"I feel deeply sorry for those you who were not around to participate in the music of the 60s. You can listen to the recordings, but there was magic in the air that is lost in the deep mist of time. There was a Golden Decade of priceless music-magic unlike anything else in history. It materialized mysteriously and then de-materialized just as mysteriously. You had to be there. It was like a musical Camelot. We knew it was awesome while it was happening, but we did not know it would end completely, like a dream. It was a religious experience."

--a quote I ran across on YouTube.