Paisley Underground

Paisley Underground is the name for a special scene of rock musicians, who was in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s of importance. The name is usually attributed to the musician Michael Quercio from the band The Three O'Clock and refers to the Paisley, which was popular with musicians of this scene.

The Paisley Underground attributed the band made ​​use of psychedelic rock, folk rock and garage rock of the 1960s as a major influence and were part of a wave of neo- psychedelia and neo- garage in the 1980s. Musical influences were bands like The Byrds, The Beach Boys at the time of Pet Sounds or Seeds. For example, Dream Syndicate were the sound of Crazy Horse and Creedence Clearwater Revival revive, with a discount of The Velvet Underground again. The band The Bangles reminiscent of The Mamas and the Papas, Green on Red built on The Doors, and The Long Ryders appeared as the successor of Gram Parsons and Buffalo Springfield. True West remembered with its mix of Television and country rock sometimes to Quicksilver Messenger Service. The native of Memphis band Big Star and the British band Soft Boys had an influence on the bands of the Paisley Underground.

Other bands were close to the circle of musicians of the Paisley Underground and were therefore the Paisley Underground attributed, such as The Last, Red Cross, who moved to the power pop punk, The Leaving Trains and The Pandoras, the more played a straight garage rock.

The bands of the Paisley Underground worked together and supported each other often. Members of Rain Parade, The Bangles, Dream Syndicate and The Three O'Clock brought together the album " Rainy Day" out the cover versions of songs by The Velvet Underground, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Big Star, Jimi Hendrix The Who and contained.

As " Danny and Dusty " brought Steve Wynn of Dream Syndicate and Dan Stuart of Green on Red album " The Lost Weekend " (1985) out, with their bands and musicians of The Long Ryders participated. Many of the bands of the Paisley Underground released at least one album on a major label, but by far the most successful band of this movement were The Bangles, who managed a global career. A popular meeting place for the Paisley Underground belonging to people was Penny Feathers on the La Cienega Boulevard. In the late 1980s the Paisley Underground disappeared from the public eye, now bands like Mercury Rev and Grandaddy name him as an influence.

In a broader sense Paisley Underground was one of a kind, which is named after the used light, sounding guitar sounds " Jangle Pop ". She also found in other parts of the world counterparts, so in Dunedin Sound in New Zealand, whose main representatives such as The Chills and Sneaky Feelings comparable regarded as the bands of the Paisley Underground.

• Psychedelic Rock