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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 28/08/2011 : 17:33:33
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gone hippie - part 1
"When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different...we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened adult lives." -June Jordan
A youth movement arose as a countercultural reaction to what was socially acceptable. Music, creative dress, and communal activities sprang up across the country. Inspiration came from past and present revolutionary writings. Urbanization was rejected for a more back-to-earth, natural, even pagan way of life. The hippie generation in the United States? Yes, but not in it's first lifetime - Der Wandervogel ("migratory bird") was perhaps the first sign of so-called modern "proto-hippies", a movement against social and cultural clubs of 1896-1908 Germany.
And if we go back further for historical precedence, we find the counterculture of the ancient Greeks, as found in the writings of philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope, and the Cynics...precursors to many incarnations of people dissatisfied with the current socio-status quo who blazed trails for following generations of love & peace, anti-war creativeness.
"I am not Athenian, or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Diogenes
According to the Oxford English dictionary, hipster and hippie derive from the word 'hip', which has no known origin. The word 'hipster' was first used by Harry Gibson, an innovative piano player in the late '20's to late '40's in the style of gutbucket boogie, and ragtime-stride-jazz. Michael Fallon, a writer in San Francisco, first used 'hippie' in 1965 to describe a "new" generation of beatniks from the Haight-Ashbury area who were moving beyond the norms of typical late-night jazz to more experimental and innovative sounds.
I was born on the tail end of both the hippie and the boomer generation. I was about 10 years old when Chandler Laughlin III began the "Red Dog Experience". In the Summer of Love, I was 12. I was 14 when Gov. Ron Reagan had the People's Park in SF destroyed because a bunch of hippies had created beauty out of an eyesore. And I never went to Woodstock.
Music of that era still moves me. Ideology of that era is still pertinent. War still sucks, even though we don't protest it in the streets any longer. Rifles still need flowers in the barrels. What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?
There's a lot to learn from hippies...
some of today's post came via wikipedia.com and urbandictionary.com - thanks
http://www.timoddity.com/2011/03/gone-hippie-part-1.html
A great blog and a great inspiration to keep letting our freak flag fly!!
Almost Cut My Hair....but I haven't YET!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXenEK0h6qg
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 28/08/2011 17:43:10 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 29/08/2011 : 15:47:40
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| Sometimes,I'm a little hipocritical here.As much passion as I have for the music and cultural annotations of teh sixties<i hardly consider myself a candidate for physical expression of my solidarity with the "heads" of the world.I just don't see myself going that far with things.I DO however hold great admiration and even envy for those that do simply because it DOES take a great deal of hootspah to announce oneself to the world with such proud inhibition.Then on the other hand,if part of the hippie message is to not invest heavily in material possession with great emotion,maybe I have enough of the idea just keeping in line with the SPIRIT of those times. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 29/08/2011 : 16:51:23
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My freak flag is silver now....but it still flies!!
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John9
Old Love
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Posted - 30/08/2011 : 17:05:06
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
My freak flag is silver now....but it still flies!!
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Sometimes I have good luck...
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Ah, Deja Vu - easily the best album from 1970 and one of the very best ever. Here's another great Crosby favourite of mine.....although of course, he's not in the picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaynI0Uwgg0
PS - I've made something of a sweeping statement there....1970 also of course, saw monumental works from Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Spirit, The Doors and John Lennon. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 30/08/2011 : 18:27:23
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Originally posted by John9
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
My freak flag is silver now....but it still flies!!
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Sometimes I have good luck...
& write better than I can.
-Hemmingway
Ah, Deja Vu - easily the best album from 1970 and one of the very best ever. Here's another great Crosby favourite of mine.....although of course, he's not in the picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaynI0Uwgg0
PS - I've made something of a sweeping statement there....1970 also of course, saw monumental works from Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Spirit, The Doors and John Lennon.
NICE track, john. A very trippy song as it builds!
I have to agree about Deja Vu...it somehow captured the times better than any...and still takes me right back. I went to SF in 1970 and all that went with the Berkeley freak scene, war protests, and BIg Sur is where I ended up....camping under the stars with dozens (seems like hundreds now) of freaks just getting back to nature....
Johnny's Garden...an all time favorite from Manassas...also of the times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbRhB_RGuQQ
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 30/08/2011 18:28:51 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 31/08/2011 : 16:11:43
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| Was "Deja Vu" by CSN or CSNY?What about this album called "Four Way Street" I've heard about?It was "Deja vu" that knocked Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" lp out of number one on the Billboard album chart in 1970. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 31/08/2011 : 17:03:44
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Originally posted by captain america and billy
Was "Deja Vu" by CSN or CSNY?What about this album called "Four Way Street" I've heard about?It was "Deja vu" that knocked Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" lp out of number one on the Billboard album chart in 1970.
CSN&Y!!
Deja Vu.....peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-S6md3LNgs
Country Girl....my fave from the LP if that's possible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJcuETig9kE&feature=related
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 31/08/2011 : 17:09:27
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
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Originally posted by captain america and billy
Was "Deja Vu" by CSN or CSNY?What about this album called "Four Way Street" I've heard about?It was "Deja vu" that knocked Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" lp out of number one on the Billboard album chart in 1970.
CSN&Y!!
Deja Vu.....peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-S6md3LNgs
Country Girl....my fave from the LP if that's possible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJcuETig9kE&feature=related
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Sometimes I have good luck...
& write better than I can.
-Hemmingway
Not to mention 4 + 20!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMbhhCmr_Zs&feature=related
Listen to it all at youtube, capt'...then get it!!
The album of a generation!!
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 31/08/2011 17:09:50 |
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rocker
Old Love
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Posted - 01/09/2011 : 14:09:59
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| capt..you gotta have Deja in your collection!..CSN&Y..pure vocal nirvana there...I'd think that there can't be a better group with vocal harmony like them (hmmm..maybe the Beach Boys coul be up there too????)... |
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