Posted on 07/03/2007 9:22:18 PM PDT by gpapa
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the so-called Summer of Love. Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.
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“turn on, tune in, and drop out,”
“soulless rock music”?
Jimi Hendryx, Janis Joplin, Clapton, Garcia, Dylan. Soulless? I think not.
Ted's got quite the way with words.
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No sir, didn’t participate. No, sir didn’t. Well, perhaps just a little. ;-)
“Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to “turn on, tune in, and drop out,” which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. “
I once smoked a joint with Tim Leary in his older and my younger and wild years.
He we pretty burnt out and not too coherent, and it had nothing to do with what he was smoking at the moment, because I and the others there were pretty coherent despite the smoke.
They say that if you remember the sixties, you weren't there. I don't remember the sixties, but not because I was there.
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Most of Ted’s main points likely resonate with most FReepers, but he also blames the expansion of government and taxes on hippies?
The music was interesting.......the values of the performers were not!
Ted is the man!
Happy Independence Day, Lurker!
How happy life could be
If all of mankind
Would take the time to journey to the center of the mind
Would take the time to journey to the center of the mind
Center of the mind
Course it twern’t no Cat Scratch Fever......
Someone who plays with Tommy Shaw and some guy from Night Ranger is lecturing us on music with no soul? Gag me.
Yea, right on man! What did you say?
I kinda remember the 60’s, does that make me kinda “ok”
60’s = great times (I think).
Now I’m 60 and wonder about the 60’s.
Ted just said “mostly soulless”. He goes on in the article to call those like you mentioned “truly virtuoso musical talents” and “musical geniuses”.
“Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to “turn on, tune in, and drop out,” which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary.”
and his brother, Really Leary.
But in Ted’s defence he’s absolutely right. The me generation. Too bad so many of them were so talented, and throwing away the precious gift of life.
Still miss Mama Cass and her wonderful voice. I’m sure it was no ham sandwich.
I read this in the morning at work. Put a smile on my face.
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