David Crosby of CS&N Died Today
I think the true first figurative nails in the coffin of the spirit of the 60's died, if not most of them, occured when John Lennon was shot and killed outside the Dakota apartment building in December 1980 by a deranged, paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was a hypocrite, fueled by an extreme obsessive, narrow-minded interpretation of A Catcher in the Rye.
If David Crosby really was the embodiement of Billy of Easy Rider, then lets also ask the uncomfortable, uneasy rhetorical question Peter Fonda's character told Hopper's after their nice, trippy Mardi Gras inspired-graveyard LSD excursion, they were on the road again after leaving New Orleans and Fonda tells Hopper: "We blew it". If there is a more poignant, definitive, honest cinematic assessment of the late 60's counterculture, doing a critical analysis of their own successes, failures and shortcomings and its ambitions, that statement kind of sums it up and Peter Fonda never backed down from his character's assessment of his generation's coming up short, he stayed resilient to the day he died.As with all things in life- it all comes back to the words of Kenny Loggins .
And fwiw, i agree with him- the 60s officially died this week with the passing of David Crosby .
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I think the true first figurative nails in the coffin of the spirit of the 60's died, if not most of them, occured when John Lennon was shot and killed outside the Dakota apartment building in December 1980 by a deranged, paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was a hypocrite, fueled by an extreme obsessive, narrow-minded interpretation of A Catcher in the Rye.