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149 Cards in this Set
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What city has been described as America's great melting pot?
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New York City
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What city in the last half of the 1960s attracted all sorts of people in America?
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San Francisco
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Where did people go when they dropped out of their family and society?
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Northern California
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What area of the US was known as the new America?
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The West Coast
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What universities located in Northern California represented countercultrual thought, new ways, and alternative lifestyles?
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UC at Berkeley
San Francisco State University Stanford University mills College |
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Where was the youth mecca of the mid-to-late 1960's
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San Francisco
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Cite the influences that were central to the scene of Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco?
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1. drugs
2. free sex 3. love-peace philosophy 4. music |
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By 1967, what is the estimated number of local bands that operated in the San Francisco Bay Area?
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500-1500 local bands
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Name the 2 coalescing factors that brought together the disparate fragments of the San Francisco eclectic soceity?
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1. Rock Concert Halls
2. FM Radio |
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What were the precursers to rock concert halls?
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Ballroom Music Halls during the swing era of the '30s and '40s
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Who was the concert promoter who starting in 1965 put together concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium and later at the Fillmore West and the Winterland Arena?
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Bill Graham
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Cite 2 examples of rock festival phenomena that created audiences too large and unruly for more intimate presentation (@5,000)?
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1. Woodstock
2. Altamont |
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Where did concerts gradually move to to accommodate large seating (50,000)?
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Stadiums and sports arenas
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T or F
FM radio was prohibited from merely replicating AM programming. |
True
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What was the term given to the contemporary music format that featured album tracks, lengthy sets and a calmer, more sophisticated style of disc jockey chatter?
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Progressive rock
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What is the term that was later given to the progressive rock format?
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AOR format
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What does AOR format stand for?
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Album Oriented Rock
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Who was central to bringing progressive rock/AOR format to San Francisco?
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Tom Donahue
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At what radio station in San Francisco did Tom Donahue first try out his new progressive rock format?
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KMPX
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In 1968, where did Donahue move on to, changing its call letters to KSAN, and its classical format to progressive rock?
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KSFR
changed to KSAN |
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T or F
The San Francisco sound is impossibly vague. |
True
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List the 4 most common characteristics of the sounds of the San Francisco bands:
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1. drugs were important element; hair was long
2. volume levels at live concerts reached new highs 3. emphasis on instrumentals, esp guitars 4. explosion of electronic technology in sound producing gadgets |
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Who was the first San Francisco band to get a recording contract with a major label?
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Jefferson Airplane
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Who formed the Jefferson Airplane?
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Marty Balin
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T or F
Grace Slick was Jefferson Airplane's first female lead. |
FALSE,\
Signe Toly Anderson |
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What band did Grace Slick come from before joining the Jefferson Airplane?
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The Great Society
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T or F
Jefferson Airplane Takesoff, the first Airplane album did NOT take off. |
True
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What song's lyrics recorded by Jefferson Airplane evokes images of a psychedelic and pill-popping Alice in Wonderland, including the hook line, Go ask Alice?
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"White Rabbit"
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List the 2 hit singles off of Surrealistic Pillow, the Jefferson Airplane's 2nd album?
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1. "Somebody to Love"
2. "White Rabbit" |
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T or F
White Rabbit uses a bolero-type beat, beginning quietly and steadily building to a strong finish. |
True
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Who became the first real female rock star?
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Grace Slick
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T or F
Jefferson Airplane's 3rd album did not produce any single hits. |
True
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T or F
Many San Francisco bands were disdainful of Top 40 hits and considered char success a rather unbecoming embarrassment. |
True
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List the major members of Jefferson Airplane when their 2nd album was released:
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1. Marty Balin
2. Paul Kantner 3. Jorma Kaukonen 4. Jack Casady 5. Spencer Dryden 6. Grace Slick |
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T or F
Slick and Kantner eventually took over greater control of Jefferson Airplane. |
True
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What song on the album, Crown of Creation, is a haunting and tasteful example of electronic experimentation?
