TIMELINE SIXTIES UNTIL TODAY.

What happened between the 60's and the 70s?

One word.  Cocaine.

It was.  We went from hippy groovers smoking weed and expanding their minds on LSD in the 60s, to cocaine fueled disco in the 70s.

well there was lots and lots of drugs.... but there was some dang good music.

All You Need is Love

Don' tell me. I had, thanks to my profession to get "samples" of drugs even worse than cocaine and heroin together and for free.
I remember me reading in some magazines, that KEITH RICHARDS is still living, because he could afford the GOOD, 100% pure stuff.
Unfortunately, if you see the guy, I admire him, but a lot of people at his age are in a service flat
What I wanted to ask with this topic was in fact: the most important bands in the sixties, seventies, and their impact on the music until today.

I told already that I had the honor to be MD on one of the biggests popfestivals in Europe.
I was "backstage" only responsable for the "bands". I saw and learned a lot there. I can tell that I have seen an evolution from 1982 ----> 1996, I stopped and left the unpaid job to another doctor.
In the beginning, there was a lot more drugs, marihuana and hash and alcohol, in 1996 the groups were more clean, and they ordered less, and they used vitamines, fruit...
I had a real close contact with even the biggest names. I saw that the groups, or singers, in fact all celebrities like Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, The Cure, the Jam... were really nice guys, but the "sharks"were horrible. Those people, like roadmanagers and others found themselves more important than the musicians. Thanks to my real nice conversations, I was asked to come on stage, Neil Young asked me that I was on stage, behind curtains and not really visible. I swear that as a little shrimp with Neil Young, The Cure, Foo Fighters and others, you get a "kick" seeing the crowd singing using sigaret lighters was abnormal fantastic, it is a feeling that you can compare with the feeling the artists get on stage. Backstage, rule number one was: DO NOT DISTURB THE MUSICIANS, I had the luck that they invited me in their trailer, using a medical advise or treatment. Dave Grohl invited me to come over end of august 1996. I had all his private numbers, I could sleep there and he planned almost everything, like going in a studio, where REM recorded a new album, play together, and I phoned him that I couldn't come. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I probably ever made in my life. We kept in touch for a few months and as it is like always, those things end. I still regret this "miracle". I still remember what he toldme about Cobain and he HATED Courtney Love, accusing her indirectly as the reason why Cobain died (Not believing in suicide, as alot of people did). This was a once in a lifetime offer, I was just afraid to go back on Holiday, only 3 months after travelling in South Africa), to loose a lot of patients. About the Smiths, I don't like their music, same thing for the Cure. I was on stage whenthey performed and I saw at least 500 look a likes.
Maybe I should try to listen better to the Cure, Smiths BUT THEY ARE SO DARK.
Moddish you write what I think, one music style influence other groups, who influence again others, but I have it difficult to understand how music styles are born.
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE SMITHS