"while-one" wrote


There were some good parts to the 60s. And lot's of bad stuff,
like Nixon and the war and the demise of our best music.



Man, that is the truth.



Much of that period was NOT good. I didn't answer Steve in this thread
with his "don't remember much of the 60's" joke because I never find it
funny. I lost several friends to drugs. I won't get personal enough
to cover most of the memories I have of that time on this forum, or with
anyone but my closest friends, for that matter.

But, one vaguely amusing 'claim to fame" I have is that I stopped taking LSD
before it was made illegal, another is that I went to genuine Ken Kesey
"acid tests" where he put it in the kool-aid for all to try.

Really however ..... No, I don't think stoned or drunk are "cute" ... been
there too often and know the truth.




Recently, my kid was thinking of a transfer to Berkeley, so the family went
there to check out the campus. I didn't attend school there but have a
history there. I could still point out the places where we'd been tear
gassed to my son .... as he and I talked and each tried to understand why
his generation didn't hit the streets over Iraq.




As for the music, I went to the original Filmore ( size of a small high
school gym ) several times and saw groups that later became big ....
including Big Brother and the Holding Company ( Janis Joplin) It
doesn't take much to impress a stoned brain ... now or back then ........
and that "music" and nearly everything since ( imho ) was twelve steps
backwards from Miles, and Coltrane and Monk etc.



It was a tough, traumatic, time for me and for many others.



Larry L ................. sorry for the maudlin self indulgence