Difference Between Psychedelic Rock and Space Rock - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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superprog

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Posted: September 27 2006 at 00:19

i mean, LSD was what really characterised psych rock right? or practically CREATED it.....so what were Hawkwind on??

cuncuna

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Posted: September 27 2006 at 00:15

superprog wrote:

hahaha i'm always pretty confused abt this myself....so experts pls help us out!!!!

but if u ask me on a supercial level what distinguishes the 2 are:

1 instrumentation - more electronic stuff for space, more hard-edge fried guitar tones for psych

2 concept (obviously) worn on album sleeves (Hawkwind is the best eg)

3 time of origin - psych is a v 60s thing while space seems to have emerged from 70s onwards (pls correct me if wrong)

4 drug of choice??? hehehe

I'm very clear regarding psychedelic's drug of choise; ¿but space rock more suitable substance?. That I don't know. Please elaborate on the "subject".

Edited by cuncuna - September 27 2006 at 00:16

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superprog

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Posted: September 27 2006 at 00:06

hahaha i'm always pretty confused abt this myself....so experts pls help us out!!!!

but if u ask me on a supercial level what distinguishes the 2 are:

1 instrumentation - more electronic stuff for space, more hard-edge fried guitar tones for psych

2 concept (obviously) worn on album sleeves (Hawkwind is the best eg)

3 time of origin - psych is a v 60s thing while space seems to have emerged from 70s onwards (pls correct me if wrong)

4 drug of choice??? hehehe

Minimalist777 View Drop Down

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Posted: September 26 2006 at 23:36

Hey the definition for this site seems to indicate a difference between psych rock and space rock. It also gives some examples of bands for each such as Floyd and the Ozric Tentacles for psych and Hawkwind and the English Amon Duul for space. However on Wikipedia it tends to lump Floyd, Ozrics etc. all into "space rock." So basically my question is... Is psych/space rock really two different things or is it just a very slight and rather inqonsiquential difference? Thanks for any help and God Bless, (or Goddess!)

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