Flashback 1971

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  1. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I was just watching an old Claudette Colbert movie and she was reminiscing about something and I had one of those "flashbacks" we used to hear about in the old daze and since I'm bored and old, old and bored, I thought I'd exercise one of the privileges of old age...and that is to bore everyone else whenever I want.

    I flashed on a day way back in 1971 when I was still in college...and bored. It was a nice day but nothing was happening so I took a walk behind the student union. There was a hill there with nothing on it and looking up I saw Itchy sitting there all alone playing his recorder*. Now Itchy was an older black student whom I had first met at the white house, which was a house painted white that was the gathering place for the sum total of the entire hippie population of the school.

    The real deal hippies. They were the original ones in the area, which was a hard core coal, iron, and steel area in the backwoods of South Western PA. Anyway most of those originals had moved on by now but Itchy was still around.

    So I climbed up to where he was sitting and asked him what he was going to do as the term was coming to an end and Itchy was graduating. He just looked at me and said that he was trying to get an internship as he had nothing else to do. Then he played his recorder some more.

    He seemed to want to be left alone so I turned to go and he put out his hand and stopped me. I had a copy of a new book called Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass under my arm and he pointed to it and said, "That book sure does get around."

    And he was gone. I never saw him again.

    Life is strange.

    *A recorder is a small woodwind flute, they were the rage for awhile back then.​
     
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  3. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    Flashback 1971 - eternal darkness and ethereal bliss, waiting in the wings to begin the next generation


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    Days of future passed
     
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  7. Bilby

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    Movies: Sunday, Bloody Sunday
    Diamonds Are Forever.
     
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  9. Karen_J

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    1971? Elementary school, playing with my sister, setting up tea parties for our teddy bears, overhearing my parents speak softly to each other about race riots going on at the local high school. I didn't know what a race riot was, but it sounded scary. My regular teacher was a hippie who wore the shortest miniskirts I've ever seen to this day, and my music teacher taught the class anti-war songs that none of us understood. She managed to play the hell out of Simon and Garfunkel on a 12-string guitar in spite of having very long fingernails, by using five special thimbles and five finger picks.
     
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  11. YouFreeMe

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    MeAgain: You described that memory so well, it was transporting.
     
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  13. Bilby

    Bilby Lifetime Supporter and Freerangertarian Super Moderator

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    Riders on the Storm was a single.
     
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  15. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    1971 Pittsburgh, PA​
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    In less than one year:​
    Jose Feliciano, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tom Jones, Steven Stills, Glen Campbell, The Who, The Osmond Brothers, Chicago, Neil Diamond, Leon Russell, Jethro Tull, Grand Funk, Pink Floyd, Redbone, Seatrain, Brainchild, Emerson Lake and Palmer, J. Geils.
    Not shown are James Taylor, Carol King, John Sebastian, Three Dog Night, John Mayall, B.E.Taylor, Sly and the Family Stone, and Alice Cooper!

    The good old daze!!!​
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  17. Moonglow181

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    lol....The Osmond brothers.......
     
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    lol KQV..
     
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    71 i got my honorable discharge from the air force. i'd been stationed in utah. i headed back to colfax cali, for a while, then up to reno, where oddly i am now.
    took my sat's at unr. past em real good.

    went to work at harrah's in the coin room, then took some summer classes at unr. while i was there got layed for furst time in my life.
    threw my gpa under the bus to play around with her.

    well i was majoring in geology, so i spent the next summer on a mineral drill rig out near ely nevada.
    howling with the yote's at night, seeing that amazing sky with its billions of stars where there wasn't any surface light to hide them.

    that was my 71. bunch of wonderful adventures.
    early 70s i was in my early 20s, having been born in 48.

    wasn't really around any hippie communities until late 70s up in oregon, when it was pretty much over in california, but still going on up there.
    bunch more adventures up there, but that was later.
     
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  23. hotwater

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    Hill Air Force Base?



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    hill afb (between ogden and salt lake, farmington i think was the name of the adjacent town) yup that was the one.
     
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  27. Aerianne

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    1971 - I was in 6th grade waiting on my chance to be.
     
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  29. SpacemanSpiff

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    1971 was a good year for me too
     
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  31. sunfighter

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    That was the year I started smoking herb. I was changing from being a straight-arrow physics student into an unshaven anti-war radical.
     
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    IN comparison to how things are now adays. Would you guys go back? or would you live your life back then with current generation?
     
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  35. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I'd go back in a second.

    But we live in the Now, which is what we did then.
     
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  37. Aerianne

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    I wouldn't want to live with today's teenagers.
     
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  39. morrow

    morrow Visitor

    I would go back in a heartbeat! and change so much, do more of some things 1971 :)
     
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