The twang of Indian music, formerly known to Americans exclusively through Ravi Shankar and his sitar, has suffused ... by listeners and musicians--"psychedelic music." In the vanguard of this ...
The sitar remains the most prominent of the Eastern instruments made popular by Western rock musicians. If you want to reach the heights of psychedelic rock, the sitar will get you there as ...
The Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck, created some of the earliest psychedelic rock ... using 12-string guitars to mimic the drone of a sitar, as in “Ticket to Ride” by The Beatles.