GENERATIONS

“But his (Truman’s) judgement is cavalier seriously underestimating, as it does, the American capacity for intolerance. It unleashes within America a series of witch hunts that last for a decade. The “Communist threat”, the “Red Scare”, the “Communist Conspiracy” all, in some real measure, overwhelm the sanity Truman took for granted. “Almost all states introduced […]

“On March 5th 1946, Winston Churchill – whose mother was an American – spoke at Westminster College in Missouri and described the position in which the United States now found itself. “For with this primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. As you look around you, you must feel not […]

“By 1985 there was no doubt about it, music video was the New Big Thing. Its ”official” birth one would have to say was MTV’s premiere on August 1st, 1981. Then they broadcast the Buggies singing – in a wry McLuhan-esque ditty – ”Video killed the Radio Star.” For the next ten years, music video […]

http://youtu.be/Rn4f9KO3wRk “The unceasing and apparently unstoppable violence causes a sense of unreality to take hold. Time slows down, crawls to a halt, as when on drugs, and I pity the poor bastards on LSD. Still, somehow, and I have no idea how, the show lurches toward an end. I hear the opening chords of “Street […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4yv63TaAI&feature=youtube_gdata_player Hyde Park had been the largest outdoor concert ever held but within months it was eclipsed by Woodstock. There the up-and-coming, down-and-out, long-haired, freaky, and high, all showed up and for four days camped outside and listened to the music. Except for the Big Three (Dylan, The Stones, The Beatles), everyone who was anyone […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others would be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had […]

“Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others would be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had both been assassinated. At the Chicago Democratic National Convention had […]

‘Drugs. With America tearing itself apart, split down the middle about everything, everybody pointing a finger at everybody else, there was no way anyone in the counterculture was about to admit that drugs were a problem. Drugs were what first turned a lot of people on. The nightmare consequences of marijuana as conjured up by […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvSXc4WU8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player “Back in America, 1969. When the year began, the American troop strength in Vietnam was reaching its peak: 550,000 men. Thirty thousand Americans had been killed and more than 20,000 others would be. In the previous year, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy had both been assassinated. At the Chicago Democratic National Convention […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video bar controller. “In San Francisco on the radio they’re playing Honky Tonk Woman, with the distinctive cowbell beginning, the drum intro, with the guitar coming in chunk, chunk- chunk, low down and dirty, and I feel proud that I was involved. When I first hear this I am waiting […]