amount of acid and if you went crazy then you failed the acid test. A key slogan of the time was actually, Can you pass the acid test? These were done all over the U.S., but mostly California and were mostly at all Grateful Dead shows. The Grateful Dead introduced many things to musics mystique. They started using eye pleasing lighting techniques and incorporated weird noises into their shows. Jimi Hendrix was another big advocate for LSD use and usually played while tripping. Once he cut his forehead and put a drop of acid in his cut and put a bandanna over the cut and played an amazing show. LSD seemed to open up peoples heads to new ideas and gave them a new outlook on life. The Woodstock Music Festival has been deemed the culmination of the counterculture. As Wavy Gravy put it once, If you werent a part of [this] culture before Woodstock then you definitely were after. The bringing together of musics brightest minds at the time and 500,000 people was the solidifier of this decade. By solidification I mean that everyone from this culture could actually experience love, peace, and community for three days. Despite the rain, lack of toiletries and toilets, and lack of food most of the youth at the festival stayed throughout the whole thing. This along with many other things had opened up the youths eyes about a near perfect generation and about love. Each generation after the 1960s has been compared to that generation. Most generations are trying to rekindle those feelings brought around by the 1960s. Unluckily it has brought around a resurgence of those hard drugs that remain prevalent in the 21st century now. The music has also had a resurgence that has brought around the Grateful Dead and bands influenced by them like Phish, Moe, and Acoustic Hooka. All generations wish to strive to be more like that age when things seemed golden or was it a flashback?...
