Hippie Overload

“It's just a case of the big fish getting eatin' up by a bigger fish. If they (nationals) were smart, they'd buy XM out at all costs. If they did, I hope they'd choke on it too!

I know some people from the "oldin' days" of local radio. Some of these guys really had fun doing what they did best, playing music. Nothing will change, IMHO, until the people demand it. Unfortunatley, most don't know what it was like, or don't want to remember, or don't care. Too bad! Local radio is great. There's a station outta Lansing, MI that I love. It's college and they play some great stuff. I wish I could get it in locally!”

“Corporate radio stinks”

“College radio is THE last outpost for people who feel like we do. I still do some college radio once in a while at station WNTI (Centenary College) in Hackettstown New Jersey. They are located at 91.9 FM. I am intouch with a friend who still works there and once in a while, he still shares his Saturday evening slot with me. I am currently trying to find a date in the near future that both of us can do. We have such a good time doing it. I really miss doing it on a regular basis. It stays in the old Blood!”

“The Hell's Angels killed the "hippie movement" in one day in 1969. One day it was like, all innocent fun, man. Then Altamont.”

“Nope, what killed it was selected leaders of the movement being taken out, either by jailing them or otherwise. This showed the peeps not to #&%!$ with the government and stay in line. Some got strung out on the herion the CIA was choppering outta Cambodia during the war. After you take out the leaders, the rest fall by the way side. Pretty soon, all the crap stirers were outta biz, Jimi, Jance, et al were dead and all the other bands were breaking up.



Let us not forgot the governments introduction of Disco music, as the final stab in the heart of the revolution! :)”

“but I was being serious. ;-(”

“RE: Radio. KBAC, Radio Free Santa Fe is still a good one. Good DJ's. Unfortunately, they had to stop their webcast. KTAO still does a webcast and is pretty good.”

“Getting radio on the web has been a good thing, especially for college stations. WNTI (the station I mentioned earlier) came into a lot of money when it finally went on the web. It was so good to see them get a boost like that. a lot of hard working people, including myself, put a lot of time and effort into that place to make it better and it finally paid off big time. Kudos to the web on this one.”

“Internet radio has the potential for reviving the spirit of radio. Congress now seems to be helping!

Save Internet Radio”

“Limpster - really, I agree with you also. Everything in my statment was suppose to be serious, except the last line.”

“screw comercial radio!!!!


love the net!!!!”

“the best radio has always been left of the dial. I really feel like I'm getting old as I think music on the radio sucks today. But then again, I've always thought music on the radio has sucked. I just can't imagine how most of this stuff gets on the air.”

“Commercialism in music has always had it's elements of packaging and marketing, but not to the extent I see it today. It's almost like the music doesn't matter anymore. What does matter is the cosmetics (hair, tatoos, clothes and whatnot). When a multi-million dollar act like Britney Spears can do a special for HBO and actually lip synch songs, that seems to cross a line for me (even if I liked that stuff, it would).”

“Oh Jeez, do I sound like my father did back then?????”

“The only thing that "set my Dad off" was Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner. The "old man" was NOT amused!”

“It took my Dad a while, but he came to appreciate a lot of the music that he trash talked a few years before (it was the musician in him recognizing good talent when he heard it). However, Limpy, I concur on Hendrix. He never could get that one. I always loved it. Still do...”

“I was concieved at a Pat Boone concert.

I'm partial to the brown acid, too.”

“LMAO, GOJO!”

“hay treebeard, bore everyone with the tail of how we meet!”

“Ok! Let me tell you how we meet!”

“Oh, do go on. A bit o' tail, a boring. Tell us how you "meet."”

“I was working overnights on a radio station in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Another one of the jocks met Maple's sister a few weeks earlier. He mentioned this cute little babe to me and guess what? I was instantly interested and curious. Before I had a chance to meet her, she called me up on an all request show I was doing that night, and I taped her call to play over the intro to the song she requested. I palyed it and we still have the piece of tape of us talking without knowing each other. That was 1985. We are still married with no casualties.”

“Is, uh,...Is your wife a goer, eh? Know whatahmean, know whatahmean, nudge nudge, know whatahmean, say no more.
SAY NO MORE.”

“Is, your uh, is your wife a sport, ay?”

“I bet she does, I bet she does!
Say no more.”

“what can I say, I'm a groupie :)”

“say no more!!!!!!”

“That's good, that's good! A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!”

“"HEY! Was anyone an MC5 fan?"

Wow,,, Gong, MC5... I gotta respect MC5 - even though their heyday was before my time. Too bad some of them self destructed.”

“Oh to join in on another discussion - there is lots of incredible music going on now... its just not getting into the big radio stations. Good music only gets commercially viable for a short spell, before payola reasserts control.”

