The last off-color, sexual in nature and tasteless joke told to me in a bar was at a HOOTERS in the late ‘90s...as told to all at the table by our waitress.
I don’t buy that. In ‘65, Pete Townsend was too young to have been “messaging” people in who were born in the ‘30s, and with Keith Moon (b1947) as his drummer, The Who was not necessarily talking to me, but that doesn’t mean that the “silent” generation didn’t pick up on it.
“Ohio” is not a long song, I’ll give them that. However, there are two sides to every story. I could not honestly relate to Kent State in May ‘70 because I was in the 5th grade when it happened. Just because they call me a baby boomer doesn’t mean that I could’ve related to guys being drafted, hippies & yippies, rock stars and their music, greasers & bikers, soldiers returning from Vietnam, dope, “free love”, women’s lib, etc., etc... No wait, I’ll take it back that I couldn’t relate to the music...Once I heard Jimi’s version of Johnny B. Goode and the live version of Little Wing from the “In The West” album, I just about swallowed the hook...And when the Beatles quit, I think it must’ve been a kind of a universal disappointment that I felt. However, I don’t think that in ‘65, Pete Townsend had me and my elementary school classmates in mind when he wrote “My Generation”!