Guys, if you had your druthers, would you druther hang out with hippie chicks, or modern day psychopaths?

[OatmealMuffin]

In retrospect, hippy chicks weren't so bad.

Me loves me some Karens! The world needs more Karens.

[Lliam]

I chose 'A'.

Hippies were my people when I was in high school in the '70s. Well... they weren't true hippies because I think the 1967 Summer of Love was the end of the true hippie movement.

But I hung out with hippies, surfers and rockers. They were free-spirited and fun. They had long hair and wore hippie-ish clothes. But the girls weren't back to nature types. They shaved their legs and underarms. They were clean. They were sexually liberated but not into the hedonistic "free love" idea.

Yeah, I had long hair and brought my guitar everywhere. People would sit in circles on the grass, pass doobies, and sing songs.

I loved their values. They believed in things like peace, love, tolerance, open mindedness, liberty, freedom, justice, and equal rights. They distrusted authority and opposed war. Those are still my values. Quite the opposite of modern "woke" liberalism.

[OatmealMuffin]

Lliam, If you were on a college campus and gave a talk about what you just said, you'd need a Kevlar vest and heavily armed marine platoon to guard you. Love and tolerance? What the fuck? What about pronouns?

[Lliam]

No shit. LOL

[OatmealMuffin]

The woke will never admit what monsters they've become.

[Lliam]

They're self righteous pricks.

[OatmealMuffin]

Amen

[FunkyMonkee]

Aaah!! THOSE were the days!! Back when people actually gave a shit! Today, people just TALK shit!!
I always WANTED long hair and I took my drums everywhere! I FINALLY GOT long hair about 35 years ago!
And, the music of the late `60's was the best that's ever been!! I have a HUGE collection of it!! I had NO IDEA, back then, that there was SO MUCH great psych out there!!! Thanks, mostly, to radio who refused to play most of it!! I've got at least 185 hours worth of it, so far!!

[Lliam]

@FunkyMonkee. I hear you, bro. 60s folk introduced meaningful lyrics that carried over to what was to come. I loved psychedelic rock and progressive rock. Talk about creative! That shit changed music forever. It even led to hard rock and heavy metal.

I saw hundreds of bands during the 70s. The second concert I ever went to was Black Sabbath opening for Grand Funk Railroad in 1970. I saw bands like Yes and Heart when they were openers.

And, like you, I have many dozens of albums from back then.

Hendrix is by far my favorite. I liked Jethro Tull a lot. I still revere their Benefit and Aqualung albums in particular.
And, of course, Led Zep.
Have you ever heard of Uriah Heep? Their first 5 or so albums are wonderful.
Lastly, the first Captain Beyond album is fantastic and has held the test of time. It never gets old.
I still have that album with the 3D image.



It was a great time.

[FunkyMonkee]

I've been building a psych compilation for a number of years and am working on the 22nd Cd in the series at the moment and hope to at least start the 23rd by next week. I call it, "The Enpsychlopedia Or: Dr. Leary, Your Prescription Is Ready." By the time I'm done with it, it'll be at least 130 CD s long!
Psych IS THE most creative music ever made!!
I've been to at least 100 concerts!! Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson (I ran lights for Adrian Belew once!) Todd Rundgren, Rush, Devo, Laurie Anderson, Tony Levin, Fishbone, Ringo Starr, Cheap Trick, Angel, Kiss, AC/DC, and loads of others!!
Dozens? THOUSANDS!! Over 4000 albums, a grand total of over 62,000 records dating back to at least 120 years!!
Yes, I've got several older Uriah Heep albums. We (my band) used to do, "Stealin'".
I kept trying to get them to do "Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air) but Bob, my singer, was the only one that knew it. I've got all 3 Captain Beyond albums including the one with the 3D cover
Have you ever heard of Scaffold? They had a member that called himself, Mike McGear, he's Paul
McCartney's brother. This song features a really cool sitar solo played by (are you ready?) Jimi Hendrix! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAlUphJFSMM
This album was produced by Jimi and, most likely, features him on guitar. https://youtu.be/0O-PyBQOwKk
Despite the war and killing of leaders, the `60's were THE BEST time!! In the past 40 years, I've run into a number of kids that say they wish they lived through the `60's!!

[OatmealMuffin]

@FunkyMonkee
@Lliam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WiyxXpyZc

I just wanna go on a magic carpet ride!

[FunkyMonkee]

That's mostly why I decided to create The Enpsychlopedia! I bought at least 50 compilation albums in the past 20 or 30 years that are SUPPOSED to be loaded with osych and, as far as I'm concerned, each one only has between 1 and 5 good psych tracks on it!! A few don't have any at all!! Most of the rest of the stuff on those comps was either pop, garage or just straight ahead rock!! Not that I hate any of that it's just that, if I'm looking for psych, I was PSYCH!! The stuff that makes you see things BEFORE you take the drugs!! If I wanted garage, I'd BUY garage!! I want songs that use mellotrons, backwards tapes, wild stereo panning, sitar, tabla, tape manipulation, phase shifters set on stun, stuff like this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-4sfOMh8s
https://youtu.be/j20zHA7VaSU
www.youtube.com/watch
(The woman that did the electronics on this album, Delia Derbyshire (who just died a couple years ago) create the original, "Dr. Who" theme song.)

[Lliam]

@FunkyMonkee. Wow. You're a true audiophile. I'm super impressed.

[FunkyMonkee]

Thank you! I've been collecting records since I was two.

[Lliam]

@FunkyMonkee. My maternal grandfather loved music and had an eclectic collection of 45s and LPs. He introduced me to a lot of stuff when I was young. Aside from the dozens of albums that I, myself, bought back in the day, I have a box or two of his records.
One of my uncles gave me a whole bunch of his 45s when I was maybe 9 years old. One of those that I loved and still do is Hot Rod Lincoln by Johnny Bond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7Zx5MOoQw

[FunkyMonkee]

Dad had a stack of 78's and one my faves in that stack, among many, was also by Johnny Bond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TUW3_ppwM
If ever you don't want those records, I'll take `em! Maybe you can at least help me get some info off of some of them. That Bond record looks like it just MIGHT have info I'm looking for!

[FunkyMonkee]

Nope, looks like I already got the info from that one. False alarm.
https://www.45cat.com/record/nc365003us

[Lliam]

@FunkyMonkee. There are other covers of that song, but the one I posted is by far my favorite.

Another song from my uncle's collection that I love is Little Darlin' by the Diamonds. It totally cracks me up.

[FunkyMonkee]

That was one of the first 78's I ever bought. I got it back in the early `80's along with "I'm Walkin'" by Fats Domino.

[MrOracle]

I've known a couple of different (relatively) modern-day hippy chicks (in the late 90s and early 2000s), and while they were a little bit out there, they were mostly fine and were not a problem to be around.

I cannot stand a Karen - and my own godmother is very much a Karen at times, and I've been pretty direct to her that her behavior is unacceptable. My older sister can also be a Karen, but is mostly just an all-around bitch. The point is, I know that type quite well, and I can't stand them. There are male Karens too (Kyles), but thankfully not nearly as many, because I can't stand them either.

[exitseven]

As much as I didn't like hippies back in the day I still would pick them over the crazies.

[OatmealMuffin]

That's just cray cray!
I was thinking about asking a question about Jamie Lee Curtis assigning "they/them" pronouns to her oscar, but I didn't think it would bode well on a site full of cray cray.

I really like my refrigerator, because them keep my stuff cold.

[FunkyMonkee]

Hippy chicks!! MY people!

[OatmealMuffin]

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Give me a hippie. Sex, drugs, rock n roll.

[OatmealMuffin]

It sure beats the modern leftists.

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Hell yeah.

[Jerre]

I went with A, no Karen’s in my life.

[OatmealMuffin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXNVA9ngx8

The woke frighten me more than Vlad Putin and Xi combined.