WritLarge!

Eric wrote:

BILLY JACK! His chick was the epitome of liberalness.

I love this song.

The song was inspired by an event at the dawn of the psychedelic era in November 1966, the year during which Buffalo Springfield started playing as the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Times, annoyed residents and business owners in the district had encouraged the passage of strict (10:00 p.m.) curfew and loitering laws to reduce the traffic congestion resulting from crowds of young club patrons. This was subsequently perceived by young, local rock and roll music fans as an infringement on their civil rights, and on Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed along the Strip inviting people to demonstrate later that day.

Hours before the protest one of L.A's rock 'n' roll radio stations announced there would be a rally at Pandora's Box, a club at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights, and cautioned people to tread carefully. The Times reported that as many as 1,000 youthful demonstrators, including such celebrities as Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was afterward handcuffed by police), erupted in protest against the perceived repressive enforcement of these recently invoked curfew laws.

Though often mistaken for an anti-war song, it was this first of the "Sunset Strip riots" which inspired then Buffalo Springfield band member Stephen Stills to write "For What It’s Worth", recorded about three weeks after on December 5, 1966.

You beat me to it with "Get Up, Stand Up!"

But here's one:

Israel was large.

Did not know the story behind the Springfield song, interesting. Good music.

I must have moved toward big cigar jazz music longer ago than I thought. I'd never heard that Marley song.

Now Procol Harem sure brings back some memories. May of 1967... gosh, I thought it was older than that...

Writlarge wrote:

Israel was large.

Did not know the story behind the Springfield song, interesting.  Good music.

I must have moved toward big cigar jazz music longer ago than I thought.  I'd never heard that Marley song.

A conservative found listening to Marley would have been suspect.

Alice's Restaurant... did you see the movie?  I thought it was great fun.

It was ironic, in that I later became a health inspector and took pictures of garbage and took people to court for it.  I did that kind of stuff for 5 years, until I graduated into bigger and better sewage. 

I have mentioned it here before, but my wife and I and another couple used to pick up garbage that was dumped in the woods and return it to it's owner... scattered... late at night.

That was great fun!!!

Ok, Writ.  How about another Beatle song...

The song was written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna, while at the same time serving as a call to abandon religious sectarianism, through its deliberate blending of Hebrew "hallelujah"s with chants of "Hare Krishna" and Vedic prayer.  

The recording features co-producer Phil Spector's Wall of Sound treatment and heralded the arrival of Harrison's much-admired slide guitar technique, described by one biographer as being "musically as distinctive a signature as the mark of Zorro".

Don't know what happened, but apparently the drugs kids take today produce violence as opposed to the 60's half asleep goofy flower power, not to mention some great music.

Yep, I do like George Harrison's music. Never knew a lot of the back story on most of it...guess I figured most of it was a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of mind altering substances in some cases.

Writlarge wrote:

Yep, I do like George Harrison's music.  Never knew a lot of the back story on most of it...guess I figured most of it was a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of mind altering substances in some cases.  

Quite true. Music sounded much better on pot too.

Why was that? I dunno, but it did.

We can't forget the lib country club set...

Eric wrote:

Alice's Restaurant... did you see the movie?  I thought it was great fun.

It was ironic, in that I later became a health inspector and took pictures of garbage and took people to court for it.  I did that kind of stuff for 5 years, until I graduated into bigger and better sewage. 

Oh, yeah, I've seen Alice's Restaurant. Two or three times!

It's time for me to 'fess up to something I did 40 years ago.

I was living with a college roommate in a hippie house in the center of Athens, West Virginia. We missed the garbage pickup (as usual), so we loaded the garbage in my car and headed for the local dump. It was the middle of winter.

The dump was closed, and it was the middle of the day. Stupid dump. I took our trash, tied it up really well, and left it at the padlocked door of the dump in the middle of a snow drift.

Two days later, we had a visit from the Athens Police. They asked us if we had recently taken garbage to the dump. I swallowed hard, and admitted the deed.

They made us go pick up all that garbage, piece by piece. In the snow. An animal had scattered it during the night, so picking it up was a prolonged effort. I'm not a litterer by nature (actually, I hate it), but you can bet I have never littered so much as a kleenex since then.

When I left that neatly tied garbage, I never thought about all the bills and letters in the bags. Doh......! Them was was smart West Virginny dee-tectives.

Every time I hear "Alice's Restaurant", I laugh, just like I did this afternoon.  

Great story PB. I wish I had a few hippie house stories to tell.

OH, how I loved "Turn Around, Look at Me!"

I can't hear it without thinking of my first major crush, Robert. Trouble was, every time he turned around and looked at me, I turned away like I was insulted. We adolescent females took playing "hard to get" quite seriously back in those days!

Writlarge wrote:

Great story PB.  I wish I had a few hippie house stories to tell.  

Unfortunately, I think I have too many. I didn't grow out of hipness till I was about 25. But hey, my last group of co-workers used to call me their hippie chick, so I may not have quite grown out of it yet.  

Melissa (PB) wrote:

OH, how I loved "Turn Around, Look at Me!"

We adolescent females took playing "hard to get" quite seriously back in those days!

Really, I didn't know that.  

Melissa (PB) wrote:

Writlarge wrote:

Great story PB.  I wish I had a few hippie house stories to tell.  

Unfortunately, I think I have too many. I didn't grow out of hipness till I was about 25. But hey, my last group of co-workers used to call me their hippie chick, so I may not have quite grown out of it yet.  

So you are saying you voted for Ronald Reagan twice then?

Writlarge wrote:

Melissa (PB) wrote:

Writlarge wrote:

Great story PB.  I wish I had a few hippie house stories to tell.  

Unfortunately, I think I have too many. I didn't grow out of hipness till I was about 25. But hey, my last group of co-workers used to call me their hippie chick, so I may not have quite grown out of it yet.  

So you are saying you voted for Ronald Reagan twice then?

Heck, I can't even remember if I voted back then.

I should probably post this under the "Music" category, but I think more people will see it here.

I accidentally came across some genuine mountain folk music on Youtube this morning. Some of it gives me chills....you can hear the Irish/Celtic influence that was so prominent in mountain folk music in the nineteenth century. This is actually a playlist. I haven't come to the end of it yet.

Brings back liberal memories of living out in the mountains by myself  in West Virginia while I was going to school, so I guess it can go under the liberal heading, too.