Hippie Music

Savoy Brown got a lot of play on Beaker Street.

If you play them, you should also play some Chocolate Watchband. Ooh, and some Vanilla Fudge.

I don’t know if Chocolate Watchband has any singles people would know, but their sound would be recognizably 60s. I’d never actually heard of Vanilla Fudge before finding that page…

I have a bootleg somewhere of Pigpen and Janis Joplin singing Turn On Your Love Light. Winterland, I think, but maybe the Fillmore.

And there is tonight’s earwig. :stuck_out_tongue:

Signs- Five Man Electrical Band. Don’t bother with Tesla’s version. Get the original.

I’ll second “It’s A Beautiful Day,” White Bird is their “big hit” but most everything from that albumworks, as stated.

A little Spirit would certainly hit the spot, especially "Mechanical World.". And from their “12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus” there’s Nature’s Way.
A little Curved Air would work, I think Jumbo has an eerie psychedelic quality.
And how about Renaissance doing a little Running Hard?

I’m no expert on why, but CCR is often held up as an example of non-hippie rock (Elvis is another, as is Skynyrd). I guess it’s because of the whole “swampers”/Southern Fried Rock thing. Hippies weren’t region-specific, but their music skewed heavily toward San Francisco artists, much the same way Grunge skewed mostly toward Seattle.

Crimson and Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells

The long version of course.

As originally conceived, “Hair” is just as hippy as anything else. It’s not like Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote it. It pissed off the right people and pushed boundries.

The movie however…ehh

What, no Partridge Family?!? No Archies?!? :eek:

No one’s mentioned Scott McKenzie?!? Or have I missed something???

It pissed me off when I took a girlfriend to see some of her friends taking acting at college, and they simulated intercourse on stage.
Yeah, I was a prig during college.
:rolleyes: