- Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history. After initial success in England, he achieved worldwide fame following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught guitarist, … - Entrance
Entrance is the musical vehicle for indie rock musician Guy Blakeslee. His style is a sort of psychedelic folk music, often consisting of vocals and guitar with old, public domain blues songs. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Blakeslee first gained notice as a member of The Convocation Of.... He later left the band and moved to Chicago to pursue a solo career under the guise of the name Entrance. - Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, he often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. - Terence McKenna
Terence Kemp McKenna was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and the novelty theory. - Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann authored more than 100 scientific articles and wrote a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child. - Kevin Ayers
Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English songwriter and major influential force in the early English psychedelic movement. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it." Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the late 1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He has recorded a series of albums as a solo artist. - Robert Hunter
Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, 1941) is an American lyricist, singer songwriter, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California. An early friend of Jerry Garcia, they played together in bluegrass bands (such as the Tub Thumpers) in the early sixties, with Hunter on mandolin and upright bass. They hung out in coffee shops, read poetry, learned about the Beat Movement, … - David Lindley
David Lindley is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist (his instruments include a variety of stringed instruments such as banjo, lap steel guitar, violin, oud, cittern, bouzouki, saz, and cümbüş). During 1966 to 1970 he was part of the eclectic psychedelic band Kaleidoscope. He is well-known as a "lead guitarist for hire," particularly for West Coast rock musicians of the 1970s, having played with Jackson Browne (for which work he is probably most known), … - Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino born 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese musician whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise, singer-songwriter, solo percussion, psychedelic, minimalism and drone styles, and covers. He has been active since the 1970s and continues to record regularly and in new styles. - Country Joe McDonald
"Country" Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in Washington, DC) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group Country Joe and the Fish. He started his career busking on Berkeley, California's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960's. McDonald still lives in Berkeley. Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years. - Ralph Metzner
Ralph Metzner Ph.D., born 1936 in Germany, is an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner is a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president. CIIS Faculty - Ralph Metzner Dr. - Robert Williams
Robert Williams is a well-known controversial painter and founder of "Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine". Williams began as part of the trail-blazing Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonist visionaries like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery along with artists like "Big Daddy" Ed Roth. - Hibiscus
Hibiscus (real name, George Harris, Jr.) (1949-1982) was one of the leaders of the psychedelic gay liberation theatre collective group known as the Cockettes in early 1970's San Francisco - by today's standards he may have been considered a Creative Director. - John Cipollina
John Cipollina was a lead guitarist best known for his work with the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. He pronounced his surname with the Italian "C" (Chipollina). Born in Berkeley, California, he attended Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California (as did his brother, Mario Cipollina, who at age 15 joined his brother in a band called 'Copperhead.' Mario later played with Huey Lewis). He showed great promise as a classical pianist in his youth, … - Jack Casady
Jack Casady (born John William Casady, April 13 1944 in Washington D.C), is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C. area rhythm and blues band "The Triumphs", he switched to bass during his high school years and while still underage (and with a forged I.D.), played the Washington D.C club scene, backing artists such as Little Anthony and the Imperials. - Jim Noir
Jim Noir (real name Alan Roberts) is an English singer-songwriter from Davyhulme, Manchester. Noir's stage moniker is in homage to Vic Reeves, whose real name is Jim Moir. He has released one album to date, 2005's "Tower of Love". The album and all of the preceding EPs were self-recorded at Noir's home in the suburb of Chorlton in Manchester. His music has been described as psychedelic pop electronica and compared to The Beach Boys, The Beta Band, … - Rick Strassman
In 1990, Rick Strassman began the first new human research with psychedelic, or hallucinogenic, drugs in the United States in over 20 years. These studies investigated the effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an extremely short-acting and powerful psychedelic produced by the human brain and an active ingredient in ayahuasca, an entheogenic brew consumed by Latin American indigenous peoples as part of religious ceremonies. - Ann Shulgin
Ann was born in New Zealand, and grew up in Sicily, Italy, Cuba, Mexico and Canada. Alexander and Ann published their first book, PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved), as a way of insuring that Alexanders ground-breaking work in the field of psychedelic drugs would not be lost or buried by censorship. Their second book was TIHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved). They are now working on their third book. - Dennis Edwards
Dennis Edwards (born February 3, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American soul and R&B singer, most noted for being one of Motown act The Temptations' lead singers. A member of The Contours during the late-1960s, Edwards soon replaced David Ruffin as lead singer of The Temptations in 1968 after Ruffin was fired for what has been deemed unprofessional behavior. Edwards had been a friend of the group before hand and in particular had been a friend of Ruffin's. - Linda Perhacs
Obscure psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs released her only album "Parallelograms" in 1970 to scant notice or sales. Perhacs' album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and grew in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement. In 2006, her song "If You Were My Man" was featured in the soundtrack to the film "Daft Punk's Electroma". - Chet Helms
Chet Helms, often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love, was a music promoter and a cultural figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the late Sixties. Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer. He was a producer and organizer, helping to stage free concerts and other cultural events at Golden Gate Park, the backdrop of San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967, … - Humphry Osmond
Humphry Fortescue Osmond (July 1, 1917 - February 6, 2004) was a British psychiatrist, known for coining the word "psychedelic" and for his groundbreaking research in using psychedelic drugs in medical research. Osmond also explored aspects of the psychology of social environments, in particular how they influenced welfare or recovery within mental institutions. Osmond was born in Surrey. - Andy Miller
Andy Miller (born 18 December 1968, in London) was a guitarist with the Britpop band, Dodgy. Miller was credited with providing the psychedelic, Hendrix / Floyd trip happy guitar sound of Dodgy's music. His new band is called Hey Gravity. - Spacetime Continuum
Spacetime Continuum is the artistic alias of Jonah Sharp, a producer of electronic music. After starting his musical career as a jazz drummer in London, UK, he moved to San Francisco, USA. During the 1990s Sharp released a series of albums on the Astralwerks record label. The first of these, entitled 'Alien Dreamtime', featured a live recording of ethnobotanist, … - Felix Pappalardi
Felix Pappalardi(Felix A. Pappalardi Jr) (December 30, 1939 - April 17, 1983) was an American producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass guitar player. As a producer, Pappalardi is best known for his work with the psychedelic, blues-inspired rock trio Cream, beginning with their second album, "Disraeli Gears". As a musician, Pappalardi is most widely recognized as a bassist, vocalist, and founding member of American hard rock band Mountain, … - Jeff Minter
Jeff 'Yak' Minter (born in Reading, April 22 1962) is a British computer/video game designer and programmer. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and his most recent work is the light synthesizer (called Neon) built into the Xbox 360 console. Many of his games include certain distinctive elements-they are often arcade style shoot-em-ups. His fondness of llamas, sheep, camels etc. - Keith West
Keith West (born 6 December 1943 in Dagenham, Essex, England as Keith Alan Hopkins) was the lead singer of Tomorrow, a 1960s psychedelic rock band. West composed most of the band's songs (duly credited to Keith Hopkins). Despite critical acclaim and support from DJ John Peel, who featured them on his "Perfumed Garden" BBC Radio 1 show, the band was not a great financial success. In 1964 West became lead singer of "In Crowd" a rock band from London, … - Tav Falco
Tav Falco is an American-born musical performer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic rock-and-roll group Tav Falco's Panther Burns (named after a plantation in Mississippi) since 1979. He moved to Europe in the late 1990s and sometimes tours with European musicians in recent incarnations of his Panther Burns group. - Tom Rapp
Thomas Dale Rapp (b. 8 March 1947, Bottineau, North Dakota) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine, the psychedelic folk rock group. Tom Rapp learned to play guitar at an early age. When living in Minnesota as a child he once came third in a talent contest in Rochester where a certain Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing was fifth. - Curtis Knight
Curtis Knight (b. Curtis McNear, 1945 - 29 November 1999) was an American music artist and band leader who is famously known for his connection to Jimi Hendrix. Curtis was a sub-par artist in the 1960s Harlem music scene, usually fronting his own band "the Squires". This band gigged in clubs in New York City, and other surrounding areas. It was through Knight that Hendrix got involved with Ed Chalpin, … - Nick McCabe
Nicholas Jonathon "Nick" McCabe (born on July 14 1971 in Haydock, England). He is most famous as the lead guitarist of Alternative rock band The Verve - Mati Klarwein
Mati Klarwein was a painter best known for his works used on the covers of music albums. Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Germany. His family was of Jewish origin and fled to Palestine when he was two years old after the rise of Nazi Germany. Klarwein grew up in Palestine and Israel but subsequently travelled widely and lived in many different countries. He died in Deià on the Spanish island of Mallorca. - Ellen McIlwaine
Ellen McIlwaine (born October 1, 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist. Born in Nashville, McIlwaine was adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan giving her exposure to multiple languages and cultures. She attended Canadian Academy, graduating in 1963. Her first experience in musical training was simple spiritual piano, but in her teens she moved to guitar, beginning a stage career in Atlanta, … - Gilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He is the creator of "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers", "Fat Freddy's Cat", "Wonder Wart-Hog", "Not Quite Dead" and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album "Shakedown Street". He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston. - Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly (born Mark Colbert Kelly, 9 April 1961, in Dublin) is the keyboardist of the progressive rock band, Marillion. He joined the band in 1981, replacing previous keyboardist Brian Jelliman, and is still a member as of 2007. He previously played in the progressive/psychedelic band Chemical Alice who released their EP "Curioser and Curioser" in 1981. Kelly has appeared on every Marillion studio album. - Marian Zazeela
Marian Zazeela (b. 1940) is a light-artist, designer, painter and musician based in New York City. Born to Russian-Jewish parents and raised in the Bronx, she was educated first at the High School of Music and Arts and then Bennington College, where she studied with Paul Feeley, Eugene C. Goossen and Tony Smith and earned a Bachelor or Arts degree with a major in Painting in 1960. - Twink
John Charles Alder (born 29 November 1944), better known as Twink, is an English drummer, singer and song writer who was a central figure in the English psychedelic movement, and an actor. - Tobi Vail
Tobi Vail (born July 20 1969) is a musician, influential DIY punk zinester, and feminist theorist from Olympia, Washington. She joined one of her first bands as the drummer for The Go Team when she was 15, later collaborating in several other bands like Bikini Kill, as well as being involved over the years with an assortment of project-bands, many of them imaginary or fictional, figuring prominently in the Olympia music scene. - John du Cann
John Du Cann is a guitarist primarily known through his work in the 70's band Atomic Rooster. His first bands included the Wiltshire-based 'The Sonics' and London-based 'The Attack,' which released "Hi Ho Silver Lining" a few days prior to Jeff Beck. He went on to lead a psychedelic, progressive, hard rock band called Andromeda, before being asked to join Atomic Rooster. Upon departure from that group, he led Hard Stuff, … - Billy Bass Nelson
William "Billy Bass" Nelson (born 1951) is a U.S. musician, who was the original bassist for the P Funk band. Billy was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and worked at George Clinton's barbershop, sweeping the floor and singing and dancing for the customers. Clinton, Nelson and some friends soon formed a doo wop barbershop quintet called The Parliaments. Nelson joined late because was in jail in Brooklyn, New York for joyriding.
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