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
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 morehttp://www.ukrockfestivals.com/Hyde-park-Festivals.html
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.
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
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
That's the stuff. Second only to Castrol R.I used patchoulli, still love it and I use patchoulli incense sticks a lot even now
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
That's the stuff. Second only to Castrol R.
That's the stuff. Second only to Castrol R.
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.
Hah! I've sometimes wondered what those places will be like when they're full of old hippies, nirvana at last!
"Come on Mr hay-char dearie; time for your afternoon spliff and metformin ......"
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