"To try and capture even, just, the psychedelic 'madness' alone that swept our culture in those heady days is not something suited to paper and words. Likewise the added attractions (Random Factors) and temporal combine with the Sexual Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, the Ban The Bomb Movement, Pete Seeger and the folk music years. Then the appearance of LSD into the 'culture', The Beatles, The Stones, et al., Sex Drugs & Rock & Roll, the Kennedy assassination/coverup. the Black Panthers, SDS, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Haight Street, war AND peace, San Francisco in general (at the edge of Western civilization) ...and more, just ever so much more ...
Certain 'things' occurred at a far deeper level.
In all truth, you just had to BE THERE!
...yes?" ... Paul Kantner ...out of this time came Steppenwolf... |
