The Beach Boys Begat Psychedelic Rock?
By DJ M on November 10th, 2008
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys

UNO GATEWAY "[The psychedelic era] all really started with the Beach Boys' release of the album 'Pet Sounds,' in which they used unconventional objects as instruments, like bicycle bells. This had never really been done before with popular music and was the introduction of different recording techniques," said Tomm Roland, coordinator of percussion studies and multicultural music at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
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