Were the '60's in the '60's ?

             Trysts;  it was pot,LSD, and Speed, and mushrooms--60's. the 70's was pot, and heroine, the 80's was cocaine, and crack cocaine; The 90's was meth-amphatamines, and there's been a steady increase or explosion of heroine from 2000. Sprinkle in some alcohol, and a few other things not mentioned, and you have quitea few lives destroyed. On the level of full disclosure, I can honestly say I'm only guilt of pot in the 70's.

          hahaha, Rooperi; that;s funny. "I'm not sure how to articulate Woodstock".         It was a LOT OF MUD.        THAT'S IT;  mmuurrii;  it was mud.    The 60's was very muddy,   just like Muddy Waters.  hahahaha

The reason why I chose that Bee Gees song, Jive Talkin', is it seemed to kick off the Disco era....although Disco Inferno (song still makes me laff !) in 1976 could be a better representation of ending the '60's era....musically.

no they were in the twenites!!!!!!!

             Trysts, I think your right about "IT" starting with JFK's assasination, because, the 50's had the cold war, and Korea. When Kennedy took office in early 1960, it was relatively quiet, until the Cuban missile crisis. Yes the Beatles came over in 61, but at first, most people were just curious. I shook the hand of all 3 Kennedy's in1960, in a parade when I was 5 yrs old.

                 I heard something dam interesting on CNN yesterday. Every decade, America hates somebody, and we blame everything on them. In the 60's Lee Harvie Oswald killed JFK. In the 70's the CIA and the Cubans killed JFK, in the 80's, the mob killed JFK. In the 90's it was Aliens. Today we hate terrorists. Lets see who can we hate next??   The 60's had Casper the friendly ghost, and the OP is a ghost. THAT'S IT--Ghost In The Machine!!!, Those dam ghost are responsible for everything. Lola, why did you destroy the 60's???

....because "it" was destroyable !!....(I can't even kill a mosquito)

               Caught; infelecto grande.   I know you can't my love, neither can I.             Some people say, if you can remember the 60's, you wearn't there.              Now where's that dam plane??

Mentioning Hendrix and disco in the same sentence is shameful.

                  Thank you for that correction czechsmex. I also need to correct myself. In post 32, I said when JFK took office in early 1960, it was relatively quiet. I forgot the civil rights movement. A lot of black people got hurt for no reason, other than being black.

Tell me noone has record of sending/receiving a cell phone call....

               Yeah, no that I'm AWAKE. Good for you, catching that gregorecis. In fact I think there's a law about comparing Hendrix to disco. Blasphamy. He's a musical racist. Chess.com should ban fburton, and as punishment you have to listen to 49,000 hrs of Lawrence Welk!!!!

Sorry........but would he have kept playing RnR ?....BTW, they say the new movie is fabulous....

                Jimmy H, was miles ahead of most people. Didn't know about the new movie.

             I'd love to hear him jam with Herbie Hancock or John MaGlauflin, or Robbie Shankar

He did jam with McGloughlin but John won't let anyone hear it... he didn't seem to think it was any good.

Yes, Lawrence Welk reminds me of my parents, lol.

He's gonna be on a stamp (Excuse me while I lick this guy ?) if not already. I guess the show stars Andre Benjamin as a young Jimi.

The period of unrest that many identify as the Sixties pretty much began with the murder of Medger Evers, the rise of Bob Dylan, and the Kennedy assasination, and ended with the resignation of Dick Nixon--emphasis on the Dick.  TV led the way--the protests and outrages in the deep South; Oswald and Ruby; soldiers dying in flickering black-and-white while we ate supper.  The insanity was everywhere; the right cheering the Ohio National Guard in what is (in my opinion) still the worst school shooting in US history; the left declaring that the "Man of the Year" was Charlie Manson.  Music fueled the ideology of both sides, Okie from Muskogee and The Times They Are-a Changin, The Ballad of the Green Berets and Sky Pilot.  Socially, we went from "Children should be seen and not heard" to "Don't trust anyone over thirty."  Then two things happened: one, Nixon resigned, and the political coalition of progressive/liberal/radicals imploded and began attacking each other; two, the music industry was infiltrated by major record labels after Woodstock, when rock went from an honest rebellious voice to a commercially viable product.  Drugs went from the mind-expantion of pot and acid to the mind-numbing instant stupidity of cocaine and heroin.  Is it any wonder, then, that disco followed and was so popular?  The narcissistic attitude that became the eighties began here, when mindless pleasure succeeded political commitment.  By the mid-seventies, the sixties weren't just over, they were dead--causes gone, drugs rejected, bands dissolved--when "All you need is love" gave way to "Just do it."  The "peace and love" generation then embraced the "greed is good" philosophy and here we are today.

           Thanks Lola, I'll keep my eyes open. Nice pun. Excuse me while I kiss the sky.   Let me add, his national anthem at Wookstock was just improvised. That wasn't something he rehersed for that show.

               Very well done Dashkee;  I have 2 points of ellaboration. Record labels took rock to a commercially viable product. Bands that were disgusting noise were now millionaires. The Who, Zeppelin, and  ??? Nick Mason was the drummer. The Vanilla Fudge, Grand Funk Railroad.   Now the bands with class and good music was The Allman Brothers, the Doobie Brothers, The Grateful Dead,( the favorite of all G,I's----CREEDENCE). The 2nd point was the greed of the 80's was manifest in TV shows like DALLAS, KNOTS LANDING.