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Archive for the ‘Hippies’ Category

April 20th, 2008

And now a word from Jerry Garcia

Garcia on the SF Music Scene in 1972:

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February 12th, 2008

Video: Suite Judy Blue Eyes

Sorry for the crickets the past two days, crazy wind in Virginia knocked down my trees and POOF goes the power. Time to get back into the groove with this odd split-screen video but awesome song by Crosby Stills and Nash. Did ya miss me?
Virginians- don’t forget to vote!

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January 24th, 2008

Hippie Chick Smackdown?

In an interview with Britain’s music magazine, Mojo, Joni Mitchell spoke of the rampant competition between she and her powerhouse contemporaries: Joan Baez and Janis Joplin. Doesn’t look like they embraced the whole “peace and love” vibe, eh?
“Janis Joplin was very competitive with me, very insecure. She was the queen of rock ‘n’ roll […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Top Five Hippie Hideaways

“Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac A little voice inside my head said, ‘Don’t look back. You can never look back.’” Boys of Summer by D. Henley
So where do you go when you need a place to air out that tye dye? I’ve picked my […]

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January 21st, 2008

All hail the Magic Bus

I have been trying to find one of these bad boys for years to cart around my crazy brood.  In a sea of boring SUVs and mommi-vans, my VW bus would stand out as the last fist in the air, crying out “POWAH to the PEOPLE!”  Now to find one that is still running…
Have one?  […]

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January 10th, 2008

Top Five Hippie New Year Resolutions

Not all resolutions are hastily written on cocktail napkins or on the hem of skirts at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve (wha?  Don’t tell me you never did).  I’ve discovered the lost resolutions of some of our favorite hippie gods and since most of them have already started truckin’ down a one-way […]

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January 4th, 2008

Hippie hippie hair

Man, I love my hippie hair.
Seriously. My hair is rock star long (down to my waist) and I’m more Breck girl than stinky hippie; I love to see how people define “hippie hair.” Think dreds, think ‘fro, think long cascading curls ala this excerpt from Time, printed Oct. 27, 1967, “…the day […]

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July 11th, 2007

Why Do You Love 60s and 70s Music?

It’s been noted that I grew up with 60s and 70s music blasting through my house. It obviously stuck because I sang along at a fairly young age. However, I don’t think I owe my love of this genre entirely to this. My roots with the hippie sounds of past had a much more visual […]

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July 5th, 2007

You can whine about this blog if you want; but I’ll just refer you to this very long and boring post to read

So, if you’re reading this post, I’ll assume one of three things…

Just plain curiosity.
You can’t get to sleep and think this might help (which, by the way, it will)
You’ve been whining non-stop about some aspect of Hippie Sounds, like the blogroll or how people born out of the 60s can’t truly respect music from this […]

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