sep 2018
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Commitment to peace and love during the vietnam war. Started as small movement in san francisco. Tied to this was the psychedelic music scene. Reached its peak in summer of 1967 - summer of love. A number of future pop stars performed before they became famous. Jefferson airplane: san francisco band, male and female lead singers. Big brother and the holding company: san francisco band, janis. The who: first time they perform in front of american audience, part of the mod subculture in england. Otis redding: stax artist, delivered authentic southern soul music to the hippie audience. Invented by les paul and leo fender. Blues guitar players were mainly the first to play them. Stumbled onto this genre through his guitar player scotty moore. Later played with rockabilly guitarist james burton. First lead guitarist eric clapton went on to form cream which was heavy, improvisational blues) Next guitarist was jeff beck went on to form jeff beck group.
