I was born in Laurel Canyon. In the 60s I lived in San Francisco, New York City, Denver, Miami and Paris. I've seen everything, everyone, and, yeah, tried everything. I'm 79 now, next July if I make it, I'll be 80, and I'll have all these years of memories at the end of my life. I wouldn't trade once second of the late 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Now everything is slow and calm.... but I know all this old music, plus jazz, and classical. I'm so grateful to my parents to have moved to Hollywood, my mom from Detroit, my dad from Fort Collins, Colorado, to meet up, fall in love for a time, and set me on my path as an artist, writer and journalist. A good time was had by most of us!!!!
@@robinboyle5667 I can see the good life written all over your face.You definatley rode the upstroke of the wheel of fortune.Most people(not your crowd maybe) aren't so lucky.But best wishes anyway✌️
@@robinboyle5667 You'll make it. You sound a lot like me. Of The places you have lived I grew up in NYC and CT. Lived in Miami Beach and have spent much time in the other 3. Best of luck.
It's interesting you didn't mention the drugs. I think that's where a lot of it went off the rails. I'm a dozen years younger than you. I remember being excited by the counterculture and going to the head shop to buy the underground newspapers, but never being interested in the bongs. My parents generation drank and smoked too much. Women coming over in the afternoon, "Hi Hun, want a cocktail?" And the chain smoking. If I had to describe my dream as a kid in Detroit in the simplest terms, it would've been 'I want to move to Laurel Canyon.' I don't think Laurel Canyon ever had a demise, we just all kept doing whatever we thought to do next. I moved to California, live in a shack on a hilltop, do whatever I feel like doing. And saying that Dylan's flights of fancy 'had never been explored before,' after just mentioning Lewis Carroll? is a bit ridiculous. One would think journalism and analysis would've learned something after the hippies in Height Ashbury convinced the LIFE journo that they were smoking banana peels.
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You're from Laurel Canyon, and yet, you have NO CLUE what went on over there during those times! typical Californian airhead! Shame on you... Read the book by the late David McGowan, 'Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream', and maybe you can still learn something of value about the topic. It's never too late.
@@stconstable To your point.. My old Fender Strat's guitar strap is a replica of Hendrix' strap that he was photographed with on many occassions.. I just couldn't help liking the artwork !
i grew up in the 60's i never fell for this love bull shit music, never did drugs i did my own thing, i'm not a follower unless i really believe in what your saying, real truth was always my guide still is in my 70's!
@@healthyone100 No one here is saying that they want to be a hippie or a flower child. There's good music about peace and love, and of course there's bad music about it, in EVERY time period. Everyone has their likes and dislikes.
@@shipsahoy1793 hah, in 1996 a playing gal older than me liked my guitar strap, complimenting "it's retro" I said not really, it's Legit I got it new in about 1977 it was probably like technically New Old Stock, but hey it's still functioning🤔 P.S. I like boats too
@ 👍I say "so what" if it's retro, we all like what we like😉. I like having "the real deal" when I can afford it and if it's available with stuff I like, but not always "practical."
Same here (b1961) hippies right next door. As a boy, I remember the news portraying them poorly. But. They got corporations to stop dumping toxic chemicals in a river, etc.. and much more.
A bit too glib rehash of why an experiment in alternate lifestyles was doomed to failure. It wasn’t all about drugs, partying and music. Serious questioning of post war societal norms was going on. Sadly, many of the middle class kids barely knew what they were doing and were flooded with others who just took advantage of situations. Maybe humans are just too selfish and evil to create a better world. Recent events seem to bear this out.
The problem as I see it was the received message of freedom without responsibility which is essentially doomed to failure as actions,whether anyone likes it or not, have consequences.If you want to be free of rules you've got to be kind (for it to work)and unfortunately too many are not
60s had unique blend of space race, war, drugs, the pill, epic legislation, assassinations, the list never stops. It was all a big recipe for expressive music unlike any before or after.
Also, you had disruptive civil activities on the part of various communist revolutionaries such as the Symbionese Liberation Army, which famously kidnapped Patty Hearst, heir to the Hearst publishing fortune, who wound up sympathizing with her captors and joining their cause, then attempted to foment a communist revolution inside the United States. It was a strange era to experience late childhood, but I was very much along for the ride and participated to the extent possible to a child of that age. I was 13 years old in 1970 so I was clued into and very much attracted to the counterculture movement of that era. The music of that era which continued well into the 1970s with some of the most creative of any era. I think it deeply affected everyone that grew up in that period of time if they were tuned in to a particular wavelength. Seekers that were looking for and open to new experiences. A certain kind of absolute freedom could be realized. Eastern philosophies were considered along with others. There was a growing understanding and realization that the United States of America was not close to everything It presented itself to the world as being. This resulted in social alienation of the part of many young people. Then you had the specter of this ongoing atrocity that involved the US invasion of Viet Nam, a sovereign nation that had not attacked the United States. The carnage continued from the mid 1960s through the early 1970s resulting in the death of 58,000 US military personnel and an unknown number of Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian casualties. There was an awfully lot going on.
Personally, I like the type of inspiration Jim Morrison received in The Doors movie, where his wife was blowing him in the vocal isolation booth in the recording studio.
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If you call that "music", you know NOTHING about music, kid!
It still lived on. I caught the hippy vibe ten years after it began - it was so great. Love and peace still. As John said: "You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will live as one." ✌🌎❤
Lennon may have, inadvertently, encouraged Globalism. I, for one, don't think the uni-party of Gates, Soros, WEF and UN, open borders is an improvement over the real diversity of closed borders and individualities. A twenty minute mixing of the rubrics cube looks worse than when you bought it.
@@davidl.7317 Is that a response to what I said in reply to fredburley ? If so, when one looks at John's life, his unhappiness, his drug fuelled delusions {such as thinking he was Jesus come again}, his treatment of his wife, his virtual no-show in his son Julian's life, his addictions to fags, booze, acid and heroin and then his eventual murder, then I say 'No thanks ! I won't be joining you.' I love his music. I have been fascinated for nearly 49 years in his views and life. And I don't want any of it. I'm not one of those people that looks to pop stars, priests and politicians for my life's direction. And I appreciate the unfortunate realities of human nature which is sadly absent in the lyrics of "Imagine." I prefer my dreams to be grounded in reality, not acid. But that's just my opinion. The more differing views, the better.
Your last questions are very relevant. I'm a child of the sixties. If you want to know where the idealism of the sixties went - where the sixties went wrong - look no further than money. When money wasn’t an issue, everything went beautifully. Once the inevitable capitalist whizz-kids realized that, hey, we can make a few bucks out of these people, it all went quickly downhill. And we’re talking about roughly five years there, if you agree to Altamont being the end (which I don’t). That brings us to the music. Most people equate the sixties with music, but the psychedelic movement was not about music. Music was only part of it. People tend to forget that even Woodstock was a moneymaking venture. Okay, the organizers had to bite the bullet and call it a free festival finally, but that’s not how it started out. They had to cover their costs and make a profit. And, with the best will in the world, most professional musicians don’t take kindly to working for free. Would you? If it hadn’t been for the movie, Woodstock would have been a financial disaster. There was an awful lot of money floating around then, translated into music, art, drugs, you name it. Little of that money ended up in the hands of the people who produced it. A lot of people got screwed by wise-guys, and that includes musicians (i.e. Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison). And most of all, us.
Yes totally with you on that. The money men successfully turned a dream into an investment portfolio . Exactly why today's music is total crap. It's no longer about creative expression . It's all about sales.
Brilliant video, awesome music! Bravo, whoever put this video together! I was born in '61, so I was really too young to participate in the counterculture, but I damn sure listened to the music! Starting from "Painting Flowers on the Wall," Motown, The Beatles, The Who, the Stones, the Doors... and aside from the stupendous music of the '60s, the entire ethos of the '60s is my absolute foundation. You can probably imagine how discouraged I am about recent events in the US, the racism, sexism, homophobia, and all-around hatred and intolerance. I really thought all that shit was history. I swear, it makes me want to listen to Strawberry Alarm Clock! Or maybe Frigid Pink.
@@Sycokay Yes, I do. I'm sure many people back then may have felt those hateful things, but they usually kept their hateful opinions to themselves. When I was growing up, "black is beautiful" was all over the place, women could determine their own reproductive choices, and people were, in general, more "laid back" about homosexuality.
That's my point. Have a good time but there is always a price to pay!
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@@11235but "Nothing is gained without something being lost." -- Naive and arrogant comment! NOTHING was gained from the C.I.A.-engineered flower power "counter-culture" movement! ALL losses were in vain!
I think what happened to some of us- we grew up, got jobs, got married, had kids. But I will never forget growing up in 60’s- it’s easy to only remember the good stuff but it wasn’t all good- Vietnam, racial unrest, killing of JFK, Martin Luther King. But I will always be able to say- I was there!!! And I will always be a hippy at heart!!!
Great documentary here! I was born in 63, So about 1974 I hit junior high - 77/8 grade. The hippie movement was over, When I saw the short skirts, Flowers, etc. When I was in grade school But it was still very free spirited We listened to all the music played here. Our friends had older brothers and sisters That hung with us and expose them To the music. It’s still played on the radio Until the end of the seventies - all the time. We also listen to a lot of the oldies but goodies - 50s and 60s For me, Music started changing about 1980, Progressively and fast From that point forward. The music sucked For the most part And society was absolutely and by agenda, taking a very material turn and focus You could see it in movies too I grew up in the country, So it was behind the times, Closer to older days. You never guess When I was a teen That the wild sixties and early seventies "free love" had occurred. We were wild, partied and were grooving, But we were innocent And very conservative When it came to relationships. It was old-fashioned. I’ve always been grateful that I was able to experience what I did When I was in grade school, I walk around at two and three in the morning by myself, Without a care in the world It was safe, And by vast majority people were good Immigration had largely not started yet America was 95% White. It was only western morals, history and customs, In the politics of division and hate were unheard of from Gov, media and educations. We were taught to Appreciate our history, Our culture, And the societies that Europeans and North America built. Education and media were FAR more honest and identified and appreciated America and The Allied West. Imagine that! Every People deserves to Celebrate and honor, their own people, culture and history. Every culture, Every people We always appreciate it others Culture in history And we did when they came too. I STILL Celebrate The history and culture Of our people And lands of The West. Why wouldn’t I?
What a beautifully written passage.That is what I experienced growing up at the same time and same way.We had a wonderful country and things seemed to work very well. Why the powers that be strayed away from these ideals still upsets me.At least we got to enjoy a very good time in history.
