I WISH IT WAS THE 70s damnit

[helzie]

i wish it was the 60s/70s!

I'd follow all the fucking rockin bands....

[lace_and_feet]

When I saw the heading, I somehow knew that the poster wasn't actually someone who had lived in the 70's.

[olhippie54]

Just as long as there is no disco.



"Death Before Disco!!!"

[arlia]

people say i was born in the wrong time really.....
iv never fit in2 my generation?????
and i still think robert plant is sexy,even though his gettin on a bit now
*cries*

[RetroGroove_Grrl]

I hear ya sista!

and yes, no disco ... disco = bad

but I think it would be better if it was 1968, because thats when it was really good, people started to loose their way in the 70s :(

[JanaXGIRL]

oh hey, my favorite phrase is "I wish I was born in the 50's to be able to go with Hippies in the 60's.." :)

[arlia]

genius idea,i like it

[MattInVegas]

The 70's were a BLAST! Except for '76' and '79' for me personally.
I'd do it all again the same way!

[GuySmiley]

I was born in '72, so my memories of the 70's are fleeting. I do know that the politically correct generation of today would NOT like the politically incorrect tone's of the 70's, although I do remember the general vibe as being WAAAAAAAYYYY more laid back than today. There are good and bad thing's about the 70's, just like with any decade.

[Hari]

My favorite year besides 67 and 69 will always be 1978. It was the end of the sixites and I returned to my family in Boston from NYC for a year to later go on another 9 year escape from the mundane, yet the mudane was pretty groovy for that year.
After that I explored the west coast and actually living on the road lilke Bobby Mc Gee.

[GuySmiley]

I live very close to Boston, South Shore......about 10 min's south of Boston.

[Goddess Om]

The 70's? Ok if you like bad shoes, bad hair, bad fashion, bad jewellery. Ok if you like silver metallic jumpsuits, platform soles, social stereotyping, and the tightest of tight jeans ...hey, maybe that's why so many of them sang in falsetto?

[MusicMan19]

The 70's? Ok if you like bad shoes, bad hair, bad fashion, bad jewellery. Ok if you like silver metallic jumpsuits, platform soles, social stereotyping, and the tightest of tight jeans ...hey, maybe that's why so many of them sang in falsetto? Well, that's all subjective, I guess. I love the long hair, the tight jeans/cords, the overdriven rock music (that has really died, I think we can admit that,... the Strokes aren't Led Zeppelin or the Stones), and the hemp and silver cholmac jewelry. The social stereotyping I'm not certain about, but the silver-jump suits and platform shoes were disco, and while they were in the seventies, it would be fairly easy to avoid them. I'm assuming it's about as easy for a hippie/rocker in today's world to avoid the "urban" guys as it was for the hippies and rockers to avoid the disco fans in the '70s, - that is pretty easy.

I wasn't part of the seventies, so I can't speak from experience, but as far as I can tell they were better and our generation and the '90s just went to hell. This is subjective, but I'd say that emotion and depth are just simply missing from the music and the people of Gen. Y. Which rocker or hippie in his or her right mind would want to be part of something like this? If you're into rap, or the violent, talentless, 'staight-edge' hardcore scene (ala Boston and New York) then this generation's world is your oyster, but beyond that, your pretty fucked. I find it pretty funny, also, that people say Marijuana makes you violent and decadent, and then you have this whole 'straight' scene that's simply beating the fuck out of each other for no reason. Let's compare Woodstock 1969 to any of the underground Boston shows. It's just messed up. They'll beat the hell out of you for simply wearing a tye-dye t-shirt. The "Boston Beatdown" videos are sick. What's sicker still is the rate at which these videos are purchased.

1990s/2000s = Rock music is dead, but the two genres that encourage violence are the two most popular genres of our generation. Long hair is 'out', and doo-rags are 'in',... "my beautiful girl" is 'out' and "ma hoe" is 'in', peace and love is 'out' and "kill dat mothafucka and his family" is in. The only thing I love about these days is the incredible technology. I think I could very easily give this up for being part of a better, more creative, more mellow, more accepting generation.

[RetroGroove_Grrl]

that ... was beautiful

[MusicMan19]

haha, thank you. I wasn't going for beautiful, and that's just my stupid opinion, but thanks anyway. I'd like to go in a time machine to the seventies. I guess until then Humboldt county will have to do!

[arlia]

wowwwwiiiiies! waynes world!

heheheh!
i love waynes world!

[sonik]

meh Id like to be about 15 in 1955. great cars and then you would get to live through all the original rock n roll plus experience the best era of music ever 1965-75 imo.

http://marriottschool.byu.edu/teacher/mba_cs/ppt/Ringo.gif

[seamonster66]

If people keep thinking thoughts like "rock is dead" then it really will be...

Anyway, yea the 70's, I remember listening to T Rex and Bowie in my crib as a newborn baby in 1972...I would always put on black eyeliner and silver eyeshadow and my mom would always get upset and call me effeminate. I wasn't into the hippy scene really, I preferred the showmanship of glam rock...not to mention the gender bending aspects.

luckily, since i was age 2 at the end of the Vietnam war, I did not have to go.

As the 70's wore on, I began to wear the tacky plaid pants that were the rage in my kindergarten class...they matched my sparkly red Schwinn bike, which I rode to the pinball arcade.

EDIT: I finally found a pic of me from the 70's!!!!

[RetroGroove_Grrl]

mmmm marc bolan :)

[sonik]

his lyrics made no sense but how can you not like T.Rex?

even tyranesauros rex had its moments, and johns children was brilliant if not half cocked.

[Doors_67]

ur not alone, i wish it was the 60's or 70's too, i dont care which one as long as i make it to the 80's.

[seamonster66]

I don't know about T Rexs songs making no sense, Marc Bolan wrote these lyrics and they ring true to this day.

O Girl
Electric witch you are
Limp in society's ditch you are
Visually fine
Oh yes you are
But mentally dying

O boy
Just like a boat you are
Sunk but somehow you float you are
Mentally weak
But so much you speak

[MusicMan19]

If people keep thinking thoughts like "rock is dead" then it really will be...

Anyway, yea the 70's, I remember listening to T Rex and Bowie in my crib as a newborn baby in 1972

Are you part of the new garage rock scene? It's coming back slowly, but it's really lame right now. I don't think rock is truely dead, or will ever truely die, but it really got thin for a while, and is still thin. People like White Stripes and the Strokes are the retro-revival scene, which is fine, I don't like their music, but their making steps in the right direction.

You know, your brain is not developed enough to have memories beyond age 3 years old. Are you sure these crib things weren't acid trip flashbacks? lol

[RetroGroove_Grrl]

I think the garage revival has just about finished... unfortunately :(

[GuySmiley]

Well, that's all subjective, I guess. I love the long hair, the tight jeans/cords, the overdriven rock music (that has really died, I think we can admit that,... the Strokes aren't Led Zeppelin or the Stones), and the hemp and silver cholmac jewelry. The social stereotyping I'm not certain about, but the silver-jump suits and platform shoes were disco, and while they were in the seventies, it would be fairly easy to avoid them. I'm assuming it's about as easy for a hippie/rocker in today's world to avoid the "urban" guys as it was for the hippies and rockers to avoid the disco fans in the '70s, - that is pretty easy.

I wasn't part of the seventies, so I can't speak from experience, but as far as I can tell they were better and our generation and the '90s just went to hell. This is subjective, but I'd say that emotion and depth are just simply missing from the music and the people of Gen. Y. Which rocker or hippie in his or her right mind would want to be part of something like this? If you're into rap, or the violent, talentless, 'staight-edge' hardcore scene (ala Boston and New York) then this generation's world is your oyster, but beyond that, your pretty fucked. I find it pretty funny, also, that people say Marijuana makes you violent and decadent, and then you have this whole 'straight' scene that's simply beating the fuck out of each other for no reason. Let's compare Woodstock 1969 to any of the underground Boston shows. It's just messed up. They'll beat the hell out of you for simply wearing a tye-dye t-shirt. The "Boston Beatdown" videos are sick. What's sicker still is the rate at which these videos are purchased.

