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I guess Im still a hippie at heart ...
Laffy Kat
(16,354 posts)MuseRider
(34,057 posts)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!
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mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Haven't been there in like 3 months ... jonesin' for some Cha Cha Cha ...
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)but I really liked the music of the era.
Unfortunately, we never did "get it together"
randr
(12,408 posts)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.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Video Drone
(75 posts)Loge23
(3,922 posts)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)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
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Amen!! It's always a fight! Everyday! Never surrender to those fuckheads! Peace to you!!!
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)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...dont 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 dont need to know how government works.
Most people I talk to think Im crazy.
randr
(12,408 posts)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)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)voter turn out, any group voting with numbers above 70% would take over.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,275 posts)(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)!
randr
(12,408 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,275 posts)alfredo
(60,065 posts)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)Chaka Khan who would show up late to concerts high as a jaybird!
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Santana was tripping on LSD at Woodstock.
https://101kgb.iheart.com/content/carlos-santana-lsd-drugs-woodstock/
BumRushDaShow
(127,275 posts)to show up I guess?
(let's hope someone doesn't get some idiotic idea of deporting him though )
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Carlos eventually came down. Where I dont know.
safeinOhio
(32,527 posts)If I was my age now in 1969, I would have been born in 1899.
Man that sucks.
randr
(12,408 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)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)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 didnt want to return to the US.
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)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.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)aka-chmeee
(1,129 posts)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.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Thank you
alfredo
(60,065 posts)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.