For those who weren’t fortunate to be around, the late ‘60s and early ‘70s were a wonderful time to be a young music fan. There was no Reality TV to compromise an artist’s mystique and no Internet to oversaturate their work. Without the “benefit” of YouTube, hungry fans had “skin in the game” — investing ourselves in seeking out new music on our own individual terms. And it wasn’t always an easy process. MTV hadn’t even arrived on the scene yet. As a result, we looked to weekly 90-minute TV music programs as a means of “tuning in” and “turning on” to the latest trends. The cool thing about such shows as The Midnight Special, Dick Clark’s In Concert and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert was that all the performers played — live. Also, there was no racial division or genre difference presented in ...