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Topic: Hippies....
Posted By: Dietcokeman
Subject: Hippies....
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 16:52
Just wondering how many prog fans are also hippyish(?)

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 17:14
No never!


Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 17:34

Maybe so, as:

I like a toke, and a lot of psych-prog. (HW, Gong, etc.)

I loved a good festival, ('Henge, Reading, Glast. etc., back in the day.)

My hair has been right down my back since I was 13, I'm 37 and have no plans to visit a barber any time soon.

BUT.......

I cringe as soon as anyone starts waffling on about leylines and auras and all that bollox. A scientific background has robbed me of the ability to stand by silently  whilst dopey wierdy-beardy tree huggers wax lyrical on subjects of which they are completely ignorant, and then endeavour to verify their gibberish by way of glib new age bumper sticker slogans, and vague eastern quasi-religious rhetoric.

You'll always get a nice cuppa tea at my house! Jasmine passion flower melon flavour my arse! PG Tips mate, milk and two sugars, NO, not bloody biological unbleached cane sugar, the Tate and Lyle granulated white stuff! What are ya, some kind of hippy or summat?? 

Peace man!

MDR



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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 17:47

I'm about as Non-hippie as one can get, although I am guilty of tie-dying a few shirts in my youth. The only hemp in my house this the ropes which hold up a hammock and those silly bracelets my children wear. I've have never had long or even shaggy hair. The emoticons and I share the same hair style.

Herbs? I like mine liquified in the form of a cold Samuel Adams or any other beer with flavor.

I abhor bumper-stickers and only hug my wife and kids, no trees, thank you! I bathe daily and detest patcholi oil.

Now music? My tastes, evidently, run counter to my image....

 



Posted By: asuma
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 18:01
i'm not a hippie cause i do more for the planet than smoke herb

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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 18:04

Originally posted by asuma asuma wrote:

i'm not a hippie cause i do more for the planet than smoke herb

That's just the sort of thing a hippy would say!



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Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 18:19

DEFINITELY NOT! 

... at least not today

 



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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 19:52
I wa sa weekend hippy, who got high on the music, and left the pills and smokes well alone - therefore I should discount myself straightaway.


Posted By: asuma
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 22:25
Originally posted by emdiar emdiar wrote:

Originally posted by asuma asuma wrote:

i'm not a
hippie cause i do more for the planet than smoke
herb


That's just the sort of thing a hippy would say!




by that i mean that i have an accurate look on the way
the world works and i have an idea for how it should
change. instead of something like "corporations
suck, let's all live in the forest and do nothing to stop
them."

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Posted By: Marcelo
Date Posted: July 26 2004 at 23:43

I'm not, but I would like to be

 



Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 03:10
There is definitely a hippy in me who's been trying to get out since the '70s, but I prefer to be clean....... which isn't to say I don't still wear tie-dye....

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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 04:11

Define "hippy" someone. This is what Webster says;

Hippie: n. a usually middleclass, young non conformist who lives in a commune, wears nonconventional clothing, and often takes psychadelic drugs.

Sounds like a lot of punks I know!



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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 05:01

I'm not sure if I qualify...does following the Greatful Dead for 6 months in my '68 VW bus make me a hippie?

BTW: I hope that Webster quote was not pasted directly...I'd hate to think they've slipped so far they can't be trusted to spell "psychedelic".

Dictionary.com says "A person who opposes and rejects many of the conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles."

 

 



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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 05:18

I thought I was a hippy in my youth. I had long-ish hair, wore psychedelic shirts and burned incense in my bedroom and owned a number of Hawkwind albums.

By day I worked as a management trainee in a supermarket..

So, no. I was never a hippy, just a music lover who didn't hang out with lager louts. I reckon most people on this forum of from a similar mind set to myself.



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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 05:42
Got it in one, Blacksword!

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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 15:04
Thanks Blacksword, couldn't have put it better!Wink


Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 19:22
voted for "Maybe so?". It depends on what mood I'm in. I like to call myself a hippy of the 21st century, but I think I'm in fact a 21st century schizoid man. And mr. Zappa didn't like hippies... but that was because of the masses. I don't like masses either.


Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 23:28
Speaking of Zappa, Joren's signature pic isn't showing up for me anymore. Anyone else?

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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: July 27 2004 at 23:38

All:

At the risk of sounding erudite (), there are, in fact, "parameters" that "define" the word "hippy."

The chronological parameter is mid-1966 to mid-1974: the "hippie movement" began when three things coincided (the anti-war movement, the availability of LSD, and the "free love" era, which was a "delayed reaction" to the repressed 50s (which actually ended in 1963)), and ended when two things coincided (the end of the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon).  It is actually amazing to note that the movement survived the break-up of The Beatles, Altamont and Kent State, among other potential movement-killers.

Socio-politically, it was not enough that one was hanging around half-naked in parks, smoking pot, tripping and making love.  One was also required to be involved in the civil rights and/or anti-war movements (it didn't hurt if you were also involved in  the animal rights (i.e., veggie) and/or ecological/environmental movements).

Fashion-wise, it was bell-bottoms or "flares," tie-dyed shirts, bandanas, and clogs or sandals.  Alternatively, "Eastern" dress was okay (Indian print shirts and skirts, draw-string pants, etc.).  Long hair was preferred (for both sexes), but not required.  And despite what most people believe, we were actually quite clean: after all, no one wanted to make love to a smelly person.

And although there were "hippie-like" movements in numerous countries around the world, a true "hippie" hailed from San Francisco (where legend, if not fact, has it that the movement started), or at least from one of the big cities (NYC, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, etc.), though even those in the "heartland" who truly followed the movement were accepted as "brothers and sisters."

Thus, many of you may have felt you were "hippie-like."  But unless you can claim to have existed within the above parameters, you could not have been true hippies.

Peace.  (And love)



Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 28 2004 at 00:42

I'll have to change my answer then...born too late and never wore flares.



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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: July 28 2004 at 03:40
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

 

BTW: I hope that Webster quote was not pasted directly...I'd hate to think they've slipped so far they can't be trusted to spell "psychedelic".

 

 

 

. Errrr....sorry, slip of the brain there. In my defence though, Websters, whilst  perfectly capable of spelling 'psychedelic', doesn't seem to be able to spell colour, honour, humour, neighbour, labour, favour, flavour, savour, valour, mould, doughnut, fibre, cheque, grey, kerb, programmme, theatre, litre, metre, offence, pretence,  pyjamas, etc. etc. etc. etc.,

In future I'll make the extra effort and reach for my somewhat more informative (and much much heavier) OED.



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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: July 28 2004 at 08:35

Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Speaking of Zappa, Joren's signature pic isn't showing up for me anymore. Anyone else?

I didn't see it either, but it's back! (I guess there were problems on the website I 'borrowed' it from)



Posted By: dude
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 08:16

YEAH MAN...ITS LIKE....YOU KNOW...ITS ALL REAL!......LIKE...I FEEL ONE WITH THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE MAN........AND THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS...............................ESPECIALLY THE PLANTS!!....SOME ARE COOL MAN....THEY MAKE YOU FEEL...LIKE YOU KNOW........ONE   WITH EVERYTHING....THE WAY THEY MAKE YOU FEEL.......ITS LIKE...ITS ALL REAL MAN!!...........AND I LOVE EVERYONE MAN.....AS OFTEN AS I CAN TO ........BECAUSE....LOVE,YEAH ITS WHERE ITS AT MAN...AND PEACE,.....YEAH IM ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR A PIECE MAN...CAUSE ITS ALL REAL....THATS WHY I GET LIKE THIS MAN ....TO GET RAEL...AND TO BE ONE WITH THE PLANTS MAN ESPECIALLY THE MUSHROOMS MAN THEY REALLY SPAEK TO ME MAN!!!

"WE LOVE YOU"THEY SAY....ITS ....OH WOW!!!....ITS ALL SO RAEL THAT SOMETIMES IT GETS REAL HEAVY MAN AND I FREAK OUT AT THE REALITY OF IT ALL MAN AND THEN MY FRIENDS HAVE TO GET LIKE....MEDICAL HELP MAN....AND I SPEND DAYS....COMING DOWN MAN ITS LIKE........TOTALLY ZEN MAN..........

