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What important Beatles album defined art rock?
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was the first concept album and had unified songs
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What characteristics defined the british art rock sound?
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Lack of blues, very European sounding with slow tempo big sound and majestic with orchestra usually
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What is a Mellotron?
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A keyboard that has tape players inside that start playing with key presses
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What were characteristics of Procol Harum's 'White Shade of Pale'?
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Featured quotation from J.S. Bach. References to classical composers
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What was Tommy?
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Rock Opera by The Who
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Who were the members of Pink Floyd and what were there instruments?
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Syd Barrett - guitar/vox/songs, was kicked out for heavy drug use
Roger Waters - Bass/vox Nick Mason - Drums Richard Wright - Keys/Vox David Gimour - Guitar/vox, was hired as the backup for Syd |
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What is Psychadelic Rock?
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Electronic noises with rock sound, broke traditional rules
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Who were the members of King Crimson?
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Robert Fripp** - guitar
Greg Lake - Vox/bass |
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What was stylistic Ecclectcism?
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Songs built of many differening styles, key changes, tempos, etc
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What were the characteristics of Emerson Lake and Palmer?
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Very keyboard driven, power trio
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Who were the members of Emerson Lake and Palmer?
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Keith Emerson - Keys
Greg Lake - Vocals, bass, guitar Carl Palmer - Drums |
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Who was Bela Bartock?
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'Allegro Barbaro' - Wrote piano piece for Emerson, was used in 'The Barbarian'
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What were the characteristics of 'Lucky Man'?
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Used new synth sounds that were never heard before
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What was the band Yes's hit?
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'Luck Man' from the album, Fragile. Was #4 on thepop charts
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Who were the members of Genesis?
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Peter Gabriel - vox, eventually left
Steve Hackett - Guitar, left as well Tony Banks - keys Mike Rutherford - bass Phil Collins - Drums/became singer Banks, Rutherford, and Collins became the new band eventually |
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Who was in Jethro Tull?
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Ian Anderson (Flute, songs, guitar, vocals
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What was a characteristic of Brian Eno?
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Used tape decks for sound. Created a Delay effect. Tape decks would record something which is later played back. Tape speed and how far machines are determine the delay
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What was In-studio composition?
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Used by Brian Eno. Composed in the moment, not very common. Gets musicians together that wouldn't normally get together
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What was ambient music?
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Termed by Brian Eno. Listened to at lower levels. Music shouldn't drown out all natural sounds around you. Sounds around you are part of the experience and is normally without a beat.
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Who were the member of Velvet Underground?
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Lou Reed - Gtr/vox/songs, he leaves
John Cale - Violin, bass, keys, also leaves Sterlino Morrison - gtr Maureen Tucker - Drums Nico- Vox, leaves Andy Warhol gave advice to velvet underground and produced album, he eventually loses interest |
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Who was Mothers of Invention?
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Same label as Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa's band.
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What were characteristics of Zappa's music?
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liked 20th century art music, influenced by French composer Varese. Also loved blues, r&b, doo-wop, American Black music. Combined all for his sound.
His songs had sections that repeated throughout and had arches. |
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What is a rondo?
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Many parts sang at once
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What is musique concrete?
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Manipulation of natural sounds with tape recorders to make them sound unrecognizeable
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What was the Ensemble Modern?
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A chamber orchestra that performed new music. Zappa's orchestra
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What was a synclavier?
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An expansive synthesizer that played Zappa's music perfectly in rhythm.
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Who was Captain Beefheart?
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Don Van Vliet, created Trout Mask Replica - a highly praised album
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Who was Yoko Ono?
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Broke up the Beatles, and married Jon Lennon
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What were the characcteristics of Todd Rundgren's Utopia?
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Theory of obscurity - public can't tell who members are
Phoenetic organization - Sound is more important than meaning of the word |
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What were the characteristics of Laurie Anderson?
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Minimalism - all your materials are stripped down. Repetitive, any introduction of change takes on higher importance.
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What is Krautrock?
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Experimental, progressive, psychadelic rock sound
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What was Can?
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A jam band in Krautrock
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What were sequences ?
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Remembers what keys you pressed on keyboard
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What are the characteristics of Glam Rock?
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Proper delivery, showtunes style, very clean
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Who was David Bowie's manager?
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Tony Defries
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What was RCA
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major record label, gave Bowie a contract, Bowie would eventually overtake it. Put Lou Reed on a well
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Who was Bowie's guitar player?
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Nick Ronson
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Who was in T. Rex?
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Marc Bolan - Gtr/vox/songs
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What was Lou Reeds album and hit song?
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Album was Transformer and the song 'Walk on the Wild Side' hit #16 on charts
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Who was Mott the Hoople?
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David Bowie helped them with a new song so they wouldn't quit band
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Who were the New York Dolls?
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They were unusual because they played straight up rock and roll
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What was Queen's first successful song?
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Killer Queen
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Who were the members of Queen?
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Freddy Mercury - vocals
Brian May - Gtr, used homeade guitar |
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What were Crosby, Stills and Nash's old bands
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Crosby - Burds
Stills - Buffalo Springfield Nash - Hollies |
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What were the characteristics of singer/songwriters songs
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Say 'I' in songs, very personal and honest
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What was characteristics of John Lennon's song/
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Very honest about his father abandoning him
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What was the Apple corp.
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Beatles created the company for artists to send ideas. Peter Asher did A&R work and heard James Taylor's tape and went to be a producer.
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What did James taylor do?
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Was in the band Flying Machine, wrote 'Fire and Rain' - was very autobiographical
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what band was Van Morrison in?
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Them
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Who was CSN and Y?
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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
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What did Neil Young do?
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Crazy Horse was band Neil Young worked with.
Harvest was his most popular album in 1972. 'Needle and Damage Done' was the hit |
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What happened with Cat Stevens
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Had bad father relationship
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What did Carol King do?
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Worked at Brill Building- song writing factory. Job was to write hit songs, worked with husband Gerry Griffin. They later divored and Carol was by herself
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Who did Elton John's lyrics?
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Bernie Taupin
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What did Randy Newman do?
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Sings songs through character, Singer of the song is a slave trader to trick people to get on his boat.
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What did Paul Simon do?
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Broke up with Garfunkle, Reggae style songs. Song is about his dog dying. Return to the maker is the 'Mother Child Reunion'
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What characterics were Suzanne Vega's songs
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80's sound with punchy drums and lots of kick drum
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What was Tori Amos song about?
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Very stripped down, about her being raped.
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