Reviews
Shimo-Kitazawa, Tokyo, Japan by:
“This is a great little hippy part of Tokyo, no cars, lots of nice shops and restaurants, home of Tokyo’s first hemp shop and hemp restaurant, also did you know that it is legal to sell mushrooms in Japan? Just look outside the station here! Hokkaido is Japans North Island and is a nature paradise. […] Continue reading
Trumansburg, New York by:
20 mins. from Ithaca. It’s home to the annual hippie fingerlakes Grassroots music fest! Iit’s also home of the Rongovian Embassy Bar and Restaurant which is always happy to host Dead cover bands and any other kind scene. Continue reading
The Seeds
Regarded as one of the earliest punk bands The Seeds were a prolific Los Angeles band during the rise of Psychedelia. The group was first headlined by ex Electra-Fires / Soul Rockers singer Sky Saxon who recorded during the pre-Beatle days under the name Richie Marsh. The Seeds formed in 1964 when keyboardist Daryl Hooper […] Continue reading
Light Years: an Anthology (Multimedia in the East Village, 1960-1966)
LIGHT YEARS Edited by Carol BergĂ© In the last twenty years of her life, running an antique shop in Santa Fe, the writer Carol Berge asked for and put together a capacious set of sundry memoirs of people she had known in New York, writers of talent who lived mostly on the Lower East Side […] Continue reading
Book from Roger Rea: Hipppies never die
Hippies Never Die: Freewheelin’ from Europe to India Roger Rea is one of those lucky people who, early on, realized that he didn’t want to be part of the 9-to-5, dog-eat-dog, choose a job, career, family, fucking big television, washing machine, fixed-interest mortgage repayments, starter home, three-piece suit lifestyle–in other words, the System. He heard […] Continue reading
Hippie Drum (free ebook)
Maybe you tried your hand at raising chickens in a broken-down henhouse or hitched from one end of the country to another and back and maybe you shared a ramshackle house with another dozen free spirits or maybe you all got on an old school bus for trips to secluded mountain lakes where everybody went […] Continue reading
Amsterdam Red Light District
Book Amsterdam Hotels You may have heard about this famous section of Amsterdam, and quite likely everything you’ve heard is true! Check it out for yourself, it’s unlike any place else. Amsterdam’s famous Red Light District covers a large area in the oldest part of the city. It has been servicing the personal needs and […] Continue reading