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Why the Sixties Failed... In Me

Permalink 03/29/10 00:53, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: dennis hopper, drugs psychedelic, easy rider, electric flag, electric prunes, fraternity of man, jack nicholson, peter fonda, roger corman, sixties, the trip
I was going to talk about the movie Easy Rider and the music that came with it. So I watched the movie again, and even if I had never seen it before I would have held it in my cultural collective memory... a movie which is anti- traditional American values. At least the traditional values of the sixties. Now, I know there were positives and negatives within the Sixties and the new ideals that rose out of it. There was a hyper conservative mindset which needed changing, perhaps like the conservative midset today. But the force of change in the sixties was turmoil and partly youthful madness. And, sorry man, I have to tell it like it is. more »
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