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Chushingura
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Cite examples of rock's edible rock groups:
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1. Hot Tuna
2. Vanilla fudge 3. Moby Grape 4. Flying Burrito Brothers 5. Strawberry Alarm Clock 6. Ultimate Spinach |
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What is the name of the record label that Jefferson Airplane formed and released more albums in the early 1970s?
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Grunt Records
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From the ruins of Jefferson Airplane, what group arose?
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Jefferson Starship
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Name 3 musicians who joined Slick, Kantner, and Casady on the first Jefferson Starship album?
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1. David Crosby
2. Jerry Garcia 3. Graham Nash |
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Name the elderly musician who with his amplified violin, began to sin in on Jefferson Airplane performances, later becoming a member throughout the 1970s of Airplane-Starship riding?
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"Papa" John Creach, born in 1917
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T or F
Starship is the rock world's longest-running soap opera. |
True
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Which Jefferson Airplane/Starship band member had rights to the name "Jefferson"
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Kantner
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Wuhat group from San Francisco are known for being some of the most devoted, persevering and tolerant fans?
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The Grateful Dead
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What band is known as being the archetypal San Francisco band of the late 1960s?
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The Grateful Dead
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The roots of many San Francisco bands originated in what genre?
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Folk era of the early 1960s.
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Where was Jerry Garcia born?
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San Francisco, in 1942.
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T or F
By the time he was 15 yo, Jerry Garcia was in constant trouble fro fighting, drinking, and smoking marijuana. |
True
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T or F
Jerry Garcia joined the army but was AWOL several times, so the Army discharged him. |
True
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What instrument did Garcia learn to play along with the bluegrass music he was into?
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Five-string banjo
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Which Dead member's father was a local disc jockey?
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Pigpen McKernan, whose father was Phil McKernan
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T or F
Pigpen McKernan finished high school. |
False,
Pigpen McKernan dropped out of school. |
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What instrument did McKernan play?
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Harmonica
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Name the 3 artists who joined to form the Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions?
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1. Jerry Garcia
2. Pigpen McKernan 3. Bob Weir |
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What was the name of the group that had the Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions and Bill Kreutzmann?
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Warlocks
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Who was the San Francisco author who hosted wild parties that included his friendly cohorts, named the Merry Pranksters, Hell's Angels, and the Warlocks?
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Ken Kesey
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What is the name given to the wild parties hosted by Ken Kesey?
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Acid tests
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T or F
By the mid-1966, Kesey was charged with drug possession and fled to Mexico, thus ending the Acid Tests. |
True
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Beside the Merry Pranksters and the Warlocks, who else attended the Acid Tests?
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Hell's Angels
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T or F
The Warlocks changed their name and moved into a Victorian home in Haight-Ashbury. |
True
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What were the genres of songs that the Grateful Dead played when they first moved into Haigh-Ashbury?
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1. blues
2. Motown 3. soul 4. Dylan |
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T or F
The Grateful Dead's first album, The Grateful Dead, was unimpressive. |
True
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T or F
The Grateful Dead did not have a Top 40 hit. |
True
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What was the real emphasis of the Grateful Dead, their albums or their live performances?
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Their live performances
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T or F
The Grateful Dead paid $500,000nto have their equipment hauled off to Egypt for a concert at the foot of the Great Pyramids in 1978. |
True
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What is the name for Grateful Dead fans?
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Deadheads
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What is the title of what Deadheads consider to be the best Grateful Dead album?
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Live/Dead, a live double album
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How many albums released by the Grateful Dead were recorded live?
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9 out of their 22 albums were recorded live.
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What music ploy was a standard feature of typical San Francisco bands?
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Instrumental improvisation
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Name the Grateful Dead's first 2 albums that made it to the Top 30:
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1. Workingman's Dead
2. American Beauty |
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Name the Grateful Dead's most commercially successful album?
