Showing posts with label hippies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hippies. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Obituary of Lisa Grimm Oda: A True Child of the 60s
From the September 17, 2017, Chicago Tribune Death Notices.
Born August 4, 1949 Died September 11, 2017.
After reading her obituary, I'd have to say she really lived and fulfilled the life of what we might call a Hippy.
"Always the explorer and adventurer, during the turbulent 60's, Lisa spent time in a commune in Berkeley, CA.. This foretold a lifelong quest to seek truth and wisdom and question the status quo.
"After a few years working for Price Waterhouse in Chicago, she left to embark on her quest to enrich others with her compassion, creativity, ethics, selflessness, thoughtfulness, spirituality, and nurturing spirit and being.
"A very spiritual person, Lisa studied many religions and philosophies, endeavoring to live life in as good a way as possible. She found aspects of Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism and Native American Spirituality that gave her clarity and truth."
She Must have been Quite An Interesting Person. A Real Flower Child.
Friday, June 23, 2017
50th Anniversary "Summer of Love"-- Part 4: All Those Great Bands
Jefferson Airplane eventually bought a house a few blocks away on Fulton Street, where they hosted legendary wild parties.
"The music is what everyone seems to remember, but it was a lot more than that," said David Freiberg, 75, bassist for the Quicksilver Messenger Service who later joined the Jefferson Airplane. "It was artists, poets, musicians, all those beautiful shops of clothes and hippie food stores. It was a whole community." Counter-culture all the way.
The bands dropped by each other's houses and played music nearby, often in free outdoor concerts at Golden Gate Park and its eastward extension known as the Panhandle.
They developed an exciting new breed of folk jazz and blues-inspired electrical music which became known as the San Francisco Sound. Several of its most influential local acts -- the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company (which launched Janis Joplin's career) became famous during the summer of 1967's Monterrey Pop Festival.
--CootFarOut
"The music is what everyone seems to remember, but it was a lot more than that," said David Freiberg, 75, bassist for the Quicksilver Messenger Service who later joined the Jefferson Airplane. "It was artists, poets, musicians, all those beautiful shops of clothes and hippie food stores. It was a whole community." Counter-culture all the way.
The bands dropped by each other's houses and played music nearby, often in free outdoor concerts at Golden Gate Park and its eastward extension known as the Panhandle.
They developed an exciting new breed of folk jazz and blues-inspired electrical music which became known as the San Francisco Sound. Several of its most influential local acts -- the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company (which launched Janis Joplin's career) became famous during the summer of 1967's Monterrey Pop Festival.
--CootFarOut
Thursday, June 22, 2017
50th Anniversary "Summer of Love"-- Part 3: Too Expensive Today
One thing for sure, that "Summer of Love" could not happen in San Francisco today, simply because the struggling artists and hippies could not afford the city anymore. In the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, ground zero for the counterculture 50 years ago, a two-bedroom apartment now rents for $5,000 a month.
San Francisco does still remain a magnet for young people, but even those with six-figure salaries in Silicon Valley complain about costs.
In the mid-1960s, rent in the Haight-Ashbury was extremely cheap.
Bob Weir remembers that the Grateful Dead shared a spacious Victorian on Ashbury Street. Janis HJoplin lived down the street. Across from her was Joe McDonald, of the Country Joe and the Fish band.
--Psychedelic, Man. --Coothip
San Francisco does still remain a magnet for young people, but even those with six-figure salaries in Silicon Valley complain about costs.
In the mid-1960s, rent in the Haight-Ashbury was extremely cheap.
Bob Weir remembers that the Grateful Dead shared a spacious Victorian on Ashbury Street. Janis HJoplin lived down the street. Across from her was Joe McDonald, of the Country Joe and the Fish band.
--Psychedelic, Man. --Coothip
Saturday, June 17, 2017
50th Anniversary of "The Summer of Love"-- Part 2: I Was There For About An Hour
San Francisco is hoping to capitalize on its connection to that summer and get a new influx of tourism, both from those originals, those of us who might have wanted to be there as well as those too young or not born yet.
My parents took the family on a trip out to California that year and we drove through the Haight-Asbury area and it sure was all flower power. But, since I was with my parents and only 16, there obviously wasn't much I did other than to observe.
The city is celebrating with museum exhibits, music and film festivals, Summer of Love-inspired dance parties and lecture panels. Hotels are offering discount packages that include "psychedelic cocktails," "Love Bus" tours, tie-dyed tote bags and bubble wands.
Getting Psychedelicized. --Tie-DyeCoot
My parents took the family on a trip out to California that year and we drove through the Haight-Asbury area and it sure was all flower power. But, since I was with my parents and only 16, there obviously wasn't much I did other than to observe.
The city is celebrating with museum exhibits, music and film festivals, Summer of Love-inspired dance parties and lecture panels. Hotels are offering discount packages that include "psychedelic cocktails," "Love Bus" tours, tie-dyed tote bags and bubble wands.
Getting Psychedelicized. --Tie-DyeCoot
Friday, June 16, 2017
50th Anniversary of the "Summer of Love" 1967-- Part 1
From the June 14, 2017, Chicago Tribune "Can 'Summer of Love' get its spring back?" by Jocelyn Gecker.
"They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an enduring legacy.
"This season marks the 50th anniversary of that legendary 'Summer of Love,' when throngs of American youth descended on San Francisco to join a cultural revolution."
Said Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, who had dropped out of high school and helped form the group in 1965: "There was a spirit in the air. We figured that if enough of us got together and put our hearts and minds to it, we could make it happen."
--DaHippy
"They came for the music, the mind-bending drugs, to resist the Vietnam War and 1960s American orthodoxy, or simply to escape summer boredom. And they left an enduring legacy.
"This season marks the 50th anniversary of that legendary 'Summer of Love,' when throngs of American youth descended on San Francisco to join a cultural revolution."
Said Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, who had dropped out of high school and helped form the group in 1965: "There was a spirit in the air. We figured that if enough of us got together and put our hearts and minds to it, we could make it happen."
--DaHippy
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