Your favorite 70s song(s) (drum, elvis presley, famous, 50s)
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My interpretation of hippie music runs the gamut of anything acoustic in the vein of a Pete Seger or Arlo Guthrie to psychedelic in the form of Jefferson Airplane or Jimi Hendrix and even bands like The Strawberry Alarm Clock. Lots of other artists, not necessarily associated with the scene made significant contributions as well. Bobby Darin's If I Were A Carpenter and Rick Nelson's She Belongs To Me come to mind real fast. An album worth checking out is The Association's Waterbeds In Trinidad, circa 1971. It, too, fits the mold.
Basically, anything that stood up to the government machine won approval. So include CCR for Fortunate Son, Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth and nearly all of Bob Dylan's tunes - whether they were for or against something, downright thought provoking or even just silly.
Seems I've only mentioned the guys so far. (nods to Grace Slick) Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Buffy Ste. Marie, Melanie, Janis and Linda Ronstadt were also in on the so called hippie movement of the later 60s, along with many others.
And The Grateful Dead? Well, they kept the era alive - seemingly, forever! Their style never really evolved like many of the others mentioned above. It was always about having a good time. And hippies, leftover hippies, hippie wannabes and yet-to-be born hippies seem to appreciate that type of music for all it's worth.
And The Grateful Dead? Well, they kept the era alive - seemingly, forever! Their style never really evolved like many of the others mentioned above. It was always about having a good time. And hippies, leftover hippies, hippie wannabes and yet-to-be born hippies seem to appreciate that type of music for all it's worth.
To me, the Grateful Dead were/are the epitome of *American* music.
They did experiment and evolve somewhat: 1968's Anthem of the Sun sounds different from rootsy modern classics as 1970's Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.
The Dead explored alt-country before the term existed.
The Grateful Dead (along with Gram Parsons and Neil Young) begat Wilco.
And yeah, their meandering jam band style did seem to be about having a good time (especially when, as I witnessed, they'd forget the lyrics--also throw out plastic bags of pot complete with matches and papers.)
However, songs such as Cumberland Blues or Box of Rain do show an awareness of the human condition. They were probably more Santa Cruz than Berkeley; they were subversive in their way--their participation in counterculture ranged from acid tests to forming their own in-house record company.
Was part of my Mum's guitar reportoire and we used to sing it all the time!
I'm struggling a little with this genre 6/3. Everything I like that's a hippie song seems to have been prior to 1970 and the ones I like from the 70s don't seem to be hippie songs. I'll keep thinking. Great thread.
I guess it's a prefernce thing for each one ....as for me the ''Hippie'' songs are those late 60's and early 70's quasi peace,antiwar,folk sound if that makes sense. As a kid in the 70's i remember my uncle who was in his late teens early 20's with his beard and long hair sitting with his othere Hippie friends smoking grass and listening to those songs i and others on here have posted.
A few more. Get Together-Youngbloods, Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues-Tom Paxton, Volunteers-Jefferson Airplane. Been thinking the song Woodstock to be the anthem on this subject, and everyone has heard Joni's and CSNY's version. But a great version is done by Matthews Southern Comfort. Who? They were formed by Ian Mathews. Who???Ian Mathews has been on the music scene a long time; sadly, this song went top 20 in the Spring of '71 and few people remember it now. Their version was off the album Later That Same Year, released on Decca. I recommend it!
Here's a good version of what i think is a quasi Hippie song by Joni Mitchell. Maybe i'm thinking these are Hippie songs and they instead are Folk songs???
To me, the Grateful Dead were/are the epitome of *American* music.
They did experiment and evolve somewhat: 1968's Anthem of the Sun sounds different from rootsy modern classics as 1970's Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.
The Dead explored alt-country before the term existed.
The Grateful Dead (along with Gram Parsons and Neil Young) begat Wilco.
And yeah, their meandering jam band style did seem to be about having a good time (especially when, as I witnessed, they'd forget the lyrics--also throw out plastic bags of pot complete with matches and papers.)
However, songs such as Cumberland Blues or Box of Rain do show an awareness of the human condition. They were probably more Santa Cruz than Berkeley; they were subversive in their way--their participation in counterculture ranged from acid tests to forming their own in-house record company.
Indeed true.
The Dead were a traveling jug band that stumbled upon electric outlets and LSD. Acid Blue Grass if you will. Robert Hunter is one of history's greatest songwriters/lyricists.
They were about as American as you could get. At times folkies, other times Blues purists and free form Jazz musicians. Basically, roots music at its best.
"Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right"
When you talk about Hippie Songs.. my mind wanders to Phish...
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