1990s/2000s = Rock music is dead, but the two genres that encourage violence are the two most popular genres of our generation. Long hair is 'out', and doo-rags are 'in',... "my beautiful girl" is 'out' and "ma hoe" is 'in', peace and love is 'out' and "kill dat mothafucka and his family" is in. The only thing I love about these days is the incredible technology. I think I could very easily give this up for being part of a better, more creative, more mellow, more accepting generation.
I feel where you are coming from and you make many good point's. Just remember that there was JUST as much violence, if not more, amongst American's back then...just not as publicized. The early 70's were very violent, Veitnam was reaching it's boiling point...i.e... KENT STATE. Thing's were much less politically correct back then, this gives the false view of a more peaceful time. People were still fighting for the right to vote in the 70's. The music was a shitload better back then, but America was still pretty pissed.

[GuySmiley]

You know, your brain is not developed enough to have memories beyond age 3 years old. Are you sure these crib things weren't acid trip flashbacks? lol
Don't you mean BEFORE the age of 3? Hehehehehehehehehe!!!! Are you sure you're not trippin' right now?

[MusicMan19]

Yeah, before three. But, my point really was that we live in a generation full of uneducated, intellectually void, artistically void human beings who have no desire to make music that means anything. Ofcourse this is a subjectivity. To some, I guess violence fueled music, or "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one" is an artistically deep statement, but I'd rather live in a time that included music that actually spoke of peace, love, the struggle to understand our own existence etc.. Like I said,... something is wrong when your two most popular genres of music are violence fueled. Ofcourse culture will always, invariably, involve violence, but it was (seemingly, I wouldn't know) a much more peaceful and accepting time.

People were still fighting for the right to vote? Maybe you can clarify, but if you mean African-Americans, they got the unrestricted right to vote after the 1965 Civil Rights act. I think the violence at Kent state was an atrocity, but violence in response to protest such as this was actually an attest to what I said in the first paragraph. People were intellectually involved, people were trying to stop a war of murder, a quagmire of guerilla warfare for the pure sake of saving face in the midst of the Cold War against the Soviets. The guys of the 'hardcore' scene, or the 'urban' scene, most of them are not making any stand whatsoever against this modern-day quagmire in Iraq, mainly because we've become on the over-all an intellectually void generation. There are some good people in this generation, but the most of them , like me are desiring to move back in time, for obvious reasons. We're trapped amongst imbeciles who are culturally decadent, creatively and artistically void, and are apathetic toward the problems in our present situation. They simply care about fighting each other instead of the powers that be who've created this mess, and picking up 'hoes'. That's a great generation to be part of, let me tell you!

[GuySmiley]

Yeah, before three. But, my point really was that we live in a generation full of uneducated, intellectually void, artistically void human beings who have no desire to make music that means anything. Ofcourse this is a subjectivity. To some, I guess violence fueled music, or "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one" is an artistically deep statement, but I'd rather live in a time that included music that actually spoke of peace, love, the struggle to understand our own existence etc.. Like I said,... something is wrong when your two most popular genres of music are violence fueled. Ofcourse culture will always, invariably, involve violence, but it was (seemingly, I wouldn't know) a much more peaceful and accepting time.

People were still fighting for the right to vote? Maybe you can clarify, but if you mean African-Americans, they got the unrestricted right to vote after the 1965 Civil Rights act. I think the violence at Kent state was an atrocity, but violence in response to protest such as this was actually an attest to what I said in the first paragraph. People were intellectually involved, people were trying to stop a war of murder, a quagmire of guerilla warfare for the pure sake of saving face in the midst of the Cold War against the Soviets. The guys of the 'hardcore' scene, or the 'urban' scene, most of them are not making any stand whatsoever against this modern-day quagmire in Iraq, mainly because we've become on the over-all an intellectually void generation. There are some good people in this generation, but the most of them , like me are desiring to move back in time, for obvious reasons. We're trapped amongst imbeciles who are culturally decadent, creatively and artistically void, and are apathetic toward the problems in our present situation. They simply care about fighting each other instead of the powers that be who've created this mess, and picking up 'hoes'. That's a great generation to be part of, let me tell you!
Black people in many southern state's were still fighting for the right to vote up until the mid 70's. Just because a bill was passed in 65', doesn't mean that it was enacted immediately everywhere. I agree with what you have to say. All I'm saying is that it (70's) wasn't the peaceful society that you make it seem. Everything that is going on today, happened then as well. just different degree's and situation's.

[MusicMan19]

Well, like I said, it's invariable that any decade and political period/climate, will invariably have violence. I'm speaking solely on terms of the people and the ideals of the generation; peace was... peace no longer is. Like I said, I can't speak from experience, obviously, I was born in 1985, but it seems as though the generation, the culture was better from every aspect and every context. That's simply why I'd like to be part of the seventies. None of us youngin's can be very sure we'd have liked the seventies and the generation, all I can know is from the books I've read, the people I've spoken to and the documentaries I've seen.

[menlo1]

I think you would have liked the 70's, MusicMan.

It was a time when you could go to the corner drugstore and by a 45 with two good songs for about $0.69. Today it takes couple hours of working at Burger King to afford a music CD. The radio stations back then weren't all oldies or specialty formats. All the rock stations in my town were top 40. Every few weeks there were new good songs coming out.

Inflation was a bummer toward the late 70's. You could actually see the prices going up week by week at the supermarket. There also weren't any superstores like Wal-Mart and Home Depot. Supermarkets closed around 5pm and didn't stay open 24/7 like today. Many of the little mom and pop stores closed down due to the economy and competition from larger businesses.

Politically, things weren't as authoritarian in the U.S. in the 70's as they are today. The government wasn't on a list of pre-emptive invasions of other countries. There were problems with the Soviets invading countries, but the U.S. hadn't yet seen an attack on it's mainland like 911. The problem with relations between the Mideast and the U.S. wasn't nearly as bad in the 70's like it is today. It started getting worse in the 80's and has now turned into an 'us vs. them' global and ideological war.

[Orsino2]

meh Id like to be about 15 in 1955. great cars and then you would get to live through all the original rock n roll plus experience the best era of music ever 1965-75 imo.

http://marriottschool.byu.edu/teacher/mba_cs/ppt/Ringo.gifYeah... the cars from the 40s and 50s kicked ass. Nothing could beat a '53 Buick Roadmaster.

[BFG_Rob]

The 70's ruled, man! I spent most of my time running around naked, and when I wasn't I was getting my diaper changed a couple of times a day, I didn't have to start school until the end of the Carter administration, and all 4 Beatles were alive and kickin'!

True, as the decade wore on the fashion sense declined massively, but you can't knock a decade that brought us both Shaft and The Rockford Files!

[Goddess Om]

Ok guys, I'll have to admit lots of good stuff about the 70's. Life was still innocent and safe and sweet. People just wanted to have a good time and hang out together. Some of the music was ok, except for something called Bubblegum Pop..."Yummy, yummy, yummy I've got love in my tummy and I feel like loving you" (er...really deep man!)

[MattInVegas]

Ok guys, I'll have to admit lots of good stuff about the 70's. Life was still innocent and safe and sweet. People just wanted to have a good time and hang out together. Some of the music was ok, except for something called Bubblegum Pop..."Yummy, yummy, yummy I've got love in my tummy and I feel like loving you" (er...really deep man!)
Don't forget, The Archies!
You are my Candy Girl! And ya got me wantin you...
Aww, Sugar. Aww, Honey, Honey...

[Got_Culture?]

I would do anything to be alive in the 60s and 70s. Oh man Oh man! I hate the genereation ai am stuck in but in a way its good because our genereation can do whatever we want and we can lead ourselves into a new revolution! Its up to us and our children!

[Becknudefck]

i thinki everyone wishes that.


expecially if i was about 18 in '67. i would have probably been a groupie. or just a hippie. but yea i wish i lived then too.

