The 60's; I can't respond without bias because I love the concept and I grew up during those years; youth is golden. Lump all the Jazz and Blues and Rock/folk into one jukebox and then tell me it was not a creative utopia. As far as the time period; what can anyone say? It meant something or it didn't depending on your personal experience.
But this is true; there was a sense of possibilities that was enticing and in my experience of the world it has become a less interesting place than it was then.

I used to go to CBGB's but never got the whole punk thing. Nothing like walking up to the door with a suede jacket on and 100 people with safety pins stuck in their faces and chartruese hair. Then they used to dance and spit on each other!
All in good fun I geuss.

Trash records; I stumbled upon an old copy of Dory Previn's Mythical Kings and Iquana's. Talk about pretentious; but it was soothing at the time I geuss. Or maybe not. We all have guilty pleasures; I like a lot of country music; Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.

I still like a lot of the music from Zimbabwe; and township jive also; Obu Addy/Topando and the Bunda Boys/Anikapulti Fela. Reminds me of Ska in it's pure ethnicity. Anyone rememmber Kid Creole?