eternal light Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 It's unfortunate that there are those who disappoint you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I hate to be so cynical as there's really no way for telling for sure since it's all conjecture at this point but the internet, while a great place to find info (depending of course on the source), it can also be a very effective tool for spreading propaganda. Yes it can be. It might even be safe to say that all info is propoganda. If people believe what they hear then I guess it is the truth ...to them. Perception = truth. The point I was trying to make was more one of having a common goal and having the vehicle to make it happen. There just hasn't been a movement as big since. If there were to be, the internet would be a valuable tool. Not the answer, a tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katuschka Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I wasn't around and I'm quite glad I wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 i was born in 62. up until about 73 or so it was all about childhood stuff. luckily i had an older brother, so was introduced to zep, sabbath, deep purple etc etc . zep only came to oz once in 72, so i missed out on that . but i did get to see the fledgling ac/dc on one of their first tours. there was only a handfull of us at the concert, as they had only released baby, please don't go and high voltage, so weren't well known at that point. my friends and i got to go backstage and meet the guys. i tried on angus's cap! nice memories. if i could turn back the clock at all, it would be just a few years, so i could have been at that zep concert ( i am so jealous of you, reggie! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 i was born in 62. up until about 73 or so it was all about childhood stuff. luckily i had an older brother, so was introduced to zep, sabbath, deep purple etc etc . zep only came to oz once in 72, so i missed out on that . but i did get to see the fledgling ac/dc on one of their first tours. there was only a handfull of us at the concert, as they had only released baby, please don't go and high voltage, so weren't well known at that point. my friends and i got to go backstage and meet the guys. i tried on angus's cap! nice memories. if i could turn back the clock at all, it would be just a few years, so i could have been at that zep concert ( i am so jealous of you, reggie! ) Great story StZ!!! Must have been really cool to have seen AC/DC before anyone really knew of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hartman Posted May 22, 2009 Author Share Posted May 22, 2009 My favorite memory of the 70's is in fact the Led Zeppelin show from April 28th 1977. http://www.ledzeppelin.com/show/april-28-1977 Do look at the flip book. Sam? Great work man I tried to add other things and this browser keeps crashing. I will try later perhaps. Oh yeah the guys in front of us had one of those 4 foot water bongs going around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms_zeppelin94 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I'm the one person who said they weren't around. I'm 15 and therefor eI could possibly have been there. I'm going to hang around here and soak up the stories. I'm with ya, lzfan715!! I've kinda been a generation-late hippie for several years. I'm always the chick sitting/laying in the grass somewhere or hugging a tree or something crazy. My friends are cool with it, though. My mother missed being a hippie by a few years (she was only about 5 years too young), but both her older brothers were hippies. One was a serious guitarist with a Sunburst Les Paul & Marshall cabinet amps. I've heard plenty of stories. I've heard many people say on here and other places that it wasn't really as cool as it seems. I'm reading a book for school that was published in 71, and it's talking about how nasty the "Hippie Houses" were, and 13 year-olds ODing & describing the bad trips & stuff. One of my close friends was in law inforcement in the 60s-70s, and it's amazing to hear him talk about stuff that happened. He met Jerry Garcia! The Dead had had a concert in the area, and the highway patrol was trying to clear the Deadheads out of the truck stops & stuff. They tried everything to no avail. Finally, they somehow got a hold of Jerry. "They wouldn't listen to a thing we said, but Jerry Garcia asked them to move & they just all followed after him..." It's really a cool story. I really love the whole era, but I think if I actually lived it, I wouldn't love it nearly as much. I kinda like the romanticised version. I'm happy to sit in the yard with my buds & make clover necklaces like my mom did a generation ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplant Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 ....I don't remember.... The air was filled with .... It was a great time to be a teenager. Seeing all the great bands, being carefree, wanderlust, and some trips that opened my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 and my boyfriend loved me no matter who he slept with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquamarine Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 It was also the era when festivals were starting to proliferate, so it was easy to see lots of amazing bands all in one weekend--like at Bath, where in addition to Zep, we got Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Canned Heat, Santana, etc. etc. But it's very true that the era has been romanticized (speaking of the late 60s--the 70s don't sound particularly romantic even in retrospect!). And by that I'm not referring to the notion that hippies were dirty, which now seems to be a stereotype but had nothing to do with reality, but with the political anger that underlay the movement--it wasn't all peace and love by a very long way. Just listen to Street Fighting Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplant Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Indeed, as I attended many demonstrations here. We had a pretty good turnout of people at all the rallies. Country Joe and The Fish also summed things up nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquamarine Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Indeed, as I attended many demonstrations here. We had a pretty good turnout of people at all the rallies. Country Joe and The Fish also summed things up nicely. Very true, one of my favorite songs from that era! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 that's right. thank the good lord for the free clinics when gonorrhea began to spread. it wasn't all heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplant Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 But at least a shot in the ass took care of things, then AIDS raised it's ugly head and scared everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Ah yes, the good old days, when I had already learned to just say no to heroin years before Nancy Reagan ever conceived the notion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hartman Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 It wasn't all heaven and EL makes a very good point. You had to know what to steer from and how to hold yourself in many areas. But? I wouldn't trade it for the world... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I can still remember the young woman with a baby in one arm and a needle in the other kindly offering to share her heroin with me during the sixties. "No, thank you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryingbluerain Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I can still remember the young woman with a baby in one arm and a needle in the other kindly offering to share her heroin with me during the sixties. Jeez, so much for the Age of Aquarius.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternal light Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Jeez, so much for the Age of Aquarius.. It's a good thing that my mother told me early in life never to use heroin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 It's a good thing that my mother told me early in life never to use heroin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 The 60s/70s were hardly some idyllic utopia. To somehow say that they were the era of "peace and love" is an insult to the hell people had to live through then. Hippies, Woodstock and copious amounts of LSD is not the totality of the 60s. The 70s were not just disco, coke and bellbottoms. The same shit those people had to go through, we have to go through now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hartman Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 The 60s/70s were hardly some idyllic utopia. To somehow say that they were the era of "peace and love" is an insult to the hell people had to live through then. Hippies, Woodstock and copious amounts of LSD is not the totality of the 60s. The 70s were not just disco, coke and bellbottoms. The same shit those people had to go through, we have to go through now. How old were you then? Even though there were hard times like the war, desegregation etc'. It is really viewed as a peace love time even because of the bad times. Sort of is the glass half empty or half full? We surely wouldn't have many of the freedoms of today if it weren't for the protests, The E.R.A and people saying "Hey what the fuck are we living in a commie country or a free one?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlanetPage Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 ......It is true, more the world changes, more it stays the same......It is just that times were more simpler back than as age of technology did not complicate things. The problems were the same, but the ways to deal with them Politics, social, etc. humans had more opportunity to communicate fact to face, coming closer together (communities formed because they had no choice of modern conveniences but to depend on each other, that naturally added the Human touch missing today) It was certainly an interesting time in Western World both Happy and Painful...it was no different for the Eastern world. While the West was searching spirituality in India, in reality, the country was going through War with Pakistan in '65 (I was just 5 years old). The one I remember was '71 with my family and communities close by. I am very glad there was no Internet back then, for that matter anywhere. I cannot even begin to imagine the "Misuse" of this dangerous tool....I truly lived in the world of make-believe/fantasy Cinematic Vision which thrived on Romantic Kashmir (not the war-torn one that most people know). Sometimes I am glad that despite of the ugly times, we were only exposed to mostly "beauty". I take it as a blessing in disguise...for ugliness is here to stay. Do deal with ugliness, but through beauty, this one works for me Here are some "timeless" beautiful moments in Kashmir .......Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanadu Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Even though there were hard times like the war, desegregation etc'. It is really viewed as a peace love time even because of the bad times. Sort of is the glass half empty or half full? We surely wouldn't have many of the freedoms of today if it weren't for the protests, The E.R.A and people saying "Hey what the fuck are we living in a commie country or a free one?" Please remember that this is an international forum. Perhaps it can be argued back and forth whether the 60s/70s is viewed as a time of peace and love for the USA, but I really don't think that period is globally remembered as a hippie heaven or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Hartman Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 Please remember that this is an international forum. Perhaps it can be argued back and forth whether the 60s/70s is viewed as a time of peace and love for the USA, but I really don't think that period is globally remembered as a hippie heaven or anything like that. Never said it was a "Hippie Heaven." The movies, books are commercials you see on America are pretty geared towards Finland no? I've been overseas and I know for a fact that the media views America dimly in many respects. Cannot say as I blame them really. That's a different story. Tell us what the 60's and 70's were like in Finland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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