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

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. 

As long as there are those who do not recognize the difference between objective and subjective, this thread will go on and on and on. . . with people continuing to talk past one-another.  

go backwards towards the source-Classical and everything in between, there is ENDLESS discovery to be heard.

A friend of mine recently asked me why I didn’t expand my musical horizons by embracing new music. I told him I could discover "new" music without listening to anything recorded after 1995. Just yesterday, on this forum, I was made aware of a Tower of Power album from the 1970s that I had never heard. I agree with the OP. For contemporary music, the 60s and 70s were the golden age.

As long as we have ears, the human race will listen to music; right now my left ear is playing back Gimme Shelter by the RS and the right ear is playing back Schubert's  String Quintet .....not sure which will win out.......oh wait the Rolling Stones are being shoved out by Band-Maid's Obsession......fickle brain......