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Music in the Sixties in England

Posted by Hippie on August 11th, 2007

Elvis, Motown, the Surf Sound, the British Invasion, Psychedelia, Woodstock, Hendrix, Bob Dylan and The Monkees. All set against the backdrop of a new permissiveness, Free Love and a war we couldn’t win. Turn on, tune in and drop out . . .
In Britain we had The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Merseybeat and Pirate Radio, […]

San Francisco Sound - New Riders of the Purple Sage

Posted by Hippie on August 2nd, 2007

The roots of the New Riders can be traced back to the early 60s folk/bohemian/beatnik scene in San Francisco, where future Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, then considered to be one of the finest banjo players of the folk revival, often played gigs with like-minded guitarist David Nelson. The young John Dawson, also known as […]

San Francisco Sound - Jerry Garcia

Posted by Hippie on August 2nd, 2007

Jerome John “Jerry” Garcia (August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. Garcia was viewed by the media as the leader or “spokesman” of the group.
Performing with the Grateful Dead for its […]

Beatle Controversies

Posted by Hippie on July 30th, 2007

Paul McCartney is turning 65, Sgt. Pepper turning 40 (it was twenty years ago today, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play).. and the Beatles aren’t controversial now, but they were back in the 60’s….

In July 1966, when The Beatles toured the Philippines, they unintentionally snubbed the nation’s first lady, Imelda Marcos, who had […]

San Francisco Diggers

Posted by Hippie on July 3rd, 2007

The social laboratory out of which the idea of the Diggers formed was the summer planning sessions of the Artists Liberation Front held at the Mime Troupe loft on Howard Street. Emmett Grogan is prominent in the photographs of those sessions. By the fall, ALF was planning a series of neighborhood street Free Fairs. These […]

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