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Blues for Allah
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When did the Grateful Dead reach its final chapter?
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When Jerry Garcia died in 1995.
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What member of the Grateful Dead died in 1973 at the age of 27?
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Pigpen McKernan
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Where was Janis Joplin born?
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Port Author, Texas
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T or F
Janis Joplin moved to San Francisco, but then went to Austin, attending U of Texas for one year before returning to San Francisco. |
True
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Name the person who persuaded Joplin to return to San Francisco?
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Chet Helms
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Name the group that Joplin returned to San Francisco to sing in?
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Big Brother and the Holding Company
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Where did Big Brother and the Holding Company get its big break?
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The Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967.
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Who became Joplin's manager after hearing her at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967?
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Albert Grossman, Bob Dylan's manager
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Who was the first to sign Big Brother and the HOlding Company to a record contract?
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Columbia Records
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Name the first album that Big Brother and the Holding Company released in 1968?
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Cheap Thrills
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Name the title of the song from Cheap Thrills that rose to number 1 and stayed there for 8 weeks?
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"Piece of My Heart"
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What were Joplin's roots based on?
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R & B and gospel
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When did Joplin break from Big Brother?
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1969
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Who caused the break up between Joplin and Big Brother?
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Joplin, who thought SHE was the real star.
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Name the title of Joplin's first solo album?
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I Got Dem Ol'Kozmic Blues Again
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How would you describe Joplin's voice quality?
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Powerful, sandpaper-raw
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Name the popular song off of Kozmic Blues album that became signature Joplin style?
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"Try(Just a Little Bit Harder)"
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What is the title of Joplin's last album?
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Pearl
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T or F
Pearl, Joplin's last album, was released shortly before her death. |
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Pearl, Joplin's last album, was released AFTER her death. |
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How did Joplin die?
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A heroin over dose in her hotel room in 1970.
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Name the song from Pearl, that hit #1 and stayed there for 9 weeks following Joplin's death in 1970?
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"Me and Bobby McGee"
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Name the song sung by Joplin on Pearl, that became a classic
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"Mercedez Benz"
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T or F
Joplin was known to use every drug San Francisco could provide. |
True
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Name the band from 1965 - 1968, blues and folk songs,that was a protoytpe for later San Francisco band, got the ball rolling?
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Charlatans
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Name the band, 1965-1975, whose lead guitarist John Cipollina played lengthy improvisationals whose success was moderate?
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
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Name the band from San Francisco that began in 1965 as a folk duo with overtly political protest songs against Vietnam, and that had wild costumes that also appeared at Woodstock
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Country Joe and the Fish
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What group premiered at Fillmore in 1966 with a triple guitar frontline but whose singles were overkilled by Columbia Records glitzy promotiion?
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Moby Grape
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What was the term given to the San Francisco loud, drug related rock and roll?
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Acid rock
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When was the Summer of Love?
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1967
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T or F
The city of San Francisco banned live performances in a strip of grass and trees adjacent to Haight-Ashbury. |
True
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T or F
The Doors and Jimi Hendrix were from San Francisco. |
FALSE
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What band was hired as the house band at the LA Whiskey-a-Go-Go.
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The Doors
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What record label signed The Doors?
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Elektra
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Who was the lead singer of the Doors?
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Jim Morrison
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T or F
Jim Morrison was a California native. |
FALSE,
Jim Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida |
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Name the original The Doors members:
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1. Jim Morrison
2. Ray Manzarek 3. John Densmore 4. Robbie Krieger |
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Name the Doors' first album:
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The Doors
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Name the lengthy song, written by Krieger, that was 7 minutes on The Doors album:
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"Light My Fire"
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T or F
The original version of "Light My Fire" became a #1 hit on FM stations. |
FALSE,
A shorter version of "Light My Fire" became a #1 hit. |
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Describe The Doors version of music:
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blues-based mainstream rock
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T or F
The Doors music was upbeat |
ABSOLUTELY FALSE<
The Doors music centered around death, violence, darkness, and a menacing kind of sex. |
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Describe Jim Morrison's voice:
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flat baritone, with a narrow range, frequently emphasizing the interval between the tonic scale degree and the minor third degree
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What keys did The Doors sing in?
