Old HIPPIES Unite! Let´s exchange some storys
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and now SPEAKER ASHLEY ROACHCLIP...
How many real old Hippies are out there? Oh come on, let your freak flag fly again just for fun. Doesn´t matter if your up, down, black, white, straight, gay or confused. Anyone want to exchange storys from back in the day? Oh, but not so fast, first a little quiz to see if your REAL. Okay so you can cheat, isn´t that what life is all about? Just Kidding! But if you really feel all boxed in and strung out, this ought to cure it. Come on, how many do YOU know?
Directions: Match the words on the left with the words on the right... If you follow the little dots straight across you´ll get the wrong answer man.
Summer of Love....................The Lion Sleeps tonight
Bell bottoms.........................The San Francisco Trip Festival
Big Bamboo..........................S--T I´m not dying for no white man
Soul.......................................Alice´s Restaurant
A recording studio.................Don´t Crush that Dwarf
Tom and Dick Smothers..........Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Purple Haze............................Jannis Joplin
Led Zepplin I & II...................Panama
Kent State..............................R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha Franklin
A Tale of Two Cities...............Viet Nam
Surealistic Sleigh Ride.............Miami
Pearl........................................Dr Timothy Leary said it
bumper sticker on my van.......A Hippie that got religion
Tetrahydrocannabinol.............Original Hippie Corner
Haight & Ashbury Streets........how may kids did you kill today"
Pigasus The Imortal................Funny radicals canned by CBS TV
LSD.........................................CSN&Y
Jesus Freak...............................Ohio
3 Dog Night...............................Charles Dickens
Volkswagon...............................a spirit carried in your worn out jeans
Hair..........................................If you think this is fog, it´s time to quit
Trimethoxphenethylamine........Micro-bus
Arlo Guthrie..............................Peter, Paul and Mary
Tune in, turn on, drop out....... Found in Mary Jane
Shotgun..................................psychedelic
California Jam Festival.............in New York State
another place in Florida...........Jefferson Airplane
Bomber jet planes....................not a type of weapon
Love the One Your With..........another place in Florida
Woodstock Festival................Cheech and Chong
Up Tight.................................. it means WOW! I really like it...
The Draft................................. Ontario International Speedway
Momma Cass Elliot................. Mescaline
Puff the Magic Dragon............ hey, that is where I lived, hee! hee!
Red......................................... Commune
Fat Freddy...............................Chicago 7
The British Invasion.................Didn´t choke on a ham sandwich
Golden Gate Park site of ......... A Fablous Furry Freak Brother
Kinetic Molecular Theory .........Just Kidding!
Colombia.................................. Abby Road was it´s location
LBJ! LBJ!.................................. Those cool Hindenburg Pictures
type of art, music or trip......... Don´t laugh your daughter might be in here
Daytona Beach..........................The only kind of blue jeans
where the "heads" all lived.......1968
Firesign Theater........................Eskimo Expression
In the Jungle.............................The Beatles
Sock it to me.............................were turning into Butterflys
Far Out.......................................Really tense, are the cops watching me man?
Now how many are brave enough to tell me how you did? Did you cheat? If your real, you may now procede to tell us your crazy Hippie story (keep it clean), Oh Lord this is going to be simply APOCALYPTIC!
What was that question again! Yippieee, Una Paloma Blanca!
If you enjoyed this you are going to love these litttle links, but don´t forget to tell your story...
If you have never heard the album "A childs Garden of Grass" click on this link and scroll down to the two download links, they will have you rolling in the floor... "even if your a Methodist"
http://buddyhead.typepad.com/medicat...ds_garden.html
See the comics at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/freakbros/
The Freak movie from "Grass Roots Productions"
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=fabulousfurryfreak
Comic Press at:
http://www.ripoffpress.com/
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Sorry you if missed Out on 1968-75... Really some "smashing" fun times.
"A few of my own, I survived being a Hippie stories."
Lets see:
The Freaks ran a Pig for President (during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago) with the stated purpose to get it elected, then kill it, divide it amoung the people and eat it! The concept was to reverse the usual process in Washington! They also said things like "Hey man, let´s dump 200 gallons of LSD into the City water supply..." a statement, that with the illumination of history and time, might not have been too smart... but it sounded good then.
Everyone will meet in the Park. I mean EVERYONE DID meet. Including the 125,000 Cops, National Guard AND the 101st Airborne Division. I missed both this event AND Woodstock (wrong place) but they were all the talk of the town, anywhere one went. Too many days on that infamous Bay Area Pier I guess. Monterey and California Jam? THAT is a different story.
There was that giant billboard put up by freaks that looked Ohhhh so professional (a bunch of artist types) outside of Frezburg, which read, "Welcome to Frezburg, Wart of the World and in the Arm Pit of the Great Frog!"
Hell´s Angels. I met this really cute chick in a Taco stand in California, she was everything soft and sweet, a REAL flower child of the day. After "50 First Dates" she finally invited me to her house. Her dad was the biggest, hairest, SOB I ever saw, he greeted me at the door, yelling "Val, your Hippie is here". As I went in, I noted the brothers in colors thinking "Oh S--t bad scene here." Seem´s the boys were headed North and my little micro-bus was going along as a support vehicle (someone had to carry the beer). So we cruised up The Golden State Freeway, 300 Harleys and one little VW. When we got back, and Val and I were indisposed in her room, the "boys" decided to lift the little bus and carried it to an alley. When I came out the storys just got worse and worse, "They´re looking for you", "What Club did this?," "Your going to probably going to die." I was freaking out when a couple of them came pushing the bus back up the road! HA! HA! HA! Have a beer, then another, another, another, anotherrrrr aend yeppannnnnpads<´fjñp´f´kkfkçfkg85sm! Hey, and I lived to tell about it!
