1960-1969

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 in […]

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http://youtu.be/-5opFHD9cXo February 7th, 1964 All copyrights remain with original rights holders. This video is a link from You Tube.

In August 1966, The Beatles play their last live concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. That same month Revolver is released. From Revolver the single is Eleanor Rigby….Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. It is not dying. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY This video is a link from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a3NcwfOBzQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player. All copyrights remain with […]

In which “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight,” and “The End” pretty much sum it all up. Created by Paul Boxs

On a hot, muggy night, in the attic room of an old school administration building, I sit nursing a case of undergraduate angst: what am I doing with my life? Should I drop out? Get a job? Hair grows over the collar of my shirt. In the comer a small AM radio plays softly. I […]

Photo: Robert Altman Even before our world view guides us to discriminate between good and evil, it disposes us to discriminate between real and unreal, true and false, meaningful and meaningless. Before we act in the world, we must conceive of a world; it must be there before us, a sensible pattern to which we […]

“Martin Luther King had a dream. We had a dream, and it was, almost literally it sometimes seemed, a dream of a return to the Garden of Eden. It was a dream reinforced by visions, visions made immensely real through LSD. Because these were shared visions, there seemed little reason to doubt their authenticity. The […]

For FULL SCREEN click on video control bar far right. At first it was Meet The Beatles, but shortly it was “Have you seen the Stones?” Staring at you were five Englishmen, unsmiling, even stranger than The Beatles. Brian Jones! With his long hair to his shoulders. Jagger’s lips! Of all of them Brian leaped […]