What Was Psychadelic Soul?

[Guest]

l was always lead to believe that it was a type of music from the late 60's early 70's,with tunes such as Temptations....Cloud 9...Ball Of Confusion and of course Psychadelic

Shack...also i've heard that Family Affair-Sly and The Family Stone is in there as well......Can anybody enlighten me and give examples??

Have also heard that it kicked off Funk??

[The Tempest]

[Guest rosies dad]

Edited April 11, 2010 by rosies dad

[Guest rosies dad]

whoops sorry, i just saw your little note about forget saxie! my mistake

[Guest]

Reflections - Supremes listen to that distorted/phsychadelic intro

[Guest Trevski]

Wasn't it just soul music's take on the hippy, trippy drug influenced white music scene?

[Guest]

l was always lead to believe that it was a type of music from the late 60's early 70's,with tunes such as Temptations....Cloud 9...Ball Of Confusion and of course Psychadelic

Shack...also i've heard that Family Affair-Sly and The Family Stone is in there as well......Can anybody enlighten me and give examples??

Have also heard that it kicked off Funk??

Psychedelic Soul is a title used to categorize music that features elements of psychedelic rock and soul / funk music . The genre thrived during the late 1960s and early 1970s .

Psychedelic Soul is often connected with Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic , although S&TFS' 1970s output is more often described as funk , and Funkadelic's as funk-rock , but the most notable for this genre are The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield , War , The Undisputed Truth , and The Rotary Connection also followed the path laid out by the work of Sly Stone . Psychedelic Soul led the way for a harder , less subdued sound in / for black music , leading the way for the mainstream funk music of the early 1970s and later , disco .

An important band in this regard were Funkadelic , led by George Clinton . Funkadelic mixed the soul and funk of the late 1960s and early 1970s with extended distorted guitar solos and psychedelic sound effects . They coupled this sound with surreal imagery and stage antics , especially on early albums such as the self titled " Funkadelic " ( 1970 ) , " Free Your Mind. .... And Your Ass Will Follow " ( 1970 ) and " Maggot Brain " ( 1971 ) .

Malc Burton

[Dave Pinch]

chambers brothers, time has come today.............................stuff with guitars in rather than horns:thumbsup:

dave

Edited April 14, 2010 by dave pinch

[Guest sarahleen]

this sounds like a black vocal and is probably west coast , i think its quite soulful too , maybe theres a - rotary connection - er connection ( though rc were from chicago i think )

Edited April 14, 2010 by sarahleen

[Guest]

this sounds like a black vocal and is probably west coast , i think its quite soulful too , maybe theres a - rotary connection - er connection ( though rc were from chicago i think )

Rotary Connection were formed in Chicago in 1966 . The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess , son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess . Marshall was the director behind a start-up label, Cadet Concept Records, and wanted to focus on music outside of the blues and rock genres, which had made the Chess label popular. This led Marshall to turn his attention to the burgeoning psychedelic movement. He recruited Charles Stepney (producer), a vibraphonist and classically-trained arranger and producer. Marshall then recruited members of a little-known white rock band, The Proper Strangers: Bobby Simms, Mitch Aliotta, and Ken Venegas. Sidney Barnes, a songwriter within the Chess organization, also joined, as did Judy Hauff and a Chess receptionist named Minnie Riperton, who would later be successful in her own solo career. Marshall also called up prominent session musicians associated with the Chess label, including guitarist Phil Upchurch and drummer Morris Jennings .

The band released their self-titled debut album in late 1967. It plays like a melange of styles, borrowing heavily from pop, rock, and soul, but in a way that isn't entirely radio-friendly. The album also boasts an Eastern influence through its use of the sitar on the tracks Turn Me On and Memory Band. Stepney's arrangements, brought to life by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, imbue the album with a certain dreamlike quality; this would become a trademark of both the arranger and the mouthpiece. The album proved to be a modest success within the Midwest, but failed to make an impact nationally—this was to be the Rotary's ultimate fate.

The band returned in 1968 with their second and third albums, Aladdin and Peace. Aladdin found Riperton assuming a more prominent vocal role than the "background instrument" status she had on the debut. The latter was a Christmas release, with strong pervasive messages of love and understanding for a nation in the grips of Vietnam. The album's cover art of a hippie Santa Claus more than makes its intentions known. Peace is notable for being involved in controversy: an anti-war cartoon in a December 1968 edition of Billboard magazine featured a graphic image of a bruised and bloodied Santa on a Vietnam battlefield. Mistaking this cartoon for the album's cover art, Montgomery Ward cancelled all shipments of the album.

Rotary Connection would release three more albums: Songs, in 1969, a collection of drastic reworkings of other artist's songs, including Otis Redding's Respect and The Band's The Weight; Dinner Music in 1970, in which they added elements of folk and country into the mix along with some electronic experimentation, and; Hey Love in 1971, where the band, oddly credited as the New Rotary Connection, ended its career with a jazz-oriented affair. From this particular album came the uplifting I am the Black Gold of the Sun, which was famously covered in 1997 by underground dance outfit Nuyorican Soul.

After the break-up of the band, Stepney served as a producer and arranger for other artists, most notably the soul outfit Earth, Wind, & Fire. He died in 1976 of a heart attack. Minnie Riperton enjoyed the fruits of a successful solo career (most notably the 1975 hit "Lovin' You") until breast cancer ended her life in 1979. Sidney Barnes continues to work as a singer and songwriter, and in recent years has gained a following in the U.K.. The other remaining members of the band either attempted other, lower-profile, musical endeavors or divorced themselves entirely of the business. Thanks to reissues of their catalog in the late 1990s and the appropriation of material through sampling within the hip-hop community, Rotary Connection has been formally introduced to a new generation.

Rotary Connection

Formed 1966 , disbanded 1974

Record labels : Chess and Cadet

Releases :

1967 : Rotary Connection

1968 : Aladdin

1968 : Peace

1969 : Songs

1970 ; Dinner Music

1971 : Hey Love ( as the New Rotary Connection )

Members :

Minnie Riperton

Phil Upchurch

Mitch Aliotta

Sidney Barnes

Bobby Simms

Charles Stepney

Kenny Venegas

Tom Donlinger

Jim Donlinger

Jim Nyeholt

Judy Hauff

Shirley Wahls

Jon Stocklin

Malc Burton

Edited April 15, 2010 by Malc Burton

[Guest sarahleen]

Fantastic info malc . Thankyou so much

[Guest Gogs]

got this one