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Minor
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Name The Doors only #1 album
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Waiting for theSun
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What kinds of addiction did Morrison battle?
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1. drugs
2. alcohol |
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T or F
At a concert in Miami in 1969, Morrison showed up stinking drunk and unzipped his pants and exposed himself for which he was arrested for indecent exposure and public drunkeness. |
True
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What album was the song, "Touch Me" from?
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The Soft Parade
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What kind of music accompanied The Doors on The Soft Parade?
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Brass
Strings Backup vocals |
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Where did Morrison move to for rest and recuperation?
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Paris, France
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How old and from what did Morrison die?
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27 years old from an apparent heart attack
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Name Jimi Hendrix's only Top 40 hit:
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"All Along the Watchtower"
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Where was Jimi Hendrix born?
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Seattle, WA
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Name some artists that Jimi Hendrix played backup guitar for:
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1. Little Richard
2. Ike and Tina Turner 3. Wilson Pickett 4. Jackie Wilson |
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What was the "chitlin circuit"?
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A series of concerts by black R & B, rock and soul singers
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Name the band that Jimi Hendrix formed in New York City where they played various Greenwich Village clubs:
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Jimmy James and the Blue Flames
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Where did Jimi Hendrix travel to seek his fame and fortune after forming his band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames?
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England
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What was the name of the group Jimi Hendrix formed with 2 other musicians who were from England?
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Jimi Hendrix Exprerience
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List 3 songs that the Jimi Hendrix Experience had success in England:
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1. "Hey Joe"
2. "Purple Haze" 3. The Wind Cries Mary |
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Where did the Jimi Hendrix Experience debut in the US?
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Monterey Pop Festival of 1967
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What group did the Jimi Hendrix Experience follow at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967?
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The Who
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What did Hendrix do at the Monterey Pop Festival to catch the audience's attention?
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Doused his guitar with lighter fluid and set it on fire
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T or F
Hendrix was right handed. |
FALSE,
Hendrix was left handed. |
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What kind of instrument did Hendrix play and how?
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Right-handed guitar upside down
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What did Hendrix use to create musical distortion?
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Fuzz box, Uni-Vibe, a wah-wah pedal
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What was Hendrix's finest album?
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Electric Ladyland
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Name 2 songs of Hendrix that were recorded at different times but that are related:
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Voodoo Chile
Voodoo Child |
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What song on Electric Ladyland shows all sides of Hendrix's art: driving rock, countered by peaceful moments of refined elecgtronic effects?
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"1983"
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Where did Hendrix retreat to after disbanding the Experience?
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upstate New York
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What song did Hendrix play at Woodstock?
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The Star-Spangled Banner
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Name the group that Hendrix formed after the Experience disbanded?
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Band of Gypsys
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Name the 3 rock recording artists who died between Sept. 1970 and July 1971:
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1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Janis Joplin 3. Jim Morrison |
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Where did Jimi Hendrix die and how?
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London, apserating(choking) on his own vomit after ingesting mucho drugs
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What was the by-product of the emphasis on instrumental improvisation?
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The instrumentalists became stars in their own right
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Name other words that are used interchangeably with improvisation:
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1. inspiration
2. intuition |
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What is considered to be ultimate musical expression?
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Improvisation because it combines the skills of both the performer and the composer
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List the requirements for improvisation:
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1. technical mastery of the instrument
2. improvisor must have an absolutely solid feeling for rhythm. 3. improvisor must thoroughly understand chords and scales |
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What is the term that refers to musical sounds that occur simultaneously?
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Vertical organization
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What is the term that refers to a musical line, such as a melody, that unfolds note by note in time?
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Horizontal organization
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