I guess I never got it. My generation, yes but Jimi, Joplan, an Morrison
were the kind of drug cool people I didn’t care for then and don’t
now. The Doors had some good tunes but to hell with the “self
indulgent, misunderstood” artists who helped to point the way to
the drug culture of the 70s. I’m simple minded I guess but Motown,
Surf music, ballads, and “sober” Stones music worked well.
Then you’ll like this story: I interviewed Tony Bongiovi (yes, Jon’s cousin) who owns/runs the Power Station recording studios in NY and FL. He was a teenage kid who was a genius mixer and wanted to be an engineer in the early 1960s, but in NY you had to have a college degree in electrical engineering to get a job at a studio. So somehow, he got hooked up with Motown, and he took a train every week to work at Motown-—the only white employee. Although young, he worked on almost all the great Motown hits of the Supremes, Temptations, Miracles, etc.