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Bit of a list of labels and as with all movements the 60s will always have a special place in my heart ! Long live idealism ... compared with LOligarchic hegemony of today there is no contest

I can’t believe that people would actually act so childish, throwing things at Bob Dylan and his band because he moved on that’s what artist do do you want them to get stuck in one place music is free and it’s very spiritual to the soul so why would anyone want somebody to get stuck? Grow the fuck up and let people entertain us do what they do for us and if you don’t like it, walk the other way and shut the hell up let them do what they wanna do is more people in this world and just you and your thoughts don’t get stuck man move on just like musicians. Do you know you forget their people they grow up and move on to hire things and that’s what Dylan did.?

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your glossing over Neal Cassidy and the Joan Anderson letter, with out either of these "on the road" would have never existed

i was never a mod but used to go to mods clubs for the music (and girls)

Those first two Band albums are mesmerizing. I'm always playing them.

The Partridge Family, blew all these bums out of the water.

Great video , and narration.

British music must’ve been very strong to break into and top the American market. The Beatles and Rolling Stones off course led the way. I find astonishing, because the US is such a large place . How did they do it. ?

It's always derogatory in mainstream media. That's expected. Read Huxley's Brave New World. How to ridicule any challenge to the status quo in control.

That era was just amazing. The coming together of all that raw talent that only happens in a hundred years if at all.

Those musicians seem to “share” alot of things.

Great work on this, so deep and accurate. Love the real narration.

Isn't it interesting that a Brit is explaining Laurel Canyon to us.

The whole is awesome and the quality of the recording is fantastic. I just got the SACD Japanese remaster and it sounds amazing

At some point, you have to grow up.

bunch of drug ridden fools ... its amazing any of them are still alive today...

I can’t believe they never mentioned either the civil rights or antiwar movements or the draft for Vietnam. The transition to the hippies came after those. Especially the failure of ending that war over time. There was no direct beat to hippie transition. Also the use of drugs by kids sent to Nam changed everything. It seemed like one day most HS boys were in ROTC with crew cuts. Then Beatles mops.

What we in the US don't understand is the economic devastation of WWII on Britain and that the mods represented the positive resurgence of culture and affluence.

They were the first generation of spoilt narcissistic brats after the struggles of their parents after the Great Depression and WWII.

Robbie Robertson's Autobiography tells it like it was. They were far from over the hill and the hardest was yet to come. Alcohol and serious heroin habits in the band crept up at every turn in Woodstock. Both Danko and Manuel got in car crashes. Van Morrison's notorious drinking was not a good influence in the mix either as him and Manuel were buddies. It was a roller coaster ride and got pretty bleak trying to keep things going and the Band together.

The band which appeared most tomes are the Small Faces and ironically they were not mentioned in the whole documentary

60's, I dressed in surplus bells and pea coats like the drunks in Washington Sq. Young Lords and Black Panthers. Monk and Allen Ginsburg. What does pop music and the Stones stupidly getting the sociopathic Angels to do security for a concert do with ethical culture or political consciousness. And I've had the Angels set their dogs on me. Joplin died of an overdose and Hendricks was given a sedative that he reacted to then was left in an E.R. hall to choke to death, then Morrison's heart gave out because he was a coker, so what. He didn't deserve to be buried next to Modigliani. We used Psychedelics as a meditation tool, not party drug. I went to Fed lockup because of it and would do it again but for I have already reached as much enlightenment as I am capable in this short existence. But it was enough to kill my ego and desire for materialist things.

We are now living in WOKEstock.

CIA , LSD , Viet Nam War ,JFK murder , Government ......... IMO

Dylan was pretty cool... The Dead and Airplane, two perennial favorites of mine. Thanks for the pretty good retrospective. That era was amazing in how much great music of so many influences there was! "Steven would answer, if he only knew how"

They became hippies!

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Beatniks were so cool they were on Spider-Man cartoons. Like did those crazy pyjamas man.

This leaves out Wyman's military service (1955-1957) RAF (age 18-20)

Like any hypocritical moron with a "Oh, How Quaint!" surface level interest in profound subjects and illusions of grandeur; they got bored. "Dharma Bums" is a perfect example of this with Kerouac's understanding of Buddahism is just climbing up a peak of a mountain to cross your legs and close your eyes.

The Beatles were the king's of all the pop music during their seasons.they willnbe missed greatly.💖🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👈

The beatniks evolved into the hippies

The mod movement also had a lot to do with the increase in disposable income which their parents never had….

I was born in NY in '72 but grew up in North Jersey - as a 17 yr old musician I found the music of Dylan and it changed my life...I was obsessed with the whole Greenwich Village folk history and ended up living there for short time in '88 but it was not anything like I had hoped it would still be - it was dirty and dangerous as the 80's crack epidemic had reached it's zenith at that point, especially in NY...my heart still belongs to the history of art and music that once thrived there...funny how as people we become so nostalgic for certain periods in history that seem more and more magical as time goes by...the village folk scene of the 60's was magical and will never be repeated again...maybe there will eventually be another explosion of talent and art, but it seems like a bleak prospect when hearing and seeing just how far music has currently fallen from what it once was...sad, actually.

When you start to believe you are really special, you think nothing will happen to you. Bright stars burn fast.

Jim's a victim of himself. Unfortunately Pam was not a positive person in his life She kinda was part of his perfect storm in his down fall.

OG Mod, Twiggy, Lambrettas, The Who, purple hearts, and that about all I remember from the 60,s

Bored Americans, living a boring conformist life and none of them even knew it.

I have always thought "Death Of A Salesman" Arthur Miller's play had something to do with its origin. Maybe wrong.

Collapse of the beatniks? Might as well ask about the absence of flowers in January.

My parents did this in the 1950's. I have the photographs.

700th like ! ❤‍🔥Love the stuff, thank you for sharing that basement spirit. 🙏

Crime, Poor hygiene. entitlement, bad values. especially when the CIA started flooding the drugs

Great video, although I don't think they were exactly anti-hippies. I think they just, well, weren't hippies.

That “recovery” was also a detox, no? There’s a funny way how every story of Dylan and the Band avoids some details that might give a much fuller and richer picture. For instance, most accounts of Big Pink neglect to mention Dylan was paying them to be there. I’ve always wondered how much.

It's the same anywhere that decent places are soon trashed by commercialism.

The “beatniks” as you so ignorantly call them, despised that name. Beatnik was a name coined by Herb Caen, a San Francisco newspaper columnist in the late 1950’s. It was based on the word Sputnik, the Russian word for satellite. It was a derogatory reference to the Beats. A typical right wing paranoid reaction to what they feared. You look up the definition of Beat, in the context of the “Beat Generation.” I’m sure it will enlighten you. This is just another case of an internet expert who doesn’t really know jack shit, let alone Jack Kerouac.

drugs ruined political social progress

It ran its course for the most part, but there are still plenty of artists performing it to this day.