[celeste]

I was a hat-check girl(I know!) ,spendin' my time in the Disco clubs,(LockeRoom!),closing them down at 7a.m. & seeing 'All These People' goin' to work,in suits,in cars,the blinding early morning sun,the IHOP,The MAJESTIC & DOBIES replenished our spirits with bad coffee,grits & eggs,m,m,m....The people floating around were so flambeaunt(sp?)It was great! *The bikers,the heads,the fags all munching & talkin' shit at the same time! Oh no! Barbara Streisands' "MEMORIES" is starting up in my head...HELP ME!!!!! *no offense meant!

[left-winged-babe74D]

I would be followin Pink Floyd around

[smileyjohn]

Like Goddess Om, I remember the 70's as safe and all about being together. Parties, concerts, basements... it didn't matter where, as long as the tunes were up and the bud was in abundance.

[water_baby]

in my world it is the 1970's, it's the "me decade", i dress 70's, listen to 70's music and feel the 70's.

[maryjaneguitargurl]

Ya I agree with you. Whats so good about the millenium and shit? lol

peace
chickens

[Peace Attack]

There was a segment on 60 minutes about generation Y. It said how from age 5 most of us kids were being carted around in mini vans to soccer practices, piano lessons, etc. etc. and were programmed to be overachievers. Were all competing for the best grades and for the best colleges and we all feel the need for the newest things like cell phones and mp3 players. Mabey this pressure wasn't there in the 60s and 70s, kids were just more laidback. Not that I would know I didn't live it, neither did my parents, they were fucking yuppies...

[Tisbutehname]

its all about the BEAT man!!! send me to the fifties and beer and wild jazz- woooo

and then i'd make sure to tell everyone about everything. like expensive smokes.

[Tisbutehname]

... neither did my parents, they were fucking yuppies...
Ouch! dont be so harsh- round where i'm from Yuppie is a hurtful negatively charged word. You said it your self, they carted you around- maybe thats why. heh- well... just love them, please, for me.

[arlia]

ppl think i look 70's all the time...i wish i cud go there one day,even if i just went shoppin

[Tisbutehname]

We can get there sometime, yes? cause i go ta time warp. But if alls we gonna due is shoppe, then i think i might hafta estend da inbatation to some one else.

but it would be kinda like a giant thrift store! Everything would be so cheap, as it was in the 70's and especially the 50s.

O' blessed timewarp, when shall i have you?

[arlia]

of course id do more than go shoppin!
id go play guitar with lotsa random hippy dudes and go styalk led zepelin for the day

[rainbowkid]

I hear you 'Helzie'. All the 'good' bands were around then, the bands that changed the world of music today. If you look at most bands today they havn't in any way revolutionized music at all because there is not enough originality, which is why there should be a massive attack from one band that change the music industry as it is today.

[themnax]

for what it's worth: the 70s didn't happen because somebody said "i wish it was 1910 again".
the 70s happend because people said "let's do something cool and creative, something that no one believes can be done, whether anyone's ever done it before or not!"

=^^=
.../\...

[kitty fabulous]

in the 70's:

i would lie in my best friend's treehouse, listening to the sound of cicadas and neighborhood dogs, and watching my friend and my brother dig holes in the ground below, until we heard the bell on the ice cream man's truck and everyone went running (barefoot) for bomb pops and nutty buddies and scooter crunch. i remember sliding under the fence to get into the catholic school's playground, which was kept locked up but every kid in the neighborhood used anyway.
my twin brother and i not only got along, we were best friends. there was no politics or relligion or lifestyle differences to divide us. we were just "the twins". he has disowned me now, and our politics and religion and lifestyles are so polarized you wouldn't believe we were from the same planet, let alone siblings.
i would visit my cousins' house in the summer or for hiolidays. there were so many of them, and each one was cool in a different way. i have a memory of being lifted onto someone's shoulders in one of their rooms and looking at the tolkien calendar on the wall. two of the others had bunk beds and the one with the top bunk had a long stuffed fuzzy snake she kept up there. i remember the excitement of watching the rankin-bass animated special of the hobbit every year, and my cousin frightening me with his "gollum" impersonation. there was always some kind of creative project going on: my aunt made quilts and collected dolls and doll houses, some of the cousins painted, or sewed, or made paper flowers. there was always something artistic going on.
we watched sesame street every day, and since we got the canadian station thanks to the huge tv antenna my dad built we even got to watch it in french. when he was doing a christmas show in buffalo, we went to see bob mcgrath (the actor who played bob on sesame street.) i was picked out of the audience to come up on stage and help bob light the christmas tree. i stood up on stage next to bob in my cindy brady ponytails and pretty white dress with the yellow roses on it and black patent mary janes, and i closed my eyes and made a wish like he said to, and damned if that tree didn't light right up! my brother and i had our picture taken with him & we were in the newspaper.
when i was in the second grade, we had a health lesson in class one day where the teacher brought this hippie lady in and she talked about whole grains and yogurt and taught us all how to make granola. i sat in the back of the classroom with wide eyes and thought, WOW! and my whole life changed forever. now my parents and brother know who to blame.
most of the weird shit that screwed me up for life hadn't happened yet. i was confident and comfortable with myself in the way that healthy children are, and i still had a chance of growing up to be "normal", whatever the hell that is supposed to be. they were simpler times when all i had to worry about was winning the coloring contest at picket park and learning to ride my bike.

[MusicMan19]

in the 70's:



we watched sesame street every day, and since we got the canadian station thanks to the huge tv antenna my dad built we even got to watch it in french. when he was doing a christmas show in buffalo, we went to see bob mcgrath (the actor who played bob on sesame street.) i was picked out of the audience to come up on stage and help bob light the christmas tree. i stood up on stage next to bob in my cindy brady ponytails and pretty white dress with the yellow roses on it and black patent mary janes, and i closed my eyes and made a wish like he said to, and damned if that tree didn't light right up! my brother and i had our picture taken with him & we were in the newspaper.
most of the weird shit that screwed me up for life hadn't happened yet. i was confident and comfortable with myself in the way that healthy children are, and i still had a chance of growing up to be "normal", whatever the hell that is supposed to be. they were simpler times when all i had to worry about was winning the coloring contest at picket park and learning to ride my bike.
You sound like you were very cute in those little pony tails! lol. I can't remember anything past 3 years ago, honestly. I have no memory of middle-school or anything from early ninth grade. Sad, I suppose.


No one can really define normal, so that's okay that you're not "normal". Are you a socialst or something? Nothing's wrong with a little socialism and tye-dye! I'm a Capitalism fan myself, though. lol Your family is a bunch of bourgeoisie capitalist pigs! blah Why isn't it about riding your bike and coloring? heh Maybe it should be. Mortgage can be a bitch, but beyond that it's okay. I try to stay happy throughout that type of responsibility now. Living in my dad's basement was so much cooler.

[BFG_Rob]

we watched sesame street every day, and since we got the canadian station thanks to the huge tv antenna my dad built we even got to watch it in french. when he was doing a christmas show in buffalo, we went to see bob mcgrath (the actor who played bob on sesame street.) i was picked out of the audience to come up on stage and help bob light the christmas tree. i stood up on stage next to bob in my cindy brady ponytails and pretty white dress with the yellow roses on it and black patent mary janes, and i closed my eyes and made a wish like he said to, and damned if that tree didn't light right up! my brother and i had our picture taken with him & we were in the newspaper.
when i was in the second grade, we had a health lesson in class one day where the teacher brought this hippie lady in and she talked about whole grains and yogurt and taught us all how to make granola. i sat in the back of the classroom with wide eyes and thought, WOW! and my whole life changed forever. now my parents and brother know who to blame.
most of the weird shit that screwed me up for life hadn't happened yet. i was confident and comfortable with myself in the way that healthy children are, and i still had a chance of growing up to be "normal", whatever the hell that is supposed to be. they were simpler times when all i had to worry about was winning the coloring contest at picket park and learning to ride my bike.
That was beautiful, Kitty. If only we could've held on to that innocence forever. Then again, when we were younger, we were dieing to be 'grown up' so I guess we are a race unable to be pleased. :p

I like to hold onto those memories of not knowing what hatred or self consciousness was even now. It keeps me sane. Because, if we were able to live without those things back then, what's keeping us from living without them now? Pandora's Box of Worms?

