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Post by lordrockinhood on Jan 28, 2008 22:44:06 GMT -5
I met a dude who mentored under Shel Silverstein waaay back in the real hippy days, I met him randomly on the street today... it's a good story, what led to us talking for like 10 minutes... but alas, too long a story to to tell here, or at least to tell it right... but VERY random and also in a way, quite magical......
... but suffice to say, THIS guy, "Spatz Donovan" ... this guy is a bonafied real live Hippy, tried and true, an "aging hippy from the west, 'cisco, from back in the day..." was how he put it...
Post by BrokenLight on Jan 29, 2008 2:30:32 GMT -5
i'm only 26 years old, but i feel like i should've been a hippie at monterey and woodstock in the 60's...one day i'm going to build a time machine and go back to join the grateful dead as the keyboardist who never died...R.I.P. to all the members of the dead who are no longer with us...
IMO there are sub-categories of hippies...it really is all about a state of mind. Some people look the part but don't feel it... others feel it and don't look it.
to elaborate on what alyroo stated:
trust fund hippies- Daddies little girl with dreads and a $100 Abercrombie top and a $60 gap skirt... i wish i had that kind of money, i'd put it to much better use than these guys. i have met very little male trust fund hippies, they usually just follow dave matthews around the country! :-)
i apologize in advance for the sweeping generalizations i've just touched upon... but you all have seen each and every one of these...
Why do people always rip on Dave Matthews Band? I have seen DMB 30 times, I love them, and I don't consider myself a trust fund hippie....
Everyone always thinks it is a bunch of frat dudes with SUV's playing beer pong in the parking lot while wearing wife-beaters and cargo shorts, flip-flops, puka shell necklaces, and starting fights. Girls in tube-tops with glitter rubbed all over their chest and face and doing balloons until they fall over puking. Those people are there. But it's not everyone.
Post by ☮ superbek ☮ on Feb 1, 2008 0:54:26 GMT -5
No there are no hippies in the sense that one might think of.
Yes there are still hippies...a better name would be Urban Hippy...even if you don't live in a big city.
Face it. The world today is very different from 40 years ago. We now have ipods and internet, cell phones and big screens.
It's the concept of a hippy. Peace, love and happiness to all. A love for music, a love for earth, life, and all mankind. The desire, the passion, and the will to make a difference in this world. A new breed....indigo children.
And as we know, everything evolves. Change is inevitable.
I am a hippy. I love music. I conserve. I am kind. I bring personality. I play frisbee. I work. I am broke. I stand up for my beliefs. I spend every spare dime I have to visit the wonderful town of Manchester every summer to spend time with others like myself.
Post by spacewrangler on Feb 1, 2008 13:02:20 GMT -5
Hi local, you live in a great town. I'm really too "young" to have been a "real hippie" (I'm 50, which means I was 10 in "67 Summer of Love"), but remember those days well. I definately was a "Freak" in the 70s though and now consider myself an "old school Hippie", but I digress. My first exposure to "real Hippies" were some of the counselors I had at church camp www.duboseconf.org/camp.html at Dubose in Monteagle in the last 60s and early 70s. Many of these "Hippies" were from Manchester and were truly great and kind folks. I will always cherish these memories. I always thought what a truly magical place this must be to produce such kind and gentle folks. I have been to all six Bonaroos and will be there again this year. All my experiences with the locals there have been VERY POSITIVE. Every local I have met has been kind to me and seemed very tolerant of the havoc being raked upon them and their town anually [Bonnaroo would HAVE BEEN a disaster for all if they had tried to have it in Chattanooga or Cleveland (Tennessee) (my "hometowns")]. It seems to me that whatever inspired the "Hippies" I met from Manchester at Dubose during these summer camps still exists, you are truly fortunate to live where you do.
