Post by darkstar3 on Sept 29, 2011 15:36:41 GMT
How many of you were alive during the sixties? If you were alive back then, what do you remember of that time?
I often think back to this period whenever I hear someone running their mouth about how the U.S. was one big communal drinking fountain, an endless well for people to live in a FREE and JOYFUL society. That may have been how some people experienced the 60's, the kind of society based on the "Love Generation" that Ray Manzarek repeatedly comments on even today, but that's not how I remember it.
When the Doors started as a band back in 1965 parts of the city they called home found some streets ravaged by death and destruction. An outcry from a people too long suppressed like a pot of vegtables in a presser-cooker who's lid finally blows off.
The poor were being rounded up and shipped off to fight a war aimed at keeping the policy makers in Washington adrift in a sea of greed and madness.
The entire country was on-heat and that heat spread through out the world in the form of protests aimed at showing all people the dissatisfaction of man kind in general.
The State of California was besieged by a swelling population of young people who had migrated there on the hope of finding a giant commune. What they found was no way to support themselves, no to way to feed themselves, and no way to over come the habits perpetuated by the previous generation that they longed to distance themselves from. The gap became wider but what did the hippy movement really accomplish in the end?
Morrison exclaimed as he looked out into the Isle Of Wight crowd in 1970 that the audience seemed to him to be "dupes."
The summer of '67 lasted about 3 months admist the violence that was happening around it. Robby Krieger had penned "Light My Fire" a song that would garner international attention this summer. By dropping the needle in the groove this song would transport a person to a utopia of fantasy as a shared experience that could relate to some teenagers first sexual experience.
But to me,"Light My Fire" has two meanings the second being the sort of fire that saw a nation turning inward towards the impending implosion that came to a head in the spring of 1968. It was also in the spring of 1968 where we would hear Morrison berate Manzarek during a concert at the Fillmore East, telling the audience that the keyboard player did not speak for him.
Looking back I have come to see that Morrison was the only one of the band not living under a rock, insulated and isolated from the outside world. Jim walked the streets taking in the sites and commenting on what was happening around him. How many of you fans pop a Doors cd in your player and think of the violent happenings that occurred during that time period?
I realize a majority of people on this forum were not even born when the Doors were a band but I have to ask this generation what have they learned about the 60's? Do you follow the information that has been spoon fed to you by teachers and politicians?
You must find your own truth and learn your own education about this period of time. Do not be fooled by zealot fuck wits who see the 60's through rose colored glasses, tainted with the blood from parts of a generation they helped send to war. Find your own truth.
Time Has Come Today.....
I often think back to this period whenever I hear someone running their mouth about how the U.S. was one big communal drinking fountain, an endless well for people to live in a FREE and JOYFUL society. That may have been how some people experienced the 60's, the kind of society based on the "Love Generation" that Ray Manzarek repeatedly comments on even today, but that's not how I remember it.
When the Doors started as a band back in 1965 parts of the city they called home found some streets ravaged by death and destruction. An outcry from a people too long suppressed like a pot of vegtables in a presser-cooker who's lid finally blows off.
The poor were being rounded up and shipped off to fight a war aimed at keeping the policy makers in Washington adrift in a sea of greed and madness.
The entire country was on-heat and that heat spread through out the world in the form of protests aimed at showing all people the dissatisfaction of man kind in general.
The State of California was besieged by a swelling population of young people who had migrated there on the hope of finding a giant commune. What they found was no way to support themselves, no to way to feed themselves, and no way to over come the habits perpetuated by the previous generation that they longed to distance themselves from. The gap became wider but what did the hippy movement really accomplish in the end?
Morrison exclaimed as he looked out into the Isle Of Wight crowd in 1970 that the audience seemed to him to be "dupes."
The summer of '67 lasted about 3 months admist the violence that was happening around it. Robby Krieger had penned "Light My Fire" a song that would garner international attention this summer. By dropping the needle in the groove this song would transport a person to a utopia of fantasy as a shared experience that could relate to some teenagers first sexual experience.
But to me,"Light My Fire" has two meanings the second being the sort of fire that saw a nation turning inward towards the impending implosion that came to a head in the spring of 1968. It was also in the spring of 1968 where we would hear Morrison berate Manzarek during a concert at the Fillmore East, telling the audience that the keyboard player did not speak for him.
Looking back I have come to see that Morrison was the only one of the band not living under a rock, insulated and isolated from the outside world. Jim walked the streets taking in the sites and commenting on what was happening around him. How many of you fans pop a Doors cd in your player and think of the violent happenings that occurred during that time period?
I realize a majority of people on this forum were not even born when the Doors were a band but I have to ask this generation what have they learned about the 60's? Do you follow the information that has been spoon fed to you by teachers and politicians?
You must find your own truth and learn your own education about this period of time. Do not be fooled by zealot fuck wits who see the 60's through rose colored glasses, tainted with the blood from parts of a generation they helped send to war. Find your own truth.
Time Has Come Today.....
