A pretty ambitions request. "Hippie" era music covers a pretty broad period, as it would start with the Folk Music Revival of the late 1950s and extend through the years of Rock and Roll popularity. I think the Hippie movement ended around the time that hard rock started.
I would put the hippie era from '65 - '66 to '73 -'74 when disco started and the shared counter culture of the 60's turned into the Me Generation of the 70's.
You're starting date is too late. In 1965 Bob Dylan had already gone electric (I was at the Newport Folk Festival to see him booed off the stage in 1965) and the hippies were already building geodesic domes in a remote area of Ontario. In 1962 I was already hanging out in coffee houses with folk singers.
I don't think there were large numbers of hippies until 65 or 66, which is what I am referring to. The use of psychedelic drugs actually began in the 50's , but it was the mid 60's before it caught national attention.
By around this time, "hippies" were being noted on the U.S. West Coast as well. The first clearly contemporary use of the word "hippie" appeared in print on September 5, 1965 .
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Another early appearance of the term hippies was on November 27, 1964 in a TIME Magazine article about a 20-year-old's drug use scandalizing the town of Darien, Connecticut: "The trouble is that in a school of 1,018 pupils so near New York there is bound to be a fast set of hard-shell hippies like Alpert [the 20-year-old] who seem utterly glamorous to more sheltered types."
Granted that the hippie culture didn't flourish until the early to mid 1960s, but it had its predecessors in the Lost Generation, the Bohemian Generation, the Beat Generation (Beatniks) and then the Hippies. The coffee houses in Greenwich Village were starting to open in the late 1950s, frequented by persons with long hair, beards, dope smokers, etc. Yorkville Village in Toronto was a copy of Greenwich, with coffee houses opening. I started going to coffee houses in Yorkville when I was in Law School starting in 1958 where I met artists, musicians, and there were lots of examples of the look and dress of the Greenwich Village hippies. Perhaps the PEAK of hippiedom was the summer of love in San Francisco.
I was a teenager during much of the hippie era, in a working class Irish neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. No hippies per se around, although we were certainly following it in music and the drug culture. In close proximity was an Italian neighborhood where a lot of kids adopted the style, pictured in film by A Bronx Tale, with the iridescent pants and suits and the brims. In Chicago we called them the greasers.
Then there were the preppies with the button down pattern shirts , casual dress slacks and penny loafers.
Me and my friends were more like teenage slobs with no dress or style code at all. Not greasers, preppies, or hippies. We called ourselves "grubs".
I did have one pair of striped bell bottoms. They always felt more like a Halloween costume to me than something I really wanted to wear and I only wore them a few times.
I did something extreme. I had a tux made with a long black silk brocade jacket in a Nehru style to wear over a white silk turtleneck lightweight sweater, and black bell bottom pants with a matching black silk brocade stripe down the sides. When a friend got married and the bride wore a beautiful white silk sari with silver trim, and he was dressed in a very ordinary sports jacket, everyone thought I was the groom.
YouTube does not open in my location, so if you also post the name of the song and artist then I might be familiar with it anyway, or I can locate it on the music sites that I have access to, otherwise I am excluded from your comments (but then maybe that's your preference).
We had just moved to the Hippie Capitol of the east coast.
There was no one in our particular neighborhood capable of playing sports.
A family friend took me under his wing and taught me many things. Making cars go fast, in particular. He tried to teach my how to shoot, but the roles quickly reversed. He and his wife became my mentors and best friends.
When at home, I still lacked the kind of entertainment I wanted. Music,
I found an old discarded AM radio my parents put in the trash and stared fiddling with it. When I got it working this was the very first song I heard it play:
I recall my mom sent me to spend the summer with my aunt in Connecticut. I love her and she had a wonderful 200 year old home with several out buildings which was located across the street from some slow moving river. Shade trees covering the banks.
At some point we visited a mom and her daughter living in a trailer park. The girl was a couple years older than me and invited me to a party that weekend.
Boom, the very next day I found myself on a train headed back to Maryland...
Is it safe to assume that there was an enraged mother wielding a formidable firearm to make sure you got on that train?
LOL, no the Mom liked me too.
My dear Aunt and dear Mom "conspired against me". Miss them both.
Aunt J was that eccentric one, you know, the Mary Poppins one.
Who else would send an early teen both directions through Grand Central Station in NYC and Penn Station in DC by themselves?
But I had insight on Grand Central station from earlier years when I visited her in Manhattan and she would go through some of the specialty fashion kiosks, especially the ones with colorized eye contacts. She often tried to hide her grey Russian eyes.
Debbie "checked all the boxes" for me. Yep, I'm a guy. Certain things turn on all the switches,. Only an idiot would try to deny it.
Long black hair - check
Green (A+) or Blue (A) eyes - Check - Debbie had blue.
I am somewhat familiar with that area-- the suburbs of D,C. actually. My cousin used to live in Silver Springs-- but moved to Charlotte N.C. Her sister still lives outside of Bethesda. And I used to have friends and/or relatives in the area-- Chevy Chase, in the District, Falls Church.
All in all it is a nice area, though I live further to the north and west these days in the agri and horse farm areas. There is a farm diagonally across the street from me.
I lived in Silver Spring (no trailing s, that is in Florida) when I was a little kid. Oddly enough, as much as it has grown, it still has that sense of a small town. I still like it as I visit one of my banks there at least monthly.
It is enjoyable to give a little history of the town to the bank employees.
Great songs. BTW, Tommy James and I have developed a friendship over the past couple of years. He's a terrific guy who is still performing and turning out great music. Plus hosting on Sirius Radio on Sundays.
I began my hippie journey ironically shortly before going on active duty in 1967. Janis Joplin asked me out in a Restaurant where I was a cook. It was shortly before Monterey Pop Festival and she was hardly known then. I became a huge fan and was so saddened by her death.
I went to see Hair on Broadway in '69.
in '69 flyers were going around New England about a huge NY concert. A buddy I served with was from the area. So we took off in his '62 VW playing Dylan and the Band on our trip. 3 miles out we had to get out of the car because we could go no further. We got discouraged and left because we were sure we would have become AWOL. Little did we know until days later that we had been that close to being part of Woodstock.
I have lived much of my adult life as a hippie. All the hippies I ever knew and associated with wanted nothing to do with government. It's about voluntary community, freedom, and living the lifestyle that goes with it.
I'm starting up a new business with products that reflect that history and are like those I used to sell in the 70's
Let me add some without the attachments
Canned Heat- Going Up the Country
Quicksilver Messenger Service- Fresh Air
It's A Beautiful Day- White Bird
CSN&Y- Almost Cut My Hair
CSN&Y- Woodstock
Richie Valens-Freedom
Blind Faith- Can't Find My Way Home
Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction (another person I got to know going back to the early 70's when he became a born again Christian)
Arlo Guthrie- Coming into Los Angeles
Moody Blues - everything
Beach Boys- Good Vibrations
Commander Cody- Down to Seeds and Stems Again
CSN&Y- Teach Your Children
CSN&Y- Wooden Ships
CSN&Y- Find the Cost of Freedom
America- Horse with No Name
Traffic- Dear Mr Fantasy
Eric Burden and War- Spill the Wine
Eric Burden and War- Warm San Friscan Night
Beatles- White Album
Emerson Lake & Palmer- From the Beginning
Norman Greenbaum- Spirit in the Sky
Grateful Dead- Truckin
Janis- Me n Bobby McGee
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Van Morrison- Moondance
Cream- Sunshine of Your Love
Cream- I Feel Free
Bob Marley- One Love
The Band- The Weight
Scott McKenzie- San Francisco
Joni Mitchell- Blue (whole album)
Simon & Garfunkle- Scarborough Fair
Cowsills- I Love the Flower Girl
Cowsills- Rain in the Park and Other Things
Seals & Crofts- Hummingbird
Seals & Crofts- Summer Breeze
Santana-Caravanserai album
One of my favorite movies that captures the Hippie Era is Flashback with Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland
Flashback was a great movie. It was sad to see the commune deserted by all except Carol Kane. I used to spend weekends now and then during the late 60s and early 70s at a hippie commune in the remote Killaloe, Ontario, area. My friends Mario and Ingrid lived in a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome there. I was so happy when I was up there that I almost bought this farm from an elderly couple who wanted to retire to the city, for $15,000. 300 acres including a 35 acre self-contained clean spring-fed lake, 65 acres cleared and the rest forest, a tight little farmhouse with indoor plumbing, and an abandoned brick one-room schoolhouse where the long road into the house meets the county gravel road.
There are some excellent short clips from that film on YouTube-- here's one I like. (Scene starts in first video than continues in the second one-- just a short overlap at the beginning of the second one):
I suppose I can assume you've been referring to Easy Rider.
Yup.
The scene where Jack Nicholson makes a joint for the first time and starts a rambling talk...I posted two short video clips of that because previous there was a short video of them riding their bikes with "Born to Be Wild" playing-- from the movie..
