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San Diego, California
There are some really cool places to hang, especially Ocean Beach, Encinitas. Laid back mixture of surfers and hippies make for a cool scene. Check out The Black a famous headshop in O.B. Also “blacks beach every full moon at 8:00 p.m.”. The music scene in S.D. is really happening these days. Great concerts from […] Continue reading
San Francisco, California
The place where it all began in the Summer of Love, 1967. Is it still happening here? Well almost. The Haight-Ashbury area is just a tourist attraction, and not really so cool. While Berkeley still has a lot of the old spirit and feeling. The S.F. area is way too expensive for hippies anymore, unless […] Continue reading
Fearless Puppy on American Road by: Nancy Crompton
True road tales from an activist warrior wanderer — The author, Doug “Ten” Rose, spent 35 or more years homeless and staying alive by working at hostels, doing odd jobs, and raising funds for activist groups to help the environment, for famine relief, and to help orphans, along with paying his dues in Bardo-like lands […] Continue reading
Robert Plant & his Band Of Joy by: shiloh
Band of Joy were largely an elusive group due to the fact that they never released any albums or singles yet their notoriety was due to future Zeppelin Robert Plant and John Bonham being members. The idea of forming Band Of Joy was to play at live venues , the first formation being ex Tennessee […] Continue reading
Irwin Klein And The New Settlers: Photographs Of Conterculture In New Mexico by: Hip Chris
Irwin Klein And The New Settlers: Photographs Of Conterculture In New Mexico Just in time for the 20th Anniversary of Hippy.com we are happy to announce the publication of a book about Hippie Culture from the 1960s in New Mexico. “When my late uncle Irwin Klein first came to El Rito, a Hispaño village located […] Continue reading
T2 – England’s foremost powerpack from the seventies
T 2 was singularly in the same power surge as Jody Grind and Led Zeppelin. T2 formed in 1970 when Peter Dunton of The Flies left Gun to join guitarist Keith Cross and bassist Bernard Jenkins from Bulldog Breed. By the time they performed their third gig they were booked for the ‘BBC’ sessions and […] Continue reading
Tudor Lodge
Tudor Lodge – Golden threads from Morocco. Born in the year 1968, from the temporary union of John Stannard & Roger Stevens came the textured harmony and guitar of Tudor Lodge. Also to come on board was Lyndon Green who replaced Roger Stevens shortly after they met at the ‘Windsor Folk Festival.’ Thanks to the […] Continue reading
Pearls Before Swine -Tom Rapp
The word underscore comes to mind when I hear Pearls Before Swine. Here lies a wooden expression lightly fused with jazz tempo, but solidified exoterically with remarkable poetry, the ultimate impression of Tom Rapp. Tom got it together quite early when he recruited high school friends Wayne Harley (banjo, mandolin), Lane Lederer (bass, guitar) & […] Continue reading
Quintessence
Spiritual enlightenment descended upon Nottinghill Gate in 1969 when Ram Jam alias Ron Rothfield formed the esoteric Quintessence. Members included ex Unknown Blues vocalist Phil Jones (Shiva Shankar) keyboards, ex Confusion Allan Mostert lead guitar / Veena, Sitar, Maha Dev rhythm guitar, Shanbhu Baba bass, ex Junior’s Eyes Jake Milton drums & Dave Balen tablas. […] Continue reading
Junco Partners
Junco Partners formed in 1964 as part of the Robert Stigwood Agency. The Mod group took over from the Animals at ‘Club A’ Gogo’ and ‘Downbeat Club’ but first gained notoriety backing Howling Wolf and Freddie King on their UK tour. In tow with the tour (1965) Junco put out a cover of Jerry Ragavoy’s […] Continue reading