History of Rock amp Roll Chpt 12 The Vietnam War Vietnam Protest The Psychedelic Blues The music of the oppressed race Made popular by College kids Jimi Hendrix Part Cherokee From a broken home in Seattle ID: 342561
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Militant Blues on Campus
History of Rock & Roll
Chpt
. 12Slide2
The Vietnam War Slide3
Vietnam ProtestSlide4
The Psychedelic Blues
The music of the oppressed race
Made popular by College kids Slide5
Jimi Hendrix
Part Cherokee
From a broken home in Seattle
Hendrix and the Experience
Flower Children
Freely experimented with drugs
“Stone Free”Slide6
Jimi and the Blues
Rock’s greatest virtuoso
Grew up listening
Muddy Waters
Howlin
’ Wolf
Honorable discharge as paratrooper
Played with:
Little Richard, James Brown & B.B. King Slide7
Psychedelic Jimi
Delivered loud, angry electric blues that captured the violence of the era.
Electronic devices
Wah-wah
pedal
Fuzz box
Feedback Slide8
Machine Gun
Trying to express that at every moment there are terrible things going on all over the world – war, destruction, and terror…he wanted to open people’s eyes
“to all the soldiers who are fighting in Chicago and Milwaukee and new York, oh yes, and to all the soldiers who are fighting in Vietnam.”
“That’s all I’m singing about. It’s today’s blues”Slide9
Wild ThingSlide10
Janice Joplin
Hitchhiked from Port Arthur Texas to San Francisco
Influenced greatly by Blues artist Bessie Smith
Razor sharp cries of anguish
Sang with several different groups:
Big Brother and the Holding company
Kosmic
Blues Band
Full Tilt Boogie Band Slide11
Janice Joplin Slide12
Heavy Metal Thunder
Militant mood of the times
Delivering loud, explosive blues
Unfettered by
psychedelia
Initially defined by SteppenwolfSlide13
Led Zeppelin
Reworked version of
Howlin
’ Wolf’s “How Many More Years” called “How Many More Times”
Lead guitarist Jimmy Page became one of heavy metal’s main stars Slide14
Led ZeppelinSlide15
Black Sabbath
Perfected the loud, aggressive blues that characterized heavy metal
Originally called themselves Earth
When they were “Earth” they did more blues from
Howlin
’ Wolf, Muddy Waters & John Lee Hooker.
They began doing heavier stuff and in 1969 changed their name. Slide16
Black Sabbath Slide17
Led Zeppelin vs
Black Sabbath Slide18
Ozzy
Osbourne
Lead vocalist of Black Sabbath
John “
Ozzy
”
Osbourne
“Now you consider everyone’s all jolly and tip-
toein
’ around, stoned on acid,
havin
’ Woodstock and all love, peace, sex, drugs and rock-’
n
’-roll, and all that’s great…but for us guys that were
livin
’ in this hole in the world, it wasn’t that way.” Slide19
Ozzy
Osbourne
Slide20
Woodstock Slide21Slide22
Jimi at Woodstock