voice singing "The End"... Young soldiers on their way to Vietnam in the summer of

Woodstock, marching onboard their plane at Ft. Dix singing "Fixing to Die"... Cassette

rock n'roll in one ear and door-gun fire in the other... Crouched in a rice paddy while

Jimi Hendrix' idiosyncratic guitar style blares from an Akai stereo held in the hand of a

soldier who uses his other to feed an ammunition belt through the breech of a roaring

M-60... Three million young people in the streets of America demonstrating against the

war with the urgent, nasal whine of Bob Dylan's voice ringing in their heads. The

Vietnam War era had a true rock n' roll soundtrack.

For the first time in American history, music became a powerful political tool for

an entire generation. The musicians of the 1960s took what they loved and performed it

on experimental instruments and new equipment. They wrote and sang about what was

on their minds and what was important to their generation: sex, drugs, love, revolution

and an unpopular war in Vietnam. They did it all with the passion of living their lives

day by day, as they fought the strangling death grip of th

protest marches and the first moon landing. At home, the clash of tradition and upheavel,

Kill" clashed in the minds of the U.S. soldiers who were packed up and shipped off to

at times, involved full frontal nudity.

the word of a new dawning in America. As the snap transition from relaxed,

folk and scores of other types of music that became popularized through their protest

"Masters of War" chastised the government for creating the conflict so greedy

powerful lyrics with a crude new sound. Revolutionary musicians such as Carlos Santana

from bars and mess halls from Saigon to the trenches of Hue. A much darker side of the

with all of them came a voice that spoke for the generation they fostered. Like the

had earlier asked the band to appear and perform the following month, witnessed the

music industry. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, and Buffalo

genre of music, album rock, and with it an entirely new form of warfare for Americans:

FM radio hit the airwaves and the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine hit the

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