were being sent away to Vietnam, others refused. Some were still basking in the sounds of the 1950s and still others moved on. Funny thing is...perhaps the most important day in the history of modern music did happen in America. It was the arrival of a British airplane carrying 4 moppy headed musicians who called themselves the Beatles. This was the beginning of the British Invasion musically and it had a huge impact on American culture. At first, the adults of the United States objected to this new music. This created a new Rock and Roll subculture. Beatles fans instinctively flocked to the arenas and clubs just to get a glance of these people their parents told them to stay away from. It was peaceful defiance...a phrase that would be used in reference to the 1960s for decades to come. Bob Dylan and Joan Baez sang their songs of protest to a subculture very angry about the affairs of their country at the time. That protest gave way to a late sixties drug culture that began on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. The Grateful Dead openly embraced American cultures outcasts. Long haired hippies followed their favorite band around the country going anywhere they went. LSD was the drug of the times as bands like the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers and Jefferson Airplane opened up new worlds for their fans. Although the Grateful Dead would continue to play until the mid-1990s, the hippie culture of the late Sixties peaked during 1969s Woodstock festival and kind of fell off for a little bit. Little did these Dead-Heads know that their culture would be expressed in slightly different forms all the way into the next century. In the 1980s, British musicians again made their way into other world cultures through another new and exciting type of music. Bands like The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Talking Heads were headlining a club called CBGBs in New York City and filtering their new Punk Rock into a subc...
