The Effects of the Sixties Culture on Music | The Effects of the Sixties Culture on Music

Through the ages music and art have reflected what was happening in the era of an artist. Artists who preferred not to celebrate their kings or religion could turn to drugs that expand the mind to find inspiration. Their ultimate inspiration would come from the recesses of their minds that could only be unlocked through the use of drugs like LSD and acid. A time came in American history where political activism, free love, and recreational drug use went hand and hand. Drug use and political movements from 1963-1973 helped musicians to write creative and meaningful songs that voiced the ideas of the people.

As one may know, many popular bands of the sixties went through at least one phase of drug induced inspiration for music. Two bands especially notorious for finding their creativity in this way are the Grateful Dead and the Jimi Hendrix...
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