Paisley Underground

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Paisley Underground is the name for a special rock music scene that was important in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. The name is mostly attributed to the musician Michael Quercio from the band The Three O'Clock and dates back to 1982. The name refers to the paisley pattern popular with musicians of this scene .

The paisley underground bands used psychedelic rock , folk rock and garage rock of the 1960s as their main influences and were part of a wave of neo-psychedelia and neo-garage in the 1980s. Musical role models were bands like The Byrds , the Beach Boys in the days of Pet Sounds or The Seeds . For example, Dream Syndicate brought the sound of Crazy Horse and Creedence Clearwater Revival back to life with a touch of The Velvet Underground . The band The Bangles was reminiscent of The Mamas and the Papas , Green on Red built on The Doors and The Long Ryders appeared as the successor to Gram Parsons and Buffalo Springfield . With their mix of television and country rock, True West was sometimes reminiscent of Quicksilver Messenger Service . The Memphis band Big Star and the British band Soft Boys also 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 assigned to the paisley underground, such as The Last , Redd Kross , who moved from punk to power pop , The Leaving Trains and The Pandoras , who played more straight garage rock.

The bands of the Paisley Underground worked together and often supported each other. Members of Rain Parade , The Bangles , Dream Syndicate and The Three O'Clock jointly released the album "Rainy Day," which featured covers of songs from the Velvet Underground, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Dylan , The Beach Boys, Big Star , Jimi Hendrix and The Who contained.

As "Danny and Dusty" Steve Wynn of Dream Syndicate and Dan Stuart of Green on Red released the album "The Lost Weekend" (1985), with musicians from their bands and from The Long Ryders .
Many of the bands of the Paisley Underground released at least one album on a major label , but by far the most successful band in this movement were The Bangles , who achieved a world career.
A popular hangout for the Paisley Underground was Penny Feathers on La Cienaga Boulevard . Towards the end of the 1980s the paisley underground disappeared from the public eye, today bands like Mercury Rev and Grandaddy call it an influence.

In a broader sense, Paisley Underground belonged to a genre called "Jangle Pop" after the light, sounding guitar sounds used. It also found counterparts in other parts of the world, for example in Dunedin Sound in New Zealand , whose main representatives such as The Chills or Sneaky Feelings are considered to be comparable to the bands of the Paisley Underground.

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  1. ↑ Michael Hann: 'He was a huge fan': how Prince became the patron of the psychedelic Underground. In: The Guardian of April 24, 2016.