The "British Invasion". A question for you old farts out there.

No Dave Clark Five or Beatles cliques I can recall. Dave Clark Five were pretty much flash in the pan with a few hits, Beatles much more. I do recall Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, watching with my grandparents, thought their long hair appalling, hilarious! While I did like the Beatles from the beginning, it was 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver' that made me respect them.

The Brits certainly were ahead of us at that time in bringing new form of rock to USA. Soul was newer form of pop here, what passed for rock was stuff like Frankie Avalon, Brian Hyland etc. Also served to spur American artists to offer more mature offerings over the long term.

Yes, early garage rock was an American thing, and my preferred music at that time. Bands like Beau Brummels, The Seeds, Count Five, Music Machine, Syndicate of Sound, Unrelated Segments, Zakary Thaks, Electric Prunes, Blues Magoos, Question Mark & Mysterians and The Litter. This was the music I related to with all my adolescent angst, which then led into the psychedelic era, .
Brits evolved in a different direction, all is good in my book, still listen to all these genres occasionally.

And yes, I did like DC5, Bits and Pieces really a garage rock song, heaviosity!

Well, there is a difference between early/mid 60's, say '63 vs. '67. Brit invasion era really at it's end around 67. This is the beginning of the flower power/psychedelic era. Brit invasion music is a Top 40 convention, the two or three minute song thing. Many Brit invasion bands morphed into more complex/mature forms of rock, the ones who didn't mostly died by end of '67. FM free form stations took over the air waves around this time as well, AM Top 40 in beginning of death throes.

Oh, oh, Zappa in Joe's garage practicing!

Every time I hear "All Day Music" I have visual memory of a picnic we had by river, beautiful spring day. Always brings me back to that summer of 1971.
War never sounds dated to me, and sound quality is great.

Hilarious, I too had extremely miltaristic  female chorus teacher in 9th grade. Got kicked out of class for year for failure to conform, had to sit in principle's office for the year, deprived of all books, anything to read or distract me. Staring at the wall for 45 minutes every day. Funny thing was, I loved singing in chorus and was told I had perfect pitch.

Have to admit, I was a young radical, garage rock and later bands like MC5, Stooges, and even later,  hard core mosh pits  attracted me.