Kakki wrote:
> I have to say how much I always appreciate your historical perspective.
As
> much as I enjoyed those early days, I was, as Steve Dulson said the other
> day "a mere child" who of course, just gladly lapped it all up at the
time,
> but was too young in some respects to have the perspective of you and
others
> who were experiencing it from a longer view. I did have a slight panic
> attack the other day when Lori wrote about the 70s being the decade when
it
> all really came to fruition. Yes, the 70s were happening big time, but to
> me, the genesis of it all started from about '63 on and was so much more
> exciting than what followed in the 70s. Lori, I hope your boss will
> consider the 60s more - I felt a little like a victim of "revisionist
> history" when I read about his book!
<snip>
> Lori - please don't think I'm singling you out - the same day you wrote I
> was comparing notes with a friend at work about seeing "Almost Famous".
> Because of his age, the apex for him was the 70s, but I gasped when he
said
> that all the great and improtant music happened then!
As a complete outsider, ie. being born in 1966, and living on the other side
of the world, I just wondered if maybe the differences between Kakki's
experiences and others were/are a locational thing? I've always thought
California was where the whole flower-power/music explosion happened, and it
took a while to filter out to the rest of the country? I remember an
interview with Michelle Phillips (Mamas and Papas) saying they were in New
York after spending some time in the Caribbean, and Michelle begging John to
take the group to California, because "that's where it's all happening". I
know the folk music scene was big in New York, but isn't California where
the whole electric thing started happening?
I also seem to recall some interviews around the Woodstock time with people
in New York who "didn't get" the whole West Coast thing?
I'm probably wrong, but I just thought, "maybe Kakki and Lori are both
right"?
Hell
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