I. Militant Blues on Campus“The pop scene has become a roaring pulsating paradox of

sound – the white man singing the black blues.” – Time magazine

A. “Young college students took to the streets in protest the

Vietnam war as race riots swept across urban America. As the

decade came to a close, the hopeful mood of psychedelia

changed to a somber resolve and then a dark depression.

During the late 1960s, young rock and rollers listened to

desperate, loud blues that reflected the times.”

- Szatmary

1. ’67 Berkeley and New York Protests in hippie spirit

2. by ’68, split between the hippies and the radicals (violence)

a. ex. Columbia beatings / Chicago convention / dozens of other universities

b.

– Allen Young of the Liberation News Front

c. Steven Dryer

d. The Rat (NYC magazine)

3. The war in Vietnam became very personal when the draft was instituted at the end

of 1969

2.

a. from a broken home in Seattle, part African- and Native American

b. honorably discharged from 101 Airborne

c. played with Slim Harpo, Little Richard, James Brown, Jackie Wilson and B.B. King

d. Toured in Europe with The Experience in 1966

i. first single “Stone Free” December ‘66

e. used wah-wah pedals, the fuzz box, and feedback to deafening levels

100 watt “stacked” Marshall amps

2.

f. 1967 album Are You Experienced – dressed as a hippie

i. titles of the songs reflect the desperation

“Manic Depression” / “I Don’t Live Today” / “Purple Haze”

g. By 1970, Hendrix had become less hippie, and more militant

i. “Machine Gun” – guitar explosion with social commentary

h. becomes, perhaps, America’s greatest guitarist

a. Eric Clapton, drummer Ginger Baker, bass and vocals Jack Bruce

b. like Hendrix, Cream played “high-volume, Jazz-tinged electric blues”

i. similar tech gear and stage persona as Jimi early on

c. Fresh Cream in ’66 including: “Rollin’ and Tumblin” by Muddy Waters / “I’m

so Glad” Skip James / “From Four Until Late” Robert Johnson

d. Disraeli Gears in ’67 “Sunshine Of Your Love”

i. brought fame in America and Britain

e. Wheels of Fire in ’68 “White Room” and “Politician” recorded live at Fillmore

West

a. met and was influenced by T-Bone Walker as a kid

b. born in Texas, played in Chicago

i. backed Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, James Cotton

c. moved to San Francisco in ’66 and formed Steve Miller Band i. performed at the Monterey Pop Fest in ‘67

d. Children of the Future and Sailor with “Quicksilver Girl” and “You’re So Fine” (Jimmie Reed)

a. veteran of the Yardbirds

b. played with Rod Stewart

c. “[Beck] characterized his second L.P., the top-twenty Bec-Ola, a collection ofblues-drenched originals and rock standards such as “All Shook Up” as

HEAVY METAL” – Szatmary

6. “I’m Going Home” 1969

7.

a. from Texas, drifted between San Francisco and home a few times

b. sang in coffee houses with Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane)

c. tuned Big Brother and the Holding Company from a psychedelic act into a blues act

i. customary cries of pain and anguish

ii. influenced heavily by Bessie Smith

d. like many, became a big name after the Monterey Pop fest in ‘67

e. later formed the Kosmic Blues Band with I Got Dem ‘Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

i. “Kozmic Blues” and “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)”

f. never comfortable with her success and attention / very self-conscious

a. from Detroit

b. Kick Out the Jams with “Motor City is Burning”

c. clerks arrested for selling their records! (vulgar language)

a. John Fogerty from San Francisco

b. older, lived through Beats and Hippiedom

c. mixed Rockabilly with electric blues / known as swamp music i. covered Dale Hawkin’s “Suzy-Q” / not intended to be psychedelic-feeling, a demo tape

ii. Bayou Country in ’69 with “Proud Mary”

iii. later, “Bad Moon Rising” / “Green River” / “Down on the Corner” / “Travelin’ Band” / “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” / and the more political “Fortunate Son” and “Who’ll Stop the Rain”

1. “Some rockers, reflecting the militant mood of the times,delivered a loud, explosive blues unfettered by psychedelia toproduce a sound termed heavy metal, initially defined bySteppenwolf.” – Szatmary

a. German-born John Kay (Krauledat)

b. amped-up, aggressive, politicized rock

c. had two songs appear on 1968 movie Easy Rider, “Born to Be Wild” and later “Draft Resister”

a. British, began as the New Yardbirds before legal trouble

b. guitar - Jimmie Page, bass - John Paul Jones, drums - Jon Bonham, and vocalist -

Robert Plant

c. recorded first album in 1968

d. Led Zeppelin I

ii. Willie Dixon’s “You Shook Me” (must play) and “I Can’t Quit You Baby”

ii. “How Many More Times” from Howlin’ Wolf’s “How Many More Years”

iii. originals like “Dazed and Confused”

e. Led Zeppelin II, III – becomes top heavy metal act

a. started in 1967 in England as the band Earth, changed name in ‘69 i. blues-based like Cream to a much heavier sound

b. “War Pigs” and “Iron Man” from Paranoid in 1970s

c. prompted images of the devil and all things demonic and hellish i.

a. began as a successful psychedelic act, switch to heavy metal halfway through careers

b. Deep Purple in Rock ’70 and later Machine Head ’72 with “Highway Star”

(guitar solo at end!)

1. “The militant, dark mood that fostered heavy metal led to a late 1960’s

electric blues revival” – Szatmary

2. young and white blues musicians in American began to gain prominence

a. Johnny Winter from Texas / “Be Careful With a Fool”

b. Canned Heat from Los Angeles

c. Allman Brothers

i. Duane and Gregg from Florida, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks and others

ii. At Fillmore East in 1972 “Whipping Post” invest the 22 minutes, you will not be sorry!!!

iii. paves the way for Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top later in the 70’s

1. Woodstock Arts and Music Festival: August 15 – 18, 1969 in Bethel, New York

a. ends on Monday morning with Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner”

2. Festival at Altamont Speedway near San Francisco: December 6, 1969

a. dashed the hopes ignited in Monterey and enflamed in Woodstock

b. Free Rolling Stones concert

c. over 300,000 fans

d. LSD and overpass death

e. Hell’s Angels paid as security for $500 worth of beer / stabbing

f. 4 deaths total

3. in May

1970a. four killed, ten others wounded

b. Neil Young’s “Ohio” performed by CSNY, released in June 1970

4. less protests for fear of government retaliation, more hopelessness

a. Al Wilson of Canned Heat: September 3, 1970 - overdose

b. Jimi Hendrix: September 18, 1970 - overdose

c. Janis Joplin: October 4, 1970 – overdose

d. Jim Morrison: July 3, 1971 – heart attack in bathtub