Word: psychedelia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes all this so uncommon is that classic rockers--especially the prodigiously talented psychedelia-tinged guitar slingers of the '60s and '70s--are usually considered by radio to be as irrelevant to today's pop- and hip-hop-happy world as Benny Goodman was to the Woodstock generation. Santana's biggest smash, Abraxas, came in 1970. Radio now shuns most of the greats of Santana's glory days--the Who, the Allman Brothers, even Paul McCartney. Who cares if you're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? It's ratings they want...
...much more: the rediscovery of beauty in the world, of accessible pleasures. Still, he really does little more than abandon his adult responsibilities and regress to teenage indulgences. Lester's raging at the dying of the light might be a little more poignant if it meant more than rediscovering psychedelia and getting into a coed's pants. Furthermore, Angela (played by the svelte and perceptive Mena Suvari) is nearly as brittle and shallow as Lester's wife. Lester isn't checking out of the race, he's just trading up for a newer model...
Attention, boomers. The forefathers of Woodstock Nation are dead. In the past 10 years, we've bid happy trails to Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Rubin, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary. Of psychedelia's heavy hitters, only a tiny fragment of Ken Kesey remains...
...have chosen to travel this road have tended, almost by definition, to be staunchly independent--and, given the chance, audiences have often responded. Hendrix, who early on played guitar in Little Richard's band, built a cultural bridge that links the deepest blues to the furthest reaches of psychedelia. Sylvester Stewart, the indomitable Sly of the multiracial Sly and the Family Stone, mixed a hugely influential blend of funk and rock 'n' roll. And certainly no one could ever accuse the Artist Formerly Known as Prince--the moniker itself says it all--of caving in to industry pressures...
...course, that New Age romance with irrationalism is new. We have had pyramid power, astral travel, channeling, tarot, crystal therapy, even homeopathy for decades now. They constitute a kind of a behavioral aftertaste, a ritualized residue of '60s psychedelia...