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the war. And there they were, just leaving their house to get in a car. I could see they made their own clothes of natural fabric with colored ribbon, beautiful, radiant happy faces, free souls, shining long hair in the afternoon sun. I started to run towards them and almost yelled, "let me go with you" but couldn't make it in time. They pulled away. I guessed they were leaving town (they had just had the death of the hippie ceremony on Haight St.) headed for paradise. I went on to the parade, bands on flatbed trucks, a mile of happy dancing people clogging the street from downtown all the way to Golden Gate Park where almost anyone you made eye contact with you were soon hugging. Surely, all the world would be like this. It was so easy to do and all anyone wants is to be loved and here it was, free for everyone! Suddenly, glad I didn't leave town with the beautiful hippies because I saw it would be like this everywhere. And I'm still waiting. . . I know it's coming! RA
You Bought the Bullets If you were awake, the 60s weren't about smoking weed - they were about breathing tear gas. They weren't about psychedelic posters - they were about headlines counting our war dead and their war dead too. All that stuff that looks so good from here, tie dies, love ins, and all the rest, happened because this country was engaged in a genocidal war. Anyone who lived in this country then, and I did, was part of American sponsored murder. If you were an American then you were partly responsible for dropping napalm on that little girl. You helped buy the bullets that slaughtered peasants at Mai Lai. You bought the fuel for the tank that dragged the dead peasants behind it. So don't give me any crap about how beautiful it all was and how you
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Hair A couple of years ago I was going out with this girl near where I live (Glasgow, Scotland) who fancied herself a bit of a hippie. I don't necessarily define myself as one, either, but I suspect it's what most people would define me as on seeing me for the first time. Anyway, I'd never seen Hair the musical live, and I'd always wanted to since I was a teenager, when I did consider myself a hippie. there was a local production of it here about three years ago. So, I thought, great, I'll go and see it. Anyway, I'd actually just split up with this girl Emma. She was heavily into Rocky Horror, dressing up, the works, so in retrospect what happened doesn't seem so surprising. I went alongto Hair with some friends, including a guy called Neil whose girlfriend was in the production, in the 'chorus line' for want of a better term. So I'm sitting there in the balcony with over a thousand other people watching Hair! and it's just getting to the let's-all-get-naked-and-simulate-an-orgy scene. Another friend leans over and says, "that girl with the blond hair and the round shades, she looks a bit like your old girlfriend doesn't she?" So I smiled and laughed, said "Yeah, I suppose she ..." then my jaw hit the ground when she started ripping her kit off with the rest of them. I mean, there I am looking at her naked for the first time in two months,. I just didn't expect to be sharing the experience with a couple of thousand strangers ... Anyway, Neil knew Emma, but I hadn't known that. I'd never been with her when I'd met him, and so he hadn't made the connection. Just one those weird coincidences, I guess ... Yours, Gary Austin Party i'm young, a 22 year old female earthling. i live in austin, one of the most beautiful (but hot) places for a happy hippy to live. There's a beautiful party that happens every year in one of our parks, it is Eeorys (sp?) birthday party, you know like winnie the pooh's friend. Real psychedelic, lots of cool people come out and gather and share the love. they have a big drum circle, and many other small ones. When i first got there i couldn't hear them, there were so many people, someone told me "keep that way, you can't miss it", boy they weren't kidding. The wave of energy that hit me as i stepped into the circle nearly set me flying. my friends and i got closer and danced, letting the rhythm flow through us, smiling at all the beautiful people, that were happy to throw off their worries to be in the moment. A guy was going through the crowd feeding lo-quats to whoever wanted some, and water to all of the drummers, i found out later from the guy that all of the water and fruit were dosed. I think asking would have been nice, but the energy was really conducive to a nice, friendly trip. I was a fruit recipient. i got tired from jumping and dancing with the music, so i go to leave the circle and walk right into the most beautiful pair of eyes i've ever seen, his name was Stacy, i said hello and we threw our arms around each other with so much love, total strangers in life, lovers in the circle, beautiful. I went on out to the hill and i'd walk around and play my didgeridoo for all the people on the hill that even smiled in my direction, the babies loved it the most, they'd toddle up and grasp the end, looking in wonder at the long thing with the low sound coming out of the end. I loved to play for them. We'd be chilling out in the crowd and the drummers would chaos to a stop and