Shamefully I too, was a hippie sympathizer for a short time, while not a full blown hippie, I did go to a Hendrix concert,where I got abducted for a few hours by Hells Angels who forcibly used me for a test rat, and I did hang out with some kook strangers at Big Sur and Yosemite when I wandered around on my motorcycle like "then came Bronson"...
then I grew up
I thought that was you.