How Did The Hippie Subculture Die?
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1:12 "Scare the living **** outta boomers"
Dude, the hippies WERE boomers.
Not really. They born in the same years, but the hippies all died from drug addiction and suicide.
Scaring the living shit out of The Greatest Generation
Thank you.
Gen Z needs to learn how adult language works.
@@TheRealSeptimusPrime people try to put us down... Talking about my generation...
“Hippies now are rich kids” that’s what they always are, poor people were too busy being poor to be hippies
Except modern hippies dont go starting a commune and denounce their familys wealth. The hippie movement in the 60s was nothing fake bro
This is the reality of every subculture, a lot of punks were also middle class.
@@kelechi_77 "Class traitor!" What fucking ever??!! I'm just another middle class kid too"
yeah fr its just a white imitation of roma culture, people who were actually looked down upon and discriminated against in europe. thats why its funny when i grow out my hair n white ppl tell me i look like a hippie like bruh yall wanted to be like us asians lol
@@kelechi_77 middle class is still working class tho, most hippies never have to work a day in their life because of daddies money. And most punks barring crust punks don’t fake being poor.
you could say i'm something of a hippie myself
(i abuse psychedelic drugs)
A very high five! 💊
@@Skaatje and unpoliced pubes, i assume.
Yeah me too man 🤣 i also play in a psychedelic rock band so yeah I guess I’m something of a hippie myself haha
Don't say abuse say I really love psychedelic drugs
@@podcast_shorts243all drugs can be abused even your favorite one
I knew a really cool hippie guy a few years ago. He was into growing his own food, brewing his own beer, and smoking weed he grew himself. We would go over to his place and smoke and listen to Bob Marley. He got arrested for growing mushrooms and weed in his house, and pretty soon afterwards I moved out of state and haven't seen him since. It's a shame, because from all my interactions with him he seemed like a really nice guy. Hope he's doing well.
That's called a far right extremist these days.
@@TheStrayHALOMANlmao no? wtf
@@user-xs1mu9wy8o It's a joke because literally everything is called far right now.
@@TheStrayHALOMANliterally no?
@@TheStrayHALOMANwhat?!?? 😂 bro go outside
Metalheads are nice people cosplaying as mean people
Hippies are mean people cosplaying as nice people
Idk
Metal went through the same commercialisation as the hippie movement and I know a hell lot of assholes claiming metal.
Same goes for Punk I’ve met a lot of horrible people in the scene.
Most folks are just in it for feeling tough, drinking excessively and harassing others
Me quoting ig comments
@@pulledtrigger yep lmao
@@luka5617 Both Hippies and Punks are political assholes.
It comes with the trerritory of being leftist/anti-capitalist. They are the single most intolerant people on this planet and will not allow any other thoughts besides their own.
Metalheads are non-political.
They are too intelligent to fall for that crap.
And so they are free to be truely tolerant. Thats why they are that nice all the time.
They didn't went through the brain washing hippies/punks went through.
Easy as that ;)
@Daathiel It's sad but true.
The Hippies ended for real in 1973 in the States...the total commercialism of the hippie movement.
Yet when I went back to Amsterdam in 1976 there were still hippies around.
This time getting attacked by punks, Rastas and Hell Angels.
You're*
@@thotslayer9914 Yep, glad to still be around.
@@radiomindchatter7994 did you hang out with "kabouters" in Amsterdam? or did that movement already end by '76?
sounds epic and based and snuggle time extravaganza
except maybe nt
Most hippies weren't opposed to the war. They were opposed to being drafted (I don't blame them). But as soon as the draft ended, the anti-war movement got much smaller.
Dirty homeless commies being hypocrites? You don't say.
That’s not true shit was heavily opposed by our government. And yeah most hippies were anti war.
the funny thing is the wars never end the US keeps invading new countries
Not just getting drafted, the adult life in general. They were hedonistic parasites without a shred of moral integrity.
Sounds like bored rich kids with too much time on their hands.
Hipster: Modren day hippies that dress like homeless people and inherited a fortune and live in a mansion, talk about how it's important to support local vendors while sipping on their Starbucks Ice Coffe and Vape.
I thought hipsters wore like, tweed and shit.
Nah hipster are those mfs that wear tiny beanies those wacky rancher hats and have 1930s mustaches.
@@henrysloan2198 Like that Tales from the Internet feller? I kinda like him
@@gypsydildopunks7083justin whang? he is just a metal head that likes old school videogames and wrestling
@@danielayaquica7120 I am a self proclaimed Klax master, old school video games are my jam. But I am genetically unable to grow an early 19th century mustache.
I actually prefer the more serious approach you had for this video.
Keep it up man !
the slop has once again been served, thank you Coolea
I would argue that 2 events killed the hippie movement:
1. The Tate-LaBianca murders
2. The Altamont Free Concert
3. Release of Black Sabbath's Paranoid
3. The Hippies
6.Getting old and "growing" up
6. Cuh-Cain/Hair-Owen(just look at the Grateful Dead from around the mid 70s, and especially the late 80s early 90s)
6.The 1972 sweeping drugs act (Nixon, of I'm not mistaken)
4 : 9/11
The Zodiac murders too, why not
Real hippies still exist. They all moved into their forest huts where they make glass bongs and beads while peacefully smoking hash, which all the real hippie wanted from the start. I met one on a trip up to Seattle and bought an ashtray from his little rural glass artwork shop-thing-hut.
They're rich liberals that can afford land
Some of them can still be found at Rainbow Family Gatherings
@@Uncle_Ruckus_ yeah but it's kind of dope that they live that more isolated conservative lifestyle than typical libbtard dream condo with good view in New York. also if you decide to really shit location you can get lamb cheap
@@elijahwilson1422 Oy, sort of. They hang around the spots where the trails meet, saying witticisms like "Hey, there's something wrong with my pipe"
"What?"
"It's empty."
Others will simply be yelling into the crowd "Dose me, bud me, shroom me."
All this begging for drugs made it feel a lot like an inner city slum where people you for many for drugs and booze.
They will tell you that it's not just about drugs, but you sure could have fooled me at the two of them that I went too.
@@milascave2 low ranking Drainbows that unfortunately stumble past A Camp
What up my diggas
Thats an actual word in Germany
Being a hippie these days just means spending all your upper middle class parents money at urban outfitters, wearing baggy trousers and vaguely psychedelic inspired merchandise, speaking like some soppy twat and believing in the magical healing properties of crystals
💯
So much hate for no reason
@@azloii9781 many reasons*
@Shovelglove545 Fr tho hippies need to stop acting and playing around like they're good people when they're not, they know they're actually dreadful people in reality
This is just what the media tells you, dont fall for it
Hippie is as hippie does, which is usually nothing
Altamont didn't kill the Hippie Subculture.
he first Black Sabbath album did.
Early black sabbath was just hippies dressed in black playing heavy psychedelic music.
@@LosHuxleys Then they dropped Paranoid and hippie was dead.
@@Ballin4VengeanceAUMEN! 🙏🤘
@@Ballin4Vengeance What about planet caravan
They used to be called Earth. They changed their name when no one showed up to a hometown gig because of a movie premier just released. Guess what movie that was?!!!! It was a shrewd capitalist move backed by true talent and chops. The godfathers of Metal owe it all to Boris Karloff showing them how to get people's attention and now to keep it.
Fear
Everyone I know that called themselves a hippie has been a terrible fkn person. It's basically a warning to get the hell away from them as soon as possible.
That's pretty much gen z kids these days. All horrible!!!
@@Metalhead4life87 I can't make many excuses for my kind, I'm afraid. Plenty of my own Gen get on my nerves.🤣
bro didnt watch the video 💀
@@Metalhead4life87 Bro sounds like the default white extreme Conservative.
"things where better in the past" and "the youth of today is lazy/corrupted/whatever", same talkingpoint since 1900.
@@v_6302You sound like the default, libtard, TDS suffering, Fentanyl Floyd worshipping, basement dwelling loser.
Go read "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" by David McGowan.
The whole hippie/free love movement was manufactured and astroturfed from top to bottom . And the boomers fell for it hook line and sinker
The reviews seem to be starkly divided: good ones by people who indulge in conspiracy theorists and meh/skeptical by sane individuals.
@@wildmanfisher "sane individuals" 🤓
@@wildmanfisher cool story bro... how about you go read the book for yourself and try to refute any of the documented information before you throw buzzwords around
This is a very good read if you are truly interested in this topic of hippies.
The Kent State shooting would be later referenced/mentioned on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's hit "Ohio", written and recorded soon after the incident.
Got a deodorant advert on this video
Highly recommend reading the electric koolaid acid test for anyone interested in this time period, it delves into lsd’s ties to the movement and hippie culture’s eventual downfall
Such a great book!
Dharma Bums was my favorite
And this is a book that gives the lie to the idea that all hippos were middle class. Ken Kesey, who organized that drug addled cross-country bus trip, was working class. And so was the driver, former beatnik icon who drove the bus (name is weirdly escaping me.)
In fact, there was a tension between the rowdy working class approach to psychedelic us favored by Kesey, and the calmer, more mystical approach of upper middle class and highly educated Timothy Leary.
@@milascave2 LSD came from a CIA lab , it was all manufactured from the start
I love your videos man, they're always interesting and give a lot of insight into stuff that isnt covered much. Never stop!
I washed my hair took a shower and cleaned my house to watch this video
Peter Coyote's autobiography "Sleeping Where I Fall" is an excellent account of his life as a communard. He describes his life as a Digger as well.
This is the best documentary on hippies I've ever seen.
Ok, yes its the only one, but still, great stuff.
Indie sleaze could be an extra smelly topic worth discussing.
Since I was a kid I liked the hippies and their ideals. When I was 13/14, in summer I used to dress like them, and to this day (I'm 21) I still share the peace and love values, even though I've never used drugs, I don't smoke and I don't drink. I strongly share the anti-war views, so I wish a more relatable hippie movement could come back with no rich kid dressing up, but with people with real progressive and pacifistic ideas
Same here, I like the natural lifestyle and getting in touch with nature. Not all the smoking and crap that comes with being a hippie. I wish there was a middle finger to consumerism, get in touch with nature and your health. A realistic hippie movement that focuses on the betterment of people and calling out the corruption of our society.
@@helloworld5256 exactly, you get it!
Tumblrinas say that then they are calling for megacorpos and police to cancel the first guy that makes a gay joke.
@@helloworld5256 Those existed in the original hippie movement, though small in number. When millions of people, you're bound to get some bandwagoners, and once the trend's over they go home. The real hippies kept it up or fled to the forests.
I feel like the closest thing we have to the original hippies nowadays r indie kids, cause most of them aren’t mega rich, try to live a more “natural lifestyle,” and tend to be more about peace and love and less angsty than say punks, metalheads and goths.
Not saying that you're wrong, but having grown up in the 90s, "the indie kids are less angsty" isn't something I expected to ever hear.
I’m talking about modern day indie kids, not 90s ones tho tbf 🤷
@@averytherockgod9822 Yeah, I know. It was just meant as a reflection, not criticism. 🙂
Closest I experience was kandi ravers
Bruh I seen so many indie kids that live in well off suburban homes.
Neil Young wrote a song called Ohio about the Kent State deaths. Very powerful stuff.
Do a vid on dsbm
Dark suicidal black metal?
@@FINBoggitD is for Depresive
@@josejesushernandezbustillo9139 oh right, yeah.
I misread that as something, quite different...
@@jeanmichellelaurentYeah, I thought it was dyslexic bondage stuff for a moment or something.
Just wanna say your videos are awesome
I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THE KENT SHOOTINGS BRO THATS SOO INTRESTING THANK YOU SM FTP
Love your videos dude
i think its really cool to see this channel to cover more than just modern metal and stuff. memes plus music as a whole rather than just metal works great.
Modern green lgbtq enviormentalism is basically a fusion of punk and hippie
Industrial Metal?
no.
Bad.
Ministry's "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" is the best industrial album.
KMFDM
You should do a video about the Grateful Dead in particular. Many fun stories and much degeneracy to be found.
I enjoyed this video.
So I'd like to tell a little story about my hippie-ish background and how it was totally perished and defeated by the events of my life, life of my society and events of the world.
I am from Kazakhstan, and I'm a Qazaq, yes. In my early teenage years (11-13 years) I was obsessed by music my parents used to listen - my dad listened to a lot of hard rock, blues rock, psychedelic/acid rock and all this kind of stuff, also old Soviet rock and rock-alike music with all this hippie-ish aesthetics - there was a lot of that in the Soviet 70s-80s. Damn, I even remember how I could say in my 5 or 6 years old that my favourite music band was freakin' The Doors, lol 😂, but it began to form into some kind of ideology and sights in my early teenage years. In my child years I idealized all this hippie stuff, used to think that they really were such kind of movement that literally ended Vietnam War, used to romantize the whole idea that rock'n'roll ended it all. Even when I moved to punk and heavy metal (and I exactly mean heavy metal, not metal as a whole - Black Sabbath and all the NWOBHM were my favourite) I still believed in something pretty pacifist - and my idols at the moment were Crass, for example, and I became crustie just because it was such a logical continue for my hippie-ish background, because crust for me had become something like more dark version of all the fancy stuff invented during the end of the 60s.
But in the late 2010s and early 2020s two things that finally made me sick of it all happened. First - "the wind of changes" has come in the late 2010s when there were some protests against the autoritarian regime in Kazakhstan. Some? A lot of, and I was desillusioned and disappointed in all my pacifism forever and ever exactly because of their lack of strong answering against police brutality and the regime itself. And during these events in my country as a background (I was studying in university at the time) I started to get in touch with some subcultural people, and you know what? It was the first and the last time I tried to be in touch with them because I couldn't tolerate this hippie-ish sh*t any longer - and I still can't.
Have you ever seen all this Insta/TikTok half-hippie and half-rasta junkie sh*t? Imagine I met them in real life - they are much-much worse IRL. They ain't able to keep even a little serious conversation any long. They pretend to be somehow so rebellious sometimes but they don't do something really good to be even for a little bit rebel-ish as they pretend to be. Their so-called "actions" - well, for example, I had this kind of conversation with one junkie that practiced "freeganism":
- I eat and find the cool stuff from the trash, and that's my protest against over-consumption!
- Man, those who produced the product that you suppose to have "free" in your freakin' litter - customer had already bought it, mission accomplished, they don't give a sh*t about what happens to that product after that, even if you wipe your @ss with it. Where's the protest, huh? Tell me.
- ...man, you see everything in a negative sight, put your dark glasses off.
Somewhen there I started coming to conslusion that if not all - most of those hippies were like this, used to think and act like this, and that's not my cup o' tea, to say the least.
Second - Bloody January (anti-government protests in Kazakhstan, January 2022) and Ukraine war changed my sights and opinion on this all forever. One of my good friends lost his whole home city of Mariupol, now he's fighting wars somewhere on Eastern front against Russians. I've lost another in Russian occupation of left bank of Kherson region - he told me about a lot of horrors of their life under the occupation before I lost him forever - I want to believe that he's still alive but my hope seems to be pretty weak and it seems that I have to accept the reality. Third friend of mine had his home attacked and damaged not so long ago, in the city of Dnipro, now he's going to join the armed forces and fight wars too.
After this all I'm so sick of all this peace'n'love bullsh*t. If there are peace and love - they must be fought for, otherwise that's nothing more than pathetic mask for those hypocrite, pathetic and just boring junkies without any purpose in their worthless lives.
P.S. Hope that longread will be at least interesting for somebody 🥹
leftists try not argue with eachother challenge
Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE
More Coolea slop to satiate this hangover?
thankyou sir.
Now there are visionary artists, the visionary artists intention is still alive. It’s just harder to express at this level of inflation.
One thing that I don’t think people realized is that young people were actually the most supportive of involvement in the Vietnam war compared to other ages according to polling data
Great Stuff again
Great video!!
There's actually a fair number of documentaries on this, made by people who were there at the time. Fun to hear a British kid do an abbreviated rundown on decades of American history.
I'm not 5 years old. Why, in my 6th decade on earth do I need words like "drugs" and 'acid" censored? Christ.
youtube monetization old man
@@n_xyy Fucking pathetic, that is so absurd. End the censoring, fuck that shit. I'm 21 years old, I do not need to be treated like a baby.
Zoomies are mental toddlers who cry at meanie words and advertisers don't like it
great video, youtube needs more content like this, thank you
I’m about to watch the Woodstock doc so perfect timing.
"Every town must have a place where dirty hippies meet.
Psychedelic dungeons popping up on every street.
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO" 🎸🎵
If you've watched Cheech & Chong Up In Smoke. Cheech himself is a rich kid with tiedye. And Bananas. xD
There's a book by a guy named Dave McGowan called Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon about the Laurel Canyon music scene near Hollywood. You dig into the biographies of most of the famous musicians from the 1960s and their parents were all high up in the military industrial complex, or Old Establishment Wealth, and one or two top Mafia crime families. Very rare to find a middle class pop star. The whole movement actually began with the Wandervogel movement in 19th century Germany, the actual Hippie music scene was bench tested in the 1920s Swiss Italian lake district and Paris American expat artist community. After WW2 leading up to the 60s there were the Nature Boys mostly living in California sporting long hair. Point being, it was never organic, very much government Psy-Op.
While I agree probably had a lot of psyop pushing in regards to the same reason the CIA funded tonnes of new wave and post-modern art against Soviet realism/intellectualism, it definitely wasn't a psy-op for long because the establishment despised the Hippies and the hippies turned against war and nuclear.
Compare the hippies to Anarchist Punks, who seem to always twist their way into supporting literally every Neocon hawk war agenda and provide "radical veneers" for Neoliberal policies, I think Punks/Anarchists tend to have much more of a "controlled opposition" or more realistic, radical washing psyop vibe.
I was JUST telling my friend how much I hate hippies, you read my mind dude
LMAO what
@@ianstuart371 he was just telling his friend how much he hates hippies
I hate them too. Damn leftist liberals!!!
@@ianstuart371 Also, Coolea read his mind.
@@milosmisic3006 lol I know but like, why is that a conversation to be having 😂😂 are there really enough hippies around these days to even hate on? Definitely not where I live lol
Hallelujah thank god.
Then I'm like damn here we go again.
Yeah with the transgender LGBTQ they're the new anti war hippie group.
"The game's mine. I deal the cards."
They grew up to create the 80s the most consumer intence period of time.
This was a misinformed mishmash of pop culture history. The 'Hippies' were separate from the college radicals and extremist groups of the 1960s, yet here they are combined with the groups they had nothing to do with. The actual Hippy only existed from 1965 and died a hard death by the winter of 67. The term Hippy was a journalist invention for something that simply didn't exist but did afterwards as impressive young people who bought into idea. Another HUGE factor left out here was the moronic cult leader Timothy Leary who pushed idea that being homeless, jobless, stoned and living on the street would make the world a better place, which the young and impressionable idiots followed in mass to San Fran in the Summer Of Love 1967 and then the Winter Of Cold Reality of that same year whereas mentioned above was the death of that sub culture.
Hippies were as per there cult leader Leary's instructions Tuned in Turned on and DROPED OUT. The radicals of the far left were university students who had not dropped out and were not hippies.
I could go on rambling for another few paragraphs about all this vid got wrong, but should say I do appreciate Coolea attempting to bring to light this mostly forgotten era.
Yup, leftist radicalism of 60s and 70s is different thing and 1968 is THE year for it, first Paris, then whole world, not only western, but also in eastern bloc where students were holding mass protest against goverment. In Poland students were crushed by armed Reserve of the police, in Mexico they were murdered in massive killings by the military, but in Yugoslavia, after they were assaulted, Marshall Tito went into public TV and said that he is wholeheartedly with students and he started a whole new purge in communist party that was also connected with changes in economic structure of the Yugoslavia - they started to implement real co-op oriented socialism, workers started to have control over their factories.
There is more hippies now than ever. They just dont promote it in mainstream corporate media. You are just a square if you think they are gone.
Got an old spice ad before this video
When Grace Slick arrived at Altamonte She is quoted as saying. " This isn't good".
Communities being able to function without the government is actually very good.
Except they never figured out the functioning part. Chuds do a much better job at it .
Didn't really die, still lives on in the Doof/Psytrance scene which is massive in Australia, Southern Europe, South America and Israel/Lebanon/Egypt and hippies were massively influential on the birth of the rave scene with the second summer of love and bringing back trance from Goa.
Props on bringing up the german folk origins though, most never, ever mention that.
I actually saw somebody in some tech comment section call Silicon Valley Billionaires who couldn't give a shit about anyone else in the world (or the environment or art or music or anything but money really) "hippies". As someone who was a little kid in the sixties and knew actual hippies, I was stunned at how the word had literally lost all meaning.
the real hippy movement never died, they just got older and took their hippy nonsense and became teachers and politicians and for he last 40 years, and now we are seeing the fruit of their labors
How does this informative, nuanced and somewhat sympathetic video have so many comments passionately speaking against the subject matter...yet only getting 11 total dislikes?
Ignorant guide to french punk next pls. Great vid btw
Bad Music. Baguette. The End
YES
@@S1M0ND0e Listen to some Bérurier Noir
@@ledonutqc9250 Coolea won't do a ignorant guide video 'cause there's a handful of bands with listenable music. Frite sauce avec Fromage
They were riding on the crest of a high and beautiful wave that inevitably broke and rolled back..
I grew up later in the 80s, and I embraced this, I dunno, archetype? I still do, even now that I'm 50. I grew through the music from the Dead to Phish, to the points beyond. I was solidly not middle-classed, and maybe this is true of the later subculture - but I was poor growing up, noticeably so, with older parents.
We're not gone. Not by a long shot. But, even here in Vermont, we're still hidden these days. Be aware that when it all comes tumbling down, we'll still be here - trying to mend something that I suspect none of us truly understand.
It's not over, til it's over.
Also, the stench joke is not lost to a Deadhead, but damn, you missed the patchouli dig in tandem. Shame on you.
Can someone tell me the names of some of these Hippie-Exploitation movies?
I went to a Phish concert in the late 00’s with my “hippy” cousin. I was seriously impressed by how all the hippies had embraced capitalism in the parking lot to fund their roving homeless camp that followed the band. T shirts, burritos, beer, magic crystals, nitrous. All be sold out of the trunks of cars.
"Hippies. They're everywhere!!! They wanna save the Earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad!!!"
-Cartman
You don’t really hear about this too much. I only heard about Kent state on my second attempt at college when I ran into a professor who what’s been a student there
It is a shame that we now have a culture where protesting is no longer seen as an option to fight .
They were good times, it still felt positive and hopeful. That is unfortunately no longer the case.
wdym? There have been worldwide Pro-Palestine/ceasefire protests and in 2020 there were huge BLM ones.
We didn't die out. In the 60s we gave the culture over to the Suburbs and went underground. If you lived in Northern California you would see we are very much still alive, it is just done away from the light of the media.
Nice video
I'm a hippie and I'm not rich by any means. I don't feel that the subculture is dead. It has just modernised like all subcultures do.
Very good video, Mr Slopman
0:36 you forgot STDs lol
just reinforces my belief that the human race is a hopeless mass of confusion
Hey! THAT DIGGER STOLE MY BIKE!!!
Besides being smelly the hippies were pretty based back then.
The Grateful Dead's music is more popular than ever & growing - you still find plenty of hippies wherever live bands are playing Dead
Do an ignorant guide to stone temple pilots pls
Yesss!!
Anyone interested in a deeper accounting of the Manson Family during this period should give ‘Chaos…’ a read by Tom O’Neill. There’s a lot more to it than what’s possible in a 15 min video and the original narrative created by the prosecution was incredibly lean if not outright misleading
If you were 20 in the 60s, you would be 80's now.
What if the hippie movement never happened ?
California might not be the cultural blight on planet earth that it is now.
What is going on at 2:13? That dude with shark teeth is terrifying
Three Words or the DCM:
Demonization
Commercialization
Manson
Of course there's more elements that just these three things (and its a sorta joke) but I think its like most Sub-Cultures. Hippies, Punk, Grunge even Metal, the more notoriety they gain, the more demonized or commercialized or both they get.
Also good you brought up The Kent State Massacre as that sometimes gets lost in the discussion of the Anti-Vietnam protests
As time went on, it became the sub culture for the northwest coast hipster instead.
I wouldn’t call it tragic tbh
Are you under the impression that the original hippies weren’t drugged up rich kids in tie dye clothing?
The hippie subculture is very much alive in the spirit of today’s youth movement. The aesthetics are (mostly) different, and (most) people within practice good hygiene, but outside the surface level differences, they’re essentially one and the same.
Skeleton trollface was nice
The funding stopped.
The Tate - LaBianca murders committed by the Manson Family were not committed by the exact same Family members. The reason wasn't because it was Sharon Tate's house; the reason was the former resident, Terry Melcher, son of Doris Day and record producer. Manson had been there with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys to help get Manson's musical career started, so in August 1969, The Family assumed Melcher still lived there.
Jefferson Airplane was the opening act at Altamont. Marty Balin, Jefferson Airplane's lead singer, was trying to make the Intoxicated Angels lay off on the crowd and got his nose broken for the suggestion. The reason that Hell's Angels were the "security" was that Jefferson Airplane were a San Francisco band and many SF bands used the Angels, often for elicit connections, I'm sure.
Another overlooked fact...
Meredith Hunter, the victim at Altamont, can be seen in the film, 'Gimme Shelter' as is the fracas and killing. Hunter. who was black, was wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a kelly green silk suit and a blonde white girl on his arm...
It was 1969 and Hell's Angels are not the most socially progressive of groups, so take that with as many grains of salt you need. 🧂
I would say as someone who has been on the scenes that hippys started that hippys still exist in the ways they kind of always have, but that specific subculture from the 60s has integrated into the broader culture.
You can still find practicing functioning communes and enclaves around. But you always could even back into the 1800s. Now days they are much more about earth friendly farming and living practices.
Also there is a large amount of people traveling around in vans and travel trailers living like hippies. Eschewing materialistic culture and living and of course doing drugs
Go Golden Flashes!
Also I think some LSD got into they water supply around Kent OH
Here for my weekly slop
Ahhh Surrealistic pillow and White rabbit :)
The Manson Family’s crimes was part of the reason why the hippie movement died out.
Sooooo nothing has changed save we are getting back to sanity.
Fashion trends are sometimes culty, cosplaying as both ideology and community. And some of those drunk on pop culture never move on.