Long ago (I was in my late 20s) a group of us rented a summer house at the shore-- a big "singles scene". All the houses had names-- we named our House "Brown Sugar"..(For no apparentnreason-- except we akll loved The Stones).
My roomate at the time used to have The Moodies first album and played it constantly. It had some catchy tunes-- but unsophisticated compared to their later work.IMO:
Sometimes I just focus on the actual music and don't pay attention to the words.
Which are:
He mentions all the wars people fought, and says "I ain't marching any more"-- meaning he's not gonna fight in any more wars.
But in the 60s I was very, very active politically. Went on a lot of peace marches and civil rights marches.
I was getting tired of demonstrating-- for a while we marched down the Main Street every evening for weeks. So after a while whenever I heard that song I was thinking it meant I'm getting tired of all these protest marches-- and I was starting to feel that way too!.I was feeling I needed a break-- didn't want to march for a while!
I had one friend who emigrated to Canada to avoid the draft. Another traveled throughout Europe, bought a motorcycle in germany, traveled throughout Eastern Europe, Turkey, even went though Afghanistan...India-- down through Southeast Asia (just West of the war zones). Finally took a plane to Sarwin Australia. never came back to the U.S.
I knew several people who did all kind of crazy stuff to avoid getting sent to Viet-Nam and get blown up-- or crippled for life.
A friend of mine tended to "radio stations" in places "we were not involved".
During his travels through the jungles he came across a village where he met a very pretty Thai girl. He would always bring treats to all the villages he frequented, but special treats for this village and the family of this girl.
In exchange the villagers would look out for him and put warning signs along trails that he should avoid...such as 2 dead 2 steppers hung at eye level. That meant take another path.
One day he got the evac order. I mean THEE evac order. War was "over", get the hell out of Dodge.
My friend S bolted through the jungles to go find C. Gets to her village, asks her father for her hand in marriage, gets married right there and heads back to base with C in tow.
Boards a helicopter and a guard tries to stop C from boarding. S emphatically states "She is with ME". They are here to this day...she makes some great spiced Crab and Pho out of this world.
One friend of mine traveled all the way to Australia-- said he was never coming back. And he didn't. (for the first year or two we corresponded,but eventually lost touch.I assume he still lives there).
Some got doctors notes for various medical conditions-- real or imagined.. Or went into professions where they got draft deferments (cops, firemen, school-teachers were considered essential so they got draft deferments).
My college (undergrad years) roommate was going to go to medical school anyway. The government had a programewhere if a medical school graduate agreed to let them station him or her in an area where there was a shortage of Drs, they were draft exempt. So he agreed to move to this rather sparsely populated area in upstate N.Y. far from any major town.
He intended to stay there 'till the war was over, then leave. But he met a woman, got married, hadkids and apparently is very happy there.
There was a Canned Heat connection to Takoma Park too.
A couple of the girls in the front row here were older sisters to girls in my HS.
Root Boy Slim practiced in the house behind us for a while. Unknown to that I made friends with Ron Holloway who played sax for Root Boy Slim for a while. He eventually went out on his own to LA.
His Dad had a fantastic Jazz and Blues record collection go back to before the time of records and hand the equipment to play it all. Every wall of the basement was 100% packed with records and every other media you can imagine.
I was friendly with a small group on NV who were in a private group called "Heart of Darkness". (when they still allowed private groups-- before the "nations") . We were very secretive and mysterious, LOL! Well,there was a guy there who used the dcreen name "Root Boy Slim". He was a re-reg-- he had gotten banned several times and kept coming back under a new name until he was banned-- then waited a bit-- and re-registered!
(For some strange reason he really enjoyed re-registering and seeing how long he could fool the mods).
It's good to see you too, Krishna. The article is getting pretty big and my old computer doesn't move too fast when that happens. I put the two above on here, so Buzz could actually hear one or two. LOL Sorry Buzz. You should petition the Sargent at Arms to open them doors and let YouTube in. LOL
Don't rush to convert the songs as I may well have them on the music sites I have here. For example, I have the Buffalo Springfield Again album, and a lot of versions of For What It's Worth. I used to sit and have coffee in Yorkville (Hippie area) in Toronto with Bruce Palmer, and Neil Young and I were acquainted as I had business dealings with his brother Bob Young. One year when Neil showed up uninvited at the Mariposa Folk Festival he was invited by one of the regular performers to share the stage with him, and Neil asked me what I wanted to hear. I told him to play Helpless, one of my favourite songs. Bob gave me great tickets for the Rolling Thunder Review.
