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We have a (currently) 8 page thread on mods and rockers, so I thought I'd spread the love and have one on hippies too :D
One of my favourite memories of the late 60s early 70s is the free Hyde Park Concerts, anyone else here go? I saw the Stones just after Brian Jones died, Pink Floyd, Blind Faith, and many more of the top bands of the day. Can you imagine todays top bands doing that for free?
This is a great link to bring back all those memories and more ;) http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Hyde-park-Festivals.html
 
I was born during the "Summer of Love" (1967); does that count? :D
 
The wifes a hippy ! Think she should have grown out of it by now ! She is a London girl, so expect she went to the free gigs !
 
rowan said:
We have a (currently) 8 page thread on mods and rockers, so I thought I'd spread the love and have one on hippies too :D
One of my favourite memories of the late 60s early 70s is the free Hyde Park Concerts, anyone else here go? I saw the Stones just after Brian Jones died, Pink Floyd, Blind Faith, and many more of the top bands of the day. Can you imagine todays top bands doing that for free?
This is a great link to bring back all those memories and more ;) http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Hyde-park-Festivals.html
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Amazing you got to see those amazing groups - and for free as well! Although it was a bit late for being a 'hippie' event, I would have loved to have been at Elton John's free concert at Central Park in 1980. (At 13, there was no way on earth my parents would've let me go!)
 
I definitely noticed the hippies because they smelled funny and stole milk off doorsteps. I bought a see-through shirt at Leslie's in Bath if anyone remembers that emporium. Apart from that I was mostly just mystified by the movement.
Meanwhile my neighbour where I live now was living on a commune in New Mexico producing organic food and high-class substances for recreational use. Today he is just another balding pensioner like me. There must be thousands of him/us.
I was terrified of the Rolling Stones but I liked Donovan and I liked Marianne Faithfull even more.
Long after everyone else had either o'd'd or swapped their flares for pinstripes and gone to work, I decided to be a hippy and borrowed my fiancee's green loons. I was 43.
I look back on the Sixties with misty-eyed longing for something I imagine I missed. I now admire the Stones and other bands who went to America and opened people's eyes and ears to the blues roots of their white pop music.
Down here it's one of the annual the Hawkwind festivals, so peace and love man, or I'll punch ya.
 
I nearly missed out on the 60s but I have a sister 4 years older than me and I was allowed out to things I'd never have been able to do without her. Good job our parents never realised she was a very bad influence on me and we had a lot of fun! (I got blamed for everything cos I was the gobby one, but my sister was definitely the instigator!)
I still wasn't allowed to the 1970 Isle of White festival though, I'd just turned 15 and all my friends had gone. What made it worse was that it turned out to be the last chance I'd ever have to see Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, my heroes of the day :dead:
 
My teens dad, was always a hippy, didn't get to know him until the 1990's, but he did loads of stuff and his sister told me once he wanted to count trees as a job !! this is a person who had so many O levels, very articulate and excellent at spelling and maths. But too lazy and 'zonked' a lot of the time to do anything about it. Good looking guy, until the later years.
I would definitely not of been a hippy :wideyed: far out man ;)
 
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DeejayR said:
I definitely noticed the hippies because they smelled funny and stole milk off doorsteps. I bought a see-through shirt at Leslie's in Bath if anyone remembers that emporium. Apart from that I was mostly just mystified by the movement.
Meanwhile my neighbour where I live now was living on a commune in New Mexico producing organic food and high-class substances for recreational use. Today he is just another balding pensioner like me. There must be thousands of him/us.
I was terrified of the Rolling Stones but I liked Donovan and I liked Marianne Faithfull even more.
Long after everyone else had either o'd'd or swapped their flares for pinstripes and gone to work, I decided to be a hippy and borrowed my fiancee's green loons. I was 43.
I look back on the Sixties with misty-eyed longing for something I imagine I missed. I now admire the Stones and other bands who went to America and opened people's eyes and ears to the blues roots of their white pop music.
Down here it's one of the annual the Hawkwind festivals, so peace and love man, or I'll punch ya.
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I never smelled funny, the only funny I smelled at the time was the Brut that the skinheads smelled of :p
I used patchoulli, still love it and I use patchoulli incense sticks a lot even now :D
Definitely never stole any milk from doorsteps though!
 
