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Psychedelic/ Acid rock helped capture the underlying feelings of aimlessness and escapism through drug use that characterized the youth of the sixties.

At the very beginning of the decade, musicians began experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs as 'enhancements' to the experience of music, both for musicians and listeners. It became a cultural fad in which, as Jerry Garcia put it, taking drugs like LSD served as a sort of rite of passage. As soon as bands like the Beatles (who had established their image as straight-edged youths) publicly acknowledged their use of LSD, drug use in the younger populations only became more acceptable. As taken from wikipedia, Journalist Al Aranowitz wrote "...whatever the Beatles did was acceptable, especially for young people."

So what was it about the music that made it significant to the era in any way?

As Paul McCartney said in 1967, psychedelia meant musical liberation: "The straights should welcome the Underground because it stands for freedom." It was an opportunity for artists to take advantage of the