I love the music of the 1960’s and 70’s.
Much of what was popular back then has come full circle and can now be interpreted as an attack on todays Leftists.
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Me, too. Really insightful. I have thought of that many times.
That’s why I can put Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen lyric lines on posts although both pushed people and things I disagree with. Bob Dylan at no time went to even one march or rally. He was a performer at the Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” speech march, but not a marcher.
Funny moment: The guy sitting next to him was Hugh Romney (later called Wavy Gravy for the hippie bus trips of author Ken Kesey). He said to Bob Dylan: “The next guy to speak is Martin Luther King. I hope he doesn’t talk long. Mahalia Jackson is on next and I don’t want him to take any of her time up there.”
My favorite BD quote: (Motorpsycho Nitemare, 1965)
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He still waits for me, constant, on the sly
He wants to turn me in to the F.B.I.
Me, I romp and stomp, thankful as I romp
Without freedom of speech I might be in the swamp
Dylan and Cohen are among my favorite Poets and performers.
There were so many really great artists from those years that it’s easy to leave out so many more when trying to recall those times and their messages.
I’m a big fan of Jim Morrison and the Doors. There’s a deep sense of Brutal Sarcasm if you actually listen to the words. There’s no way Morrison DIDN’T do this intentionally. Listen to “An American Prayer”, the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDNQYrfsjtQ&list=PLCc1CdM5OcYwybs3Yrdj7-1kFNTsuNzxq&index=2
It seems that at some point in our history people no longer listened to the WORDS.