I’m a geezer, but time was adolescent stoners swore by Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple and Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, songs that launched a million basement bands.
The opening of the Byrd’s Mr. Tambourine Man is right at the beginning of Psychedelia, and echoes in the Beatles’ And Your Bird Can Sing, which doesn’t have an opening riff so much as it just seems to start in the middle all at once out of nowhere. I concur on Do Ya by the Move/ELO, and Siberian Khatru by Yes is an idiosyncratic favorite.
Slightly more recently, the Buttholes had a bunch of good ones; the first chords of Psychedelic Jam (PSY) always sent shivers up my spine…
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The opening of the Byrd’s Mr. Tambourine Man is right at the beginning of Psychedelia, and echoes in the Beatles’ And Your Bird Can Sing, which doesn’t have an opening riff so much as it just seems to start in the middle all at once out of nowhere. I concur on Do Ya by the Move/ELO, and Siberian Khatru by Yes is an idiosyncratic favorite.
Slightly more recently, the Buttholes had a bunch of good ones; the first chords of Psychedelic Jam (PSY) always sent shivers up my spine…
- alex 12-11-2004 10:10 pm