rock and roll war

Rock n’ Roll War Fan blades of a Huey rotating slowly above a troubled dreamer, Jim Morrison’s voice singing “The End”... Young soldiers on their way to Vietnam in the summer of Woodstock, marching onboard their plane at Ft. Dix singing “Fixing to Die”... Cassette rock n’roll in one ear and door-gun fire in the other... Crouched in a rice paddy while Jimi Hendrix’ idiosyncratic guitar style blares from an Akai stereo held …showed first 75 words of 2813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2813 total…end with the words of the young private in Medina, “My buddy Parker, along with his D-Cell record player and Beatles album, introduced us to an entirely new genre of music, album rock, and with it an entirely new form of warfare for Americans: concept war. Maybe that’s why Vietnam and rock n’ roll seem to go so well together. Yo Parker-- Hey, hey, my, my. Rock n’ roll will never die.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**