[BFG_Rob]

...and yet, I loose sight of the big picture here now.... YOU MET BOB MCGRATH??!! NEATO!!! :D

[Goddess Om]

[QUOTE=themnax]for what it's worth: the 70s didn't happen because somebody said "i wish it was 1910 again".
the 70s happend because people said "let's do something cool and creative, something that no one believes can be done, whether anyone's ever done it before or not!"

Yesssss! It was all about being DIFFERENT, CREATIVE, SPONTANEOUS etc. If you really like the vibe back then, you should just decide that it is ok to be who you are...to express yourself and to live your passions...
"I hereby give you all the permission in the world to be the beautiful and peaceful soul that you really are"
There...now go out and do something crazy and cool and different and interesting and save the planet!!!!!

Carry the vibe, wear it, live it, dream it...be a hippy now...be a today hippy. Go barefoot one day. Clean up someone else's rubbish another day. Go and play your guitar in the street and see how cool it is to talk to people you have never met before. Put a flower or a feather in your hair. Sit cross legged in a garden and talk to the flowers. Bake your own bread. Help out in an animal shelter. Talk to little children about life, and freedom and joy. Let old folks tell you what they think is important about life. Meditate, pray, sing, chant. You can show the world how to live...blessings upon your becoming!

[innocentpoison333]

people say i was born in the wrong time really.....
iv never fit in2 my generation?????
and i still think robert plant is sexy,even though his gettin on a bit now
*cries*
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/10725me1up.JPG

Aw man Robert Plant was really sexy and talented what an amazing voice...God I loved those tight pants lol

[soulrebel51]

I really don't understand why people wish for it to be a past time....just live today, make your life worthwhile TODAY TODAY TODAY! Stop dreaming for the past, because you will never get there.

[soulrebel51]

altho.....I really do want good rock n roll to come back.

[MusicMan19]

I don't believe that people in the sixties and seventies were wishing the music was like it was in the fifties. Most of the old hippies I know couldn't stand Django Reinhardt, or Frank Sinatra. Simply put, the Doors came along to make something new that wasn't anything like that not to recreate it. Rock music is dead, basically. I guess you could say the new retro-revival thing is helping to bring rock back, but it's hard to really tell if it's a passing phase of the music industry, or the beginning of a rejuvination. I don't really want to try to come up with something original like Rock 'N Roll did,... I want to revitalize Rock, because I'm into it. I'm not in the mood to listen to or create synthasized garbage, which is exactly why I wish it was the seventies. Most don't want rock music to come back. Believe it or not, we're the minority. Hopefully that'll start changing at some point in the next few years or so.

We're not going to look back on J.Lo, Eminem, 50 cent, Korn, or Hatebreed and wish it was the '00s. Maybe some people are, but I can't see what would possess them. The point of the entire thread, and of my post, was that people like us simply don't have a place here. But, it's true that we need to start making a place, rather than bitching about it. I'm in a rock band called the Riders on the Storm that tour, locally, though. It's like the Doors, except the one problem I've presented... in order to reach the masses, the masses have to want to be reached, and they simply don't want to be anymore. Being in this band, in my opinion, is me doing my fair share to help bring back something real. I was really impressed with Northern England and Germany though. They are still creating rock music, music with a soul, and the people there are intelligent enough to buy enough of it that it's still hitting the top of the charts and reaching thousands upon thousands of people. The Brit pop is pretty bad, though. I can't believe that our generation is as mindless as it is. You'll hear someone insult a band as complex and talented as Rush or Pink Floyd, and then go on a 30 minute tangent about how good rap and pop artists are. It's their thing, but c'mon, it's sad. Grow a brain or don't buy albums... you're wasting plastic. lol

You know what I think it is? This is going to sound incredibly stupid, but it's a lack of drugs, I swear. These kids need some acid or some shrooms, or some higher grade ganja for Christ's sake. Maybe then they'll stop fighting and start writing some better tunes than C5, A5, D5 "I hate you, I totally hate you blaaaaahhh!". It can really get to someone when they've been playing music all their lives, and have dedicated 10-20-30 years mastering their instrument, only to have mindless kids buy rap albums. Watching a guy sell a million records and influencing millions of people, simply for speaking obscenities over a recorded beat, when you've dedicated years and years of your life to mastering an instrument isn't the worst thing in the world, but it's very close. But I've digressed into some other subject now!

I need to just run off to the Haight Ashbury district or something,... even then, it's not the same as it was. Let us just hope somehow rock grows on people again, and it becomes a nation-wide sweep, and let us hope that it happens before we're all 50 years old.

[MusicMan19]

Lyrics to a song that hit top charts in the seventies:

Kansas: Dust in the Wind (one of my favorites)

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And not another minute will your money buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind.

Beautiful song structure and phrasing.


A song that hit the top of the charts in the early '00s:

Hatebreed:Burn the Lies
They're so persuasive with their fucking lies
Not an ounce of respect
They'll do anything to sell deception

Burn the lies
Their words of ignorance
Shove them back
Back down their throats
All that I have for you is hate!

...sure, I'd totally buy that!

Even worse... I think?? is a top hit by Jay Z:

Jay Z:99 Problems
If you havin' girl problems, I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems, but a bitch a'int one.
I got the rap patrol on the gat (a gun I guess?) patrol
Foes that wanna make sure my casket's closed
Rap critics that say he's "money cash hoes" (isn't he? lol)
I'm from the hood stupid
What kinda facts is those?
If you grew up with holes in your zapitos
You'd celebrate the minute you havin' doe (nice participle, Jay!)
I'm like "Fuck the critics"
They can kiss my whole asshole!

I'd totally buy this album too! There's simply something wrong with our generation, or degeneration, apparently.

Atleast there are still guys out there like Sam (Orsino2) making pretty creative and cool music in our age, but again, we're really not in the majority, no matter how much we'd like to think we are, or as we'd like to be.

[MagrittePerspective]

I missed my generation. No doubt about it. I don't belong here. Being born in the 50's and growing up in the 60's...what a heaven that would be. But I guess I was meant to live now. Anyone got a time machine?

[loveflower]

well wishing won't get you there!

[VooDooChildSG]

I feel out of place in this day in age. It's like everyone around me is like a "new generation" kid, & well i'm not. I'd have to say just about everyone of the people i come in contact with says something about my long hair. it's like...i dunno...it's ok i'll bring it all back...i'm gonna be big man. I'm gonna be a greaat guitarist & i'm gonna rock this pussy generation back to the good days.


~peace~

[cobcottage]

I feel I have to post this link again, to help cheer people up-

http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html

Perhaps we should get together at the next rainbow gathering and plan making the beginning of the millenium cooler than the 60's, 70's and 90's put together.

[cherylanne]

Yeah, you all complain, but you're young and your hair isn't grey....

[sherrie_bird]

All the best music came out in the 70's. It was like a surge, and all I could do was drool at so many of my friends' album collections, knowing there's no way I could ever hear all of it and remember who they all were. There was so much good stuff coming out, one after another, all the time, new bands, new albums out, all of it was just so fuckin hot, the style was extremely sexy and dancable and it made you rock to listen to it. It made you happy, like there was never anything like it before, because there wasn't.

[Becknudefck]

i wish i lived in the 70s. im kinda known around as spiel's hippie/stoner sister thats a freshman in school. but yea.

[Hari]

I feel out of place in this day in age. It's like everyone around me is like a "new generation" kid, & well i'm not. I'd have to say just about everyone of the people i come in contact with says something about my long hair. it's like...i dunno...it's ok i'll bring it all back...i'm gonna be big man. I'm gonna be a greaat guitarist & i'm gonna rock this pussy generation back to the good days.


~peace~


I say right on dude, go for it.

BTW, I used to play that exact SG (even the color) in a band called Piramid in NYC 1974.

[LaurelBayTree]

i wish it was the 60s/70s!

I'd follow all the fucking rockin bands....

maybe it is the 1960's and 70's in another part of existence :)

[MusicMan19]

I missed my generation. No doubt about it. I don't belong here. Being born in the 50's and growing up in the 60's...what a heaven that would be. But I guess I was meant to live now. Anyone got a time machine?
Nikola Tesla does, except... he died about 60 years ago.

