Recommended DVDs

Movies

• Easy Rider (1969) - hippies, bikers, drugs, and a roadtrip from Los Angeles to New Orleans
• A Hard Day's Night (1964) - first film starring the Beatles
• Head (1968) - film written by and starring the Monkees
• Quadrophenia (1979) - mods vs. rockers in Brighton, England, 1964, music by the Who

Documentaries

• Festival Express (2003) - Canadian rock festival train tour in 1970 with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and more
• Gimme Shelter (1970) - the Rolling Stones famous 1969 concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California
• Jimi Hendrix (1973) - about the most famous rock guitarist in American history
• Monterey Pop (1969) - famous 1967 pop music festival in Moneterey, CA featuring Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and the Mamas & the Papas
• Woodstock (1970) - the most famous rock and roll festival in American history

Outline

A Bit of History - pop music before the Beatles, JFK assassination

• "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones

The Mod Scene (Quadrophenia)

• "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks
• "My Generation" by the Who (from Monterey Pop Festival DVD)

Bob Dylan and the folk influence

• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan
• "Ticket to Ride" by the Beatles

Jimi Hendrix and the Psychedelic Experience

• "Like a Rolling Stone" performed by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (Monterey Pop Festival DVD)
• "Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You (remix)" by the Beatles
  

Album Art of 1967 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

• Disraeli Gears by Cream
  
• Strange Days by the Doors
  
• Are You Experienced? by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Forever Changes by Love
  
• Pandemonium Shadow Show by Harry Nilsson
• Procol Harum by Procol Harum
• The Parable of Arable Land by Red Crayola
• Their Satanic Majesties Request by the Rolling Stones
  
• The Velvet Underground & Nico, artwork by Andy Warhol
  
• The Who Sell Out by the Who
  

Blues Rock and Supergroups

• "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream
• Led Zeppelin
• "Don't Let Me Down" by the Beatles

Effects in Los Angeles

• "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by the Byrds
• The Mamas and the Papas (from the Monterey Pop Festival DVD)
• The Monkees (DVD)
• The Doors live at the Hollywood Bowl
  

Effects in San Francisco

• "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie (from the Monterey Pop Festival DVD)
• "San Franciscan Nights" by Eric Burdon & the Animals
• "White Rabbit/Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane

Woodstock and Protest Rock

• "I Feel Like Fixin' to Die" by Country Joe & the Fish
• "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
  
• "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon