Dino Valenti of the Quicksilver Messenger Service wrote the song, but The Youngbloods made it famous in 1967.
I like the '60's era celebrity footage equally cut with "normal" people footage. I think I spied Sixty Grit with Carol_Herman.
Speaking of hippies, did you know that this summer marks the 50th anniversary of Ken Kesey's 1964 west-to-east Merry Pranksters road trip?
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This song is number 16 on my top 25 most played iTunes list.
This song makes me sad.
For on its first guitar notes I am transported to a distant time, a remote and melancholy place long gone, a more innocent period, less complicated but no less uncertain and with a whole life ahead.
Hunter S. Thompson wrote that 1965 was the best year to be a hippie. Can you image the scene a year earlier?
I'm surprised that very little of this made it into "Mad Men" -- even obliquely. Maybe that's why its ratings have dropped.
I spent most of 1964 tucked away in my mothers womb.
I don't remember a thing.
Well, I cant really say I was tucked away, w/o resorting to an unseen hand, which would be in keeping with my caring pose.
I was enwombed in 1959 and emerged in the spring of 1960. I remember in 1964 and seeing hippies in Madison. Some friends of my parents asked them to try LSD when it was still legal.
I thought it was early 70's.
This year is my 50th high school reunion.
Insipid song that has just gotten more cloying and annoying with the passage of time.
Woodstock was nearly 45 years ago - almost as long ago as Benghazi, but not quite as long ago as when the Constitution was written.
I was in that clip - I am the guy with the beard and long hair. But that was no lady, that was my wife.
Furthur was there, too. I saw it. I had read TEK-AAT the previous fall when I was living in Woodstock and I thought those West Coast types were kind of out there, you know what I mean? But the bus was cool.
Later I moved out there and found out that they were. Out there. Devil's Slide beach was interesting, that's for sure.
@Sixty: Were you the guy quaffing the Schaeffer beer at around 3 min, 18 sec?
I consumed no intoxicants or intoxicans while in attendence, so no, that was not me.
Wait, does the brown acid count?
Kidding!
Hunter S. Thompson wrote that 1965 was the best year to be a hippie.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that in 1965 Thompson was writing an article on the Hells Angels for The Nation magazine - which would turn into a famous, overrated book.
Since he got beat up pretty good by the Angels, the hippies might have been looking a lot better to him in the moment.
Since he got beat up pretty good by the Angels, the hippies might have been looking a lot better to him in the moment.
That may have contributed to his "Sonny" disposition.
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