“I got to see George Carlin do the "Hippy Dippy Weatherman" live in 1973. Shady Grove, Maryland.”

“ped - too bad indeed.....”

“My lottery number was 120. The year I graduated from college they were ending the war and they didn't get that high.”

“A hippie said this, " Off the Pigs". Whatever happened to free love?”

“Got ya beat. My lottery number was 25, they drafted through # 18!”

“Oooo, Shady Grove, Maryland!
I saw "Its A Beautiful Day" there in '73.

Theater in the round with a rotating stage!

Anyone ever been to the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, Arizona?
I saw Dr. John's New Years Eve Extravaganza there, Dec 31, '74.
B.B. King too just weeks before......Shugie Otis opened the show.”

“No, but I saw Santana in 72 or 73 at Meriweather Post Pavillion. That was a pretty hippy scene.”

“The Celebrity is round with a rotating stage too.

Jimi Hendrix played at "Meriweather" summer '68.
There was a wild thunderstorm and the lights went out.
The stage still had power and Jimi played with the lightning flashes.
Too cool!
Lots of wet T-shirts too!
Swing-a-ling-a-ling!”

“I used to live with a bunch of kids, in an old house in Detroit. One of the guys mother worked at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, back in the day. It was famous for the incredible shows that'd go on there. He got to see Janis, Jimi and all the big groups. He was 2-4 at the time. =)”

“In 68 I was still living in Valparaiso, N. FL, Jimi was off of my radar. "Green Tamborine" was about as radical as WFSH radio got.

I didn't really have a clue what was going on with music till we moved to Ohio.”

“"The Movement" or "The Scene" contained a lot of contradictory impulses... and from what I saw as a kid watching there were lots of contradictions. There were communists, mystics, acid gurus, hedonists, anarchists, Rand loving objectivists, rock and rollers, folkies, radical lesbian feminists, back to the earthers, Hugh Hefner wannabees, rich coke snorters and so on. Sometimes these things led to tensions between people, sometimes they led to personal confusion.

What was exciting to me (even though I was on thre sidelines, being in junior high school when the 60s ended)”

“"Green Tamborine"!

Yikes!

Who was that?

Not Tommy James and The Shondells?
Nah!
Whoever it was sucked!”

“... what was exciting to me was the exchange and availibility of all kinds of competing and very different ideas. I was in a college town which also had a lot of "street people" in the summer (Cambridge. MA). There were free concerts, all kinds of interesting lectures, rallies, conferences, student strikes, preachers and gurus for an incredible variety of religions... and just lots of free and open discussion.”

“Did you sit in front of the TV watching the lottery? I remember doing that. Also remember checking the newspaper the next day to make sure I heard correctly!”

“I watched the lottery on TV.

Cambridge, Mass is still a cool place.
I was first there in '72.
There were ALL kinds of white people then.
Now there are just all kinds of people.”

“I saw a show you would never see nowadays. Not only because of the bands on the bill, but because the unions here in New York would never allow it. It was January 1969 and it was called the 'Winter Festival For Peace.' It started at 8:30 PM and didn't end till 4 AM! Harry Belafonte hosted it and some of the bands on the bill were Blood, Sweat and Tears, Donovan, Jimi Hendrix, The Young Rascals, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, and the cast of 'Hair'. I know there were a total of 11 bands, but can't remember the rest. What a great show, though. Believe it or not, the Rascals blew everybody away. Didn't know they could jam like that.”

“There is a Smpther's Brothers special on TV tonight. I don't have cable so I'll miss it, but man, those guys were a gas.

Pat Paulsen for President!

My first LP was "Nazz." I found it last year at my Mom's, it was tucked away in the South Pacific sleeve. Cover is missing, but I've still got the vinyl.”

“Cambridgre has changed though...

When someone said to my grandfather, then 91 years old, (a Texas minister who would not play cards and wouldn't buy from business that opened on the Sabbath): "you must have seen a lot of changes in your life," he replied "Yep, and I was agin every one of 'em." That's how I feel in Cambridge sometimes, especially in Harvard Square, which is slowly turning into a Yuppie Mall and they are trying to make it less and less comfortable for people who don't have money - including high school students (like my sons).

Sill, Cambridge is an amazing place to be - sometimes it feels like it is the "hub" that the other city across the river claimed to be.”

“Limpy! Thanx for the word on the Smothers Brothers Special tonight. I never missed that show and will look for it today. 'The Nazz'? Keith Emerson's first band, I believe. Correct me if I am wrong. Real blast from the past there.”

“Ped, I visited Cambridge a long time ago. Remember liking it more back then than when Mapleleaf and were there last year.”