I was born in the early 60's, grew up in the 70's, 80's and enjoyed the best cultural decades and the worst societal decay in centuries. Still, I wouldn't change it for anything, It was like growing up in the Renaissance; we were lucky to have survived to tell all about it. ❤
It's a well known fact that those who own Hollywood also own the sounds you hear and have done so for decades. Find out who runs your culture you find out who really runs your country...
Regular Heavy Drug use as well as Alchohal leads to intense introversion and eventually Loneliness or even Madness ! Born in 63 I saw many great talents destroyed in this way !
There was no 60's "demise". Society moved on just like hip hop, tattoos and bling will move on. Time waits for no one. We did our best to change the world and make it more about love than hate. We did manage to get the 18yr old vote so kids going to war could at least do that
It all happened so very fast. That's the way it seemed to me at the age of 14 in 1967. In 68 I joined my first successful band and psycodelia was reflected in the musicthat year By 1969 it was all about the blues for me and the whole psychedelic thing had pretty much come and gone. I believe that young people at that time had a wide range of experiences during that psychedelic period. I was on the youngest end of the age range for the whole thing but because of my playing music, got to partake in it non the less. (and managed to survive)
I was 10 years old in 1967 and grew my hair long and started playing guitar in 1969 at the age of 12. I felt quite connected to the era. I do feel like I caught the end of that train, and it was quite impactful on my life and my thinking.
I picture Jimi Hendrix high on acid & stoned and guitar feeding back. He's just so zoned out, lets it squeal. Becomes a thing... Wow, man. E - Q some bass in to the feedback output it sounds better 😄 Add to the fact, Jimi plays the blues, rock too 🤔 He wrote his rules.
@@MarinCipollina my last barber fee was a crewcut in 1988 So I've been over-compensating ever since. Saved a fortune in 36 years now. I invented a way to cut it myself. Lean a big mirror against wall. Heels to mirror, touch your toes.. Cut hair parallel with the floor $AVES bank. Peace bruthah&sistah too
I was 23 in 1967 and playing in a folk group - sort of a Peter, Paul & Mary clone. Then for most of 1968, I was the lead guitarist in an Acid Rock group in San Francisco. I'm still playing 5 hour gigs at Farmers Markets here on Hawai'i Island at age 80. Still psychedelic at heart. Haven't been to a barber since 1999.
Again, these drugs were introduced by individuals who were not a part of the scene, but by gangsters, probably at the behest of government entities determined to discredit and destroy something they viewed as a threat to the profit margins of the huge corporations that had been dictating culture and styles and attitudes through their own version of social engineering.
Yes, I agree. It's also important to remember, as times change people also change in their taste of music. What sounds good today changes tomorrow. Music will always evolve, maybe not always for the better, but in my lifetime it does come back full circle to a new generation.
The dream was beautiful, but reality just got in the way. I was only fourteen in 1967 and the coolest place in the world to be was San Francisco, at least that is how it seemed to this English kid. I still remember that period as something special, a glimpse of how it could be if only we would let it, then the door closed.
In October 1967 "Death of Hippie" a mock funeral was organized by The Diggers (a community action group) in San Francisco, to convince the media to stop exploiting the scene.
Of course, this only fed the idea. The Diggers were the pre-eminent activists in the Haight. They named themselves after a radical 17th-century Protestant commune in England called The Diggers because of their commitment to use no advanced farming methods, such as plows. They were spoofed in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. In the Haight, the Diggers were the ones that gathered food up from any source, including dumpsters and got permission to use a church kitchen to cook food that they gave away free at the famous Panhandle Feeds. Their motto was "It's Free Because it's Yours." They were mostly made up of college theater actors from the East Coast. They pulled stunts at City Hall, etc., that got the SF Police harassing them, and other 'hippies." A good read on all of this and more is "Acid Dreams, The Compleat Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond," by Lee and Schlain.
i loved the 60's....but hard drugs and selfishness destroyed the brilliant creative vibe that we felt around at that time...those of us who discovered and pursued a spiritual path in the 60's were the only winners from this experimental time period...I tried LSD TM Eastern philosophy OBE trips etc... it eventually opened me up to my true self....now i am AWAKE and free...I left the illusion of this Earth life long ago...i am detached from the drama, and have found peace and tranquility
I did every drug known to man. Several times (except intravenously. When you gotta stick needles in your arm to just get back to feeling average, then to say it's not a problem is a lie. But after years of dope thinking I was expanding my mind, it turns out I was slagging it. Everyone is wired differently, so... I used to have a theory and Im still tempted to test it. Did you ever spin around in circles as a kid to get dizzy? Some people find life easily monotonous and look for escape. Others find distorting reality not staying in control. To find out at an early age which way they are, see if they do natural mind altering exercises. Holding their breath while hanging upside down, spinning in circles, etc. I had 2 cats. One was very conservative and the other liberal. The conservative was a snot, kinda. Kitty liked to play. But also got in a lotta fights. I put some catnip oitt for them. Spooky wanted nothing to do with it and literally ran from it. Kitty could not get her fill of it. But as for me, I gave sobriety a chance and...I liked it!!
@@mustangmikep51 as I see it there's death,taxes, pain and pleasure.How do you KNOW that 'enlightenment' isn't just another delusory, i.e. impermanent,state?
Very impressive compilation of the psychedelic music of the times. Sad that many of the artists were lost due to excess of the same dreams they sang about.
To those who lived through the 1960’s, we wish those days would never end. We were indestructible, we were changing the world. A new age had come. Turned on tuned in and dropped out….. 5 years later there was Disco…. My God what had happened.
I graduated in 75. From my perspective, they commercialized the whole thing. Clothing, then the TV series like Mod Squad, The Monkeys . The back to nature movements and macrobiotic health and eastern religion movements were commercialized as well. Granola bars and tarot cards.
What is really ruining the western nuclear family is the lack of family unity. Even just having dinner together keeps a family aware of the families well being.
@lundsweden But thats not an accurate comparison. More people have tried alcohol tobacco than LSD or speed. I could say life has a death rate of 100% because everything that lived has died or will eventually.
@Red_Whitenblu I disagree, yes uncommon substance may have even worse outcomes per use, but the availability and social acceptance of legal drugs makes them worse in practice, in terms of total harm caused in society.
You can’t dismiss the role drugs played, and in particular, LSD and other psychotropics in introducing fresh perspectives on life and its meaning along with questioning societal norms. Similarly, coffee, with its drug caffeine, some historians say may have sparked The Age of Enlightenment.
@arobatto, I remember doing purple microdot in 10th grade in the 70s, and it was nothing like people think it is, or was. It was the good government stuff, clean and not stepped on so much like it is now. I loved the feeling, it was more of a mental thing, you had to just be in the right place mentally, and with the right people, and have nowhere to be for say the next 24 hours. You never wanted to do it more than 3 days in a row because you would get acid burn out, and it was just not as much fun. If you did it like 2 times a week with several days in between to recover it was great, and summertime was the best. Some of it was too strong so you would not take as much, like the blotter acid. You would always cut the small paper square like diagonal but even then you never knew how much of it would be on a certain side. It was not like people think, no pink elephants coming out of walls or anything, it was mainly distortions of what was already there. We never did hard drugs like mainlining anything with needles, we mainly smoked a lot of weed, and drank some, not all the time but every now and then. I can honestly say there were times where I felt one with everything, and I could feel everything all at the same time, it's hard to explain. Of all the drugs the purple microdot was my favorite, and I still can remember how it made me feel the first time I did it, I loved it and couldn't wait to do it again. You would be correct in saying it did expand your mind, and you would think abstract thoughts you never thought you could.
That whole '60s thing only started in the very late '60s, and only experienced by a select few in target cities. It become more prevalent and mainstream in the early '70s. Just crack open a high school or college yearbook in the late '60s, and you'll still see mainly short hair on guys and no bell bottoms. Drug use more than doubled in the '70s versus the late '60s.
@@michaelcraig9449nope it died cause it became the same homogonized crap: oh boy McArthur Park elevator music that wimpy 12 yr olds were sold that it was great music...when it's was trash...and the other crap that top 40 AM TRASH Radio overplayed and gullible wimps bought into it
@@michaelcraig9449 When I grew up in the eighties, the Flower Power sixties looked ridiculous, so at odds with the reality of decay we saw around us. I personally was into hardcore punk and thrash metal. It never disappointed: we knew it wasn't going to lead to anything good and it lived up to the expectations!
Its one thing when teenagers experiment with drugs. But when children do it, their brain gets very messed up. I knew a guy in 6th grade. Kind of the bully type, so when he stopped showing up for school, a lot of others started asking questions. Story has it, he got into his brothers stash of LSD. LSD is forgiving on its doses, but requires very little to do the job. Apparently, he took quite a bit. He ended up in a psychiatric ward. Nobody seem him since.
Late 60's, people were getting into digital computing on the university campuses, which was still mostly behind glass walls, but shaggy hippie hackers were getting their hands on them. Within only 10 years they were building their own, starting companies to build their own, and busted them completely out with home computers.
In 1980 I took a H.S. Typing Class because computers had a typewriter keyboard. So I'm not HUNT & PECK worked out great , drafting, guitar and swimming class too. Swimming first period, morning shower! Hah! 😎
@@guitardedguy2 The TX-0 came out in 1956 and the PDP-1 in 1959... The launch of the PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer in 1959 marked a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design: it was the first commercial computer that focused on interaction with the user rather than the efficient use of computer cycles.
@@guitardedguy2 Spacewar was written on a PDP-1 at MIT in 1962 ua-cam.com/video/vQ9sQElbLWM/v-deo.html Spacewar! set forth fundamental characteristics that would become the standard in video games. Pushing technology and hardware to the maximum limits. Physics, simulated, realistically and playfully. Interactively. Combat based game play with shooting as a core mechanic. Spacewar! influenced video game history in countless ways, one in which was the group of MIT students that created it. These students developed perhaps the first philosophy to guide the creation of a video game: They held that a computer game should satisfy the following three criteria: It should demonstrate as many of the computer's resources as possible, and tax those resources to the limit. Within a consistent framework, it should be interesting, which means every run should be different. It should involve the onlooker in a pleasurable and active way-in short, it should be a game. Sometime later, a young Nolan Bushnell, at the University of Utah, who went on to found Atari, spent hours playing Spacewar! and through its inspiration, created Computer Space, the first commercial video game and arcade game.
