The Doors: This band from L.A. with the great Jim Morrison as lead poet, anarchist and debaucher gave the hippie movement a passionate, if somewhat psychotic visionary. Their music, with its strong beat and Fender Rhodes chords define a certain… Continue reading →

Dose: From the word dosage, a single hit of a drug, especially LSD. If you do too much you overdose.

Dovetail: A European styled and rolled joint, looks like a bird.

Downer: Someone or something that brings you down, makes you sad. Derogatory. “It’s a downer having Nixon as president!”

Clean: After prolonged drug use, a period of abstinence which allows the body to remove all traces of drugs. A drug free state. “I’ve been clean for six months now.”

Cocker, Joe: Sang the theme song of “The Wonder Years” – a cover of the Beatles tune “With a little help from my friends” off the famous Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band record. He sang a super version of that song at Woodstock.

Coyote, Peter: Actor, author, member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, one of the original Diggers. His new book Sleeping Where I Fall, tells of his days in S.F.

Counterculture: The encompassing word for the hippie movement. Not just a sub-culture, but an entire spectrum of individuals rejecting the values of the dominant society. This term was far more acceptable to everyone than the word “hippies”.

Cosmic: An idea or person really out there on the edge of comprehension.

Cop out: Escape from responsibility. “Don’t cop out when your bro is in need.”