{"id":16328,"date":"2015-02-02T02:36:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2015-02-02T02:48:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:48:20","slug":"listen-to-the-colour-of-your-dreams-part-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/02\/02\/listen-to-the-colour-of-your-dreams-part-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Haight Street hippies, San Francisco, Oct. 26, 1967. From the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continuing the psychedelic mega-mix based on Jon Savage\u2019s list of \u201c100 mind-expanding masterpieces\u201d (see this post<\/a>). The fifth of the six mixes is the second visit to the USA, and features songs from the years 1967 to 1968 arranged in chronological order. As before, the selections from the Savage 100 are in bold, and I\u2019ve added notes about my additions or amendments.<\/p>\n

Savage’s selections for the USA can be more arguable than those in the UK list. As I noted earlier, UK singles are easily identifiable for being effects-heavy studio creations. The US scene evolved out of the dance halls of San Francisco, the same halls that also fuelled the demand for all the trend-setting psychedelic poster art. Some of the bands could be just as adventurous in the studio but the sound at this point is more a transcription of the live performance. In other songs the “psychedelic” quality is a result of context, as with Otis Redding who played at the Monterey Pop Festival, and is singing here about the San Francisco Bay, but isn’t really a psychedelic artist.<\/p>\n