What Song Did You Hear That Made You Realize You Were A Hippie?

You All Can Join In ............by traffic


Here's a little song you can all join in with
It's very simple and I hope it's new
Make your own words up if you want to
Any old words that you think will do, yeah
Yellow, blue, what'll I do? Maybe I'll just sit here thinking
Black, white, stop the fight, does one of these colours ever bother you?

Here's a little dance you can all join in with
It's very simple and I hope it's new
Make your own steps up if you want to
Any old steps that you think will do
Left, right, don't get uptight, keep in line and you'll be alright
Clap hands, move around, make sure no one puts you down

Here's a little world you can all join in with
It's very simple and I hope it's new
Make your own life up if you want to
Any old life that you think will do
Love, yeah, it's nothing new, there's someone much worse off than you are
Help me set them free, just be what you want to be

PAX

 

Subterranean Homesick Blues

 

Black Sabbath - Children of the grave I guess. But I don't feel like a hippie, I just realized I have too much in common with them

 

There were others like the Doors, the Beatles, Dylan, CSN, the Dead, Santana and the Allman Bros. earlier and this band was there from the earliest days but this song really said everything we were feeling and drove it all home..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x--pPJGWEk8

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE

1970

You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.

My world is slowly fallin' down
And the airs not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something.......

(Chorus)
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?
Oh.......oh What you gonna do about me?

Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.

They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?

(Chorus)

I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!

And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."

(Chorus)

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run..........................

An Im always getting busted
And I got to take a stand........
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand.......................

(Chorus)

I smoke marijuana
But I cant get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws

I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
Cause your rules and regulations
They dont do the thing for me

(Chorus)

And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run.

 

Probably Black Sabbath, Nah I dunno grew up seeing the same door and hitting all that listening to the Doors break on through. Something about the dad, a bit of a cowboy and guns, some booze, probably other drugs. Seems to be a WWII baby, right at the start. The brother, being an MP, a bit under fun.

I don't really like Sabbath anymore, for some reason. I had a bad trip, starring at the tapestry and that poster. Wondering about a so called old good friend robbing my felony probation. He took a girl, that broke up with me twice. A bit about that phone hiding, she might not have much to give back to the parents.

Not sure about that one in the military, seems awfully stupid!

 

I became interested in the Beatles after I heard a group performing their songs and it all inevitably branched out from there. I knew that what I was discovering was finally in tune with "me".

But if I had to pin-point it the way others have done: I bought a CD for a class party and hearing San Francisco by Scott McKenzie stirred something in me that had been there all along. It's such a beautiful song. It also had Time of the Season by the Zombies on it which I thought was pretty sexy. AND Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman which made me punch the sky. Needless to say, I listened to that CD religiously.

But the Beatles are really to thank. On many levels!

 

I will say my transition began back in 8th grade when I bought Sgt Pepper's. That album did so many things on so many levels for me. I continued discovering the Beatles and it really was what I mainly listened to until 10th grade, when a new discovery was just around the corner. Christmas of '89 I picked up "Dead in a Deck'. This was the Grateful Dead's Built to Last album and a deck of Grateful Dead playing cards. I mainly bought it for the deck of cards and thought what the hell lets listen to the cd. I was very pleased to find I really liked what was happening musically on this little disc. I happen to mention to my bowling coach I picked up the Dead on cd and liked it. To my surprise he was a major Head. He has thousands of Dead shows and man did I ever dive into them and really discovered what it felt like to be totally free. The Dead naturally led me down many paths. That time period in my life is when I decided to Let My Freak Flag Fly!!

 

For me, it started to come together when I was about 14. Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention had a song that really put the whole of government corruption into focus for me, as well as showing me how ridiculous some of our customs and conventions were.

From 1965: Brown Shoes Don't Make it.

