Re: Hang On Sloopy

On Thu, 29 May 2025 18:15:21 -0600, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

... In 1964, I don't recall
drug usage being widespread. 

>
....the 60s

In larger cities, "underground music" may have been played via AM
radio stations, but in many locations, local sponsors would have
rejected such music.

"Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or
somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_music

"The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late
1964,[2] by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver
on drums.....The band was one of the leaders of the underground scene
of the 1960s and became an important part of the American
counterculture of that decade.[3]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugs

"One of the earliest uses of the term "psychedelic" in music was by
The Holy Modal Rounders in 1964. The genre gained significant traction
during the "Summer of Love" in 1967 and continued to evolve throughout
the late 1960s and early 1970s"

"The original members of the Beat Generation used several different
drugs, including alcohol, marijuana, benzedrine, morphine, and later
psychedelic drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, and LSD. They often
approached drugs experimentally, initially being unfamiliar with their
effects.....In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were
incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation