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Hippies
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I was revolting.
PureX
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There were many facets to what gets referred to as the "hippie movement", and it didn't spring up out of nowhere. It began with the 'beatniks' shortly after WW2. Many of these were vets who found they couldn't just fall back into the status quo after their experience of war. They needed more from life than the mindless, materialist American dream they were being offered. So they began to seek alternative sources of value, and ways of living. And when the U.S. kept jumping into one war after another, they began to question the values and motives of the whole American system. Everything began to be questioned; racism, sexism, materialism, all forms of authority, it showed up in their music, and literature, and theater, and thus their discontent began to spread, and intensify. And this is how we got to the "hippies" who were protesting the war, exploring new ways of living, and doubting and rejecting everything their parents had believed and trusted in.
leov
Well-Known Member
Those years....
Those hairdos
Those outfits
Those hairdos
Those outfits
Terry Sampson
Well-Known Member
LOL!
Summer of 1966 - 18 yrs. old and had just graduated from H.S. in Oakland California.
May 1967 to Feb. 1971 - US Navy
March to July 1971 - After Honorable Discharge, traveled through Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, West Pakistan, New Delhi/Agra/Calcutta India, Bangkok Thailand, and back to Greece.
August 1971 -
Two years too late for Woodstock.
Summer of 1966 - 18 yrs. old and had just graduated from H.S. in Oakland California.
May 1967 to Feb. 1971 - US Navy
March to July 1971 - After Honorable Discharge, traveled through Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, West Pakistan, New Delhi/Agra/Calcutta India, Bangkok Thailand, and back to Greece.
August 1971 -
Two years too late for Woodstock.
I was one and even today am one of these "you can take the hippie out of the 60's, but you can't take the 60's out of the hippie". I was also at Woodstock.
It was a time when people felt liberated from the straight-jacket of the past and optimistic about the future. All things seemed possible and easy to attain. It felt like a breath of fresh air had entered a stale and dank environment.
Of course we were all naive and did some really dumb things. I certainly did.
But my supreme long-term optimism of the time remains albeit tempered by a large dose of realism. Serious change takes a lot of hard work and time.
Brothers and sisters, I still sing "let the sunshine in":
It was a time when people felt liberated from the straight-jacket of the past and optimistic about the future. All things seemed possible and easy to attain. It felt like a breath of fresh air had entered a stale and dank environment.
Of course we were all naive and did some really dumb things. I certainly did.
But my supreme long-term optimism of the time remains albeit tempered by a large dose of realism. Serious change takes a lot of hard work and time.
Brothers and sisters, I still sing "let the sunshine in":
leov
Well-Known Member
leov
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Nimos
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I think its cool, probably a few to many drugs
In regards to music, I would probably choose one of these. (But so many to choose from
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halbhh
The wonder and awe of "all things".
The Return To Eden.
It was about 50 things, but one thing: an attempt to go back to the Garden.
Which is a perfectly good impulse, even though of course they didn't know the way (the way the truth the life).
Bed Peace:
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halbhh
The wonder and awe of "all things".
Good tunes there! You picked songs in my top few when I think of that time.I think its cool, probably a few to many drugs
In regards to music, I would probably choose one of these. (But so many to choose from
halbhh
The wonder and awe of "all things".
Sweet!
I was gonna post another version, but hadn't seen that one!
Things always start out good....
And then they get more...different.
When i was born the "hippie" thing was just beginning to wane. Even so, mom and dad still okay late 60s music, i was weened on Hendrix, Joan Biez, Janice Joplin, Carlos Santana, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, CCR, BTO, the Who. Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Winter, the Doors, Cream... Bored yet?
Music of the hippie era was a great influence on me. I still play some of it.
Music of the hippie era was a great influence on me. I still play some of it.
PureX
Veteran Member
The counter-cultural struggle continues even though many have succumbed to greed, cynicism, and fear. I came of age in the early 70s when the 'movement' collapsed into being just a stupid excuse for sex, drugs, and loud rock and roll. Which then opened the door to the 80s and the triumph of greed, cocaine, and idolized decadence. That's when it all went to hell, and has never recovered. Now the counter-culture is just a whisper in the face of a raging hurricane. But it's still whispering, if only to a few.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
There's a stupid excuse for sex, drugs, and rock n' roll?!