Another part of British psychedelic rock is some rock bands from "The Second Wave of Britain". If "Beetle" and "Rolling Stone" swept across the United States in the early 196s and shocked the world, it would be called the first wave in Britain, then the appearance of Houies, Move, Small Faces, Traffic, Nice, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Nivana and Soft Machine could be regarded as the second wave. At the time when drug abuse was prevalent, they all got their hands on psychedelic rock more or less, which became a trend in the music scene at that time. They have their own characteristics in the interpretation of psychedelic music. For example, Traffic plays a psychedelic atmosphere through a lot of fancy voice changes, and the first album "Mr.Fantasy" is full of psychedelic taste; Nice, on the other hand, hallucinates classical music. Their excellent psychedelic album is The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davejack. Their music is greatly influenced by classical music. After the members of Nice were dissolved, most of the other bands took the "art rock" route.

At that time when psychedelic music was prevalent, a kind of "Freak Beat" music appeared in Britain, that is, a lot of electric organ rhythms and vague guitar sounds were added to the music to achieve a psychedelic effect. Hollise is the best in this respect. Their two albums "Butterfly" and "Evolution" in 1967 are the representatives of this kind of psychedelic rock, Procol Harum also won by the organ, and Small Faces took the psychedelic hard rock route. What is worth mentioning again is Pink Floyd. Influenced by the soul figure Sid Barrett, they also took the psychedelic rock route at first, and they combined the length of psychedelic music with diverse styles, especially when they performed live, the lighting and sound effects were even more psychedelic. Their masterpiece was Pind Floyd, the first album, and the images of the jacket design were overlapped and scattered, which was inspired by the psychedelic state.

All these psychedelic rock bands have a psychedelic character, and the style of the band is often influenced by the psychedelic character's consciousness. For example, the psychedelic leader of Traffic is Dave Mason; The soul of Nice is David O'L-ist; The psychedelic leader of Hollies is Graham Nash; Matthew Fisher is the core of Procol Harum; Syd Barett is the psychedelic advocate of Pink Floyd ... They influence the style of their own band, and once they are lost, they will not be called psychedelic. For Pink Floyd, their psychedelic rock can only be their first album. Barrett left the team before recording the second album, and the core shifted to Roger Watts, and the music gradually became avant-garde. (Therefore, extreme "pink fans" think that the "Pink Floyd" band actually no longer exists after Barrett left the team), and it has achieved unprecedented success in its later development. Procol

Harum and Hollies are relatively lacking in stamina. After Fischer left the team, Procol Harum's performance was mediocre and he lost his psychedelic. Nash left Hollies, making the band a common pop band; When Orlister was in Nice, their works were spotless and full of fairy tales. As soon as Orlister left, the style of the band was very different from the original ... From the above introduction, we can see that British psychedelic rock did not have a long life in the music world and failed to "inherit", which was related to the later anti-drug laws.

In Britain at that time, there were many bands that played psychedelic rock or got their hands on psychedelic music. Let's list some little-known bands: Kaleidoscope, Herd, Tomorrow, Family, Moddy Blues, Nirvana, Zombies and so on.