Psychedelic Rock History

Psychedelic rock evolved in the 60s as an offshoot of the rock and roll movement combining elements of Psychedelic rockrock, reggae, and other diverse elements. Involving the use of mind altering drugs like cannabis, mescaline, psilocybin, and especially LSD, psychedelic rock broke with traditional rock and laid the roots forPsychedelic rock, rock and roll, psychedelic metal, experimental rock, psychedelic metal and experimental rock genres.

In the USA bands like the Vanilla Fudge, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane lead the way for later bands like 13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy, and Third Bardo to name a few. A few years later The Who and The Beatles picked up on the psychedelic movement with tunes like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to name a few but were not technically classified as psychedelic rock. Cream and Pink Floyd embraced psychedelic music fully becoming two of the first truly psychedelic band.

More recently band Kula Shaker released an album influenced by Indian music and psychedelic rock called peasants pigs and astronauts. English band Anomie are part of a new genre of garage psychedelia which is becoming popular. Ambient and trance music owes a great debt to this genre as does psychedelic metal of bands like Masters of Reality, Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.