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Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes

I had this idea for a post about the Fleet Foxes. It was gonna be about hippies and the late 60s counterculture movement. I was gonna talk about the Merry Pranksters and the Acid Tests, the Haight-Ashbury and the Summer of Love. Then I’d write about the hippie backlash, about Charles Manson, Drug Addiction, Divorce, Richard Nixon. And somewhere in this historical retelling would the Fleet Foxes standing at the tipping point. They’d be playing at Woodstock or something and everyone loves them. But then shit spins out of control and Jimi ODs and Captain America and Billy’s search for freedom in America ends in a bloody fiery mess and Richard Nixon gets reelected and the Fleet Foxes won’t escape the downward spiral but their songs would still exist and they would remind you of the good times and wash away the bad.