The wife hates milk with a passion .. So she was not nicking milk .. Also the funny smell .. No she was not a weed smoker either ... But she has a very relaxed view on life .. Almost stood for the environment party now know as Green Party .. Enjoys doing her art and gardens. Not precious about belongings .. Dosent give a flying ^%#}<^~ about what people think of her, or her art work.

She is an independant thinker .. Hates rules ... And processed foods. Loves ...... Me :D

Edit to add .... I am almost the opposite to all the above and never a hippy in any way shape or form ...she is also to young to be a full hippy
 
Enclave said:
The wife hates milk with a passion .. So she was not nicking milk .. Also the funny smell .. No she was not a weed smoker either ... But she has a very relaxed view on life .. Almost stood for the environment party now know as Green Party .. Enjoys doing her art and gardens. Not precious about belongings .. Dosent give a flying ^%#}<^~ about what people think of her, or her art work.

She is an independant thinker .. Hates rules ... And processed foods. Loves ...... Me :D

Edit to add .... I am almost the opposite to all the above and never a hippy in any way shape or form ...she is also to young to be a full hippy
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Was that the Ecology Party? Most of the hippies I knew were very environmentally aware, long before it became mainstream, people just saw us as a bunch of nutcases talking about the planet and took no notice, till it was too late.
 
I'm too young to be a hippy - I was in single figures for most of the Swinging Sixties.

However, as a Seventies teenager, I'm happy to say that I reaped the benefit of the Sixties' legacy in the form of lots and lots of herbal fags, many concerts by big-name bands in 2 and 3 thousand-seater venues and quite a lot of promiscuous, unprotected sex (because it was pre-AIDS and post-Pill), particularly at University. In hindsight, wearing flares and an Afghan Sheepskin Waistcoat seems a small price to pay.

All most reprehensible, but it will give me some happy memories when I'm locked up in the Twilight Home for the Terminally Bewildered :cool:
 
jay hay-char said:
I'm too young to be a hippy - I was in single figures for most of the Swinging Sixties.

However, as a Seventies teenager, I'm happy to say that I reaped the benefit of the Sixties' legacy in the form of lots and lots of herbal fags, many concerts by big-name bands in 2 and 3 thousand-seater venues and quite a lot of promiscuous, unprotected sex (because it was pre-AIDS and post-Pill), particularly at University. In hindsight, wearing flares and an Afghan Sheepskin Waistcoat seems a small price to pay.

All most reprehensible, but it will give me some happy memories when I'm locked up in the Twilight Home for the Terminally Bewildered :cool:
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Hah! I've sometimes wondered what those places will be like when they're full of old hippies, nirvana at last! Problem is, punks were only just behind us so they'll be a lot of them too!
I was 15 in 1970 so I had a bit of both, although the 70s were definitely better for me as I left school and had more freedom :D
 
DeejayR said:
That's the stuff. Second only to Castrol R.
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My grown up daughter ( who is a bit of a hippie,new age and herbal remedies) gave me an incense burner with two oils, grapefruit ( lovely ) and patchoulli, it's okay, but doesn't have that dank musty smell, that I remember people wearing in the seventies, but my teen hates the smell.
 
Robinredbreast said:
My grown up daughter ( who is a bit of a hippie,new age and herbal remedies) gave me an incense burner with two oils, grapefruit ( lovely ) and patchoulli, it's okay, but doesn't have that dank musty smell, that I remember people wearing in the seventies, but my teen hates the smell.
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I have some patchoulli oil, smells the same as you remember if I put in on cothes or other fabrics, but not using it in a burner, don't know why.
 
The age of kaftans and wearing bells on necklaces. What was that all about? I remember visiting an aunt who had made me a necklace made out of threaded melon seeds. :wacky:Don't know how many melons she had eaten, but there were lots of seeds on the necklace lol:cool:
 
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