The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - I Want to Take You Higher: The Psychedelic Era 1965-1969 (edited by James Henke & Parke Puterbaugh, essays by Charles Perry & Barry Miles): I bought this coffee-table book in 1997 when my family and I visited the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. Like most coffee-table books, it is full of photographs, short and long essays and remembrances about the music industry, the artists, the fans, and especially the music. I had read parts of it serendipitously, but had never actually read the entire book. However, I rectified that during the last week and found it to be a fabulous immersion into the music and popular culture of those crazy psychedelic years during my last two years in high school and first two years in college. This book presents the good, the bad, the ridiculous, the ugly, the fun, the sad, the pain and the joy, while focusing on the music of that fascinating but difficult time. It will be most entertaining/interesting to those who lived through those psychedelic years as music loving teenagers. However it will also be informative for any music or social culture fan who is interested. It brought many fond memories for me, such as: a friend and I smoking dried banana peels (tasted horrible) in a ridiculous attempt to get high. It also includes lots of information about musical groups and musicians: Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, The Byrds, and many more. This book evoked very strong feelings about how important music was to me during those years and how turbulent and difficult they were for our society. I enjoyed this book very much. ( )