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Big Brother & the Holding Company
Big Brother & the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin as vocalist, was one of the psychedelic-era's iconic bands and produced some of the best music in San Francisco.
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Country Joe and the Fish Biography
Country Joe and the Fish - one of the leading psychedelic bands of San Francisco's Summer of Love. With appearances at Monterey and Woodstock, they helped define an era.
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Monterey - A Year Before Woodstock
It was 40 years ago today. Everyone remembers Woodstock, but the1967 Monterey International Pop Festival was the model for all the rock festivals that followed.
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The Fillmore West: Best Rock Venue
Psychedelic rock music and its associated light shows and poster art changed the world. Its birthplace was San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, managed by Bill Graham.
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The Grateful Dead: Rock Legends
The Grateful Dead's reputation as a leading psychedelic rock band remains unchallenged. San Francisco's best-loved people's band gave us a huge legacy of great rock music
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Play Captures Spirit of Janis
Love, Janis is a new play that tells the story of one of the greatest blues/rock singers in history. It is based on letters she wrote to her family from 1967-1970. Find out more...
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Swinging London's Summer of Love
As with San Francisco, Swinging London also experienced a 'Summer of Love' in 1967. The musical and social revolution changed Britain forever.
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Pet Sounds, Part I
(Brian Wilson) "In December of 1966, I heard the album RUBBER SOUL by the Beatles. It was definitely a challenge for me. I saw that every cut was very artistically interesting and stimulating. I immediately went to work on the songs for PET SOUNDS"...
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The 1967 Summer of Love
The 'Summer of Love' refers to a few months in 1967, focused on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, when new styles of music, art, and literature changed the world.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The climax of the Beatles-Beach Boys saga, the most influential album of all time, the top album of the Hsitory of Rock "Albums of All Time" list and much more; this week, we look at Sgt. Pepper's. Need I say more?...
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The Making of A Counter-Culture, Part I: The Beat Generation
The Beats. Fathers (and mothers) of the flower children. If you compare the two groups, that would seem to be no surprise. But having done it nearly ten years before? How could something that happened in the early fifties affect the mid-sixties?
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Ruff Stuff Part 1 of 2
This week's article is not a typical one, due to the fact that this is primarily an interview with Tary Owens, owner of Catfish Records and blues historian. However, throughout the interview, there will be links to various sites when Tary speaks of something or someone that has a web site. Most of these sites will deal with entertainers, and not education per se, but like I have said in the past, a good teacher knows how to make a lesson out of just about anything.
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