have you ever met any famous hipster?

~Butterfly McQueen~"Ah don know nuthin bout birthin no babies!" she was pretty hip!

 

If having met someone famous is a badge of authenticity, then I guess I failed the test <g>

There was a guy who would hang out on the Sunset Strip. His name was Larry. I used to hang out on the black perch in front of Gazzaris. I was one of the few people who actually liked Larry. I would always stop him and ask him to play his record for me, on a silly little portable record player he would carry around. It was always the same song, but I can't remember. Maybe Sunshine of Your Love? Everybody used to get freaked out by him for some reason. He would walk up to people and ask "Wanna hear my record player?" It was probably that wild man look he always had with his eyes opened wide, like a stoner trying to look straight for a photo being taken of them when they were high and didn't want to look squinty stoned. He later hooked up with Zappa and made a couple records under the name Wild Man Fisher. I guess that makes him a hipster.

I liked the music but I really wasn't into the club scene. Mainly hangin on the street and strolling from the little spot across the street with the pool table. What was it The White Rabbit or something. Anyway, strolling between there and The Kaleidoscope selling acid. AH HA HA! I haven't thought about that for a long time. You would either be walking up and down Sunset mumbling under your breath the word Acid quietly, or looking for someone mumbling whatever it was you were looking for. Paper or peppermint barrels or sillycybin. They sold buttons at The Free Press Bookstoe on Fairfax that said acid for sale or whatever. You could wear one of those instead of mumbling. LOL

There was a theater that had bands. It used to be the Moulon Rouge, but then it was called The Kaleidoscope. So was the house band. David Linley who later played with Jackson Brown, played electric violin. Very cool. Anyway after the last band finished playing, they would open the doors free admission ad show a movie. Everyone who was done peaking would come there and sit or lay out on the floor and watch the movie. I used to like that. Except once they showed this really scary movie called Black Sabbath, and I was trippin hard on this nasty orange barrel crap called STP that someone sold me as orange sunshine. There was all kinds of orange acid around then and it was all called Orange Sunshine. But none of it was the real deal from Owsley. This STP crap was some CIA shit developed for the military to cause psychotic episodes when sprayed on enemy troops. A guaranteed bad 4 day trip. I took it on Friday night, and the Mexican sarape's were still flowing on the walls on Monday in my English class. It put a lot of people in psyche wards. Oh oh. I'm getting way off topic here. I'll stop rambling on now.

SEE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i had a beer with david allen coe once, does that count? alot of people may not be familiar with David, but he is pretty cool.

 

"I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison" and
"you don't have to call me darlin'....darlin'. You never even call me by my name."

Ya David Allen Coe is way cool! He's right up there with Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jew Boys. "Keep your biscuits in the kitchen and your buns in bed"

Were you in Pasadena?

 

I too had the pleasure of meeting John Sinclair . He was hosting a show in Detroit featuring MC5 and I baby sat his first child. I was 16 yrs. old and from Canada so I was illegally in Amerika but what the heck. It was 1967 and a few weeks later the Detroit riots began and I left(the day before). My place got torched.
A few years later I bumped into Mick Jagger in Berkeley on Telegraph and nearly knocked his top hat off. It made him look as tall as everyone in his entourage.
At that time I was friends with Tom Constantine right after he left the Dead and with Jack Leary , Tim's son. I met Tim eventually but it was like he wasn't really there. Must have been the acid.

 

Jane Fonda...she came into a store I was working at, and I waited on her...very nice lady.

 

You should have spit on her face.

 

jane fonda is a great american who stood up to the ruling class' policy on war and imperialism which has not changed one iota since 1972......people like that got me to become the mad yippie pie thrower!!!

 

Believe it or not, we have tickets to see Wiilly and David Allen Cole at The Oil Pallace in Tyler TX. Feb 18th, If anyone else is going, I'll be in row JJ in the middle of the row with my family.
sh

 

I haven't been off the farm too much (yet), but my hubby toured with Steppenwolf, Joe Walsh, Three Dog Night, and a whole slew of others. He said he sat up all night tripping and jamming with John Kay and tells me he is a VERY smart and fine person. On the other hand, he tells me that Joe Walsh is a crazy, hateful s.o.b....

 

George Bush Sr. and family were born in Mass, not Texas homegrown.. not to say anything bad to you EM I think your a good positive lady. but everyone is under the misconception that the Bush's are Texans.. not so.. Laura Bush is the Texan not the georges.

It would have been so cool to play with Steppin Wolf and all thoes bands back in the day.. I bet your man has tons of stories to tell by the fireside. What an experience. I hope you are well.
In Love and Light
sh

 

Then there was the lady that used to bless you on the strip(101)in Santa Barbara.Railroad was pretty well known between palm springs and Lake Tahoe and you know the guy you see in pictures with the turbin,rollerskates and guitar hanging out on Venice Beach and of course the biggest hipster of all frank sinatra,don't know if sonny bono counts,but i should also mention the guy that gave me a ride from morro bay up to frisco,he had the best fukn hash.There was the old cowboy playing his 3 string by fisherman's warf,he was pretty cool and the waitress across the street(mission?)who'd give us free coffee.Their all famous in my book.

 

Had the pleasure to play music and have Allen Ginsburg jamming with me and my buddy at a gallery party after Allen's perform at the local college.

Also met Fela Kuti in Detroit after an amazing performance. I went backstage to see if I could get our little tape recorder back that had been confiscated. He was sitting there in his underwear holding court. He asked me if I had a joint which I did not. I was really pissed with myself that I couldn't offer any smoke.

I still kind of regret it

 

I've met jack cassidy, jorma kakounan, john sinclair, pun plamondon, ehhhh.I forget who else.

 

I heard Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman talk on 2 separate occasions when Iwas in college.

 

I got to see Ginsberg at college. He played this wild musical contraption and sang and told stories and poems. Also met Ken Keasy. He signed a children book called 'Tricker the Squirrel meets Big Double Bear', or something like that. It was in the Native tradition of telling stories using animals. He was talking about saving the Pacific North woods from logging. University of Louisville had great speakers each year come to a Literary Conference. I was a big fan of the Beats back then.

 

I was introduced to Chong by a regular friend in the Santa Monica mall...what I found unusual was that had my friend not told me who he was, I would've never recognized him.
He is the opposite of the character he plays on the comedy circles; example: he walks very straight and he is well fit.

 

I've met Red Skelton, Lou Reed, Abbie Hoffman, Arlo Guthrie, Marianne Faithfull, Fred 'Sonic' Smith, Lester Flatt, Stephen Wright, Allen Ginsburg, Roger Ebert, John Hartford, James Brady, and others, but only for brief moments.

oh, one night in May 1972 I met Captain Beefheart and his bass player Rockette Morton -- both of them were pretty cool.

I stood with a group of people conversing with Johnny Cash, but I really couldn't think of anything worthwhile to say to him, although he was very gracious to us all.

The nicest famous person I've ever met was Ray Bradbury, the science fiction author.

jp

 

I don't know if this counts, but I did run into Tiny Tim at the KY Derby back in the 80's!

 

True story- -
I was at an AA meeting on 96th st in Manhattan - must have been 1985 or 1986- -
A guY stands up , and says- "Hi Im Eric from London and Im addict-" ->> Id be damned.. Eric Clapton- -
No-one made a scene (thats the way those meetings are) ..but it was pretty cool. .
He spoke a bit... I mentioned at the end of the meeting that I was a fan,,,and that was that,,,pretty cool.....

Back in the early 80,s I was om a methadone clinic with Leslie West - -and for a short time....Lou Reed... .
NY is the place to meet the hipsters,,I guess