like the title of Elmer Keith’s book
“Hell, I Was There.”
Not going to apologize for my excesses back from ‘68 through the early 70s...but a lot of the music was GREAT.
in concert in those times saw Zeppelin, Cream, The Stones, Procol Harum, The Byrds, the Dead, The Who, Janis Joplin(with and without Big Brother), The Band, Jefferson Airplane, Alvin Lee and TYA, Ray Charles, Randy Newman, Sly and the family Stone, Mothers of Invention, Blood Sweat and Tears.
there are more I cant remember...
but much of the music was GREAT.(and like all eras, much was crap.)
I reformed my excesses way back when....but I still love much of the music....
Excepting Ray Charles (rather out of place for that list), Sly, Joplin — those artists were horrible, with exceptions for some good songs.
They were boring. They were well produced and sound good, but ultimately empty and dull and, metaphorically, non-nutritious.
Thinking this is somehow the best music, classic, or even all that good, is the mythology and ethos I am talking about.
It is commensurate and part and parcel of the liberal immoral ethos that has descended on our society.