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From: pv@PhantomView114.net

On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:19:07 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

"a425couple" wrote in message news:r9jokj029hn@news1.newsguy.com...

It took 50 years, but guess what?
The 'hippies' won! Marijuana is legal and haircuts are illegal!

Amazing!

Now we oldsters can stay merrily stoned while the rest
of the world goes to hell: https://tinyurl.com/ycg5fpnx

The Age Of Aquarius at last !
Dig out the tie-dye and headband and
cue-up InnaGadadaVida ! :-)

The millenials may as well join in, their
employment prospects were crappy to
begin with, now they are total crap. The
Mexicans and Indians will rush in to grab
up every vacant slot. So, we can all pick
fleas out at the commune from now on
until we starve to death.

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From: byker@do~rag.net

"a425couple" wrote in message news:r9jokj029hn@news1.newsguy.com...

It took 50 years, but guess what?
The 'hippies' won! Marijuana is legal and haircuts are illegal!

Amazing!

Now we oldsters can stay merrily stoned while the rest
of the world goes to hell: https://tinyurl.com/ycg5fpnx

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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From: pv@PhantomView114.net

On Thu, 14 May 2020 15:42:37 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

"Phantom_View" wrote in message >news:tu6rbfpbc5l8hee0eef1r4odo0ditifb1u@4ax.com...

On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:19:07 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

Now we oldsters can stay merrily stoned while the rest of the world goes >>>to hell: https://tinyurl.com/ycg5fpnx

The Age Of Aquarius at last !
Dig out the tie-dye and headband and
cue-up InnaGadadaVida ! :-)

Ah, yes. Peace, love, and Timothy Leary. I still have some of Abbie
Hoffman's books ("Steal This Book," "Revolution For The Hell Of It") packed >away in a box in the attic. Yeah, once upon a time I was a long-haired, >bearded Californian who believed all that flower-power, Age-of-Aquarius >liberal bullshit. It was fun while it lasted, but we had to face reality >sometime. In 2000 my high school had its 30-year reunion and my
former counterculture compadres had long since traded in their flowers and >beads for short hair, three-piece suits, careers, families, and homes, just >like the moms and dads we rebelled against. The idealistic hippie-dippie >days have become embarrassing footnotes that we only discuss among ourselves >and not others. It's as if the Sixties never happened.

However, let a Doors or Jimi Hendrix song
come on the radio, and the Sixties live again...

At least hippie "liberal" actually meant LIBERTY, not
the current neo-Stalinist totalitarianism.

And I do listen to Innagodadavida once in awhile ... the
part after the nefarious drum solo is pretty damned good.
I even have collections from the psychedelic bands, and
Great Society (which Airplane ripped-off). Framed within
their original context this is good stuff.

But it was an unreal universe that could never stand on
its own. The "free" hippies were actually parasites living
off the excess of those white shirt & narrow black tie
capitalist pigs. The image that comes to mind is that of
some musician ranting against "The Establishment" -
while playing his electric guitar inside a 25,000 seat
concrete auditorium :-)

The demographics of my H.S. alma mater:

1970: 74% White

2000: 3% White

I do not think mine has changed that much, but I never
particularly liked them and do not go to "reunions".
Besides, I would rather remember the hot chicks
as they were, not the grannies they are now.

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From: byker@do~rag.net

"Phantom_View" wrote in message news:tu6rbfpbc5l8hee0eef1r4odo0ditifb1u@4ax.com...

On Thu, 14 May 2020 12:19:07 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

Now we oldsters can stay merrily stoned while the rest of the world goes
to hell: https://tinyurl.com/ycg5fpnx

The Age Of Aquarius at last !
Dig out the tie-dye and headband and
cue-up InnaGadadaVida ! :-)

Ah, yes. Peace, love, and Timothy Leary. I still have some of Abbie
Hoffman's books ("Steal This Book," "Revolution For The Hell Of It") packed away in a box in the attic. Yeah, once upon a time I was a long-haired, bearded Californian who believed all that flower-power, Age-of-Aquarius
liberal bullshit. It was fun while it lasted, but we had to face reality sometime. In 2000 my high school had its 30-year reunion and my
former counterculture compadres had long since traded in their flowers and beads for short hair, three-piece suits, careers, families, and homes, just like the moms and dads we rebelled against. The idealistic hippie-dippie
days have become embarrassing footnotes that we only discuss among ourselves and not others. It's as if the Sixties never happened.

