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Since the dawn of time, rock bands have been giving themselves really stupid names. This was especially true in the 1960s when anyone with 20 hits of acid and a thesaurus could name a band ...
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band; The Gentrys; George Jones; Georgie Fame; Gerry & The Pacemakers; Giles, Giles and Fripp; The Girls; Gladys Knight & the Pips; Glass Harp (band) Glen Campbell; Glenn Yarbrough; The Go-Go's; The Godz; The Goldebriars; Golden Earring; The Golliwogs; GONN; Gordon Lightfoot; Gran Coquivacoa; Grand Funk Railroad ...
Sly & the Family Stone, a San Francisco-based group that got its start in the late 1960s, was an exception, being a racially integrated hippie band with a hefty influence from soul music, hence making use of brass instrumentation. "Rock & roll" was the point of departure for the new music.
The Fool were a Dutch design collective and band in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music in the late 1960s. [1] They worked closely with The Beatles in London, painting George Harrison's Mini car, John Lennon's piano and a three story high psychedelic mural on the outside of the Apple Boutique on Baker Street (since painted over). [2]
[60] [61] [62] Hippies were also vilified and sometimes attacked by punks, [63] revivalist mods, greasers, football casuals, Teddy Boys and members of other American and European youth cultures in the 1970s and 1980s. Hippie ideals were a marked influence on anarcho-punk and some post-punk youth cultures, such as the Second Summer of Love.
In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson campaigned to become Sherriff of Aspen, Colorado as part of the "Freak Power" movement, and used this symbol to represent Freaks The freak scene was originally a component of the bohemian subculture which began in California in the mid-1960s, associated with (or part of) the hippie movement.
The Charlatans were an American folk rock and psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury music scene during the 1960s. [5] [6] They are often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound. [7] [8]