one characteristic of many songs from the 1960s and early 70s is the interweaving of eastern instruments, harmonies, with western music and lyrics. I'm not particularly informed on this topic - but I do remember the newness of sounds that perhaps were from India or Tibet or Iran, the sitars and jingling percussions, the curious, sweet, wandering melodies. Derek & the Dominos, the Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young all used elements from the east, a kind of cohesive underlayer. Around the same time, incense was popular among young adults, and inexpensive fabrics, bedspreads from India decorated many an apartment wall or sofa. But it's the joining of rock and popular music with the holy fragrances and exotic sounds of distant lands that anchor memories from that time -