YOU ARE I AND I AM YOU,ZERO THE HERO,ITS LIKE TOTALLY RIGHT MAN, I CAN DIG IT....I DONT KNOW WHAT IT MEANS BUT ITS TRUE AND VIBRATES WITH COSMIC HARMONY MAN!!!!!!!!

PEACE BROTHERS(AND SISTERS....SORRY)

OH MAN!!!... I GOT THE MUNCHIES NOW BUT THIS CHAIR IS SO COMFY....WHAT A HASTLE MAN ,IT MEANS I HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION AND THAT IS LIKE...NOT COOL



Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 12:05

I never liked Hippies for the reasons expresed by other posters before me, but I don't want to make stereotypes with the risk of sounding like the fanatic we were talking some days ago (Mr. Oakes if I remember well).

Iván



Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 13:15

Beep beep beep, oh no heavy, the coins keep coming out, beep beep beep, even the telephone hates me, beep beep beep, I wish there were no machines, and everyone led a pastoral existence, trees and flowers don't deliberately cool you out and go beep in your ear.



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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 13:48

A Wavy Gravy Nipple Slip..... 

 



Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 15:10
Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

Thus, many of you may have felt you were "hippie-like."  But unless you can claim to have existed within the above parameters, you could not have been true hippies.

I wonder how many of the true hippes realised they were existing within parameters?LOL

Far out man. Thumbs Up



Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: July 29 2004 at 23:33

I am/was a hippie.

Wait a minute. No. There isn't any such thing as a hippie now. I'm only 25. Hippies are from the 60s and 70s when the term was actually relevant and everything it represented was actually ideologically fresh and revolutionary. The hippies you think are hippies today are at best neo-hippies. It's still a trickle down of the ethics and culture, but it's not the same. Everything's been done now.

Dreadlocks were worn in the original movement mainy by Rasta/African American characters and perhaps those who were really down on their luck and couldn't get that shag cut properly, hence the matted dreads (it doesn't happen that way with the Negroid hair type and thus the dreadlock on a white person was considered "dirty") So over years of social conditioning this stereotype was woven (pardon the pun) into the hippie movement of the 90s. 

With it came many other things concerning a certain passive anarchy towards the current paradigm. Much like the original movement, these attitudes were whitewashed as "apathy" by other folks (taking the place of the condemning of the immorality of the original movement in general - free love, sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, etc) to supress the fact that neo-hippies' liberal attitudes were a shrewd contest against other conservative values. But the hypocrisy was too far gone by the 90s - mostly everyone was a hippie as the original term described because of the change in moral attitudes from pre 60s and 70s, directly as a cause of the hippie movement. This is because the original hippie movement was massively successful (as were other revolutions of its time) and subsequently proceeded to erode the playing field of the western world to a more liberal society in general). The assassination of John Lennon is suspect here. I'll not get into that right now. 

So what has happened? Neo-hippies are actually an opposition to the Yuppies or corporate moguls of the 80s and 90s (original hippies' children). This in turn furthered to notion of the "down on his luck" or "dirty" hippie in the 90s because the rebellion was taken to the extent of simply giving up on materials of cultural society. (Yuppies had become "the man")

Phish and jam bands have something to do with this as if Phish itself was the poster neo-hippie band. But really Phish is a poster band for the entire 60s and 70s hippie movement, not just the Grateful Dead because so many of these neo-hippies follow their recourse. Sticking it to the man had become mainstream so to speck - even though Phish was never in the media or popular. But underground is still pop music, technically. But so much more diversity has happened that everything has been forced into outrageous categories. Hip hop comes to mind around this time because it was in the same category - state dissent. Unfortunately now it's so diverse and blurred that a new revolution is coming. That's another thread.

I'm going to see Phish's last concert ever on August 14 and 15 in Vermont, their home state. It's a camping festival. Nothing bad will happen there but there will be over 80 000 people. I wonder what would happen if 80 000 people got together for a Metallica camp out. Nothing bad, probably.

But the Rasta's are the serious dreadlock masters.



