Classic Rock and Psychedelic Rock is diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music is intended to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD.
Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously, some from the counterculture, the San Francisco Sound, blues rock, acid rock, and few others.
The music from that genre is represented in songs written by artists like the ones below:
- The Beatles
- Jefferson Airplane
- Rolling Stones
- Jimi Hendrix
- Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Santana
- Procol Harum
- Iron Butterfly
- Quicksilver Messenger Service
- The Byrds
- And more.
