ir right to drugs. Hendrix similarly publicly calls to drugs for help in Purple Haze when he describes being so high that he must, "kiss the sky." The Doors also publicly encourage drug use, telling their fans to "ride the highway baby," in The End. Jim Morrison, singer for the Doors solidifies his request to do as he wishes with his body by masturbating on stage in a concert. There is no more talk of a revolution; instead, all the rhetoric coming for counter culture musicians is for the government to let them do with their body and lives as they wish.In the shadow of popular music of the day, the counter culture fought a public fight for free expression with their minds and bodies. They did they mostly through their alternative form of music. With groups like the Supremes shooting to number one on the charts by singing, "My baby likes (buttered popcorn)" and the Beach Boys harmonizing about the life of a California teenager asking a girl "do you do you do you want to dance?" the counter culture was fighting an uphill battle. However, after calling for drastic changes in policy early on in the form of a revolution, most counter culturalists gave up the political portion of the cultural rebellion. Instead, they took the movement out of the counter culture and made the struggle about telling the government to basically leave them alone. If they wanted to do drugs, the government should let them since it is their own bodies. If Jim Morrison wanted to masturbate onstage, he is affecting nothing besides his body, counter culturalists would argue. Therefore, in contrast to descriptions of the counter culture as a movement, it was really an outpouring of emotions of a group of people who wanted to either have their rights recognized or left alone. The counter culture decided that if the government cared little enough about them to send their peers into the Vietnam War, they should not have a say in how each person treats their mind a...
