Experience the Rainbow - Part 1- 1978
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2006
- In 1978 the Rainbow Gathering happened in Oregon. This is an exerpt from the 46 minute program. The full higher quality movie is now here on UA-cam!
The entire DVD program directed by Ed Mellnik is available for free to anyone willing to pay the postage and handling ($7) from EMA Video Portland Oregon. I would like to acknowledge the great crew who worked so hard to make this project happen. Anne Kaluzny, Joseph Reesha, Paul Petock and Jesse Nazareth...just to name a few.
This is awesome--ah,that 70's spirit! I've been to three gatherings, 91, 94 and '02 and this clip brought it all back and then some! I went camping in the 70's every year of my life and Rainbow gatherings have always reminded me of the best times to be had out in nature with family- a model of the world yet to come. At the end of Center Circle at the 2002 National, the Creator blessed us all with a majestic Sun dog big as the sky--all that ommm brought the whole thing home. Pace.
All my brothers and sisters working and living. Garrek is so young. This is the biggest show of civil social realignment ever.
Brings tears and smiles to my face.
The world needs more of these gatherings
I'm being interviewed in Part 1 and commenting on the oatmeal and mentioning I'm from Long Island. Thanks for interviewing me. A year after this interview, I discovered acting as my calling.
the music is so strong in these vids... all those voices harmonizing so confidently, very inspiring! (& oh to bring that back...)
family,
we can not know where to go or what to become if we do not know where we came from...i urge everyone to share this and remind our brothers and sisters why we do what we do
i love you all
The Rainbow is in New Mexico this year. Do a search for Welcomehome
Peace and Love
Wow. I was sitting here today just remembering back when I started out hitching north from Santa Cruz CA. The places I went, the ppl I met. somehow two friends and myself ended up here at the Rainbow Gathering. I couldn't really remember what year it was I started to hitch, and so I looked up the rainbow fest of 1978 and there it was . Oh my, Thank you Ed! For this small but great piece of history of my life I could only at one time try to explain to ppl. I sent this link to my daughter cause I was there with her father. He past when she was two and this will give her a great deal of insight to who he was. I sent it to my gf who was with us as well. As I remember someone died climbing the mountain and a baby was born. If any one knows the recipe for the almond and curry dish the Hare Krishna ppl made I would love to get it. I have never forgotten the food they served. The bartering, sharing, learning, and of course the LOVE. Thank you all who were there.
Thanks, Check out the full 46minute movie i put up earlier this year. Totally redigitized at a higher resolution. Back then, UA-cam had a limit on length and file size.
Brother Garrik at 2:25 gives the most concise, clear and expressive definition of our reasons to gather. That dude is verbalizator king.
Thank you for sharing. Gods family is a beautiful thing it is. Yahweh Bless
Nice to see Serious Israel made it
'Bout time! This is one of the top Rainbow videos ever produced in the entire 35 years. Of course I'm biased since me and Washboard Sid have a nice spot in the full length DVD. Can't wait to get my copy. Thanks Ed. Glad to see yer still plugging away at it after all these years! Henry the Fiddler. P.S. Stop in at my channel here at UA-cam and watch my fiddlin' videos.
I couldn't go to this one due to having a newborn. My first rainbow was in Montana in 1976! How special it was for me, definitely a healing gathering and free! It changed my life forever. Does anyone have a video of it or photos? I would so much appreciate something that resembles the pictures in my memory. Loving you all!
@edmellnik this is beautiful - awesome documentation!
My first rainbow gathering!
Thanks a lot for this video which reminds anyone who has lived one in this times, how great and beautiful former Rainbow Gatherings were. Our first one was in 1994 or 1996 (don't remember if it was in Oregon too ...?). 40 000 people all linked with love and high energy ! My friends and I were coming from France specially for it, and all our lives have been changed since then !
Big nostalgia ! Trying to get the DVD from the address which is given above if they still have it !
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
I am getting 3 reels of super 8mm digitized of the AZ 1979 gathering. Can't wait...memories... ;)
This piece never really got distributed very widely but after many years of sitting on the shelf, we thought it would be great to share again. There is a lot of good stuff that needs to be said over and over.
The 45 minute DVD is available for free with Shipping payment from EMA VIdeo in Portland Oregon. Enjoy.
I was hitchhiking (did a lot of that in 74-78) on I-64 to Hampton Virginia when I ran across two fellow hitchhikers, on their way to what they called "The Gathering"; Kept talking about "The Gathering"...One of them looked like he just stepped out of a history book, like a returning Confederate, in civilian clothes after the WAR (maybe a cross between Dickey Betts/Wille Nelson and a returning Confederate). It was bizarre to say the least. And I definitely wasn't tripping which made it all the more bizarre.The other had a some sort of a large carrion birdwing attached to his duffel bag. I asked him about it and he replied: "It's my brother."---they told me I should cut all ties to society and come with them on their journey. I said I can't just leave everything behind! Said things like: "You see, time is like a wheel, it's daytime right time, daytime wrongtime, night time righttime, nighttime wrong time. You've got to get AWAY from society and accompany us to 'The Gathering'..realize your freedom! ".....I had no idea what they were talking about, I began to wonder if they were insane. Other bizarre sayings. I knew one thing: it's just not practical to live that way. I did a fair amount of drugs back then, but I was straight as an arrow on that day. Very strange. This was sometime in 1978. I've never seen anything like it since. Those were some heavy times back then. A completely different world in which we live now.
the world was a very different place back then
Yeah, so was I.
I was at Rainbow '81, an incredible experience. It was worth it simply to be out in the mountains under a clear sky at night--I'd never seen stars like that. Most amazing for me though were the jams at Madame Frog's Teahouse: wonderful guitar, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica players, not to mention the dude with a sitar could make the thing sing!
Weird, some of the negative comments here. Since when did making your own music in the woods become so threatening?
Hey bro ... glad to C U here! Love and kisses ... :-) Henry
Love..
I just noticed that is Dr. Piehler at 5:45. I'm sure.
Yes
Ram Dass!!! YES!!!! AMAZING MAN!!!
A fraudster for the ages. Dead now.
soooo cooool
That guy at 5:50 must be tripping. I can almost see inside his head. He keeps losing his train of thought in that trippy kind of way where the inner maze keeps metamorphosing.
@leigh518
Tell me more about it, what do they do exactly? I'm thinking about going to the Finland gathering.
What is the song that plays at about 3:15? Is it just a rainbow-folk song that was made up? Or is this a song someone wrote that I could get a recording of? It's pretty groovy!
Were those guys from the New Buffalo Commune?
all them nekkid guys ... lol...
Just send $6 to cover shipping, handling and cost of the disc to EMAVIDEO, 1706 NW Glisan Street, Suite7, POrtland Oregon 97209
The rainbow warriors will bring the souls of fallen natives in the shape of the same white men who killed them on the conquer of north america, and will bring peace, joy and respect for the earth and for earthlings...
so be it.
@user38293 ans also take innocent children out of abusive situations. a social worker does alot of good. would you rather nobody out there taking babies out of meth labs? its not ruining peoples lives its making the best out of a bad situation.
It's astonishing to think how far people who live in suburbia (such as I'm sure you do) have fallen. So it's come down to cursing the lifestyle of a few people who choose peace in the woods over capitalism and greed in the city?
I feel sorry for you greyestofblue, because you would never be open minded enough to go out and experience a life of peace, if only for a week.
Atheistism is the only way.