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History of Rock
Exam 3
73
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05/12/2008

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Jefferson Airplane
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first band to acheive popularity in Acid Rock

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Janis Joplin

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Regarded as best white blues female singer of 1960s
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Jimi Hendrix

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Most innovative guitarist that turned feedback and distortion into music
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Hard Rock

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Returns Rock & Roll to blues
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Eric Clapton

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Known for his fuzz tone guitar sound where he poked holes into speaker cones
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Yardbirds
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Most progressive Hard Rock group of the UK
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Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck
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Members of the Yardbirds

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Over Under Sideways Down & Happening Ten Years Time Ago

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Hard Rock Songs by the Yardbirds
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Hard Rock transforms the Blues in what ways?

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-Guitar becomes main instrument

-Blues is now revived

-Guitar solo's are now possible

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Jeff Beck group
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This Hard Rock group layed the groundwork for Heavy Metal

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Rock my plimsoul
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Name of song by Jeff Beck group
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Led Zeplin
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Most influential and succesful of hard rock/ heavy metal pioneers

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Led Zeplin
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First to dethrone Beatles from top of popularity charts
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Led Zeplin

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Realigns direction of rock towards hard edge
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Hard Rock
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Longest living genre of Rock
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AC/DC, Scorpions, KISS, Aerosmith
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Heavy Metal Groups

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Led Zeplin, Deep Purple
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Origins of Metal
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Black Sabbath
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First of metals groups to deal with taboo: occult, black magic, death, satanic orientation
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Ozzy Osbourne
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Bit of head of Bat during Black Sabbath concert
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Thrash, Glam, Seattle Grunge, Christian Rock
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4 Sub Genres of Heavy Metal
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Eddie Van Halen
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Most skilled guitarist gave major leap in guitar technique
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Hammer on and Pull off
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Eddie Van Halens guitar technique
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Art Rock
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Melding of classical music and Rock
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Unacknowledged Borrowings
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first stage of Art Rock

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Association with Orchastral Classical Idiom
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Stage 2 of Art Rock
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Use of Orchastra
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Stage 2b of Art Rock
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Emergence of Art Rock
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Stage 4 of Art Rock
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Unacknowledged Borrowings
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Classical music given Pop feel, dont inform listners on its borowings
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Association with Orchastral Classical Idiom
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Symphonic orchastra worked into rock song
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Use of Orchastra
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Used synthesizers to mimic orchastra during live performances
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Emergence of Art Rock
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Want Rock to become more sophisticated, new style of art rockers emerge

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Elvis Presleys "Its Now or Never" originaly by Eduardo Di Capua "O Solo Mio"
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Example of borrowing from Art Rock

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Beatles from Seargent Pepper album entitled "A Day In the Life" and Moody Blues "Days of Future Past
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Two examples of Association with Orchastra Classical Idiom
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Mellotron

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Name of first synthesizer used
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1)Formally trained in musical conservatory

2)Grew up emersed in pop and rock and roll

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Art Rockers are first musicians who could both:
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Emergence of Art Rock
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Connected rock with avant garde
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Emerson, Lake, Palmer
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First Art Rock Group
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Pictures at an Art Exhibition
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Name of Lake, Palmer, Emersons song
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Second Branch of Art Rock

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Little classical music used, "studio magic", Lengty, many instruments
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Musique Concrete

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Third branch of Art Rock, 20th century avant garde music using tape recorder as instrument
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Edgar Varase "Poem Electronique"
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Name of Musique Concrete song
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Pink Floyd

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Top Art Rock Bad
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Dark Side of the Moon
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Pink Floyds album that had the longest shelf life and stayed on top 200 list for 14 years
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Minimalism
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Art Rock Avant Garde music that uses a simple melody, repetition and transitions in repetition using thematic material

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Mike Oldfields "Tubular Bells"
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Highpoint of Art Rock song

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Describe Punk
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Rebellion, revolutionary against traditional values, unusual fashions, provocation of audiance
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The Velvet Underground
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One of first punk groups, led to other groups
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Heroin and Venus in Furs
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Two Velvet Undergroud songs
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The Stooges
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Another one of first punk groups that led to others
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Iggy Pop
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Godfather of punk rock that was known for his self mutilation, vomited on audiance, walking on fans hands
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Glam Rock
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Known for gender bending, androgeny, tranvestism
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David Bowie
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Brought sexual ambiguity and theatre to rock
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Ziggy Stardust
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 Name of David Bowies fictional character that he pretends to be 24/7
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1) Ziggy Stardust 2) Wears Dress on Album Cover 3)Claims Bisxuality
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Three developments in his career
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The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

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Name of first album
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New York
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Origination of Punk
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CBGB
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Small club in new york that brought new musical possiblities in RnR. Was against mainstream music and culture and wanted to bring a venue for unsigned bands
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Hilly Kristal

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propriator of CBGB
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The Ramones
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Primary model for UK punk
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Loudmouth, Beat on Beat
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Names of Ramones songs

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Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood

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Name of owners or "SEX" UK punk rock fashion store responsible for creating image of punk rock in UK
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Sex Pistols
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Created by Malcolm McLaren to head his ideas and styles for punk Rock
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The Clash
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First major punk Statement, figurehead of UK Punk Explosion
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Punk Vanguard (New Wave)

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Sub group of punk; Alternative to mainstream, little concern with political issues

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Punk Populism (Hard Core)
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Anti-establishment genre of punk
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Acid Rock, Hard Rock, Art Rock

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3 important genres of Progressive Rock
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New Leftists and the hippies
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Two important subgroups of radicals
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