AcornHouse said:
Just read up on the history. At the same time that they were the Warlocks, the Velvet Underground were also the Warlocks, AND, they had to change to The Dead because yet another band called the Warlocks had just signed a recording contract.
Imagine seeing that in a pizza parlor in 1965.
If you lived in Menlo Park CA chances were your daddy was an electronics engineer at one of the fledgling high-tech businesses sprouting up around Lockheed Missile and Space Company and destined to become the vast cultural wasteland known as Silicon Valley.
There you are, Friday family night at the pizza parlor, dad's still got on his skinny black tie and horn-rim glasses and mom's wearing a flower print frock.
Big sister's flirting with one of the local high school guys who looks like one of the Beach Boys and little brother's picking on some girl he thinks he doesn't like from his 5th grade class.
You can still get "Wake Up Little Susie" and "King of the Road" and "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Ring Of Fire" on the jukebox. Also "Dooh Wah Diddy" and "Hello Dolly", and "Tijuana Taxi" and "Goldfinger". And "If I had a Hammer" and "La Bamba".
Pop music had a little something for
everybody.
The Monkees haven't even hit TV yet.
Then these guys show up.
Over big sis' protests Dad promptly hauls everybody out to the station wagon and back home where it's safe.
Two years later sis has run away to Haight Ashbury, you're wearing Beatle Boots and bell bottoms, and little brother's sneaking smokes out behind the bleachers.
California's illegalized LSD which of course has resulted in widespread distribution of same and the precipitate breakdown of society as a whole.
All because of those d--n hippies.
Here in California we're still picking up the pieces, but the more things change the more they stay the same..
Poor Jerry never did get 'nough respeck.
