rock and roll war

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

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