Brown shoes don’t make it
Brown shoes don’t make it
Quit school, why fake it
Brown shoes don’t make it
Tv dinner by the pool
Watch your brother grow a beard
Got another year of school
You’re okay, he’s too weird
Be a plumber
He’s a bummer
He’s a bummer every summer
Be a loyal plastic robot
For a world that doesn’t care
That’s right
Smile at every ugly
Shine on your shoes and cut your hair

Be a jerk - go to work
Be a jerk - go to work
Be a jerk - go to work
Be a jerk - go to work
Do your job, and do it right
Life’s a ball
Tv tonight
Do you love it
Do you hate it
There it is
The way you made it

A world of secret hungers
Perverting the men who make your laws
Every desire is hidden away
In a drawer in a desk by a naugahyde chair
On a rug where they walk and drool
Past the girls in the office

Hratche-plche, hratche-plche
Hratche-plche...

We see in the back
Of the city hall mind
The dream of a girl about thirteen
Off with her clothes and into a bed
Where she tickles his fancy
All night long

His wife’s attending an orchid show
She squealed for a week to get him to go
But back in the bed his teen-age queen
Is rocking and rolling and acting obscene
Baby baby...
Baby baby...

Gimme them cakes now, uh!
If I do, I’m gonna lose my...

And he loves it, he loves it
It curls up his toes
She wipes his fat neck
And it lights up his nose
But he cannot be fooled
Old city hall fred
She’s nasty, she’s nasty
She digs it in bed
That’s right

Do it again, ha
And do it some more
Hey, that does it, by golly
And she’s nasty for sure
Nasty nasty nasty
Nasty nasty nasty
Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty
She’s a dirty young mind, corrupted
Corroded
Well she’s thirteen today
And I hear she gets loaded
If she were my daughter, i’d...
What would you do, frankie?
Well, if she were my daughter, i’d...
What would you do, frankie?
If she were my daughter, i’d...
What would you do, frankie?
Check this out
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again, oh baby
Smother that girl in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again
She’s my teen-age baby
She turns me on
I’d like to make her do a nasty
On the white house lawn
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And boogie ’til the cows come home

Time to go home
Madge is on the phone
Gotta meet the gurneys and a dozen grey attorneys
Tv dinner by the pool
I’m so glad I finished school
Life is such a ball
I run the world from city hall

 

freak out! by the mothers of invention back in 1967.
"mister america walk on by your schools that do not teach."
"mister america walk on by the minds that won't be reached."

that was the first time, i realized there were adults out in the world, who experence the world like i did.

 

"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" --- "Go ask Alice" (Jefferson Airplane" --- "Itchechoo Park"

 

I think the album that rattled my brain was "Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane. It wasn't til later in life when I was exposed to someone that despised the hippy aesthetic that I thought more about it all. That would be Mr. Frank Zappa-Brown Shoes, indeed! And,.. "I don't wanna get drafted I don't want to go- I don't want nobody to shoot me in the foxhole"....I was in the last group of young men that were issued draft cards before tricky Dick did away with the draft....

 

I think it was the acid that made me realize I was a hippie, but one tune always seemed to me to be my theme song: What About Me by Quicksilver Messenger Service

 

I'm not sure I ever saw myself as a hippy, but I knew I had fallen into something cool the first time I sat in a small apartment in my home town, surrounded by beautiful people, trippin' on barrel acid, joints slowly moving round the room while Bloodwyn Pig played for hours. Damn, I haven't heard them in years. I believe they were formed when Jethro Tull's first guitarist, Mick Abrahms, left to form the band

 

more than a feeling.

I used to always listen to rap but i would always feel like a hippie and I started getting into 60s and 70s music. i love hendrix and more than a feeling really got me feeling like. I'm not saying I'm a hippie but I just feel like one occasionally

 

Stuff by Fifth Diminsion works great for me!

 

i think that song would have to be "suite judy blue-eyes" by csny. paisley skye.

 

I was listening to Sugar Magnolia by the Grateful Dead and all of a sudden I had this urge to go down by a river and pick flowers in the sunshine all afternoon.

 

What a coincidence.I was listening to that song the other day!Anyway, i thought it was the whole drum circle thing that did it for you.

 

Listening to the Doobie Brothers, Santana and Janis Joplin. the songs were meaningful, I used to know all the words. Redbone singing "come and get your love" and BBKing, "The Thrill is gone" peace.

 

Truckin by Grateful Dead?