ROCK MUSIC BECAME the most important medium for defining and coalescing the new hippie aesthetic, and the style that emerged with the brilliant, swirling colors and hallucinogenic imagery was called psychedelic. Bob Dylan showed how meaningful songs with surrealist imagery could be wedded to popular music. Though he was one of the few artists who did not jump on the psychedelic bandwagon, his then revolutionary efforts inspired countless bands who did. The first psychedelic bands came from San Francisco: the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company and others; but it was not long before the psychedelic aesthetic spread to musical groups in New York such as The Fugs and the Velvet Underground, to soul groups such as Sly and the Family Stone and the Chambers Brothers, and to England where the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and others began producing albums of psychedelic music, often with overtly psychedelic covers.
Bob Dylan. Highway 61 Revisited.
Columbia Records, 1965
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
Grateful Dead. AOXOMOXOA.
Warner Brothers, 1969
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
Jefferson Airplane. Surrealistic Pillow.
RCA, 1967
On loan from Edward Gaynor.
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Cheap Thrills.
Columbia Records, 1967
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
Jimi Hendrix Experience. Axis: Bold as Love.
Polydor, 1967
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
The Fugs. The Fugs First Album.
Broadside Records, 1965
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
The Chambers Brothers. New Generation.
Columbia Records, 1968
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
The Beatles. Magical Mystery Tour.
Capitol Records, 1967
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
Sly and the Family Stone. Stand!
Epic, 1968
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
The Velvet Underground and Nico. The Velvet Underground And Nico.
Verve, 1967
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Freak Out.
Verve, 1966
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III
Country Joe and the Fish. Electric Music For The Mind And Body.
Vanguard, 1967
On loan from Charles W. Taylor III