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A month later, however, a similar festival in Altamont, California would end in tragedy, as a young man was knifed to death during a Rolling Stones concert. The Altamont tragedy would come to be seen by many as the end of an era - or at least the end of the 1960s.
Drugs and rock music continued to have an impact on the formation of young baby boomers throughout the 1970s. Rock music began to split off in several different directions. At one end of the spectrum, you had psychedelic rock - a form of rock n' roll directly influenced by psychedelic drugs such as LSD in both sound and lyrics. Then, there was a harder form of rock n' roll that began to grow popular. This eventually turned in to heavy metal. One of the earlier proponents of this new genre of rock was Black Sabbath, a band that helped popularize the usage of downers - or depressants - which were usually taken in pill form.
As the 1970s wore on, disco music became popular with a new generation of baby boomers. Disco was music you could was the drug of choice.
Progressive rock was a form of experimental rock n' roll that grew out of the late 1960s' dissatisfaction with traditional pop structures. Bands like Jethro Tull, Electric Light Orchestra, and Pink Floyd continued the experimentation of their more radical 1960s forebears. Partly as a reaction to progressive rock and disco, the punk rock movement was born. It was the punks who, through their loud, fast, energetic, and angry music, helped popularize the usage of amphetamines during the 1970s.
The 1980s saw a relaxation in both the musical and drug activities of the baby boom generation, as most of these people entered their 30s and decided to settle down and have families. With the advent of Ronald Reagan's war on drugs, the usage of illicit substances became taboo once again, and the music reflected this cultural reversion to the values of the 1950s.
Music has always been an important part of my life. From the time I was a little boy into my adolescence and through my teenage years, music was my companion whenever I could put my headset on and not get in trouble for listening to music. My good times were accompanied by music and just like my friends, music was there when I wasn't doing so well. In fact music
Drug Music is an art form that addresses many social issues, even in popular music otherwise designed for entertainment. I am interested in this topic because drug use is one of those many different issues. Most forms of music will address drug use at some point, and it is important to consider not only how music addresses drugs but how the way in which it has done so has changed, if
Music or Musical Theatre Like the Rising Sun Although in conventional times and among younger people jazz music is disparaged as boring 'elevator music', true jazz music is anything but. I reached this conclusion after listening to some excellent concert jazz albums of live music. The work of jazz that I am largely basing the aforementioned thesis on is Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower, which was released in 1966 when jazz music was
Music In early childhood, I watched the shows on PBS like Sesame Street. I can still remember the songs that permeated my living room, teaching me how to count and spell. I do not know all the formal titles of the songs, but I can sing them almost all by heart. Elmo's songs, the alphabet songs, songs about everyone making mistakes that is okay: Sesame Street taught me a lot about
'All you need is love,' sang The Beatles. But they sang against a backdrop of militant demonstrations, the hazing of soldiers, environmental 'monkey-wrenching,' self-destructive drug trips, and a knifing death at the Altamont Rock Festival in 1969. Apart from the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society, which took Charles Manson as its hero, most people who identified with the 1960s counterculture deplored violence as much as they
Drugs in Rock Music -- 1955-1966 Much is made in the media about rock history and drug involvement by rock stars, particularly in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and others were apparently due to drug overdoses. But illegal drugs and prescription drugs were in use by rock and roll bands and individual stars before the psychedelic era in the late