I just need to know the names of the songs and the performers, and I may be able to find them here, so don't convert any more unless I find I don't have it.
Goa Gil , original 1960s hippie who later became a pioneering electronic dance music DJ and party organizer, here appearing in the 2001 film Last Hippie Standing
I think Victor Garber (played the ship's architect in Titanic) played Jesus in that. He was my late sister-in law's first cousin. His mother borrowed $100 from me and never paid me back .
I posted I Just Want to Make Love to You, even though it was a cover of a Willie Dixon tune, because it was a hit in '72 (and it was sorta my philosophy back then).
IT'S GETTING BETTER - Mama Cass
HOLE IN MY SHOE - Traffic
Here's another great one by Mama Cass:
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A pretty ambitions request. "Hippie" era music covers a pretty broad period, as it would start with the Folk Music Revival of the late 1950s and extend through the years of Rock and Roll popularity. I think the Hippie movement ended around the time that hard rock started.
I would put the hippie era from '65 - '66 to '73 -'74 when disco started and the shared counter culture of the 60's turned into the Me Generation of the 70's.
You're starting date is too late. In 1965 Bob Dylan had already gone electric (I was at the Newport Folk Festival to see him booed off the stage in 1965) and the hippies were already building geodesic domes in a remote area of Ontario. In 1962 I was already hanging out in coffee houses with folk singers.
I don't think there were large numbers of hippies until 65 or 66, which is what I am referring to. The use of psychedelic drugs actually began in the 50's , but it was the mid 60's before it caught national attention.
Etymology of hippie - Wikipedia
By around this time, "hippies" were being noted on the U.S. West Coast as well. The first clearly contemporary use of the word "hippie" appeared in print on September 5, 1965 .
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Etymology of hippie - Wikipedia
Granted that the hippie culture didn't flourish until the early to mid 1960s, but it had its predecessors in the Lost Generation, the Bohemian Generation, the Beat Generation (Beatniks) and then the Hippies. The coffee houses in Greenwich Village were starting to open in the late 1950s, frequented by persons with long hair, beards, dope smokers, etc. Yorkville Village in Toronto was a copy of Greenwich, with coffee houses opening. I started going to coffee houses in Yorkville when I was in Law School starting in 1958 where I met artists, musicians, and there were lots of examples of the look and dress of the Greenwich Village hippies. Perhaps the PEAK of hippiedom was the summer of love in San Francisco.
I can agree that there were noticeable predecessors to the hippies who had most of the same values and habits.
I was a teenager during much of the hippie era, in a working class Irish neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. No hippies per se around, although we were certainly following it in music and the drug culture. In close proximity was an Italian neighborhood where a lot of kids adopted the style, pictured in film by A Bronx Tale, with the iridescent pants and suits and the brims. In Chicago we called them the greasers.
Then there were the preppies with the button down pattern shirts , casual dress slacks and penny loafers.
Me and my friends were more like teenage slobs with no dress or style code at all. Not greasers, preppies, or hippies. We called ourselves "grubs".
How about bell-bottoms?
I did have one pair of striped bell bottoms. They always felt more like a Halloween costume to me than something I really wanted to wear and I only wore them a few times.
I did something extreme. I had a tux made with a long black silk brocade jacket in a Nehru style to wear over a white silk turtleneck lightweight sweater, and black bell bottom pants with a matching black silk brocade stripe down the sides. When a friend got married and the bride wore a beautiful white silk sari with silver trim, and he was dressed in a very ordinary sports jacket, everyone thought I was the groom.
The first time I got married (1970) I was bare footed and I wore black and white striped bell bottoms.
This was my wedding march:
Kyrie Eleison by The Electric Prunes (the LSD trip in the cemetery in Easy Rider).
LOL
I used to have that album (as a 78).
This interview is indicative of Grace Slick's highly developed philosophy.
She's amazing!
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YouTube does not open in my location, so if you also post the name of the song and artist then I might be familiar with it anyway, or I can locate it on the music sites that I have access to, otherwise I am excluded from your comments (but then maybe that's your preference).
Censorshit sux!
The music video is White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
The second clip is an interview with Grace Slick on Good Night America (May 1st, 1974)
Thanks for going to the trouble of doing that, a.J. I can find a lot of the songs on the local music sites here.
That's what Buzz posted.
I was replying to him.
I think Buzz is in China.
The Chinese government probably blocks YouTube.
Fuck censorshit!
