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Quiz 5
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12/03/2007

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The Byrds combined what two major 1960's influences to create folk-rock?
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Dylan Songs, Beatles production and look
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What is the name of the Detroit record label that changed Rock nRoll forever by selling sweet soul to the masses?
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Motown
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Which specific style of music intitially dominated the Jamaican Sound Systems?
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American R&B
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Who was Motowns and America's leading group of the 1960's?
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The Supremes
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Who was the Beatles Producer sometimes reffered to as the Fifth Beatle?
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George Martin
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What classic American Blues label became distributed by Pye Records throughout England in the early 1960's to feed a growing interest in the Blues?
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Chess
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Who was the house band at Stax?
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Booker T and the M.G's
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What city gave the Beatles their first gigs?
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Hamburg Germany
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Who were the four members of the beatles from 1962 onward?
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John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrisson, and Ringo Starr
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Cream took a new focus that helped change the style of high energy rock what was this focus?
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The use of improvisation
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Who was the manager of the Beatles successfully shopping the group to the world?
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Brian Epstein
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Which engineer helped shape Electric Lady studios?
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Eddie Kramer
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Blues loving Animals bassist Chas Chandler discovered what artist and brought him back to England?
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Jimi Hendrix
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Who was janis Joplins predominant vocal influence?
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Bessie Smith
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True or False: After a smashing performance at Monterrey, Jimi Hendrix decided to put less of the focus on the act and more on the music.
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True
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What city was the home of Stax Records?
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Memphis
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What city was the home of FAME studios?
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Muscle Shoals, Alabama
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Why was the Byrds song Eight Miles High banned from the radio in 1966?
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Because of the references to drugs in the lyrics
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True or False: As they're career progressed the Rolling Stones became more true to traditional American Blues.
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False
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What city was the home of Chess Records?
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Chicago
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Why did Eric Clapton leave the Yardbirds?
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Clapton wanted to stay true to American Blues while the Yardbirds wanted to move in a pop direction
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What city did the Beatles come from?
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Liverpool, England
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What organization was behind the LSD studies?
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CIA
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What two Rolling Stones were the most successful songwriting team?
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Keith Richards and Mick Jagger
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What 1967 concert introduced the Jimi Hendrix Experience to America at Large?
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The monterrey Pop Festival
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What independent Studio did the Rolling Stones go to to cut the EP Five by Five on their first US Tour?
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Chess in Chicago
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What two Rolling Stones were the most successful songwriting team?
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Keith Richards and Mick Jagger
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What is the Haight Ashbury district?
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A neighborhood in San Fransisco by Golden Gate Park
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What is toasting as it relates to jamaican Sound Systems?
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A DJ using a microphone to add stylizd lyrics over a record
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Jamaica was controlled by what European country?
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Spain
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Which band introduced during the British invasion popularized the Rock Opera?
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The Who
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What band was the first pop success out of San Fransisco popularizing the hippie look and psychadelic music style
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Jefferson Airplane
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Jerry Garcia and the Greatful Dead were predominantly influenced by what music style?
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Bluegrass
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What ex Harvard proffessor became the High Priest of the LSD movement?
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Timothy Leary
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What Atlantic records producer was behind the successes of Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin?
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Jerry Wexler
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What was the first hit rock "concept album", and the first to print all of the lyrics on the album jacket?
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Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts club band by the Beatles
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What was the name of Bob Dylans backup band through the 60's?
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The Band
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what artist dubbed king of the surf guitar, created a style copied by better known surf groups
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Dick Dale
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what california vocal group combined surfer themes with jazzy doo-wop vocals and chuck berry style guitar and developed one of the most successful pop groups in the 1960s
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The Beach Boys
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Who emerged as the prominent musical force behindthe Beach Boysby writing most of the sons, arranging them, and later producing the sessions
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Brian Wilson
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Where is James Brown from
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Atlanta, Georgia
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what year did James Brown get his first US R&B hit Please, Please, Please
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1956
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Which ska group was founded in 1964 as jazz-trained studio musicians, embodying the instrumental music of that era, while backing acts such as the maytals and the wailers as well as recording their own work.
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The Skatalites
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whu was the jamaican DJ credited as the first at creating lyrics that were performed live over a record at sound systems
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DJ Count Machuki
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berry gordy jr. had success with writing songs for what artist before the founding of motown records
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jackie wilson
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the funk brothers studio band played what typr of music in detroit before getting hired at motown
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jazz
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who wrote the majority of the supremes inluding where did our love go, baby love, stop in the name of love, you cant hurry love, and love is here and now youre gone
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Holland-Dozier-Holland
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which motown soloist sang with chicagos moonglows doo-wop group, later played drums for the miracles, married berry gordys sister and scored twenty big hits
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Marvin Gaye
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which southern soul studio struck a production deal with jerry wexler and atlantic records after the new york label broke their agreement with stax records
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FAME Records
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which two record labels played the biggest roles in producing the raw emotional grooves known as southern soul
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Stax and Atlantic Records
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guitarist steve cropper and bassist donald duck dunn played for what record label as members of the mar-keys and the mgs
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Stax
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what city, known as the Las vegas of Europe, gave the Beatles thir first regular gigs
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Hamburg, Germany
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What classic American Blues label became distributed by Pye Records throughout England in the early 1960's to feed a growing interest in the Blues?
Definition
Chess
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what is the main term used to describe the US pop success by British acts such as the animals, the yardbirds, dave clarkfive, the rolling stones, and the kinks following the breakout of the beatles
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British Invasion
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during what month and year did the beatles become the only popular musical act to ever simutaneously hold all top 5 positions on the US Billboard Singles Chart
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April of 1964
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in what year did the first release of a stereo record appear
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1958
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what was the name of the san francisco area student writer who was part of the marry pranksters crew introducing the public to LSD through the legendary acid test events
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Ken Kesey
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What was Andy Warhols New York art studio called
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the factory
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what new york city artist turned the world upside down by producing art where the trivial became art and art became trivial through the portrayal of media fetishes advertising art and hollywood cliches
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Andy Warhol
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who was the young engineer who helped the beatles create their psychedelic concept albums from 1966 onward
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geoff emerick
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what creative studio techniques did the beatles incorporste during the recording of tomorrow never knows for the revovler album
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tape loops and backwards tape techniques
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who was the hired to assemble and produce and the final beatle release let it be, froma rom full of previously recorded beatles sessions
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phil spector
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what is the name of the section of san francisco that is near golden gate park and was the home base of the grateful dead
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Haight-ashbury
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why did eric clapton leave his first band the yardbirds
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he wanted to continue his pursuit with blues music (the yardbirds were moving towards a more pop approach)
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Who were the two most prominent members of the Velvet underground
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John Cale and Lou Reed
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where did has chandler, jimi hendrix' manager take hendrix to form the experience band and initially record them
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england
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the velvet undergrounds debut album was produced by what influentiial contemporary artist
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Andy Warhool
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who were the first hit artists to employ avant-garde theatrical confrontation during their concerts
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the doors
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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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