Acid punk, acid punk. What the funk.. I'm the master of funk.. And I'm junking the ideas of punk. Jokes aside, for me, Acid punk or as you'd say it, Acid rock is a loosely defined type of rock music that evolved out of the mid-1960s garage punk movement and helped launch the psychedelic subculture. The term, which derives its name from lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), is used in tandem with "psychedelic rock."

This style is defined by heavy, distorted guitars, lyrics with drug references, and long improvised jams. What sets it apart from others is by having a harder, louder, or heavier sound, and developed mainly from the American West Coast.

This style often overlaps with '60s punk, proto-metal, and early heavy, blues-based hard rock. Acid punk is also associated with both the positive and negative extremes of the psychedelic experience.

The historical era attributed to it is usually the late 1960s and 1970s. When the elements of acid rock split into two directions, with hard rock and heavy metal on one side and progressive rock on the other. In the 1990s, the stoner metal genre combined acid rock with other hard rock styles such as grunge, updating the heavy riffs and long jams found in acid rock and psychedelic-influenced metal.

People like to think of acid rock as music which is eclectic, heavy, loud, blues-based hard-rock. The kind you listen to while under the influence of acid.

Many bands associated with acid rock aimed to create a youth movement based on love and peace, as an alternative to workaholic capitalist society. This was a signature quality of the movement as a legion of rock bands, stood in the vanguard of the movement for cultural change. Rock music was revolutionary and perceived at that time as the first real hope for the future.

Acid rock envelops the more extreme side of the psychedelic rock genre, frequently containing a loud, improvised, and guitar-centered sound- psychedelia at its rawest and most intense. Bad trips as well as good, riots as well as peace, pain as well as pleasure - everything was captured vividly by acid rock.. It contains more distortion ("fuzz") than typical psychedelic rock.

In the late 1960s, in addition to the deliberate use of distortion and feedback, acid rock was further characterized by long guitar solos and the frequent use of electronic organs. It shines further in these drug use lyrics - Jefferson Airplane's 1967 song "White Rabbit" and Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 song "Purple Haze". Lyrical references to drugs such as LSD were often cryptic.

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