It was 50 years ago that The Beatles released their psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Echoes John Diliberto looks back on the impact of this album.
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Sgt. Pepper’s 50th Anniversary of Blown Minds
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Reviews & Commentary
Fifty Year Flashback: Country Joe & the Fish
Country Joe and the Fish’s debut, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, remains a defining artifacts of the psychedelic era. It turns 50 on May 11, still tripping after all these years.
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2017-Echoes Program 1705C
It’s a trip into The Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow. It was 50 years ago that the San Francisco psychedelic band released their signature second album with hits like “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.”
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2017-Echoes Program 1701C
On January 4th, 1967, The Doors fired the first shot in a monumental year in music. 50 years later we’ll hear tracks from the debut, covers, and a concert of Doors music by keyboardist Ray Manzarek with pianist George Winston.
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Where’s the Wah-Wah?: PBS Hendrix Documentary Misses the Mark
Jimi Hendrix’s solo on “’Voodoo Child,’ was like a Harley-Davidson screaming out of the sky.” –Conny Plank. I recently posted on Facebook on the EchoesFans page about the PBS American Masters documentary, Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ because I found myself emotionally affected by the memories it was triggering. Someone on Facebook wondered…
Program Highlights
Tonight on Echoes, Connections from 1967 to 2013.
60’s Psych-Progressions, 70’s Krautrock, New World Fusion and Ambient Chamber music Tonight on Echoes. I must be feeling a bit nostalgic today. I find myself going back to some of my earliest musical influences and to the early days of Echoes. From the 1960s, I’ve got a song by Donovan, an artist who I think…
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The Black Angels’ Joyful Darkness.
Black Angels Trip Out at Union Transfer Austin psychedelic rockers The Black Angels create a sound that weaves joy and darkness layered under waves of reverb and shuddering tremolo guitar. That sound was heard in full hallucinogenic effect last night at Union Transfer in Philadelphia. Playing behind their new CD, Indigo Meadow, the band essayed…