everyone would whoop and holler sending the energy out in rolling waves that just picked you up off the ground. beautiful scene. THEY are always trying to get the party cancelled for the next year, rich people live up on the hill above the park and don't like all the noise or people near their manicured lawn and pre-programmed children, but the hippy population is unified and strong here in austin, and the love of our town and our community will keep it going, long after we re-program the MAN out of their children. Gods willing anyway. peace. remember love. be here now, awake and focused. BEAN~~~~~~~~~write me maybe----dalamarjac@aol.com------smile:) blessings The Immortal Grateful Dead It was in Denver, at the University of Colorado, in 1972, and the Immortal Grateful Dead did some amazing things with their music. I was up in the stands of the stadium, watching on the field all the trippy little groups of happy people, and wishing I could get closer. Jerry walked behind a big amplifier and scooted two big brown paper sacks to the edge of the stage, and without missing a beat, kicked each one hard, and dozens of baggies of smoking product went flying out into the audience. It started raining very hard, and the band went on break, and a lot of people thought they were quitting, (or didn't want to get wet), so they left. But the band was only getting started, and came back on stage, began playing Casey Jones, and the rain stopped, and a gorgeous rainbow came out, and everything in the whole world was beautiful. My friends and I were soaked, especially me, because I had a long dress with a racoon knee length cape on. I looked like a drowned rat but I was never happier. I have seen the Dead many times since, and I am always sent to that same place that exists nowhere else in the universe, where a thousands of people can come together into one soul. And since Jerry is now gone, it can never happen that way again. If anyone who reads this was at that concert in Denver in 1972, will you please email me and tell me if my memory of that day was real, or chemically induced? I still don't know for sure. Peace and Love to youall. BNJ Ent@aol.com. Hanging out in Brooklyn I remember hanging out in Brooklyn with my friend Lorraine who still is a great friend of mine.I remember once we were tripping and her brother was with us. We got hooked on staring at a mobile up on the ceiling. We must have been commenting on this mobile for about 2 hours as it was spinning around. it looked like the greatest thing in the world to us. I dont think our thoughts drifted away from the mobile. It started to look as though it was becoming a spaceship. Her cat Daisy was staring at us staring at the mobile. Her cat looked like the most beautiful cat in the world. As a matter of fact EVERYTHING WAS LOOKING BEAUTIFUL MAN!!!!! I remember our boyfriends, my boyfriend Richie would wear a Sergeant Peppers jacket as that was the Album that was soooo popular in those days. Her boyfriend Marc was in a black leather jacket. We would hang out in her basement and groove along to the music, The Young Rascals, Beatles (of course) Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and so many others. We also used to watch "Zacherly" on TV. anyone remember him? He looked like a Vampire and has this weird show that was a hit in those days. Wish I could turn back time just for a little while and just be back in that basement with everyone ............Joyce Naked Apaches I can't remember the first trip, but I will never forget the golden ones. The ones that happened in Bloomington, Indiana University in the summer of 1970--when American Beauty was released. I had a dog named Brown Dog. Brown Dog got hit by a bus. He lived cause, as best iI can tell, God liked him. No money for Doctor bills. Held a Brown Dog Benefit Concert in Dunn Meadow. Lots of cosmic boogie, bands like the Screamin Gypsy Bandits and others I can't remember. But I will never forget the acid in this huge garbage can lined witlh plastic and full of strawberry kool aid. Red wine, huge spliffs, and every mother's child peaking about sunset. Gorgeous sunset with all of us dancing like naked Apaches on Mother Earth. Sufis and Bikers. Patcholi oil and hash pipes glowing. That night, as I lay in bed making love to a wonderful hippie chick named Jessica, I heard Jerry sing "Brokedown."--Like an angel, at my wilndow with a broken wing....Mark School Daze I'm only seventeen. I haven't been arond long and
I wasn't at woodstock. I can never be a true hippie because times are different
and I will never experience what my elders have. One thing that I still
have is my youth and I tell ya that times have changed but hippies haven't.
We are all alike in the sense that our souls are intouch with everything
around us. I guess what really opened my eyes and made life feel so large
and the world feel so big was the first time I tripped. I was only fifteen
and a freshman in high school. I was lost. I never really felt like I belonged
with any of the popular people. The only friends I did have were the "druggies".
My parents didn't approve at first....well I don't know if they ever did.
Anyway, these friends, the "druggies", were the best friends I had ever
had. We expienced things our brains never imagined...of course on drugs.
