The old hippy days

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Watching a little of the movie Woodstock on VH1 Classics and oh how that brings back the days of hippydom for me. While I was one of those short haired hippies (serving in the military at the time), I nonetheless was enthralled in the music of the time. Just finished watching my all time favorite cut from the movie, a song by Santana titled Soul Sacrifice. What a great preformance and if you ever wanted to see the old hippy movement at it's prime, this move will show you what it was all about. Of course, not all of it I backed, but the music was tops to me, and much of it still is. Right now, Sly and the Family Stone are singing "Wanna Take You Higher" and I love that one too.

While I was in the AF, I had a friend who was from New York and before he joined, he attended the concert by accident. A long story but he was riding his bike with his brother when they came upon all these people. They were of the group that ended up being let in free after so many people were crowding the fences.

Wanna take you higher! Wanna take you higher! Higher! Higher! Oh yeah, those were the days of my music.
 

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I SO wanted to go to Woodstock, but Married With Children made it impossible.
 
So Kat, you're saying you stayed home and watched TV. I didn't think that show was on then.
I missed Woodstock but I did go to a similar one at the Rockingham Speedway, summer of '72.
As to music and grownups, just think in 30 years the Oldies stations will be playing HipHop and Rap.
 
barelypure said:
So Kat, you're saying you stayed home and watched TV. I didn't think that show was on then.
I missed Woodstock but I did go to a similar one at the Rockingham Speedway, summer of '72.
As to music and grownups, just think in 30 years the Oldies stations will be playing HipHop and Rap.
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alice cooper the headliner in rockingham I was there 2 damn it's a small world:D
 
I had seen AC while still living in El Paso in '68.
@ Rockingham we slept in the car beside the road. 3 nights. Those were some good times.
 
Not the TV show (but I still watch the reruns), but I was married with children and hubby #1 was a control freak!
 
I'm a young'n at 21, but I would have loved to have seen what it was like back in the 60s and 70s. I've seen some old movies that dealt with folk music and a festival, it seemed nuts. I love Joan Baez.
 
Back then, the music was labeled as "psychedelic" and did they play with the mind. Of course, mind altering drugs weren't a part of that. ;) In many ways, it was the very beginning of heavy metal music. It took me a couple of tries before I fell in love with Jimi Hendrix's music, and I still love it.

As I said, while I was in the AF, my hair was short, but I had all the right clothing for the well dressed hippy...elephant bells, many tie-dyed shirts that I made myself, a nice huge floppy hat, and of course, knee high mocosins with fringe and a matching vest. Oh and a pair of purple tinted sunglasses that were only about 3/4 of an inch wide. Oh yeah, I can see those little men running up and down the walls.
 
buckaroo said:
Back then, the music was labeled as "psychedelic" and did they play with the mind. Of course, mind altering drugs weren't a part of that. ;) In many ways, it was the very beginning of heavy metal music. It took me a couple of tries before I fell in love with Jimi Hendrix's music, and I still love it.

As I said, while I was in the AF, my hair was short, but I had all the right clothing for the well dressed hippy...elephant bells, many tie-dyed shirts that I made myself, a nice huge floppy hat, and of course, knee high mocosins with fringe and a matching vest. Oh and a pair of purple tinted sunglasses that were only about 3/4 of an inch wide. Oh yeah, I can see those little men running up and down the walls.[/QUOTE]

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kelloggs5TLfan said:
buckaroo said:
As I said, while I was in the AF, my hair was short, but I had all the right clothing for the well dressed hippy...elephant bells, many tie-dyed shirts that I made myself, a nice huge floppy hat, and of course, knee high mocosins with fringe and a matching vest. Oh and a pair of purple tinted sunglasses that were only about 3/4 of an inch wide. Oh yeah, I can see those little men running up and down the walls.[/QUOTE]

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You've got to be kidding! We're talking close to 40 years ago. Besides, most of those pictures were thrown away by various women that I dated back then. It's a shame they didn't give them back to me. :)
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I was really amused when the grandkids laughed at Austin Power's fur vest. Mine was green. And I wore rainbow bell bottoms.
I was slightly ahead of the times tho. Not only did I have an orange streak dyed down the middle of my hair but I had a nose ring. It was pressure not pierced. They weren't doing much body piercing back then.
But, my hair was short as well. At least until I got to college. The streak grew out as my hair got to my shoulders. My beard got off to a good start. But, I had to lose the nose ring. I came to school in NC and they just weren't ready in these parts for something like that.
 
barelypure said:
My beard got off to a good start.
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I'm a year and a half shy of sixty and I still can't grow a beard.

True story...back in my youth while in the AF, I had thought about trying to grow a mustach. My head hair is very thick and even though the body hair was all but nonexistant, I had facial hair that I had to shave. Many of my friends had nice 'staches and so I thought why not. I let the hair grow above my lip, but after about six weeks, though I had plenty of longish hair, it was all but visible. Very thin in nature and very blondish, unlike the hair on the top of my head. I had a friend who was a hair dresser (at the time they were called "beauticians") and she told me that she could fix it. So one Sunday afternoon, we set out to give me my wonderful Jim Croce type mustach. First off, she needed to apply the dye. The first take didn't work so she said, that's not rare and that we probably needed to keep the dye on a bit longer. Well, to make a long story short, I damned near burned my upper lip trying to change the color of my hair, and it didn't work! The hair just wouldn't dye, and I think it is probably the same today. I could grow a beard of sorts, but it is so sparce that it would look shabby if I tried. But at the time, I was torn. I wanted to be a hippy, but couldn't wear long hair, couldn't grow a mustach that one could see further away than three feet, and couldn't grow a good looking beard. From that time on, I decided that for me, it didn't matter what I looked like, I could still enjoy the music and the clothes.
 
As soon as I got out of HS I grew a moustache and its never been shaved off. Not once. During the disco days I did sport a handlebar and an afro along with the leisure suits. These days its jeans and knit shirts with mutton chops (beard with the chin area shaved; for the uninitiated). The very thick hair has given up on top but the sides and back are longish. Not quite ponytail long tho.
Never had a mullet or anything close. And, never got into the drug scene but I did hang around those who did.
 
I was born in the late sixties, so that part, I missed.

But, I had one hell of a mullet in the eighties. I wore pretty much nothing but rock-n-roll t-shirts, mostly concert shirts. And of course, jeans that were way too tight. But the girls liked it enough for me to defile myself many times.

It's kind of funny that this topic is on here tonight as I sit here downloading a bunch of old favorites from Peter Frampton, Cheap Trick, April Wine and the like. I listened to a lot heavier stuff than this mostly in high school, but I liked it too.


Oh and Buckaroo, I would have loved to sport facial hair back then but I couldn't grow anything of substance until I reached my mid-thirties. My goatee isn't quite as thick as some people's, but I like it and so do the wife and kids.
 
I still have a kindo' mullet! No drugs in my system except for Rx ones, but hubby still likes weed. Dumbass!
 
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