Hi local, you live in a great town. I'm really too "young" to have been a "real hippie" (I'm 50, which means I was 10 in "67 Summer of Love"), but remember those days well. I definately was a "Freak" in the 70s though and now consider myself an "old school Hippie", but I digress. My first exposure to "real Hippies" were some of the counselors I had at church camp www.duboseconf.org/camp.html at Dubose in Monteagle in the last 60s and early 70s. Many of these "Hippies" were from Manchester and were truly great and kind folks. I will always cherish these memories. I always thought what truly magical place this must be to produce such kind and gentle folks. I have been to all six Bonaroos and will be there again this year. My experiences with the locals there has been VERY POSITIVE. Every local I have met has been kind to me and seemed very tolerant of the havoc being raked upon them and their town anually [Bonnaroo would HAVE BEEN a disaster for all if they had tried to have it in Chattanooga or Cleveland (Tennessee) (my "hometowns")]. It seems to me that whatever inspired the "Hippies" I met from Manchester at Dubose during these summer camps still exists, you are truly fortunate to live where you do.
i will agree somewhat, and yes, you were talking later years but ... i lived in nashville and burbs in the late 60's .... when we went to the bars, they all had guns in their back pockets which was a little scary for me, esp being anti gun .. and a few times we drove from nashville to NO for mardi gras, and it really was a little like Easy rider in some of the towns .... i think i am a real hippie, but who knows what that means .... cr****
Hi local, you live in a great town. I'm really too "young" to have been a "real hippie" (I'm 50, which means I was 10 in "67 Summer of Love"), but remember those days well. I definately was a "Freak" in the 70s though and now consider myself an "old school Hippie", but I digress. My first exposure to "real Hippies" were some of the counselors I had at church camp www.duboseconf.org/camp.html at Dubose in Monteagle in the last 60s and early 70s. Many of these "Hippies" were from Manchester and were truly great and kind folks. I will always cherish these memories. I always thought what truly magical place this must be to produce such kind and gentle folks. I have been to all six Bonaroos and will be there again this year. All my experiences with the locals there have been VERY POSITIVE. Every local I have met has been kind to me and seemed very tolerant of the havoc being raked upon them and their town anually [Bonnaroo would HAVE BEEN a disaster for all if they had tried to have it in Chattanooga or Cleveland (Tennessee) (my "hometowns")]. It seems to me that whatever inspired the "Hippies" I met from Manchester at Dubose during these summer camps still exists, you are truly fortunate to live where you do.
Camp Gaylor Maxon! NO WAY! I'll be $$ we know each other!!
IMO there are sub-categories of hippies...it really is all about a state of mind. Some people look the part but don't feel it... others feel it and don't look it.
to elaborate on what alyroo stated:
granola hippies - true organic everything, extra green outlook on life. Generally great people, just don't argue politics or global warming with them
neo-hippies - either come from families who are hippies or dress like hippies and are hippies for the sake of being one. I didn't associate myself with them in college, because they annoyed me.
wooks - dirty, smelly, moochers who "look like" hippies, but only because they are too drugged out and shady to care what they look like. beware!
old-school hippies - ones that actually remember what a real Grateful Dead show is like. They just sit back and smile as they watch the current scene, reminiscing about how the scene used to be and perhaps giggling at what it has become.
trust fund hippies- Daddies little girl with dreads and a $100 Abercrombie top and a $60 gap skirt... i wish i had that kind of money, i'd put it to much better use than these guys. i have met very little male trust fund hippies, they usually just follow dave matthews around the country! :-)
i apologize in advance for the sweeping generalizations i've just touched upon... but you all have seen each and every one of these...
It's the concept of a hippy. Peace, love and happiness to all. A love for music, a love for earth, life, and all mankind. The desire, the passion, and the will to make a difference in this world. A new breed....indigo children.
And as we know, everything evolves. Change is inevitable.
I am a hippy. I love music. I conserve. I am kind. I bring personality. I play frisbee. I work. I am broke. I stand up for my beliefs. I spend every spare dime I have to visit the wonderful town of Manchester every summer to spend time with others like myself.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by tellertrash on Feb 2, 2008 12:42:56 GMT -5
phishtick said:
asdoye111 said:
to elaborate on what alyroo stated:
trust fund hippies- Daddies little girl with dreads and a $100 Abercrombie top and a $60 gap skirt... i wish i had that kind of money, i'd put it to much better use than these guys. i have met very little male trust fund hippies, they usually just follow dave matthews around the country! :-)
i apologize in advance for the sweeping generalizations i've just touched upon... but you all have seen each and every one of these...
Why do people always rip on Dave Matthews Band? I have seen DMB 30 times, I love them, and I don't consider myself a trust fund hippie....
