Final Flashcards
Band known for their touring and jamming improvisation
The grateful dead
Best female blues vocalist
Janis Joplin
4 bands from Britain
Led Zeppelin The who the Beatles Jimi Hendrix Cream
Band known for social commentary and power chords
The kinks
Difference between power trio
Band made of 3 members on drums bass and guitar
Ex: cream and Jimi Hendrix
Power trio instrumentation
4 plus members that use power trio usually plus vocalist
Ex: led Zeppelin
And the who
Motown records artist with song superstition
Stevie wonders
Motown records artist with hit song let’s get it on
Marvin Gaye
Known for giving artists complete control over music production.
Motown records
Hi records house rhythm section for Stacks, Al Green
Booker T. and the M.G.s
Queen of soul
Aretha Franklin
Godfather of soul
James brown
Blaxploitation film musicians
Isaac Hayes “shaft”
Curtis mayfield “super fly”
Most successful lady of the time period
Carole King
Band known for songs with allusions to Alice in wonderland
White rabbit by Jefferson airplane
Leader mothers of invention band
Frank Zappa
Soul vocalist who sang “let’s stay together”
Al green
First concept album/rock opera from the Who
Tommy
Originally wrote Aretha franklins “respect”
Otis Redding
Nicknamed the “slowhand”
Eric Clapton
Originator of Motown records
Berry Gordy
Artist that made their own recording studio
Jimi Hendrix
Name 2 of the features of funk:
Subdivisions of beats into 4
No backbeat
Name one song that referred to drugs
Lucy on the sky
Cocaine
Strange brew
Heroin
Psychedelic band with multiple chart topping songs
Credence Clearwater revival
Sound of youth
Motown records
Bands that racially integrated
Sly and the family stone Santana Frank Zappa Beatles Jimi Hendrix
Most musically important western city during this time period
San Francisco