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Sky Pilot (full length) by Eric Burdon & The Animals
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Imagine by John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band
The first beatles song I ever heard (just before the more Hippie-type music appeared....:
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Been Down So Long by The Doors
We had just moved to the Hippie Capitol of the east coast.
There was no one in our particular neighborhood capable of playing sports.
A family friend took me under his wing and taught me many things. Making cars go fast, in particular. He tried to teach my how to shoot, but the roles quickly reversed. He and his wife became my mentors and best friends.
When at home, I still lacked the kind of entertainment I wanted. Music,
I found an old discarded AM radio my parents put in the trash and stared fiddling with it. When I got it working this was the very first song I heard it play:
This was the second one:
You lucked out-- two incredible songs!
LOL, it was "nirvana" for me at the time.
Except for Zep, I was sold on these guys right then and there.
My best friends from the neighborhood we had left had introduced me to Zep II. WOW.
I think the radio station was WPGC.
American Woman by The Guess Who (a Canadian band - yep, North American).
That hung around for long time here.
That whole timeframe was a turning point in my life.
I recall my mom sent me to spend the summer with my aunt in Connecticut. I love her and she had a wonderful 200 year old home with several out buildings which was located across the street from some slow moving river. Shade trees covering the banks.
At some point we visited a mom and her daughter living in a trailer park. The girl was a couple years older than me and invited me to a party that weekend.
Boom, the very next day I found myself on a train headed back to Maryland...
Debbie was a pretty girl...
Is it safe to assume that there was an enraged mother wielding a formidable firearm to make sure you got on that train?
LOL, no the Mom liked me too.
My dear Aunt and dear Mom "conspired against me". Miss them both.
Aunt J was that eccentric one, you know, the Mary Poppins one.
Who else would send an early teen both directions through Grand Central Station in NYC and Penn Station in DC by themselves?
But I had insight on Grand Central station from earlier years when I visited her in Manhattan and she would go through some of the specialty fashion kiosks, especially the ones with colorized eye contacts. She often tried to hide her grey Russian eyes.
Debbie "checked all the boxes" for me. Yep, I'm a guy. Certain things turn on all the switches,. Only an idiot would try to deny it.
Long black hair - check
Green (A+) or Blue (A) eyes - Check - Debbie had blue.
"Legs up to here" - check
Short skirts/dresses - check
High heels - check
Smells pretty all the time - check
Pleasant to talk to - check.
Okay, "I am your slave".
...and that's the way it was.
What was the Hippie Capital of the East Coast that Year?
I just googled that readi stationyou mentioned-- Washington D.C.?
Actually, the time it was in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
The DC area had some very good rock stations.
My favorite was WMAL FM, "The soft explosion". Then it got modernized when I was gone for a couple years.
Takoma Park, Maryland.
Still is.
I am somewhat familiar with that area-- the suburbs of D,C. actually. My cousin used to live in Silver Springs-- but moved to Charlotte N.C. Her sister still lives outside of Bethesda. And I used to have friends and/or relatives in the area-- Chevy Chase, in the District, Falls Church.
Haven't been back for many years.
All in all it is a nice area, though I live further to the north and west these days in the agri and horse farm areas. There is a farm diagonally across the street from me.
I lived in Silver Spring (no trailing s, that is in Florida) when I was a little kid. Oddly enough, as much as it has grown, it still has that sense of a small town. I still like it as I visit one of my banks there at least monthly.
It is enjoyable to give a little history of the town to the bank employees.
I was born in Cheverly.
We were neighbors at one point and you were almost next door to the Peace Cross?
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Sorry Buzz,
Free - Alright Now
Guess Who - American Woman
and down below is
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
BTW the guy with the beard (to the left) is Allan Ginsburg.
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Found the third one:
A fucking classic!
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1060s-- this video captures the essence of what it was like more than any other I've seen:
BADGE - Cream
EIGHT MILES HIGH - The Byrds
GET TOGETHER - The Youngbloods
CRYSTAL BLUE PERSUASION - Tommy James & The Shondells
Great songs. BTW, Tommy James and I have developed a friendship over the past couple of years. He's a terrific guy who is still performing and turning out great music. Plus hosting on Sirius Radio on Sundays.
I began my hippie journey ironically shortly before going on active duty in 1967. Janis Joplin asked me out in a Restaurant where I was a cook. It was shortly before Monterey Pop Festival and she was hardly known then. I became a huge fan and was so saddened by her death.
