Are You a Hippie ?

I'm a kind of Post Hippy.

micky wrote: indeed... as I said earlier Dean... the nativity of hippiedom....   smoking tons of dope might make you horny and give you the munchies... but it doesn't change the fact the world is a nasty, selfish, violent place.

How did you enjoy Scotland ?

Edited by Slartibartfast - January 24 2010 at 21:37

zappaholic wrote: The Pessimist wrote:   Came here for Cartman.  Leaving satisfied.   /hippies can't stand death metal

Perhaps I'm the polar opposite to a hippy then

yeah Altamont was rough, Jerry Garcia described it as: "..like arriving in Hell-- there were burning tires, and the light had a weird pinkish glow."

I think everyone's view is correct to some degree;  In the Bay Area, hippie 'culture' lasted well into the early 1980s, and it wasn't till the cold stench of the Reagan era had taken hold that it began to die-off.  But in the rest of the world it was probably over much earlier.   Dean is correct that hippies were not associated with Prog rock but in California by about 1978, the few remaining one's appreciated Yes, Tull and Floyd as much as anyone - in addition to related artists as Traffic, Rush, Kansas, and Zeppelin - each band embraced by a comatose movement who's musical heroes were dead or dying ..  Hey: show me a hippie who doesn't like either Floyd or Tull and I'll show you one lonely longhair.

I don't know if hippies still exist. I have seen people under 40 dressed up like hippies now and then, not to mention some human beings who did not survive the 60's unharmed and are still stuck in these days with more than one leg, but I can't tell if these people can properly be called 'hippies' in the context of this time. The word does not sound more actual in my ears than 'beatnik', 'mod' or 'punk'.

Edited by someone_else - January 25 2010 at 09:55

Could someone (older than 40) explain something to me?

This might be off topic, but perhaps it's not.

I was born in 1976, so I don't know what was going on.

What was happening in the 70's? In the years after hippie movement and before punk?

Of course, there was prog rock, there was glam rock, disco,  there was NYC proto-punk stuff.

Fashion was more or less similar (or am I wrong?) ,at least from today's persepctive.

But what was the mindset? Was the youth in 1972-1974 cynical or nostalgic about hippies? What were the philosophies? Counter-culture? What was 'cool'? Cinema? Art? Attitude?

Tell me about the time of flip clocks...





When exactly long hair became short, and trapeze trousers became narrow ones? 1976? 1980? I remember some of my parent's friends with long hair and moustache as late as 1983.

I know there are as many different answers as different people, but still...

Please?

Re Moris' question: In the states, in the mid-70s in little cow-poke suburbia. Young sheep like counter-cultural followers still looked sort of like hippies, but not as cliche. No sandals or peace signs, but we still had bell-bottoms that were starting to become disco-fied designer jeans. Our hair was long, but not as long. We made fun of hippies for their idealism, 'groovy lingo' and extreme politics, but co-opted their substances and lax attitudes about sex. The new generation was into Alice Cooper, Deep Purple and P-Funk, not The Beatles and Hendrix.

Short hair and straight leg jeans came from the NYC gay community as early as the early 70s, as well as proto-punk. This new style spread to the rest of the east coast by the late 70s and short haired punk and new wave started being cool in suburbia by 79 or 80. Although squares still had hair over their ears well into the mid 80s. The west coast and south were slower to cut their hair than the east coast.

Reagan era hip-conservatism and new wave style sensibilities combined in the mid-80s to put 'hippie' on hiatus until the rave scene and the Seattle grunge scene brought it back.

Edited by Easy Money - January 25 2010 at 09:26

I let my hair get a little long, but when it takes too long to dry in the morning I get it cut rather short.  Perpetual change, baby.

My hair is down past the middle of my back.