SATCHMO

I think the 60's were better than now. It's not really a commentary on how great I think the 60's were' but more on what an identity crisis the music of today has. I know there's a lot of great stuff going on right now musically, but it seems so detached from anything remotely "now", historically or otherwise. I just seems to be the regurgitation of the culmination of 60 years of pop culture coupled with a short attention span.

I will say that the 60's, at least the psychedelic era, corresponded with a massive expansion in our culture's consciousness, which was also very closely tied, and compounded by the first war in human history where real-time media exposure brought an awareness to all the injustices that were occurring all around us.

I don't think that outside of that context, the music of the 60's was any better or worse than the music of today. I just think it had a more cultural and historical relevance, if not more substance.