But this was a time of reckoning for us. We all had problems and issues
that needed to be dealt with. They were always there for me and we always
looked out for eachother. I had a fight with my parents one morning before
school and just wanted something to cheer me up and hold me high. I looked
across the
I fit right in I am 15 and I am on my road to being a hippie just as my dear mother was in her days. My mom has told me many stories of what it was like growing up in the 60's and here are some flashbacks from her: My mother was born in 1951, and she is 46 now. And she was at woodstock and here is what she says: I was young at the time and I believe that what I did
was what I wanted to do,
Peace, love, and freedom
My first hippie experience came when I saw the movie Woodstock for the first time. I enjoyed the movie so much I watch it every year when I go to the beach. From the first time I saw it I wanted to be a hippie. Just recently I have become a hippie. I even wear tye dye shirts and bellbottoms. I don't wear high heals though. Instead I wear sneakers like the hippies did. I wear sandals in the summer. I have short hair because I hate long hair. It gets tangled up all the time, and is hard to take care of. My best friend used to dress like a hippie when we were teenagers. She wore bellbottoms every day to school. Her mom must have bought them at a vintage clothing store. I want to finish off my hippie look by wearing a peace symbol necklace. When I was a teenager I remember some
of the kids looked weird. They
Old Hippies never die My flashback is growing up in Northern California and watching the hippies at Pacific Garden mall, in the early 70's...selling love beads and bean sprouts. I just visited Santa Cruz recently and Damn they were still there selling peace signs and smiley face jewelry. I loved it...Old Hippies never die Janice Wells
Griffith Park Love-In 4.22.98 Today I have been listening a lot to an old album I have...East - West by the Butterfield Blues Band. Listening to that music on that album captures everything. Do you all know who the rock group(s?) were...who played at the Griffith Park Love-In? This one was the first love-in ever, anywhere, so I was told. I think 1967. I was headed there in a volkswagon bug with this hells-angel swede driving. We picked up three girls and were all going down the freeway. Everyone had a joint lit. We notice a cop on a cycle behind us with sirens and lights. all happened too fast to do much of anything. He got real close behind us and then passed us, pulling over the car in front of us. never forget that. i hope that the essence of this note inspires everyone who reads it to order East - West. And my name isn't paul butterfield. The smell of pot and Pachouli First let me say that I did attend Woodstock in 1969, I was four years old at the time. My brother took me with him and some of his friends. I can remember some of the music and the smell of pot and Pachouli take me back. I guess I am alot like some of the "older crowd" that went and dropped acid because I do not remember it all, but what I do remember will last a lifetime. My friends from elementry school all
the way up through my high school
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no worries, no cares I remember going to the village with a very good friend of mine named Renee. We would really get hyped up for out night out and catch a subway (it was still safe to ride on subways at that time all hours of the night and day) and hang out in Washington Square park, and see all of the "beautiful people". we would go into the East Village disco and dance the night away. I remember the boxes we would stand on and dance with our fingers in peace signs and wave them up in the air to the beat of the music. I loved the strobe lights flickering on and off, the way it made the people look while they were dancing. I remember hanging out until all hours of the night, and finally coming home, falling out in a soft bed, and looking forward to the next week when we would do it again. Sometimes I wish I was able to turn the clocks back even just for awhile to relive how it felt back then, no worries, no cares, just great great time. JS A Space Odessey Way back in 1970, I think, I went to see "2001 A Space Odessey" with my friends Steve, Mark, and Jim. We were on Purple Haze acid at that time, my very first time on a trip, and we sat in the front row. When that big ape threw that bone in the air and it turned into a space ship out in space, I held my breath because I knew there was no oxygen in space and at that moment I was in space. The best part of the movie was that far out light show at the end. That was the coolest ever!!! I came out of the theater sweating and I think my eyes were out of their sockets. To this day, it is my favorite movie of all time. The 90's are ok I guess, but life in the mid 60's to the mid 70's were the best. Peace, Bob lsd-tinged days i am aron kay the yippie pieman, i cab still recall the lsd-tinged days of 1967-71, when we would trip around the Strip, munch out at my green power loveins at griffith park, skinnydip around venice late at nite or make love in the primitive wilds at griffith park...... anyway, its boring thses days....but visit me at http://www.calyx.net/~pieman Flashbacks from 45 