[cherylanne]

I used to skip school to go to my friend's house and listen to records. These days, music doesn't appear to be all that important to people. But compared to getting high and into the tunes, school was just too boring and structured. And it taught all the wrong things. I couldn't get into too much math, I had to save for learning my music! I NEEDED rock and roll and knew that I wanted to master at it.

[cherylanne]

They didn't put up too much of a fuss about skipping, either. (They probably knew they'd rather be home listening to records, too). All they did was send a computer skip notice in the mail that you could take out when you got home from school if you could get to it before your parents got home from work. These days, they crack down on skipping alot more. Detention, kicked out, etc. I guess the world's gotten more unsafe for kids to be out off school grounds during school hours.

[akunasaka24]

yeah they are weird about missing schoo. Music is my life!

[MoonDawggy]

I long for the 70s, every time a movie from the 70s comes on I watch it bringing back the memories of the best time of my life. Girls God have mercy, no aids, people got along better. The music from that period is the best ever played. I'd go back and stay for the rest of my life. I miss the 70s terribly. However I did'nt know my wife then. You guys be well, love each other.

[Maggie Sugar]

I was a teenager in the 70s. There was more racism (I had teachers who used the "N" word in class, I swear) more sexism, I had friends whose mothers got fired for getting pregnant. There were newspapers which still had Men and Women's want ad sections. There WAS HIV, and it was being transmitted, but people were unaware of it. (The Patient Zero probably came to the US from africa in the mid 1960s.) Politics were no better than they are now, and in the early part of the 70s we were still involved in Viet Nam. Richard Nixon was still alive. People did not "get along" any better than they do now. We simply ignored the Middle East, and socially people were actually more isolated by race than they are now.

Disco, it was impossible to find decent health food, (If you were to eat a Veggie "Burger" from any of the 70s recipies you would puke, and forget it if you were trying to avoid or eliminate dairy or other allergens, food wasn't even labled with what was in it!) the economy SUCKED and inflation was intamable. The interest rate to buy a home in the late 70s was around 19% for many people.

Things were NO better than they are now. Oh, yeah better hair, Quiana shirts and rock and roll. Now there's some reasons to turn back the clock. :rolleyes:

I had a good time in the 70s, but I wouldn't go back. There is no such thing as "the good old days."

[FreeSpirited420]

Just as long as there is no disco.



"Death Before Disco!!!"
I second that motion!

By the way, I own that Hippie book as well that's in your picture in your sig. :) Rock on.

[zeprules]

i wish it was the 60s/70s!

I'd follow all the fucking rockin bands.... i miss the 7o's it was great, but i do look forward to the future, alot of good music and good times to be had!!

[CrazyDiamond]

Well, that's all subjective, I guess. I love the long hair, the tight jeans/cords, the overdriven rock music (that has really died, I think we can admit that,... the Strokes aren't Led Zeppelin or the Stones), and the hemp and silver cholmac jewelry. The social stereotyping I'm not certain about, but the silver-jump suits and platform shoes were disco, and while they were in the seventies, it would be fairly easy to avoid them. I'm assuming it's about as easy for a hippie/rocker in today's world to avoid the "urban" guys as it was for the hippies and rockers to avoid the disco fans in the '70s, - that is pretty easy.

I wasn't part of the seventies, so I can't speak from experience, but as far as I can tell they were better and our generation and the '90s just went to hell. This is subjective, but I'd say that emotion and depth are just simply missing from the music and the people of Gen. Y. Which rocker or hippie in his or her right mind would want to be part of something like this? If you're into rap, or the violent, talentless, 'staight-edge' hardcore scene (ala Boston and New York) then this generation's world is your oyster, but beyond that, your pretty fucked. I find it pretty funny, also, that people say Marijuana makes you violent and decadent, and then you have this whole 'straight' scene that's simply beating the fuck out of each other for no reason. Let's compare Woodstock 1969 to any of the underground Boston shows. It's just messed up. They'll beat the hell out of you for simply wearing a tye-dye t-shirt. The "Boston Beatdown" videos are sick. What's sicker still is the rate at which these videos are purchased.

1990s/2000s = Rock music is dead, but the two genres that encourage violence are the two most popular genres of our generation. Long hair is 'out', and doo-rags are 'in',... "my beautiful girl" is 'out' and "ma hoe" is 'in', peace and love is 'out' and "kill dat mothafucka and his family" is in. The only thing I love about these days is the incredible technology. I think I could very easily give this up for being part of a better, more creative, more mellow, more accepting generation.
man, you couldnt have said it better, I was born in 1966 and the 70´s kicked ass, the 80´s were nice too, all good music came to an end in the 90´s, I mean how can you compare the music from today to Pink Floyd, Yes, Zeplin and all those guys, they were virtuosos, now I all I hear is shit.

and yes, the disco scene was easy avoidable.

peace.

[shaggie]

Kind of ironic that we have all this great technology and the music is so terrible. What a waste of great technology.

One thing different about the 70s was that people really loved to see Nixon go. The past few years, people have developed an undying allegience to the President no matter how many screw ups happen in DC.

[LittleRedOne]

My dad's like, 52 so he must have been born in 1952 (i think, i'm not so great at maths). He was a hippie in the late 60s and 70s (lucky!). He doesnt dress like a hippy now but he's still got the ideals which is totally cool becaus it means i can get away with a whole lot more than my friends :sunglasse Well. I can when I'm at his house. At home my mums always on a complete stress attack. bleh. Anyway, I think 2004s pretty cool because even though there's loads of violence and bad stuff, you don't have to be part of that culture and me and my good friends have got a pretty groovy life..... We listen to music, do what we want and don't play along with the system. Just chilling. We try not to fuck up the environment too much by not using cars, and if we HAVE to drive places we either get the bus or car share (my mums got a 7 seater so thats pretty good). Also we do anti war protests in London and stuff. We know we're not doing that much but hopefully every little helps?

[DR. REEFER]

i say as long as everyone holds its memories the seventies are still well and alive. sure i think it would be better if i could have lived in those times but i dont and theres nothing i can do about it. its true how musically these days there are two types of "popular scene" music that promote violence (rap ands hardcore) i dont listen to either both genres piss me off, although old school rap like public enemy and house of pain fucking rock though cuz thats REAL rap with REAL MEANING.dont forget there is a hope for good music today that is still evolving since the 70's; heavy metal. late 60's early 70's brought us black sabbath (god i love em to death) which has evolved into so many different types of metal in the 80's and even more today. the metal scene is still going strong with music that doesnt promote any commercialism bullshit. its just all about being more progressive on guitar and all instruments used for it. todays black metal uses keyboards which is awsome. the ideas get better and better with this genre and is the only thing that makes me happy to live today. just focus on one aspect of today that you like and enjoy that its all you got, instead of sitting there wishing to live in a time you never could.

[zeprules]

man it's all coming back to me, poprocks, gi joe,stretcharmstrong, rockem sockem robots and the kiss army, lol, it was a fun time to be a kid in the 70's.

[shaggie]

Rockem sockem robots. :) Almost forgot about those. Then there was 'Gunfight at OK Corale'. Not to mentions 'Light Bright' and 'Bowl-a-Matic 300'. :)

[zeprules]

Rockem sockem robots. :) Almost forgot about those. Then there was 'Gunfight at OK Corale'. Not to mentions 'Light Bright' and 'Bowl-a-Matic 300'. :) light bright! loved the colors, i used to get lost staring at that damn thing.lol they still make those rockem sockem robots. i bought a set for my son about 10 years ago. i think my favorite toy was my big wheel, and ssp's, the super sonic something, you put a toothed cord into a wheel , yank that sucker and let it rip!

[shaggie]

Lots of mechanical type toys back then, before the computer revolution. Some were very clever.

[lucyinthesky16]

wake up people...THIS IS THE 70'S!!! think about it, a war we shouldnt be in, gas shortages, the fashions, the rise of hippies, the year is different, but its the same era!

[shaggie]

And someone like Nixon in the White House, not to mention Rumsfeld, another leftover from the Nixon administration. :)

[ovidduke]

I missed the 70s. I got locked up Feb 73' on illegal drug charges (victimless crime) and got out October 86'. I went in a pot smoking wanna be architect and came out a 245# 6' 3" collector, body-guard, enforcer for coke dealers.

[shaggie]

I think most young people today would have withdrawal symptoms if they went back to the 70s. There was no internet, no video games (or at least only simple ones), no cell phones, no CD, DVD, or VCRs, no PCs, no cable or satellite TV, etc. People today literally have their ears glued to their cell phones and eyes on their computer games. I wonder how people would cope? :)

It would be a neat experiment for everyone to give up all of the above for a month. :)

[ElChivato]

Just as long as there is no disco.



"Death Before Disco!!!"
lol. yeah, disco is from hell. and not the kool part of hell with all the murderers, but that gay-ass part where are the really bad accountants live. lol. hyde from that 70s show said that

[Templedragon]

The 70's will probably go down as the golden decade in America. The counter culture was established, the political tone was way relaxed and liberal, the police state had not yet encroached and become technophiled, there was great dope everywhere, there was great music being recorded and the overall vibe was extremely laid back and groovin'.

I came of age in the 70's. I had my first sex, smoked my first joint, dropped my first acid, saw my first concert (Grand Funk Railroad, 1970), had my first wife, had my first child (at home), had my first job. There was an enegry in the air, an electricity, carried over from the 60's, a spirit, a magic. For me personally, it begun dissipating around '76 or so, with the advent of disco.

Sinsemilla started showing up in California, around '74 or '75. Colombian brown, red and gold was prevalent, and thai sticks appeared around '74 also. Thai bud was as tasty and stony as anything I have seen at the cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.

There were hippie camps in the woods, you could still hitch-hike, and there was still an innocence in America that has long since been lost. Yeh man, I pine for the 70's, man. There may never be another time exactly like that on earth.

I am thankful that I was there to experience it. I was just old enough to get in on the end of the 60's, just young enough to get in on the grunge period of the 90's. Now I am getting old. I am amazed that I survived it all to be here to tell my stories. I was so out of control with drugs at times through the 80's, especially. Cocaine almost killed me, and Meth-ampetamine left a permanent mark on my neuro-system. I am thankful for all the acid and mushrooms I took, and I'd love to see the mountain of pot I have smoked in my lifetime. My lungs would probably produce as much resin as the water in Tommy Chong's bong.

The 70's. The movie Dazed and Confused was about my graduating class of 1976. We partied like there was no tomorrow, and here I am, and it IS tomorrow today.

Wow, what a long strange trip it's been!

Peace and love, Viv-

[Goddess Om]

I think most young people today would have withdrawal symptoms if they went back to the 70s. There was no internet, no video games (or at least only simple ones), no cell phones, no CD, DVD, or VCRs, no PCs, no cable or satellite TV, etc. People today literally have their ears glued to their cell phones and eyes on their computer games. I wonder how people would cope? http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif
Yeah, the fresh air and sunshine would kill 'em
And what's that noise again? - oh yeah...its silence!

[YES I CANNABIS]

i wish it were the 60's again

[SpliffVortex]

The 70's will probably go down as the golden decade in America. The counter culture was established, the political tone was way relaxed and liberal, the police state had not yet encroached and become technophiled, there was great dope everywhere, there was great music being recorded and the overall vibe was extremely laid back and groovin'.

I came of age in the 70's. I had my first sex, smoked my first joint, dropped my first acid, saw my first concert (Grand Funk Railroad, 1970), .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...................... i agree and had similar experiences but the 70s was over by the 1975 .1970 71 72 73 had lots of carry over from the late 60s the disco was shove down our throat my the movie and tv industry not becouse people really like it by the time people woke up it was way too late only van halen sounded and acted like a real rock band in late 70s and into the early 80s from 80 to 85 we had the MTV it was intresting but most of it was light weight with no real meanings U-2 .STIX , RUSH , and a few more were carry over from the 70s. hip hop and rap did the same thing dico did in mid 70s but much worse and much longer again cable tv+hip hop,rap destroy rock music and metal . metal did not fair well "since metal are nothing but rock bands with difrent twist" the late 80s metal and early 90s was our last straw.

[SpliffVortex]

I think most young people today would have withdrawal symptoms if they went back to the 70s. There was no internet, no video games (or at least only simple ones), no cell phones, no CD, DVD, or VCRs, no PCs, no cable or satellite TV, etc. People today literally have their ears glued to their cell phones and eyes on their computer games. I wonder how people would cope? :)

It would be a neat experiment for everyone to give up all of the above for a month. :) dope was cheap, rock concerts "real ones" average ticket prices $6.50 to get in . few cops around, 1 joint did not get you 120 days in jail, street bikes and dirt bikes were dirt cheap, my 125 cc elsinore motocross was $1.000.00 and that was the hottest at the time my street bike a 350 honda twin was only $935.00 gas was 60 cent gallon for premiun ,in south fla an ounce of pot was $25.00 young people still hung around together in rather large groups and share stuff even material ones. we did not need a phone we all meet at specific places "who ever had a large house and parents work" or the woods or fresh water lake. the radio station play good music 24/7 a computer would had come handy for drug deals not much more. by using e-mail you could tell all your customer the next concert and drug prices . this days i spend my time behind this stupid monitor . and talking to my self.

[erowid]

I'd say the same, but only because it was easier to find a good chemist back then, the ideals of Albert Hoffmann would seamed to have decayed significantly.

[shaggie]

dope was cheap, rock concerts "real ones" average ticket prices $6.50 to get in . few cops around, 1 joint did not get you 120 days in jail, street bikes and dirt bikes were dirt cheap, my 125 cc elsinore motocross was $1.000.00 and that was the hottest at the time my street bike a 350 honda twin was only $935.00 gas was 60 cent gallon for premiun ,in south fla an ounce of pot was $25.00 young people still hung around together in rather large groups and share stuff even material ones. we did not need a phone we all meet at specific places "who ever had a large house and parents work" or the woods or fresh water lake. the radio station play good music 24/7 a computer would had come handy for drug deals not much more. by using e-mail you could tell all your customer the next concert and drug prices . this days i spend my time behind this stupid monitor . and talking to my self.
I agree with all that too. It was a different world back then.

I think I would miss the internet the most. It's a great tool for getting information. But, young people back in the 70s hung out with each other in the neighborhood more often, since there wasn't really any other good form of group communication like the internet or cell phones. CBs were the closest thing people had back then to internet chat.

[SpliffVortex]

i might add if we did have pc back then the groups would had gotten bigger since now we knew were the other group hung out .only at concerts or some kind of a popular place we could comunicate like a park, etc but in most places were not ideal since that was one thing the cops did not like and would hassle us for it. how ever if we had a pc we could invent a new place to hung out until the cops found out then we would simply move to a new location so a pc would had come handy on the negative side better computers also would had work against us since law enforcement would had them too making our life more miserable. in that case we rather not have them in the 60s 70s.

[alB]

The 70's? Ok if you like bad shoes, bad hair, bad fashion, bad jewellery. Ok if you like silver metallic jumpsuits, platform soles, social stereotyping, and the tightest of tight jeans ...hey, maybe that's why so many of them sang in falsetto?Tight jeans were one of the best things about the 70's
Other good things included cheap cigarettes (now, I can't smoke anything -COPD) , some good music (although my favorite era in rock was really the late 70's early 90's with bands like the Jam and the Buzzcocks) women tended to have longer hair than they do todayhttp://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif , and I had MUCH MORE HAIR than I do today. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/pissedoff.gif

[Star Cat]

I was around in the 70s and I loved it.

And it was such a contrast to the 90s and today... I really miss it.

I get all wistful just thinking about it.

[Forget me not]

I was born in the wrong year...wrong decade actually. I should have been alive in the 60's and 70's. It would have been great! I love all music from that time; Tull, Beatles, Zepplin-all of them! So I'm trying to spread the hippie vibe around my school by shouting "Peace!" at everyone. They just get scared!
Peace and love wished to everyone on this site.

[TurquoiseRose]

NOW. Now is always the best time. Better grass, progression...people like cops now better, which is WEIRD, but things are alway improving. Ride the now wave. You can respect the past & integrate it into the future, like I love some 70s fabric patterns & I hate that Wal-Mart STOLE the happy face. Who markets a happy face, evil?? I think so. Anyhow, dig it. Feel the present & warp into the future. Now we can bring Zepplin with us everywhere on our snazzy mp3's, hurray for now.

[Riggs]

i wish it was the 60s/70s!

I'd follow all the fucking rockin bands....Yeah, music back then was awsome. 80's wasn't all that bad, but then it got stupid.

[Riggs]

Hey, dude..what to you think of rap music?

[Lorna]

LOL! what a question from someone that never hear it.
rap is crap.

agressiv and negativ.

the alone good guy is snap dog he is funny and cool looking, i like his way..

[Riggs]

I don't.I can't stand the shit myself. Not singing.. talking .. and it sounds so stupid. Most of the time you don't even know what hell they are saying.
The ones that sing about hurting others, should get their butts kicked up around their ears. LOL You know..like what goes around..comes back around. lol


Yeah, if they had their butt kicked up around their ears, they will hear just how their shit sounds and stinks. LOL

[Lorna]

Agree.

It is agressiv bs, contribuate to the general bad feelings.
They also looks stupid al of them, and arrogant, and so silly with their neckless big fold and all.
they looks like Amin Dadda, wíth all his medails, and sho the exact mentality: always centered on its look, and looking stupid and tasteless, ignorant, clueless, arrogant, brutal, and so selfsure to look the best and be the cleverest..

[Lorna]

ps: go to cock size and deleete..please

[Riggs]

mmm hmm

[Lorna]

mmm hmm
what you mean "hmmm"..

[shaggie]

rap is crap.

agressiv and negativ.
Aggressive, negative, and cookie-cutter for about the past 20 years. Rap wasn't that way in the 70s. Rap back then meant rapport, or friendship.

Rap was used in rock and country-western music back then but not the way it is used today. Listen to a song like 'Walk This Way' by Aerosmith. It has a rap element to it, but there's also some energetic playing of the instruments and excellent rhythm.

'Devil Went Down to Georgia' by the Charlie Daniels band was a rap-like country-western tune from the 70s. Some good musicianship and rhythm in that tune.

.

[erecnisruoma]

its to bad it is now. it was pretty cool before!

[19FlowerGirl87]

If you can dream it, you can become it.






But I wanna be a pink flying hippie monkey!!!!! That'll never happen. lol.



THE SIXTIES ARE COMING BACK!!!! THEY DO SAY HISTORY REPEATS IT'S SELF....

[PEACE LOVER CHILD]

I Get Told All The Time That I Should Of Been Born In The Saventies Man And If I Was I Would Sooooooo Be A Groupie Dude

[jim kirby]

no shit ... at least the music was great but not as good as the 60's ... now that was really music .... rap is crap!

[TravisBruner]

Amen 60s 70s 50s even the 80s was a better generation but if i had a choice i'd have to say about 1965 good music was starting to get popular aka the "Classic rock" as we know it today but i feel like i was born in the wrong era i am the hippie kid at all the metal shows every one knows. I have woman out the ass, im popular to my groupe of freinds. Im what every kid from this era would want to be...ecept i dont care about any of that...i havent been laid in almost a year, because i dont want a skanky ass good for nothing bitch, I wanr a real girl who gets it. I would rather be normal un poupular and not pick up chicks back in where i could fit in, and relate to others. I wouldent nessicerally be a hippie. But i certanly would feel at home, witch is what i long for most....

[TravisBruner]

Oh and another thing, i do agree the 60s are coming back but it wont go much further then what "emo" has...its just it will be back to stay for a while i think.

[AlawlessLulu69420]

i like the 60s and 70s...the look, the music, the people but the 80s rocked more because it was a time where you could let your hair down and party.

I really wish disco would come back though....dont shoot me....

And 60s are really coming back..with the trends and stuff :)

[TravisBruner]

Well i must say...disco is fun when on any phsycedelic....but i hope it does to...because thats what some people want...every one should just be happy....but then if every one had what they want there wouldent be people like me...maybe a good thing? hahaha

[TravisBruner]

I won't shoot you, but I will disagree wholeheartedly :)

Disco is one thing the 70s and the world could have done without.
hahaha i agree but hey what can u do? it happend and its here to stay!

[granpametal]

you know that your getting old when all the songs you know are on the old's radio stations

[granpametal]

yes this all may look like the 70's but the kid's have a totally different look on life . an i don't give a shit additude. the clthes may look the same but we can't go back , but we can sure try.

[sonik]

I'm starting to hear sweet child of mine on the classic rock stations...........

:eek:

[Sgtpepper12]

The 70's? Ok if you like bad shoes, bad hair, bad fashion, bad jewellery. Ok if you like silver metallic jumpsuits, platform soles, social stereotyping, and the tightest of tight jeans ...hey, maybe that's why so many of them sang in falsetto?
people didnt wear tight tight jeasn in the 70s. that was late 80s

[tuatara]

if jeans of the 70s weren't tight,how come you needed axle grease to put them on???

[hannahannahannah]

if jeans of the 70s weren't tight,how come you needed axle grease to put them on???


Depends on which time in the 70s you're talking about. The early 70s were still the 60s really. - If memory serves, disco and tight jeans (with lots of foo foo decor on the pockets *rolls eyes*) didn't hit until 75 or 76.

[ALLY0UN33DISL0V3]

oh hey, my favorite phrase is "I wish I was born in the 50's to be able to go with Hippies in the 60's.." :)

http://www.diggers.org/images/commun_l.jpg
Dude! Yout totally stole my plan.



I have this all planned out,
I will go back in time, be born in 1952, so I will have grown up hating the flawed society of the 50s, changed from safe to rebellious with the Beatles, and come Woodstock, I would have found my own commune to travel to that marvelous heavan to :)

[BusHippy]

The 70's were a leftover from the previous decade. I was still under the influence, but we had to contend with skinheads (who were actually misguided) and the onset of disco around 76. I embraced all of it, that's all of it I can remember.

[Hari]

I lived next to a disco for three months,,or rather on top of a disco, it was called "Lucifer"
I never saw so many shinning people, I mean they would spend a fortune on threads. Once I saw one of my younger sisters passing to go in while waiting for my roomate dowstairs . I still looked like a Hippie in 1979, so we were both ashamed, and neither one acknowledged the other.....

[taw]

Today is the 29th of the year 2007,I was born on 1993,I see everywhere I go people complaining about wanting to go back in time and not realizing life is here and now,even though as much as we want to,we cannot go back in time,all we can do is live the present to the fullest and expect the future,I must admit the future is not something I give too much thought,but today I came up with the idea of the 2010´s, the decade we live on today might not be what we want to or where we choose to live but if we really but our hearts and minds into it,the 2010´s can be all we want and more we need to start giving thought into it,spreading the word about it,it will all be about being yourself and love and peace and everything we need is inside of us and our sibling´s persons.Another thing we need is real musicians,not good or bad cause that doesnt actually exists it all depends on who´s listening,we need real and honest musicians who spends their hardwork on crafting music that expresses their true self and wishes and connects with the minds and hearts of the people all over the world not with their pockets,people need to be reminded of what really matters,I think every single person in the world could make a whole new musical genre if they put themselves into it,but people choose to copy eachother´s formula,because they think "if it worked for them why wont it work for me?" people should put everything they really are in everything they do may it be a song or just a step towards the kitchen.


Now,who´s with me?

[hailtothekingbaby]

Well said, actually. :)

We'll just have to make the best out of the here and now. In fact, we have very little choice.

