No. Just more attractive.
I have been pestering him for years, he finally succumbed ;-)
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No. Just more attractive.
You are clearly biased. Which seems odd to me after so many years. I was there. I was the generation immediately after the hippies, and yes, my generation was just about sex, drugs, and loud music. The idealism of the hippies was dead by the time I turned 13 in 1970. I had the long hair and ripped, faded jeans, but was by no means a "hippie". I was mostly just a punk kid entering a culture that was collapsing into decadence. A collapse that was indemnified and solidified by the Reagan republicans, disco, and cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. It wasn't the hippies, or even the drugs that destroyed American idealism, it was the neo-conservative backlash; the "greed is good" culture of Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and corporate advertising.This is the sanitized version. There were many war protesters and societal drop outs during the period who were by no means a 'Hippie". True hippies were a product of the music and drug scene of the late 60's.
We play the 'old rock' and blues. It's pleasantly surprising that many of the young musicians we meet still want to hear and play these tunes. We like telling them that we were there when the stuff was new. It was a magic time.
Which was a product of which?
You are clearly biased. Which seems odd to me after so many years. I was there. I was the generation immediately after the hippies, and yes, my generation was just about sex, drugs, and loud music. The idealism of the hippies was dead by the time I turned 13 in 1970. I had the long hair and ripped, faded jeans, but was by no means a "hippie". I was mostly just a punk kid entering a culture that was collapsing into decadence. A collapse that was indemnified and solidified by the Reagan republicans, disco, and cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. It wasn't the hippies, or even the drugs that destroyed American idealism, it was the neo-conservative backlash; the "greed is good" culture of Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and corporate advertising.
Yeah, progressed backward to the blues, another of my favourite genre's
Absolutely. When I was staying there in 2001, I went for a walk with my mother-in-law at one point, and she said that what it looked like was very different when she was younger-- much poorer that also had many other ramifications. .@metis
Since you have Italian in-laws...they can confirm to you that throughout the 70s-80s Sicily culturally changed in a very very radical way and at an incredible speed...
Just think I could not understand my grandmother...at sll
If you'd like I'll PM you our website. I'm just a poser, but my wife sings like Janis, Etta, Stevie, and Emilu combined.
It was never accepted on a societal basis. It was by definition a "counter-cultural" movement which means that it couldn't be a cultural status quo. What became acceptable were the trappings of the counter-culture: longer hair on men, weird cloths, spewing platitudes about personal freedom and expression, and of course, the music and the drugs.After Woodstock, the Hippie movement died because it became accepted on a societal basis.
Yes, I agree, but it wasn't because everyone adopted the lifestyle or idealism of the hippies, it was because Wall Street and Madison Avenue discovered that the pretense of being part of the "counter-culture" was very salable. So a movement that was trying to get away from the Big American Greed Machine ended up being swallowed up and exploited by it. Resulting in the adulation of decadence: the exact opposite of what the beatniks, folkies and hippies had been seeking decades before.The media had stopped looking at young, long haired people as oddities, and it was safer for these types to travel through Alabama. By 1970 we were already seeing the emergence of 'Yuppies', harder drug use, and 'disco' (God help us).
I have it in my PMs, you did the sales pitch before ;-)
My goal for the rest of my life is to get her heard by as many people as possible.
What a silly goal....not even a mention of bacon,My goal for the rest of my life is to get her heard by as many people as possible.
I hear ya, and you make some good points, but I honestly feel what did the movement in was all the negative publicity shown on the evening t.v. news, for example, of "drug-crazed sex-fiends" that really had no other commitment to the movement because these were outsiders attracted to free sex and drugs Part of San Francisco turned into basically a slum, and kids dying from overdoses was trumpeted all over the media. I ran across this a lot when I first started teaching in 1967, and it got worse over the following decade.It was never accepted on a societal basis. It was by definition a "counter-cultural" movement which means that it couldn't be a cultural status quo. What became acceptable were the trappings of the counter-culture: longer hair on men, weird cloths, spewing platitudes about personal freedom and expression, and of course, the music and the drugs.
Yes, I agree, but it wasn't because everyone adopted the lifestyle or idealism of the hippies, it was because Wall Street and Madison Avenue discovered that the pretense of being part of the "counter-culture" was very salable. So a movement that was trying to get away from the Big American Greed Machine ended up being swallowed up by it. Resulting in the adulation of decadence: the exact opposite of what the beatniks, folkies and hippies had been seeking.
You do realize that no one actually inhabits a local radio station, anymore.YouTube
Samples to all the local radio stations
You do realize that no one actually inhabits a local radio station, anymore.
They don't. It's all scripted and produced like theater at some corporate headquarters fifteen states away. No one actually knows aunt Ethel because she doesn't exist. And then it's sent out to the thousands of stations all around the country that the corporation owns and operates, to be played as "local radio". And even if a live human sits at the mic, he/she has a play list that can't be deviated from.Yet the postal service still works, otherwise, his do they play requests for aunt Ethels 99th birthday?
What a silly goal....not even a mention of bacon,
landscaping, engines, TV, or anchovies.