Eugene Weekly - June 8th, 2017 - by Bob Keefer It was 50 years ago today — well, more or less — that my generation found itself.
Rock ’n’ roll turned grand and pretentious that year, 1967, when Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play with a real live symphony orchestra. Here in Eugene, KLCC went on the air for the first time, and the Oregon Country Fair was two years away from being born. Across the ocean, Vietnam was purring along like a macabre lawnmower. That was the year of the Summer of Love. I was 15. My friends and I sat on the beach in Los Angeles smoking dope and...
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