Fan blades of a Huey rotating slowly above a troubled dreamer, Jim Morrison's
             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 the establishment (Archer 90).
             As Bob Dylan put it, "living through the sixties was like seeing a UFO". It was
             the decade of civil rights, tragic assassinations, flower children, unforgettable fashion,
             protest marches and the first moon landing. At home, the clash of tradition and upheavel,
             violence and dreams created a portrait of a nation torn asunder. Changes occurred in
             nearly every aspect of society as traditional values were rejected by a new counterculture.
             The revolt of youth was mirrored by a dramatic revolution in the music they listened to.
             The era saw a rise, primarily in rock n' roll, with its sexual and drug overt...