So old school, Burning the Midnight Lamp (Hendrix, Electric Ladyland)is my national anthem.
So old school, we called it Reefer back then, a good oz. was around 20 bucks.
You really experimented with acid, nobody knew much about it.
They had rock festivals, and nobody actually burned them to the ground.
The Who were going in an interesting new direction.
Nobody knew if the Russians were going to nuke us all by the end of the week or not.
There was this music and arts festival they were holding somewhere in Central New York, and I skipped a dress rehersal of Carnival, in spite if it sounding like it wouldn't be very much fun, to go to it. They eventually ended up calling it Woodstock.
The Naked Ape had just been published, and most of us read the chapter on sex first.
Everybody seemed to smoke cigarettes, women still wore hats a lot, bell bottoms took some getting used to.
Life was generally simpler, or so it seemed at the time.

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