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Jung Hyun And The Men
12+ albums
Psychedelic RockpsychedelicKoreanAsianPsyrock
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Shin Jung-hyeon (born January 4, 1938 in Seoul) is a South Korean rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Known as Korea's "Godfather of Rock", he led Korean psychedelic pop/rock culture during 1960s and 1970s. His sons Shin Dae-cheol and Shin Yun-cheol are also respected guitarists in K-rock scene. He became the first Asian musician and the sixth in the world to be the recipient of the Fender Custom Shop Tribute Series guitar joining five of other such rock legends as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Such was his influence and versatility that he has been described as "South Korea's answer to Brian Wilson, Jimi Hendrix and Simon Cowell". Shin Jung-hyeon was born in 1938, and his mother died when he was still a child. His father remarried to a Japanese woman, and Shin spent his youth with them in Manchuria and Japan. They were living in Chungcheong Province, Korea when Shin's father died in 1952 and his stepmother the next year. Shin moved to Seoul on his own, working in a pharmacy and going to night school. He taught himself to play the guitar, and began giving lessons at a music institute in Jongno. In 1957 he began playing for the U.S. army in Korea, using the stage name "Jackie Shin". He continued performing for the U.S. troops for the next decade. Shin claims that the U.S. Army bases are where Korean rock was born. "At that time, Korean clubs only played 'trot,' tango, music like that," he remembers. His psychedelic styl
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Woman Of The Evening Sun
Love, Peace & Poetry - Asian Psychedelic Music
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Love, Peace & Poetry -- Asian Psychedelic Music
Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music
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Love, Peace & Poetry, Vol. 3: Asian Psychedelic Music
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Love, Peace & Poetry - - Asian Psychedelic Music
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Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian
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Love Peace And Poetry Vol.3: Asian Psychedelic Music
It's A Lie
Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads And Dirges 1968-1974
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Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974
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Love, Peace & Poetry