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Posted By: bassguy35
Date Posted: August 01 2004 at 17:38

nope i'd have to say that i'm not a hippi, and i have never been one



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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: August 01 2004 at 22:45

Easy Livin:

Actually, I'm not sure that many of us would have known what the word "parameters" meant!...

Peace (and love and light and beauty and truth and...)



Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 02 2004 at 03:34
Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

A Wavy Gravy Nipple Slip..... 


 




But who can identify the guy in the photo she's holding??

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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 02 2004 at 03:36
Originally posted by dude dude wrote:

YEAH MAN...ITS LIKE....YOU KNOW...ITS ALL REAL!......LIKE...I FEEL ONE WITH THE EARTH AND THE UNIVERSE MAN........AND THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS...............................ESPECIALLY THE PLANTS!!....SOME ARE COOL MAN....THEY MAKE YOU FEEL...LIKE YOU KNOW........ONE   WITH EVERYTHING....THE WAY THEY MAKE YOU FEEL.......ITS LIKE...ITS ALL REAL MAN!!...........AND I LOVE EVERYONE MAN.....AS OFTEN AS I CAN TO ........BECAUSE....LOVE,YEAH ITS WHERE ITS AT MAN...AND PEACE,.....YEAH IM ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR A PIECE MAN...CAUSE ITS ALL REAL....THATS WHY I GET LIKE THIS MAN ....TO GET RAEL...AND TO BE ONE WITH THE PLANTS MAN ESPECIALLY THE MUSHROOMS MAN THEY REALLY SPAEK TO ME MAN!!!


"WE LOVE YOU"THEY SAY....ITS ....OH WOW!!!....ITS ALL SO RAEL THAT SOMETIMES IT GETS REAL HEAVY MAN AND I FREAK OUT AT THE REALITY OF IT ALL MAN AND THEN MY FRIENDS HAVE TO GET LIKE....MEDICAL HELP MAN....AND I SPEND DAYS....COMING DOWN MAN ITS LIKE........TOTALLY ZEN MAN..........


YOU ARE I AND I AM YOU,ZERO THE HERO,ITS LIKE TOTALLY RIGHT MAN, I CAN DIG IT....I DONT KNOW WHAT IT MEANS BUT ITS TRUE AND VIBRATES WITH COSMIC HARMONY MAN!!!!!!!!


PEACE BROTHERS(AND SISTERS....SORRY)


OH MAN!!!... I GOT THE MUNCHIES NOW BUT THIS CHAIR IS SO COMFY....WHAT A HASTLE MAN ,IT MEANS I HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION AND THAT IS LIKE...NOT COOL



Here we see the classic mistake - a young man confusing the words 'hippy' and 'sad git'

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Posted By: dude
Date Posted: August 02 2004 at 10:12

 

oh wow man!!...just let me finish my peanut butter and everything toasted sandwich before i respond!!!

 

HEAVY MAN!!!!! I DONT REMEMBER GETTING TO STONEHENGE!!!!!



Posted By: progchain
Date Posted: August 02 2004 at 17:27
I've just listened to Mad River first album, am I hippie?


Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: August 02 2004 at 18:35
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

A Wavy Gravy Nipple Slip..... 



But who can identify the guy in the photo she's holding??

Isn't that a picture of Wavy Gravy holding a picture of Wavy Gravy?



Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: August 23 2004 at 12:16
I  had Peter Frampton hair when I was in High school.


Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 04:16

For a brief while I was the lamer, tamer early 90s version (long-haired, tie-dyed, stoner who burnt incense listened to Beatles, Hendrix, Doors, San Fran scene and Early English psych (some of who like Traffic, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum and Moody Blues evolved into prog bands) ... protested the Bush war in Iraq (this was the 1991 version) ... and became vegetarian ...

I believe they called us Deadheads ...



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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 05:02
my parents were hippies. that includes everything, from "sweet smoke" to "love-ins". they were both 18 when I was born in Dec 68 and lived in the center of the movement. by the age of 3 I had seen more sex-orgies than most people will ever see in their whole lives. I definitely had a weird and educating childhood

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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 05:06
Originally posted by Trotsky Trotsky wrote:

For a brief while I was the lamer, tamer early 90s version (long-haired, tie-dyed, stoner who burnt incense listened to Beatles, Hendrix, Doors, San Fran scene and Early English psych (some of who like Traffic, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum and Moody Blues evolved into prog bands) ... protested the Bush war in Iraq (this was the 1991 version) ... and became vegetarian ...