I went to see Hair on Broadway in '69.
in '69 flyers were going around New England about a huge NY concert. A buddy I served with was from the area. So we took off in his '62 VW playing Dylan and the Band on our trip. 3 miles out we had to get out of the car because we could go no further. We got discouraged and left because we were sure we would have become AWOL. Little did we know until days later that we had been that close to being part of Woodstock.
I have lived much of my adult life as a hippie. All the hippies I ever knew and associated with wanted nothing to do with government. It's about voluntary community, freedom, and living the lifestyle that goes with it.
I'm starting up a new business with products that reflect that history and are like those I used to sell in the 70's
Let me add some without the attachments
Canned Heat- Going Up the Country
Quicksilver Messenger Service- Fresh Air
It's A Beautiful Day- White Bird
CSN&Y- Almost Cut My Hair
CSN&Y- Woodstock
Richie Valens-Freedom
Blind Faith- Can't Find My Way Home
Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction (another person I got to know going back to the early 70's when he became a born again Christian)
Arlo Guthrie- Coming into Los Angeles
Moody Blues - everything
Beach Boys- Good Vibrations
Commander Cody- Down to Seeds and Stems Again
CSN&Y- Teach Your Children
CSN&Y- Wooden Ships
CSN&Y- Find the Cost of Freedom
America- Horse with No Name
Traffic- Dear Mr Fantasy
Eric Burden and War- Spill the Wine
Eric Burden and War- Warm San Friscan Night
Beatles- White Album
Emerson Lake & Palmer- From the Beginning
Norman Greenbaum- Spirit in the Sky
Grateful Dead- Truckin
Janis- Me n Bobby McGee
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Van Morrison- Moondance
Cream- Sunshine of Your Love
Cream- I Feel Free
Bob Marley- One Love
The Band- The Weight
Scott McKenzie- San Francisco
Joni Mitchell- Blue (whole album)
Simon & Garfunkle- Scarborough Fair
Cowsills- I Love the Flower Girl
Cowsills- Rain in the Park and Other Things
Seals & Crofts- Hummingbird
Seals & Crofts- Summer Breeze
Santana-Caravanserai album
One of my favorite movies that captures the Hippie Era is Flashback with Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland
Flashback was a great movie. It was sad to see the commune deserted by all except Carol Kane. I used to spend weekends now and then during the late 60s and early 70s at a hippie commune in the remote Killaloe, Ontario, area. My friends Mario and Ingrid lived in a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome there. I was so happy when I was up there that I almost bought this farm from an elderly couple who wanted to retire to the city, for $15,000. 300 acres including a 35 acre self-contained clean spring-fed lake, 65 acres cleared and the rest forest, a tight little farmhouse with indoor plumbing, and an abandoned brick one-room schoolhouse where the long road into the house meets the county gravel road.
great story- thanks for sharing
I bought my first motorcycle after I saw Easy Rider.
I can see why! I loved that movie... makes you want to get out on the open road and explore America....
There are some excellent short clips from that film on YouTube-- here's one I like. (Scene starts in first video than continues in the second one-- just a short overlap at the beginning of the second one):
Marijuana and UFOs
I suppose I can assume you've been referring to Easy Rider.
Yup.
The scene where Jack Nicholson makes a joint for the first time and starts a rambling talk...I posted two short video clips of that because previous there was a short video of them riding their bikes with "Born to Be Wild" playing-- from the movie..
Thanx for the memories!
Gimme Shelter is my favorite Stones song.
Thanx for the memories!
You're welcome
Gimme Shelter is my favorite Stones song
The Stones used to be one of my favourite groups.
Long ago (I was in my late 20s) a group of us rented a summer house at the shore-- a big "singles scene". All the houses had names-- we named our House "Brown Sugar"..(For no apparentnreason-- except we akll loved The Stones).
My little sis loved Hendrix. She was very sad when he passed. She married a guy that looks like him. Happens to be my favorite brother in law,
Above is Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by Hendrix.
My roomate at the time used to have The Moodies first album and played it constantly. It had some catchy tunes-- but unsophisticated compared to their later work.IMO:
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Previous two music videos: Nights in White satin then Go Now from Moody Blues first album.
My all time favorite song....my late husband proposed to me to this song.
And speaking of kent State and the anti-war movement-- here's a classic:
Here are the lyrics:
Country Joe And The Fish - Vietnam Song lyrics
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.
...always liked it.
Another of that ilk:
I Ain't Marching Any More (Phil Ochs)
I have a story about that too...not in the mood to talk about it.
Those were terrible times...
