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Hit song summer of 69 (Original Post) randr Aug 2019 OP
AHhhhh Ohiogal Aug 2019 #1
Yes, I was only ten but it hit the spot. nt Laffy Kat Aug 2019 #2
Me too, always will be. MuseRider Aug 2019 #26
Love the shots of the Haight, man ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #3
I was a smidge too young for the "summer of love" lapfog_1 Aug 2019 #4
Heard this on the closing of the Woodstock special on PBS randr Aug 2019 #5
Summer of 69 OxQQme Aug 2019 #6
That's what I was thinking! Video Drone Aug 2019 #7
50 years on. Loge23 Aug 2019 #8
I am sorry you feel that way randr Aug 2019 #11
Yes!!! wolfie001 Aug 2019 #18
Oh my gosh... N_E_1 for Tennis Aug 2019 #21
You were not crazy randr Aug 2019 #22
+1000 llmart Aug 2019 #23
We passed the mantle to the Yuppies JohnnyRingo Aug 2019 #17
Being that Americans have such poor randr Aug 2019 #20
They got old....aging changes people...always has,always will. virgogal Aug 2019 #32
I was a wee one about to start 3rd grade that fall but here are what I remember then BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #9
Sly played at Woodstock randr Aug 2019 #10
He actually showed up? BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #14
He was a paranoid junkie. He was either too high or too scared. alfredo Aug 2019 #24
I guess that was in contrast to BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #25
Miles Davis was so high he'd puke onstage. Santana alfredo Aug 2019 #29
At least they made the effort BumRushDaShow Aug 2019 #30
Davis was a mess, but then he got clean. alfredo Aug 2019 #33
Dang. safeinOhio Aug 2019 #12
Making you 120? randr Aug 2019 #13
Much Beautiful Music Roy Rolling Aug 2019 #15
I was lucky, I was stuck in East Africa on top of a volcano. alfredo Aug 2019 #27
I spotted that guy who invented those inflatables outside gas stations JohnnyRingo Aug 2019 #16
He's now executive director of the Joffrey Ballet alfredo Aug 2019 #31
Wow! Great tune from a painful to remember time. aka-chmeee Aug 2019 #19
Beautiful song Perseus Aug 2019 #28
It took a while to get some music where I lived. alfredo Aug 2019 #34

MuseRider

(34,057 posts)
26. Me too, always will be.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 03:34 PM
Aug 2019

I have started thinking that since I am officially old now I am going to start dressing more freely. Like back then. Colors and floppy hats, flowing clothes and comfort. Nobody gives a crap what you do when you are 65 so....why not. I miss those days. Ever since Reagan it has just gotten harder and duller and I do not mean to die feeling like I was pulling a heavy weight against the grain. It will be light and against the grain!

https://vimeo.com/27021232?ref=fb-share

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. Love the shots of the Haight, man ...
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 12:20 PM
Aug 2019

Haven't been there in like 3 months ... jonesin' for some Cha Cha Cha ...

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
4. I was a smidge too young for the "summer of love"
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 12:22 PM
Aug 2019

but I really liked the music of the era.

Unfortunately, we never did "get it together"

randr

(12,408 posts)
5. Heard this on the closing of the Woodstock special on PBS
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 12:31 PM
Aug 2019

I would recommend it highly!
You can find it on Amazon or if you have the free PBS app for your phone it will stream.
Brought back so many feelings I am still spinning.
And by the way many of us did get it together. We have made a number of small communities much better over the years and still are working on it. All you need it to start in your own world and go from there.
Volunteer for anything and see what happens.
On edit: America will only heal one neighborhood at a time.

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
8. 50 years on.
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 01:56 PM
Aug 2019

The anniversary this week really brought home the utter failure of this generation to sustain any meaningful change - and I'm a member of "this generation".
Nowadays, it seems that most of the boomers are over-medicated, over-weight, and just basically over the proverbial hill.
WTF happened to us? There was a time when at least 90% of the similarly-aged people I knew shared a progressive political stance and were knowledgeable about their health and the health of the planet. Now, it's more like 10%-20%, although I do concentrate of the few like-minded ones.
Even one of our white old friends from work, who went to Woodstock and still thinks of herself as a "hippie" (yeah, you should see her), is now an enabler of the fascist party. I think her sons, one a cop and the other a fireman, have influenced her with their "they're all skells" racist bullshit.
Maybe not where you live hopefully, but here in Florida, it's full of the type of boomers that I used to avoid knowing.

An anecdote: Several years ago, the local restored theater put on a benefit featuring a few of the old classic acts - remnants of the Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Dead, and Country Joe were all in fine form - most of whom have passed now. During Country Joe's set, he had the audacity - as he always did - to dish on the then-current regime, the W disaster. Some yokel from the balcony screamed at him to "shut up and play". Country Joe full stopped and stared up at the offender and asked him point blank if he was a veteran. The jerk didn't answer, but Country Joe lit in to him anyway by identifying himself as a Navy vet who "served this country and I'll say whatever the fuck I want to!" There was applause of course, but it wasn't unanimous.



randr

(12,408 posts)
11. I am sorry you feel that way
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 03:24 PM
Aug 2019

I could list so many things that are better due to our generation; better food, air, water, health are a few. The music lives on.
If we made a major mistake, and we made plenty, it was not taking the frightful hateful right wing seriously. From Reagan on they out manuvered us. They gained control of our school districts to start with in the 70s and the misinformed population we now have is a result.
My call on the whole thing is that what worked at Woodstock will work today.
To my dying day they will have to take my love beads from my clenched fists
...

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,593 posts)
21. Oh my gosh...
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 07:41 AM
Aug 2019

You see it too! They grabbed our schools and immediately started dumbing down people. I noticed it with my kids...10 years between first and last...educational system in free fall. A dumbed down population is easier to control...don’t need history...it may give them ideas...science?...no they could figure it out...arts?...make television sets bigger...easier to get subliminal pustules embedded into youths brains. Critical thinking? Why teach that, sounds negative. Civics? They really don’t need to know how government works.
Most people I talk to think I’m crazy.

randr

(12,408 posts)
22. You were not crazy
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 09:03 AM
Aug 2019

It was a plan from the beginning. With the civil rights act they realized they were history. The last bastions of support were in rural areas. These people had carried their racial and economic resentments from the civil war and great depression. They had been the real victims of these events. It was easy to dumb down the schools by building resentment for more educated and well to do people.

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
17. We passed the mantle to the Yuppies
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 07:49 PM
Aug 2019

It's not on us Boomers to carry on all our lives to change things. At some point the younger generations has to step up and carry the ball to the goal line. It's not our fault the next gen decided they were all going to buy a BMW and live in a mansion.

randr

(12,408 posts)
20. Being that Americans have such poor
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 10:58 PM
Aug 2019

voter turn out, any group voting with numbers above 70% would take over.

BumRushDaShow

(127,275 posts)
9. I was a wee one about to start 3rd grade that fall but here are what I remember then
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 01:59 PM
Aug 2019

(Yes crack on me because I know they're not the Woodstock "classic rock" tunes but... )

















Top 40 AM stations played these quite a bit back then (that's all we had in the car)!

alfredo

(60,065 posts)
24. He was a paranoid junkie. He was either too high or too scared.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 03:09 PM
Aug 2019

Sly and George Joes were to have dinner together, neither one showed.

George Jones was also known to skip out on his concerts, so he was known as “no show Jones.”

BumRushDaShow

(127,275 posts)
30. At least they made the effort
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 04:33 PM
Aug 2019

to show up I guess?

(let's hope someone doesn't get some idiotic idea of deporting him though )

Roy Rolling

(6,853 posts)
15. Much Beautiful Music
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 06:40 PM
Aug 2019

But almost everything else about the Summer of ‘69 sucked.

In retrospect, it looks great. But it really sucked. You had to be there.

Thank God for the music and each other.

alfredo

(60,065 posts)
27. I was lucky, I was stuck in East Africa on top of a volcano.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 03:35 PM
Aug 2019

We still got the music from Radio South Africa, and the weed from Asmara. One guy got LSD from his sister. It was liquid, so she would send a letter with a drop on one corner. We could buy speed at a local pharmacy, Khat and opium from locals.

I was so disillusioned I didn’t want to return to the US.

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
16. I spotted that guy who invented those inflatables outside gas stations
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 07:44 PM
Aug 2019

Or maybe he was the model.



Love this song, but it's the first time I've seen the video. Back then we just listened to the vinyl. Life was tough.

aka-chmeee

(1,129 posts)
19. Wow! Great tune from a painful to remember time.
Sun Aug 18, 2019, 10:06 PM
Aug 2019

Was in Dayton OH. during summer of 1969, got drafted not too long after Kent State shootings. God damned Nixon...Hell's too good a place for him.

alfredo

(60,065 posts)
34. It took a while to get some music where I lived.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 12:39 AM
Aug 2019

It took me a bit to find out about this artist and longer to get a copy. So in 1969 this was the song rocking my world



The Album “Pastel Blues” and her first Album “Little Girl Blue” are classics. I spent years trying to track down “Little Girl Blue”, it was worth the wait. Her version of “Mood Indigo” will slap you silly. When she comes in after her extended piano intro, your knees will grow weak.
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