I believe they called us Deadheads ...

I hold much sympathy for the original hippies who changed the world more than they are actually credited for! Most gave up in the mid-70's , because they had not seen many direct changes, but in the long run , the summer of love had lasting effects on our society (not all good) but if it had not happened , I would hate this world.

The whole ecology awareness  and the extended freedom we enjoy are direct consequences of that "upheaval".



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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 15:56
I'm not and not planning to be

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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 18:35
Nahhh...as a teenager in the 80's I was a total metalhead,the only thing I had in common with hippies back then was a love of good bud.

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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 18:44
Not within the parameters outline by Maani (born too late) but I've always had a hippyish outlook and have lived the lifestyle. Either that, or I was a slacker about 10 years before everybody else.

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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 19:15
I'm 50% hippy, 40% geek and 10% fop.


Posted By: floydaholic
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 20:24
My hair is hippiesh and my lazy lifestyle as well.

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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: August 29 2005 at 21:46

No.

My parted hair and polo shirts give me away.

 



Posted By: daghrastubfari
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 14:05
No, not really


Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 16:21
umm all I got is... my hair, laziness, love of nature, weed, mush, meditation, astral travels, seeing auras.. sooo I dunno.


Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 18:48

i feel the way that the world is being treated is unfairly with pollution and other things like it, i hate the way goverments run countries like U.S, and i had long hair(has been short for a week), and get called hippie all the time but ive never taken drugs which is considered a big part of being a hippie so after all that i dont know whether to call myself a hippie or not (if you dont count geographical or age rules)



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Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 19:58
Well they had the right idea - love. Except they brought alot of crap along with it. 

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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 20:03

Used to smoke, do drugs and alcohol, but not anymore, so the answer is:

NO!



Posted By: Mr. Krinkle
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 23:24
I dont know. all my friends call me a hippy, but i know on the end it just dosent mean anything. I think hippies are (or were) really cool though.


Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 21:51
Sadly, some of my colleagues have called me a hippy. So what, I have long hair and a tie-dye shirt (which is really a Jethro Tull shirt that just so happens to be tie-dye. But they're not happy colors I tell you! Not at all!). I think modern-day hippies are really useless. Nowadays, the only cause they serve is giving people something to laugh at.

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Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 19:13
You mean like John Anderson, no I never was and never will be.

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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 30 2005 at 19:45
Originally posted by emdiar emdiar wrote:

Maybe so, as:

I like a toke, and a lot of psych-prog. (HW, Gong, etc.)

I loved a good festival, ('Henge, Reading, Glast. etc., back in the day.)

My hair has been right down my back since I was 13, I'm 37 and have no plans to visit a barber any time soon.

BUT.......

I cringe as soon as anyone starts waffling on about leylines and auras and all that bollox. A scientific background has robbed me of the ability to stand by silently  whilst dopey wierdy-beardy tree huggers wax lyrical on subjects of which they are completely ignorant, and then endeavour to verify their gibberish by way of glib new age bumper sticker slogans, and vague eastern quasi-religious rhetoric.

You'll always get a nice cuppa tea at my house! Jasmine passion flower melon flavour my arse! PG Tips mate, milk and two sugars, NO, not bloody biological unbleached cane sugar, the Tate and Lyle granulated white stuff! What are ya, some kind of hippy or summat?? 

Peace man!

MDR

In any case, Em, at 37 you're far too young to have been a real hippy, as am I at 45.

The true hippy era was the late 60s ("summer of love," Vietnam war, etc). You would have been a toddler then, and I a mere boy.

The real hippies are in their late fifties to sixties (and older) now. Let's say you were a 22 year-old San Fran university student in 1967 for the Summer of Love -- you'd be 60 years old now.

If you were 24 at Woodstock in 69 (the year the dream was all to come crashing down), you'd also be 60 now.