I have a funny story about that song.
Sometimes I just focus on the actual music and don't pay attention to the words.
Which are:
He mentions all the wars people fought, and says "I ain't marching any more"-- meaning he's not gonna fight in any more wars.
But in the 60s I was very, very active politically. Went on a lot of peace marches and civil rights marches.
I was getting tired of demonstrating-- for a while we marched down the Main Street every evening for weeks. So after a while whenever I heard that song I was thinking it meant I'm getting tired of all these protest marches-- and I was starting to feel that way too!.I was feeling I needed a break-- didn't want to march for a while!
Little bit sad.
That war was horrible.
I had one friend who emigrated to Canada to avoid the draft. Another traveled throughout Europe, bought a motorcycle in germany, traveled throughout Eastern Europe, Turkey, even went though Afghanistan...India-- down through Southeast Asia (just West of the war zones). Finally took a plane to Sarwin Australia. never came back to the U.S.
I knew several people who did all kind of crazy stuff to avoid getting sent to Viet-Nam and get blown up-- or crippled for life.
And-- what were we fighting for..anyway?
Very sad....
Rich guys just faked bone spurs.
I had some good friends in Toronto who were draft dodgers back in those days - even took on two of them as partners and opened a store in Toronto.
It was a mess.
There is always a silver lining.
A friend of mine tended to "radio stations" in places "we were not involved".
During his travels through the jungles he came across a village where he met a very pretty Thai girl. He would always bring treats to all the villages he frequented, but special treats for this village and the family of this girl.
In exchange the villagers would look out for him and put warning signs along trails that he should avoid...such as 2 dead 2 steppers hung at eye level. That meant take another path.
One day he got the evac order. I mean THEE evac order. War was "over", get the hell out of Dodge.
My friend S bolted through the jungles to go find C. Gets to her village, asks her father for her hand in marriage, gets married right there and heads back to base with C in tow.
Boards a helicopter and a guard tries to stop C from boarding. S emphatically states "She is with ME". They are here to this day...she makes some great spiced Crab and Pho out of this world.
One friend of mine traveled all the way to Australia-- said he was never coming back. And he didn't. (for the first year or two we corresponded,but eventually lost touch.I assume he still lives there).
Some got doctors notes for various medical conditions-- real or imagined.. Or went into professions where they got draft deferments (cops, firemen, school-teachers were considered essential so they got draft deferments).
My college (undergrad years) roommate was going to go to medical school anyway. The government had a programewhere if a medical school graduate agreed to let them station him or her in an area where there was a shortage of Drs, they were draft exempt. So he agreed to move to this rather sparsely populated area in upstate N.Y. far from any major town.
He intended to stay there 'till the war was over, then leave. But he met a woman, got married, hadkids and apparently is very happy there.
Nixon eliminated my student deferment so I avoided the draft by enlisting.
That may sound stupid, butt I enlisted in the Navy and served on the USS Independence (in the Atlantic).
UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul McCartney
THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY WESTERN - Mountain
"All Along The Watchtower" as performed by Bob Dylan or Jimmi Hendrix. "Favorite Son" and "Run Through The Jungle" by Credence Clearwater Revival.
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER - Jimi Hendrix
FORTUNATE SON - Credence Clearwater Revival
RUN THROUGH THE JUNGLE - Credence Clearwater Revival
My thanks.
There was a Canned Heat connection to Takoma Park too.
A couple of the girls in the front row here were older sisters to girls in my HS.
Root Boy Slim practiced in the house behind us for a while. Unknown to that I made friends with Ron Holloway who played sax for Root Boy Slim for a while. He eventually went out on his own to LA.
His Dad had a fantastic Jazz and Blues record collection go back to before the time of records and hand the equipment to play it all. Every wall of the basement was 100% packed with records and every other media you can imagine.
Above is Canned Heat - Let's Work Together.
I was friendly with a small group on NV who were in a private group called "Heart of Darkness". (when they still allowed private groups-- before the "nations") . We were very secretive and mysterious, LOL! Well,there was a guy there who used the dcreen name "Root Boy Slim". He was a re-reg-- he had gotten banned several times and kept coming back under a new name until he was banned-- then waited a bit-- and re-registered!
(For some strange reason he really enjoyed re-registering and seeing how long he could fool the mods).
Eaventually he joined NT, but didn't stay long.
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Fried Hockey Boogie by Canned Heat
RIDERS ON THE STORM - The Doors
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD - The Beatles
Saw them perform at the Whiskey on Sunset Strip. Morrison was incredible
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Hair
Reminds me of a Judy
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Judy in Disguise (with glasses)
John Fred and his Playboy Band
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
My husband's favorite Thanksgiving song! It's a tradition in the Halpern residence.
Mine also...
Aha! You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
Exceptin' Alice!
She already had her man.
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I'm Eighteen by Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
This is sort of reflective of participating here.
I think I saw that on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
This thread needs MORE COW BELL!
I said "MORE COW BELL!!!"
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A classic!
That was "Needs More Cowbell" skit from SNL.
The first one was Hair of the Dog by Nazareth.
The second clip is More Cowbell from Saturday Night Live.
sixpick-- long time no see!
Welcome Back
It's good to see you too, Krishna. The article is getting pretty big and my old computer doesn't move too fast when that happens. I put the two above on here, so Buzz could actually hear one or two. LOL Sorry Buzz. You should petition the Sargent at Arms to open them doors and let YouTube in. LOL
Don't rush to convert the songs as I may well have them on the music sites I have here. For example, I have the Buffalo Springfield Again album, and a lot of versions of For What It's Worth. I used to sit and have coffee in Yorkville (Hippie area) in Toronto with Bruce Palmer, and Neil Young and I were acquainted as I had business dealings with his brother Bob Young. One year when Neil showed up uninvited at the Mariposa Folk Festival he was invited by one of the regular performers to share the stage with him, and Neil asked me what I wanted to hear. I told him to play Helpless, one of my favourite songs. Bob gave me great tickets for the Rolling Thunder Review.
I just need to know the names of the songs and the performers, and I may be able to find them here, so don't convert any more unless I find I don't have it.
Neil Young and 'The Band', with Joni Mitchell on chorus. "Helpless"
Here's a different baby Blue:
When I think about hippies I think about the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead’s acid tests.
Blood Sweat and Tears, When I Die 1970.
Goa Gil , original 1960s hippie who later became a pioneering electronic dance music DJ and party organizer, here appearing in the 2001 film Last Hippie Standing
John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High".
Black Magic Woman by Santana
Excellent!
I also like this cover of "Oye Como Va":
Stairway to the Stars by Blue Oyster Cult
Iron Man by Black Sabbath
Child in Time by Deep Purple
Money by Pink Floyd
Hot and Nasty by Black Oak Arkansas
I saw this one performed live and it was a fucking monster.
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
And for us Texas hippies:
Gotta love ZZ Top. They know how to boogie.
Here's a song about the "chicken ranch" (located in La Grange, TX) which inspired the movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas".
La Grange by ZZ Top
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
I'm an atheist butt this one is a religious experience (it was banned by the BBC as being "sacrilegious");
Jesus Christ Super Star (full album)
I think Victor Garber (played the ship's architect in Titanic) played Jesus in that. He was my late sister-in law's first cousin. His mother borrowed $100 from me and never paid me back .
Jeff Fenholt was the original Jesus on Broadway.
Ian Gillian (Deep Purple) sang the part of Jesus on the album.
Ted Neely played Jesus in the film version.
My mistake. He played Jesus in Godspell.
This is fucking hilarious.
Music is so powerful that an atheist (me) and a Jew (you, I assume) are discussing Jesus.
Let's give the Devil his due:
Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones
Ian Gillian also played Jesus in the traveling productions. I saw him perform as Jesus at the Tucson Convention Center in 1972 I believe.
Ian Gillian also played Jesus in the traveling productions. I saw him perform as Jesus at the Tucson Convention Center in 1972 I believe.
I saw him with Deep Purple.
His voice was powerful!
Great band too!
How 'bout some violin?
Keep on Trucking' by Hot Tuna.
What do you get when you add a symphonic orchestra to a rock song?
Dream On by Aerosmith
This is an example of "oxymoronic blues".
It's kinda like blues that get sorta "up beat" and funny.
Modern Man Blues by 10cc (live)
I Just Want to Make Love to You by Foghat (live version)
Just about anything from Foghat twirls my tassels in opposite directions. #SlowRide
Slowride was awesome(it came out in '75).
I posted I Just Want to Make Love to You, even though it was a cover of a Willie Dixon tune, because it was a hit in '72 (and it was sorta my philosophy back then).
Dear John, (pun intended)
I apologize for spamming your thread with my favorite shit.
Butt, I gotta add one more song:
The Joker by The Steve Miller Band.
Yeah, it's "psychedelic" if you're swimming around in that "electric jug".
Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck Of The Edmond Fitzgerald".