"Also have my "Surrealistic Pillow"
Had that in vinyl, had it in cassette; haven't bought it in CD.
A couple of years ago I saw an interview with Grace Slick on a VHS about the Doors in Europe...what a sanctimonious, air-headed, arrogant...I could go on, but why?
When I think back to those days, I just have to wonder: how did so many people get so wrong about so much so quickly? I mean, we thought we were better than any people who ever came before us, that we were the next step in the evolution of humanity -- and everything we knew was wrong.
I thank God that reality squoze that out of me. But for the Grace of God, I could have been like Beelzebubba and the Hildebeeste, and never have come out of it.
dsc -- you nailed it. So many of my friends in those days really did believe that our parents generation were cruel idiots and that we, as 17 and 18 year olds, had some special kind of enlightenment. Arrogance is right. I never felt that way -- always a right-wing republican, even while buying "Are You Experienced" or "Pictures Of Matchstick Men." But I think a large part of that generation gave new meaning to the word "hubris." And some of them still do, and think all that garbage they spread in the 60s was a positive thing.
"When I think back to those days, I just have to wonder: how did so many people get so wrong about so much so quickly? I mean, we thought we were better than any people who ever came before us, that we were the next step in the evolution of humanity -- and everything we knew was wrong."
Although I was a bit too young to take part in the 60s, I remembered viewing those people through the lens of a bewildered, neglected child and considering them somewhat exotic. How wrong I was.
Although glad to have survived that era, I might dismiss it as something I simply outgrew. However, I outgrew Barbie dolls too, but I don't feel angry or misled. The 60s leave such a sour taste with me, I have to hit a lot of pillows just to vent out the rage I feel toward this breed of humanity who belonged in a psycho ward and took a lot of others with them.
How sad to see the Sheehan gang attempt a repeat performance. They have all the idiocy of the 60s without the glamor.
Forget Donovan or Jefferson Airplane. What comes to mind is the Who (my favorite band) singing about "teenage wasteland" in their classic album WHO'S NEXT.