I saw some of the hippy era as a boy, but by the time I was a teen, only the drugs and some of the fashions were left. The radical idealism was largely gone. Disco and coke were the popular American music and drug of my teens -- not hashish and Hendrix. (Though I rejected the former for the latter.)Wink

The idealistic political activism, etc, was gone. Altamont (that disasterous Stones concert with 4 killed in 1969) is widely seen as the end of the hippy era. Rock music couldn't change the world, and youth were not united in any case.

John and Yoko were hippies. If still alive, Lennon would be 65 now. I turned seven the year Sgt. Pepper's came out -- you weren't even a gleam in your daddy's eye.Wink

Some of us were the kids, or even the kid brothers of hippies, but precious few of us here are old enough to qualify for real hippy status.Smile

"Hippy" implies more than the trappings that remained in the 70s (clothes, music, and drugs) -- it was a certain (earlier) era, and mindset, that was before the time of the vast majority of Prog Archives forum members.  

I can accept a teen, twenty, thirty, or forty year-old saying he is somewhat "hippy-ish," but they can't truthfully claim to be "hippies." Who here is old enough to have fought in Vietnam, or to have fought the draft?

Lots of hippy "wannabes' here, but could the 15 sixty year-olds please identify themselves?Stern Smile



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Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 06 2005 at 21:13
Nah...

And the whole "New Age" movement sucks as well.


Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 01:03
no.

hippies annoy me because they don't bathe.

take a goddamn shower.





...just kidding, some hippies are ok.


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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 01:05

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

no.

hippies annoy me because they don't bathe.

take a goddamn shower.





...just kidding, some hippies are ok.

not showering is more of a punk thing



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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 09:50
I would reply by quoting steve Hillage (Green) lyrics:

"Unidentified
Don't put no label on me
Unidentified
Don't try to block my energy
Unidentified
May i remain a mystery
Unidentified
So my spirit can be free
Unidentified
Like the saucers in the sky"




Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 10:28
Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

no.

hippies annoy me because they don't bathe.

take a goddamn shower.





...just kidding, some hippies are ok.

not showering is more of a punk thing



that too, but hippies don't shower because it would mess up their dreadlocks.

but at least hippies have the decency to cover up the smell with incense or weed smoke.


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Posted By: castrovania
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 21:35
I've been called a hippie before on account of the lazyness, the long greasy dreadlike hair, and the fact that i skip a lot of showers, but i wouldnt call myself a hippie just lazy.


Posted By: Pr@gmatic
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 22:04
I actually think love and peace are alright, of course.

Lazyness and weed-smoking I can tolerate.

But, please... no esoteric mumbo-jumbo!!!


Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: October 07 2005 at 22:04
Originally posted by castrovania castrovania wrote:

I've been called a hippie before on account of the lazyness, the long greasy dreadlike hair, and the fact that i skip a lot of showers, but i wouldnt call myself a hippie just lazy.


You're a hippie in denial.

before you know it you'll be in the park playing frisbee.

or hackysack.

just you wait.


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Posted By: Bones Rasta
Date Posted: November 06 2005 at 22:07
i smoke marijuana, i have dreadlocks, and i have a beard. but im not  a hippie. im a rastafarian. and i very very very much dislike most 'hippies' but not necessarily those that practice a bohemian lifestyle

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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: November 06 2005 at 22:12
No... mostly because I don't smoke weed . I do, however, have long hair, believe in peace and love, hug dozens of people on a daily basis, and have been known to enjoy playing both frisbee and hackysack (side note: the sport is actually called "footbag," hackysack is just a brand name), so who knows.

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Posted By: zabriskiepoint
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 15:32
i'm a commie, not a hippie.


Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 08 2005 at 16:22
I like the whole peace and love thing, but drugs really   you up. Just look at Syd and Bryan Wilson.

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Posted By: Hendrix828
Date Posted: December 01 2005 at 00:54
If you're under the age of 52,you were never/or ever will be hippie


Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: December 01 2005 at 03:05
I'm too young (it's been a long time since I could say that applied to something...)

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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: December 01 2005 at 04:03
Originally posted by Chipiron Chipiron wrote:

I'm too young (it's been a long time since I could say that applied to something...)

Me too!



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