Me too, but you know what affected me the most? The Cuban Missile Crisis. Life time of scars that. LSD freak outs held nothing on that. #SayNoToNuclearWar
The 1960's and 70's was my generation and nothing can ever come as close as the splendor of this amazing era; the music, the fashions, the films and the freedom we felt. I'm 75 and can look back and think how lucky I was to be a part of it. Nobody can ever take away your memories.
Your generation brought economic decline, the break up of the nuclear family, the destruction of the education system, AIDs and rampant promiscuity. You’re not leaving on the best of terms.
Actually very good editing, though I would have preferred lingering longer on the music clips. Kudos for the way it ended with Dylan. That was a stroke of genius imho.
Yes, like Garcia, with the death of a hippy "so the hippy revolution has stopped, " Garcia , "no , we are telling you we are not going to tell you what we are up to anymore"
@@TabithaReminiec3399 I beg to differ. Acid Rock music morphs within it's self and if anything morphed into Jam band's. There's still Acid rock is being made/played. Not just Pink Floyd. Heavy metal was just a space in-between Acid rock and Punk. Grunge would be another space between heavy metal and Punk.. the only spaces left is the shit they're forcing upon the youth. That whole force feeding shit started in the 80's with the crap that was coming out it's why so many went back to 60's music.
The Velvet Underground still get a regular blasting on my stereo. I just think they were a brilliant phenomenon and should have been a bigger force than what they were.
I don't know what the Velvet are doing in this documentary because they never ever were psychedelic, nor were they ever about love and peace. They were gritty down to earth New York. In fact, Mo, the drummer said she hated hippies. On first leaving New York for the West Coast, Lou said he knew as soon as they crossed the Hudson it was going to be bad.
@SusanHarris-sk2ib There was a suggestion that the Velvet Underground was every other band members favourite band. It didn't help their album sales for some reason.
Because there were so many cultural changes happening within a condensed space of time, the release of the album "Forever Changes " in 1967 by Arthur Lee and LOVE, shall for me, always be symbolic of that period, while at the same being relevant every year since ❤
Interesting summary of a fleeting yet fascinating episode in rock's development. Being born in 1951, I was just the right age at the time (16-17) to be blown away by it all, & then to appreciate how the music influenced subsequent 70's genres jazz-rock, prog-rock, etc. Special credit for the excellent (if all-too-brief) music clips.
I was 8-9 years old in 1967. I have three older siblings, who were in 8th, 10th and 11th grades in 1967. I experienced the full madness smh 🤦♀️. My sister sent me tabs of acid in the mail from San Francisco, when I was in 6th grade. I threw them in the garbage.
A generation dropped acid, saw themselves for who they were and adjusted the trajectory of their lives to align with that new insight. It can still be done today. All it takes is the balls to see who you are.
@@67psychout Became the original movers and shakers of Yuppydom.,not that it hasn't always existed.Check Poussan's painting 'A dance to the music of time' ....Nothing new
I lived in that generation. I still know lots of them. The ones who got to know themselves have lead lives of service to others. The rest found comfort in acquisition and consumption and delusion. The other remarkable generation was their parents. They grew up in a world that was forced into poverty by greed. Then they saw how that poverty turned into horror. And if you told them that banks are “too big to fail” and that unlimited, anonymous campaign contributions are “free speech” they would have disagreed.
Well, I suppose we all know it takes drug use on a regular basis to die before 30, but it is interesting that it is not mentioned outright. I am a 60’s child. I think we lost our naive optimism in the 70’s. As the Bible says, truly, there is nothing new under the sun. We are who we are. We just took a brief break in the 60’s and pretended we are wonderful beings not beholden to anyone higher.
Those were fun days growing up. A family gave me hand me down clothes from their hippie son and I would wear them to school. I remember a girl telling me her parents wouldn't let her out of the house wearing that. I remember our church group sitting outside in the grass singing Blowin in the Wind and Kumbaya. Everyone got chigger bites.
George Harrison, one of the genuinely inspired and inspiring artists of that era visited San Fransisco in the late 60s and simply said afterword ""... I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids..."" Not too inspiring.
And Harrison thought Lennon was childish. Harrison never got his true credit, but in hindsight, he was the true revolutionary, the true intellectual of that band.
It was only a moment ago. I see it as a big pebble in the pond and ripples keep rippling. The music became business but later generations still inspired by the content and playing. There are so many amazing brilliant young and not so young musicians doing their art!! That era was unique but others will happen. Great documentary!!
Psychedelic music continues to this day, allbeit not to the same degree. The legacy of the counterculture was & is massive, Eastern philosophies, alternative medicine, self-development, humanistic & transpersonal psychologies, a resurgence in occultism & esotericism. It's impossible to think how we might be now if it hadn't occurred.
yeah, i dont think there was ever a so intense cultural and social change in just a few years. and the art that was created those days still reverberates today and inspires people. It may have seen to fade, but fading would be like if things went back to the way they were before, which they didnt
When did LSD become illegal? New York State and California made it illegal to possess the substance in 1966, and four years later it became illegal at the federal level.Apr 4, 2024
I think another problem adding to this decline was the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968. These were leaders driving many to seek equality, empowerment, and progress through peaceful means, ideals pursued not only by the most devout, acid dropping members of the counterculture, but a far bigger wave composed of various minorities across the entire United States who had been disenfranchised for far too long, even before the World Wars, the Depression and other periods of strife and chaos, by a nation that was supposed to be a land of opportunity but was still rife with racism, inequality, xenophobia and other shortcomings often overlooked by the US government. When MLK and Bobby Kennedy were murdered, mass riots broke out across the US that happened to include, and often were perpetrated by, a large number of members of the counterculture that supposedly chanpioned peace, love and change through nonviolent protests, something cemented by the Manson murders and Altamont. Hippies, which were at the heart of the counterculture, were considered merely suspect for their lifestyles standing in opposition to the rigid, conformist practices of the conservative percentage of "the greatest generation", but the riots and highly publicized murders ended up placing them in the category of people who would use such ideals as excuses to carry out the very violence they seemingly stood against, something also shared by certain anti-Vietnam protesters. With the very ideals of peace and love undermined by violence responding to the assassinations and continuing with the Manson murders and Altamont, a ripple effect took place that would taint the counterculture for years to come. Even when corruption in government throughout the early-to-mid 70's, like the Watergate scandal, was publicly revealed and to a certain extent justified the existence of the peace-love movement as a force openly calling for justice, acceptance and progressive change, the damage had already been done, and gradually, the entire counterculture would dissolve throughout the 70's. Progress WAS made and the counterculture's impact was not without value, success or lasting influence, but the years to come would see conservative reactionary movements emerge with a vengeance to re-establish everything the counterculture stood against... and which included, ironically, members of the counterculture.
This program was fun to watch because it featured snippets of music from the era. However, even though I enjoyed the music of the era, my world was totally different. I went to school by day and worked in a factory by night. I joined the military (on purpose), Active 66-69. I made it for TET 68. I got out early to go to school by day and work in a factory by night.
I was part of all this in the late 60s and early 70s. The bottom line is, you can only take so many acid trips, smoke so much hashish, etc. before those indulgences lose their fascination. I can't remember exactly when I took my last acid trip, but it was sometime between 1972 and 75. I don't even smoke cannabis anymore. In retrospect, the scene had some interesting and cool elements, a lot of the music was certainly worthwhile, and many of the women were loose and available. But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. There was a seedy underbelly at work. As for mind altering substances, all things considered, these days, I'd rather have a glass of wine with dinner.
As a 75-year-old who was at Woodstock '69, there's nothing related here that I hadn't heard before. It's all standard folklore, especially about Altamont being the death knell of the era. But, still, the story was well told and interesting. And no one should be surprised that "alternative anything" in life, as well as quests for "something drastically new," are always met with failure because of the nature of humanity and the lack of answers to life's biggest questions. This is where belief systems come in to fill the void. And they are beliefs that are impossible to demonstrate objectively. What killed psychedelia and the 60's? Same thing that kills everything humans do. The nature of living and dying and the inevitable end called death.
From Woodstock to Altamont, from Wavy Gravy's vibe army to the Hell's Angels, nuff said. Fun fact - most of the audience in Woodstock had left before the headliner Jimi Hendrix performed, and the opening act, Richie Havens, considered one of the best performances of the festival, was just killing time improvising to fill a schedule delay mixup.
This is just my own personal view: Something wonderful [in the true sense of the word] happened in the mid 60`s. There was a bunch of magical dust that was floating around in the air that infected some people who were open to it. It seems like the artists were more open to it than your average Joe. By the time that the summer of love came around, it was already milked out because so many people wanted to be a "hippie". because it became a fashion statement. I have always felt that Woodstock was a celebration of the end of hippiedom. Well, I`m still alive & still damn near broke. Some things never change.
I was there I saw Floyd and the doors at the roundhouse and i totally agree with you total fashion following ass holes talking about not being interested in fashion and material possessions. It was another fashion in clothes and must came and it went like any other people try to make out that it was something more
I was born in 1962, and what I remember the most was about surviving, I made beads( that I stole from the store) to make necklaces, and trade for food! My brother taught me how to file a penny the same size of a dime, and all I needed was a nickel which I could usually find, so a nickel and a penny( filed the size of a dime) fit very well in a vending machine for 15 cents I could buy peanut butter crackers or a beef jerky, end of story. Of course I smoked the wacky tobacccy, and tripped also! I know what allll of you are thinking, the kid was too young( messed up) poor kid, no poor you.
Gene Autry released a concept album is a Christmas album in 1957 "The Original: Gene Autry Sings Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & Other Christmas Favorites". That album took listeners on a journey to Winter Wonderland. Santa Claus and Winter Wonderland are a fantasy. A lot of the teens in the 60's in America who delved into Sgt Peppers when it came out had first listened to the Gene Autry album as kids.
60s Psychedelic sound was meant as a short-lived experiment - an often LSD-fueled fragmented mirror which was held up to a post-WWII generation. The 1960s was just the right time for combining different styles of sound. Younger folks who were brought up listening to their parents' music wanted something so entirely different. They got it -- in spades! The music took on a life of its own -- even influencing sound today. "Dance the Night Away" (Cream) was (and remains) my favourite Psychedelic tune. My friends who lived in the North Beach district of SF moved to Colorado shortly after The Monterey Pop Festival. They read the writing on the wall. Many thanks, Freewheeling.
The assassinations of MLK & RFK & consequent election of Nixon helped slow the movement & the calamity at Altamont ended it. The Dream had become a Nightmare.
