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Steamboat Springs — The '60s tribute band The Easy Peaces will take the Baby Boomer generation back to a time when original music was still being created.

"It brings you back to the whole feeling of being free, when you knew you were on the edge of something really different," said guitarist and vocalist Kip Strean. "All this great music was constantly coming out in the '60s. You don't see original music coming out anymore."

The concerts The Easy Peaces will play Wednesday and Thursday night are for Strean's generation.

"It's for people who are my age and whose kids are grown up," he said. "It's the second chance to go out and play, and we don't want to go out to a hip-hop show."

The band will play music by The Byrds, The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young and Crosby, Stills & Nash. The band members will play the music on the same instruments the original bands used.

"We get to bring out the old vintage guitars like the electric 12-string," Strean said. "I was lucky enough to get a hold of (one of the 1,000 made) Roger McGuinn Rickenbacker guitars. It makes it sound much more authentic when you play the same instruments they played."

Strean chose to put together a program of music from the late '60s and early '70s because he is well versed in it, and he was there.

"I've seen every one of these bands live except The Beatles," he said. "It's a tribute to the bands I think meant a lot to me - not sure about anybody else."

Strean hopes to re-create the atmosphere of concerts from that time.

"In those days, you could get right up close and personal because you didn't have all the security you have now," he said. "If you had long hair and a guitar case, you could get backstage."