Buckle up, we’re taking the way back machine out for a real spin-all the way back to 1960. JFK became president that year, proclaiming, “The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century.” Elvis returned home from a two year Army stint in Germany, and Muhammed Ali (Cassius Clay, Jr. at the time) captured a gold medal in the Summer Olympics. 

Sometimes the rock ‘n roll myth-you know, a group of working class kids harness their passion for music and use it to escape factory jobs, Popov vodka and eviction notices-actually comes to pass. Today, when each tossed mane seems market tested, it may be hard to recall a time when everything about a band was an honest reflection of the environment that spawned them, the territory they were staking out, or both.