Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the same can be said about Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. I know Jimi was anti-communist and not anti-Vietnam, and I think I've read that Morrison was the same way. The surviving Doors have made political statements recently, though.
I heard that too. Even Bob Dylan was averse to being used as the hippies' poster boy for "peace" and anti- americanism.