My little 156 plant garden which ended up near the Commune at Dunlap, CA...(but if you want to know where, I´ll NEVER tell) As seedlings all suning in the big front window. The apartment had a flat front like an old motel, a front door into the living room and this giant window about 3 feet to the LEFT! Suddenly someone is pounding on the door in the style of another freak. So being a noble faired, long haired, leaping knome, I bounced the door open and looked into the helmeted face of the biggest California Cop I ever saw! (and I think he was growing) "Hello Sir, I´m sorry to bother you but do you know where apartment number such and such is, blah blah." All the while, my babies are leaning toward the window. Quickly stepping onto the porch and in my very best citizen voice, I sent him on his way. Last time I saw those plants they had spread all down a creek in the hills and the oldest ones were over 12 feet high!
Hollywood, my self degradation continued with a journeys to Hollywood and Vine...In the middle of the night. For those who don´t know, even today, every freak and weirdo in California are on display at there. Over at the Palladium or Hollywood Bowl there were endless concerts and shows. With the state of my hypocrisy knowing no bounds, we all dressed up in our best freak garb and headed for the show´s. "Hair" the nekked musical, "Rocky Horror Picture Show" the dementia, "Canned Heat" who were also stonned, it was the Volume Stupid!, "Black Oak Arkansas," the inspired Jim Dandy, The Doobie Brother´s, it was Rock-n-Roll and "Ruby Starr" every mans dream, just to name a few. We all walked in, but they had to pour us back out!
The Stash Box, everyone else had baggies. I had this old wooden Jewelry Case that I kept my personal S--t in . One day while checking out a "Head Shop" I got an idea from the display. Went back and constructed velvet lined cutouts for various carborator (glass) pipes and inserted a plastic box for the boo. It turned out to be quite a show piece and lived to inspire Freak adventures from Coast to Coast.
There was that drive in Ormond Beach that ended somewhere out in the woods, in a State Park, barely able to keep the old bus on the road, suddenly there was this 5 or 10 story high INDIAN! The Indian is probably still there, I believe he is made of Concrete, but needless to say, we all cleared out.
There was the Great Cross-California Drag Race. We all decided to go to Monterey from somewhere in the San Joaquin Valley. Brother Wayne had a BMW and Brother Ken and Sister Kathy a brand new Corvette. Add that to a Micro-Bus named Lucy and you get the picture. Lucy COULD do 65 with a good tail wind and the interior gutted! Bet´s were flying all around in Lucy about who would win. LUCY DID! When we cleared Coalinga and got into the Coast Range (at 15 mph, HEY it WAS up grade) we see Wayne, Ken and Kathy all standing around on this sharp curve...you guessed it, the brand new Vette and BMW were in a heap in the middle of a farm field about 100 feet below us! Even with that, everyone was laughing...
More about Hollywood. I got a job working sets with Dan Curtis Productions in the NBC Movie "The Rape of Mrs. R´s Daughter". Dan Curtis, was more of a family then a job except for the un-Godly hours we worked. There was a scene in the flick where the victim is pushed part way out of the car, then yanked hard back into the rapist´s face, then shoved out. We filmed that ONE darn scene at least 120 times from 4 am under lights until 1 am the following morning. Seem´s no matter what we did, Santa Anna was NOT going to let the wind carry the dust the right way... with 12 of us fools armed with shovels, tossing it until we were gray! After that, someone says, "Hey man, wanna party? I was taken to a trailer with some of the crew and a couple of actors where I quickly found out THESE PEOPLE REALLY DO keep their "White Powder" in a punch bowl! At least 15 regular California Cops providing security and no one saw anything! $$$! Yeah, Right! It was a big downer when I went to Universal to film the stupid Benji movie. God, it sucked so bad, I quit when it was all over... So much for fame and fortune... and YES to all you wanna-be´s, they DO often pull in crew or the crowd at the ropes for bit parts, but if you don´t hit 6 words, you don´t go S.A.G. and you´ll starve in you dream. One little note I left off before, they collered me for a part that ended up on the cutting room floor at Dan Curtis, even though it was just a few seconds long, I got royalty checks forever.
"That Darn Cat." In the far West of Jacksonville, sister S. would go out and walk her little Rat Terrier each evening, while getting loaded. Now sister S. had only lived in New York City and knew NOTHING about anything wild. Well you guessed it, she encountered a "big" kitty laying in a hedge. Since the dog was barking and irritated she decided to kick the kitty and shoo it away... She came running through the front door all excited, "I just saw the weirdest cat, I tried to kick it but it got up and it was bigger then a German Sheppard Dog! What kind of cat is that?" Then WE saw it! Damn S. that´s no cat that IS A PANTHER! We found the critter would show up every evening at dark like it had a trail and schedule. After I explained to her that it could "Kill you AND eat you," she never again attempted to kick a cat!
Then there was the Jethro Tull concert in the Bay Area, I was there but all I can remember was big puff´s of colored smoke on the stage. But I will always have a part of me "Living in the Past". and THAT´s THE TRUTH... hee hee hee
Ocklawaha
Still dreaming of old "friends", "White Rabbits," "Magic Carpet Rides,""White Birds," "Silver Hammers," and a "Dog named Boo." Your friendly Old Hippie, "another "Legend of The Mind." Now everybody sing along... "Una Paloma Blanca..."
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