Great blog! Right on the nail head. The staying power of "our" music is truly remarkable and today's music is mostly just 'so what'. I think another factor is music and art meant a lot more to our generation than art does to kids today. People ridicule the hippie generation and the sixties, but we were truly passionate about what we believed in, and a lot of great art was created in those few years. Another example is the poster art of the Fillmore and Family Dog era with artists like Moscoso, Kelly, Conklin, Mouse, and Griffin creating throw away weekly posters that are worth thousands today! I don't see that today; today's kids are freaking idiots, generally speaking. They just want the latest gadget in a new color. And the things we valued back then are still valid now because we had that passion. We grew up in turbulent times and I think we made them turbulent by our involvement in wanting to change things; and out of that turmoil blossomed great art. The world situation is worse than it was then but there's just apathy going around. No passion, no art. Sad times.