Everyone always thinks it is a bunch of frat dudes with SUV's playing beer pong in the parking lot while wearing wife-beaters and cargo shorts, flip-flops, puka shell necklaces, and starting fights. Girls in tube-tops with glitter rubbed all over their chest and face and doing balloons until they fall over puking. Those people are there. But it's not everyone.
Thank You! Karma! I love love love DMB but i am not a white hat or are friends with white hats. i do like the idea of urban hippy.
Post by roolacksreality on Feb 4, 2008 7:37:58 GMT -5
The term "hippy" directly refers to a major part of the New Left of the 1960s.
A good classification for people of said subculture is 'counter culture'. That's the term I tend to use. Calling anyone a hippy in the present is technically wrong. But that's just my opinion; I'm a history major.
What about closet hippies? I think a lot of us would qualify as closet hippies.
We have jobs, go to school, raise families, fit into other social institutions... but when a good festie comes along, we break out the patchwork and get down.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Feb 4, 2008 21:28:00 GMT -5
I think the lyrics to Frank Zappa's "We're Turning again" sum up hippies pretty well, at least from the 60s to the 80s.
"We took a whole bunch of acid so we could see where it's at (It's over there, over there, Over there, over there And under here also) We're never wrong about nothing And we look pretty good We never ever have to worry We're always in a hurry To convince ourselves that what we are Is really very groovy If we believe what's in the papers And the magazines that define our folklore We can never laugh At who or what we think we are Or even what we think We sorta oughta be 'Cause we are totally empty (Totally empty) And our lives are really useless So what the f*ck? We ain't got no sense of humor We got nothing left To laugh about Including ourselves
Turn turn Turn turn We're turning again Turn turn Turn turn We're turning again
They were mellow They were yellow They were wearing smelly blankets They were DONOVAN fans They walked around With stupid flowers In their hair and everywhere They tried to stuff 'em up the guns Of all the cops and other servants of the law Who tried to push 'em around And later mowed 'em down But they were full of all that sh*t That they believed in So what the f*ck?
They would tighten up their headbands On the weekend they get loaded When they came to town They walked around in GREENWICH VILLAGE To buy posters they could hang up In their smelly little secret Black light bedrooms On LONG-ISLAND Screamin': "JIMI COME BACK!" Come back and regulate my fuzz-tone Your HAZE was so PURPLE And your AXIS was BOLD AS LOVE (JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI FEED BACK) Come back and feed back on my knapsack You can feed back the fuzz tone from your WAH-WAH While you bend down And set your stuff on FIRE
We can turn it around We can do it again We can go back in time Through the canyons of your mind On the EVE O' DESTRUCTION We can act like we are something really special (wah wah . . . ) Oh, we'll just jump in the bath-tub With that other guy JIM And make him be more careful And we'll visit Big Mama And whap her on the back When she eats her sandwich (FRIDAY THURSDAY) We can take care of Janis When she gets so depressed She can't take it no more We can laugh at Keith Moon's jokes (HA HA HA HA HA) And the colour TV (WAH WAH) He threw out the window From the second floor! (AAAHHHHHH!) Everybody come back No one can do it like you used to If you listen to the radio And what they play today You can tell right away: All those assholes really need you!"
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Post by candyflippedaround on Feb 5, 2008 0:30:37 GMT -5
roolacksreality said:
The term "hippy" directly refers to a major part of the New Left of the 1960s.
A good classification for people of said subculture is 'counter culture'. That's the term I tend to use. Calling anyone a hippy in the present is technically wrong. But that's just my opinion; I'm a history major.
i mostly believe this. i went to school with a couple people you could definatly get away with calling a hippy though, especially one friend. i myself only strive to be a dirty hippy, a status i fear i can never obtain.
Post by chinacatsunflower on Feb 5, 2008 2:44:33 GMT -5
i absolutely agree with all of you who say it's all about your state of mind. i wouldn't say your modern hippie could be classified purely on looks but it's 2008 man. things have changed: new generation, new bands, new festivals and the beat goes on...
Post by chinacatsunflower on Feb 5, 2008 3:03:38 GMT -5
i'm atleast hippie by association. my grandparents hitched their way to the first woodstock in handsewn clothes with flowers in their hair. it's in my blood.
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