I wish i was around in the 60's

It wasn't all a bed of roses. There were a lot of straights around, who would beat the shit out "hippies" they found. More than once I had rocks throw at me.

It boils down to taking a stand for what you believe in. the 60's can be alive for you if you don't get sucked in to thinking they can't be

 

I know exactly what you mean, I can't tell you how many times I've laid their dreaming I was from that time.. Sometimes I feel like I was a hippie in a past life or something. lol
Rock isn't the same anymore.. and yeah there was still big corporations and material consumerism.. but I don't think it was nearly as bad, since technology has advanced it's brainwashed everybody. Back then the record store was your friend, now people's friends are their cell phone's and material bullshit.

 

i would have loved to experince the 60s. but i think what i want more is to be able to create waht we are after right here. to relive the unconditional love for one another, the peace, the happiness, teh music, and teh values. todays societys are sliding downhill, but when havent they been? even back in teh 60s when the hippies seemed to have it all to us, they were happy together, but they still faced teh nieve society enlisting their boys and sending thenm off to war. i think what we really want here is just to be able to live in teh "perfect" world. that would be nice, lets start today to get this going, dont dwell on the past, but you can use it to live in the present.

 

i know what you mean brother, i often feel like i was born about 40 years too late. bummer man, but we just gotta make use with what we've got, ya dig?

 

Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose.
It rainbow spirals round and round,
It trembles and explodes
It left a smoking crater of my mind,
I like to blow away.
But the heat came round and busted me
For smilin on a cloudy day


Escapin' through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That's when it all began
There was cowboy Neal
At the wheel
Of a bus to never-ever land

Just because the old Furthur may be a rusting hulk in the Oregon forests....the "bus" never stopped rolling....jump on!!!
It's all a state of mind....

The major difference between now and then is activism. Don't wish for the past...grab the now. Why worry about today's music? Go out and find what you love...it's out there.
Be adventurous...be bold.
If you want to be a 60s flower child nothing is stopping you except yourself. What the hell is a date anyway???
Learn from our mistakes and take the lead.....we're getting old.

Zen

 

Living in the past is not hippie at all. The pranksters would be ashamed!

 

Certainly, anyone is free to live the hippie lifestyle, or any lifestyle really, that they want these days.

However the feeling of headiness that must have been there back then, the feeling that you're on the vanguard of a new direction for society just isn't there these days.

Not that it's a bad thing. Maybe we're just satisfied and happy.

 

I think you make a good point...the feeling of a new direction isn't there. But, I don't think all the good times happened in the 60s and everything afterwards is a letdown. I'm glad I live after the Feminist movement (started by female anti-war protesters) and can reap some of it's rewards. the 60s didn't have that.

 

i know this comes a bit late but i really think the same as you guys
i was born way too late..
what we can do now is making the best out of what we have but you can't live the life they had back then.
real rock'n'roll is dead unfortunately.
the 60's were magic and bands like the beatles and the doors kind of invented rock'n'roll. all the new stuff is kind of a copy.
of course it's not all about the music but i think this is already were the "problem" starts...
the best bands on the world already had their best times
of course there are a lot of good new bands aswell but the magic's gone..

 

its not totally dead, bands like the white stripes, queens of the stone age, mastodon and kings of leon are still good rock and roll

 

What a fucking nonsense. Sorry man, but this just keeps annoying the shit out of me. Just because it's later doesn't mean it's not as good or a copy. Also, when it actually is a rip off you're all complaining and when rock evolves it's not real rock 'n roll anymore. It's just never as good as in the sixties you've never been in.
There's lots of good rock, but it's not as big in your face as it was then, not because they're less good but because it isn't new and hip anymore! I bet lots of people in the sixties were crying just like you guys about this evolving of rock 'n roll into hard rock and blues rock with those weird psychedelic stuff thrown in. I really pity those people who are putting down the present like this.

 

what are you talking about?? like there were no big corporations around back then.

the hippies were rebels right?? what do you think they rebeled against? conformism and corporations 'the establishment', thats right...

its a shame that people don't realise in what fortunate times they are living in. the green movement has never been as strong as it is now, the anti globalization movement has never been as big as it is now, the underground has never been as big diverse and active as it is now. the only thing I'm not sure of is the drugs...

too bad some people still use the sixties as a road to escapism. they live on peepz all over the place. if they don't where you live just draw a peace sign on the wall and write under it 'fuck the pigs'

and please call everyone you see with a che guevera t shirt a corporate sell out douchebag for me, ideals are not in what you wair. its in what you think and what you do, meaning not to sit around getting high or something

 

i think back than they were crying over the loss of true folk and true bluesmen sitting on a streetcorner cryin over their lives all day long...

 

yes of course but as is said i think the magics gone..
im not saying everythings crap nowadays.
there are also some good danish bands which make good old garage-psychedelic rock.
but theres just nothing like it was back then...

 

MGMT has that old psychedelic sound, they are so fucking good

 

The magic is not gone, you just have to look for it... which you also had to do in the sixties by the way. You think there were things happening everywhere and hippies on every street corner? It's not the time that was special, you also had to be in the right place with the right crowd.
You're trying to say people are less magical today? Or just the music? The atmosphere? Music is a matter of taste, they invented lots of groovy styles in the sixties, but if you think this time is less magical you are really seeing things the wrong way. Oh yeah, who am I to say what's wrong huh. Well, looking in an overglorified past seems always more magical. Especially when you dig the trends of that time and they're always looked back upon in a romanticised coat these days.
Lots of magical things are out there today, people. Don't miss it because you like to think it doesn't get any better than the sixties.

 

im absolutely agreeing in what you are saying.
i think it all came out different than i wanted to
all i wanted to say that i think the best music was written in the old days.
im not trying to say these days are full of shit.
and yes, i love MGMT.
i know there were a lot of bad things happening in the 60's aswell.
just focusing on the music, times really changed.
i know its necessary but just look at the concerts these days.
back then kids could really "get in touch" with their idols. its so hard these days.. the music business got so strict.. but i know its necessary..
its difficult to explain what im meaning.
so dont get me wrong. i just wanted to say that i'd loved to live in the sixties.
its not that im hating it living right now.

 

Just don't go to the €40,- shows then . There are great bands in cheaper venues with a nicer atmosphere as well. By the way, guess what for which big name I payed about such an amount of money? A band from the 'magic days': The doors. Yeah, those bands from the sixties are so magical
I understand what you're saying though, but there's really more good music out there than MGMT (which I'm not even familiar with I must say) and I have little trouble most of the time getting in touch which those musicians. How do you think people were able to meet with those stars? By going out to the venues, and probably more often early in their career. Most concerts I'm going to are around or below 15 euro (and not only because I'm poor!

 

lol
surely, you're not serious..

 

Now that sounds like something I would say. :cheers2: