Additionally, CSNY was barely a 60s band, forming in 1968 and adding the Y in 1969. For one thing, CSNY is only half American. Of those iconic American bands from the late 60s, none was more curious than Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. But we so desperately wanted them to mean more. America’s version was, by comparison, contrived and, maybe a little sad. England had The Beatles, The Stones, The Who and The Kinks. And yet, in retrospect, the greatest of the American Rock bands from that era were more important than they were objectively great. At their best, they could represent utopian idealism in a way that a solo artist cannot.Īmerica at the end of the 1960s - Woodstock, Vietnam, Manson, Martin Luther King - signified something so huge, iconoclastic and generational. Rock bands, however, are a different thing. And, while they may not have been cool or politicized, we had Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. We had Soul music - Aretha, Marvin and Motown. There were many more important artists born into and out from the counterculture in America.
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