@@michaelcraig9449 I'm not sure, Michael. Was only 12 in '69, and 67 1/2 in Nov. 2024. At 22 in 1979, any traces of this era were long gone into the dark shadows of the past.
Those events mentioned by davidellis 5141 and Kent State and Jackson State all ended the 60s also putting the end of this era was the inflation and unemployment of the early 70s turned the youth into trying to get a job and managing a budget instead of the free wheeling days of the late 60s when unemployment was super low and some could drop out for the Summer in San Fransisco but then come back in the Fall to find plentiful jobs. The songs of the late 60s which preached peace love harmony and mind expansion became Money by Pink Floyd or the Love Of Money by the O Jays by 1973.
I'm 72 and I think what killed the psychedelic 60's was that sooner or later, everyone had to get their act together and get a job. Most of us back then couldn't afford to be hippies and had to go to work. This is what killed the McGovern campaign in 1972. He thought he had the youth vote when all he had was the college vote. In 1972, the vast majority of 18-21 year old population were working stiffs just like their parents and voted for Nixon. The hippies got all the press but they were, in reality, just a small minority.
Despite "the sorrows" that started & followed in the wake of 1969, I'd put January 1, 1965 - December 31, 1984 on a NEVER ENDING LOOP! IMHO, the most EXCITING, PROLIFIC & VIBRANT 20 years in human history! And, if I was forced to downsize those 20 golden years & only pick THE TEN - absolute pinnacle years in history - I'd pick 1967-1976!😉Long Live the 60's & 70's!🪐🪐🪐And the first half of the 80's!
The carter years were bad....especially for our military....vibrant 20 years? I think not....Big amount of dispair in the mid 70's to mid 80's in big cities. Alot of lost hope and the introduction of crack.
the hippie era was AWESOME! the hippie girls were the most beautiful and we felt that we were accepted as part of the group. Hippies pretty much disappeared by 1973 or so as we got jobs in the square world.
I was a huge fan of Psychedelia. It all seemed like a musical escape from reality, as though it was all from another planet. But unfortunately, all good new explosive deveopments, no matter how exciting, way out and advanced, have to come to an end eventually. The novelty of everything wears off after a while, even if there is nothing new to replace it. By the mid seventies, everything had quietened, and we were well and truly into this Osmonds/Bay City Rollers governed era, and everything was back under law and order. It wasn't until later when we got hit with Punk Rock that everything started to liven again, as it completely out-fashioned all the Bubblegum Pop that accumulated before it. But during the second half of the sixties when musical trends were shifting fast and furious, there was always this 24 hour a day rush hour in the air, and the whole atmosphere was filled with Psychedelic and hallucinary effects, and anarchy had seemingly hit the world. But nowadays, everything is just completely quiet. The youngsters of today just listen to this thump thump thump type stuff. But there is no actual music anymore. Most of those who created the loudness and liveliness in the air back in the sixties are just not with us anymore. But was was that track you played in the background between snippets of tracks by The Doors from about 6.05 to 6.20? It sounded very familiar, but I just couldn't figure it out. If you were to reply, I might think "Oh yes".
And some was garbage....the monkeys really?? And top 40 garbage AM Rock became short crap overplayed every 15 mins...Leading most to have shitty taste in music...like Buffalo Springfield...most cant tell you a song besides For What Its Worth...which wasn't their best and JEFFERSON AIRPLANE was more than White Rabbit...now PBS tries to tell us what songs were good with their time life collections of junk...if you re going to SF...really now just a song to steal our money...and 3 dog night another wimpy band
@hardyharhar9 a so so song short and trash rock radio tried to sell same short garbage...good for the time but come on Blood Sweat and Tears...elevator music
People grow up, some move on a new generation comes in and new music. Thats why gotta give it to bands like The stones, Zeppelin, The Beatles. They Roll with the change
You can only party so much. Eventually everyone in the movement moved on and embraced other experiences in life. The ones who didn't destroyed themselves. The Hippie scene was for teen agers. It wasn't meant for adults and we all grew out of it.
Thanks for bringing up the good times ! In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel. Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
I was there and remember it all. So glad I experienced it all.... And don't forget the Small Faces, the Troggs, Them, Marmalade, Deep Purple, The Zombies, Moby Grape, The Byrds, Iron Butterfly, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Yardbirds (pre-Zeppelin) Uriah Heep, Ultimate Spinach, Wishbone Ash....and many more
Well, l think we will find that the 60's ended in 1969 but Psych bands turned into progressive rock which is still popular today. All music changes, 60's Soul turned into boring plastic homogenised so-called R 'n' B which is sung by 'Singers' who sound like they are singing underwater or through some vocal machine. The 1960's were a peak for music where everything seemed possible. Nothing lasts forever.
The ones that lived through it like me finally grew up and become respectable people of the community. Lol! I was a professional musician then and now so it's especially remarkable for me.
I was born in Laurel Canyon. In the 60s I lived in San Francisco, New York City, Denver, Miami and Paris. I've seen everything, everyone, and, yeah, tried everything. I'm 79 now, next July if I make it, I'll be 80, and I'll have all these years of memories at the end of my life. I wouldn't trade once second of the late 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Now everything is slow and calm.... but I know all this old music, plus jazz, and classical. I'm so grateful to my parents to have moved to Hollywood, my mom from Detroit, my dad from Fort Collins, Colorado, to meet up, fall in love for a time, and set me on my path as an artist, writer and journalist. A good time was had by most of us!!!!
@@robinboyle5667 I can see the good life written all over your face.You definatley rode the upstroke of the wheel of fortune.Most people(not your crowd maybe) aren't so lucky.But best wishes anyway✌️
(((❤☮️✌🏻))) 😊
@@robinboyle5667 You'll make it. You sound a lot like me. Of The places you have lived I grew up in NYC and CT. Lived in Miami Beach and have spent much time in the other 3. Best of luck.
It's interesting you didn't mention the drugs. I think that's where a lot of it went off the rails. I'm a dozen years younger than you. I remember being excited by the counterculture and going to the head shop to buy the underground newspapers, but never being interested in the bongs. My parents generation drank and smoked too much. Women coming over in the afternoon, "Hi Hun, want a cocktail?" And the chain smoking.
If I had to describe my dream as a kid in Detroit in the simplest terms, it would've been 'I want to move to Laurel Canyon.' I don't think Laurel Canyon ever had a demise, we just all kept doing whatever we thought to do next. I moved to California, live in a shack on a hilltop, do whatever I feel like doing.
And saying that Dylan's flights of fancy 'had never been explored before,' after just mentioning Lewis Carroll? is a bit ridiculous. One would think journalism and analysis would've learned something after the hippies in Height Ashbury convinced the LIFE journo that they were smoking banana peels.
You're from Laurel Canyon, and yet, you have NO CLUE what went on over there during those times! typical Californian airhead! Shame on you... Read the book by the late David McGowan, 'Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream', and maybe you can still learn something of value about the topic. It's never too late.
The Sixties, particularly the late Sixties, will always be of interest. The clothes, the films, the music, the art, etc. A mad, experimental time.
@@stconstable To your point.. My old Fender Strat's guitar strap is a replica of Hendrix' strap that he was photographed with on many occassions.. I just couldn't help liking the artwork !
i grew up in the 60's i never fell for this love bull shit music, never did drugs i did my own thing, i'm not a follower unless i really believe in what your saying, real truth was always my guide still is in my 70's!
@@healthyone100 No one here is saying that they want to be a hippie or a flower child. There's good music about peace and love, and of course there's bad music about it, in EVERY time period. Everyone has their likes and dislikes.
@@shipsahoy1793 hah, in 1996 a playing gal older than me liked my guitar strap, complimenting "it's retro"
I said not really, it's Legit I got it new in about 1977 it was probably like technically New Old Stock, but hey it's still functioning🤔 P.S. I like boats too
@ 👍I say "so what" if it's retro, we all like what we like😉.
I like having "the real deal" when I can afford it and if it's available with stuff I like, but not always "practical."
I was born in 1960. The hippies of the 60's paved the way for the AWESOME 70s I experienced as a teenager. Thank you 🙂
Same here (b1961) hippies right next door. As a boy, I remember the news portraying them poorly. But. They got corporations to stop dumping toxic chemicals in a river, etc.. and much more.
A bit too glib rehash of why an experiment in alternate lifestyles was doomed to failure. It wasn’t all about drugs, partying and music. Serious questioning of post war societal norms was going on. Sadly, many of the middle class kids barely knew what they were doing and were flooded with others who just took advantage of situations. Maybe humans are just too selfish and evil to create a better world. Recent events seem to bear this out.
The holier than thou woke movement built on lies is dying as we speak. What will the next fad be?
Exactly the summer of love died after 1 yr...people screwing others over to get free food and free drugs
Janis & Jimi's deaths in 1970... Ended the optimism. 🤔 Very sad 😑
The problem as I see it was the received message of freedom without responsibility which is essentially doomed to failure as actions,whether anyone likes it or not, have consequences.If you want to be free of rules you've got to be kind (for it to work)and unfortunately too many are not
True
60s had unique blend of space race, war, drugs, the pill, epic legislation, assassinations, the list never stops. It was all a big recipe for expressive music unlike any before or after.
I like math too. You left out Civil Rights, musically late 60's early 70's groups were imitating the other race's (black/white) music. It helped.
Also, you had disruptive civil activities on the part of various communist revolutionaries such as the Symbionese Liberation Army, which famously kidnapped Patty Hearst, heir to the Hearst publishing fortune, who wound up sympathizing with her captors and joining their cause, then attempted to foment a communist revolution inside the United States. It was a strange era to experience late childhood, but I was very much along for the ride and participated to the extent possible to a child of that age. I was 13 years old in 1970 so I was clued into and very much attracted to the counterculture movement of that era. The music of that era which continued well into the 1970s with some of the most creative of any era. I think it deeply affected everyone that grew up in that period of time if they were tuned in to a particular wavelength. Seekers that were looking for and open to new experiences. A certain kind of absolute freedom could be realized. Eastern philosophies were considered along with others. There was a growing understanding and realization that the United States of America was not close to everything It presented itself to the world as being. This resulted in social alienation of the part of many young people. Then you had the specter of this ongoing atrocity that involved the US invasion of Viet Nam, a sovereign nation that had not attacked the United States. The carnage continued from the mid 1960s through the early 1970s resulting in the death of 58,000 US military personnel and an unknown number of Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian casualties.
There was an awfully lot going on.
Personally, I like the type of inspiration Jim Morrison received in The Doors movie, where his wife was blowing him in the vocal isolation booth in the recording studio.
If you call that "music", you know NOTHING about music, kid!
Yeah, well you don't know NOTHING about NOTHING! You're not a celebrity... you're just a NOBODY!
The music of the era was incredible...great timeless stuff
It still lived on. I caught the hippy vibe ten years after it began - it was so great. Love and peace still. As John said:
"You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will live as one." ✌🌎❤
John said "I hope someday you'll join us."
I say, "No thanks !"
@@grimtraveller7923 ???
Lennon may have, inadvertently, encouraged Globalism. I, for one, don't think the uni-party of Gates, Soros, WEF and UN, open borders is an improvement over the real diversity of closed borders and individualities. A twenty minute mixing of the rubrics cube looks worse than when you bought it.
@@davidl.7317
Is that a response to what I said in reply to fredburley ?
If so, when one looks at John's life, his unhappiness, his drug fuelled delusions {such as thinking he was Jesus come again}, his treatment of his wife, his virtual no-show in his son Julian's life, his addictions to fags, booze, acid and heroin and then his eventual murder, then I say 'No thanks ! I won't be joining you.'
I love his music. I have been fascinated for nearly 49 years in his views and life. And I don't want any of it. I'm not one of those people that looks to pop stars, priests and politicians for my life's direction. And I appreciate the unfortunate realities of human nature which is sadly absent in the lyrics of "Imagine." I prefer my dreams to be grounded in reality, not acid.
But that's just my opinion. The more differing views, the better.
@@grimtraveller7923 It was still a very good song though let it go at that, Also, I say the same thing, No Thanks!
It’s all fun and games ‘til you have to pay the rent and utilities and the grocery bill. Parties lead to hangovers and all weekends end in Mondays.
That's something someone who has never had any fun would say.
@ Brainless response.
@@AndrewFloydWebber but true
@@neckbone3943 Ron White was right; you can’t be fixed.
@AndrewFloydWebber if you're what fixed looks like, I'd rather be broken.
Your last questions are very relevant. I'm a child of the sixties. If you want to know where the idealism of the sixties went - where the sixties went wrong - look no further than money. When money wasn’t an issue, everything went beautifully. Once the inevitable capitalist whizz-kids realized that, hey, we can make a few bucks out of these people, it all went quickly downhill. And we’re talking about roughly five years there, if you agree to Altamont being the end (which I don’t).
That brings us to the music. Most people equate the sixties with music, but the psychedelic movement was not about music. Music was only part of it.
People tend to forget that even Woodstock was a moneymaking venture. Okay, the organizers had to bite the bullet and call it a free festival finally, but that’s not how it started out. They had to cover their costs and make a profit. And, with the best will in the world, most professional musicians don’t take kindly to working for free. Would you?
If it hadn’t been for the movie, Woodstock would have been a financial disaster.
There was an awful lot of money floating around then, translated into music, art, drugs, you name it. Little of that money ended up in the hands of the people who produced it. A lot of people got screwed by wise-guys, and that includes musicians (i.e. Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison). And most of all, us.
Yes totally with you on that. The money men successfully turned a dream into an investment portfolio . Exactly why today's music is total crap. It's no longer about creative expression . It's all about sales.
the man in the suit bought a new car from the profit he made on there dreams!
Whizz kids like Phil Spector, Andy Warhol, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart. For instance
Spot on 👍
fun fact; the who would not go on until they got paid at woodstock.
Brilliant video, awesome music! Bravo, whoever put this video together!
I was born in '61, so I was really too young to participate in the counterculture, but I damn sure listened to the music! Starting from "Painting Flowers on the Wall," Motown, The Beatles, The Who, the Stones, the Doors... and aside from the stupendous music of the '60s, the entire ethos of the '60s is my absolute foundation. You can probably imagine how discouraged I am about recent events in the US, the racism, sexism, homophobia, and all-around hatred and intolerance. I really thought all that shit was history. I swear, it makes me want to listen to Strawberry Alarm Clock! Or maybe Frigid Pink.
Do you really think there is more racism, sexism or homophobia out there today than it was in the 60s? or 70s, 80s, 90s etc?
@@Sycokay Yes, I do. I'm sure many people back then may have felt those hateful things, but they usually kept their hateful opinions to themselves. When I was growing up, "black is beautiful" was all over the place, women could determine their own reproductive choices, and people were, in general, more "laid back" about homosexuality.
When their LSD wore off, they found out that the world was not filled with “peace and love.”
@DH-ve5bl ''Peace and Love''= BULLSHIT! and that was the so called ''hippie culture'' was BULLSHIT!!
That's my point. Have a good time but there is always a price to pay!
@@11235but "Nothing is gained without something being lost." -- Naive and arrogant comment! NOTHING was gained from the C.I.A.-engineered flower power "counter-culture" movement! ALL losses were in vain!
Pure Cynism is never a good start to look at things...
CIA replaced LSD with 714, Quaaludes, Soper, Disco Biscuits, the rest is history.
I think what happened to some of us- we grew up, got jobs, got married, had kids. But I will never forget growing up in 60’s- it’s easy to only remember the good stuff but it wasn’t all good- Vietnam, racial unrest, killing of JFK, Martin Luther King. But I will always be able to say- I was there!!! And I will always be a hippy at heart!!!
Great documentary here! I was born in 63, So about 1974 I hit junior high - 77/8 grade. The hippie movement was over, When I saw the short skirts, Flowers, etc. When I was in grade school But it was still very free spirited We listened to all the music played here. Our friends had older brothers and sisters That hung with us and expose them To the music. It’s still played on the radio Until the end of the seventies - all the time. We also listen to a lot of the oldies but goodies - 50s and 60s
For me, Music started changing about 1980, Progressively and fast From that point forward. The music sucked For the most part And society was absolutely and by agenda, taking a very material turn and focus You could see it in movies too I grew up in the country, So it was behind the times, Closer to older days. You never guess When I was a teen That the wild sixties and early seventies "free love" had occurred.
We were wild, partied and were grooving, But we were innocent And very conservative When it came to relationships. It was old-fashioned. I’ve always been grateful that I was able to experience what I did
When I was in grade school, I walk around at two and three in the morning by myself, Without a care in the world It was safe, And by vast majority people were good
Immigration had largely not started yet America was 95% White. It was only western morals, history and customs, In the politics of division and hate were unheard of from Gov, media and educations. We were taught to Appreciate our history, Our culture, And the societies that Europeans and North America built.
Education and media were FAR more honest and identified and appreciated America and The Allied West. Imagine that! Every People deserves to Celebrate and honor, their own people, culture and history. Every culture, Every people We always appreciate it others Culture in history And we did when they came too. I STILL Celebrate The history and culture Of our people And lands of The West. Why wouldn’t I?
What a beautifully written passage.That is what I experienced growing up at the same time and same way.We had a wonderful country and things seemed to work very well. Why the powers that be strayed away from these ideals still upsets me.At least we got to enjoy a very good time in history.
I was born in the early 60's, grew up in the 70's, 80's and enjoyed the best cultural decades and the worst societal decay in centuries. Still, I wouldn't change it for anything, It was like growing up in the Renaissance; we were lucky to have survived to tell all about it. ❤
It's a well known fact that those who own Hollywood also own the sounds you hear and have done so for decades.
Find out who runs your culture you find out who really runs your country...
Basically money and personal GREED
Regular Heavy Drug use as well as Alchohal leads to intense introversion and eventually Loneliness or even Madness ! Born in 63 I saw many great talents destroyed in this way !
Bedsitter People look back and Lament,
Another days' useless Energy Spent
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The Lunatic is on the Grass
@@guitardedguy2 *lunatic* not "loonatic"
@@rca6576 thx
Guess I was thinking of WHO drummer Keith Moon the Loon
Spell correctly alcohol
You took the wrong drugs😂
There was no 60's "demise". Society moved on just like hip hop, tattoos and bling will move on. Time waits for no one. We did our best to change the world and make it more about love than hate. We did manage to get the 18yr old vote so kids going to war could at least do that
And with predictable results.
@@map3384 hard boiled egg anyone ?
@@mpista7182 bet you’re all mash potatoes.
@@map3384 The mash potatoes was a dance. Bet you starch your shorts
It all happened so very fast. That's the way it seemed to me at the age of 14 in 1967. In 68 I joined my first successful band and psycodelia was reflected in the musicthat year By 1969 it was all about the blues for me and the whole psychedelic thing had pretty much come and gone. I believe that young people at that time had a wide range of experiences during that psychedelic period. I was on the youngest end of the age range for the whole thing but because of my playing music, got to partake in it non the less. (and managed to survive)
Staying hip to music keeps you more in sync with youth, I believe. For instance the screaming vocal thing... signafies frustration. I mean rite?
I was 10 years old in 1967 and grew my hair long and started playing guitar in 1969 at the age of 12. I felt quite connected to the era. I do feel like I caught the end of that train, and it was quite impactful on my life and my thinking.
I picture Jimi Hendrix high on acid & stoned and guitar feeding back. He's just so zoned out, lets it squeal. Becomes a thing...
Wow, man. E - Q some bass in to the feedback output it sounds better 😄
Add to the fact, Jimi plays the blues, rock too 🤔 He wrote his rules.
@@MarinCipollina my last barber fee was a crewcut in 1988 So I've been over-compensating ever since. Saved a fortune in 36 years now. I invented a way to cut it myself. Lean a big mirror against wall. Heels to mirror, touch your toes..
Cut hair parallel with the floor $AVES bank. Peace bruthah&sistah too
I was 23 in 1967 and playing in a folk group - sort of a Peter, Paul & Mary clone.
Then for most of 1968, I was the lead guitarist in an Acid Rock group in San Francisco.
I'm still playing 5 hour gigs at Farmers Markets here on Hawai'i Island at age 80.
Still psychedelic at heart. Haven't been to a barber since 1999.
I have only one word to say about this documentary: Tremendous !
Really well put together, brilliantly explained, interestingly neutral.
Thank you so very much!!
You forgot to mention the influence of prolonged drug use and the transition from psychedelics to harder drugs, such as heroin, speed, and pills.
Again, these drugs were introduced by individuals who were not a part of the scene, but by gangsters, probably at the behest of government entities determined to discredit and destroy something they viewed as a threat to the profit margins of the huge corporations that had been dictating culture and styles and attitudes through their own version of social engineering.
Yes, I agree. It's also important to remember, as times change people also change in their taste of music. What sounds good today changes tomorrow. Music will always evolve, maybe not always for the better, but in my lifetime it does come back full circle to a new generation.
Yes, even in the later 60s, around 69 many SF band members have said that is what was ruining things, so they knew that even back then
People couldn’t live in a swirling, multicoloured, surreal dream forever.
Reality always wins ultimately.
Human greed kills everything.
The dream was beautiful, but reality just got in the way. I was only fourteen in 1967 and the coolest place in the world to be was San Francisco, at least that is how it seemed to this English kid. I still remember that period as something special, a glimpse of how it could be if only we would let it, then the door closed.
In October 1967 "Death of Hippie" a mock funeral was organized by The Diggers (a community action group) in San Francisco, to convince the media to stop exploiting the scene.
The Diggers had a Free Store where you could get what you need.
Of course, this only fed the idea. The Diggers were the pre-eminent activists in the Haight. They named themselves after a radical 17th-century Protestant commune in England called The Diggers because of their commitment to use no advanced farming methods, such as plows. They were spoofed in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. In the Haight, the Diggers were the ones that gathered food up from any source, including dumpsters and got permission to use a church kitchen to cook food that they gave away free at the famous Panhandle Feeds. Their motto was "It's Free Because it's Yours." They were mostly made up of college theater actors from the East Coast. They pulled stunts at City Hall, etc., that got the SF Police harassing them, and other 'hippies." A good read on all of this and more is "Acid Dreams, The Compleat Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond," by Lee and Schlain.
67 was the "Summer of Love"...a small brief flash of love in a World of HATE and GREED
@mustangmikep51 Not the world. That's Amerkkkan propaganda.
@mustangmikep51 hate, greed and war
I remember the 1967 poster :
🌻war is not healthy for children
and other living things 🦋
i loved the 60's....but hard drugs and selfishness destroyed the brilliant creative vibe that we felt around at that time...those of us who discovered and pursued a spiritual path in the 60's were the only winners from this experimental time period...I tried LSD TM Eastern philosophy OBE trips etc... it eventually opened me up to my true self....now i am AWAKE and free...I left the illusion of this Earth life long ago...i am detached from the drama, and have found peace and tranquility
I did every drug known to man. Several times (except intravenously. When you gotta stick needles in your arm to just get back to feeling average, then to say it's not a problem is a lie.
But after years of dope thinking I was expanding my mind, it turns out I was slagging it. Everyone is wired differently, so...
I used to have a theory and Im still tempted to test it. Did you ever spin around in circles as a kid to get dizzy? Some people find life easily monotonous and look for escape. Others find distorting reality not staying in control.
To find out at an early age which way they are, see if they do natural mind altering exercises. Holding their breath while hanging upside down, spinning in circles, etc.
I had 2 cats. One was very conservative and the other liberal. The conservative was a snot, kinda. Kitty liked to play. But also got in a lotta fights. I put some catnip oitt for them. Spooky wanted nothing to do with it and literally ran from it. Kitty could not get her fill of it.
But as for me, I gave sobriety a chance and...I liked it!!
far out, man… 🤩
@tiz444 Groovy.
@@mustangmikep51 as I see it there's death,taxes, pain and pleasure.How do you KNOW that 'enlightenment' isn't just another delusory, i.e. impermanent,state?
We had some great times, but sadly the illusion of freedom was taken away, as it always seems to be.
Very impressive compilation of the psychedelic music of the times. Sad that many of the artists were lost due to excess of the same dreams they sang about.
Cultural and political mass leaders were offed by the CIA.
To those who lived through the 1960’s, we wish those days would never end. We were indestructible, we were changing the world. A new age had come. Turned on tuned in and dropped out….. 5 years later there was Disco…. My God what had happened.
You changed nothing...they changed you.
People just got tired of blowing their minds and decided to get down and boogie.
Commercialization and the money men
Pure coke
I graduated in 75. From my perspective, they commercialized the whole thing. Clothing, then the TV series like Mod Squad, The Monkeys . The back to nature movements and macrobiotic health and eastern religion movements were commercialized as well. Granola bars and tarot cards.
What led to the demise of the psychedelic 60s - the same thing that is STILL ruining society today: HARD DRUGS esp. heroin and speed.
What is really ruining the western nuclear family is the lack of family unity. Even just having dinner together keeps a family aware of the families well being.
L S D was brand new to their generation and they were fascinated by it 🤔
And alcohol and cigarettes, that still kill more people than anything else.
@lundsweden But thats not an accurate comparison. More people have tried alcohol tobacco than LSD or speed.
I could say life has a death rate of 100% because everything that lived has died or will eventually.
@Red_Whitenblu I disagree, yes uncommon substance may have even worse outcomes per use, but the availability and social acceptance of legal drugs makes them worse in practice, in terms of total harm caused in society.
You can’t dismiss the role drugs played, and in particular, LSD and other psychotropics in introducing fresh perspectives on life and its meaning along with questioning societal norms. Similarly, coffee, with its drug caffeine, some historians say may have sparked The Age of Enlightenment.
@arobatto, I remember doing purple microdot in 10th grade in the 70s, and it was nothing like people think it is, or was. It was the good government stuff, clean and not stepped on so much like it is now. I loved the feeling, it was more of a mental thing, you had to just be in the right place mentally, and with the right people, and have nowhere to be for say the next 24 hours. You never wanted to do it more than 3 days in a row because you would get acid burn out, and it was just not as much fun. If you did it like 2 times a week with several days in between to recover it was great, and summertime was the best. Some of it was too strong so you would not take as much, like the blotter acid. You would always cut the small paper square like diagonal but even then you never knew how much of it would be on a certain side. It was not like people think, no pink elephants coming out of walls or anything, it was mainly distortions of what was already there. We never did hard drugs like mainlining anything with needles, we mainly smoked a lot of weed, and drank some, not all the time but every now and then. I can honestly say there were times where I felt one with everything, and I could feel everything all at the same time, it's hard to explain. Of all the drugs the purple microdot was my favorite, and I still can remember how it made me feel the first time I did it, I loved it and couldn't wait to do it again. You would be correct in saying it did expand your mind, and you would think abstract thoughts you never thought you could.
That whole '60s thing only started in the very late '60s, and only experienced by a select few in target cities. It become more prevalent and mainstream in the early '70s. Just crack open a high school or college yearbook in the late '60s, and you'll still see mainly short hair on guys and no bell bottoms. Drug use more than doubled in the '70s versus the late '60s.
It started as a scene, then got picked up by the mainstream media, then it wasn't cool anymore. Like every other scene in Rock history.
It is VERY cool! Modern commercial music SUCKS! It was forced on us by huge corporations
@@michaelcraig9449nope it died cause it became the same homogonized crap: oh boy McArthur Park elevator music that wimpy 12 yr olds were sold that it was great music...when it's was trash...and the other crap that top 40 AM TRASH Radio overplayed and gullible wimps bought into it
Took the words right out of my Meatloaf.Cooler than anything now and even my kids admit it
@@michaelcraig9449 When I grew up in the eighties, the Flower Power sixties looked ridiculous, so at odds with the reality of decay we saw around us. I personally was into hardcore punk and thrash metal. It never disappointed: we knew it wasn't going to lead to anything good and it lived up to the expectations!
I was born in 1960. These were my Wonder years. You cannot even imagine or explain what that was like.
@@cerclesvicieux but 1960 was "to late" wasn't? You were between 7 and 12 for this area.
@@kieselsteinchen9795 You still are majorly influenced at that age
@@aotctd true. all high school teachers had long hair then. and revolutionary ideas of theaching.
@@kieselsteinchen9795 And look at the sad state of the education system today.
Its one thing when teenagers experiment with drugs. But when children do it, their brain gets very messed up. I knew a guy in 6th grade. Kind of the bully type, so when he stopped showing up for school, a lot of others started asking questions. Story has it, he got into his brothers stash of LSD. LSD is forgiving on its doses, but requires very little to do the job. Apparently, he took quite a bit. He ended up in a psychiatric ward. Nobody seem him since.
Glad to have survived this period
Late 60's, people were getting into digital computing on the university campuses, which was still mostly behind glass walls, but shaggy hippie hackers were getting their hands on them. Within only 10 years they were building their own, starting companies to build their own, and busted them completely out with home computers.
In 1980 I took a H.S. Typing Class because computers had a typewriter keyboard. So I'm not HUNT & PECK worked out great , drafting, guitar and swimming class too. Swimming first period, morning shower! Hah! 😎
Hippy Hackers? Internet wasn't in homes until 1996 and
wifi wasn't invented yet.
@@guitardedguy2 The TX-0 came out in 1956 and the PDP-1 in 1959...
The launch of the PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer in 1959 marked a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design: it was the first commercial computer that focused on interaction with the user rather than the efficient use of computer cycles.
@@guitardedguy2 ua-cam.com/video/vQ9sQElbLWM/v-deo.html
@@guitardedguy2 Spacewar was written on a PDP-1 at MIT in 1962
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Spacewar! set forth fundamental characteristics that would become the standard in video games. Pushing technology and hardware to the maximum limits. Physics, simulated, realistically and playfully. Interactively. Combat based game play with shooting as a core mechanic.
Spacewar! influenced video game history in countless ways, one in which was the group of MIT students that created it. These students developed perhaps the first philosophy to guide the creation of a video game:
They held that a computer game should satisfy the following three criteria:
It should demonstrate as many of the computer's resources as possible, and tax those resources to the limit.
Within a consistent framework, it should be interesting, which means every run should be different.
It should involve the onlooker in a pleasurable and active way-in short, it should be a game.
Sometime later, a young Nolan Bushnell, at the University of Utah, who went on to found Atari, spent hours playing Spacewar! and through its inspiration, created Computer Space, the first commercial video game and arcade game.
My son said if I remember the 70s, I wasn't really there ! But I was, and loved
it !
Having graduated high school in the Summer of Love, I'll always appreciate the music creativity of the day.
Thanks, Freewheeling for this
little look back at an epic time.
You’re welcome 🙏
I was there, I lived through it all, and it affected me. Great music, great times, until it wasn't.
Me too, but you know what affected me the most? The Cuban Missile Crisis. Life time of scars that. LSD freak outs held nothing on that. #SayNoToNuclearWar
The Vietnam War, Charles Manson, and Nixon, killed the vibe and message. To love one another and this planet.
Put the fear vibe out there instead of the love vibe
Not to mention having to face Reality and make a living.
The 1960's and 70's was my generation and nothing can ever come as close as the splendor of this amazing era; the music, the fashions, the films and the freedom we felt. I'm 75 and can look back and think how lucky I was to be a part of it. Nobody can ever take away your memories.
Your generation brought economic decline, the break up of the nuclear family, the destruction of the education system, AIDs and rampant promiscuity. You’re not leaving on the best of terms.
Everything runs out of steam eventually.
Everything good under capitalism.
No, I'm pretty sure stupidity lasts forever. Einstein even said so.
@gphilipc2031 The ''Euphoria'' doesn't last long it wears off!
Actually very good editing, though I would have preferred lingering longer on the music clips.
Kudos for the way it ended with Dylan. That was a stroke of genius imho.
That madness couldn't maintain itself
I also loved the fashions, bright colors everywhere. And fun.
It was a great time to be alive.
There is no great time to be alive when surrounded by dangerously stupid people.
Apparently if Radio doesn't play it and the Press doesn't write about it, it ceases to exist.
Yes, like Garcia, with the death of a hippy
"so the hippy revolution has stopped, "
Garcia , "no , we are telling you we are not going to tell you what we are up to anymore"
In America ,psychedelic rock was called Acid Rock
Acid Rock morphed into Heavy Metal
@@TabithaReminiec3399 I beg to differ. Acid Rock music morphs within it's self and if anything morphed into Jam band's. There's still Acid rock is being made/played. Not just Pink Floyd. Heavy metal was just a space in-between Acid rock and Punk. Grunge would be another space between heavy metal and Punk.. the only spaces left is the shit they're forcing upon the youth. That whole force feeding shit started in the 80's with the crap that was coming out it's why so many went back to 60's music.
Didn't Deep Purple have acid rock roots?
@@gitfiddler716 no. they had classical and blues backgrounds.
The Velvet Underground still get a regular blasting on my stereo. I just think they were a brilliant phenomenon and should have been a bigger force than what they were.
I don't know what the Velvet are doing in this documentary because they never ever were psychedelic, nor were they ever about love and peace. They were gritty down to earth New York. In fact, Mo, the drummer said she hated hippies. On first leaving New York for the West Coast, Lou said he knew as soon as they crossed the Hudson it was going to be bad.
@SusanHarris-sk2ib There was a suggestion that the Velvet Underground was every other band members favourite band. It didn't help their album sales for some reason.
I always hated these New York heroin junkies.
Because there were so many cultural changes happening within a condensed space of time, the release of the album "Forever Changes " in 1967 by Arthur Lee and LOVE, shall for me, always be symbolic of that period, while at the same being relevant every year since ❤
Interesting summary of a fleeting yet fascinating episode in rock's development. Being born in 1951, I was just the right age at the time (16-17) to be blown away by it all, & then to appreciate how the music influenced subsequent 70's genres jazz-rock, prog-rock, etc. Special credit for the excellent (if all-too-brief) music clips.
That would be the cocaine 70's.
I was 8-9 years old in 1967. I have three older siblings, who were in 8th, 10th and 11th grades in 1967. I experienced the full madness smh 🤦♀️. My sister sent me tabs of acid in the mail from San Francisco, when I was in 6th grade. I threw them in the garbage.
A generation dropped acid, saw themselves for who they were and adjusted the trajectory of their lives to align with that new insight.
It can still be done today. All it takes is the balls to see who you are.
Yes, we are money and hypocrisy.
Then they grew up and realized they had to get a job because being poor and hungry sucks
@@67psychout Became the original movers and shakers of Yuppydom.,not that it hasn't always existed.Check Poussan's painting 'A dance to the music of time' ....Nothing new
@@MagioneUmbria So the generation all became enlightened then?😂
I lived in that generation. I still know lots of them. The ones who got to know themselves have lead lives of service to others. The rest found comfort in acquisition and consumption and delusion.
The other remarkable generation was their parents. They grew up in a world that was forced into poverty by greed. Then they saw how that poverty turned into horror. And if you told them that banks are “too big to fail” and that unlimited, anonymous campaign contributions are “free speech” they would have disagreed.
Well, I suppose we all know it takes drug use on a regular basis to die before 30, but it is interesting that it is not mentioned outright. I am a 60’s child. I think we lost our naive optimism in the 70’s. As the Bible says, truly, there is nothing new under the sun. We are who we are. We just took a brief break in the 60’s and pretended we are wonderful beings not beholden to anyone higher.
Those were fun days growing up. A family gave me hand me down clothes from their hippie son and I would wear them to school. I remember a girl telling me her parents wouldn't let her out of the house wearing that. I remember our church group sitting outside in the grass singing Blowin in the Wind and Kumbaya. Everyone got chigger bites.
The party was winding down, and people had to go back to work.
WORK 😮!!!
Leonard G.Crebbs
@@ronsanchez6992stop how STUPID
@@ronsanchez6992 Well spotted
George Harrison, one of the genuinely inspired and inspiring artists of that era visited San Fransisco in the late 60s and simply said afterword ""... I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids..."" Not too inspiring.
And that was San Francisco THEN.
And SF in the summer is really cold. Constant 20 mph winds and temps dropping into the low 50s at night.
I think we need to talk mire about what was happening in England. That was the epicenter.
And Harrison thought Lennon was childish. Harrison never got his true credit, but in hindsight, he was the true revolutionary, the true intellectual of that band.
Clip of Tomny James and the Shondells lol. Their manager was a member of the Colombo Crime family, who kept all the profits.
It was only a moment ago. I see it as a big pebble in the pond and ripples keep rippling. The music became business but later generations still inspired by the content and playing. There are so many amazing brilliant young and not so young musicians doing their art!! That era was unique but others will happen. Great documentary!!
Psychedelic music continues to this day, allbeit not to the same degree. The legacy of the counterculture was & is massive, Eastern philosophies, alternative medicine, self-development, humanistic & transpersonal psychologies, a resurgence in occultism & esotericism. It's impossible to think how we might be now if it hadn't occurred.
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yeah, i dont think there was ever a so intense cultural and social change in just a few years. and the art that was created those days still reverberates today and inspires people. It may have seen to fade, but fading would be like if things went back to the way they were before, which they didnt
No it doesnt...now all fake electronics and no talent
So true. It's one long strange trip, really. There are plenty of neo-hippies around who took up the mantle.
Psychedelic music morphed into progressive rock in 1969…changed music forever!
One word: criminalisation. LSD was legal until 1969.
It became illegal in the USA in 1965.
When did LSD become illegal?
New York State and California made it illegal to possess the substance in 1966, and four years later it became illegal at the federal level.Apr 4, 2024
I think another problem adding to this decline was the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968. These were leaders driving many to seek equality, empowerment, and progress through peaceful means, ideals pursued not only by the most devout, acid dropping members of the counterculture, but a far bigger wave composed of various minorities across the entire United States who had been disenfranchised for far too long, even before the World Wars, the Depression and other periods of strife and chaos, by a nation that was supposed to be a land of opportunity but was still rife with racism, inequality, xenophobia and other shortcomings often overlooked by the US government.
When MLK and Bobby Kennedy were murdered, mass riots broke out across the US that happened to include, and often were perpetrated by, a large number of members of the counterculture that supposedly chanpioned peace, love and change through nonviolent protests, something cemented by the Manson murders and Altamont. Hippies, which were at the heart of the counterculture, were considered merely suspect for their lifestyles standing in opposition to the rigid, conformist practices of the conservative percentage of "the greatest generation", but the riots and highly publicized murders ended up placing them in the category of people who would use such ideals as excuses to carry out the very violence they seemingly stood against, something also shared by certain anti-Vietnam protesters.
With the very ideals of peace and love undermined by violence responding to the assassinations and continuing with the Manson murders and Altamont, a ripple effect took place that would taint the counterculture for years to come. Even when corruption in government throughout the early-to-mid 70's, like the Watergate scandal, was publicly revealed and to a certain extent justified the existence of the peace-love movement as a force openly calling for justice, acceptance and progressive change, the damage had already been done, and gradually, the entire counterculture would dissolve throughout the 70's. Progress WAS made and the counterculture's impact was not without value, success or lasting influence, but the years to come would see conservative reactionary movements emerge with a vengeance to re-establish everything the counterculture stood against... and which included, ironically, members of the counterculture.
They Psychedelic 60s gave way to the Psychedelic 70s. They're not gone, they've evolved.
That's Right !
@BrainWorm-b9w USA is hooked on juice, speed, and smack. It's a death trip man.
Well, as I recall, Glitter was the next "counter culture" movement, followed by Disco, then Punk.
@winslow-eh5kv Is there a difference between Glitter and Glam?
Nope it died...hippies were just trying to take advantage for free stuff
It was such a great time with so much fun. Too sad it was all over when LSD was criminalized in 1971
This program was fun to watch because it featured snippets of music from the era. However, even though I enjoyed the music of the era, my world was totally different. I went to school by day and worked in a factory by night. I joined the military (on purpose), Active 66-69. I made it for TET 68. I got out early to go to school by day and work in a factory by night.
Exactly! Every young person during that era was not a hippie!
my best friend came back from vietnam in 69. those guys brought weed and a love for rock and roll back with them
I was part of all this in the late 60s and early 70s. The bottom line is, you can only take so many acid trips, smoke so much hashish, etc. before those indulgences lose their fascination. I can't remember exactly when I took my last acid trip, but it was sometime between 1972 and 75. I don't even smoke cannabis anymore.
In retrospect, the scene had some interesting and cool elements, a lot of the music was certainly worthwhile, and many of the women were loose and available. But it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. There was a seedy underbelly at work. As for mind altering substances, all things considered, these days, I'd rather have a glass of wine with dinner.
Black Sabbaths 'Hand of Doom' 1970. (I wasn't born til '75 but that song just screamed 'party time is over'
As a 75-year-old who was at Woodstock '69, there's nothing related here that I hadn't heard before. It's all standard folklore, especially about Altamont being the death knell of the era. But, still, the story was well told and interesting. And no one should be surprised that "alternative anything" in life, as well as quests for "something drastically new," are always met with failure because of the nature of humanity and the lack of answers to life's biggest questions. This is where belief systems come in to fill the void. And they are beliefs that are impossible to demonstrate objectively. What killed psychedelia and the 60's? Same thing that kills everything humans do. The nature of living and dying and the inevitable end called death.
It is still here, but it is slightly underground, because of videos like this, which say it is gone.
