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Undergraduate 2
09/13/2008

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The Velvet Underground's Debut album was produced by what influential contemporary artist?
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Andy Worhol
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Who were the 2 most prominent members of the Velvet Underground?(2)
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John Cale and Lou Reed
Term
Who were the first hit artist to employ avant-garade theatrical confrontation during their concerts?
Definition
The Doors
Term
What Detroit rock and roll band became involved in the radical politics of the "White Panther Party"?
Definition
MC5
Term
Why did Syd Barrett only make one album with Pink Floyd?
Definition
Mental instability
Term
What British group was hired to do a Stereo Demonstration record and went on to the top of the charts with "Nights in White Satin"?
Definition
Moody Blues
Term
What is a Mellotron?
Definition
Early sampling using magnetic tape loops
Term
What record label used gritty southern soul musicians to accompany Aretha Franklin's Heavily gospel-influenced sould during the late 1960's?
Definition
Atlantic
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What type of music did Aretha Franklin sing and record before being discovered by John Hammond at Columbia Records?
Definition
R&B and Soul
Term
What was the name of James Brown's top-notch 1960's funk musicians who made a series of their own recordings under that same name?
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JB's
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When did the funk style come together under James Brown with "Cold Sweat"?
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1967
Term
What gender and racially integrated act made political and social commentary attractive and profitable for other soul and R&B artists in the late 1960's?
Definition
Sly & the Family Stone
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What bass player introduced the influential "slap-bass" technique to the funk and soul scene?
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Larry Graham
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The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical "Hair" appeared what year?
Definition
1968
Term
Which highly successful publishing veteran of the Brill Building-era later picked out all of the early hits for The Monkees TV show and records?
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Don Kirshner
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Which production team popularized bubblegum music by producing the songs and hiring out the musicians for bands such as 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express? (2)
Definition
Jeff Katz and Jerry Kasanetz
Term
Jimmy Webb is best know as a __________
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Songwriter
Term
What was the Rolling Stones' disastrous, free Altamont Speedway concert originally to be held?
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Golden Gate Park
Term
About how many people made it to the Woodstock Festival of 1969?
Definition
450,000
Term
The LP (33 1/3 rpm) format finally outsold singles(45rpm) after which year?
Definition
1967
Term
What year did full featured built-to-order recording consoles appear?
Definition
1969
Term
What company was the first to release the two-inch 24-track recorder?
Definition
MCI
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What city was the home of KMPX, the first commercially successful "underground" FM radio station, in 1967
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San Francisco
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What former head of Columbia records began Arista in the early 1970's?
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Clive Davis
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When did the big record retail chains appear?
Definition
Early 70's
Term
What is the name of Led Zeppelin's manager, who successfully challenged live venue contracts, moving more money towards the musicians who performed?
Definition
Peter Grant
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When did Singer Songwriter style become popular?
Definition
Early 70's
Term
Which folk artists co-founded the World Hunger Fund in the 1970's raising more than $5million to feed famished people around the world?
Definition
Harry Chapin
Term
What folk rock artist began his career with the country-rock band Buffalo Springfield, and has recently been hailed as a godfather of grunge and alternative music?
Definition
Neil Young
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What singer/songwriter spent time in mental institutions and later became known for his artful, personal lyrics in songs like "Fire and Rain"?
Definition
James Taylor
Term
Which artist mixed a poetic Dylanesque lyric with folk, jazz, and R&B to create classic albums including Astral Weeks and Moondance?
Definition
Van Morrison
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Joni Mitchell's fusion of jazz with her acoustic folk style led her to collaborate with which famous composer/bassist, working on songs inspired by T.S. Eliot poems?
Definition
Charlie Mingus
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What British folk rock band launched the solo careers of both Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson?
Definition
Fairport Convention
Term
What artist was renowned for the his four-hour concert marathons and embodying the spirit of the working class?
Definition
Bruce Springstein
Term
Whose production style was employed on Bruce Springsteen's breakthrough Born To Run album?
Definition
Phil Spector
Term
What band's song lyrics reveled in black magic, fantasy, drug, and mental illness (rarely songs about relationships) redefined HEAVY with giant, primitive scary riffs?
Definition
Black Sabith
Term
What rock artist first devised shocking displays of grandiose violence as a part of the entertainment?
Definition
Alice Cooper
Term
Which British glam-rock artist hired Broadway designers to fabricate rock's first full concert stage sets?
Definition
David Bowie
Term
Which costumed glam band added violent theatrics to their live shows, and were voted the Gallups Poll's most popular band in 1977?
Definition
Kiss
Term
What band is touted as "the greatest rock & roll band" from the 1970's through today?
Definition
Rolling Stones
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Who was the producer to produce Alice Cooper's first hit records, and went on to produce the first platinum-selling Kiss release?
Definition
Bob Ezrin
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The pioneering Led Zeppelin began as a new, improvising version of what famous 1960's British blues rock band?
Definition
The Yardbirds
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The progressive rock era admitted a strong influence from what style of composition and musicianship?
Definition
Classical
Term
What is the longest lasting and most successful progressive rock group?
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Yes
Term
What LP has the record number of weeks on the Billboard Album Chart?
Definition
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
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Who originally led the English art rock band Genesis?
Definition
Peter Gabriel
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After Peter Gabriel left Genesis, which drummer, who had been mostly back-up singing and then took over as lead singer?
Definition
Phil Collens
Term
What event most led to Santana's signing with Columbia records in 1969?
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Woodstock
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Which rock band fused blues and country with additional influences, expertly stretching out songs to over 30 minutes becoming the precursor for a wave of southern rock bands that followed them?
Definition
Allman Brothers
Term
Southern rock gets its sound from what two predominant roots styles?(2)
Definition
Blues and country
Term
Southern rock gets its sound from what two predominant roots styles?(2)
Definition
Blues and country
Term
Ronni Van Zant was the lead singer and songwriter of what southern rock group?
Definition
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Term
What group came to become the most successful southern California band; their greatest hits release later becoming the all-time best-selling U.S. release?
Definition
The Eagles
Term
The Grateful Dead made a shift away from psychedelia towards what style of rock music in the early 1970's?
Definition
Country/folk
Term
Who produced he Eagles' first 2 albums, including "Take it Easy"(as well as many classic albums of the Rolling Stones, the Steve Miller Band, the Who, CSN, and Eric Clapton?
Definition
Glyn Johns
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