The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 3
The early 70s were like a bad hangover from the 60s...the hippie generation had its victories\u2013civil rights, women\u2019s rights, the pill, the end of the draft and the Vietnam war\u2013but it there was also a sense that the whole \u201cpeace and love\u201d approach to social change had played itself out...\n\nMeanwhile, the 60s generation had grown up, graduated, moved on, settled down and basically got on with the business of being adults and dealing with the first oil crisis, inflation, recession, the cold war, unemployment, the shootings at Kent state and a corrupt American president who was forced to resign...\n\nRock music\u2013which had been a big part of these sweeping social changes\u2013was tired...the good vibes of Woodstock were destroyed by the violence of Altamont...the Beatles had broken up...Jim, Jimi and Janis were dead...and the last thing that people seemed to want was music with any kind of message...\n\nBut underneath this sombre, conservative mood, something radical was happening...sometimes things have to get really, really bad before someone says \u201cright!\xa0 That\u2019s enough!\xa0 I\u2019m going to do something about it!\u201d....and that\u2019s exactly what happened....\n\nThis is the complete history of alt-rock, chapter 3...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices