What if you could reinvent your life and have another go at it, starting somewhere, somewhen else? Me, I’d opt to have been born a decade earlier and I’d have moved to Los Angeles in 1965, aged 17. That way I’d have been hanging around the Sunset Strip in 1967 where, at the Whisky A Go Go alone, I’d have seen Love, The Doors, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield, Moby Grape, Spirit, Janis Joplin, and Them with Van Morrison. I might even have hopped a short haul or thumbed a ride to Monterey where the Pop Festival was, as they say, happening.
This was the year soundtracked by Sgt Pepper, Surrealistic Pillow, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Safe As Milk, Soul Finger and…