However, let a Doors or Jimi Hendrix song
come on the radio, and the Sixties live again...

The demographics of my H.S. alma mater:

1970: 74% White

2000: 3% White

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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From: pv@PhantomView114.net

On Fri, 15 May 2020 10:15:46 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

"Phantom_View" wrote in message >news:9orrbf5amfudceud2cpns76k6ijfinfc49@4ax.com...

And I do listen to Innagodadavida once in awhile ... the
part after the nefarious drum solo is pretty damned good.

Speaking of drum solos, I've never tired of hearing this one from the same >year (1968): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGyoicr2KTQ&t=99s

I even have collections from the psychedelic bands, and
Great Society (which Airplane ripped-off).

Wow, I'd forgotten all about them.

That's where Grace Slick came from ... plus a couple of
Airplane's big hits - "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love"
most notable. Airplane's covers were better, but they did not
actually write the stuff.

There were a lot of great Bay Area bands back then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_River_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever_Tree_(band)
Hit Top 40 Single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDwJqy0N63g

Meanwhile, in L.A.: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peanut_Butter_Conspiracy
Best remembered for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcFXPqIYfqA

Don't let the name fool you. The Colours were an L.A. garage band: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfGwJlkMnU

I had heard of Rushmore and Fever Tree ... never heard
Peanutbutter though. A lot of those bands were just a
flash in the proverbial pan ... one semi-popular song or
maybe one full album ... and then they were gone. A lot
of their stuff is probably lost forever since they operated
on a worn-out shoestring budget and there may have
been only a single tape delivered to a stoned-out college
radio jock who re-used it for something else afterwards.

In any case, an interesting archeological snapshot of a
very odd time. Unfortunately some of the flashbacks
persist to this day, but even more confused and jumbled.
Bernie kept pushing his "Free EVERYTHING" bribe/line
and there were still a lot of people who actually BELIEVED
such shit.

I will have to dig out my Ultimate Spinach archive tonight :-)
Guess I am one of those "I like what I like" guys and have
faves from Bach and Glenn Miller through Black Sabbath,
AC/DC, Marilyn Manson and G&R and even odd bits from
contemporary bands. It it kicks ass I probaby like it. :-)

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From: byker@do~rag.net

"Phantom_View" wrote in message news:2jmtbfpqn4fkemf2en2m1qr9vblknebh5k@4ax.com...

I will have to dig out my Ultimate Spinach archive tonight :-)
Guess I am one of those "I like what I like" guys and have
faves from Bach and Glenn Miller through Black Sabbath,
AC/DC, Marilyn Manson and G&R and even odd bits from
contemporary bands. It it kicks ass I probaby like it. :-)

Same here.

I forgot one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsGGDlZXSE&t=4s

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From: byker@do~rag.net

"Phantom_View" wrote in message news:9orrbf5amfudceud2cpns76k6ijfinfc49@4ax.com...

And I do listen to Innagodadavida once in awhile ... the
part after the nefarious drum solo is pretty damned good.

Speaking of drum solos, I've never tired of hearing this one from the same
year (1968): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGyoicr2KTQ&t=99s

I even have collections from the psychedelic bands, and
Great Society (which Airplane ripped-off).

Wow, I'd forgotten all about them.

There were a lot of great Bay Area bands back then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_River_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever_Tree_(band)
Hit Top 40 Single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDwJqy0N63g


Meanwhile, in L.A.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peanut_Butter_Conspiracy
Best remembered for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcFXPqIYfqA

Don't let the name fool you. The Colours were an L.A. garage band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfGwJlkMnU

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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