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| Jamaica was controlled by what European country? |
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| Which specific style of music intitially dominated the Jamaican Sound Systems? |
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| What is toasting as it relates to jamaican Sound Systems? |
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| A DJ using a microphone to add stylizd lyrics over a record |
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| Which ska group set a high instrumental standard for studio bands? |
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| What is the name of the Detroit record label that changed Rock nRoll forever by selling sweet soul to the masses? |
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| Who was Motowns and America's leading group of the 1960's? |
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| How did Barry Gordy polish his mostly ghetto raised roster to be fit for TV and Las Vegas? |
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| He created the artist developement department forcing artists through a finishing school for entertainers |
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| What city was the home of Stax Records? |
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| What is the difference in production styles between the Motown sound and the Southern Soul Sound of Stax? |
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| Stax's sound was somewhat unpolished whereas Motowns productions were carefully formulated to reach the mainstream |
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| What city was the home of FAME studios? |
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| Who was the house band at Stax? |
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| Who was the House band of Motown? |
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| What Atlantic records producer was behind the successes of Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin? |
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| What city did the Beatles come from? |
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| Who were the four members of the beatles from 1962 onward? |
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| John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrisson, and Ringo Starr |
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| What city gave the Beatles their first gigs? |
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| Were the Beatles the first to employ 8 track technology? |
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| What is the British Invasion? |
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| The beggining of the acceptance of British Rock n Roll in the US, started by the Beatles |
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| What city was the home of Chess Records? |
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| What classic American Blues label became distributed by Pye Records throughout England in the early 1960's to feed a growing interest in the Blues? |
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| What independent Studio did the Rolling Stones go to to cut the EP Five by Five on their first US Tour? |
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| What two Rolling Stones were the most successful songwriting team? |
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| Keith Richards and Mick Jagger |
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| What two Rolling Stones were the most successful songwriting team? |
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| Keith Richards and Mick Jagger |
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| True or False: As they're career progressed the Rolling Stones became more true to traditional American Blues. |
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| What was the name of the San Fransisco area student who painted his bus in technicolor and traveled the coast with the acid test? |
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| What ex Harvard proffessor became the High Priest of the LSD movement? |
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| What organization was behind the LSD studies? |
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| What was the name of Bob Dylans backup band through the 60's? |
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| The Byrds combined what two major 1960's influences to create folk-rock? |
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| Dylan Songs, Beatles production and look |
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| Why was the Byrds song Eight Miles High banned from the radio in 1966? |
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| Because of the references to drugs in the lyrics |
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| Who was the manager of the Beatles successfully shopping the group to the world? |
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| Who was the Beatles Producer sometimes reffered to as the Fifth Beatle? |
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| What was the first hit rock "concept album", and the first to print all of the lyrics on the album jacket? |
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| Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts club band by the Beatles |
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| Who was the young engineer who helped the Beatles create their psychadelic concept albums? |
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| What was one of the studio terchniques invented by the Beatles? |
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| The use of tape loops on a major pop release |
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| What are three reasons the Beatles stopped touring by 1966? |
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| The band was weary of Beatlemania, They were fed up with the rigors of travel, and their disgust with the press after being misrepresented after John Lennon's "Jesus Statement |
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| Why did the Beatles break up? |
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| Each member pursued their own interest and did not agree on what the Beatles should be |
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| Who was hired to assemble the Beatles final release Let it Be? |
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| Which band introduced during the British invasion popularized the Rock Opera? |
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| What is the Haight Ashbury district? |
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| A neighborhood in San Fransisco by Golden Gate Park |
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| True or False: The Greatful Dead were said to be best experienced as a live band rather than a recording band. |
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| What band was the first pop success out of San Fransisco popularizing the hippie look and psychadelic music style? |
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| Who was janis Joplins predominant vocal influence? |
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| Jerry Garcia and the Greatful Dead were predominantly influenced by what music style? |
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| Why did Eric Clapton leave the Yardbirds? |
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| Clapton wanted to stay true to American Blues while the Yardbirds wanted to move in a pop direction |
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| Cream took a new focus that helped change the style of high energy rock what was this focus? |
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| Blues loving Animals bassist Chas Chandler discovered what artist and brought him back to England? |
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| The first use of Heavy Metal was applied to what artist? |
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| Which engineer helped shape Electric Lady studios? |
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| What 1967 concert introduced the Jimi Hendrix Experience to America at Large? |
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| The monterrey Pop Festival |
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| True or False: After a smashing performance at Monterrey, Jimi Hendrix decided to put less of the focus on the act and more on the music. |
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