yr. old hippie gal Back in the late 60's early 70's man, life was good. I remember going with my boyfriend Jimmy down to Greenwich village to hang out, with our fringed suede jackets, bell bottoms, sandals, granny glasses. We used to go the Fillmore East and see Joe Cocker, with the strobe lights flashing onstage "Joshua light show" they called it., this weird amoeba pulsating on screen. The chamber brothers, chuck berry, and so many others. I also remember "The Electric Circus" which was a hangout disco club in the village. As I reminisce i can see it in my minds eye, this was a little later down the road, we wore our maxi- coats, chambers brothers hats, danced the night away with all those pulsating amoebas onstage and black lights. Seems like another lifetime, but man it was sooooooo good !!!!Than we would have a sausage and pepper hero in a place called "Iggys". There was also a coffee house where you can play chess on the table which was a chessboard. Summertime, all the artists hung out. As I am a musician by profession, my memory back than is playing down the village when the bands took a break. that was actually my first big break. than I was the piano player of a rock band in college. I went to Kingsboro community in Brooklyn. Thats when they were adding on more buildings, so we went to classes in trailers. Remember hanging out in the lounge smoking a joint with friends on a break,those really were the days. Now I am a mother of 3 great kids. They see me as the mommy that never grew up, the mommy that can share all of her good memories with them and savor for all time..................................Joyce Gatorade on Acid So, the first time I got acid I tripped hard. But the second time WOW that was too wierd. You see I live in the bay Area in a little suburbun town called Clayton. So I tell my mom I'm going to the center with a few friend and I'd be back in two hours. It was around 1:00pm. So My boyfriend a cool stoner dude, and I hop on the bus to Bart and go to Berkely. When we get there, We get some alcoholic refresments and got a bit drunk. Soon after consuming the refreshments, I notice some Hippie kids painting themselves green laughing. So I take my tye dye wearing ass up to them proudly and ask " who'd you get the shit from, Can I get me and my friends some?" Back on Bart it's getting dark and I'm tripping hard. When I get home my mom is pissed. " Two hours!" she yells " you've been gone for 8, and I know your high. Now babysit your sister!" She leaves me home alone with my little sis and I'm in my room just sitting there staring at two aliens 69ing on my bedroom floor, when one looks up at me and smiles, I start to laugh. I get thirsty so I go to the refrigderator and to my suprise there is a glowing orange bottle of what looks like the tastiest shit in the world. It was Gatorade and usually I hate it. But on a little Acid it taste so good. I almost had an orgasim. 4:20 Peace, love, Nessa( A bored 15 year old chick) My first Trip I remember it was the end of 69. It was a hit of Pink Owsley. I had dropped and me and the guy that gave it to me walked from his house in Wallingford(Seattle) to a pay phone booth. I noticed it getting windy. Big maple leaves flying around. When he opened the door of the phone booth behind me, it sounded like a shotgun going off. He looked in my eyes and said, "We'd better get back to the house." We got back there and started listening to Country Joe and the Doors. Lou Reed, too. The house was cold and to this day, I can feel a chill when I hear those songs. I was standing up, looking out the window when the street lights started coming on for the evening and I was standing up looking out the window when they went off in the morning. Changed my life forever. I felt incredible awareness and understanding, like I could figure anything if I chose to concentrate on it. Fabulous!! Trip on a Ship I have so many flashbacks that it is hard to know where to start.At work they call me "you old hippy",Ijust smile knowingly and do my job.Once when I was in Spain,I was trippin on a ship and almost stayed,It was in Palma de Majorca I believe and the water and the beach just seemed so cool.I thought I was in Heaven man,it was just so cool.If I ever remember it all ,I'll write a book for ya'll to read. Later Hollywood,Tripps,Bubba,Ozziefied. PEACE Greasy Changes It was around late 1968, I think. I had hitchiked to a dance place called the Stone Fox in Morristown New Jersey but hadn't met up with my friends there. A bunch of "greasers" started harassing me (probably cause I was young and had long hair and Salvation Army clothes). They were trying to scare me and make their leader look tough. I was so skinny and shy that you didn't have to do much to embarass me. Well, one guy kept harassing me till I got disgusted and left. Well, about a year later, those same greasers had "lost the grease", turned on, and were hangin in the park. I spoke to the guy who had hassled me a year before. What a transformation!! He was now actually pretty cool, and had given up the noxious habit of beating up people weaker than himself for nobler pursuits, like peace and harmony, and turning on. Something mystical had transpired. I was to witness things similar to this many times. People of war and confrontation turned to lovers of peace and beauty. I, for one, hope that times like that come back for future generations of young folks. Best experienced when young! Peace,
