Draft:Texas psychedelia
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Texas psychedelia (or simply Texas psych) was a regional American psychedelic rock scene centered in Texas during the mid-to late 1960s, particularly Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, San Antonio and Austin. Artists included the 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, the Golden Dawn, the Clique, Lost And Found, Endle St. Cloud, Brother L. Congregation, Moving Sidewalks and Bubble Puppy.
- Texas psych
- Texas psychedelic scene
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.jpg) The 13th Floor Elevators in the 1960s. | |
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During the 2000s and 2010s, several Texan bands drew influences from the original Texas psychedelic scene, such as the Black Angels.
History
Origins
During the 1950s and 1960s, Texas had a rich history of influential American blues acts such as Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Smokey Hogg, Frankie Lee Sims and Melvin Jackson. This movement later developed into a "Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston" blues rock club scene between 1966 and 1968.
Garage rock groups such as the Outcasts
prior to the advent of the Texas psychedelic movement, Texas had a burgeoning garage rock scene, regional garage bands mainly congregated in Fort Worth, Texas
Roky Erickson The 13th Floor Elevators were one of the earliest rock bands to use the term "psychedelic" to describe their music.[1][2][3]
Decline
Revival
Legacy
In 2011, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT stated "I was pretty blown away by the fact that people were making sounds before Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and all the other 'classic' psychedelic albums, and that the sounds were being made by guys in Texas doing shitloads of LSD and making these completely wild records."[7]