I wish I was born in 1955...

quote~ the wild west wasn't even the wild west~ the demolition man..
I think i should point out that would make you 15 in 1970, just in time to see the likes of, ledzeplin, zztop, areosmith,and pinkfloyd, but maybe a bit young to get the chance to go to woodstock. and just supose you were a teenager in the 60's and was one of the minority to wear your hair long, just take a good look at footage of woodstock, how many long hairs do you realy see? and that was gathering of sorts. You would have the honor of having a close family member dieing in vietnam, getting jeared at and having bottles thrown at you from the passing trucks of rednecks, and what could you do about it ? go to the cops? ya right, it was probaly one theres throwing the bottle.
you are young now, at he birth of new millenium, a time when you see dreadies working in banks and the idiology of the 60's being presenting in schools, and states decriminilizing marijuanna, and just think, what will the world be like when your generation gets the chance to vote?
were counting on you ,dont let us down

 

actually the thread mis calculated the years it should be i wish i was born in 1945 thru 1948 . that would make you a teen around 1966. 1955 would make you a teen in early 70s.

 

no, i think he would like to be 14 and go to woodstock

 

But look in the bright side = Gas was only 20 - 30+ per Gallon a brand new muscle car around $3.000.00 pot sold for $25.00 per ounce "here it was" , concert tickets were $4.00 in the late 60s ,$6.00 thru $7.50 in the early 1970s. getting busted with dope "not much happen" and less if you were under age. Food was dirt cheap. and car insurance was around $200 . $300. for full cover. Motorcycles were fairly cheap . $1.300.00 for a Honda CB 750 "750cc" smaller bikes were far cheaper. and there were lots of places still around to hide and play like lakes, rivers, sandunes , etc today is either private off limit land or so heavy regulated you cant do nothing . and teens and people were not the plastic materialistic like they are today. and far less cops around. no helicopters flying around at night with infrared cameras, no high speed chase "they were rare" and at a concert you could just do about anything. no gangs except in New York city or a outlaw motorcycle gang "depending on what city you lived most of the time you did not see them at all" . i would say that blacks were the only 1 who had it rough back then. The only thing that was really bad was Nam. "i would not gone after see in ​

the fight last over 4 years" . Today cops are actually are worse. traffic tickets and even parking tickets are a joke and rediculus. any drug charges are really bad news. and jobs back then did not required a drug test.

 

also even in many big citys a 20 minute ride "back then was consider a fairly long ride" now it well take you 1 to 1 1/2 0r 2 hours you easly waste 2 to 3 hours just getting back and forth to work . 8 hours day plus 1 thru 2 hours 2 X of driving now you have spent 11 or 12 HOURS NOT HAVING FUN or time to relax or time to visit a friend or relative. by the time you cook or look for food you dont have much of a day left. if your lucky you might catch 2 hours of tv before you expired in the couch or bed. and do it all over the next day.

 

I hear you fully man.

 

if you were born in 1955 wouldn't you still be too young? you'd have to be born more around 1950.

 

ACTUALLY more like late 1940s.

 

if u really look into, did the hippies ever die? no hippies will never die man. I know it would be awesome to see those great musicians live, but their message is whats really important. and now we are the new age of hippies and now its our time to make a change. i guess thats just how i see it. we are the future. peace~

 

some conformations and corrections are in order. I was born in 1955. Woodstock was in 1969. I was 14, I missed it. When I was 16 I became a hippie. No we didn't invent the term but we embraced it accepted it and used it. Being drafted and sent to Vietnam was like getting a death sentance. Even if you didn't get killed everyone knew that you would never be the same again. Every year they would have a lottery to pick birth dates if yours was #75 or under it was decision time. Canada would have been my choice. But being born in 1955 ment you only had to endure 1 lottery. My number was in the low 70s. Before they got that high up on the list the draft ended. Back then was nice in some ways and really sucked in other ways. If you want an experience similar to Woodstock then go to Bonnaroo. It's one hell of a party!

Peace:
Randy

 

Mr. Mojo Risin',

I used to be a lot like you. I used to sit around just wishing I could go back in time to see all the great performers of the sixties and be a part of the revolution. I used to wish that I could be part of that generation that abandoned the status quo and accepted peace and wisdom. I used to watch the Woodstock movie and think, "Man, they all seem so genuinely nice . . . I wish I could have known them."

I don't really think that anymore. I wouldn't trade the great life I have now for a few years of the way it used to be. It seems like the world wasn't all that great, you know. People were scared. Especially in the 70's, with 444 days and gas prices and all the despair. And in the sixties, great politicians and celebrities and figureheads seemed to be getting assassinated left and right, and even though Country Joe and Arlo Guthrie lightheartedly jested about Nam, people were dying. You have to remember, it wasn't all peaches and cream.

Me, I think if I had a choice I'd like to go back to '67, the summer of love, and then go all the way to Woodstock, and then return to today. What followed (freaks turning to yuppies and the movement dying, along with basically all of my heroes overdosing) would just be too heartbreaking to witness.

We shouldn't live in the past and pine over things that can never be. That's why I write music: to try to reach people and live in the present, like Dylan did. I wish OUR generation could make a difference. People need to wake up, but until then, just be true to yourself, keep listening to great music, and remember: to each, his own.

-Kelly
P.S. To all you old hippies out there, hope I was accurate about the times you lived through. I bet it was a blast, but we still shouldn't romanticize it and make it seem flawless. No time period really is.

 

Haha, i don't wanna be born in the 50's. I just want all of the great musicians from the 60's to take a little trip to the future and put on a few shows.

 

Now yer' talkin'!!

 

Dream on

 

well id like to be born back in like mabe 1948ish... like i dono life wasn't all "peaches and cream" then.. but then again look at our world now...not that great either... no matter what decde we live in...it won't be all peaches and cream... but if i lived back then at least i would have good music to listen too, good concerts, drugs to experiment with that arn't fucked around with.

i like living now too, becuse Soo much stuff is avalable Example: Internet, computers, freedomof speach etc.. so its kinda brilliant now... aside from the natural disasters, terrorist attacks, gass prices, and the horrible RAP/Hip-Hop generation...

 

Yeah, ESPECIALLY rap.

I agree with you, though. Problem is, we don't get to choose when we're born. I really believe there's hope for our generation . . . as long as there are freethinkers like you and me around. Instead of wishing we were in the sixties and being all depressed about it, we should follow their example in terms of today. "Start a Revolution," man.

 

I wish I was born in 2055 and had a robot pal.

I think your nostalgia is kinda misplaced.

 

Computers in the 1960s would had given the authoritys to much information on the general population and unground groups and cults. It would had ruin the 1960s real fast.

 

bahh i'm not depressed haha i try to be that difference i want to see in the world now... people are just like "silly acid dropping, pot smoking hippie, it'l never happen" but hey you never kno. i blame the horrible world we live on and in on the 80's.. some good tunes... but seriously all sorts of shit.... then the 90s came and what a fucking joke man, then like millenium.. is all fucking square so i dono... life is good if you let it be

 

the fuuny conclusion i think i have is = the last 5 years of the 60s is when real good music was made . in the 70s it was the first 5 years "actually more like the first 3 " 1973, in the 1980s was back again to the first 5 years 1980/85 in late 80 early 90s only nivarna and metallica and few other metal band were worth it. 1990 thru 1998 very few bands made it. 1 of our best rock progresive radio station dont play anything after 1998.