My First Trip to a Griffith Park Love-In I had never experienced anything. I was in Griffith Park sometime around New Year's '69 with a dude named Sinbad that was removing copper plates from lightpoles for the money. We had met on Sunset Strip the night before and in the parking lot of Wallach's Music City had hooked up with this guy named Caesar that dressed like Caesar. He had something to smoke from Cuba. We had spent the night in my car. We found what we were looking for and took off at the park that afternoon. I remember my anxiety wondering if anything would happen. When a couple of girls in the park need a kite tail; I went to my trunk which kind of waved at me and brought back a piece of carpet! Everyone laughed. As the afternoon went on, I became convinced that I was in Middle Earth. When questioned, someone said yes I was. Well, then I must be. Later in the afternoon, diggers came and passed out bread. When I swallowed it seemed as if the bread in my throat was suspended in space. As the sun went down we agreed to drive back to Sunset Strip. Everyone agreed I was too far in space to drive. But I was the only one that could drive stick shift so I drove. We had Steppenwolf and Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits on a 4 track tape player. When I told everyone I couldn't look in the rear view mirror, they didm't believe me. But the reflection was of galaxies of stars. When we got back to the strip we parked on a side street. This guy asked if he could use my car to roll. Well as soon as I let him do that the heat rolled up. We all had to put our hands on the police car. The guy that had been rolling was sweating and shaking next to me on the car. His stuff was under his belt. Sinbad was hasstling with the police. One of them wound up kicking him in the crotch. No one was arrested. We went to a store front hip church called His Place. We hung out for a while. Then I drove back to suburbia. My life had changed. Bug "Trip" Here is one of my kids favorite stories of my past. My friends and I wanted to see Stone Mountain (close to Atlanta) in the 'psychedelic' fashion. We timed it so we would be getting off about the time we arrived. We set off in our hippie VW bug. About the time we got there things were getting 'real'. It was getting dark and we started walking up the mountain. Right away we noticed that the shadows of the big stones on the trail (it was a full moon) looked like craters or bottomless pits! We practically had to crawl down what little bit we had walked up. We knew we needed to be home. The bug had only one seat, the drivers'. The rest of us were sitting on the floor all huddled together. It seemed as we drove down the deserted freeway (those were the good old quiet days) that we were a bright light (the dash light) in the dark universe. We thought at times we might turn into a space ship and blip out into space to the stars. Well we all had to concentrate together har d to keep us straight and on the road. We even had to stop a few times to rest our poor tired heads........what a trip!!! |
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| Jerry and Me
In March of 1968, only thirteen years old, but old enough to know what we liked, a friend of mine and I had tickets--front row, center--for The Grateful Dead/Iron Butterfly concert at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. So young we were, our parents still were able to dictate the length of our hair, and despite our army shirts, beads and ankhs, I felt distinctly conspicuous among the older audience of Dead/Butterfly fans. In fact, looking around, I felt sneers and questioning looks from the college-aged crowd, those who deigned to recognize my existence at all, and I felt I could read their thoughts: "Who are these little kids? What makes them think they deserve front row seats?" Then the Dead came out and broke into "Love Light." Being in the front row, right in front of the stage, Jerry Garcia was playing guitar only a few feet above me. At one point during the song, he looked down, made eye contact with me, and nodded his head in time to the music. I nodded my head in time and felt my body begin to move--Jerry smiled, a "hey, alright, good to see you" sort of smile, and I suddenly realized... he saw me. He did not see some short-haired little 13-year-old, he saw the real me, and he dug it. In a flash, I realized that I had no reason to be embarrassed by my age or my physical appearance; I started dancing and no longer worried about the crowd around me. It would happen later, with other adults, but Jerry Garcia was the very first "grown-up" to actually see the real me. I will forever be grateful. -JackaLent |
| My weirdest trip
My weirdest trip was when I dropped two doses at
a Jerry Garcia Band
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| FLOWER POWER FOREVER!!!!!!
Well it was 1974-I had long hair,wore bellbottoms,had
a pipe for a belt
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Berkeley when we were stoned......in the 'sixties'...
Me and my best stoner friend were hanging out with
a friend of his in
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