Acid Rock Music – A blast to the past

Most people have heard the term Acid Rock Music. Many of them have heard it. If you lived your childhood in a house with parents from the 60s and 70s, it was probably your lullaby music. Some of them may have even spent some of their teenage years lounging around the house and classroom passing by Grateful Dead T-shirts, ripped jeans, and experimenting with some old Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin records.

When they were your age…

What they may or may not know is that this music was created for experimentation, of the drug-induced variety. It is a trivial fact that most of the artists who wrote these songs were under the influence of acid at the time. Thus was born the written name Acid Rock Music. If they weren’t, then the people listening to it were. With songs like Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and band names like Bubble Puppy, it was easy to see the attempt to recreate the travel experience. There was a long list of groups and bands honoring their musical genre. Some more examples are 13th Floor Elevators, Blue Magoos, Bermuda Triangle band, Zakary Thaks, Foghat and Molly Hatchet.

Pay homage to music… Man.

Acid Rock began to make its appearance in the sixties. A long list of hits and wonders continued through the eighties. The Grateful Dead gained popularity around 1969 and continued to the very end. They still have an avid fan base. At one point, rock sensation The Beatles, a British group popular with the mainstream, tried a little psychedelic acid rock. The genre had then reached a whole new level.

Time for some new threads

From the music came the style. Outside were the conservative dresses of his parents and the hippie entered. Jeans, crazy colored t-shirts and long hair dominated the generation of Acid Rock Music. It was about those other realities rather than the one they were in. People shopped at stores called Mr. Fish and spent nights with friends getting high.

Rock on!

Acid Rock Music is a definite look at the 1960s and 1970s generation. From there came the Hair Metal of the eighties and the hard and alternative rock of today. It was the music that your parents’ parents hated just like your parents hate yours. It is a musical experience based on drug use. Jumbled phrases, wild wrinkles and colorful rhythms, the music is a journey within itself. However, no one can say for sure how nice it would be unless they understood the phrase ‘being under the influence’.