I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s.

It’s pretty obvious to me what the OP meant; “being alive and receiving stuff like ANY Beatles album, ANY Miles Davis album, ANY Dylan album, ANY Charles Mingus album, ANY Stevie Wonder album, ANY Bowie album, ANY Ornette Coleman album, ANY Stooges album, ANY Motown single, ANY Velvet Underground album, ANY Sly Stone album, Pet Sounds…(my goodness we could go on and on) is something people born in the late-60s-and-up missed out on.”

As I kid born in ‘82, even as a 9/10-year-old kid in the early ‘90s, I KNEW already I had missed out.  I knew my parents had MLK, Malcom X, counter-culture movement, and the best music.  As I got older, more mature and more learned, I realized I missed out on waaaay more than that.  When I was a kid I figured the only thing my generation had was Michael Jordan.  
Looking back, I’m not sure I was so far off.

Belive me, Nirvana is the reason I ever got into music in the first place and I could wax rhapsodically about any number of great artistic works from the early ‘90s until today.

I don’t think it’s anything to get one’s panties in a bunch over if someone says, “yeah…Beat movement, watching the process of the formation of the entire universe of popular music and filmmaking unfold in real time, from James Brown to Run-DMC and everything in between, from Federico Fellini to David Lynch and everything in between…that was probably better than the ‘90s, ‘00s, and ‘10s.”

I have to say those were the days, I grew up in Ann Arbor MI, counterculture, New Left, intellectuals. 1967, Summer of Love, I saw it first hand as young adolescent, certainly spoke to me. Observed a novel non-conformist way to live, has greatly influenced life choices ever since.

Music surely played huge role in the zeitgeist of those times, can't even begin to list all the great concerts I attended over those years!

Replaying those times is now only nostalgia, my music horizons have expanded so much from those days, still finding both new and old recordings that amaze. Between the ever increasing sound quality of my audio system and new discoveries I find with streaming, these are the days!

I know a fellow and he seems pretty believable, says he went to a friend's house and low behold Jimi Hendrix showed up and they  smoked a joint together. Yes I smoked a joint with Hendrix is what he says. I want to say somewhere in New York? I'm assuming this is before he got famous?  I never got anymore details and never asked again but I'm thinking I will.  Or maybe a lot guys lay claim to this? I'm sure Jimi smoked with thousands of folks. Lot of us missed out.