[salmon4me]

Today is the 29th of the year 2007,I was born on 1993,I see everywhere I go people complaining about wanting to go back in time and not realizing life is here and now,even though as much as we want to,we cannot go back in time,all we can do is live the present to the fullest and expect the future,I must admit the future is not something I give too much thought,but today I came up with the idea of the 2010´s, the decade we live on today might not be what we want to or where we choose to live but if we really but our hearts and minds into it,the 2010´s can be all we want and more we need to start giving thought into it,spreading the word about it,it will all be about being yourself and love and peace and everything we need is inside of us and our sibling´s persons.Another thing we need is real musicians,not good or bad cause that doesnt actually exists it all depends on who´s listening,we need real and honest musicians who spends their hardwork on crafting music that expresses their true self and wishes and connects with the minds and hearts of the people all over the world not with their pockets,people need to be reminded of what really matters,I think every single person in the world could make a whole new musical genre if they put themselves into it,but people choose to copy eachother´s formula,because they think "if it worked for them why wont it work for me?" people should put everything they really are in everything they do may it be a song or just a step towards the kitchen.


Now,who´s with me?
Longest sentence ever.

[Smoking420Buddha]

Well, that's all subjective, I guess. I love the long hair, the tight jeans/cords, the overdriven rock music (that has really died, I think we can admit that,... the Strokes aren't Led Zeppelin or the Stones), and the hemp and silver cholmac jewelry. The social stereotyping I'm not certain about, but the silver-jump suits and platform shoes were disco, and while they were in the seventies, it would be fairly easy to avoid them. I'm assuming it's about as easy for a hippie/rocker in today's world to avoid the "urban" guys as it was for the hippies and rockers to avoid the disco fans in the '70s, - that is pretty easy.

I wasn't part of the seventies, so I can't speak from experience, but as far as I can tell they were better and our generation and the '90s just went to hell. This is subjective, but I'd say that emotion and depth are just simply missing from the music and the people of Gen. Y. Which rocker or hippie in his or her right mind would want to be part of something like this? If you're into rap, or the violent, talentless, 'staight-edge' hardcore scene (ala Boston and New York) then this generation's world is your oyster, but beyond that, your pretty fucked. I find it pretty funny, also, that people say Marijuana makes you violent and decadent, and then you have this whole 'straight' scene that's simply beating the fuck out of each other for no reason. Let's compare Woodstock 1969 to any of the underground Boston shows. It's just messed up. They'll beat the hell out of you for simply wearing a tye-dye t-shirt. The "Boston Beatdown" videos are sick. What's sicker still is the rate at which these videos are purchased.

1990s/2000s = Rock music is dead, but the two genres that encourage violence are the two most popular genres of our generation. Long hair is 'out', and doo-rags are 'in',... "my beautiful girl" is 'out' and "ma hoe" is 'in', peace and love is 'out' and "kill dat mothafucka and his family" is in. The only thing I love about these days is the incredible technology. I think I could very easily give this up for being part of a better, more creative, more mellow, more accepting generation.
You Said it All Man!!!!

[shaggie]

It was an era when elbows weren't permanently locked in the cell phone configuration.

Also, you could talk to the person next to you without him ignoring you. Today you have to call the person standing right next to you to get his attention.

.

[epatsellis]

My favorite memories from the 70's:

Hanging out with my best friends brother at his apartment, smoking and listening to the music, or the 3 or4 guys that came around once in a while playing guitars half the night. And not being ingnored when the smoke was being passed around (as well as being reminded whether the j was going left or right after you took a hit), even if you were a dorky 14 year old that didn't fit in.

Moving to Daytona Beach in '77, something about living there when you're a 15 year old boy and spring break, an education no amount of money could ever buy you......

Moving back to W.Mass in '79 and seeing all the disco clubs everywhere, and having a beard, looking old enough to get in and actually get served.

Getting pulled over by the cops, 2 1/2 sheets to the wind and having them follow you home, to make sure you get there ok. (try that today, DUI is cop speak for income stream)

Things I wish I'd paid more attention to:

All the Arlo, Pete Seeger, and Peter Paul and Mary concerts that my aunt dragged me to. (my aunt had to be a hippie, looking back now..)

The Yellow Sun Co-Op in Amherst (does it still exist?)

All the friends that drank themselves to death or OD'd, most of them just needed somebody to talk to.

erie

[PeaceLuvinHippieTaz]

right on, epatsellis. Lost alot of friends along the way. Car wrecks, OD's, suicide. My best friend left to join a cult in New Mexico. They took all her money and possesions, they messed up her mind. Alot of cults and communes were forming in the early 70's. People were searching for alternatives, spiritual healing and answers. What once was a safe and sure exisence in America had felt the spoils of Vietnam and Nixon's lies. People started questioning the government and we weren't so sure we were safe any more.

My random memories of the 70's:

*Bomb drills at school
*Not being allowed to wear pants to school (until 3rd grade, when it changed)
*$.10 cent candy bars
*POW/MIA bracelets
*Penny gumball machines
*The introductions of Color TV (actually late 60's for most families)
*The introduction of the microwave ovens
*8-tracks
*Black light poster
*lava lamps
*shag carpets
*Bell bottom pants
*hip huggers
*peasant shirts and angel sleeves
*blue eye shadow
*smoking in every restuarant and concert (lots of pot smoking at concerts)

My fondest memory was in "79" when the aiotolla Komani (sp??) took 130 Americans hostage and Prez Carter wouldn't do anything to rescue them, Me and 7 other kids from KC went to Washington to march on the White House lawn in protest. We were arrested and paid a $50.00 fine for disturbing the peace.
We decided then and there that we were leaving the USA. We packed up and drove to Rosarito Mexico! That was the best year and 1/2 I ever had. Mexico in the 70's was a blast.

[epatsellis]

The 70's were a leftover from the previous decade. I was still under the influence, but we had to contend with skinheads (who were actually misguided) and the onset of disco around 76. I embraced all of it, that's all of it I can remember.One of my favorite things to remind my stepkids, those that say they remember what a great time the '70s were either stay at home/live in the basement types, or they didn't have all the fun they say. I'm told I had a hell of a time in the 70's (and into the 80's), but damn if I can remember much myself.


*8-tracks
*Black light poster
*lava lamps
*shag carpets
*Bell bottom pants
*hip huggers
*peasant shirts and angel sleeves
*blue eye shadow
*smoking in every restuarant and concert (lots of pot smoking at concerts)
8-Tracks, oh and vans....yeah vans were the best...

Black Light posters, even better, the black flocked color in with markers posters you could get at Spencer's

Loved Lava Lamps

Man, sure do miss hip huggers (and women even close to my age that would look good in them, WTF is it with the rural midwest???)
Damn, if I could just find a woman that wore hip hugger bell bottomed jeans, peasant shirt, and could pull it off, I might even consider leaving my wife for her...well, I did say might....

Oh, and only being able to afford the cheap, nosebleed seats at concerts, but saving in fortune in pot, and getting just as high....

hardest thing to remember back then:
was it pass to the right or pass to the left????


erie

[Chris_mate]

Its clock wise these days !!

[shameless_heifer]

don't bogard that joint, my friend
pass it over to me,
you've been holding on to it,
and I sure would like a hit.

[Smoking420Buddha]

i WISH I LIVED IN THE 70'S It was really when i should of born every body tells me i was born at the wrong time and shoulda live in the 70's my parents especially say this because they are 70's children that was there decade/generation and i really wish i coulda been there the times where so much better and way more laid back it saddens me so........................

[Smoking420Buddha]

One of my favorite things to remind my stepkids, those that say they remember what a great time the '70s were either stay at home/live in the basement types, or they didn't have all the fun they say. I'm told I had a hell of a time in the 70's (and into the 80's), but damn if I can remember much myself.
My dad first said to me when he noticed how much i was amazed by the 70's "If you can remember the 70's,You prolly wernt there" lol

lol he only has told me a few stories,the ones he can remember,about his teenage years because he cant remember most of it

[IwishIWasThere]

Wow i wish i lived in the 70's too, i'd like to get in touch with some of you gr8 hippies out there man far out whats up? i'm new to this site and would love to hear some support or tips on how to become a young hippie myself! i want to live back in the day with all the great times rad music and fun. acid is something i have yet to try and i'm kinda unsure about trying it. i tried "salvia" and it was too much for me...spinning and tunnelvision and no self control. scared me half to death and its LEGAL! anyways, i like herb all day man and yah! far out, keep in touch brothers!

[princesspeace]

Hey,allyoun33dislove, I love the pic of hippies in your post. That is so cool!