Comments on: The Experience Will Not Be Televised

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:13:07 +0000

I love to ask young people, enamoured of the 1960′s, to tell me a little about times. What were the biggest selling albums? The top box office hits? Which sold more copies, Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” or “The Ballad of the Green Berets” by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler?

Then, if they still don’t get it, I haul out my brother’s yearbook. He was Class of 1968 in a large suburban high school, and I like to play “Find the Hippies.” Short answer–there were none. Oh, we had one in town (my mother would shout “Look, there’s the hippie!” as we drove to the grocery), but he never showed up to have his picture taken.

Today’s fondness for that decade is based on our distance from the realities of the 1960′s. There was a lot more Mantovani than Morrison being played on America’s turntables.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:08:58 +0000

“God no. Please no. I think I speak for millions when I say that I am deathly sick of the counterculture sixties. The music, the war, the protests, all the hagiography – it’s not a reflection of the era’s importance but the self-importance of the generation who hung on the bus as it trundled along down the same old rutted road of history.. I’m tired of hearing about the boomers’ days of whine and neuroses; I’m weary of ritual genuflection to their musical icons; I’m utterly disinterested in most of the pop-cult trivia they hold so dear. We’ll probably be better off when that demographic pig has been excreted from the python so we can see the era clearly without choking on the smoke.”

PBS fund drive specials thrive on the self-importance of that generation.

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Alish — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:22:51 +0000

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