The Steel Guitar Forum

One of the odd things about hippie music was that people with no vocal chops at all had the audacity to sing. It really drove our parents nuts.

b0b wrote:It really drove our parents nuts.

Wasn't THAT part of the idea?

b0b wrote:One of the odd things about hippie music was that people with no vocal chops at all had the audacity to sing. It really drove our parents nuts.

True, and this no-vocal-chops tradition is still alive and well among singer-songwriters and college radio. However, the hippies did inherit some respect for playing instruments from early rock'n'roll, country, bluegrass, R&B, the beat jazzers, and folkies. Most were not old enough to be real masters, but you were expected to be able to play at least up to the standards of a late teen who practiced for a few years. It took anti-hippie punkers of the '70s to bring instrument chops down to beginner and drunk-junkie level. Not that I'm complaining. The raw energy of punk was refreshing at first. Thirty years later, not so much.

I remember reading somewhere that Jimi Hendrix figured he'd try singing after he heard Bob Dylan. Glad he did.

I don't care for Bob Dylan's voice!

I don't care for Bob Dylan's voice!

Ditto for my feelings about Neil Young's voice. He's the Hippie equivalent of a cat when its tail is pulled.

But Jimi was definitely a triple threat. Not many could/can both sing AND play at his level. But everyone knows that.

I was a hippie, but this topic is getting old. JMO

YOU were a hippy, Theresa? We want photographic proof! C'mon, let's see 'em!

Theresa, if you were really a hippie, you would have posted 3 of these .

Thanks for all the recommendations on the Dead stuff guys. I appreciate it.

I went down to the local library and got "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty" to check out.

Good call, enjoy.
Give them both some time, they grow on you.

Knock, knock. Who is it? Its me Dave. Open up man,I got the stuff (whispered). Who? Its me Dave! Open the door. (Long pause). Dave's not home!

Open the door. I think the cops saw me come in.
Who? Dave! Dave's not here.

No, you idiot! Its me Dave. Open the #@$$! door. I got the stuff. Who? Dave! (Long pause). Dave's not here.

And here all along I thought it was some dull Indian movie!

Ha! I saw Cheech and Chong back in 1972, at the Inglewood Forum in Los Angeles, with Santana and the Stones. Pretty sure it was a benefit for the Nicaragua earthquake...back when Mick was married to Bianca.

Mike Winter wrote:...back when Mick was married to Bianca.

The pliestioceane age then?

No, that was too far back. It actually was during the Nixonian Age, before the Watergate Flood...

Mike Winter wrote: the Nixonian Age, before the Watergate Flood...

Speaking of which, the Watergate comedy "DICK" starring Kirsten Dunst is an absolute laugh riot. You have to remember Watergate to appreciate it, and the under 30 crowd didn't support the movie when it first came out, but it's on cable now.

The premise of the film is that "deep throat" was 2 clueless 15 year old girls who set the whole scandal in motion when they snuck out of the hotel to mail a fan letter to Bobby Sherman.

With such comic actors as Will Farrell, Harry Shearer and Dan Hedaya as Nixon, the film manages to mention every known fact about Watergate (at the time it was made,) and still be absolutely hilarious.

Yeah DICK is a hoot.
The music is of course perfect time and place too.

Aw man, ya done burst my bubble...I thought Forrest Gump blew the whistle.

To keep it on track, the Forrest Gump soundtrack is pretty cool.

Damn hippies ('specially that one second from left; he's nuthin' but trubble)...

Vince Gill, you hippie!

Jimbeaux that looks post hippie, pre-hair metal.

The Final Net sales have yet to go up.

Except 1 or 2 of The Statler Brothers snuck into the pic!