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Psychedelic rock is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1960s and is inspired by psychedelic culture and the use of hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporates electronic sound effects, extended instrumental solos, and improvisation. Psychedelic rock may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments. The peak years of psychedelic rock were between 1967 and 1969, associated with a widespread counterculture. The genre bridged the transition from early blues and folk-based rock to progressive rock and hard rock, and as a result, contributed to the development of sub-genres such as heavy metal. The Beatles are seen as the "Acid Apostles of the New Age" and played a leading role in the development of psychedelic effects. San Francisco emerged as the movement's capital on the West Coast, where the music scene developed in the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in 1965. The Acid Test experiments launched the entire psychedelic subculture. The start of psychedelic (or acid) rock is best listed at 1966. The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and the Beatles' Revolver contributed to psychedelia's emergence into the pop mainstream.The Rise and Fall of Psychedelic Rock

• Psychedelic rock gained mainstream attention in 1967-1968 and was the prevailing sound of rock music at the time.

• The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a landmark album that influenced bands in the US psychedelic rock scene and elevated the LP format.

• The 1967 Summer of Love saw a huge number of young people from across America and the world travel to Haight-Ashbury, boosting the area's population from 15,000 to around 100,000.

• Psychedelic rock's popularity accelerated following the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the staging of the Monterey Pop Festival in June.

• Psychedelic soul was influenced by the civil rights movement, giving it a darker and more political edge than much psychedelic rock.

• The decline of psychedelic rock was due to LSD being made illegal in the UK and California, anti-hippie backlash, and the Altamont Free Concert's fatal stabbing.

• George Clinton's ensembles Funkadelic and Parliament and their various spin-offs took psychedelia and funk to create their own unique style, producing over forty singles, including three in the US top ten, and three platinum albums.

• Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green and Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early "acid casualties", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.

• Psychedelic rock influenced African American musicians, particularly the stars of the Motown label, to create psychedelic soul.

• Psychedelic rock had three distinct branches in British music: heavy electric adaptation of blues, complex jazz-influenced style, and classical-influenced music of the Beatles.

• Psychedelic rock scenes developed across the world, including in continental Europe, Australasia, Asia, and South and Central America.

• The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" was an early pop song to incorporate psychedelic lyrics and sounds, prompting an unexpected revival in theremins and increased awareness of analog synthesizers.

• The Beatles' May 1966 B-side "Rain" was the first pop recording to contain reversed sounds, and together with varispeed, the song includes a droning melody that reflected the band's growing interest in non-Western musical form and lyrics conveying the division between an enlightened psychedelic outlook and conformism.Psychedelic Rock and its Influence Summary

• Psychedelic rock was a genre that emerged in the mid-1960s, characterized by its use of psychedelic drugs, distorted guitar sound, and adventurous compositions.

• British bands like Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, and members of Yes went on to create progressive rock in the 1970s, while German bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can, Neu! and Faust developed a distinctive brand of electronic rock, known as kosmische musik.

• Psychedelic rock has been seen as an important bridge between blues-oriented rock and later heavy metal, with American bands like Amboy Dukes and Steppenwolf, and English bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

• Psychedelic music also contributed to the origins of glam rock, with Marc Bolan changing his psychedelic folk duo into rock band T. Rex and becoming the first glam rock star from 1970.

• The jam band movement, which began in the late 1980s, was influenced by the Grateful Dead's improvisational and psychedelic musical style.

• Stoner rock emerged in the 1990s, combining elements of psychedelic rock and doom metal, and was pioneered by the Californian bands Kyuss and Sleep.

• Neo-psychedelia, a style of music that emerged in late 1970s post-punk circles, sometimes updated the approach of 1960s psychedelic rock. Some of the scene's bands, including the Soft Boys, the Teardrop Explodes, and Echo & the Bunnymen, became major figures of neo-psychedelia.

• In the late 80s in the UK, the genre of Madchester emerged in the Manchester area, in which artists merged alternative rock with acid house and dance culture as well as other sources, including psychedelic music and 1960s pop. The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, and Inspiral Carpets were the main bands in it.

• Rave-influenced scene is widely seen as heavily influenced by drugs, especially ecstasy (MDMA).

• The psychedelic rock genre is still celebrated in modern festivals like Austin Psych Fest in Texas, Liverpool Psych Fest, and Desert Daze in Southern California.

• The Flaming Lips and Spiritualized took neo-psychedelia to orchestral realms, while Animal Collective did their own thing.

• Psychedelic rock has a significant influence on popular music, inspiring various genres and sub-genres, from heavy metal to electronic rock and neo-psychedelia.