"In 1966, after a couple of years necessary to assimilate the British musical invasion - launched by the Beatles and many others followed with ease thanks to the outbreak of Beatlemania -, America began to export its groups and its scene in Great Britain. Along with the Byrds, the Grateful Dead, the Mother Of Invention, the Jefferson Airplane and other bands, came the acid, the mysticism, the free-thinking and bohemianism. Love and peace were (and still are ) sentiments de admire ... but to be induced to do so, what need was fucking drugs?
A comparison of the phenomenon of British underground groups, the American bands sucked. It was nothing but the blues speeded up and stretched boring guitar solos. However, the center of the new youth culture moved dallla London Carnaby Street in the Haight-Ashbury area of \u200b\u200bSan Francisco, California, which, even today, is full of degenerate freak you say "Peace and Love" and then ask you a couple of dollars for their hallucinogenic habits now harmless. "
" Their records speak of flowers, young girls and sex: all very decadent. "
Both drawn from the article" The Total Look "by Paul Weller.
