[justkate]

OK A question for some of you...

I had no idea that NRPS was a “psychedelic” band.
And I really like their music...

What exactly made a band “psychedelic”?

[mylife]

I guess it was Panama Red

[Richard Kimball]

I suppose in some ways they could be considered psychedelic, but that wasn't really their genre. The Grateful Dead were considered psychedelic, but I think that was more because of their affiliation with Ken Kesey than their actual music. NRPS were more part of the movement with Willie Nelson, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Jerry Jeff Walker, B. W. Stevenson, and Waylon Jennings that mixed rock and country.

Ronstadt, the Eagles and Browne mixed in more folk, creating what was called the California sound, while the rest mixed in Rock. The songs were frequently very strongly influenced by the drug culture, although they tended more towards cocaine and marijuana than LSD and other psychedelics drugs. In Lonesome LA Cowboy, for example:

I've been smokin dope, snortin coke, trying to write a song,

Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen were another group in this genre, along with the Flying Burrito Brothers.