{"id":19685,"date":"2017-07-15T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=19685"},"modified":"2017-07-15T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T14:59:54","slug":"the-year-that-put-dents-in-my-head-and-filled-them-with-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2017\/07\/15\/the-year-that-put-dents-in-my-head-and-filled-them-with-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The year that put dents in my head \u2013 and filled them with music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was in junior high in 1967, at that proverbial “impressionable age.” And it was a year that would leave dents in anybody’s head. Fifty years later, it seems we are still working out the karma of that bombshell year.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, it was a year of rage and violence and hate. The Vietnam War was at its peak, and anti-war protests were escalating along with it. It was the year of the Six-Day War in the Middle East and the start of the Cultural Revolution in China. Racial strife tore apart the cities of Detroit, Newark, Washington, Buffalo, and Tampa and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it was the year of the Summer of Love and a profound countercultural reaction against nearly all the “isms,” of American life. Long unquestioned social, sexual, artistic, political, economic, religious and family norms were all crash-tested in the somewhat addled laboratory of “youth culture.”<\/p>\n

And it was a great year for the science and tech geek. We were headed to the moon, soft-landing Surveyor 3 there, and Mariner 5 flew by Venus. The first pulsar was discovered. The first heart transplants were done. The first ATM was put into use. And 50 million people, including me, glimpsed a future world at Expo ’67 in Montreal.<\/p>\n

But fifty years later, it’s the music of 1967 that sticks most in my head. It was the year the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s and Magical Mystery Tour. Jimi Hendrix and The Doors and Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground and Fleetwood Mac and Fairport Convention all debuted that year. It was the year of the Monterey Pop Festival. Can anyone name another year to top that line-up?<\/p>\n

While 2017 is also shaping up to be a year that will leave dents in the head, for a lot of reasons, I just can’t imagine what 2017 songs will be bouncing around in the heads of sixty-somethings in 2067.<\/p>\n

The floor is open for nominations in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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