Don't tell any one, ua-cam.com/video/4in0wKB1jRU/v-deo.html
From Woodstock to Altamont, from Wavy Gravy's vibe army to the Hell's Angels, nuff said. Fun fact - most of the audience in Woodstock had left before the headliner Jimi Hendrix performed, and the opening act, Richie Havens, considered one of the best performances of the festival, was just killing time improvising to fill a schedule delay mixup.
This is just my own personal view: Something wonderful [in the true sense of the word] happened in the mid 60`s. There was a bunch of magical dust that was floating around in the air that infected some people who were open to it. It seems like the artists were more open to it than your average Joe. By the time that the summer of love came around, it was already milked out because so many people wanted to be a "hippie". because it became a fashion statement. I have always felt that Woodstock was a celebration of the end of hippiedom. Well, I`m still alive & still damn near broke. Some things never change.
"Magical Dust?". W.T.F. it's called L.S.D.! HI O
"Magical Dust?". W.T.F.! it's called L.S.D. .SKIPPY
To inject society with the opposite paradigm hippies needed to become a fad.
Yup ODS became common place as did the beggars wanting everything for free...and then the sell outs for big money and YUPPIES in it for themselves
Actually hippies continued had children and raised families, they just got older.
Because most of them were assholes and hypocrites. Take it from someone who was there.
I was there I saw Floyd and the doors at the roundhouse and i totally agree with you total fashion following ass holes talking about not being interested in fashion and material possessions. It was another fashion in clothes and must came and it went like any other people try to make out that it was something more
@@michaelharrison3602 Agree 100%
Eventually everybody has to grow up and mature. At least to some extent in order to live and thrive.
most today are as well. probably always
@davidevans3173 You got that right! Get the message out there!!
I was born in 1962, and what I remember the most was about surviving, I made beads( that I stole from the store) to make necklaces, and trade for food! My brother taught me how to file a penny the same size of a dime, and all I needed was a nickel which I could usually find, so a nickel and a penny( filed the size of a dime) fit very well in a vending machine for 15 cents I could buy peanut butter crackers or a beef jerky, end of story. Of course I smoked the wacky tobacccy, and tripped also! I know what allll of you are thinking, the kid was too young( messed up) poor kid, no poor you.
The Manson Family stopped the hippy movement in its tracks, on August 9th 1969.
Can’t mention Manson in 69 without mentioning the Symbionese Liberation Army in 74
The Family was an op.
They had a lot of f help from that prick Nixon + his "War on Drugs". Farce!
Nixon
Nope it was dead before they came along
Gene Autry released a concept album is a Christmas album in 1957 "The Original: Gene Autry Sings Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & Other Christmas Favorites". That album took listeners on a journey to Winter Wonderland. Santa Claus and Winter Wonderland are a fantasy. A lot of the teens in the 60's in America who delved into Sgt Peppers when it came out had first listened to the Gene Autry album as kids.
60s Psychedelic sound was meant as a short-lived experiment - an often LSD-fueled fragmented mirror which was held up to a post-WWII generation. The 1960s was just the right time for combining different styles of sound. Younger folks who were brought up listening to their parents' music wanted something so entirely different. They got it -- in spades! The music took on a life of its own -- even influencing sound today. "Dance the Night Away" (Cream) was (and remains) my favourite Psychedelic tune. My friends who lived in the North Beach district of SF moved to Colorado shortly after The Monterey Pop Festival. They read the writing on the wall. Many thanks, Freewheeling.
You're very welcome!
@@freewheelingideas ✌🙏
Dance The Night Away wasn't psychadelic
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Yes, it is. I'm referring to the tune by Cream off the LP "Disraeli Gears" (not the tune by Van Halen).
It completely ruined the use of LSD and pylosibin for therapeutic purposes that many of us need
Just here for the tunes.
1970's were just as crazy from what I can remember.
The assassinations of MLK & RFK & consequent election of Nixon helped slow the movement & the calamity at Altamont ended it. The Dream had become a Nightmare.
This is what the bad guys tried to force upon us. Did you fall for it?
@@michaelcraig9449 I'm not sure, Michael. Was only 12 in '69, and 67 1/2 in Nov. 2024. At 22 in 1979, any traces of this era were long gone into the dark shadows of the past.
Those events mentioned by davidellis 5141 and Kent State and Jackson State all ended the 60s also putting the end of this era was the inflation and unemployment of the early 70s turned the youth into trying to get a job and managing a budget instead of the free wheeling days of the late 60s when unemployment was super low and some could drop out for the Summer in San Fransisco but then come back in the Fall to find plentiful jobs. The songs of the late 60s which preached peace love harmony and mind expansion became Money by Pink Floyd or the Love Of Money by the O Jays by 1973.
Nope...people discovered hippies were just freeloaders
@@darrellmayberry7784 ojalls were garbage...definitely not psychodelic
I'm 72 and I think what killed the psychedelic 60's was that sooner or later, everyone had to get their act together and get a job. Most of us back then couldn't afford to be hippies and had to go to work. This is what killed the McGovern campaign in 1972. He thought he had the youth vote when all he had was the college vote. In 1972, the vast majority of 18-21 year old population were working stiffs just like their parents and voted for Nixon. The hippies got all the press but they were, in reality, just a small minority.
A wonderful time. Thanks
The hippies grew up and had to put food on the table. The party was over.
Despite "the sorrows" that started & followed in the wake of 1969, I'd put January 1, 1965 - December 31, 1984 on a NEVER ENDING LOOP!
IMHO, the most EXCITING, PROLIFIC & VIBRANT 20 years in human history! And, if I was forced to downsize those 20 golden years & only
pick THE TEN - absolute pinnacle years in history - I'd pick 1967-1976!😉Long Live the 60's & 70's!🪐🪐🪐And the first half of the 80's!
It was a cool time...looking back ( Im 57 now) we had no clue what a classic time period it was going to be.
I’d step into a Time Machine back to 1965, no sweat.
I would get rid of the disco part, which was the after party that no one wants to admit they attended.
@@stevea3472 Thats pretty true and funny...some of those songs were catchy though..we still remember them...keep stayin alive buddy
The carter years were bad....especially for our military....vibrant 20 years? I think not....Big amount of dispair in the mid 70's to mid 80's in big cities. Alot of lost hope and the introduction of crack.
the hippie era was AWESOME! the hippie girls were the most beautiful and we felt that we were accepted as part of the group. Hippies pretty much disappeared by 1973 or so as we got jobs in the square world.
I was a huge fan of Psychedelia. It all seemed like a musical escape from reality, as though it was all from another planet. But unfortunately, all good new explosive deveopments, no matter how exciting, way out and advanced, have to come to an end eventually. The novelty of everything wears off after a while, even if there is nothing new to replace it. By the mid seventies, everything had quietened, and we were well and truly into this Osmonds/Bay City Rollers governed era, and everything was back under law and order. It wasn't until later when we got hit with Punk Rock that everything started to liven again, as it completely out-fashioned all the Bubblegum Pop that accumulated before it.
But during the second half of the sixties when musical trends were shifting fast and furious, there was always this 24 hour a day rush hour in the air, and the whole atmosphere was filled with Psychedelic and hallucinary effects, and anarchy had seemingly hit the world. But nowadays, everything is just completely quiet. The youngsters of today just listen to this thump thump thump type stuff. But there is no actual music anymore. Most of those who created the loudness and liveliness in the air back in the sixties are just not with us anymore.
But was was that track you played in the background between snippets of tracks by The Doors from about 6.05 to 6.20? It sounded very familiar, but I just couldn't figure it out. If you were to reply, I might think "Oh yes".
It was "Time of the season" by the Zombies.
@@hardyharhar9 That was the one, great track. Many thanks.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Mind-expansion is not an escape from reality. It is seeing reality.
And some was garbage....the monkeys really?? And top 40 garbage AM Rock became short crap overplayed every 15 mins...Leading most to have shitty taste in music...like Buffalo Springfield...most cant tell you a song besides For What Its Worth...which wasn't their best and JEFFERSON AIRPLANE was more than White Rabbit...now PBS tries to tell us what songs were good with their time life collections of junk...if you re going to SF...really now just a song to steal our money...and 3 dog night another wimpy band
@hardyharhar9 a so so song short and trash rock radio tried to sell same short garbage...good for the time but come on Blood Sweat and Tears...elevator music
The best music was the 60s .the underground 80s wasn't bad either!!❤
Great video......
Thank you!
People grow up, some move on a new generation comes in and new music. Thats why gotta give it to bands like The stones, Zeppelin, The Beatles. They Roll with the change
What is the song at 4:10 pls, and anyone know if it is sampled in 'Setting Sun' by the Chemical Brothers?
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
Setting Sun samples 7 different songs but not the Beatles song Tomorrow Never Knows. Setting Sun is more of an homage to that Beatles track.
@@johnknapik Sampling sucks.
Tomorrow Never Knows. The Beatles. Revolver.
You can only party so much. Eventually everyone in the movement moved on and embraced other experiences in life. The ones who didn't destroyed themselves. The Hippie scene was for teen agers. It wasn't meant for adults and we all grew out of it.
Thanks for bringing up the good times !
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I was there and remember it all. So glad I experienced it all.... And don't forget the Small Faces, the Troggs, Them, Marmalade, Deep Purple, The Zombies, Moby Grape, The Byrds, Iron Butterfly, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Yardbirds (pre-Zeppelin) Uriah Heep, Ultimate Spinach, Wishbone Ash....and many more
Well, l think we will find that the 60's ended in 1969 but Psych bands turned into progressive rock which is still popular today. All music changes, 60's Soul turned into boring plastic homogenised so-called R 'n' B which is sung by 'Singers' who sound like they are singing underwater or through some vocal machine. The 1960's were a peak for music where everything seemed possible. Nothing lasts forever.
"R&B" PRECEDED so-called "Soul". It's all labels mistaken for actual "genre".
And those "soul singers" had no soul but pretended they had the answer...all their songs sounded the same waaaaa
A remarkable era transcending all hitherto “teeny” fads. One capturing a unique moment, almost like synchronicity, in the public mind.
Heroin, uppers, downers, riots, and then Aids killed the free sex.....I was out after the Heroin started showing up....76 now.. Still love the music.
There never was "free sex".
The ones that lived through it like me finally grew up and become respectable people of the community. Lol! I was a professional musician then and now so it's especially remarkable for me.
The demise of the 60s was reality. We woke up and found out that 8f we didn't conform then we didn't get jobs.😊
yeah, kind of. i had hair down to my shirt pockets for 16 years at work for the telephone company. there were other long haired guys there too.