| The Velvet Underground’s Debut album was produced by what influential contemporary artist? |
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| Who were the 2 most prominent members of the Velvet Underground?(2) |
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| Who were the first hit artist to employ avant-garade theatrical confrontation during their concerts? |
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| What Detroit rock and roll band became involved in the radical politics of the “White Panther Party”? |
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| Why did Syd Barrett only make one album with Pink Floyd? |
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| What British group was hired to do a Stereo Demonstration record and went on to the top of the charts with “Nights in White Satin”? |
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| Early sampling using magnetic tape loops |
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| What record label used gritty southern soul musicians to accompany Aretha Franklin’s Heavily gospel-influenced sould during the late 1960’s? |
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| What type of music did Aretha Franklin sing and record before being discovered by John Hammond at Columbia Records? |
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| What was the name of James Brown’s top-notch 1960’s funk musicians who made a series of their own recordings under that same name? |
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| When did the funk style come together under James Brown with “Cold Sweat”? |
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| What gender and racially integrated act made political and social commentary attractive and profitable for other soul and R&B artists in the late 1960’s? |
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| What bass player introduced the influential “slap-bass” technique to the funk and soul scene? |
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| The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical “Hair” appeared what year? |
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| Which highly successful publishing veteran of the Brill Building-era later picked out all of the early hits for The Monkees TV show and records? |
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| Which production team popularized bubblegum music by producing the songs and hiring out the musicians for bands such as 1910 Fruitgum Company and Ohio Express? (2) |
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| Jeff Katz and Jerry Kasanetz |
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| Jimmy Webb is best know as a __________ |
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| What was the Rolling Stones’ disastrous, free Altamont Speedway concert originally to be held? |
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| About how many people made it to the Woodstock Festival of 1969? |
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| The LP (33 1/3 rpm) format finally outsold singles(45rpm) after which year? |
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| What year did full featured built-to-order recording consoles appear? |
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| What company was the first to release the two-inch 24-track recorder? |
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| What city was the home of KMPX, the first commercially successful “underground” FM radio station, in 1967 |
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| What former head of Columbia records began Arista in the early 1970’s? |
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| When did the big record retail chains appear? |
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| What is the name of Led Zeppelin’s manager, who successfully challenged live venue contracts, moving more money towards the musicians who performed? |
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| When did Singer Songwriter style become popular? |
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| Which folk artists co-founded the World Hunger Fund in the 1970’s raising more than $5million to feed famished people around the world? |
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| What folk rock artist began his career with the country-rock band Buffalo Springfield, and has recently been hailed as a godfather of grunge and alternative music? |
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| What singer/songwriter spent time in mental institutions and later became known for his artful, personal lyrics in songs like “Fire and Rain”? |
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| Which artist mixed a poetic Dylanesque lyric with folk, jazz, and R to create classic albums including Astral Weeks and Moondance? |
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| Joni Mitchell’s fusion of jazz with her acoustic folk style led her to collaborate with which famous composer/bassist, working on songs inspired by T.S. Eliot poems? |
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| What British folk rock band launched the solo careers of both Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson? |
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| What artist was renowned for the his four-hour concert marathons and embodying the spirit of the working class? |
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| Whose production style was employed on Bruce Springsteen’s breakthrough Born To Run album? |
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| What band’s song lyrics reveled in black magic, fantasy, drug, and mental illness (rarely songs about relationships) redefined HEAVY with giant, primitive scary riffs? |
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| What rock artist first devised shocking displays of grandiose violence as a part of the entertainment? |
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| Which British glam-rock artist hired Broadway designers to fabricate rock’s first full concert stage sets? |
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| Which costumed glam band added violent theatrics to their live shows, and were voted the Gallups Poll’s most popular band in 1977? |
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| What band is touted as “the greatest rock & roll band” from the 1970’s through today? |
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| Who was the producer to produce Alice Cooper’s first hit records, and went on to produce the first platinum-selling Kiss release? |
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| The pioneering Led Zeppelin began as a new, improvising version of what famous 1960’s British blues rock band? |
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| The progressive rock era admitted a strong influence from what style of composition and musicianship? |
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| What is the longest lasting and most successful progressive rock group? |
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| What LP has the record number of weeks on the Billboard Album Chart? |
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| Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon |
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| Who originally led the English art rock band Genesis? |
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| After Peter Gabriel left Genesis, which drummer, who had been mostly back-up singing and then took over as lead singer? |
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| What event most led to Santana’s signing with Columbia records in 1969? |
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| Which rock band fused blues and country with additional influences, expertly stretching out songs to over 30 minutes becoming the precursor for a wave of southern rock bands that followed them? |
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| Southern rock gets its sound from what two predominant roots styles?(2) |
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| Southern rock gets its sound from what two predominant roots styles?(2) |
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| Ronni Van Zant was the lead singer and songwriter of what southern rock group? |
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| What group came to become the most successful southern California band; their greatest hits release later becoming the all-time best-selling U.S. release? |
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| The Grateful Dead made a shift away from psychedelia towards what style of rock music in the early 1970’s? |
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| Who produced he Eagles’ first 2 albums, including “Take it Easy”(as well as many classic albums of the Rolling Stones, the Steve Miller Band, the Who, CSN, and Eric Clapton? |
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